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You also are wrong. Trademarks can be lost by non-payment of the renewal fees, or by genericisation.

Failing to sue someone is not cause for cancellation of registered marks. Neither in USA nor EU AFAIAA.

This is not legal advice; it is my personal opinion and makes no representation about any associate or employee that I might be linked with.
have you eaten German food before?
Measuring inflation is not straight forward. How do you calculate inflation of completely new products, like smartphones? How do you measure inflation on a car that is superior in every attribute (fuel economy, safety, reliability) to a car of 10 years ago? How do you measure inflation on non-rival goods, like access to wikipedia?
It doesn't look like it helps much...
I may be way of my field here, but my understanding is that the whole point of the Austrian school is that human behavior is (purposeful, but) unpredictable.

This is a testable claim, and you can bother to observe, experiment and test this claim. Austrians should accept they are wrong if you can empirically prove that humans behavior is predictable.

But if this claim is correct, there's no reason for you to do empirical economic observations to prove or disprove economic laws. Any empirical conclusion will have no predictive power as a law, only as a trend.

Not only that, but any logical consequence of human behavior being purposeful and unpredictable is as correct as the original claim.

Is anything here that I am missing?
The assertion that restaurants failing in the wake of the government mandating them to close in response to a once in a lifetime pandemic is evidence of them being unviable as an industry is utterly laughable.
> Unfortunately I use Firefox, but I can make an exception for this.

Unfortunate attitude that perpetuates (browser) lock-in.
The one time I bought on Grubhub I had trouble getting the price to something reasonable even with the coupon I had (only reason I was trying it) because all the menu prices were way higher than at the actual restaurants. Even with (IIRC) the delivery fee waived and a significant % off (I wanna say 20 or 30?) it was about the same as going in. Does Grubhub do the menu-price adjusting part, or do the restaurants?

Unlike your average delivery joint the numbers kept getting worse the more you added, too—no "two large two-topping pizzas and breadsticks at 70% menu price" deals or anything like that.
I think you're already a little late. Most people have been using this term for almost two decades.
It won't reach infinity right away though. Monetary velocity is finite, and right now, I'd guess rather slow.
Banks are given license to print money.
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Because we elected a president who has exactly the kind of childish attitude that would do this.
Past black swan events are not necessarily good indicators for future black swan events. This time it was (probably) bats and pangolins--next time it could be chickens and pigs.

I don't dispute that the wet markets are higher risk, but there is certainly some risk in industrial farming too.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that Zinus was lesser than Casper, or didn't come earlier. In fact, I'm fairly certain if we peel back the curtain, most of these American DTC mattress vendors are actually just Zinus under the hood.

I bought a Spa Sensations mattress back in 2010, and that's actually just Walmart's label on a Zinus mattress. (They even call it "Spa Sensations by Zinus" now.) Phenomenal mattress, super cheap, has lasted me forever. I suspect that many of the DTC vendors were doing the same and being a little less overt about it (so they could pocket the markup).

If I had to buy another mattress right now, I'd just buy direct from Zinus, as it looks like they have a reasonable retail presence in the US now.
As a photographer I have observed that people tend to blink or move or change position, or gaze direction loosely in sync, meaning they don't all blink at exactly the same time but around the same time (when not posing).

If you observe and have somehow an off-tempo you can take pictures of groups of 3-5 people having a conversation where every face is expressive and all eyes are opened, which is otherwise difficult.

But, I have this one friend I can almost never photograph (again, when not posing) because it seems we are on the same "beat". He blinks or moves at exactly the same time when I press the shutter. It's really strange because it's the only person I know with whom this happens.
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> find some other means by which to negotiate value from the economy

Do people actually talk like this about the livelihood of millions of people in real life, or is an affectation for HN?
I think China will be "punished" anyways, regardless when this crisis ends. There's no way globalization will continue in the future, governments will force companies to move production of essential supplies (food, medicine, raw materials) back locally to make their economies resilient to similar shocks in the future.

Fortunately, for China, the country is starting to have enough local consumption that it probably doesn't need to be just an export hub any more (but undoubtedly it will hurt).

Edit: this will, I predict, hurt Western companies & shareholders as well. I expect many companies to be much more rigorously stress-tested for supply chain and/or labour issues, similar to how banks are stress-tested for credit issues. This will mean thinner margins, lower profits.
What exactly is "oddball" about BDW GC?
It’s concerning how polarized any thread about China becomes. Normally rational calm people expressing extreme views (eg punishing innocent family members as deterrent). I wasn’t old enough at the time but I imagine this is what thing felt like during the Cold War.

