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We should never have been in a position in the first place where we have to care for illegal immigrants at the expense of our own population. Countries with the most successful response to this situation locked their borders down hard and fast. Now you're talking about illegal immigrants taking up beds in the ER, that's going to be a priceless commodity soon that many American citizens will probably be forced to go without.

The pragmatic thing to do would've been to protect our borders in the first place, both in terms of illegal immigration and restricting travel when the pandemic first began. Now that the situation is completely untenable and there's a massive underclass of millions of untraceable illegal immigrants, the 'pragmatic' thing to do is spend precious resources caring for them (both in terms of healthcare and financially) at the expense of the native population? 'Pragmatic' doesn't seem like the right word considering that line of thought is what caused the problem in the first place.
It's human nature, and gets worse with fear. Self-work can to some extent counteract it, for example by seeing in oneself what one decries in others.
> Like, remember that thing where cell carriers were literally selling real-time user-specific location data to, essentially, anybody who could pay? And probably still are?

Or before that, when they caught flak for header injection[1]. Which is still a thing according to the "Subscriber ID Headers" section of [2], just gated behind a whitelist instead of sprayed out to everyone. It'd be interesting to know if the rise in HTTPS traffic has reduced the utility of that, or if they've found a mitigation for that inconvenience.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh

[2] https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/analytics/technotes/v...
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The reserve requirement limit is purely theoretical anyway, since the Fed is obliged to pump more reserves into the system to maintain its interest rate targets when commercial banks [net] lend in excess of their current reserves anyway. The UK hasn't had a reserve requirement since 1981.
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Please, try to use official sources, like the WHO or CDC to base your assumptions. Anecdotal reports on Reddit do little to add to the discussion, specially since it is very hard to verify claims people post there.
Sure, physical media for the average consumer is no longer a thing. We sold vinyl records, and that is still a desirable thing for the niche markets. So, maybe just think of it from a slightly different angle/perspective. Make it a collector's item. Collectors want physical product to own/possess/show off. There's still a market for physical forms of musical recordings. If this is really a niche product, then cater to the niche market. The niche market knows/accepts it is niche and there's a bit of a premium mark up that can be taken advantage of here. Surely, you're not the only person looking for this type of sound. Capitalize on that like we did. Do it as a side hustle. Reach out to labels that own the rights to the track you like. Put together a compilation. Produce the physical product. If you don't do it, who will? Granted, it's way more work than just pirating a copy from someone else.
This is what I'm pondering at the moment. First would be the issue that this announcement is going to cause panic withdrawals (if it hasn't already) which I would guess has its own negative side-effects. Then it makes me wonder if printed paper would be worthless in a worst-case scenario anyway.

Or is this going to turn into Greece where all banks will close or limit the amount that can be withdrawn.

What a shit-show this has become

EDIT: another thing to consider is where to store all this cash if you withdraw. For those that have 6 figs in cash sitting in their banks, exposing that large sum of money in physical form poses an enormous risk (e.g. natural disasters or accidents being a big one)
And at a cost of €40 per pair it's a no-no. I think they will gain more from the free promo they will get from media/clicks than actual sells of the specific handle.
Personally, I find the argument too abstract. And many of the points are contrary to my actual experience. To give one concrete example,

> Rust’s way of managing memory is unique and clever. Unique and clever are generally seen as good things, but in software development they usually lead to difficulties with long-term maintenance, among other issues

The citations he gives are

1. a stack overflow post

2. a blog post (by an author I respect, but still)

I don't think that this alone proves his point. Even if we ignore that aspect of things, Rust is by far the easiest programming language I've ever had to do long-term maintenance on. This is specifically due to the guarantees.

So when I read the above, I see a very general argument, and my experience contradicts it here, so I don't really agree.

I am also, of course, incredibly biased.
What a ridiculously stupid goal. If we had a goal of reciprocity with every authoritarian dictatorship we'd end up enacting their policies until our government looks no different from our adversaries'.
Calling a country a sick man has no relation to the sickness of their people but the trouble of their government. The Ottoman Empire was the sick man of Europe/Middle East referring to their collapsing empire. China might be the sick man of Asia if rumours of their massively slowing economy is true.
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Typically it's redistribution. If you combine a progressive tax with a flat handout, you're basically taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
Good point, I should be more careful.
I keep hearing teams finding success and camaraderie on Discord. Haven't tried it for myself yet, but it's impressive how popular it was for you all!
Ah yes, shouldn't we all?

