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fortunately in industrial farming, the infection risk the other way round (human→animal) is such a business risk, that adequate precautions are taken!
> Industrial farming practices in the US and many other countries could easily lead to similarly dangerous animal-to-human transmissions

SARS-CoV-2 appears to have originated in bats, been passed to Malayan pangolins, and then made its jump to humans [1].

That is likely in a wet market. It is not likely on a single-animal industrial farm.

[1] https://www.cell.com/pb-assets/journals/research/current-bio...
Android app reviews may slow due to Covid-19 impacts, Google warns developers
These are both basically MoonChild saying "it's not true" which doesn't change whether it's true.

MoonChild also told everybody that Let's Encrypt is a terrible idea, untrustworthy and nobody should use it. How did that end up?

I will give them props for actually doing it (plenty of people went "I'll just fork it" when Mozilla decided to change things but very few of them actually did all the resulting heavy lifting) not just talking about it. That's not nothing, but it doesn't make them right.
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Could you do something with Venmo plus a manual ledger? Send money, write down the person's name etc., if they come in later you can look it up and give the credit.
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The "wave" may already be much further than expected in many places, since about 80-90% go unnoticed due to their mild form[0]. But this would actually be a good thing, as it would mean that:

* Mortality rate is way lower than currently estimated

* On average/median, cases are less sever than anticipated, meaning a much lower percentage of people will have to get hospitalized when infected, reducing the capacity burden

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/health/coronavirus-statis...
> now is the time to print a bunch of new money

I'm curious as to whether the money would ever make it into the hands of the average consumer (which is where I'm assuming it needs to go to actually cause an increase in inflation, considering how consumption-heavy our GDP is, but correct me if I'm wrong!) There have been recent calls for the government to distribute money to prop up demand, but won't banks lobby politically against this sort of activity? Seems like a lender wouldn't want inflation to actually increase because that would cause their current lower-interest loans to be less valuable? One of the oft-cited concerns for continually missing our 2% symmetric inflation target is that market participants will begin to expect and plan for low inflation, which has a negative feedback effect on future inflation. Seems to me like financial institutions are already expecting low inflation and aren't all that interested in seeing it rise.
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at sprouts in the bay area, i went to the grocery store on sunday and they had almost everything. they only ran out of some organic dried beans but the shelves were mostly stocked pretty well.
I'm confused on this. Are FB workers getting laid off?

Scenario: 1 month ago, you're an FB employee, and working, and you pay a nanny.

Today: you're an FB employee, and working, and you pay a nanny.

How is FB giving the FB employee changing anything at all? There's something I'm missing in this.
This is happening across all of North Carolina tonight.

https://governor.nc.gov/news/north-carolina-close-restaurant...
probably with compounding interest if they allow deferred payments lol
I would guess their criteria for testing is people who could develop into a critical situation quickly because the tests are not 100 percent reliable and they are slow.

They were talking about having a televised only Olympics which might work if there were enough countries with athletes willing to fly to Japan.
This is a really important post, if you're the kind of person who thinks about this sort of thing. Iteration speed isn't the endpoint, just a measurement. Learning speed is more important, but only if you're also using that learning to identify and act on opportunities. All of the processes have their own notion of tempo or speed. You can benefit from thinking about them all.
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The tax code penalizes dividends by taxing recipients at the time they're paid.
I would love to see similar data for other industries as well. Any form of retail is going to get hit by this. Those that don't have online ordering setup are in for a world of hurt, and those that have it but don't advertise it well may not change the message fast enough.

The long term impact for a lot of people is terrifying, but I don't see a way to avoid it without instead badly damaging our healthcare system and potentially killing a lot of people.
Can someone give money to OpenTable to support restaurant in difficult time?

I wanted to help a couple of local business but there’s nothing on-line: Google Maps says that they are open (and my city in in lock-down).
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3D printed door handle developed in effort to reduce spread of Coronavirus
>IMHO this is a prime example of recklessly corrupt government conduct.

I don't often jump to that sort of language, but I'm 100% with you. In what world is Tesla an essential business, other than its size, public image, and political clout?

What a mess.
It's helpful because it dramatically reduces stress on employees (due to guaranteed bonus without performance review) during a turbulent time.