Why must we always have a foreign enemy? Be it soviets, muslims, mexicans or now China.
With all the talks of us resorting to socialism to fight the virus, it appears many countries had to resort to fascism.
Previous poster said take out, not delivery. Some restaurants bump up take-out item price or add a surcharge, factor in no need for waiting/cleaning staff and the profit is substantial.

Protip: call in your orders, those take-out apps often take a cut that's just added to the restaurant's list price (last night I saw a $12 half-duck = $16 phone-in takeout or $25 Caviar take-out)
Even if you're right about that, it doesn't refute my overall point that clouds are seeking to create lock-in and succeeding to some degree.
of course de facto the money multiplier is always lower than the theoretical limit. That's why I said "unbounded" not "infinite".
To add to the other answers: because dividends are more commonly issued as a matter of policy – although special dividends do exist, they are far less common.

Share buybacks, in theory, signal to the market that management (who possesses inside knowledge) believes the stock is undervalued, which is often a self-fulfilling prophecy...
> Amazon said it would increase hourly wages by $2 in the US, £2 in the UK, and €2 in Europe. The company said it expects the pay rises expected to cost it more than $350m (£285m).

Seems like they could afford to pay them more.
Say you have a bank account with $100 in it. At 100% reserve requirements, the bank must have that $100 actually in its possession at all times. This is very safe, because you are guaranteed to be able to withdraw your money in the event of a bank run. However, an economist might believe this is suboptimal because the $100 is just sitting there doing nothing rather than "circulating in the economy". Thus the concept of the reserve ratio is born: banks don't keep that $100 around, but instead lend a percentage of it out or do whatever weird trades they want to do to make money. This is called fractional-reserve banking.

Before this change, reserve requirements in the US were at 10% which means the bank could lend out $90. Now in general this is problematic because if everyone were to try to withdraw their money at once, the bank could not produce it. Thus we have the FDIC, which is a government program that insures bank account deposits up to $250k so people don't lose all their money if a bank run happens. A cynical way of looking at this is that taxpayers are on the hook for the bank's bad behavior if they go bust, and the lower the reserve ratio the more likely the bank is to overdo it.

Things also get really weird when other banks are in the picture. If you deposit $100 at bank A which has 10% reserve ratio, it will lend out $90 - so total money in the system is now $190. That $90 might end up deposited at bank B, which also has a 10% reserve ratio, so it lends out $81 making the total amount of money in the system $190 + $81 = $271. This process continues until it approaches the value of principal * (1 / reserve ratio), so in our case $100 * (1 / 0.1) = $1000 [0]. At 0% this means technically infinite money can be lent/created, although banks will presumably keep some percentage as reserves due to internal risk requirements (interesting assumption, I know).

Reserve requirement ratios are viewed as one of the levers the government can use to help steer the economy. Reducing the reserve requirement ratio has the effect of increasing the overall money supply, which has some nonlinear effect on the economy that the government wants to happen. This move to 0%, in addition to various other recent moves by the federal reserve, are all geared toward flooding the economy with cheap easy money to prop it up. They will all fail.

[0] https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/67/money/money-multiplier...
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Sorry, that wasn't my intention at all. Nationalism was the opposite of what I was trying to convey, but obviously that didn't work out that well.

In times like these we all have to look at what can be done to minimize human suffering, not who is to blame.
current advice is:
DON'T take NSAIDs (e.g. ibuprofen), which may cause complications due to interaction with immune system.

do take paracetamol
Absolutely. My town shut down restaurant eat in this week, but when I went my favorite Thai place for pickup the owner said they had one of their busiest Saturdays ever. Despite fear, rational or not, people still need to eat.
It isn't really mortgage banks that lose out from inflation. The money banks loan you is created from nothing as a fiction inside their computers and destroyed again when you pay it back. The only money that continues to exist is the interest you paid them, which they get to keep.

Low inflation kind of sucks for banks (and investors in general) because it tends to coincide with low interest rates. When interest rates are low, people borrow money and invest it, which reduces real returns by increasing competition to buy securities.

The people who dislike inflation (really, higher interest rates) are the people doing all the borrowing.
I'm curious if Dropbox could replace their kernel extension and FSEvents usage with an EndpointSecurity client. Would you happen to know if there's any work being done in this area?
These news papers (NYT, WaPo & especially WSJ), will print whatever nonsense that is in the national interest and whatever narratives pushed by govt insiders regardless of whether true or not.

Makes sense to ban the propagandist news orgs on both sides.

Many that base their world outlook on knowledge gained from these sources are woefully ignorant of how the world really works.
Because working from home with kids unable to leave house produces extra expenses for child care (switching from daycare to babysitter will be expensive) etc.

If you do not do that, you need to cut hours, which reduce your income.

