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> Because some people live in very high cost of living areas - high income alone is not sufficient.

No system will be perfect, but the government certainly can make adjustments based on dimensions like residence area. (They already do something similar with GS pay scales.) Similar income distribution programs exist in other Western countries (Kinder Geld in Germany comes to mind) so it's not like variations of this have never been successfully implemented before.
Rent too? What about car payments? Utility bills? Student loans? That's fine, but then the banks go out of business? So, do we bail them out? How much is appropriate? And now we're a central-planned economy...
I'm slowly buying into stocks as the market plummets due to people's irrational panic, which is a vote of confidence in the mid-term future.

What are you talking about, "profiting off misery"? I'm profiting off of predictable herd behavior, and putting my money where my mouth is.

Are you? Better start selling stocks if you really believe what you're saying, right?
I wish I could remember where I read it yesterday—so many articles on the science, but also the policy and history, that they blur together; but someone pointed out "this thing that you (GP imchillyb, not moosey) think is a natural law has actually only been the case for 50 years, and need not continue forever."
Italian doctor advice is to skip ventilator and go straight to intubation instead, because intubation is used anyway later.
That is the thing. Nobody knows because we have no earthly clue how many people have it currently or had it in the past few months. People quoting “death rates” are pulling the denominator (number of deaths) for that rate out of their ass. Same for transmission rate. Any rate requires a good denominator—we have zero clue what that number is. We have little testing here in the states, and my understanding is we currently do not have a way to test if you previously had it.

We are making massive social and economic changes based on very unclear data. People are sitting at home with nothing to do but watch live streaming YouTube videos of “confirmed cases” on a map or looking at some website showing the same and freaking the fuck out. But it is all based on crap data.

We can “pause” our global economy for a short while (week or two) but any more than that is going to have massive issues. Those toilet paper memes are funny until you run out yourself. Not having baby wipes in stock isn’t very funny. People are going to start getting into physical violence in stores over that shit (if it hasn’t happened already). People are gonna relapse into addiction. People are going to mill themselves. Supply chains are going to fall apart.

We can’t make massive sweeping changes like this for very long without a solid understanding how how pervasive this virus is.
I don't agree. A 1950s science fiction author might well have written about such a device. I don't see why this unspecific level of wishful thinking should qualify for protection.
Your assumption seems we should spend an infinite amount of money keeping everyone alive. While admirable that is not the world we live in. Every day doctors, corporations, and politicians make decisions weighing how much to spend to keep individuals alive.

Your healthcare plan has a max spend. Your life insurance has a max payout. Our police force has a max enforcement capacity for keeping people safe. Etc, etc.

So given we have never been willing to spend infinity to keep everyone alive. What is a reasonable compromise for a given risk scenario?

Covid-19 is 99.9999% survivable for those under 70 with no pre-existing conditions. Should we tank the economy by trillions of dollars for months or years? Should we negatively affect 300 million Americans - their jobs, education, housing, etc - instead of calmly reviewing alternative measures to mass isolation?

The real question is how do we keep the roughly 49 million Americans over 70 safe. Instead of destroying our economy, why not spend millions of dollars to provide programs to help them stay safe. Far more reasonable and inline with the specific threat of covid-19.

Mass isolation feels like using global variables. It's quick and looks reasonable to newbies, but in the end creates worse problems than it solves.

If you have scientific evidence supporting mass isolation for a pandemic like covid-19 please share.
Li Wenliang was arrested and forced by the police to sign a letter admitting to “false comments.” These aren’t even remotely comparable.
How the hell is this anything comparable to blackface?
All of the data says we're still no where near the inflection point, and describing the short term as a exponential seems to be the best way to get the point across.
> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO. That includes making any vaccines or treatments widely available at or near cost, possibly with government subsidies. Things change when tens or hundreds of millions of lives are on the line.

>> Does it? I don’t know. Should it? In the case of a global pandemic, it should not, IMO.

Did you include a not when you meant to not include it?
Can you give a more substantial account of your 'legitimate evidence'? Until then, this is pure nonsense.
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> I don't think Amazon ships many essentials that it would justify the overtime in a situation like this to be honest.

What essentials? Toilet paper? Water? These can be bought from Amazon, no?
Be right back, going to file a patent for a warp drive. If anybody ever gets that working I'll be rich!
Are there any tablets that you've felt good writing on? I have a Galaxy Tab A (glassy surface) and I can tolerate drawing the occasional diagram on it. I haven't used its stylus at all after getting the first remarkable.
Torrents are terrible for streaming unless you get invited to a private tracker, and then you end up having to share a bunch too making yourself a bigger target.
> > does it really gave to be a mac!!

> No.

