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Data brokers are a part of big tech as much as apple and Netflix are.

Apple has a more aggressive stance than most companies but even they are pathetically far from being privacy first. I'm a big fan of the proposals to treat all used data as radioactive waste that if mishandled, even accidentally, can destroy entire companies. It is absurd that we're even having these conversations. We're one dictator away from another genocide on the soil of a world leader. China notwithstanding. These vast databases can be misused to quickly indentured entire minority populations in countries. We've gotten a taste of this under trump with the "illegals". If we're unfortunate to find ourselves under an actual dictator trump will pale in comparison. By excising all customer data from companies we prevent countless attacks, and make many other attacks far harder.
That exchange borders on unbelievable for me. How any project could be so tone deaf is beyond comprehension. And the initial message from the PM project is more than enough to set anyone off.
I appreciate the correction from 99.9% to 97% survival rate for those under 70.

Thank you for sharing the link to the imperial college article. Here are some of my key take aways:

- 100,000's of people will still die even under ideal isolation conditions (didn't see an exact #).

- Isolation must happen until a vaccine is available (likely 12-18+ months).

- If isolation ends before a vaccine is found infections will quickly spike thus only delaying the dreaded hospital overflow.

- Best reasonable NPIs appear to be isolating 70+ and having sick people stay at home.

- The authors state there are many uncertainties in NPI policy effectiveness.

As with any complex topic, nuance and detail is important. The American populace is accepting of mass isolation for a few weeks, but what about months or years?

Do we really want to be isolated for the next 18+ months? Are we comfortable with families losing their jobs, home, and more?
Are we comfortable with the elderly losing a big chunk of their retirement investments which may not rebound before they need it?

Again, if we don't mass isolate until a vaccine is discovered, then all we're doing is wasting time and money with mass isolations.

There are lots of diseases in this world that kill people and we can't control them all. This is a normal and sad part of the circle of life. We must evaluate reasonable measures, with clear and honest public discussions (a stretch, I know).

I understand my perspective against mass isolations isn't popular, but I'm not seeing much evidence to refute it.
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It's war (of words)
The Chinese Virus vs US bioweapon. Plus China might be hiding something
What no one is talking about is how much social distancing/isolation is needed to avoid hospital saturation.

I ran the numbers for Canada, and it looks like we'd need isolation measures for 2+ years.

I don't see how that's a feasible solution long-term.
Claimer* , or disclosure*.

But other than that, agreed, good job; I saw earlier about not restocking non-essentials, to focus on higher demand for less discretionary items, that's bound to cause some frustration, but it's good to see - since those are presumably the less profitable lines too.

Also in excellent Corporate Social Responsibility this week is LVMH, reconfiguring perfume production lines to produce hand sanitiser for France, for free.

Beats 'Hey Italy, have a free trial of our SaaS product' [0] hands down.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22535402
> but I still have chest tightness and consistent coughing

Could be hayfever. 花粉症の時期が始まったからね。
Note, France is warning against NSAIDs specifically for COVID-19.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/14/anti-inflammat...
> Will there be a restaurant bailout?

Maybe it could be like farm subsidies, but we pay restaurants to close for a certain amount of time / certain days of the week, on the condition that they pay employees normal wages for those days.
How about a neat line graph? There's only 8 data sources. Most of the space on their table is wasted by large left/right padding.
Tesla's electric vehicle assembly plant in Fremont, California, will continue to operate as usual, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday, despite shelter-in-place guidance issued by six San Francisco Bay Area counties earlier in the day designed to hobble the spread of the coronavirus. Alameda County, where the Tesla plant employs about 10,000 workers, has been deemed an "essential business," a county spokesman told the newspaper.

If Tesla is deemed an essential business, why is Jimmy's Bar and Grill being forced to close? IMHO this is a prime example of recklessly corrupt government conduct.
IIRC, we had a team of about six engineers working on the core system itself plus a few product teams building features on top. and yes, the team did get recognition for their work, which definitely helped when we decided to begin rewriting!
> That would involve selling shares at a low price after buying them at a high price. This would make management look stupid.

They should be made to look stupid, since using "96% of free cash flow" to buy back shares means they left the companies that they manage grievously vulnerable to disruption.