What FB does here is to comfort their worried employees with some money, push the overall moral and mitigate some of the impacts ppl feel.

You can replace babysitting with caregiving, being sick, etc.
Nice writeup. You hinted at it in your conclusion, but a reverse tunnel with autossh is a good fix for the NAT problem. I've been doing something similar for the past couple years, using a Netgear LB1120 as the LTE modem. I love that it accepts two external antennas. Since my setup is in a remote location, I connected a passive omnidirectional antenna to maintain a low-bandwidth link at all times, and also an amplified directional antenna pointed at the nearest tower for a full-strength signal and dramatically increased throughput when I'm on-site (additionally, I can power on the amp via my automation server if I need a boost when connected remotely).

I'm pretty conservative with my internet usage at that location, but data caps are an issue. So far, the only times I've hit mine were the 2018/2019 FIFA World Cups! ;)
Taxpayers and GM workers and pensioners.
Get an old Windows PenPC with a Wacom sensor.
wow... people who are already well paid... meanwhile the people they rape data off get nothing. (and lets face it will need help a lot more)

Typical Zuck logic.
I am curious if other people are shifting their buying habits. For my family, we have been buying more staple goods that keep for a long period of time like rice and beans. Typically, we don’t eat either of those, but that’s the only thing that will keep you fed if grocers are empty for a month.

I think this shift of buying could be called preparedness, but in another way it’s a panic because it’s a serious change in behavior.
> saturated hospitals

citation needed.

PS: you should easily be able to cite that statement in favor or in disfavor of your statement. Both citations will be equally valid and invalid.
Quote 46 from here:
https://www.junauza.com/2010/12/top-50-programming-quotes-of...

6. "A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant."
- Alan J. Perlis.
If freedom of speech is something we truly care about, it is absolutely not the Government's business to crack down on individuals it chooses to view as "propagandists"
> It’s literally impossible to exhaust R&D Opportunities.

It is not impossible, however, to exhaust R&D opportunities with an expected NPV greater than zero.
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Pro mixers also have lots of presets and tool chains already setup that they always go-to. It's not that they could just finish a mix in a day, it's that they have a lot of their tooling already roughly setup, and they just have to dial it in. It still takes time to create and setup those chains/presets.
Please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Too good for someone to realize you are a non-native speaker, and not good enough to not occasionally make obvious mistakes without realizing it.
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The virus smuggling thing cannot be linked to the outbreak. However the whole culture of consumimg exotic mammals really needs to stop. Wuhan had a flourishing underground animal market apart from the usual vast meat market where everything was consumable. This is bad. I do credit Chinese scientists for the fast gene sequencing that led to a test being developed but even if exotic meat consumption is a cultural thing it still needs to the phased out.
The United Auto Workers is demanding a 2-week shutdown of auto plants in Detroit. Meeting with the bosses at 6 PM today in Detroit.
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> That's not a job for the president at times like this

It is absolutely the job of a president, at least a good one anyway, to ask the populace to chill the fuck out and stop hoarding toilet paper and medial supplies.
Which makes sense, because usually the buy back happens during a limited period less than a year.
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Whats more remarkable is that no one has made a peep about RENTAL PAYMENT DEFERRALS or SUSPENSIONS to even COMMERCIAL LANDLORDS of APARTMENTS / SINGLE FAMILY HOMES yet somehow sit-down restaurants and their health are a top concern.

These priorities are lop-sided at best.

Restaurants are not a critical component of your basic sustenance. They never were, in the course of human history. Heavy dependence on them for ones immediate sustenance needs is a very recent development.

On the other hand, shelter is.
I'm not an economist, but it seems like the problem is a destruction of demand, so how does increasing supply help things?
> He's [Musk] got a physics degree and has the raw intelligence and passion to understand aerospace engineering.

musk was nearly laughed out of early meetings because he basically knew nothing about aerospace engineering and was viewed as just a guy with a lot of money, enthusiasm, and naivety.

i have never seen any indication that he understands as much as people freely give him credit for.

> Bezos ... is not technical.

bezos has a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from princeton. not sure what you consider technical.
Sure. A single sample taken after the epidemic could show IgG but might not be specific to this particular strain. I assume they don’t have the capability to draw and centrifuge their own blood, so a lab would have to do it.
Please do not post in the flamewar style to HN.

Also, please keep that particular trope away from here. It's a marker of lame discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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They're also likely making more now than before as more people switch to online shopping.
It doesn't make sense to me to ask developers to not use a newer technology that can make their lives easier and affect bottom lines for business just so we can accommodate a single project with likely a very small set of users. I'm surprised they would even think that is an OK thing to ask.
>If you have something interesting to offer to the scenario of collapsing American restaurants, go ahead.