To go further on this, I switched from mac to PC for my studio setup a couple years back as mac hardware seemed to increase in price too much in relation to PC. I had only bought software that was able to run on both because I want to maintain flexibility to switch at will; and switching my commercial VSTs, DAW (Ableton Suite), NI Reactor, etc to PC was seamless. All my saved sets came across fine.
>There might be some activities of a CEO that a customer buying a product of the company led by said CEO might benefit from, but a CEOs activities are exclusively to the benefit of said CEO. Not to the benefit of the company, not to the benefit of the shareholders and for sure not for the benefit of the customers.

The whole point of capitalism is to align the self-interest of people with benefiting society. The CEO might not set out to help people, but if people voluntarily buy those products then the CEO is helping society.
Yo, straight up, you are part of the problem with society with this attitude.
Some states are waiving the need to seek work, temporarily. In some cases, this is blanket, and in others, it's situational (i.e. if you believe you may be sick), or if you're laid off but your employer has given you a return date - even if only tentative.
What makes it so good for you? Amazon reviews seem negative to middling.
Caveat: that's our best understanding at this time; that study hasn't been reproduced as far as I've seen.
I will absolutely guarantee you that some folks will cling to it even harder - anti-vaxxers have a hell of a lot of delusion to draw on and I've often seen discussion lines from them about the "benefits to long term health of getting the disease" while ignoring the benefits of simply getting vaccinated for it.

I'm afraid you're sadly ignoring the power of willful ignorance.
And which social class has relatively more of their wealth tied up in cash versus investments?
Is it possible the researchers handling this virus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology simply screwed up and the release was accidental? That seems like the most plausible explanation to me, and especially given the institute's proximity to the seafood market on which the Chinese officials blamed the outbreak. I think it's pretty plain to see the story we've all been fed about the seafood market was a deflection attempt. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Wuhan has been working with bats and the various viruses they carry for many years... well before the BSL4 lab opened even. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17030870#
> if a patent holder doesn't defend [sic] their patent isn't it possible for them to lose it?

A patent owner would "lose" a patent only if someone were to successfully challenge the patent's validity or enforceability, either in court or in a USPTO proceeding. If the patent owner were to fail to defend against the challenge, then yeah, the court or USPTO might invalidate the patent.

Now to be sure, if a patent owner were to wait too long to assert a patent against an infringer, that could complicate the patent owner's efforts to get royalties or an injunction (a stop-use order) later on against that infringer, and possibly against other infringers.

And any infringer might try to use the patent owner's delay as proxy evidence that the patent owner didn't really believe that the patent was valid.

But failure to assert a patent, in and of itself, will normally have no bearing on a patent's validity or life.
Just drop the eighth bit and use 7-bit ASCII like God intended and it's not a problem... :-)
They are a little comparable, in that what the US is trying to do indicates that it would go the same way as in China if there was not a semi-functional press, a freedom-minded citizenry, and a mostly-functional democracy holding them back. The intent and "evil" is there, what makes the difference is what restrains it.
what's 9/10th that internal one has?
I've been preparing for weeks. Meanwhile, I explain to others what is coming (I live in a rural area in Canada). People laugh at me or simply don't care.

This requires such a strong shift in paradigm that they will need to see things falling apart or people dying close to them until they act.
Amen bro. What I lament the most, is that navigation guidelines that seemed set in stone between 1987 and 2005, are starting to slip. Things like how to navigate with keyboard, or that typing in a list will incrementally-search to what you typed, seem to fall away.
E.g. the "Apps and Features" screen in windows, will not let you type directly in the scrolling list.
However, I can see that after some recent windows update, the screen now has a Search field, god forbid.
Can you point out one that is?
> Roosevelt commandeered the car factories...

Roosevelt also commandeered Americans with Japanese ancestry to live in concentration camps.

These sorts of powers are dangerous, an I doubt and edict that extreme would be very effective, it's just this feeling of we have to do something. What the government needed to do two months ago was place very large orders with all the manufacturers and pay enough so they're being made 24/7. The ramp-up time for much more is probably too long, and the peak need will be April-June, hopefully less after that. I doubt you could retool and train a random factory fast enough for that.
They also maintain an in between version. https://www.basilisk-browser.org/
The first DIY ventilator tutorial I saw mentioned the avian flu, so I assume so
I remember the EUMETSAT Meteosat Second Generation control panels also showing some teal on my visit in '06. I took this photo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/EUMETSAT...

