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You could do that time-consuming screening after they get the trial vaccine, not before. After all, I suspect it is highly unlikely that a virus vaccine would give someone a bacterial disease or a genetic disorder.

Ok. So let’s say you give the vaccine and run the tests later. This person’s white blood cell count is way above normal.

Is that caused by the vaccine? Was it something else? Was it always there? You have no idea because you didn’t capture a baseline.

The challenge of clinical trials is you don’t know what to expect, and you’re measuring effects on top all the stuff that’s happening in the background with completely healthy people.

The goal is to capture as much data as possible so you can actually draw conclusions from it. Otherwise you’re left thinking “it’s probably the drug, but I’m not sure”.
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Low infection rates will not be your problem with this one I'm afraid.
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Governments at all levels, companies and non-profits can (and I don't doubt will) help mitigate the financial hit in the months and years ahead. The California state government has for example promised to keep paying teachers and school staff. [1] Many tech companies for example are continuing to pay maintenance staff despite office closures. [2] NBA players have donated to arena staff affected by cancellations. [3]

But there is nothing anyone can do to bring back our loved ones.

[1] https://edsource.org/2020/newsom-assures-districts-theyll-be...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/coronavirus-google-facebook-...

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/13/us/nba-player-donations-coron...
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FYI they teach this curriculum for AP CS Principles students. I haven't heard many positive experiences with this though.
The problem is when everybody takes a hit except the "too big to fail" banks. That's what happened in the last financial crisis, the government bailed out only the big banks by buying their toxic loans at face value. When Obama tried to also bail out individual homeowners it sparked the Tea Party backlash and he pretty much backed off on those plans.
This feels like a much worse outcome than just taking the virus on the chin and letting 40-70% of the population get sick. That may seem contrarian, but this panic feels worse than the actual virus. More people will die from economic hardship than from COVID.
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I totally misparsed your comment lol. Definitely thought you meant those as three different things.
Stock prices don't really matter in the short-term, and we are lucky that the underlying financials are good, and that -- at the end of the largest bull run in history -- many of the largest companies have lots of cold hard cash. Apples hundreds of billions don't look so silly now, do they?

Oh, BTW, the floor is hard-set at zero, which they'll never get to, since -- given there is no underlying financial issue, and that demand is going to be higher than ever once we're done with this -- all these companies have intrinsic value.
A better analog is television, where such practices are completely ingrained in the system. This is also broadly true of their guidelines on political and sexual content as well, making it seem like TikTok was trying to become something like CBS.
I guess people would rather lower the gdp than have their parents die.
Take the example with writing to NULL. Ignoring the situation means writing to NULL anyway or not writing to the address, not removing the if statement. Making assumptions about the value of a pointer based on UB is not ignoring the situation, that's trying to take advantage of the situation.
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Who pays the landlords, they aren't public utilities after all. Yet, a government stimulus to landowners instead of citizens would be a bit disingenuous in my opinion.
I think he was talking about the current situation, not the full year perspective.

How is that any different than saying 2 months out of a decade is 1.7%??
Asymptomatic ~50% for 50+.

Very interesting if that turns out to be fact.
> The precedent you are looking for is about the legal principles that limit the extent to which the government can prevent free travel, not quarantine per se. Quarantine must conform to that precedent

As you noted, the highest level of judicial scrutiny for constitutionally protected rights (like the freedom of speech) is strict scrutiny.

That doesn't mean the government is unable to restrict those rights, but it generally means that the Government's regulations must meet the following criteria:

1. is necessary to a "compelling state interest";
2. that the law is "narrowly tailored" to achieving this compelling purpose;
3. and that the law uses the "least restrictive means" to achieve the purpose.

From all the descriptions of precedent around quarantine laws that I've seen, the judiciary was extremely deferential to Government decision making during a bona-fide epidemic.

Given that, I think a reasonable travel regulation to implement a regional quarantine would easily survive such scrutiny.

1. "compelling state interest" - maintaining the public health has long been held to be a compelling state interest.
2. "narrowly tailored" - if the regional quarantine was restricted to bona-fide epidemic outbreaks, and backed up by epidemiological experts, I think the courts will accept this. I think this is the criteria that the drafting will have to be most carefully tailored around.
3. "least restricted means" - I think the Governments have been demonstrating that they have been actively trying all the other less restrictive means, and they haven't been effective.

