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> It's actually not. It's a good argument for actually diversifying our transit options so people have real choice.

> If it is easier to do a mix of walking, public transit, etc, then there's no single point of failure.

I have "real choice". Subway, buses, uber, walking, biking. That's normally how I get around.

But I, someone who relies on public transportation, have noticed that there are, in fact, situations where owning a car is advantageous. Like an epidemic.

Forget my commute. I can't visit my sister, who lives 15 miles away, without uber/metro/bus. Those options would put me in the wake of hundreds or thousands of other people. If I had a car, I could just drive and it would be significantly safer.

I'm not saying "everyone should buy a car". I'm noting that, hey, there actually are situations where being able to safely move around by yourself is helpful. That's not so shocking!
Why choose ult instead of electron? If the argument is performance, benchmarks are needed.
Sibling posted some good stuff people are using. AxeFX and Kemper is pretty much the standard stuff. Line6 has been in the digital game forever and even their budget stuff is worthy (pod HD500, pod studio, Helix). Hell, I record a ton of stuff with guitar amp modeling in GarageBand and even some of those sound pretty awesome.
The artists name is Mree, and it's her cover of Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun. It's worth the click, and now you know to what you'll be clicking.
A crash of this magnitude was overdue without coronavirus. The market can't just go up and up forever, that's not how markets work. Super long 11-year irrational raging bull market with blowoff top had to unwind and still does after coronavirus is a memory. The underlying financial factors will still be the same and probably even worse because we (mostly the president) keep trying to prop up the stock market like the guys in Weekend at Bernie's. Best to just tell the truth that Bernie is a dead guy, so the adults can put the pieces back together to the economy.
The text of the order https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20... has a full list. It's too long to include here, but it includes grocery stores, hardware stores, banks, gas/service stations, transportation providers, and more.
It's either that or the actual possibility of millions of excess deaths. Either way, things will be quite fucked.
I'm sure it depends on the kid, but my children at least use enough iPad apps that they are quite familiar with the standard gestures and UI controls. For adults it's quite frustrating when an application doesn't use the platform standards - like when a button doesn't look like a button, or if a menu works in some nonstandard way. It isn't interesting, it's just annoying. Kids who are iPad-savvy seem to feel the same way about bad UI as adults who are familiar with their iPhones.
I would argue that to some extent that’s how the stock market works all the time. You’re betting about how other people will react to information.
Be vocal about it and talk out. I spoke out vocally at my workplace and most of us are now remoting - its on every individual to self-quarantine because relying on force (like the mounties or army) simply isn't reasonable - policing people closely defeats quarantining and those transit resources need to keep going to make sure essential employees can get to work.

That all said I'm curious what Translink's plans are to restrict access to the skytrain.
It is this related to the increasing number of colleges in France using discord to give lessons to the students?
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Incorrect, the market moves on expectation, anyone that has traded the market knows this. If expectations are terrible, the market will tumble, it doesn't matter what is happening right now.
Is anyone else pretty bothered that popular services like Discord can and do read all of your 'private' messages in plaintext, and when/if they are bought out, all of your chat and usage history will be sold to an unknown third party along with the company?

I wish at some point we'd see mainstream messengers that put actual effort into respecting the user, along with their autonomy and privacy. It'd be amazing if we could actually directly (from a technical perspective) message other people, without needing central servers between us.
Spreading panic helps nobody.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fj7q9h/jessedu...
Your username made me laugh. :)

I haven’t found multiple service architecture to have this issue in a careful, sufficiently large engineering org unless they share vulnerable infrastructure. There should not be any situation where multiple APIs are changing in a backwards-incompatible way simultaneously.
They also are testing anyone who wants a test for free. And if someone tests positive, they are using cell phone location records to contact everyone you may have been near while you were infected to come in and get a free test.
Even better than the browser is the apps that bluetooth-connect to Legos, so that you can build something with Legos and write a program that operates the motors and sensors. That feels even more like the "real world" because it is ;-)
Actually right now the DJIA might be a _better_ measure of the large cap market than the S&P 500. The problem with price weighted indices is that at the top of bubbles they wildly overweight the recent winners. The performance of the S&P in recent times is mostly just the performance of the trillionaire companies. The same thing happened in 2000 when approx 40% of S&P returns was the returns of the Internet (as opposed to the larger tech) sector and in 2007 when financials had an outsized effect.