They should pay for privatizing their gains and trying to collectivize their losses.
Hi :) Thanks for the awesome write-up. I understand...I have a few devices in my house that resist all attempts at integration. I have considered doing something totally ridiculous like setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and machine vision software to watch the LED displays on these devices to glean status information. Silly, but...

Interesting about fsck running for unclear reasons. "What is it up to now?" is a valid question at multiple levels!
Yep. Food cost is usually about 1/3 of the bill; 1/3 to rent and overhead, 1/3 to staff. If a few percent can be squeezed from any of those areas, there's the restaurant's profit.
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About the most bullshit "essential business" call I've seen.
What are the results of the "over capacity"? Are hundreds of people who could have recovered from the virus dead today because they didn't have access to oxygen, or ICUs?
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If I understand it right this impacts the reserve kept for loans. It keeps banks from calling in loans for all sorts of businesses - particularly those that are owned by your neighbors and employ that vast majority of workers.
Aw, WSJ videos covering China were some of my favourite content. China is really lashing out.

Nothing is surprising since they banned Zedd from China simply for liking a South Park tweet, he's a very popular (and harmlessly generic) pop musician:

https://twitter.com/Zedd/status/1182376966495838208
Not if I can help it. I'm ordering delivery constantly, and as soon as restaurants reopen my ass will be in a seat every night of the week to support what is personally my favorite industry. And I'll be tipping extra.
Just realized I understated this. It's actually possible for 64.6% of infections to only incubate for 1 day and get a mean of 5.6 days, if the other 35.4% of infections incubate for 14 days (i.e. an extremely bimodal distribution at 1 and 14 days).
This is the sort of comment we ban people for. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607426 and stop this now.
> salaries, sector, years of experience and gender.

I'm fairly sure the biggest factor influencing wages is market value of your labour which is for the most part unrelated to years of experience.
Agree.

I have 2 cousins who manage a restaurant in upstate New York. Everyone was told to apply for unemployment (which has had its waiting period waived), except for the manager and assistant manager.

The game plan is to trial take-out only dinners, but since less than 5% of their previous business was take out, their hopes aren’t high.

I’m really interested to see how many small businesses like this pull through.
> Call on them to do what

If the problem is lack of ventilator production capacity, the "Tool up like WW2" proposal would be to take Vortran's designs and expertise making things like the go2vent [1], and get them made in Lego's factories.

And if to make that happen the government has to hand out a few solid gold cadillacs, medals or eminent domain orders then so be it.

(Obviously, Vortran and Lego are just examples; the point is in WW2, what the war effort wants the war effort gets)

[1] https://www.vortran.com/go2vent
There _is_ this doctor who sounded early warning and he was ignored and hassled (Guy is dead now :-( ).

Not sure how other countries would have handled it. But it still is a history-changing decision point that could have gone better.
It’s up to the states to manage hoarding and reselling, and they are.
Humans are wired for doomsday scenarios. Our brains love to imagine the worst case scenarios.... probably how we survived as a species for so long.

Our brains have not evolved to deal with 24/7 media coupled with social media, HN, Reddit, YouTube and every other information source feeding us a nonstop stream of raw unfiltered data.

Dunno where I’m going with this but our brains latch onto stuff like this and run wild. Multiply by billions of brains doing the same thing and there is a massive social and political pressure to “do something”.

Who the fuck knows what is really happening. We have plenty of “facts” and “information” floating around but no way to make any sense of it. All we can do is imagine the worst and replay “prepare for the worst, hope for the best” or “better safe than sorry”. Except unchecked that attitude can make things worse.

And, in short, that is why I’m not in the office today and pretending to work at home just like everybody else here.
Is this part of why stocks have slipped so much? Based on what I know of the market (what relatively little I know, I keep up with it, but it's not my day job), I'd have expected most of the volatility from coronavirus to be in the sectors most heavily affected by low foot-traffic. Instead companies like Google and Apple are down 30%. I doubt the anyone is seriously expecting COVID-19 to cause the average of Google's or Apple's profits over the next 20 years to fall by 30%, so it seems the market must have been oversubscribed? Maybe it still is. The S&P500 is still at a historically relatively high PE of 18.5 and a Schiller CAPE of 23.2, both of which will probably be even higher after earnings are announced next month.
As a Christian, I view this somewhat differently. I don't particularly fear my own death, or my world falling apart, even while I recognize that those are realistic possibilities, because I don't believe that this life is all there is. I don't need to hold on to it as if it's all I will get.