Based on this, I find it extremely unlikely that a court would rule against a regional lockdown quarantine.

In saying there was significant precedent against it, I was hoping you had something related to epidemiological outbreaks and public health quarantines. I find the argument that the courts have generally been skeptical of travel restriction to be quite unpersuasive. I don't think courts will view this as a "typical" travel restriction, and will give local / state / federal governments a lot of leeway in responding to this kind of an outbreak.
Thanks. TBH I think the niche was to small, the problem was too hard, the solution was too complex, the audience was too hard to connect with.

The niche can be served but I'm not sure it can be served and make a living from it. There are other competitors (without our USPs) but they're backed by universities so it's not clear if they're "stand alone" viable either. Thanks for your advice!
although I don't own this specific book, the gingery books I have are pretty great. https://gingerybookstore.com/InjectionMoldingMachine.html
if you've got time and space, you can do way cheaper than $10k. You need a drill press and a metal lathe. If you're feeling ambitious, there are other books that will show you how to build a drill press and metal lathe.

Really depends on how committed you are to bootstrapping and saving nickels.
Not a doctor, but it seems pretty obvious from the state of our testing and what's happened in Italy that everyone who is able needs to be self-quarantining, now. Not like avoiding nightclubs, but more like avoiding leaving their houses. We need to do something as closely resembling what China did as we can bear. Since that seems unlikely to come from the top for a bit, we need to start heavy social pressure on each other.
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Why doesn't Google have a visualization system for temperature of the racks, with monitoring and alarms? It seems the problem went undetected because SREs did a poor job to begin with .... No DC has more than a few tens of thousands of machines which is easily handle by 3 borgmon or 100 monarch machines LOL ...
Agreed, that's not undefined behavior. It's just not guaranteed to 0 out y
Economic growth is non zero sum. Everyone can get richer at the same time as available capital increases or workers become more productive due to greater human capital. Stocks are giving a company money to invest in return for a share of future profits. VC and bonds are lending money to companies to invest for a future payment. Those companies are investing in productive capital assets or in making their workers more productive. Not zero sum.
I thought it was obvious I was talking about financial institutions, which are just going to have to eat it for a while, although with interest rates now at 0% that will be more manageable. I can't address every aspect of the economy in a short comment.
Unlike all other times before, our economy is over-leveraged like never seen before. The COVID-19 shut down of main street mom-and-pop stores will trigger a snowball effect onto wall street. However, cutting rates to zero and Trump throwing his last cards in will only kick up a temporary fix. In reality it is adding more fuel to the fire by further extending the leveraging, and thereby, volatility of the market, until this all crash into a giant complete free fall.
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Law is just as technical as the others. Most law isn't really about constructing or deconstructing arguments, it's about filling out pages and pages of very boring but very necessary documentation. Lawyers are often just in the business of contracts and other such formulaic (but technical) stuff. Trial law, or similar, is also as much about following rules as anything else. Anyone can construct an argument, and a lot of people can construct better arguments than a lawyer, but almost nobody can do it in the way that's necessary for it to actually work.
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That's an American thinking. The Korean thinking is that we never gave up our rights - our country was born without one, liberated by greater powers, split into half, ruled by dictators. We won our rights with fight, and because it's ours, and our government serves us, we can let them use our power when the society needs it, like a master trusting the key to its faithful servant.

And if they do not relinquish it later, no problem, we'll fight and get them back again.
> No they don't. Italy has much fewer critical care beds (the kind needed for COVID) than the United States, which is #1 in the world.

Do you have a link to statistics that support that? Is that on an absolute basis or on a per-capita basis?

On a per-capita basis, I see more hospital beds in Italy than in the US (3.18 to 2.77): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OECD_countries_by_hosp...

What's your source for data on critical care beds? I'd love to take a look
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You're being ridiculous. There are plenty of "serious" use cases that don't need a low-capacity industrial grade memory card.
You acknowledge that fact and if you're making a severe change you either run a longer test or you break up the large change into manageable chunks (Google Maps is a great example of this).