I wonder how much of the performance of GOOG/FB/AMZN is VCs funnelling cash to overvalued startups building a brandname who then funnel said cash to GOOG/FB/AMZN for advertising and overpriced AWS services? Not that I think the trillionaire companies are going anywhere but I suspect they may be hit harder than people think they will be.
It's referring to React Native and Xamarin, whose Windows implementations are built on top of UWP XAML/WinUI. Xamarin only supports Android and iOS besides Windows. For React Native, there's additionally a Mac OSX implementation that Microsoft has been developing. At one point Canonical was working on a desktop Linux implementation but it seems to have been abandoned from what I can tell.
For security, the cost of the hashing needs to be greater than the value of being able to subvert the bitcoin network with 51% attacks.

If the cost of the hashing power is less than the value, then the incentive is to just buy the hashing power and do the 51% attacks.

So to the extent that bitcoin has any value at all, it's going to either burn an amount of electricity greater than the value of a network compromise, or it's not going to be secure.
It's not about a specifically bounded result, it's about being either a flatter curve or a taller one. The more people act in the interest of flattening the curve is the benefit.
Some people be crazy. Here I am wondering if I should start holding some of my emergency funds as actual real life cash and other people are looking to make a few bucks by investing in stocks.

You can't feed your family on AAPL.
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Not doing any actual airport screening, rejecting the WHO tests so we could develop our own (for some reason), denying that there was even a problem for 4 critical weeks, telling people as recently as a week ago that they should be out going to restaurants and bars... all the failures of leadership that caused us to blow well past containment.

In contrast, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong got right on top of it, and early. They're also the only countries seeing a flat rather than exponential trend right now. Which means their hospitals are not at threat of being overwhelmed.
Not on the basis of retail demand. Their retail margins are horrible, as with most of the industry.

AWS and advertising are where their margin and profit centers are.

In terms of retail support action - Costco's stock is one of the few large companies that hasn't cratered. It's not much lower than its average for the year, whereas most everything else has been hammered.

You could double Amazon's retail sales in the US and it will get you a few extra billion dollars in profit. The problem is retail makes up a very modest share of their overall profitability. So it won't move the needle much on a $840 billion market cap. It works for Costco because essentially all of their market cap is based on retail sales and the demand surge they're seeing. So you get a direct IV line between the crazy panic buying and the COST stock. Although, if there are supply problems coming up next, be careful holding COST as well.
what are the advantages over minikube?
> "I think that probably includes things like psychologists, etc. who have medical experience and can quickly be brought up to speed. Might be something like that.

Uh, psychologists have zero medical training or experience - maybe they could explain the patients their respiratory
failure is a symptom of insecure attachment patterns.

If you mean psychiatrists, there aren't that many of them to move the needle.
Notwithstanding the presidency of Andrew Jackson, and more recently of Donald Trump, the United States remain a nation of laws, and not of raw power.

Because of this, it is utterly uninteresting to observe the peak of government power, like compelling the draft. The draft is specifically legally authorized in the Constitution, in which the Government is lawfully granted the power to raise and support Armies. It can do so while obeying the law. This is not "the whims of the courts," and the courts are barely involved, because the law is so very clear.

Quarantine powers are also subject to the power of law, including both general police powers and Constitutionally protected rights. When these conflict, there are a variety of legal tests to determine which wins, and there is legal precedent for interpreting the laws. When the courts interpret this conflict, it will almost certainly not be on a whim.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22583594
I believe you're fundamentally misunderstanding what the stock market is and does.

At its base, the stock market is just "you" owning a company. The economy isn't paused for two weeks - many companies will have to continue paying people money, paying their suppliers, paying rent on their offices, etc.

Let's say you own a company that usually has say 100k in earnings and 90k in spending, making you 10k profit every month. That company now has, because of the virus, say 50k in earnings instead, and 80k in spending (it reduces some salaries where it can, but still has to keep the offices around etc.) That company is now going to be losing money for a few months.

Now you own a chunk of this company. Yesterday you assumed it was worth 10 million dollars. Today, do you agree that it's worth less? After all, it's going to be losing money for a few months at least.

Notice that it's only worth less on paper - if you don't sell your ownership stake, then you haven't really seen a loss.

But a lot of people are selling their ownership stake. And that makes sense! If you're 60 years old and need cash right now, and you own a company that, instead of earning 10k a month, will now be losing 40k a month, you might want to sell your share to not lose money, because you need cash. Maybe some other investor that can stomach losing a few months' of profit can take it off your hands.
Is it even right to say "older populations?" I don't have a better word, but maybe we should say, "very old" or enumerate the ages specifically.

Median COVID-19 death age in Italy is 81.

Average life span for an Italian male is 80.

