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Ignoring the over the top description of the wet markets, I have two other major problems with this article:

1. It seems that COVID-19 may not have come from the market in the first place:

https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-may-not-ha...

2. TCM may have its flaws, but it has its successes too. Artemisinin comes to mind: TCM appears to have been spot on and led to the best currently available treatment for malaria.
I don't think we're actually sure where swine flu originated. It was first identified in America, but that might just be because their flu surveillance is better than other countries.
Thunderbolt 3 ports are multipurpose: disks, external GPU's,etc. Just because you have 3 of them does not mean you should plug in a monitor to each one. And if you really need 4 screens that eGPU will probably handle it.
indeed, I know one guy in particular that really stands out for me - he's working as an editor and hasn't been paid in years, they keep saying 'they're getting investors' then they'll pay him, his parents are giving him money. One of the many reasons I'm not in the vfx industry - how do you compete with people that are willing to work for free.
The shareholders who invested in companies also need to feel the effect of moral hazard. They need to be wiped.

I say so as someone with 80% of my assets in the market. If we keep bailing them out, they will keep doing the same.

The business is dead. Shareholders would be wiped without the bailout. Nationalize the airlines that need money, fix em up new management, new charter and mission, and IPO them immediately after the crisis ends.

Investors need to think about the long term risks of the companies they are investing in, and face the consequences of those risks. Because why wouldn't you invest in airlines if you know they will do a ton of buy backs and will get bailed out at the slightest hint of trouble?
Congratulations on your new-founded "socialism", USA. Shame it took a global pandemic for you to notice the benefits of a social net.
Those seem like reasonable expectations. The first one seems a bit iffy depending on what exactly is meant by “paying to move”.

But if he didn’t list them paying for use of the rooms themselves as a condition, that actually seems like a pretty fair attitude.
This is how all of the other “bailouts” work for industries that everyone gets outraged about. What would you rather see?
They're not giving loans to individuals. Did you bother doing research?
If these things are finally as quick as desktops can we go back to "you're-allowed-to" operating systems?
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The difference being Amazon could and would have competitors. The CCP does not, by the force of a gun.
I don't think we should go out of our way to be racist. But I'm struggling to be outraged by a spade being called a spade. Apparently the origin of CV-19 wasn't random. Maybe China deserves however amount of international shaming is required to evoke reform.

Or better than shaming is actual penalties. Maybe we ban wet markets and blacklist nations who allow them.
It was happening long before the WH uttered a word, so if you really want to blame Trump for Chinese propaganda - you are going to have to argue for the concept of preemptive retaliation.
hm, yeah. I work with a lot of graphic designers, they'll be working on multiple 20+mb Photoshop files that save over the course of the day as "SomeClient_2020_03_18_rev13.psd" etc. That stuff adds up fast. Adobe could help out a lot of their user base by making some kind of built-in Git-for-graphics tool…

If you're looking for a USB-C KVM, you're not going to find it. I would look into some kind of cloud sync for the Air's data to the Mini, and then just put the Air to sleep when you're at the home base or something.
Flipdish (food-tech / online ordering for restaurants) is hiring remote developers (.NET)

https://www.flipdish.com/careers/

Mention HN in the application and I’ll make sure it’s prioritised.

I’m totally biased, but I think we’ve a great culture and lovely and friendly tech team who love solving problems together and getting stuff shipped.
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Time to ban vendors who are not following sanitary norms.

Of course this won't work in China.
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Every article I've read reported the WHO's statement using the words "death rate" or "mortality rate". I understand that in the technical sense, the mortality rate is always relative to the total population whether or not they're infected, but I don't think anyone is getting confused by this, and since I'm not myself an expert I'm going to use colloquial terminology over epidemological jargon. Nobody thought the WHO's 3.4% number was saying that 3.4% of the world population is dead.
Like buying potatoes from the Irish during a famine?

Swabs are in short supply e.g. I know we have severely limited supplies of swabs in New Zealand.

What are the circumstances where supplies absolutely needed for the health of one country (Italy) can be obtained by another country? Or does Italy have a super-abundance of them for some reason?

Interested in background.
No culture has a monopoly on this type of behavior. For instance, it's widely believed that HIV was introduced to the human population by African populations eating monkeys and apes. It's well past time that we recognize that eating unsanitary, exotic meats is a threat to the entire human population. For as bad as the ensuing epidemics have become, the relative difficulty of transmitting HIV and the relative survivability of SARS-CoV-2 are enormous strokes of luck; we won't always be this lucky.
That was yesterday. Listen to Bill Ackman today. Hilton goes to zero if this doesn't get stopped.