You didn't quite offer anything interesting, just stated the industry is collapsing and workers should get other jobs...that isn't interesting or helpful.

Curious how many people you employ and if your business is immune from the economic impact of this pandemic, maybe some of these workers would like you to hire them.
Same boat--annoying overlap that anxiety causes the same symptom. Luckily I've always worked from home, so have been pretty well isolated.
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Sure, I agree. But can we have this as a separate discussion. Focus of this article is about expelling journalists from China.
"Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own."

Forbes lets a bunch of "contributors" publish under the Forbes brand. They're coasting on the name having historically good connotations, but the contributor articles are similar to what you might find on Medium.
Same in Illinois and Michigan.
It's not really a rebuttal, it's more of a description of how deeply flawed the system is. Given all currently available information CEOs should choose stock buybacks again.

If they need to be rescued now they should be regulated like other industries that are critical but don't seem to be able to weather crisis on their own (like banks), e.g. minimum cash reserve requirements with stress testing.
Because people are going to have to keep paying for services they no longer get value from. Someone has to clean the house, watch and educate the kids, etc.
Also those newspapers were publishing propaganda pieces accusing the Chinese Government of acting in bad faith during the epidemic. That doesn't go over well at all.
The intentions are good. (Just like those of C++.) Problem is, as they say, it is the road to hell that is paved with them.
Unless Fremont factory is 100% automated with robots, this sounds reckless. However, the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai has been reopened and working in full speed (except when it's bottlenecked by upstream suppliers)
We are following Japan’s path to stagnation.
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The US and China are at war. The last Cold War kind of gave us the internet so hopefully we fund some big ambitious tech this time too.
> That's a different article.

It's a different article, for sure. It's also a better written article that favors balanced, thorough arguments over proselytizing.

> Why would you even make this comment?

It's not your job to police other people's comments. I would expect that to be an axiomatic truth, but here we are.
would you mind pointing out some resources that back up your claims? they read like fiction.
> Rust isn't the only language with these properties, but it is one of the few

Just curious, what are the other languages that competes with Rust in terms of correctness, safety, ergonomics and efficiency?

Go is more on the ergonomics side and Haskell on the correctness side, but are there any serious alternatives for Rust that checks all the boxes?
Where money can be made, money will be made. I had a colleague that was proudly saying "if it was legalsto sell heroin to kids I would be setting camp outside schools making a million per day". In my question "and what about the dead kids?"
His answer always was "not my problem, if there is no law for this or that then I'm in it"

Unfortunately there are too many assholes out there.

They are intelligent, with the ethics of a rock, and this is the outcome when these two are combined.
Very interesting. I noticed the model has the lockdown starting in April but in fact it has now started in March. I wonder how much this effects the length of lockdown required before we can afford to relax restrictions again (briefly).
Ask HN: Why so many contagious in my small town?
Hi, I am Marco and I live in a small town in Italy called Viadana (in Lombardy to be more precise). The exact location is: https://goo.gl/maps/UsUKshzvHGwVZ4nL6

In Lombardy, we are all following the same strict rules and we are forced to spend most of our time inside our house.

What I am unable to understand is why my small town has so many contagious, much more than a bigger city like Mantova.

The following is a table with all the nearby towns, with number of citizens and official contagious count:

Name # Population # Contagious
======= ============ ============
Mantova 49400 32
Castiglione 23700 29
Suzzara 21300 4
Viadana* 20150 64
Porto M. 16000 9
Curtatone 14900 11

Further details about surface and density can be found here:
https://www.tuttitalia.it/lombardia/provincia-di-mantova/50-comuni/popolazione/

Up-to-date contagious count:
http://www.altramantova.it/it/cronacaam/mantova-am/24775-emergenza-coronavirus-aggiornamento-i-contagi-salgono-a-456-in-provincia-di-mantova-impennata-di-casi-a-viadana-ora-sono-64-cresce-anche-mantova-che-arriva-a-32.html

Is there any explanation?
If not, which kind of data I should collect in order to be able to find out an answer?
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> 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!)

If you listen to white house press conferences, Sec Mnuchin said that he and the president of the united states would like to see direct cash payments to Americans in the next two weeks.
For restaurant owner running on 3-5% margins, when salaries are a significant expense, it would be suicide to take a loan to make payroll; your business would probably never be profitable again. Better to let the business die and reinvent yourself in June/July.
Sure, plenty of people do. Head down to the local bow tie store, or visit your nearest seasteading ship and you'll find that almost everyone talks this way. Just be careful not to violate the NAP or you'll be blown away by someone's rocket launcher.