So I view all of this with watchfulness, some concern, but not particularly with fear. I try to take care of those around me. (I'm limiting my exposure to others at the moment, because my daughter may have had it a week ago, but wasn't tested, because we're in the US and nobody was being tested here a week ago.) We stocked up on some things two or three weeks ago. I'm working from home. I'm maybe a little bit bored, but not much more than that.
I started folding last weekend (due to it being advertised on this forum), but I keep getting: "Failed to get assignment from 'xxx': No WUs available for this configuration"

Apparently I was not the only one that started donating some compute:

> The whole world is suddenly interested in COVAID-19 and FAH has received unanticipated advertising from several popular websites so suddenly we need 6x of the infrastructure and of the staff
'trend' doesn't seem like the right word
America will surely retaliate.

Here's a timeline for those who haven't followed this:

Feb 3rd: WSJ publishes opinion piece titled "China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia"

Feb 19th: China expels three China-based WSJ reporters

March 2nd: America limits journalists from Chinese state media from 160 to 100
I don’t know any reason that wouldn’t be the case, and many/most experts are already predicting a second wave - we don’t know the reasons that the 1918 pandemic mutated to become more lethal, so I don’t know how someone can say that it won’t happen again. Good planning would dictate that we not write off worst case scenarios without reason.
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5 years hmm, how politically convenient
One possible scenario is that the pandemic dies down when the weather gets warmer and then comes back for a second wave in fall. (Several historical flu pandemics behaved like that.) Should that turn out to be the case, it would still be useful to build up a stockpile of ventilators to use 6 months from now.
Uhm, the CCP in how it acts wrt. indoctrination is acting quite racistic them self (doesn't matter that that might be by accident). So criticizing or even denouncing it can't really be called acting racistic.

Well except if it's _obvious that you act that way because of racistic ideas instead of criticism_ . Which might very well be the case for some people.

So if given out of context the sentence might be racistic or might not be racistic. Also depending on your culture it might be just a sign of strong annoyance and just that. Or a very strong insult.

Because of this, it's not really appropriate to say it either way as it seen as a insult in more cultures then ones at which it's just seen as a expression of annoyance/dislike.

There are many other, better and more appropriate ways to criticize them. Like pointing out that they act racistic themself, like it did above.

Also the initial bad response mainly comes from problems with local governance not the CCP. While the CCP controls the local goverment tightly it's also an open secet that the local government often actes in their interest first and only then in the interest of the whole country, especially if they believe they can get away with it. In the end the country is just to big with to many people to be efficiently governed. Maybe in the future with the help of more technology but not now. Through they are trying their best.

Also lets be honest. Just consider how it would have went if that virus would have sourced in the USA. I mean after having a example which is both bad (initial response) and good (follow up response) the response in the USA (or the EU) is still sup-par. I would not have been surprised that if it would have been sourced in the USA then it would have spread even faster around the world including china.

(Also as far as I have heard China did ban part of the food trading, additionally I have heard pretty racist thinks about how chines people where at fault because they eat everything etc. But the truth is they mostly eat pork. And the virus most likely was _not_ transmitted through food, through maybe still alive food, but then again still alive _normal_ food)
Because the health care system is built with those estimates in mind.

It's the same with electricity infrastructure on climatologically hot days. The infrastructure is only built to handle a certain normal peak load. COVID-19 like a heat wave, is abnormal.
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Serial serum samples every 2 weeks, frozen. They could then be tested for virus inactivation and/or paired IgM/IgG titers. Not cheap.
> There's a whole society that exists outside of these shareholders and they need airlines to travel.

