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It's not a very good counterpoint is it? Insulting, patronising, talking down, squashing dreams and ideology and recommending a "give up and lose" course of action.

> There are more important things in life that tabs or spaces, or carriage returns and line feeds.

Things like rights to control the things you own, to know what they are doing, and to understand and repair them. Things like being able to use a device for as long as you choose without it relying on a third-party service which could be shut down any time it becomes unprofitable. Being able to control where your personal information is, and more widely, a population being able to control such; not being a source of information for surveillance capitalism - or having some chance of opting out without using a closed black box system.

> People pay for things that will work together seamlessly, that takes the least effort to work with.

Seems like a good reason to push for open standards instead of proprietary protocols, proprietary encryption and authentication schemes, proprietary connectors, and warranties that void if you look at them wrongly. As the "internet of things" grows, do we want to be building a population which picks which nanny-corp handles their doorbell, smoke alarm, intruder alarm, CO2 detector, and lighting system - you get Apple, Nest, Google, Philips, Amazon, Logitech, Sony .. but whichever you choose they will all send your life to an unsecured MongoDB in the cloud, and won't interoperate with each other to lock you in to a platform.

A decade (or two?) ago there was a guy who put sensors all over his neighbour's house and wrote software to stalk them, predicting when they were in or out, who was home, and watching them. He was arrested. Now that's de rigueur and you don't know who is, or can, access your data.

> I think it's time we admitted to ourselves, that we can't decide on anything collectively

But we are better off disagreeing about JSON and TOML and YAML instead of being unaware and unable to disagree about Google encrypted binary config blob, Microsoft encrypted binary config blob, Amazon encrypted binary config blob, Apple encrypted ... etc.

> We'll all die soon and everyone will be paying for software as a service

This is what capitalism wants. That doesn't mean it's what we should accept.

> Stop being so self-centered and churlish.

Who is it here advocating "as long as it works for me and I get paid, that's the most important thing"? How self-centered is that as an attitude?

> Get a good night's sleep.

Track your good night's sleep on a FitBit, upload it to Amazon, have it tied to your speculative future purchases predictions, maybe have it resold to your health insurance provider why not. What could go wrong.
I don't know. I don't think I started that way. I think I started out normal like?

But when your mother awakened certain hidden feelings in me with her sex toys when I was 9, I did feel feelings against her other object of sexual obsession, you; I developed an urge to put my hands around your neck.

It's been years, but I carry it to this day.

I miss her.
Not comparable, at the time the USSR had an unsustainable economic policy of price control and other socialist goodies. Today's Russia has a market economy similar to the rest of the Western world and these economies are way more resilient to crisis like this.
I see WireGuard as a very promising VPN protocol. It should be easy to build e.g. higher level configuration protocols for DNS and such on top of it. WireGuard itself seems to adhere well to the Unix philosophy of doing just one thing and doing it really well.

With OpenVPN you have all the bells and whistles, and it's easy to get tripped up in the myriad of configuration options. With WireGuard you start with the fundamentals: establishing the tunnel interface. Then you start adding routing, DNS etc. to suite your specific scenario.
That really is just the country to watch for bad baseline health country getting it.

My hypothesis is a higher baseline lung health will result in a milder wave of infections. Essentially, it is not young that are getting milder cases, it is people with less damaged lungs.

And no matter how you slice it, the places that have had the most deaths, have by far the worst air quality.
On the internet this sentiment is called virtue signalling: it costs you nothing, but people around you think you are a good guy.
There are two commas you can remove and one you can add (after "unfortunately"). Overall great edit.
Don't you first of all have to offset the infection rate by the time-to-death? I've been puzzling over all these extremely bad estimates we hear, and the only reason for it that I can come up with is that nobody wants to point at the much darker truth.

One study I've seen pinned the median time-to-death after symptom onset at 18 days. Even in Korea you won't get less than a 2-3% CFR with that estimation.

edit: I don't know anything about statistics by the way, please tell me that I'm wrong.
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I'm kinda spitballing here too.

> You seem to be implying that maybe there are a load of us that had it already (and maybe, hopefully, that’s the case).

Yep, and that as a result our mortality projections from CFR are quite overstated.

> But if so, doesn’t it seem weird that we’ve basically watched its progress as it’s spread around the world?

I wouldn't be shocked to see a retrospective on this in the future tell us that we've been seeing the spread of availability of the test rather than the disease.

> Why would most people get it and be asymptotic followed by a series of unlucky people that are getting it now and falling ill?

