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I agree with Mark Cuban on this. Easy decision and implementation.

1. Taking this money is optional but if you take it you accept the following terms.
2. You will not buy back stock for a period of 12 (?) months after the transaction.
3. For the four quarters following this transaction, you will not reduce your workforce by greater than 5%.
4. Etc.

There has to be a quid pro quo. It's not free.
Working in mobile gaming my whole life, and it's one of the few industries that's experiencing a a sharp upturn – but I'm still very nervous. Although big companies and publishers might be enjoying increased revenues, it's still not obvious how will small studios that are cash flow negative and rely on investment survive.
seek not to comprehend the downvoters, for it is written: it is simpler to predict each gust of wind in a storm, than to explain even a single downvote

or something
Not trying to reinvent anything, just sharing things that I've found appealing. Not claiming this author was first or last or original or not, only an influence on myself. Have you read the book? If not, it may contain perspectives you haven't encountered yet. Thanks for the recs!
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This is exactly the right answer. Broad based index funds, invested over time.

You could also consider a 70/20/10 portfolio of S&P 500, international equities, and bonds.
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This is correct, but a lot of people derive and indefensible conclusion from it. The real insight is that any belief in an axiom is an exercise in faith. A scientist who fails to recognise the role of faith in their beliefs commits the same error as a religious person who fails to recognise the role of faith in their beliefs.
Zinc supplements taste nasty and cause a burning sensation on damaged tissue. Zinc lozenges (e.g., Zicam cold-eze) have much lower dose of Zn++ and have sugar added. It is unclear exactly how much zinc in in Zicam. It is far lower than what is in most OTC zinc supplements.

I recommend the nasty zinc supplements: they're cheap, pack a lot of zinc and you'll know when you feel them work. One bottle of 100 tablets 50 mg Zinc gluconate costs for $7 should last you through years of pandemics. In contrast a package of 25 Zicam sugary zinc lozenges costs $15.

I usually split or even quarter a 50 mg zinc tablet - they're that bitter. Don't take too much b/c they may dull sense of smell. Some people claim to have lost their sense of smell due to zinc overdosing. I usually don't take zinc but for this pandemic I've committed to an occasional nasty disgusting fragment of a zinc tablet each day.

Best is to lie down on your back and allow the zinc lozenge or zinc pill to dissolve in your mouth slowly so you can coat the epithelial cells in the mouth, throat and nose. You could gargle with the zinc and then swallow it.

In any case, swallow the zinc b/c that will allow it to be absorbed by the stomach and intestines and then move to your bloodstream, where it can deactivate some virus (more below).

But new virus production occurs inside each cell in the cytoplasm, and little zinc normally passes through the cellular membrane.

Chloroquine and other quinine compounds apparently "punch holes" in the cellular membrane and allow Zn++ ions to flood through. Once inside the cytoplasm Zn++ halts viral replication.

Tonic water has very low levels of chloroquine/quinine but it is by no means established that the full 500 mg chloroquin/day dose used for malaria is necessary to stop covid-19. Probably less, perhaps even far less, will create enough ionic "gateways" to move Zn++ through the cells' membranes. But, in any case, this requires adequate zinc as Zn++ in your system.

And the Zn++ on your throat will inactivate most viruses that land in your throat, nose and mouth anyway.
Live saving ventilators of various designs have been around a long time:

http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/56/8/1170

A ventilator that saves lives does not need to be the latest, most sophisticated technology, especially when the alternative is death.
Also EMCrit’s IBCC project has a chapter on COVID: https://emcrit.org/ibcc/covid19/

And it’s a recurring subject on their podcast: https://emcrit.org/
Humans require food and water to live. You might evade that fact as a mere belief, but you cannot escape the consequences of such an approach.
VGT is still far from "good" price. My yard stick is crash of Dec 2018 which is not too far in past. If price hasn't fallen below that then the stock is holding up still well. Also, instead of VGT, why not QQQ? I like to go for ETFs that have the biggest assets because they track prices well and are "too big to fail".
I'm putting the idea out there so we can discuss it first obviously.
My "circles" (which include a friend married to a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor who had been in Wuhan last October) knew that COVID-19 was possibly a serious concern, but also "knew" that it could have wound up as another SARS (not that SARS wasn't terrible, but it was also very localized in terms of overall impact).

I don't think we should excuse the many failures of our leaders, but I also don't think the now-obvious economic impact of this crisis was that clearcut even a month ago.
What is lung clearance?
By century-old arguments due to Russell, this "existence of existence" is incoherent. For example, as an imagined counterargument, imagine that there is a set of all things which exist, are sets, and do not contain themselves. By your axiom, this set exists. By definition, this set does not contain itself. Therefore, and by definition, this set contains itself.

