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Why can't we collectively say, no Americans have to pay mortgages/rent for x months. No small/medium sized businesses have to pay business loans for x months. Everyone focus on social distancing and making sure everyone has food and shelter. Weather this out, and start back up after peak infections/hospitalizations has been dealt with.
“ The price of the stocks does not affect company in any way”

RSU value is lower for employees, harder to retain talent, more incentive to fire and cut costs to keep shareholders happy.
The commonly stated goal of lockdowns is to slow the spread, flatten the (new cases vs time) curve, and thereby try to manage the rate of new cases so hospital resources (ICU beds, respirators, nursing staff) arn't overwhelmed.

Once (whenever that may be) the curve is shown to be flattening and hostpitals are in control, it'd be logical to see some gradual loosening of the restrictions that are currently being ramped up.

I personally doubt that loosening of restrictions, once above conditions are met, will be contingent on a proven and widely available vaccine having been developed (not least because there's no guarantee that one ever will be).

At this point it's anyone's guess how long it'll be in any given country until things appear to be more under control... Even in South Korea, who seem to have done best job in containing this, I've yet to see any estimates of how long it'll take at current rates on infection for the majority of the population to get it and/or get to "herd immunity" point.

In the US all bets are off.. it seems we were (and still are) extraordinarily slow to recognize the severity of this and take appropriate actions (severe lockdowns, widespread testing and resulting case tracking), so a reasonable expectation is that we may be following the case trajectories of the harder hit countries, with similar measures as they have in place coming to the US.
Yang's policy was for citizens only. He equates it by saying citizens are a long term shareholders of the country and thus get a dividend.
I heard through the grapevine that the feds deliberately put the brakes on UPMC working on their own COVID-19 testing. They've been an active hindrance.

EDIT: via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette https://www.post-gazette.com/news/health/2020/03/14/covid-19...

At 20 patients a day (aiming for 100 by the end of the week) this isn't an industrial scale testing scheme, but given how slow we've been that's still a significant chunk of testing capacity and it would've been great for Pittsburgh to have access to it sooner.
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I mean, JavaScript being required to view pages sounds like Pandora’s already opened box.
> When the people at the top make less money, they invest less money into new toilet paper R&D and new factories.

This (and its inverse, "when the people at the top make more money, they invest it so it does good for the whole economy") is the foundation of trickle-down economics.

It's been empirically proven not to work over the past 40 years.
Where is the proof? The Times claims reporting by Caixin Global. I see no stories by Caixin that confirm this.
Nice and intriguing but unfortunately this is still priced as a premium product.

Obviously the company making it has its reasons for pricing but a product like this needs to be priced as an accessible consumer electronics product (ie $50-$100).
Amazon's crisis is an opportunity for other online retailers.

I know I've started searching around on other online retailers like ebay, wallmart, home depot, and boutique retailers for products that were no longer in stock on Amazon.
yikes. That's about the most insane exchange I've seen on Github.
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The faster the automation of these types of jobs can happen the better. This crisis is showing us that.

People worry about the loss of jobs due to automation but humanity has to evolve to create new professional lines with new types of employment that don't involve things like someone packing boxes or transporting goods.
Like it was said already... a lame excuse for "We can't successfully implement it, our browser is becoming incompatible with a large part of current web, so please do not use it to make us happy"

Without doubts - this will be Pale Moons final run - as the makers are fully unable to implement complex features on their own, as they do not have the tiniest bit of knowledge how to implement medium or highly complex Ecmascript features.

This link explains everything with all necessary details - also shared before: https://www.reddit.com/r/palemoon/comments/fk4fnl/attention_...
When I interviewed there (approx. 2012), I asked every person I met with about how many hours, on average, they worked per week.

Every single one of them gave me a non-answer; most simply answered a different question I didnt ask.

If there isn't an expectation of a consistent 40 hour work week, then it is highly unlikely that there will be any bonus for working extra during this time period.
Yes, we would need an antibody test (typically much easier/faster/cheaper) to detect whether you had the disease and developed antibodies... although those antibodies fade with time, and it doesn't tell you if you're currently infections. So it would make sense at some future date to run a quick antibody test, and if positive run the longer 6+hr RT-PCR for 2019-nCoV.

The concern is that someone could become reinfected either due to insufficient immune response or small evolution in the virus surface protiens, which could also make it more or less virulent.
Sure it's hard for us, but what about creatures that have 28 eyes and 14 brains? In other words, we also have more CPU cores now. I'm not sure I'm keeping all my CPU cores happy.

And no I don't think it's just a problem for the OS. Although, that's probably a popular idea.
"Isolations only delay the peak, they don't prevent it, /.../ Zero evidence it will happen."