But we can choose books anytime, and we don't. So when you and I think about 'win' it must be different than what 'everyone else wants' at least in terms of how they actively chose to spend their time.
My honest answer: We can have peace by learning God's will for ourselves, doing it, and trusting Him. Some think this is silly, but I have learned for myself, so I no longer have to ask others to determine my views on this. You can too. He has promised, if we do our part, peace in this world and eternal life in the world to come. More at my site (no sales or javascript), http://lukecall.net/ , the main link for this part is just over 1/2-way down, "How I learned...". All the best to you.

(Edit: hopefully the site is skimmable. I tried to write that way, so each sentence is like part of a paragraph, but also often a link to more info...)

(Edit: also, things happening now were predicted long ago, for these last days, so we don't need to be surprised, but we can be OK. In the context of climate change and the world in commotion, I wrote my thoughts on that at the page: http://lukecall.net/e-9223372036854581820.html .)

Edit/ps: I've been through plenty: a divorce (and wonderful remarriage), some significant mistakes (aka learning experiences), health problems, economic uncertainty, but with help from family, church etc), and what I wrote at the site is from personal experience, in detail, and one can personally jump around to the most interesting stuff I hope, easily. Some of the content I think applies even if one doesn't follow religion, like about direction in life.
much less than 10% require hospitalization, though.
> how does increasing supply help things?

Money supply.

If you're a company who invested in a great workforce, and is getting nuked due to demand destruction, borrowing to keep paying them is a savvy long-term bet.

If you can't borrow, you'll have to let them go. That not only creates human misery. It also destroys the human capital you carefully built.
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It's not the solution to everything but there must be a wide range of domain-specific challenges that people are facing on the ground where better technology can help.
> I doubt Amazon warehouses represent a significant transmission vector

Well, we know that COVID-19 can survive up to 24 hours on cardboard. That actually gives a simple way to avoid outgoing spread: make sure items don't begin shipping, or don't leave the truck, for at least 30 hours from packaging.

It means no 2-day shipping, but I think even "fast" shipping times are at something like a week for most people right now, so that's not much of a problem.
Same in PA
I would really like to see new laws (or deleted old ones) in order to increase safety for such unexpected conditions.

It feels something is terribly wrong with the world and the basic laws of capitalism, now that it turns out many companies don't pile on stuff, and go out of business in a matter of weeks when supply is lagging behind.
I presume you can save your notes somewhere externally, but it's not apparent from the product description. Is it doable, easy and, most importantly, reliable?
Childcare is explicitly listed as an essential service :/
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Frankly I'm on the side that the Chinese are acting in good faith here. They have every motivation to do so. Stamping out the virus worldwide is for them a first order national priority.
No it won't. Reserve ratios are commonly modified, sometimes by a decent amount. Banks have been able to move money among accounts to effectively reduce reserve requirements nearly at will. And banks have always been able to lend past the reserve requirement, as long as they soon (after the fact) borrow to cover it, usually short term via the Fed overnight lending rate.

The average person has zero idea that this happens, but it's not going to somehow be impossible (or even hard) to undo it.
I also work in the conventions/trade shows/consumer shows space... we're also 100% cancelled for awhile. Had to lay off a bunch of staff this week, some who live paycheck to paycheck. Going to be a rough ride for a lot of people for awhile.
Well, I'm not sure what part of the SpaceX timeline you are talking about but his "money, enthusiasm, and naivety" certainly has brought the company very, very far in the past 17+ years.
I would expect these restrictions to be nationwide by this weekend, if not sooner.
Actually even for wasm you can make `cargo run` work. You just need to write a script for it and use it as the target runner. Especially for WASI this is great where you can just specify wasmtime as the runner and then cargo test / bench / run all work perfectly fine.
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We've had decades of letting China walk all over us. I'm not sure why this is unwarranted.

They ban our companies, we let their companies in with open arms. They tariff our goods, we buy theirs up. They steal our IP, we respect theirs. They manipulate their currency, we let ours float.

Open societies and open markets must remain open to each other. But that doesn't mean you roll over and allow a closed society to take advantage of you. Reciprocity is important.
An insider's view (note: not mine):
https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/opin...
I wish I could give you more than one upvote. This site is infuriating sometimes
This seems like a fairly common view to people who have come late to the topic.

If you have been paying attention for a while, the way the USA has handled this is horrifying.

Compare the outcomes in Italy to those in South Korea to see what good handling of this crisis looks like.

Even though we had the example of Italy weeks ago, we waited and waited and waited until now. Our outcomes will be similar to Italy's in a great deal of the USA.