I don't think they'd replace it with no good reason, so since the MSG program is still running, these computers probably also are.
Another tattoo by weird al comes to mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y2uGlHT4iU Chinese culture is to blame. Try and stop boiling dogs alive, beating them with clubs, burning them alive with torches, and other torture. Also stop mass consumption of wild bushmeat and maybe all these zoonotic diseases will stop emerging in China.
As someone who is thinking of getting the reMarkable 2, what is some examples of "A lot of cool open source software"?
It was either a scam or it had valid, valuable patents (logically maybe not legally). You can't it have both ways. If the patent is valid, then it wasn't a scam. That means it developed something of value for all that investor money and they should be happy with it. The patent is clearly in the realm of what was promised. Of course, legally, who knows? There's nothing logical about our legal system, especially our patent system.
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> There are super smart people I respect but they accept bad behavior as a form of pragmatism. Like they’ll excuse patent trolls because they’re just working a legal angle and trying to make money like everyone else.

They are not smart. Just stop telling yourself this about those people and stop respecting them. Stop it.

They're unbelievably ignorant and likely hide that ignorance under the guise of expertise in an unrelated field literally filling your life and others with bullshit. Stop calling fuckos like the ones at Labrador "smart." Stop calling anyone who thinks they're smart "smart."

Call them "fuckos," because that's what they are...
Get out of your head and into your body. Fear overrides our sympathetic nervous system. system, I’ve found these exercises reliably reset it:

https://youtu.be/vZUnfPLHpg0

I set a timer and go for 3 minutes.
Or just get a high interest savings account and enjoy more liquidity.
They made a big deal about that for a movie, considering it is all fantasy. It’s a distinction without practical meaning for storytelling purposes. Just to avoid the scene where Marty sees his own foto fade. They could have just ignored it.
You can't pretend a discontinuous system in continuous.
It is up to the user to decide WHAT they want to use. If they want to use something with features, then YES THEY CAN! Demanding that a product you do NOT like or HATE should cease their activity.. this is dictatorship! Leftist fanaticism of the worst kind - especially if it is against features.

The worst kind of community which is contra-features and contra-choice is Mozilla these days without their origin power-user target-group. Most remaining Mozilla users today are radical left, so is Mozillas management these days.And both have a serious intense hate against features and functions... hate against everything which is against conformity.
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This keeps happening to me all the time, and it is no problem.

Once I move into the network that has the respective VPN endpoint, the subnets that are routable via wg become routable via ethernet/wifi which have higher priority, so the traffic will go directly.
I am consistently impressed by the rationales people develop for not being willing to pay for the product they say they want.
Stocks bought back disappear (making each remaining share reflect a larger percentage of the company). It is in general the reverse of a public offering in which money comes in and new shares come into existence (making each previously existing share represent a smaller part of the company).

This is not technically exact, but probably a good mental model.
As a socially reclusive nerd I have been training for this my whole life. Finally a chance to show off my skills. You're not getting me, COVID-19!
Jonas Salk was the closest I came to idolizing a person due to this. Unfortunately, it seems to be a lot of PR on Salk's part. He tried to patent it and was refused. That's not to say he wouldn't have licensed it for free anyway, but he never had to face that moral dilemma.

"They found that it wasn't novel enough to count as a new invention, though. So really, Salk's vaccine was never patented because it was never eligible for a patent, according to Jane S. Smith, who sifted through the March of Dimes' archives for her book "Patenting the Sun."[1]

[1] https://curiosity.com/topics/jonas-salk-didnt-patent-the-pol...
>> "For instance, German household savings have jumped to 11.2% of income, the highest in over a decade, and savings rates in Denmark and Sweden are near all-time highs."

Of course people are saving very aggressively. With rates going lower and lower, it means, you need to hunker down and cut your spending as much as possible because your retirement money isn't going to grow, at all, it's decreasing.

With every step interest rate goes lower, their just putting another nail in the coffin. The whole world is drunk on keynesian economics and it's not working, one bit.

What goes around, comes around. if you turn the screws on people and continue to hurt them financially, they'll have less and less money to spend, and it keeps making the economy even worse.
This is exactly what I'm getting at.

I personally don't use Wine but I've encountered people online in the last 10+ years that use the argument that it's "good enough" for people to fully switch to Linux. Realistically, I don't think Wine actually convinced more than a handful of users to abandon Windows
My question is "why not any of those places become the innovation engine of the world". I didn't even mention Australia.
One of the headline news from a couple of days ago, voicing support for Foreign Ministry Spokesperson's conspiracy rant on twitter. It's bizarre and make Chinese Gov look extremely childish.

https://new.qq.com/omn/20200313/20200313A06PZU00.html
And penicillin.
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the hype machine must continue! model y is now released! bounce that stock value back up!
You are spot on. Now realize that all you read about china in the press, is created by this strategy. The green turn around, everything. And our press copys blindly from state media news outlets and organizations that have been corrupted with soft power.

Meanwhile on the ground, the world begs to differ.
The west aint perfect either (Julian Assange, Snowden), but at least dissent is able to reach the ears of the public, before beeing silenced. And the government wishful thinking aloud is discussed as the foolishness it is.
Exactly. If you knew how to best allocate resources in your life, you probably wouldn't be in a situation where you need UBI.
That wasn't free. But, yes, they sold another country some goods that are in high demand.
Only one of the grocery stores near me uses LCD price tags.