I can't see why this is so hard to understand.
Agree, Teams is an absolute shitshow of a communicator. Everything's wrong about it, from unintuitive UX, incredibly slow UI, up to terrible API design where even making a simple bot is laughably hard(try working with 'chats' instead of 'teams' or 'channels' and you'll see). Recent days also proved how bad infrastructure they have, they're not capable at handling bigger traffic at all. I've used Slack equally long before that and it was amazingly good in comparison(still not perfect though).
Oh boy - folks am not advocating this :). I was asking a genuine question as a response to the comment that's all. Thanks for the replies.
It is the degreaser that makes the outside of the virus fall apart.
Ever since the XUL add-ons system was shut down, they've only added new features to webextensions. It's either already dead, or it's not being killed off, depending on your POV.
You'll find IP legislation has provisions for protecting national security and for use in times of war or other national emergencies; cf UK Patents Act SS 55-59 (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-patent-act-1977).
Absolutely. The app can schedule threads.

I am currently working on some cool analytics that the user can see behind every tweet they schedule.
Clicking "Read More" on the cookie banner sends you to Google for "How to remove cookies."

No, I want to set a cookie to tell y'all not to set tracking cookies and just limit it to strictly necessary ones.

I can remove them and their server will go ahead and set them again.

And no, sending me to a property owned by one of the worst offenders in this space is not what I want.
"Shooting the messenger" refers to envoys, emissaries, ambassadors, and other official agents and representatives. Harming them has led to some devastating consequences for the people doing the harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_conquest_of_Khwarezmia#...

Suppression of the press is unfortunately very effective in the short term. Historians may eventually uncover the truth but it will be far too late.
Well...

> Fractional-reserve banking is the most common form of banking practised by commercial banks worldwide. It involves banks accepting deposits from customers and making loans to borrowers, while holding in reserve an amount equal to only a fraction of the bank's deposit liabilities. Bank reserves are held as cash in the bank or as balances in the bank's account at the central bank. The minimum amount that banks are required to hold in liquid assets is determined by the country's central bank, and is called the reserve requirement or reserve ratio. Banks usually hold more than this minimum amount, keeping excess reserves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking

It's a mighty pillar of our global economic systems or the biggest scam ever or both depending on who you ask.

Anyway, if I understand correctly (and I don't, IANAEconomist), now the fraction is zero. But I don't know what that means and I suspect few do. It sounds like it means that banks can just write loans all day long and "poof" money into existence, but I've been told that that is somehow not the case. Higher economics is indistinguishable from numerology (in terms of semantic analysis) to me, so I shouldn't comment further. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will show up and read the tea leaves for us.
Will this year’s census be the last?
Imagine they started working on hypermedia browsers 30 years ago, and were now admonishing everyone for not sticking with standard SGML. Yes, I'm sure DSSSL had a way of doing scoped styles. Scheme has scopes, right?
thanks, i just bought tailwindui!
>If we're talking about the US here, 'until' seems to be an optimistic presumption that our government has any intentional of helping small businesses.

There are dozens of articles of Trump taking something to congress today apparently to do just this

https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-coronavirus...

>Mnuchin planned to outline that roughly $850 billion package to Senate Republicans at a private lunch, with officials aiming to have Congress approve it this week.

and

>“The Senate will not adjourn until we have passed significant and bold new steps above and beyond what the House has passed to help our strong nation and our strong underlying economy weather this storm," McConnell said.
Normally we'd at least consider swapping the URL, but given how awfully this thread went, that would be too much loss of context.
It's completely insane that they describe this in linear terms. The effects of reducing the reserve requirement is inverse-linear with respect to the ratio. Since the money multiplier is 1/r, reducing the reserve requirement to 0 means that any dollar has an unbounded limit as to how far it can be re-lent. That is quite literally infinitely more unprecedented than a 100x bigger dislodging of the "reduction in the reserve requirement".
People are still slipping on Elon and how brilliant he is.

He is legit the chief designer of the Falcon 9 rocket and of Starship not just the chief executive. That is not just some honorary title. He made every important choice on every important technical decision.

He knows every detail of these rockets, he knows them inside and out. Nobody knows more about any of these rockets then Elon.

People sometimes want to portray him about a guy that highers smart people and that it, but it is far from true.
Not trying to be snarky, just something worth considering... Owning physical media is not as popular as it once was due to the multitude of streaming options available. Subsequently, the cost of physical media has gone down due to the popularity of streaming. If you pick up some $5 blue-rays for older films here and there, or hit up a used place, $50/month can go pretty far. Best part, after a year or so, you would have amassed a pretty sizeable collection of media, that is yours to watch, forever (as long as you retain copy of the media). Can't really beat that. Archive it and stream it with Plex or Kodi (which I think is legal, as long as you own a physical copy). Other commenters have noted similar sentiments, but I feel like the subscription services are just the new cable. Until a better option exists, I find physical media to have the friendliest licensing for users.
The French government (as with most European governments) has a closer relationship with industry that we see in the Anglosphere, so this is not quite a surprise.