Isolations and shutdowns limit virus transfers. This is 'flattening the peak'. The peak will always be there and since the only way not to have a 'peak' is to not have virus to deal with from the start!
One social program for me, but not for thee.
to be dismissed without even a bare minimum of consideration. Palemoon is a waste of time and it makes me sad there's people out there thinking otherwise.
The fear and suffering alone is enough to have a negative effect on people, so it matters.
Yes, and this begs the question of what will happen with state budgets, many of which have balanced budget amendments and have no legal flexibility to deal with this. The answer is federal block grants to backstop national unemployment changes. Removing waiting periods and extending benefits indefinitely is essentially temporary UBI, which is what we need.

So yes, this form of changes to unemployment would _require_ a federal response. And we require far more federal response than that, far far more. But payroll tax holidays and $1000/adult responses are not serious policy and waste invaluable time.
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I think the simplest solution is to give money and raise taxes on the top 60%. Undo what Trump put in place and go back to taxing Americans a little more.

This way the benefit only applies to the bottom 40% of tax brackets and at 40-60 you pay some if not all back and 60+ you pay it all back and more. Then it's a fair safety net that everyone can see might be necessary in these times.

This is just a thought, I'd actually just put Yang in charge of this.
Do we have the infrastructure to pay every American some amount of money?
This attitude is why things do get done.
You don't have to encourage the skiing trip. That's not the point.

The point is to make sure that the people who work at the ski resort can survive while no one's coming to vacation there.
> We can never get something for nothing.

The costs are inflation and national debt; Which with the Federal Funds rates at 0% are already costs that the monetary supply is accommodating.

Beyond that, we're still below inflationary targets and the dollar has grown accidentally stronger (and exports have decreased in ratio) under current economic policy. In effect, an inflationary effort could be significantly beneficial.
China's monthly infectious disease report numbers had 1.71m cases of infectious disease in December 2019, compared to only like ~700k in December 2018. Interestingly the number of deaths from infectious disease declined in December 2019 vs 2018...
I made a fake finger to not have to touch my office biometric door lock
As the owner of a small company that has a hard time finding good help, I welcome the additions to the unemployed labor market.

My company doesn't wait for economic downturns to shed the staff that it didn't really need.
Yep that is part of Yang's policy. Human value vs economic value. Right now our economy doesn't value human life. A stay at home parent who looks after the kids is judged as 0 economic value but raising productive children provides great value to society.

For today... as a human you are very valuable if you stay the hell home.
"Opt-in" systems have disappointing levels of people who need the benefit but are too proud or scared to claim.

Where possible avoid this problem and give the benefit to absolutely everybody. The administration is simpler, it will get to all those who need it, and if you become concerned Bill Gates is getting too much free childcare or whatever, feel free to increase his taxes accordingly.
Things are possible. One just needs the courage to ask and possibly be told no, and even more courage to proceed if they say yes.

I have personal experience of starting a niche record store with a friend. We were both tired of the music we wanted not being available and decided we'd do it ourselves. Neither of us had any idea about the music industry. We both put in $500 each. Every dime of that was used to buy the initial inventory. We had no money to have a website built (circa 1999). So I learned how to use MySQL and PHP and built one. During the years we ran the business, there were many conversations with artists and record labels. We sold compilation albums where other people licensed individual tracks from labels and arranged them together onto a CD. We even had several discussions about starting our label, but stopped short of that.
Oops, thanks!

Still don't understand what happened, pretty sure I saw this listed as being posted less than an hour ago, but the one I saw when I searched was "1 day ago". Weird.
The stock could also be crashing because the perceived value of the asset was distorted by market conditions, and the stock index corrections have now produced a far more realistic and scary environment in which value is better understood.
Probably not your mental health, which is a component of your overall health.
Can you explain how an organization that calls itself an archive gets treated differently than another organization under US law? I'm not aware of any exemptions for archival.
I don't think Amazon ships many essentials that it would justify the overtime in a situation like this to be honest. Of course people forced to stay at home might order more stuff, but...
How charitable, now to implement that everyone has to prove their level of income and assets before receiving aid and will unnecessarily screw people on the margins in situations you didn’t imagine up front. Stuff like that gets implemented (usually, in America) as a non-refundable tax credit meaning the poorest get nothing as well.

Just cut the check, tax the rich, and don’t make more paperwork.
Hey, maybe they could stop trying to kill SNAP while they're at it

https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/presidents-bud...

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/3/13/21178257/trump-admi...
Is there any chance Dell releases and AMD XPS 13?
They require JS, which is definitely a drawback.