Chance of dying every year for an 85 year old American male is 10% for any and all causes. Because... well our bodies get old and frail at that age. And even then, the vast majority of them survive COVID-19.
see also passive loathing: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
Maybe you're talking about a different part of Europe. I'm in Germany, you'll quickly make more as a developer in a non-leadership role than you will in other careers in leadership roles.

Sure, the difference isn't as big as it is in the US, but you don't have to be a rock star to make twice the average income with 10, 15 years experience.

If you expect to be treated as a god, being treated as a king may seem like an insult, but I think the difference to the US is mostly the European set up: you won't rise as high, you won't fall as deep. I don't see any general dislike for IT.
The fact that you have to guess is exactly the problem ;)

Accounting for SEC filings or whatnot are legal obligations. But processing an individual payment is also probably part of Performance of Contract, and Google explicitly mentions fraud detection on that same page, which is usually Legitimate Interest. To say nothing of whether that financial data is compiled into a user profile or used to train a model in some way.
"Second, flattening the curve assumes that you actually don’t go too far and that much of the population actually becomes infected and then immune. Immunity from Covid-19 is still an open scientific question but, let’s assume that is more likely to be true than not. If you reduce the infection rate too far, then most of the population does not become infected and that means that once you stop policies such as social distancing the virus can emerge once more and we all have to do this again."

So timing of such measures important and too early can be more damaging than too late, overall.

Guess more eye's will be upon the UK now after reading this.
As I was listening to the followup discussion by the ministers that was my charitable read - that closing the border would cause supply chain issues because truck drivers would be uncertain if they could cross the border or companies might not even attempt to send goods up... So I do agree that's a possibility, but it seems like if that was the emphasis it could have been expressed much more clearly.
Pretty interesting stuff! Veritasium did a couple videos with this researcher 7 or so years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_IaVepNDT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNzzGgr2mhk
Just for reference, vscodium is not a fork to remove Microsoft's code - it is just a build tool for the open source repo as explained in the README.

"When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license."

"When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a "clean" build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license"
Last week a FB friend discusses with his connections the winning investment strategy wrt the virus. They agreed that BTC (besides gold) is a safe heaven. It was @ $8k back then (now it's $5k).
well, when they announced they were moving to Vancouver the news said they still had to apply for a visa, even if grandma is on the money
I think about what a friend said the Germans would do. He said in Germany if the cops think your tires are too worn, they'd pull you over, verify it with a gauge and then tow your car away. And give you a phat ticket.
Orwell also had no fucking idea what he was talking about and couldn't identify a passive to make a point about it.

Since you bring up "Politics and the English Language", I'll pull up some "Fear and Loathing of the English Passive":

> This is not a statistical quirk. Orwell’s writing features significantly more passives than typical prose. By one count, on average in typical prose about 13% of the transitive verbs are in the passive, whereas in Orwell’s essay ‘Politics and the English language’ it is 20% (Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of English Usage, p. 720, citing Bryant 1962). My own counts, adhering strictly to the definitions of Huddleston & Pullum et al. (2002), are somewhat higher (probably because I include passive participles used as modifiers rather than complements, which for some reason many grammarians miss), but the ratio is unchanged: by my count, about 17% of the transitive verbs in random prose are likely to be passive, while a careful count of the whole of Orwell’s essay shows that 26% are passive. By either count, then, Orwell uses more than one and a half times as many passives as typical writers.
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I really don't like the cavalier attitude with which this author treats the open question of Coronavirus immunity. "Let's assume it's more likely than not going to generate immunity" (paraphrased) seems unfair, and that a fair treatment would simply consider both alternatives.
I don't understand why people are catching a falling knife. It is as though they have never been in bear markets before. Understand the market psychology and don't waste your money. I have friends who DCA-ed and regret because it took them years just to breakeven.

In a standard fear cycle (Google it), we are only at the middle stage between denial and fear. There is an acceleration downwards that we have not experienced yet (Crypto 2018 and China 2015 are good examples if you want to look back at recent history). Wait for that to happen first. You also can feel the time to buy when people are very distraught and demoralized by the endless drops. Twitter activity will change a lot, trust me.

A good way to read when to buy is, aside from seeing that everyone is completely mentally exhausted and demoralized, is that the VIX is around 30% and dropping, and distribution is over with accumulation channels being formed, which is when multiple supports are being built. This is when bulls and bears are in equilibrium, with bears quite exhausted but still exuberant. If you want better certainty, at least wait for the stock you want to buy to cross the 200 SMA, because it is a good indicator that the stock is being rationally valued once again.