That said, it's good timing on the announcement because it's more a signal than anything.

'We will not hesitate' is pretty strong language, indicating faith in those institutions that are, at least for now 'too big to fail'.
Government motors worked out okay for taxpayers in the USA. Not sure France is going to relinquish control though. They seem to like central planning / high unemployment over there.
You could run a cheap/small UPS off your main stores maybe? That could possibly provide the signal and management
It would seem that the logical response to this announcement is go run the banks right now, before March 26, and before anyone on Fox and Friends thinks to mention to their viewers what this really means.
We have built a dashboard to do this sort of tracking https://www.econdb.com/covid/Italy/ which will be improved gradually. Obtaining good proxies for economic activity can be hard on some sectors.
Do they use square? https://squareup.com/us/en/gift-cards
I just pushed a new version of the homepage which shows exactly how the app works with images and videos.

I was so busy working on the product that I was missing to revamp the homepage. Big mistake.

What you think of the new homepage?
Oh my... some of the Pale Moon cult feels offended and call us leftwing Nazis.. how pathetic!

https://www.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/fk4fnl/attention_...
I certainly do not intend to do this again. I think under normal times it would not have been as bad. I will take particular care under current circumstances. My sincere apologies to you.
All of these things could already be improved by 1000% if the government wanted to. Its not a lack of tools, but a lack of will.
I was in Seattle the whole time.

It was common on the team I was on to work about 10 hours a day in office and then go home and have meetings with our sister team in India and some follow-up work with them. The sister team was working on standing up an automation service to reduce some of our "manual" work and help reduce the oncall burden, but it took nearly a year and a half for that to happen.

>> if you get paged at night people cover for you the next day.

That would have been nice. We initially had to provide 24-7 coverage for a week during our oncall rotation. After the sister team in India stood up, it turned into 12 hours a day and a hand off to an oncall engineer in India who would cover the next 12 hours. Both "tag team" engineers would cover a week together for the oncall rotation.

>> I didn't work on a Q4 peak team but your math is psychotic. 100 hours is 14 hours a day 7 days a week?

Our service directly supported order fulfillment. Therefore it HAD to stay up at all costs, especially during Q4.

Granted 100 hours did not happen often, it was usually closer to 70 and mainly consisted of getting everything ready for Q4 and load testing it all to make sure that it was solid for the tremendous holiday volume. Remember, this was BEFORE the retail website had fully transitioned to elastic scaling. All the supporting layers and configuration were pre-scaled manually based on the previous year's peaks plus the expected increase.
I’ve heard that as well and certainly hope that’s the case. But I’d think it’d be irresponsible for planners to just assume that’s what would happen, and not ask themselves what happens if the pandemic becomes worse.
The point is, industrial farming HASN'T.

(There is plenty to say about industrial farming; the use of antibiotics in it is probably largely responsible for MRSA and the likes. But it has not resulted in a wartime-like conditions in the whole world.)
My boss has an iPad with the Paperlike screen protector, and it makes me jealous. Just something to look into if you don't like the glass.
That might benefit them in the short term but could hurt them in the long term if more cases break out because of contaminated customers and have to close the entire building down.
> So why not just issue dividends and avoid the downsides?

As another replier pointed out: dividends create a tax event if the shares are held in a taxable account (in US: not IRA, not 401(k)).

Sometimes people (pensions, trusts) don't want those types of events and would rather choose when to invoke tax events by selling only when they need to for income purposes.
Most people during the depression wouldn't have complained about getting paid to work too many hours.
As always, new restaurants will take the place of shuttered ones. It won't be easy, but "eating out" as a practice will not disappear!
I found this super-hard to read, mainly due to having to keep referring back to the acronyms that I didn't understand the definitions of.
UBI is honestly the only solution here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/fk4fnl/attention_...

Pretty poor the trolling attempts by the Pale Moon cultists! Shows who the true racists and Nazis are!
They need a moratorium on rent, mortgage and property taxes. Temporarily suspend base operating costs, and provide direct assistance for employees.

Loans will help them bounce back when the crisis is over. Makes no sense right now.
I'd recommend keeping your first two sentences (which are interesting), and deleting the rest of the comment (which just continues an inflammatory line).
A liberal democracy's federal government should not be in the business of deciding which journalists are "propagandists".
(Author of OP here.) I don't think computers are like appliances at all. Given the outsized effect that software infrastructure has on our lives, I think computers are more like laws. And my lesson from (a layman's reading of) Ancient Rome and the last 300 years of Western Civilization is that laws are too important to be left to legislators. This is a failure on both sides. We the masses have wanted to treat the hard work of law-making as an externality, and legislators have been happy to take control of them for us because it serves their interest. Both sides think they're pulling one over on the other, and both are being short-sighted.