There is a constant hiss/buzz from the power and I presume they aren't OLED because I can see the inconsistent backlight that goes out in places along the strip.

Feels cheap and crappy overall.
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Congress could reform the USPTO in any way they wanted, IF they wanted to.

Let's convince them.
737-800s will go to the boneyard.
The Reuters version of this news is on page 2 right now with a clearer HN title: "Amazon stops receiving non-essential products from sellers amid COVID19 outbreak" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22605116
If you don't have the resources or expertise to provide those features in a safe fashion, you're not doing the user any favors by going ahead and providing them anyway.
It absolutely does. Krugman comes out and says that it's a way to use policy to cut the wages of the working class. Read it carefully.
Same. I bought the Sony DPT-S1 many years ago. It's serviceable but I've been waiting to see when a decent replacement comes out.
Government is notoriously criticized for overreacting and inefficiency during non-events by people who don't understand that crises occasionally happen.

Government is our best chance for a good outcome in a real crisis.
You used to be able to stick a lot of text on a 320x200 display when I first got into software development. :)

Jokes aside, you'd probably want that 480x800 (portrait rather than landscape). Which would be 80 columns and 100 rows in old 8-bit microcomputer terms. So it wouldn't be the more detailed of a document but it should be detailed enough for a cheat sheet or narrowly focused reference page. You probably wouldn't want much more than that anyway otherwise you risk your reference material to be too verbose for quick sanity checks.
I do not understand the reason for butchering wild life animals (e.g. bats). Is it belief system (e.g. traditional Chinese medicine) or they are just hungry?
Have you got a link for the "Massive layoffs in Spain" - I'd be interested to read as I'm living in Madrid and no one has mentioned being laid off yet.
China is currently in the running for the most racist country in the world. From the wide-scale ethnic cleansing they're performing on Uyghurs and Tibetians, to their hostility to non-chinese, to the way that companies still post restrictions on your birth province for employment (though this is nominally illegal).

To dilute the concept of racism, a concept meant to describe toxic and life-wrecking behavior like many of China's current policies, and try to stretch its meaning to cover the use of the geographical location of the origination of a virus- that is itself depraved behavior.
Yes, we’ve done it before, near the end of Bush’s second term. Although I believe that mainly went to adults, it would still work that way.
Always fight the last war! /s
Equally there is a narrative of blaming China for it all. Examples in this very thread.

Everyone is trying to find a culprit to pin the blame on instead of looking at their own shortcomings.
Ventilators are how intubated patients breathe. That's what the tube is hooked up to.
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> Adding the --vcs git flag also has cargo create a gitignore file so that the target folder isn’t tracked by git.

Doesn’t cargo make a git repository by default, anyways? Why doesn’t it add a sensible gitignore in the process?
I would bet a lot that the production lines weren't running 24x7 or anywhere near it for ventilators. They're probably batch builds. i.e. 1-4 weeks of production every X weeks.

Scaling production != building new lines/factories, just reprioritizing, for significant uptick in units shipped.

But you have to hope that those production lines aren't also providing mission critical goods.
I’m generally surprised at how rarely a lawyer’s Bar punishes their members for acting in a way that is immoral.

Acting against your peers or breaking confidentiality gets you out rapidly; having personal problems, say drugs, does to — and I’m not challenging that. But defending things that really should not seems to fail to trigger any reaction. I guess that bad people need lawyers more but I’m curious if there is a line or a reasoning that would help there.
Firstly, he wasn't arrested. Secondly, this isn't about who did more wrong. I don't really care if signing that letter or a transfer for disciplinary reasons is worse - both did the right thing and both should have been praised instead.
This is such a common misconception...

Internet Explorer was terrible because they would drop some binary blob (ActiveX, Flash Player) into the interpreter. And those binaries were neither standardised, nor cross-platform, nor OSS.

None of that is true for Chrome. Google's additions tend be useful, which is why "too fast" and "bloated" is the only (generic and subjective) criticism people can come up with. With Safari on Mac and especially iOS, Google also doesn't quite own the same position that MS did. Nor do they have any incentives to harm other browsers: their competitors are Facebook and iOS native apps, i. e. the walled gardens that can't be crawled and searched.
So, then-- Is it infringing on this patent if any inventor goes and make a blackbox... into which a sample is placed, to have a biochemical/other chemical reaction take place for medical/biochemical testing, and provide a report of results, in an automated way?

TLDR: Then, Anything such as [Blackbox + inserted thing + reaction + report] would infringe on this patent?

Is what I mention actually true/probable? I would hope not, but just curious