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> You can spend weeks or months in therapy before you are recovered, or you can get scarring in your lungs - or worse - that leaves you with a permanent disability. Not to mention damage to other organs.

Given that we've only been tracking the virus closely for 2 months, and we've only had a decent sample size of patients for only about 1 month, you really can't be making claims like this at this point.
S&P fell in late 2000 and returned to that peak in in 2007.

S&P crashed in 2008 and recovered in 2013.

1 year is way too short a timeline. Maybe 5-10 years is the shortest time horizon to not be worried about market timing

EDIT: what part of this comment merited the cascade of downvotes (-5 at this moment)? You can verify the first two points fairly easily, and the last line is general advice given by many financial professionals and evidenced by the first two.
Might have been interesting if it were anything more than a way to bash the current administration...
You forgot image maps!

For the younger ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map
Well.

According to IPCC 2018, we're CURRENTLY between +0.75 and +1.25°C, with the very real possibility of reaching +2°C by the 2040. These effects are a direct consequence of our dumping massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

We thought that we had about 30 years to mitigate some of the worst damage. But now - holy shit! - the arctic permafrost is melting, about 70 years earlier than expected. And it's starting to release methane, a way more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Sure, it rapidly decays in the atmosphere, but not before kicking us to about +4°C. This is the temperature range where some Scientists fear that frozen methane from the ocean floor will start to be released.

(Did you know that at about +5°Celsius the phytoplankton will start dying off? )

So, we have a massive temperature increase at an unprecedented speed that makes huge areas of earths most populous regions inhospitable or even inhabitable. Do you think the Syrian refugee crisis was bad? Think about ~1 BILLION PEOPLE on the search for greener (literally) pastures. Do you think they will be welcome with open arms? Yeah, you bet..

Agriculture will be severely impacted. Not only by the heat, but also by the massive die-off that ensues. Most of the animals on earth have a lifecycle that's very closely tuned to the hum of the seasons. At +4°C you can kiss all that goodbye. The only things that will survive are generalist species that have a lifecycle not tied to the seasons. (Cockroaches maybe. Certainly not butterflies. Enjoy them while they last!)

So, yes, there are many other consequences of our predatory exploitation of our ecosphere. Many that are almost as pressing as the climate crisis. But just almost.
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This is why you Dollar Cost Average though. You do the same thing the 3rd and 4th time it happens. It's extremely unlikely there will be a 5th, 6th, etc (if there is, we probably have more important things to worry about like 25% of the world dying)
For sure now (or ever) is not a good time to take a random advice from random strangers in the Internet.
> I know the generalized idea is no face masks if you don't have symptoms, but if we all used them it might have a good effect on curving the spread.

There was never enough for everybody. So second best option is, known infected + healthcare. Health professionals work under heavy viral load, which is positively correlated with your chance of getting sick and having a bad outcome. Which means in an overloaded healthcare system without adequate amounts of PPE (like Italy now), doctors will be dying, even if they were young and otherwise healthy. And dying doctors drops the system capacity too.

(Capacity of most healthcare systems seems to be limited by the amount of beds and ventilators available, but these you can always make - and China is indeed making them full-steam, to help the rest of the world. You can't make new doctors that quickly, and there isn't much of them either.)
When financial bubbles burst the markets fall an average of something like 42% in the first two months.
But the bright side is that people on the internet aren't judgmental.

edit: I think your point of view isn't comparable. Of course privacy was prevalent. There are some way too curious people in some villages and that is it. That isn't even close to the current situation where your behavior is measured on every click.
I like the user-research-first approach here a lot. Very different than many other BI tools in a refreshing way. In the past I've hesitated to consider Chartio for my organization because most people don't know SQL, but I'm excited to give it a try now.

I also love how everything is a table. Looker does this, and it's great (though Chartio's implementation looks better). Tableau does not, which makes certain things a headache.

I do wonder how well this will scale to large datasets and columnar databases, though. Showing a preview of the tables is really cool and useful, but it is not what data warehouses like Redshift are designed for. The preview probably wouldn't load in time for my users to see it unless they just sit there waiting for it.
More like a "the world is crash and burning I want real cash in my pocket, NOW!" kinda thing. It's hard to buy toilet paper and water with Bitcoin at your local Costco.
“America’s doctor” on the coronavirus outbreak: “it’s going to get worse”
COVID-19 doesn't mean there aren't regular flu / colds going around, too.