The worst thing was the terrible, terrible failures in testing. We will never know exactly how many lives could have been saved if we ramped up testing the way South Korea did. We will be able to make some rough guesses after we get the final body count.

Trump also did enormous damage by continuously, repeatedly dismissing the new Coronavirus as no worse than the flu. Foot dragging and denial are natural anyway; having the president constantly dismiss the worst epidemic since 1918 as alarmism from whiners delayed action at the state and local levels, never mind all the action that wasn't being taken at the national level. There are still many people--maybe a majority in my area--who think this is all overblown panicking over nothing.

Here's the best I can say. The travel ban was a good idea and would have saved lives if we had not chosen to throw away the extra lead time it gave us. And most of Europe handled this just as poorly as we did, if that seems justifying to you (it does to some people).
If your favorite places offer gift certificates, that's a good way to support them. You're basically giving them an interest-free loan for the amount that you purchase. I've already done this with a bunch of my favorite local restaurants.
> UK hasn't had a reserve requirement since 1981

Capital requirements remain in place, for both British and American banks. (As remain reserve requirements for most assets at American banks.)
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The DOI link doesn't work. but I think this is the pre-print?
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.19.20025452v...
Wow! I don't remember FDR doing anything that drastic.
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How is an electric car factory an essential business?

I hope someone follows the money and prosecutes Elon if he exercised any financial influence here.
Yep we're already looking at doing this with docs. :)

One thing to help with the SAML support is WorkOS.js. It's essentially an embeddable configuration flow, so you don't need to build the UI to collect x.509 certs, generate the ACS URL, etc. Similar architecture to "Plaid Link" so users never leave your app.

Docs here: https://docs.workos.com/sso/embed-workosjs
And Minnesota as of 5pm today (2020-03-17).
> End central banking and you've single-handedly fixed systemic wealth inequality in the United States.

End central banking and San Francisco will still be full of homeless people and rich people
Thank you for the interesting link.
It's difficult to have compassion and empathy without discussion. These sorts of maneuvers tend to have horrifying butterfly effects.
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> It would seem that the logical response to this announcement is go run the banks right now,

Is there a reason I shouldn't rely on the FDIC (or NCUA for credit unions) insurance?

Is the expectation that if banks systematically fail, FDIC won't be able to cover all of the losses?
I haven't looked in detail, so I can't give you a definite answer, but I offer you this maxim:

Random processes clump.

When you have things happening at random you'll find that there are clumps here and there with gaps scattered. If you look at something and find that it's well spread and reasonably even, then it's not random.

There will always be some places that have more than average, more than "expected", and there will be places that seem magically to escape.

So maybe there's no reason other than it's simply where you are, and it's mostly random. Maybe there is a reason, but really, there might not be.

Edit:

The comment[0] by gus_massa[1] is completely plausible.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22609125

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gus_massa
apparently 3.75%
he/she shoudln't be banned, 's partly right:

https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=south+korea+bokna...
“No one” in the US perhaps?

Some other countries already have programs. NZ just introduced a program where everyone who’s job is locked-out will still get paid (so they can continue to pay bills). Other countries have different programs.
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low risk? Being in a public place with a lot of other people with a airborne virus? Do you sincerely believe that wiping down tables will protect you and your family?
I’m always open to being educated. I was referencing articles on Nature from February pointing to Pangolins more than any other mammal (without full certainty of course, that takes time).
Can we please get it for legal immigrants too? We pay taxes (lots!), are in the same need and also can stimulate the economy.
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(In non-exceptional circumstances, this would be via the discount window, which happens rarely in practice, due to stigma.)
If you earn 300k$ a year then $1k is a rounding error to their megabucks employees.
This looks interesting, but it's the software that will make or break the experience.

Software aside, this is expensive ($479 when you select the pen with the eraser and the book cover), and the screen is not back-lit, so this won't be usable without other source of light.

Why is it so hard to find an e-ink device that's good for reading books, PDFs, and web content (e.g. Pocket)? So far, everything I've tried has fallen short.
On China.
Whoa! Zack, I am a reporter for a local paper and I'd like to interview you for a piece about humble internet futurists. Could you give me your email so that I could send you a couple questions about rolling back corporate dogma and achieving 30 hour work weeks?
>Bank regulation is open to be criticized. But it's far from "nil".