Symptoms are basically the same as the flu for most people (Korea has a 0% CFR under 29, and 0.1% under 49), and for older folks, well, they're older, and basically anything can kill them. Some studies showed a fatality rate of 10% for the H1N1 flu -- and so far we're seeing a CFR of 15% for old folks in Korea. It's possible the fatalities we'd been seeing were written off as just that.
It’s a commentary about available options meaning that beverage makers can not exploit a market without shrinking their own market. If they want to maintain revenue the suppliers will need to ensure they retain their market.

In addition if it got to the point where someone priced milk so high that customers were abandoning that segment of the beverage market, an aspiring milk empire builder could enter the market with lower prices.

The assumption being made in the allegory is that water and milk fill the same role as “something to drink,” with no qualitative difference in consideration.
Everyone is trying to make phone networks the liable party because it’s cheap for them, and the phone networks don’t want to be the liable party. Even the federal government (SSA) uses SMS as 2FA for proof of identity.

And unlucky people are caught in the middle.
lol nope. if anything, america is under-reacting.

if that thing spreads as fast as it spread here in .it, the usa are in big troubles.

stay safe, get non-perishable food (dry food, canned food) and stay at home. and was your hands, a lot.
Doesn’t that still fail if you don’t also have the corresponding decrypt KMS permission?
Self driving trucks probably are going to be considered a national security issue going forward. We can't have cargo sitting around waiting for humans in a health crisis. That will indeed be a huge gut punch to that segment of the labor market. The only slightly silver lining is that trucking has very high turnover so the number put out of their jobs will be less than you might think. What will hurt though will be the loss of opportunity to be a truck driver, even if only for a few years.
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The only problem is that things get a bit dicey if you don't actually have a rear view mirror (e.g. it's obstructed, or you're driving a vehicle that lacks one entirely, like a cargo van or box truck). This is a pretty rare case, though, and in those cases such vehicles typically have wide-angle mirrors that make it much easier to see both directly behind and to the side.
Except this "sentiment" will genuinely help people who lose their jobs due to corona and won't be able to pay bills. That extra money from not paying a bill can really help out.
Seems I recall something like that happened with Resolution Trust Corporation . . .
What I'd hope : Somehow make packages more secure than hoping that nothing is tainted in the dependency. I think this is the biggest issue of volunteer package repo.

What I'd not hope : MS changes strategy with change of people etc and npm and GitHub rot.
Rich people aren't spending all their money on stuff, they're investing it. If wealthy people were to take all that wealth and start buying stuff (themselves or via redistribution through taxes to UBI), there isn't magically more stuff, so the price of stuff goes way up => inflation.
How does that work? Killing the elderly reduces the support network available to rear your children, and so reduces your ability to sustain your genes?
Who gives a duck? If people are well taken care of, I'm take less innovation, since usually it's useless customer goods innovation these days.
How many checks does it take to payback $175M? The VC treadmill is concerning for many tech companies.
No, this is just something. This something is not necessarily better than nothing.

It could be an awful lot worse than nothing, especially since it's coming from GitHub and not somewhere like the Red Cross or MSF, with experience of medical care in tough environments , that knows the difference between "actually better than nothing" and "just something".
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>It's really about adopting a less formal register, which is fine, but words like "additional" and "purchase" aren't really obscure.

They're not obscure, but they are formal. "More" and "buy" are informal.
There was a presentation that was posted here today which explains this nicely.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DqfSnlaW6N3GBc5YKyBOCGPfdqO...
Fiscal conservatives think austerity is a good idea.

How do you explain common sense to someone ideologically married to kicking poor people when they are down?
Uh, the housing market is more complex than you think. If the bottom of the market gets bid up because of an increase in purchasing power that will affect higher priced units too - if previously I was considering a shitty studio in a bad area for $500/mo vs a 1bed in a good area for $1k/mo, and now the studio is $800/mo, don’t you think the 1bed is going to cost more too?

Also everybody has low interest rates for their houses. It’s not only open to speculators- there are people getting almost 3% interest, which is quite low.
If it’s a large company, wait 5 to 10 years for the IETF to mangle the design and Cisco to add support for the botched protocol.
Yes and most of it was spent on paying off debt rather than buying tvs and iPods to stimulate the economy. I know I put my check into my savings account and didn't think about it again.
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> Net money supply hasn’t changed

But where it lands has. House prices and Ferraris might be cheaper. Milk and rents will be more expensive.
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National Guard? No buying of guns? "Stay in your homes?"

This is it folks -- time to pick a side. History will tell whose side you were on when the nazis started clamping down in the disguise of a "virus".
Stay home. SF is requiring people to stay home except for essential needs.
While you’re right we also know the disease is 30X+ more fatal to the demographic aboard vs the general population (15%+ for old folks vs 0.2% for the young) even with the best medical care money can buy.
Actually, Resmed and Philips can probably reflash firmware on almost all there basic CPAP machines manufactured within past few years, thereby making them into BiPAP type devices. BiPAPs are sort of "in between" a CPAP and a ventilator.