Formal proofs are syntactic. As a result, they do not need consciousness to be verified; verification is algorithmic and can be done by a machine. Proofs can also be searched for by machines, although such proof search does not run at practical speeds on existing hardware yet. Nonetheless, to take your claim at face value is to claim that computing machines are conscious; are you prepared to embrace this result? (I don't personally have a problem with it, but many people do.)

This sort of word salad, more generally, is why Objectivism has such a poor reputation: It doesn't make sense when examined with even basic critical thinking.
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> Lot of expiration dates you see in medicines is FDA regulated and should be taken seriously.

This is not true. The FDA dates are ultra-conservative for liability reasons. The military has done a lot of research (well, asked other people to do research) on this, and found that the vast majority of "expired" medicine is perfectly fine:

> To save money on regularly replacing its drug stockpile, in 1985 the US Air Force asked the FDA to test some products. Since then, the FDA has found that 90% of over 100 prescription and over-the-counter drugs tested could be used safely past their expiration date, a Pentagon spokesman told the Associated Press, adding that the dates tended to be very conservative. Products were tested by either the manufacturer or the FDA, but always with agency supervision.

Source: https://www.thepharmaletter.com/article/fda-tests-let-milita...
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I miss Valleywag.
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What if there already is a large latent-immune population?
It’s behind a paywall.
I also like “subsequent.”
Please don't post unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN. You've done that repeatedly lately (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22586334) and we ban accounts that do this.

If you wouldn't mind, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post only in the intended spirit of the site—especially now, when stress is running high and likely to get higher.
Most of the proximate-causes of death from COVID-19 come from the immune system in overdrive killing healthy cells in addition to infected ones.

Not sure you want a stronger immune system in that case; you probably want to reduce inflammation directly.
As for doing fit testing at home, using cigarette smoke might be helpful:

"... it was found that tobacco smoke as it comes from a cigarette is an extremely concentrated aerosol with a relatively stable distribution of sizes ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 micron, peaked between 0.2 and 0.25 micron."

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0095852260...
Some of the Google campuses have those Japanese toilets installed.
That Politico article is about the travel ban involving Muslim countries, not China or any Asian country. Do you read your own sources?
As a non American, may I ask why the sick leave policy only applies to companies with 50-500 employees? I couldn't find explanations there. Exempting small companies is often done as they likely cannot pay for this measure, but why exempt large companies too?
Cmder builds on top of cmd.exe, and Windows Terminal is on PowerShell.

Cmder has a super precise and verbose settings UI. WT is config file for now.
From GP's linked comment:

"9. Lung clearance is a standard means to treat serious lung conditions and keep airways open. A simple means to do this is stand in the shower with your feet about shoulder width apart, bend over as far as you can and cough hard."
From my previous comment linked above:

9. Lung clearance is a standard means to treat serious lung conditions and keep airways open. A simple means to do this is stand in the shower with your feet about shoulder width apart, bend over as far as you can and cough hard.

In other words, anything that helps get phlegm and fluid out of the lungs. If you are doing lung clearance at home, you don't want to, say, mechanically suction out the lungs because you probably don't have the means to properly sterilize the equipment. Non invasive methods that don't require equipment are best for home care. Lots of people with lung issues end up very sick or dead because their home care equipment is not adequately maintained and grows nasty stuff which then gets delivered directly into the lungs.
A commercialized health care system also has absolutely no incentive to keep excess capacity for emergencies. It seems to be very good at finding the optimal efficiency point, which essentially is very close to "no unused resources in the nimal situation". But societal resiliency requires that health care, utilities, food supply, etc, has some excess capacity just because at some point something will happen. A public system can at least be responsive to the value society puts on resiliency.
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If you want a snappy UI, you have to do this. All those extra round trips and extra data start to add up.
Rep. Don Young tells Alaska seniors fears are overblown, skips vote on Covid-19
I see a possible problem with the idea:

> Chickenpox parties for young and healthy people who are then isolated.

Sign here to be given coronavirus and locked away for a month...
You'd have to ask the Republicans who apparently demanded this; I don't know what logic was behind it (if any).
How do you compare to Amazon, Google, Chooch etc...
message managment and ridicule is a big part:

"I still say we have to as a nation and state go forth with everyday activities.”

That advice contradicts recommendations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and information posted to Young’s own official campaign and congressional Facebook pages and his congressional website."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625054
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Stockpiles weren’t replenished under the Obama admin. Unless he passed a tax cut I missed, you can blame him for the de-prioritization of mask stockpiles. Let’s not forget the CDC has been working on “diseases” such as gun violence and climate change. They should have stuck to their core competency of infectious diseases.
That would be fantastic on a 4K monitor, with the capability of zooming into the paintings and the original audioguide sound. And the soundscape please. And the ability to customize the sound of my own footsteps. I would absolutely enjoy that.