Long distance travel and exposure to those who have been (e.g. hugging your wife got off a plane from Spain 2 days ago) is still a top predictor for exposure.
I cant even afford a gold plated keyboard. :-(
I'm a software developer and I always find that grabbing a whiteboard and drawing diagrams or other such information is very useful when trying to agree on a solution (or even agree on the problem). I work remotely and very rarely see the rest of my team in person, so the clear benefit (to me at least) of in-person whiteboarding in those situations is very stark.

Yes, you could probably accomplish the same thing by writing up a proposal spec document (which you'll need to do eventually) but the downside of doing that during the drafting stage is that it lengthens the feedback loop and not everyone will read such a document thoroughly and leave a thorough review. In-person whiteboarding is usually much faster and everyone in the room is almost always on the same page.
Just as yesterday, last month, next month, and forever, it's a bad time to get financial advice on Hacker News.
What about to your job, if you don't have a job that you can do remotely? Employers generally don't like paying people who can't make it in to work, and it's hard to pay for food without money.
This is a twice-in-a-century event. (Consider AIDS the other pandemic.) Our system should not be built for outlier events. Instead, we should make exceptions for those outlier events. (For example, we could have salary supports for those in quarantine and unable to work remotely equal to their average reported income over the last 12 weeks || a minimum wage and support for landlords or mortgages until the pandemic ends.)

Overpay for an extreme case rather than adapt your system around it.

Now, I have other complaints about our system and how it is unsustainable, but this is a poor argument as to why.
Everyday is a great investment opportunity given a long time horizon.
It is textbook slippery slope.

Because grandparent said they would sacrifice a realistic tax increase to save lives in the COVID-19 outbreak, the parent asked about a confiscatory 99% tax rate and asset seizure, which would be wholly unnecessary for paying for the current crisis.
From someone who went through it and dealt with code, it was a real problem but I also think it was handled poorly publicly. The issues were known for a long time, but the media hyped it into a frenzy because a few higher profile companies and a lot of government systems had not been updated. In fact, there were still a number of government systems that were monkey patched with date workarounds and not properly fixed well into the 2000's (I don't know about now but it wouldn't shock me).

There was a decent influx of older devs using the media hype as a way to get nice consulting dollars, nothing wrong with that, but in the end the problem and associated fix was not really a major technical hurdle, except for a few cases. It is also important to understand a lot of systems were not in a SQL databases at the time, many were in ISAM, Pic, dBase (ouch), dbm's (essentially NoSql before NoSql hype) or custom db formats (like flat files etc) that required entire databases to be rewritten, or migrated to new solutions.

My 2 cents, it was a real situation that if ignored could have been a major economic crisis, most companies were addressing it in various ways in plenty of time but the media latched on to a set of high profile companies/government systems that were untouched and hyped it. If you knew any Cobol or could work a Vax or IBM mainframe you could bank some decent money. I was mainly doing new dev work but I did get involved in fixing a number of older code bases, mainly on systems in non-popular languages or on different hardware/OS because I have a knack for that and had experience on most server/mainframe architectures you could name at that time.
Bitcoin energy cost is $4,313 while market value drops to $5,900 in panic sale
There is more bad news to come. Infections in US and EU, supply chain issues, local business impacts and bankruptcies, repo markets, etc.

Buy-the-dip and dollar-cost-average work but you don't need to go in blind. I advise waiting until there's actually repeat good news before you buy in.
For "higher level abstraction layers" improving the "ease of use" mentioned in the article, see e.g. https://genode.org/ (not affiliated, just a fan)
Do not invest if you need the money in the short-term or what you can't afford to lose. I'd be very hesitant to invest with debt financing.

In all likely hood it will recover, but no-one knows when how far long out that will be and you never want to be in a position where you're forced to sell.
More like reduced investor confidence, but they are correlated. Essentially, everyone wants a safe place to put their money right now. That usually means bonds (especially government bonds) and cold hard cash.

Most people think of bitcoin as an investment, and a risky one at that. So they are taking their money out and putting it in safer places
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A dip implies a bottom exists. Right now it's just a steep slope with no bottom in sight.
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My theory is that BTC is a “high risk” position/part of someone’s portfolio. So people are seeing lots of cheap stocks (high risk), noticing an opportunity and moving out of BTC to buy stocks. Just a theory.
Remember the coronavirus mostly affects elderly people. At about a ~3% rate it’s not insanely deadly. Sure lots of people get flu and they eventually recover.

The reason of social isolation is to ensure the 3% that do get serious don’t overwhelm the healthcare system. The virus will spread, we just want to slow the spread.
What’s the indicator that this is the bottom? Stocks fell last night as soon as Trump opened his mouth. Stock market has been Wile E Coyote running on air for years, now the market is looking at the ground. America has a government incapable of sensible action. There’s a real possibility that the republic ceases to exist within the year, after Trump tries to delay or invalidate the election (and if you think this is far-fetched, recall that’s what his pal Giuliani tried to do after 9/11, so it’s in their playbook).