If you own a hotel today, you should be begging the government to pay you a per diem.
> My firms investors wanted us to be cash efficient. Meaning we don’t have much of a safety net.

This being common or even the norm is one of the (many) fundamental problems of our current economical system.
It's pretty easy to descend into numerology this way. The vomiting camel being the most egregious example [1]. It's just not a reliable or informative way to creating information from numbers.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk037xDQF2Ya-Hu4vjdEs...
> (6) is a direct response to the White House's continued use of 'Wuhan virus'

How is that a direct response by blaming it on a third country?? And aside from racism, the virus originated in Wuhan China and that is due to unsanitary wet markets, China should own it at least, not asking financial damages for the world economy and lives lost. Fuck Trump, this has nothing to do with his rhetoric, these are facts. The chinese government supressed info about this virus.

However, the US government is responsable for doing nothing for more than a month!!!
I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team.

I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my career, which I turned down.

That was last week. New Zealand (where I'm from) hasn't shut down yet, but everything is so bleak, and I'm regretting turning down the offer. I start working from home tomorrow for my final 2 weeks here, and I can't help but feel regret. Being in the office was the one thing I hated, and now we don't have to do that.

Whats worse is I emailed the new job asking if we're still going ahead with me starting, and there was no reply.
The Princess Cruise has nearly perfect data as everyone in a controlled population was tested. (This is not true for South Korea, which has tested less than half a percent of their population.)

The fatality rate was 0.8%. The majority of their passengers were over 60 years old, so even this number is too high compared to the global population.
You've been downvoted, but the science suggests that you're not crazy. See for instance: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21058441/
Trump froze interest on government student loans. If your friends have loan providers that are not the government, then Trump's announcement is meaningless.

Testing availability has ramped up a lot and you can send a COVID test to any quest or labcorp for analysis.

Trump's google website is live and is supposed to be expanding to encompass more parts of the country: https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/
Got Paper?
On your site it says:

> These are real holograms, based on the physics that won a Nobel Prize, not some gimmick or reflection.

How does it work? How do you cope with vibration?
Turning a hospital into a hospital room? That’s going to require some serious Time Lord engineering.
Right now tests are being allocated to critically ill or dead people suspected of Covid-19. Ideally most cause of deaths are caught so the absolute number of deaths are a decent indicator of spread, but they are lagged by probably 7-14 days or the time until critical + testing and reporting time.

Also I am 32yo male on day 5 of Covid-19 symptoms and have hopefully been through the worst part (immune response in lungs). AMA.
I agree that this is indeed a problem, but your proposed cure is unnecessarily onerous. At least with Hasura's equivalent product, allowing queries on related objects is an opt-in process for the admin, after each related object is defined.

I think a better piece of advice is: Please stop allowing people to query relational models automatically, and surface a separate locked-down schema for the GraphQL user.

These GraphQL over DB tools have real value. I've moved from using OpenResty to Hasura in order to surface Postgres APIs, and the time saved has been significant.
Corporate “bailouts” are just loans.
The US didn't really need a nudge. The White house and speaker of the house have said they were going to do this since last week. The US is ahead of other countries, given that our hospitals are not overrun already, and we've already started planning financially.
But not better than bitcoin.
The amount matters. I'll take a trillion dollar loan at %0 in a heartbeat and quickly become a millionaire via conservative investments. A 20k loan at %0 doesn't do much for me though.
> At the start, the "Many thousands of mildly symptomatic infections aren't recorded" claim had plausibility. Now it needs to die in fire.

Do you have an argument against this other than die in a fire? In the UK the government is literally advising people to NOT call the NHS if they suspect they are infected but stay home and self isolate unless they become severely ill and cannot cope. It's pretty reasonable to assume the denominator is much larger from this behaviour.
I think that you shouldn't lose sleep over any pandemic (this one included) but any pandemic contains low-probability of high-impact. Novel pathogens will almost always turn out to be nothing, except when they are something.

This has always been a tail risk situation, something which the media is exceptionally bad at evaluating correctly.
Same boat, but I start in July.
Which particular bit is fascist? I agree that ecofascism could very well be on the horizon, but reading this article I missed any quiet racism/fascism said loudly.
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> or the "bold and significant" quarantine process we should've instituted as soon as the first patient was discovered.

The US was quarantining americans returning from covid countries with CDC quarantine orders (federally enforceable) since Jan 31?
Yes.

MSI GT-76 laptop with 128GB RAM, 3x1TB Samsung SSDs, i9-9900K CPU, Nvidia GTX 2080, 17” 4K screen.