Some museums have amazing architecture and feel (The Foundation of Joan Miro in Barcelona is a great example) and having that feel represented by a proper walkable 3D environment would greatly enhance the experience.

I'm a bit concerned though that simulated museum visitors may break the immersion -- we haven't crossed the Uncanny Valley yet.
Honestly, if he can live without the money (as he says in the post), he should be donating almost all of it to local charities and massive tips to service workers.

He doesn't need the money, they do.
Oh I wasn't trying to imply that. I was responding to "What's the next step after those?" with some of the paths I've gone down.

I've put somewhat of a moratorium on philosophy as of late because I don't have the time for it, but I'll check it out if I do get the time.
I'm not sure how this will play out yet. But even with good fundamentals; we're in a traditional industry and business model not a startup and not software. Just active in an industry consolidation thus M&A. Very predictable revenue and growth rates before now. Question are 1) for current investors, do they want to infuse more cash to avoid the total loss 2) market is crazy so who wants to invest? terms? timing? 3) how do we do it without busting our current covenants. We could probably normally sort through these but not with this time bomb stuck to our chest.
The data comes in a couple of weeks down the line, not months. If you are not testing enough (they are), then your death rate is exponential 14 days lagged. Japan is clearly doing a good job.
It’s naive to think Ma did it alone and purely out of the goodness of his heart. Chinese government and Chinese businesses and their owners are one and the same.
True, though there is still a long way to go for software to automate all the various industries. I work in the financial sector where everything is dematerialised, numbers and contracts, and there is still a humongous number of processes that are run manually off excel. I can only imagine how things are in less virtual sectors of the economy.
1. Invest 50% in an index fund

2. For the short term gains, Gilead sciences, and other antiviral makers, even generic chloroquine & friends, are likely to gain FDA approval for CV.

3. Ventilator makers and even CPAP manufacturers are likely to see a massive spike in demand

Donate your gains from #2, #3 to needy CV patients/health Care centres
Currently there is more than enough. The problem is lack of information and lack of distribution. Making more without solving those problems is ineffectual.
Hedge your bet.

Buy stocks in Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Apple. (F-MAGA).

If they go up, you make a lot of money.

If they go down, the world has become a better place.
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Re: Coronavirus.
Hi HN, a member of the mexican CDC team here (non-programmer).

Aim: to map human interactions through bluetooth, GPS and WiFi with anonymity and privacy-conscious solutions. Requirements.
1. Able to build time-space network of interactions in anonymous, non identifiable way
2. Able to send messages to the network if person becomes potential or confirmed case of COVID-19
3. Able to collect geolocalization data, surveys, without compromising user´s identifiability.

Is there anything built yet? privacykit fails to have a few of these requirements.
Languages are not used in isolation, the days that grammar and semantics were enough to warrant a language change.

IDE support can be considered very good if the baseline is the 90's Borland and Microsoft IDE experience, not what modern Java and .NET are capable of, which starts to finally approach the Smalltalk and Common Lisp development experience of yore.

Rust IDEs can't still offer completion that works all the time, let alone all the other IDE features.

Perf is no match for Visual VM, as it is a Linux only tool, and it's usability is found lacking. It is so good that Google was forced to create their own graphical based tooling after years of Android developers complaints being forced to use it.

Yeah, except not every business is willing to wait 25 years for Rust to achieve parity with today's Java ecosystem.

Note that C++ is 40 something years old and still there are domains that it is fighting against C, which require a generational change before being open to try out anything else.

Rust's has a big selling story for OS low level systems libraries, the niche C++ is heading to, with the caveat that C++ will as secure as Rust, that is where the language should focus.

To be honest, had Go supported generics from day one, Nim or D some corporate backing, and I would have never considered Rust for hobby projects beyond the language geek thing of trying out new languages every year.
Here is a CDC article about making a respirator mask with t-shirt cloth.

Towards the end it states...

“We showed that a hand-fashioned mask can provide a good fit and a measurable level of protection from a challenge aerosol.”

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/6/pdfs/05-1468.pdf
I mostly believe this (which is also largly the Buffet philosophy) but have learned few caveats:

1. Not all broad indexes are great buy because lot of companies will do great in this crises but others will suffer long term. Instead of investing only into S&P 500, you might want to also diversify in Europe, Asia Pacific, China markets as well as have ETFs in energy, utilities, finance etc.

2. S&P500 doesn't actually have all that great returns, contrary to usual belief for same risk taking. For example, QQQ has returned ~30% avg/yr while SPY has only ~12%/yr over past 10 years even at lowest points. This is more than double the difference for reasonably similar level of volatility and liquidity!