This would actually be a good public service if they would do for free and provide to hospitals, etc. for emergency use.
Mask shortage is a red herring. I can tie a bandana or a scarf around my mouth. If it reduces my chances of breathing in a cough droplet by even 5%, that’s great. Why not?
Small tidbit but the Federal Reserve, which I assume is what you refer to with the statement around $2T, is a private central
Bank. It is not public and it is not affiliated with the US Government or what we would typically consider a “government bailout.”

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EDIT: as expanded on below my main intent behind the Federal Reserve <> Government affiliation remark is that the Feds decisioning and repro market fund pumping is not government affiliated.
That’s if congestion was ever actually a problem to begin with.
Exponential growth is very good at getting lost in the noise for a prolonged time until suddenly it's not. Toy numbers: If you have 20K cases today with a 6 day doubling time, the first case was 84 days ago but 99% of the cases are new this month. (And in some sense this must have happened - everyone agrees there are a significant number of undetected cases, the only question is how many.)
A bit light on details, but it seems more are incoming. Can't wait for those blog posts!
Cite your sources, please?

Otherwise, I'll continue to flag posts like this.
As soon as you're working with more than a few people at a time, or in an environment that has compliance, governance, or auditing requirements, you're moving up to Terraform Enterprise (either SaaS or on-prem). I admit you can get pretty far on their OSS offerings, but most folks who need the enterprise features are going to pay for them (SAML/SSO, audit log emissions, private datacenter/on-prem installs, etc). Small shops, startups, and the like? Probably not, but they don't have that much cash anyway; the benefit of marketing to them is a) if they do get big, you're already in the door to sell to them or b) they don't get big, but they grow the ecosystem with engineers knowing and using the products. Those engineers might either end up working for Hashicorp, or landing a gig at a job where they can evangelize the tools and advocate paying for them. Very similar to GitHub's model, and I'd argue it works for everyone; people who can pay, do, people who can't or won't still get value they otherwise wouldn't.

IMHO, configuration management compliments Packer and Terraform, it doesn't compete against it (based on my experience using Ansible and Packer for VMs of all sorts). Kubernetes is a beast in itself; the firms who implement Nomad are not the same as those who would go all in on k8s. Personally, I think Kubernetes is overly complex and prefer Nomad as a scheduler, YMMV (my jobs are more batch in nature, less services).
Exactly. Starting from the first case is not useful. Starting from a baseline of 100 offers a more consistent comparison. And for that, almost all countries are following the same path.

I think this site may be paywalled unfortunately (but there is just a $1 for the first month charge):

https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06...

The second graph in there shows Canada is tracking exactly the same path as most European countries and the US.
Ah, neat! Works out well for them; I assume it's relatively cheap to just serve an S3 bucket on their CDN (though I guess bandwidth costs may rise rather dramatically if Rust ever reaches Node levels of popularity), while not taking on any other operational expenses of actually running a registry.
> If you are above 70 or have health problems, the mortality rate is extremely bad

According to this article (https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-...) an 80 year old has a 15% chance of dying. Is that actually "extremely bad" though? I think if 80 year old grandma got cancer and the doctors told you there was a 85% chance she'd recover, you might well breath a sigh of relief. For somebody that old, there are much worse mortality rates than that. Breaking your hip is more deadly than getting the coronavirus for people that old[0].

Rather the legitimate concern is due to how rapidly the disease is spreading. 15% is enough to kill TONS of people when you scale it up to the whole population. It's a high mortality rate considering the scope of the pandemic, but a relatively low mortality rate for the individual.

[0] "The risk of death in the year following a fracture is about 20% in older people." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_fracture
Fortune 500 companies represent two-thirds of the U.S. GDP with $13.7 trillion in revenues, $1.1 trillion in profits, $22.6 trillion in market value, so there's money to be had in helping them accommodate cloud agnostic best practices through tooling.

There are lots of companies that aren't tech companies, but who still need tech (insert the caveat "software eating the world", "all companies are tech companies", and so on).
I'm not sure how one would manage to produce $1,000 per month per citizen over 18 without printing money. That's $2,500,000,000,000 per year. You'd have to raise taxes by more than 50% to cover the costs.
Recall that VCs are all about finding the greater fool - actual value may or may not relate. One of my favourite videos on the subject (Chamath Palihapitiya):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vErPgQF3N38

I wonder if cloud-in-the-cloud.com is taken? That's 50% more cloud.
I think one of the points the author is getting at is that there is a lack of (enterprise-level?) tooling around wireguard at the moment. Something that supports 2fa to connect would be nice, etc.
Testing helps. If you do have the virus, it lets you know you do and then you won't leave your home. If there's no testing, you might see that you have no symptoms and mistakenly believe you don't have the virus, go out and infect more people. It's about asymptomatic carriers.