Bank regulation is political and is regularly criticised, I'll give you that. However, the Federal Reserve and central banking is borderline immune to any form of criticism from the electorate partly due to a lack of understanding but also due to the widespread perception that central banking is somehow a necessity in a well-functioning economy and that its operation and development should remain firmly in the domain of "experts" like economists and others. I blame out-of-control scientism in economics for this one.

>Money was originally printed by private parties, then by banks, and most-recently by central banks.

Apologies, I phrased my sentence badly. It was more of a figure of speech rather than a historical account.
Spreading the problem out over a long period of time keeps the company in business. It's a no-brainer good idea for the SBA to do this. Not sure what you would prefer instead.
Naming is one of those hard problems. :P

We're primarily targeted at developers but I found there's a lot of other people who care about enterprise features. For example, WorkOS allows a Head of Product to focus entirely on new end-user features and not build SAML config screens.

WorkOS is surprisingly popular with the VP Sales. They have no idea what SAML or SCIM means, but they know it's blocking big deals. WorkOS helps them unlock that revenue.
Have you ever considered that you have terminal America Brain and that your particular economic theories haven't exactly proven robust or even helpful for the past century?
Can the mods make sure this is "policed" fairly. I don't recall seeing any of the many blatant anti-US comments getting any warnings from the mods while factual and properly sourced but negative-sounding comments on China-related threads always seem to raise alarm bells. If I'm wrong on this, I stand corrected. For the record, however, I completely agree that unsubstantiated and hostile comments should not be tolerated.
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You are correct and this effect is increasing over time. More and more investment is being done on baskets of stocks as these investments became accessible through ETFs and traditional managers were not able to beat the "dumb" indices (there's nothing really dumb about them).

Sure, there are funds like the Vision Fund or boutique stat arb funds who still trade individual names, but these are absolutely dwarfed by the size of investments into entire baskets/etfs. The companies in S&P 500 see more liquidity that the entire rest of the US equities combined. And inside that 500, the top 50 again sees more trading than the entire 450 rest combined.

So what happens when the market sells off? Everything becomes correlated. All the idiosyncratic effects are overpowered by the overall selling pressure. There'll be companies hit more than others, but there'll be very few (basically none) big names that will weather the storm completely unscathed. This is the effect of being included in the top 1000-2000 companies in the US. The moment your company gets there, you have to accept that in a crash, your stock will do the same as everything else.

This behavior also ties back to a broader effect in financial markets, namely that in a market stress, correlations spike. All stocks fall, bonds tend to appreciate (hence stocks and bonds become negatively correlated), by definition, volatility goes up everywhere.
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Thanks for your answer, I’ll dig into your links tonight.
FDR closed the banks. And also tried to semi-nationalize industries.
On the topic of handles being disease vectors, can someone explain to me the design of the American cross-walk button which is so small it requires a finger press? It's also shielded by plastic around the edges so you can't get to it with a more blunt object, such as your elbow.
Oh that’s disappointing. I thought it would be a carry on door knob you could put into your pocket and plug into doors like a usb charger. I think this kind of design would work better.
This is a great place to start. (Plus it's free.)

https://docs.workos.com/sso/overview
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This is the most solid evidence I've seen yet on the ability of sars-cov-2 to spread before the onset of symptoms.
They have a lot of contractors, who are. And there is (used to be) a caste like energy on how contractors were viewed as opposed to actual FTEs.
Why the name calling? Nowhere we mentioned low income earners as deplorable. Fix the speck in your eye first.
I would personally never reach for Rust for a project unless I needed bare-metal performance. I can make API calls + database calls + interact with USB devices/filesystems in node.js with much less complexity and a much stronger ecosystem.
A few random ideas, see if any suite you:

- Regarding WFH: maybe you can make a "hangout" video conference to emulate the office a bit?

- do video walls with friends

- try to stay rational (you can't do more than self-isolating, nothing more you can do)

- if you can concentrate on it and have the energy: learn something
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Can you expand on that?

Nationalization to me isn't that different from a bailout, the government (and thus taxpayers) foot the bill. With nationalization I guess the government can exert greater control over how the company is run, but is that necessarily the best way to provide oversight?
True. It might dilute right quick if the banks get to start printing it, too. I suspect the Nash equilibrium may be for them to do so with reckless abandon.

One would hope that the Fed wouldn't actually allow that to happen. But how does one re-impose reserve requirements without causing even more problems?

It's like in that one song: "And I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die."

On the upside, I suppose we'll now get to have an empirical test to settle that age old debate over whether the number of people allowed to print money should be one or many. Pity Bitcoin's in such a shambles, so we can't with clean conscience make it a test among zero, one and many.
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