For something that is effectively binary and can't be changed incrementally the only way is to extend the evaluation window or make a call with limited information.
That sucks, right? Now, who do you think is paying them to do that?
If you like the idea of trying to identify a location from a photo, take a look at a competition that regularly tried to do this, View From My Window: http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/vfyw-contest/ . Some of it was truly impressive detective work.
There may be a misunderstanding here. The shutdowns we're seeing in the US aren't full lockdowns - under current plans, most businesses will remain open and most people will continue to go to work. I'd agree with what you're saying if there were a full lockdown happening that arbitrarily excluded to-go restaurants, but we're just doing targeted shutdowns of the biggest transmission vectors.
Oh sorry. Meant to post the article, from Forbes. US and germany are way ahead of the world.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/03/12/the-co...

Hospital beds are a different story, but not what is important for COVID, which needs ICU beds. Hospital beds are much easier to deploy anywhere (and with the emergency measures taken federally, will see a huge increase due to waived FDA requirements for inspection). An ICU is much more involved, and requires ventilators, specialty beds, special equipment, etc. Much more difficult to deploy suddenly in response to sudden upticks.
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The related news I could find were all in Chinese I'm afraid. You'll need to translate it.

[1] Story behind the sudden spike of confirmed cases in Hubei Province.

https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-51485553

[2] Official amendment of the numbers in Hubei Province. The day before, the newly confirmed cases reported in the Hubei Province was 349, while that of Wuhan city was 615 (Wuhan is a city in Hubei).

http://m.news.cctv.com/2020/02/21/ARTI5BVxbRm6O6rOBnUVpaMB20...
I thought it was obvious I was talking about financial institutions

It's not obvious at all.

The comment you were replying to said "can't pay the booze suppliers" so it's pretty clear they we using the normal business definition of creditor.
I left all social networks when Facebook apologized for having done psychological experiments on its users. I recommend you all to do the same.

Mainstream social networks no longer connect people.
I imagine the simplest explanation is that all of these things came together at the same time by different teams.
> Young People at the lowest risk from this virus are going to be much worse off than just catching a fucking bad cold.

It's not a "fucking bad cold" for young people.

- Over 50% of ICU patients in Netherlands from COVID-19 are under 50. [1]

- Over 50% of ICU patients in France are under 60. [2]

- Over 40% of patients requiring hospitalization in China were under 50. [3]

Young people are not invincible. The fact that they can use up a significant chunk of already scarce medical resources suggests that we really shouldn't be sending that message and encouraging young people to not give a sh*t about the epidemic.

[1] https://www.ad.nl/dossier-coronavirus/40-a-50-nederlandse-co...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/300-...

[3] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2002032
The polite response to "I'm not comfortable discussing in more detail" is "OK, sounds good."
Ugh. This needs to be an legal order.

I was walking my dogs earlier today and there were giant queues of people outside restaurants and cafes in Oakland. It’s also not sufficient to say “only seat X% of usual” - you also can’t allowed queues.

This ignores bars that carefully ensure person to person contact via the annoying ID check stamps.
It really looks more and more like JAX is the internal winner after the tf 2.0 fiasco
I was just making what I thought was a clever counter to your endless argument. I have friends who are implicated in conspiracy theories and know well it’s a flawed philosophical system that sustains incompetence.

But set your Google search to 1970-1988, and read the old coronavirus test related papers. Ones of humans, cattle and cats. Then in ~2004 talking about coronavirus testing for SARS.

It seems like they’re at least could be a general test or indicator for all coronaviruses. Even if not, we’ve been fearing mutant coronaviruses for decades, why wouldn’t we get the tests started in November?

Poker players were betting 3-weeks+ ago that WSOP would be shut down and now the world is-

https://twitter.com/dougpolkpoker/status/1233041607131357185...

https://twitter.com/mikemcdonald89/status/123310948568372429...
I won't opine on the correct value of the stock market at the moment, but the drop in demand due to measures needed to preserve life cause a financial issue. Many/most consumer-facing businesses can't withstand a drop in demand to near zero for a period of at least several months. So those businesses, absent some sort of national bailout, will go bankrupt. Or at the very least, they will go dormant. Either way there will be layoffs, and of course the laid off employees will reduce their spending further. Even once the virus is under control, it will take time to reverse this damage.