It comes with 2 power supplies like 2 bricks.
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> I know from multiple people who have called their loan providers

If they called "loan providers" they have private student loans and were never covered by Trump's promise in the first place. Trump can only waive interest for federal student loans, and all of those are serviced by Navient and provided by the Department of Education.
JavaScript is getting simpler in a lot of ways. Things that are confusing to developers of others languages e.g. function scope can be avoided by telling people to use let instead.

Also a lot of the things I wanted 5-10 years ago that I had to work around are now being included. For example there is a decent-ish http request API.

I don't like web assembly. I think it is actually worse in a lot of ways than the huge JS frameworks that people think that it will replace.
Everybody seems to be announcing special hours at grocery stores for seniors today. It seems like people are acting rapidly.
The iPad is useful for certain things. If you're trying to share a document with another person and discuss it, it works much better on an iPad. Both people can hold it, scroll it, etc and it feels much less awkward than discussing things on a laptop.

It's also a bit better than a laptop for digging in and highlighting reading material.

I would not use it as my main PC, though, that's for sure. The apps just aren't there yet.
> This sort of reminds me of the parable of the new owner who came into a bakery and demanded it be cleaned because everything was greasy.

You are probably refering to Making Wrong Code Look Wrong by Joel Spolsky:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
The nursing home in Washington is a good isolated case that shows how deadly it is for older people. It has had 26 deaths so far and 50 people who tested positive https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-deaths-washingto...
This is false. Please stop.

Current fatality rate is less than 1% of confirmed cases.
I’d suggest that it looks worse because it’s more sudden, and it’s more sudden because it wasn’t going to be bad, it just got all triggered “ahead of schedule” by COVID-19.
> ... the virus originated in Wuhan China and that is due to unsanitary wet markets.

There are innumerable wet markets in Asia, this is not only totally unwarranted but largely xenophobic. Would you call the leafy green supply chain in the US "unsanitary" since we recall them in the US a few times a year? The last time we recalled spinach over salmonella was just 6 months ago [1] E. Coli was just 3 months ago [2].

To quote the WHO: "Primary sources of [E. Coli] outbreaks are raw or undercooked ground meat products, raw milk, and faecal contamination of vegetables" [3] so someone's been pooping in America's mixed greens.

They may be a bit gruesome if you're unaccustomed but they serve so many people it's hard to believe they're overwhelmingly unsanitary.

> The chinese government supressed info about this virus.

This on the other hand is a good point.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/health/dole-spinach-recall-sa...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2019/o157h7-11-19/index.html

[3] https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/e-coli
Um... no, it wasn't?
Going to church every Sunday.
It doesn't matter if 1% is "optimistic" or not. 20% infection + 1% best-case fatality rate is enough to knock the health care system and begin knocking out the whole of society.

Basically, there's enough information currently to tell people who pay attention and consider rationally that we need to spend every possible effort confining infections and quarantining, basically the entire earth. There is no alternative.
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> That’s a wet market.

No it's not.

You're off by two orders of magnitude of number of different and wild species. That's THE key. The variation and combinations of vicera and species.

"...live wolf pups, golden cicadas, scorpions, bamboo rats, squirrels, foxes, civets, hedgehogs (probably porcupines), salamanders, turtles and crocodiles. In addition, it offered assorted parts of some animals, such as crocodile tail, belly, tongue and intestines...."

from

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/24/calls-for-gl...
https://archive.md/KMBQc
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Totally agree. There's places everyone can improve upon with regard to things like this, but wet markets are an obvious starting place, I think.
French eat snails and frogs. Australians eat kangaroos. Americans eat alligators.

People across the world eat local food as delicacies or sometimes as staple foods. What is so different about Chinese wildlife?

What matters and should be fixed is sanitary standards, not what kind of meat the Chinese eat.
IMHO if you had “a Gatekeeper model that worked the exact same way as Android”, then the granularity of the permissions in iOS wouldn’t help you, because developers (and especially malicious developers) would have no incentive to use the fine-grained capabilities.

The only reason anyone bothers with the finickyness of capabilities manifests in the first place, is that Apple forces developers to take exactly the capabilities they need, and rejects apps that ask for more than they need, or ask for capabilities that are too coarse-grained for what they need. Without Apple there to do that human-intelligence-complete task of determining whether an app “needs” the permissions it’s asking for, devs would have a much simpler incentive: to avoid work (and “you must re-approve this app” prompts) by just using as far-reaching of capabilities claims as they can. Just as Android-ecosystem apps do today!