That's why everyone needs to stay home until we have enough testing to accurately determine who can safely go out.
You can do that in the USA on social security. You don't get quite as much but our money goes farther.
The other option is, that as we progress towards a post-scarcity economy (arguably we're almost there in some areas, e.g. food in the West/US), prices will decrease towards 0. Now, if we could only get rid of those pesky rent-seeking real estate landlords...
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a straw would have broken the financial system camels back unfortunately it just got hit in the head by a corona brick
I don’t buy that it’s a necessary consequence.

Even In your example if demand for houses goes down and demand for milk goes up, what prevents more land being used for dairy farming, more builders becoming farmers?
Except oil and gas makes up over 70% of their exports meaning they are highly susceptible to getting their exchange rates (and thus international trade) wiped out by a drop in value of their primary export. They basically suffer Dutch disease like most other oil exporters
Ok, Id buy that hypothesis. $30 persist for many months, over exposed outfits fold, better capitalized outfits (majors & secondary?) acquire assets, price recovers, it takes months to recover instead of weeks due to organizational/legal/logistic lag. The volatility is whats extending the time scale. But on a medium time horizon we still have lots of US production at $60 a barrel.
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It does shift demand though: lots of people staying home means more need at home, and less at work.
If you haven't clicked through, the confluence of huckers in this story is simply unbelievable:

> Honestly, I wasn't sure how to begin this story or how to fit all the insanity into the title. It's a story involving patents, patent trolling, Covid-19, Theranos, and even the company that brought us all WeWork: SoftBank. Oh, and also Irell & Manella, the same law firm that once claimed it could represent a monkey in a copyright infringement dispute. You see, Irell & Manella has now filed one of the most utterly bullshit patent infringement lawsuits you'll ever see. They are representing "Labrador Diagnostics LLC" a patent troll which does not seem to exist other than to file this lawsuit, and which claims to hold the rights to two patents (US Patents 8,283,155 and 10,533,994) which, you'll note, were originally granted to Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos -- the firm that shut down in scandal over medical testing equipment that appears to have been oversold and never actually worked. Holmes is still facing federal charges of wire fraud over the whole Theranos debacle.
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What do you think investment is? That money doesn’t disappear. It still enters the economy.
> VS Code is also spyware

This is such an extreme & pretentious viewpoint. Microsoft knowing that I have VS Code installed & getting a report when it crashes is not in mine, or really any normal developer's threat landscape.
My understanding is that if it's known that every American adult collects $1000 in addition to their regular income, prices will rise in an attempt to capture some of that known financial excess, so that the net result isn't that everyone gets an extra $1000 in discretionary income, but that everyone ends up paying that extra $1000 back in inflated prices.

Similar logic to how raising tariffs doesn't hurt companies as much as they hurt customers because the cost is passed on (speaking from an American perspective, not considering tax systems like VAT).
Low volume servers couldn't handle the traffic high traffic servers could. Got it.

> but users don't really care about that compared to being able to read messages sent when their computer was turned off or getting notifications on their phone, etc.

I bet the also don't care about that compared to being able to actually send messages.

You are apparently arguing something incredibly different than me. You seem to be arguing that bad UX leads to low load, which makes 100% uptime hard. I'm arguing that it's the centralization that makes it hard. You aren't addressing that.

If Discord were decentralized, not all servers would have gone down today. Maybe not any. Maybe.

But also, there are a lot of alternatives that have better UX. Zulip and Matrix come to mind.
We didn’t have trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure and other investments, or our food supply, in low lying areas at that time.
I tried Terraform Cloud and went back to open source. I felt like it was a step backwards from Terragrunt. I'm only using it in the context of AWS though. I might try it again for a future project.
What if there aren't enough jobs and they've automated everything they can? What's your answer when a hundred million jobs are gone to robots?
Common sense says that any kind of barrier between cough or sneeze droplets and my nose or mouth will reduce the probability of me breathing it in. I could tie a scarf around my mouth. It may not be perfect but even if it reduces transmission by 5%, Why not?

https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protec...

Has more info on studies related to this. I believe their claim is that tying a cloth around your nose/mouth is 50% as effective as a proper mask.
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Sir, the person who is fetishizing all these things, and exercising his freedom, is not a part of this conversation, and you offer no meaningful link to this conversation.