There’s non-zero volume and interest in S&P future puts striking at 1000. There’s plenty of potential downside.
> I'd kind of assumed that bitcoin and other cryptos would rally if stock markets were falling under a global pandemic,

Cryptocurrency has been used as a speculative investment.

It's riskier than stocks, so it has fallen further.
That explains why I was unable to find any secure way to store keys or sensitive data in their API[0] docs.

Which means user authentication apps will not come any time soon, like Authy (Authenticators), Bitwarden (Password Managers) or BankID (Swedish) (Identity Verifiers).

[0] https://developer.kaiostech.com/api
> but if we all used them it might have a good effect on curving the spread.

They aren't very effective and people who use them tend to touch their face a lot more. Not a good idea - unless you are infected.
Yours was a widespread conviction born of the idea that bitcoin and other crypto-assets would be seen as de-correlated safe-havens for funds drawn from volatile traditional equity markets.

The simultaneous drop in value is the very textbook definition of correlation, and therefore suggests that the same decision processes (perhaps even the same decision-makers) are operating in both types of markets and that, consequentially, bitcoin and crypto-assets are factually not alternatives at all.
No one can tell you. Consider this though. It is highly likely that the US will institute a lock down in the next few weeks. Exponential growth is nothing to be trifled with. Major world economies may stay in partial lockdown until we have enough herd immunity for our hospitals not to get destroyed by this virus. Most estimates have a possible vaccine 12-18 months out. I doubt the markets have priced this in, because it's practically unfathomable. But the US is running out of options and the virus is already spreading widely here.
Couple of possibilities:

1. People who buy bitcoin also are in wallstreetbets selling options they don't understand.

When they get a margin call and have to cover the money they lost, they sell bitcoin.

2. people in bitcoin are selling to transfer into stocks
There are detailed stats in wordmeter for tests, here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/

You can see how some places like US are not treating this like a threat. We Italians have a high number of cases because of the number of tests, same thing for South Korea for example.
True. Investing a little bit each day far exceeds the returns from investing a lot every time there's a local minimum.
Do you have a link for this article BTW? the one that's so widely shared.
One issue I heard coming up recently is bandwidth many companies have to support remote access is not capable of dealing with a majority doing so. Then there are those using by license VPN solutions having insufficient simultaneous access.

I am used to the web ex approach for collaboration but again this is limited by bandwidth issues. if anything hopefully this shows people how many meetings are just unnecessary
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/24k-gold-keyboard
There is no argument that the market for a lot of stocks was completely out of control. When stock charts are a 90 degree angle, trading on average at 25:1 price vs earnings, there is a problem.
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A steep slope with no bottom in sight does not imply that a bottom does not exist.

Indeed it’s clear that a bottom must exist. Being unable to infer where it may be does not negate that certainty.
Even more interesting is Bitcoin has been a leading indicator for tech stocks for some time now. Bitcoin drops often led FANG drops by a few days.
I'm not proud at all: communication was horrible (what do you think you can accomplish by changing things every few days?), caused panic (it's the fault of those who cause confusion, not of the confused), and it was reluctant in getting a no-red tape team up (even "emergency" supplies of respirators needed to go through the stupid bureaucracy).

There is a lot that could've done better than the current approach.
Looking forward, I think that a VR app like Google's Tilt Brush would be the best medium for this (perhaps, until we have something like the Star Trek Holodeck). But I don't think that Google or anyone else has released a multiplayer version yet.
I was working at a telecommunications startup in 1999. They were founded in 1997. A big part of what I was doing was fixing Y2K bugs.

That said, none of the bugs would have been critical to the operations of the services. Everything was in the billing systems and I think if unfixed it would have been more of a reputation hit than anything.

Also, "begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Ask HN: How would Uber and Lyft handle the Corona virus crisis?
People might opt not to take Uber because of fear that the driver might catch the virus from a passenger or because they are not going to the club/theater/sport anymore and no need for Uber
Pornhub is giving away free premium membership in Italy
Small for you, a person who hangs out on HN.

Even with a service like Squarespace, asking a restaurant owner to create a well-formatted digital version of the menu and keep it up to date with any revisions is a big enough ask that they can't be assed.

Having visually impaired friends who aren't well served by a PDF that doesn't respect their text size preferences and requires zooming way in and scrolling side to side to read each line, I wish that weren't the case. But that's where we're at.
I am obliged to tell you to find a chart of the Nikkei 225 and zoom out
"If a native app can remain authenticated with whatever service it communicates with a PWA should be able to as well, that's an implementation issue rather than a PWA issue, no?"