And so you’d have iOS malware that simply asks for permission to rootkit you and then rootkits you (just like on Android), and it wouldn’t look out of place, since everything would ask for those same permissions. (Yes, system-equivalent capabilities like that exist in iOS. Apple doesn’t issue them to third parties, but they exist for the sake of system apps. Without a curator, nothing would stop any random app from putting those root-kit-y capabilities in its list, and then socially engineering people into thinking they were sensible things for said app to need.)

tl;dr: The security of an ecosystem doesn’t just come from its mechanics, but also its economics. If nobody has any reason to “only claim what they need”, then why would they? Right now, Apple (and their rejection of apps that are too coarse-grained in their capabilities requests) is that reason.
The relevant differences, to my view, are the ones that allowed a pandemic coronavirus to jump from the Chinese bat population to the global human population over the course of just a few months. The specific details are a question for experts in the field, but something clearly went wrong here and it's important for the sake of the entire world to make sure it doesn't go wrong again.
Or the opposite, companies get even more restrictive with it.
One under director of the Foreign Affairs office posted it on Twitter, a site blocked in China. By this logic, the US is also telling their own people that the virus is a biological weapon because one senator said it on Fox News.
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You should read the article. Here are the two paragraphs that explain what's happening.

> Now, the Trump administration is asking Congress for roughly $1 trillion in new economic relief as lawmakers begin work on the next phase. And there's growing consensus among Republicans and Democrats that direct payments to Americans will be needed, but how much and when that could happen remains to be seen.

> On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin met with Republican senators and said he was working with Trump on the economic package. They are discussing payments to small businesses, loan guarantees for industries like airlines and hotels, and a stimulus package for workers.
Eh, no worries. You gave good advice, and it sounds like it was heeded. You left me confused, but no big deal - I've been confused a few times before...
There's also a problem of trust. I work for a hospital and I'm never going to pull data from an API built by random people yesterday, especially in a crisis situation.
The key is number of different living species, let alone genuses and families of animals.
Wild bats can live atop a market or somewhere else with feces picked up by animals living below. Also patient zero is thought to be not associated with the Huanan Market, although the first discovered major cluster did happen there.
"$250M to Economic Support Fund (Economic, security, and stabilization purposes)" sounds rather disappointing. Just a drop in the bucket no?
> “There are people coughing in here. There aren’t paper masks. We are getting unlimited unpaid time off, but I still need to pay bills and rent. I can’t take that unpaid time off,” they said.

It's only a matter of time before Amazon shuts down. The unthinkable is suddenly here.
There's even more to this. davnicwil says just use the same sponge cake and excel in your area of expertise: the icing. Good advice.

Alternatively, if you are a "fast follower": after the other company has evangelized the new feature (sponge cake) and started to build an audience for it, you can see what features seem to really matter and either make a simplified one or one that addresses the limitations of it.

A great example is the iPod, the famously lame latecomer ("no wifi, less space than a nomad. Lame"). Apple launched into a market which was already developing (tiny MP3 players), and not only put their own "icing" on it (e.g. design) but addressed a couple of the fundamental problems with the existing ones (the complexity of getting music into them and navigating to find what you want). So they weren't even really competing with the other players.
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I know from personal experience social media amplification is making people sick in itself.

2009 h1n1[1] was aggressively pushed by the WHO as having a 60% CFR[2]. Similar issue to corona19, basing everything on literal test results. Meaningless! Presumably why WHO telling the world to test everything.

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8094655.stm
[2] https://jech.bmj.com/content/62/6/555.abstract
[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jul/16/swine-flu-pand...
I recently got a 2019 MBP for work (with the ESC key!!!), and I have to say that a lot of the things you are encountering with your 2013 I encounter quite a bit with this new one.

Overall, I found the speed of this model far exceeded my 2017 MBP from my last job, but it's kinda surprising how frequently the monitors / keyboard / mouse encounter connection issues.

That being said, I feel like I'm being a little picky, especially when I think of how nightmarish it was to get any of this shit to work with my Windows machines. It's the exception rather than the rule that anything would work the first time as expected (monitors / keyboards / mice / printers / programs).
Alternatively, lay-offs could be focused in companies who are profitable but with poor cash flow and who suddenly become insolvent. Earlier stage companies typically rely less on incoming cash from revenue and more on cash reserves from investment. Plus, investors have targets to meet on investments. They’re going to get more risk averse but they can’t stop investing for 6 months entirely.
Yea, wait for the prices to come back down. It is an easy install too... the ones on amazon come with all the parts. Once you get the water turned off, it just takes about 15 minutes to assemble it all.