Yes, of course, the market won't go to zero. But some firms will go under, and we don't know how severe the economic impact will be. Just because the crisis began with a natural disaster rather than a financial one doesn't mean there can't be serious financial impact.
> 'proper capitalism'

Price-gouging is absolutely acceptable capitalism, we only call it 'gouging' because being a greedy asshole doesn't align too well with the moral compasses of most of society. Which is why government 'interference' is a thing in the first place, because otherwise capitalism doesn't give a shit about morals or correctness or acceptableness or anything that isn't capital.

It there's any interference it's so much more likely that it's corporate money interfering with the government.
If only we had some kind of open standard for user authentication, we could call it OAuth maybe.
its somebody else's kickstarter, not mine. Its the PIXLater, a diffuser and three or four parts which need to all fit the same size hole, to provide the right 35/128/70mm shaped holes for negatives, to be backlit by the diffuser, and sit on a tablet. The problems relate to the repeated click-unclick of the parts, which require strong corners and chamfers to insert, and friction hold. Every single iteration of design required re-design of the injection moulding. I think had the design been well worked out in advance it would have only been 2-3 cycles, but since the design had to overcome mechanical rigidity, re-insertion, keystoning the parts, over-dimension outcomes, under-dimension outcomes, it was fraught. Its finally reached production.

A large amount of the 1960s dislike of plastics vests in the super-bad job injection moulding of the time did, with both bad plastic stock, and badly made moulds. Now, we think its fantastic but we're standing on the shoulders of giants who made it work. Lego's fab is pretty awesome, to maintain dimensional fit for click-fit on millions of parts like that.

The Mint, is not exactly injection moulding, but similar: they have to replace coin dies frighteningly often because they just wear out. The CSIRO did work with the Australian mint doing ion beam vapour deposition to create hardened surfaces to try and preserve the die lifetimes.

Stamping out CDs speaks to how accurately we can do this now.

(injection moulding CDs is not a thing)
> "However, the good news is that 75% of the tests coming back from county labs are negative."

How on earth is this good news? 25% of people coming back positive sounds absolutely insane.
Why 8, and not 4 or 7 or 16?
Handling food safely requires training and process. Delivering food is a totally different environment than serving it in house.
I agree with you but nothing I see around me in SoCal makes me think voluntary self isolation is going to cut it.
I think you’re overlooking the cascading effect of a lot of small businesses closing doors (voluntarily or involuntarily) while this blows over — not knowing how long it will take to blow over.

Short of a bailout, that’s not going to be easy to recover from. And even a bailout won’t be enough to bring about a full recovery anytime soon.
You're attacking an argument I didn't make.

I did not say anyone could prevent the infection from reaching the US. The damage can vary wildly once it's here. Containment is not a binary outcome.

Among the tools govt has: funding science, appointing competent officials at CDC and State Dept, travel bans, quarantines, financial relief, effective messaging, targeted testing, subsidizing tests and treatment, restrictions on gatherings, anti-smoking campaigns, regulations to reduce air pollution, not telling people that it's an exaggeration or a hoax, inviting the other party to discuss a compromise on life-saving measures, acting on the CDC's recommendations, sending govt workers home, enforcing anti-gouging laws... it's a long list.

As has been discussed here and elsewhere, many of Trump's behaviors and much of the Republican agenda has pulled us in the opposite direction of where we needed to be to deal with this. In the CDC, many people are "acting" roles because Trump refuses to fill vacancies. The same is true of the State Dept.
There is so much the US could have done if it had exercised an international leadership role earlier in the crisis.

And the current administration messed up big time by not manufacturing sufficient coronavirus tests and instituting some sort of testing regime.
It is your government's responsibility, local or federal I don't mind. This is why you pay taxes, to provide services to your citizens, one of which is disaster preparedness. I wouldn't be quick to put the burden onto businesses. If such a thing were mandated you would pretty quickly bankrupt a bunch of landlords who were not in the position to take it, and you would shift a bunch of property ownership to the banks, the consquences of which I am not sure of.

It isn't so much about greed but rather responsibility. Is it really a businesses responsibility to take care of citizens? Shouldn't the government be doing that, and don't you pay them to do that?

I know America is skewed a bit, having businesses provide you your healthcare probably confuses their role in society. But something is off if you feel we should turn to a commercial realtor for community support.