3. The buy and forget strategy misses out on entirely on "unreasonably low" prices event. For example, massive ETFs like XLE are at all time lowest price and very unreasonably low priced. Investing them in now can boost your returns massively.
I still don’t understand why the rich need an income when poverty has not been solved. UBI means everyone gets a check including the rich and wealthy. Seems like an idea advanced by the rich. I have yet to hear of the poor saying that the rich need a check from the government. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will get checks with UBI.
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People are already volunteering in other ways, I guess...
So, you have 200K you can lose without being impacted and you decide to take advice from an Internet forum instead of a financial advisor ?

Can't you lobby for a better world or something instead ?
Look at the date of the article very closely and realize that it covered all travel bans as noted in the subhead:

"The legislation would void all of Trump's executive actions establishing travel restrictions."
I used to submit more years ago, but it got ridiculous to get votes. I suspect there must be a LOT of brigading to get posts out of the /newest cesspool.
Given some people need to continue working, giving care, maintaining infrastructure, maybe social distancing in time as well as physical distance would be a good idea? You might be surprised how few people are around at 4am. Even if people didn't want to work at night, they could still spread out work hours during the day. Businesses have probably already thought of this, but workers in other areas may not have.
Exclude the vunerable in that age range and it would be much lower.
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ATYPICAL SIDE EFFECTS:
Light Fever, Severe Lightheadedness, Long Duration Headache, Sore Throat, Severe Body Aches, Tight Chest, Very Light Cough No Phlegm, Sharp Edged Flush on Cheeks with Pale Circle Surrounding Lips, Slight Runny Nose, Lethargy, Confusion, Hot Flashes, Inconsistant Diarrhoea Without Discomfort, Trouble Focusing on Conversations, Shakiness, No Issues Breathing Until Exercise, Flush After Taking Anti-Inflammatories, Very Shakey Legs on Rising, Swollen Lymph Nodes (under arms), Nervous System Issues: Anxiety, Change in Perception of Senses, Insomnia
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YOU WILL NOT HAVE THE COUGH OR FEVER YOU EXPECT AND MOST PEOPLE BLAME IT ON STRESS,ALLERGIES,COLD,FLU,ETC.

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Example Symptom Progression From an Interview:

“ I’ve been so tired and so winded and just kind of moody and had a constant headache for a week and hot flashes mostly at night where it felt like I had a fever but only at night, random coughing. I figured it was just the weather and stress. Then last night came to a head—terrible brain fog yesterday could barely hold a convo, would shake (like when you’re blood sugar crashes) when I’d try to get up and do something, Had the worst migraine ever last night and terrible nausea and was throwing up. Then today this is my face with a huge rash.”

Examples of Corona Rash:

https://imgur.com/a/dXz52rR
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Not too sure how they would do. Their major assets are getting crushed right now. I also worry about Buffet retiring and see as single point of failure for long term term investing.
Folks, military physician here, operating at the national level on the analysis that informs these projects. The recent post on HN about the MIT $100 ventilator is one of the things that got this rolling.

Manufacturing is spinning up. What I really need is developers on this project:

https://github.com/joshua-s/coronavirus-diary
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A twitter thread with a short summary of this paper from the author: https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1240444144704557056
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The worst case scenario is only when DAL goes bankrupt. If the commenter believes this is unlikely, then there are only two good scenarios (making some money off the premium, or getting DAL at a good price)

The payoff is even if the share price goes to ~ 9 bucks.
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Why wasn't this started in America two months ago?
Thank you, I will keep that in mind. I always appreciate people giving me brutal feedback so I can learn faster :)
"If you ignore some of the deaths then the number is lower" is an odd response. Why would you exclude vulnerable people?
If you do that for risk aversion, keep it diverse within the ~100k guarantees per account/country, if possible have multiple currencies. YMMV.

Note some countries are playing dangerous liquidity games and that will affect currencies. Always hedge. Even currencies. Ask any FX trader.
TeamViewer and other companies positioned to make zillions off the work from home movement.

White collar employees won't want to go back to work.
I think AMZN and FB will be few of the companies that would have killer quarterly earnings.
What would you propose as an alternative then?
Most people would accept that epidemics (let alone pandemics) are bad enough on their own. Many people would say bad enough to avoid a Just In Time approach to public health.
How much are you willing to pay to make sure that it's targeted? 30% overhead is not uncommon for means-tested welfare.
It’s not that we’re bad at training medical personnel. It’s that the AMA acts as a cartel to limit the number of physicians train to keep income high. We just need to allow more people into medical schools and make more residencies available.
Based on the data here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

The current death rate of closed cases is 9%. I guess the expectation is that it falls once we develop a vaccine?
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Let’s throw masks and other PPE onto your list as well.