Then wipe out the shareholders and let the companies reorganize under new ownership.
Is it cheating if we count GNU Guix?
I suspect it was to offset the costs of setting up a home office. And in that context it seems like a completely reasonable thing to do.
The value increase caused by the buyback tends to disappear in a year or so. There was a study which found this, but I don’t have a reference on hand.
Though some of the major ones may have the restriction, not all US metros have the regulation yet. It would be good to have a data on how much of the number is under the regulation.
I would be very interested in this as well but I fear Intel and Dell have some kind of exclusivity agreement for our beloved product line. In the meantime we'll all just switch to Zen2 ThinkPads.
That's not exactly a realistic outlook on what will ultimately be a temporary situation.
You'll likely still be able to sell gold for something in all but the very worst SHTF scenario. I'm not sure you can say the same about many other types of investment. Those ETFs won't buy many rabbits for the pot.
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As I understand it (please correct me someone if I'm wrong), this was a freak mutation. Not to suggest it couldn't happen again. And we 100% should be prepared. But the concept of a virus leaving, mutating to be more deadly, and coming back, isn't on the 'expected' path.
Devastating collapse?
Not to mention if pessimism could kill viruses!
If there's a silver lining, it's that takeout is higher margin for restaurants and I'm sure takeout revenue is spiking during city shutdowns.
You seem to be living in a different factual world than the rest of us, where ICU cases are in hallways and surgical suites is not "over capacity", and leaving people to die of suffocation without standard lifesaving treatment is not unusual.
In 1961 the US nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina (2013)
Looks like mid-February was the first spike in Italy: https://www.corona.cloud/italy

NEVER MIND. That chart appears to be global cases.
RAND corp has a really interesting video on their website about how hyper-sonic intercontinental ballistic missiles brings the length of the OODA loop down to about 5 or so minutes which is a very short amount of time to make a decision to mobilize an insanely large amount of resources.

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> have the advantage of perfectly adapting their brightness to their surroundings.

The surroundings might not be lit enough for the health of eyes. This is the usual case and one of the prime issues why dead tree books and e-paper tablets lead to weak eyes.
Industrial farming practices in the US and many other countries could easily lead to similarly dangerous animal-to-human transmissions.
Nationalistic and religious flamewar is not welcome here. Please do not post like this to HN again. I appreciate that you didn't mean your comment that way, but at the end it clearly crosses into flamebait, which is a contribution to destroying this community, not helping it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HBR also has published a few rebuttals of this same argument: https://hbr.org/2018/03/are-buybacks-really-shortchanging-in...

I am of the opinion that they are probably pretty neutral overall to the economy. Their contribution to inequality is more damning of how capital gains are taxed.
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I realise this is an entirely irrelevant point, but any ideas why Germany was doing so well up until this crisis?
I would argue that an interesting intervention has to come from something more, because the restaurant industry has been suffering terribly and consolidating already, perhaps due to an increasingly unhealthy middle class.
The Fed just cut the banks' reserve requirements to zero, which means they don't require any deposits in order to make loans anymore. They have no use for your money. That's why you may have to pay them to hold it for you.
If we wait for new pandemics to kill more people than the flu to take them seriously, then it's too late to act.
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China is locked down hard. Every place you go, someone takes your temperature, and if you're feverish at all you're taken directly to a testing facility. If it turns out you have corona then you're in isolation until you're better.

If we do the same in the U.S. then it'll be valid to expect similar results.

It's certainly true that the virus will peak and decline naturally, but it does that because most of the population has been infected so it can't find fresh hosts. With 0.7% mortality that translates to over a million dead in the U.S.
The employer wants a doctor's note, for you to get a paid sick day? They explicitly do not trust your self-assessment?

I think this is a cultural defect. Evidence? We keep getting most everything wrong and paying more per capital to do it. The free market failures. The government failures. Their various incentives are widely considered flawed or perverse. We even fail to have effective conversations, almost immediately they get rail roaded, and we allow them to be rail roaded. The language strikes me as a lot of attachment/adoration for ideological things like "the free market" and "proper regulation" and being unable to get past our emotional attachments to these things.

Literally the entire rest of the industrialized world does this better and cheaper per capita, and somehow Americans keep defending the system using various slogans and name calling.

I think it's bad culture, like a national mental health disorder, resulting from long term cognitive dissonance. The longer it continues, it's like a perpetually recurring psychological trauma, at a national level.
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Curious if this 40-70% drop in seated diners has been offset by takeout/delivery.
Sure but the president’s job is to tell people to chill the fuck out. So far, he is not.
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America will surely retaliate.

No.

There are thousands and thousands of journalists working for foreign governments, friendly and hostile, in the United States. Some hostile foreign governments even operate domestic broadcasting operations in America. (China, Russia, etc...)

The worst thing that's ever been done in recent memory is requiring those operations to register as foreign agents. And I think at one time there was a move to limit the Kremlin's cadre to something like 1,000 people. But I might be remembering that part wrong.