But they work fine in screen readers, (you can screw this up with JS, just like any other HTML) and they "participate" in form events just like other HTML.

Since they require JS, you can lazy load them if you want (it's just JS).
Ask HN: Building smart workout shirt Looking for co-founder Can pay part-time?
I’m building a smart shirt that monitors your heart rate during your workout and tells you when you’re in the fat burning zone to make your workouts more efficient. I’m looking for a co-founder (that I can pay a part-time salary) that mainly does hardware engineering or can work on the backend (I do mostly frontend dev). I live in SF, but can travel anywhere in US to meet up if it’s the right fit. And I know this is a reach, but my network is kind of limited so figured I’d give this a try. If you’re interested, send me an email at: danny@supershirt.co

And here’s a link to the website: http://supershirt.co/
From the perspective of a service connecting eyeballs with the thing they're looking for (and some ads along the way), AMP is a relatively anodyne amplification on top of caching strategies. "Hey, build good, easily parsed and managed pages and we'll make everything Way Way Faster" is the argument.

To be clear, I'm not saying that it is necessarily representative of reality, but that's the idea.
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Enough is enough! We should all go down to Embarcadero tomorrow and declare our support for the first amendment!

We won't leave until Libby Schaaf, London Breed and all these other authoritarians step down from office.

This is war.
I'd be much more interested in what credible Chinese sources know about the disease and its epidemiology. Much of the reporting on the Chinese response has been overtly xenophobic and added to the confusion at just the moment we needed more clarity.
Kind of an interesting angle. YouTube is limited in how it can compete against the film monopoly/oligopoly due to broader anti-trust concerns at Google
I think the point is you don’t have 90-120 days, you have 15-30.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, everything you can do is going to be another life saved – it’s just that that is because everything we can do is still not going to be enough to save everyone.
A lot of Russian planes have Electro Optical systems for targeting. Usually they are IR based locking onto hot engines and such like a typical Fox 2 (Heat seeking missile) Range of IR tracking is pretty small for head on planes and more importantly your missile needs to know where to look in the first place to acquire the target. Also stealth aircraft have reduced heat signatures making it harder to pick them out against the background. Also you have problems with determining contrast against the background due to diffraction.

Essentially the passive array in this article is in the class of "Early Warning Radar" which is used to alert Combat Air Patrol aircraft and SAM sites where to start looking for the contact.

If you wanted to use this with a networked radar guided missile you would have problems with terminal guidance. If the missile could acquire the target as it came into radar range for the radar cross section of a stealth aircraft, there is very little chance it would have the energy to track the target. It would essentially need to make a right turn midair to track on the target. All the while the missile's radar will be making the plane's RWR light up like a Christmas tree.
It’s a document api that, when used, can’t be saved as a document. Pretty simple.
You claim is not clear.

"Unicode with various ways to represent é" is a shit show to parse using shell tools. e.g. Try scraping Spanish language Twitter feeds. When I have done this kind of work, I made a tool to canonicalize glyphs and had to put it between every step of a pipeline.
> Last global pandemic of most compare - the Spanish Flu, we had a society that was savings conscious.

Also a society that was emerging from WWI. The mindset was different.
It seems they only share a name? In some stores people are buying more than ever. But stocks are down?
> Why are we so quick to hate on Amazon, who actually deliver things that we're going to need?

Because Amazon is using desperate people to sign abusive contracts and then make them work risking their lives and loved ones to increase an already huge profit.

> who actually deliver things that we're going to need?

This post is full of this propaganda from Amazon. Who said that they are delivering first necessity items? Who said that it is better to have one person touching thousands of packages and sending to people's homes is a good idea?

Amazon is nos just being a bad player in the job market but also it is damaging the much needed rational on-line debate.

Please, keep yourself safe and help society by staying home when asked by the authorities. It is not just about you, but also others.
Not a sock-puppet.

Where's the evidence isolations will flatten the curve and not just cause another spike of cases after isolation ends?

Covid-19 isn't going to die out after a few weeks or months.

Deaths are coming from ages 70+ with severe pre-existing conditions during non-peak hospital conditions. This is normal and nothing to panic about.

Also, do R0 values of a virus change dramatically? I thought they were set based the number of non-vaccinated people who get infected...
The government is not the one who should be seeing the urgency here. Hospitals and other health care facilities should. They are the ones who should be placing orders for ventilators.

If the hospitals and other facilities need funding to help with that, that's something governments might be able to help with. But it's still the facilities themselves that should be forecasting an obvious future need and taking steps to meet it.
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Does it then matter how thin it is if it'll be protected in a bulky case?
If the encryption is strong enough, you could assign a subset of predetermined keys to each card issued-- but you still need a robust server/network to verify the transaction ACID-style & invalidate the key (or part of the subset?) at the end while retaining the rollback ability until that final invalidation is verified.