My point is that DCA is only good if the trend favours it. It is central limit theorem where you reduce the variance by multiple sampling. Good shorters DCA downwards as well, so you are fighting these people too if you are DCA-ing now.
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What in God's good name are you talking about, sir?

I think you are replying to the wrong part of the thread. The post you want was written by someone with the username `strawman` who was posting patriotic poems about dying for freedom. This thread is entirely unrelated and much, much more boring.
You don’t need a physical token. All you need is the seed, which you can store in your head. Educate yourself.
You know, I know there's a pandemic on and we're all snappish, me included. But real choice includes "choice to own a car, if you so wish, and drive it where you want."

That's my entire point. You should have a choice.

It shouldn't ever be an argument of "all public transit, all the time" versus "cult of the car." But Americans turn it into an either/or argument all the time.

Take care. Safely move around as you choose.

Wash your hands.

Stop touching your face.
> "Can I leave home to visit friends or family members if there is no urgent need?" "No."

It will be interesting to see what happens to a society when sex is effectively prohibited for months.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of better-than-nothing. Especially when we're talking about individual truckers vs. tens of thousands of close packed poor-environment-suffering groups of people in transit hubs.

Disallowing close-packed passenger travel while still allowing essential logistics _curbs_ even if it does not halt. Just because it's not the solution doesn't mean it's not worth doing.
Japan has had extremely limited response, only restricting travel from China and South Korea, with no legal means of internal quarantine. The fact that their numbers are similar to countries with strict measures indicates that strict measures have not been more effective than lax measures.
I also can't run Safari on my Windows or Linux machines.
I've been wondering about the military being asked to take over in the US for a while. We don't seem to have our Churchill to replace the dollar store Chamberlain.
From what I've read, it seemed uncertain if it was a re-infection or the person simply hadn't fully recovered and their symptoms had resurged
And the equipment...my understanding is that ventilators are critical for those who have severe cases. Can't just magically wish for tens of thousands of ventilators....
I believe that nobody really expects to meet the gap between actual capacity and "required" capacity, i.e. that it can't and won't get met - nonetheless, raising the capacity to save lives will save more lives; even if it's not sufficient.

It's worth noting that every early "flatten the curve" illustration example that I saw had the lower curve still above the capacity, just not nearly as much, however by the time it reached mass media, it had somehow morphed to the lower curve at or below capacity... probably because they thought it sells the idea better? but at the cost of misleading the public about what's feasible.
What I am still trying to understand is if we get variations of the flu virus every year so dramatic that sometimes they guess on the vaccine completely wrong (like this year) then why aren't we going to have a Covid-19 variant this winter that everyone can catch again?
Yes, for example ~10000 people holding a degree in medicine were still awaiting to pass an abilitation exam which was removed today, allowing them to now work in the hospitals without it

[ https://www.corriere.it/scuola/universita/20_marzo_13/corona... ]

A lot others already holding that certificaton were not working yet because positions in public hospitals where not accessible yet because of the turnover blocks put in place in the last decade while the government was trying to cut healthcare expenses.
SARS-Cov-2 is more infectious than H1N1. This larger pool of patients means a greater number of people will die. A small percentage of a very large number is still a lot of people.

> The fatality rate was greater than Covid-19.

No, it wasn't. The fatality rate for H1N1 was about 0.2%. The fatality rate for covid-19 is tricky to work out at the moment, but 2% is a reasonable low estimate.
I've gotten healthcare in Quebec a few times and never had any issues - what's your source for this as it just sounds like anti-medicare for all FUD.
iMessage isn’t mainstream enough for you?
The thing with dotcom and GFC is that they both revealed fundamental problems in the marketplace. Dotcom was over-hype around internet startups, GFC was the financial house of cards around subprime mortgages. There was no "going back to the way things were" in those cases.

In this case, on the other hand, the primary mechanism is "people can't work/aren't going out and buying things". That's absolutely going to "go back to the way things were", in some sense. It's just a question of how long it will take, and how much damage will be dealt in the meantime. But it feels very different from those other ones, which could be good or bad.

Put differently, the GFC was like organ failure: things couldn't just heal, they had to be reworked and replaced. The current crisis is like a knife wound: the basic problem will heal on its own, but in the meantime you have to keep from bleeding out and hopefully avoid necrosis.
Also... I hesitate to say this because it smells of ad hominem, but in this view the enormous cost of extreme shutdowns is mostly the cost of a mulligan for poor decision making and actions early in the crisis. This may make this view less popular with the various organizations that made those mistakes.