To bring it back to software, it would be great to separate the user experience from the developer experience if we knew how. But we don't currently know how to make a program do precisely what the user intends it to do but not something else like dial home or spam a bunch of people in Vermont or encrypt my hard disk to hold it for ransom. I propose we live in the world we find ourselves in rather than the one we wish we had. This world requires us to invest in understanding computers if we want to use them.

> The Jobs "bicycle for the mind" line was about the user experience, not the developer experience.

I used the phrase because the conference alluded to it, but I spent a while researching it and would rather not have. You're right that Jobs used it in a blunt, superficial way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTRzYjoZhIY. But he was also using the phrase to refer to technology from Xerox PARC that he did not fully appreciate. I'm glad the term has taken on a life of its own and grown to mean something closer to what PARC intended.
It’s funny when you mention serious, “real” emergencies then go on to list occurrences that have never happened in history.

A nuclear attack without any warning would be unprecedented. Usually there is some build up before you wipe out entire cities. That build up let’s people get prepared.

A deadlier Ebola by the way would be less serious than actual Ebola. Ebola is already too deadly to make use of its infectiousness. In my view, the most deadly virus would be a variant of coronavirus that will regularly send healthy young adults into the ICU, and have a longer period of being asymptomatic.
I'm going to be giving up on this thread in a moment because people aren't even reading what I'm reading and definitely aren't answering in good faith.

The original claim was that people over the age of 80 aren't being treated because they don't have the capacity for it. I queried if they were sure about that, because the Italian government was saying that's not true. An Italian has now replied to that same post also stating it's not true and the international media has exaggerated a comment by a single doctor.

That's the factual world.

In another thread a guy claimed the Italian system was "at over 200% capacity". This turned out to be an exaggeration of another claim by a single doctor, not a real statistic.

I've been querying these sorts of claims by directly citing detailed testimony from the guy who literally runs all of ICU in Lombardy, the worst struck place in the whole world. He is saying, as clear as can be, he doesn't believe people with a chance of recovery have been turned away due to lack of beds. This doesn't mean they haven't increased beds via drastic measures or taken other actions to increase capacity. It means that as of the time that report was made, he didn't believe they'd run out of at-present capacity and had to turn people away at the hospital entrance.

Maybe he's wrong and not living in the same factual world as the rest of us. I don't know. But I'd hope he understands the state of his own hospitals given his job.
What a coincidence, I'm subscribed to most of those!
>the cascading economic impact from just this one sector will be enormous.

The entire hospitality industry is going to take a huge hit. I do work in the convention, corporate travel/event space, and my calendar up until June has been wiped out. Cascading is the key thing people seem to gloss over. Sure, servers and kitchen staff are obvious. The food delivery people will not be needed. Companies like Aramark that provide cleaning services for floor mats/uniforms/etc are not needed. Down the line it goes.
My understanding of the reserve requirements were that they set how much of the total amount deposited the banks had to hold on to at any given time. Setting the requirement to zero means that banks can deploy all of the capital they have in loans. If anything, shouldn't this be the other way around? They want more deposits because they can use the full amount instead of say 90%(holding on to a 10% reserve) or whatever the number was and make more money while paying savers the same amount. Or are you relating this to interest rates going to zero which seems like a better point for why banks wouldn't need deposits? Though the amount of interest savers get from banks is close to zero anyways right? So it still seems to me that banks want as many people deposited with them as possible since they can now use all of the money given to them.
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South Korean Authorities Used Law to Fight the Coronavirus
The only thing this page does is ask for my email address. Are you kidding me? And when I click the "privacy policy" link it takes me to Twitter. Way to not understand your target market.
I think the intent is to 'keep employment numbers up at any cost'. But that there is a (predictable, and evidenced) unintended consequence to the prescribed method of attaining that objective is an indictment of the class-blindness of the liberal economic polity, and, secondarily, the brokenness of modern 'science' and 'scientistic' pursuits. (not saying the right is much better on that front)
Not only does the federal government order ventilators, it is specifically mandated to stockpile them for a public health emergency.

The President also has emergency powers under the Stafford Act to (1) put government orders at the "head of the line" for any manufacturer, and (2) to pre-fund production of materials or products necessary to protect the public or national interest in an emergency.
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Doesn't this eliminate the protections from 2008? Will this cause a run on the banks?
At the moment I offer features that are not exposed by Buffer, like thread scheduling, favourites tweets and drafts.

I know there are schedulers that support this, but I am activily working on some cool analytics behind every single scheduled tweet which nobody else does.