Tricky business, for sure. Seems theoretically plausible, but I'm sure there are many things I haven't thought of.
> It's a good thing my doctor accepts USD :)

That $1000 check will only cover the ride to the hospital before tax.
In an unencumbered free market system where shipping systems were not dominated by any one particular shopping vendor (not Amazon, not vinyl record companies, nobody), what would naturally happen would be a sharp increase in shipping costs in accordance with demand (incentivizing shipping companies to increase supply), followed quickly by a corresponding decrease in demand for shipping items the market deems non-essential (e.g. I'm less inclined to order vinyl records online if shipping costs go up, but if I can't get hand sanitizer anywhere _but_ online I'll probably still order it).
But maybe more of a target?
The problem likely isn't the money, but rather it would paint a big red target on their back with a legal entity to sue. And it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft would easily revoke a certificate, even without any legal judgment.

That's the problem with code signing. It's just an attempt to graft the status quo monkeysphere onto the digital realm - you "know" the author of the code, so therefore you trust it completely, because you can sue them post-hoc if they harm you. This doesn't scale to the digital world, but that hasn't stopped these unimaginative power-hungry companies from trying to force us into it.
Yeah, I really don't understand it. We knew there was a serious problem by mid-jan. The federal gov could have known by early Jan by sending someone to Wuhan. We are almost 90 days from then. I assumed (incorrectly) that we would have already ramped mask/glove/sanitizer/ventilator production and would just now be getting the supply.

I'm kind of in shock at how exposed we all are.
Dude I'm from Alberta, Canada's Texas. I grew up with these ads on constant rotation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivnYaqmXwS4&t=1s

But if you look at the biggest pickups from the 80s they're not really that big. The whole compact and subcompact truck market has vanished. People only want 'em big.
Two important points worth making here.

First, huge stock market panics are fear-driven. Partly they're responses to fear, partly they create more of it.

When fear sets in, people get nervous. First-order, that means more concern about protection, downside risk, and survival. In business, that means, how much cash is in the bank? Can we pay our bills to employees/landlords/utilities? Since it's harder to wiggle out from long-term contractual commitments (debt service, leases), employees are often but not always the first to go, simply because they CAN be let go. Not ideal, but it happens. Additionally, hiring slows and since some level of frictional unemployment (google it) is bound to exist, those people won't be as easily re-absorbed into new jobs.

Second point: executives, salespeople, and others "at the edges" are driven by market forces. Interior decision-making, especially at large businesses and far from top management, isn't driven by external market forces to any real extent. A better model I just read in the economist explained it as companies being little miniature command economies (dictatorships), mediated by market forces in their interactions with the outside world. A few examples that come to mind: (a) wages aren't typically adjusted internally when salaries rise externally, (b) most funding decisions are made by management, not external banks/stock market. So probably wise to assume, unless sufficient evidence to the contrary, that mid-level decision making in companies won't be market-driven, it will be done by (potentially more efficient) command mechanisms. A manager tells you to do something and you do it, there isn't some auction mechanism held where people bid on tasks. We do it that way because it's more efficient.

EDIT: The article in question (very good IMO, talks about how uber is creating a semi-centrally planned, non-market driven ride economy: https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2019/12/18/can-...)
One thing that I hope will come out of this coronavirus event, even if just for a short while, is that people no longer at large accept that this anti-social behavior is just "doing business".

And I realize the article was updated to give a "royalty free license", which is complete and total bullshit because BioFire shouldn't need a license for Theranos' bullshit patents that never worked anyway.

We need to start naming and shaming for this kind of trolling, anti-social behavior. And not just the company name, I'm talking about the principals and lawyers who filed this, who are nothing but a net-negative to society.
> "Opt-in" systems have disappointing levels of people who need the benefit but are too proud or scared to claim.

Is there any source to this claim when it specifically comes to giving people money for opting in for something?

Using some nordic countries as example, many of them help people by giving them money each month in order to survive. These people are not too proud or scared to claim free money when they need it. My guess is that people from the US will act similarly.
It's safe to say it was. The original usage on The Simpsons was perfectly cromulent word, which jfengel has referenced verbatim.

(I'm disappointed to report that Firefox isn't convinced of the cromulence of cromulent.)
My wife was telling me of a post from her friend in the Philippines. A doctor in the heart center just passed away from the virus. He was treating someone who had the virus.

I really wish there were some clear demographic stats on people. Are they old? young?

IMHO I think better information would help calm the panic.
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So you're saying Amazon has a toxic work culture? What a surprise