Native apps don't usually remain authenticated, but they'll allow you to store your credentials on the device keychain or secure enclave and it can be accessed with FaceID/TouchID making re-authentication completely automatic.

"Similarly if LastPass doesn't integrate correctly to the point where you're having to manually look up details rather than having details auto-filled across websites and apps (iOS and Android both support this), that sounds like an issue with LastPass."

We can surely blame the services, apps, browsers for not doing things correctly, but as an user I just want things to be fast, efficient and simple. Right now only native apps provide that experience.

"(iOS and Android both support this)"

Can you tell me how? I use Firefox, Chrome and Brave on iOS and have never seen any kind of Lastpass integration on them.
Sounds like you don't disagree with his underlying argument, just that the cost is a function of both time and height of the curve.

I took his point to be simply that flattening the curve does itself have significant associated costs. That a maximally flattened curve is not necessarily the best approach.

For people who rely on public transport to get to work and who can't work remotely, I think they would argue that the cost / day of flattening efforts itself also begins to rise significantly. That is, the first week or two are less impactful than subsequent consecutive weeks. And that cost is borne widely. That increasing cost may or may not balance out the failure to have the cost axis take into account the height of the curve.
Here is my logic as a retail investor. The market has lost close to 20-30% from the peak. Will it regain the peak, for sure. By when ? Hard to predict. All I know is that the rate of climb need not be the same as the rate of the fall.

This virus will bring about significant collateral damage to the global economy. Already airlines, cruises are hurt. Soon, tourism and hospitality industry will be hit. Transport and logistics will be next followed by retail. So the cascading collateral damage is quite unpredictable at this time. Double this with plunging oil prices.

So unless you are willing to wait for 10+ years from now, it's unwise to invest a lump sum amount at once. If it were me, I will just invest small amounts periodically. Like every couple of weeks or so.
Do not get your investment advice from random internet comments.

Do not make "all or nothing" investment choices. It's perfectly reasonable to stay the course with bi-monthly investment purchases in your 401k.

We will bottom out eventually, but you're unlikely to call the exact bottom.
This is very useful to read and search TensorFlow source code. It definitely beats Github for me.
"Losers average losers" (Paul Tudor Jones)

Do not average down.
Latency and silent cases is probably enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if we hit another circuit breaker by the end of the day.

This will get worse before it gets better.
And for the Tech bubble, Nasdaq peaked at 5,046.86 on March 1999, and didn't return to that level March 2, 2015, 16 years later.
Yet people still refuse to accept that sometimes, being first makes little difference, delivering something well polished and usable as well as having a track record of quality is worth a lot, and people make choices for reasons other than release timelines.
Going Back to Basics: Conditionals
"climate crisis is mostly nonsense."

For comparison, what are examples of actual crisis (sic), past, present, or future?

"And I believe most 'solutions' proposed are an antithesis to individual liberty."

Do you oppose China's handling of COVID-19? Italy's?

If yes, how would you handle it?
It's being reported here (the UK) as "anyone who has visited or trsvelled through a Schengen zone country in the past 14 days".

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/11/coronavirus-ou...
My assumption is a lot of them moved their money to purchase options on the stock market or to cover their butts when one of those options went south.

Not that I know anything about charts, but it did look like a head/shoulder chart as well a while back that would have suggested a dip was coming anyways.
The other way it'll show up in an absence of testing will be hospitals running out of beds. Which will be invisible in the media until it happens and doesn't let up (see Italy, which was doing okay up to a few weeks ago).
The market has been overvalued and manipulated for years. Even Apple took out billions in loans for stock buybacks.[0] Boeing took out $43 billion in loans for stock buybacks[1] instead of investing in planes, QA and employees. Everyone knew this was a stock bubble caused by record low interest rates. COVID-19 is the pin that woke everyone up.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/05/apple-is-borrowing/

[1] https://wolfstreet.com/2020/03/11/boeing-crashes-as-43-billi...
Silver could be even better. (including nanosilver coating as used in some food processing hardware such as refrigerators)
For a 50% fall, there needs to be a 100% increase to reach back the same levels and hence the timelines might be longer.
While I mostly agree with you, the iPad Pro is the exception. It's really one of my favorite purchases ever.
3M is retooling their US factories. They should be producing by now.
DCA is riskier and has lower returns than lump-sum investing.
bitcoin has been dropping...

https://www.bitcoin.de/de

The high at 12:00 am today was 7k now it's down to 5700 euro.

People are selling at 5500