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A Generational War Is Brewing over Coronavirus
> nobody expects a 100 year event

It's not. SARS was only 18 years ago. Now we have SARS-CoV in 2020.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syndr...

We, as a society, need to stop accepting dumb excuses.
The essential jobs are those without which society would collapse and lives be in actual danger, as well as the dependencies of these jobs.
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https://archive.is/oHewA
> What do people expect them to do with free cash flow?

Pay down debt and keep enough money in the bank to weather turbulence ahead.
Do nothing to everyone. The virus doesn't benefit from killing its host. Quite the opposite, in fact. Successful viruses keep their hosts alive. Think influenza, rhinovirus, herpes etc. Viruses that kill tend to be ones that crossed the species barrier (ie. we're not the original hosts).
The argument here is that they actually did need it to sustain operations since there's a significant chance they'll now receive a bailout. The whole point is they took cash they should have kept as a backup and then used it to boost share price instead.
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It’s 0.25 cent per month to use the Secrets Manager and you can store multiple key/value pairs per secret. If you’re not using the automatic key rotation, you can store a “SecretString” in parameter store for free for low volume usage or for higher volume It’s close to free.

Besides with vault you now need to set up a cluster for HA. But is your time worth nothing?

As far as users and tokens. That’s what Cognito is for for external users or associating your AD with IAM roles for internal users.
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If the parent node shows the SUM of all its child's cost, you can better visualize the cost.

And for the edge nodes, let's say I use the "cost" field to determine the cognitive cost for any given task, I can more easily see which sub-task (edge) to prioritize if I want to get into "the zone" more quickly in an "intention"/project (parent node).
Chrome is the one blessed browser for all webshit. Do you seriously expect any webshit to work with anything else than Chrome? That would be seriously overtaxing the hip javascript kiddies.
FCF is supposed to go to shareholders: it's what's left over after spending money running and growing the business. And this problem (and related solutions) will probably apply not just to airlines but also restaurants, retailers, etc.

In normal circumstances, chewz is right and they should either call up more capital from existing shareholders or go under. But these are not normal circumstances. 1) Everyone is capital constrained, and 2) airlines collectively are extremely important to the economy. This isn't a handful of one-off bankruptcies of a few laggards.

Investors are capital constrained and would need to sell off their other holdings at the very moment everybody else is trying to unload those same assets at depressed prices, risking a broader liquidity crunch that goes well beyond airlines, as other sectors are also in trouble.

So the next best solution is for governments to lend them cheap money to hold them over, or to recap with equity (diluting current shareholders, possibly by a lot) and gradually sell off that equity after conditions return to normal. That's what happened to the banks: in a sense, they went 90% bankrupt with existing shareholders getting massively diluted, but the companies were able to continue without the massive disruptions caused by them all going belly-up.

When it's a normal economic cycle, even most recessions, the right approach is to let the laggards die and let the shareholders get wiped out. When there's lots of volatility, it's better to let the shareholders get 60%, 80%, 90% wiped out but keep the companies alive.
For me, maybe a bit paradoxically, recognizing the seriousness of the situation helps. This is a big event that has already forced change in my life.

We had to cancel a vacation, could not see our families, cannot go home, took a big financial hit, had to cut many of our hobbies and will not get to see a good friend get married. It's ok if I feel worried, stressed, angry or sad about it. But hope springs eternal and this too shall pass.
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> That would involve selling shares at a low price after buying them at a high price. This would make management look stupid.

It is difficult for management not to look stupid if it is stupid. Airlines were doing well because everything was doing well, not because airlines management was non-stupid.

Not having a car accident on an open road with no other cars in a perfect weather does not make one a good driver. It just makes one not a bad driver.
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I read it that airlines could have simply put the cash in a bank account. Pretty mch what Apple does. becasue that amount of free cash would sure be handy right now.
https://archive.is/EG39G
Nah, Github Actions is actually amazing, and has been rock solid for me.

For someone who's not a pro in using CIs, it's been much easier to use than CircleCI. I never have to spend more than 20 or 30 minutes fiddling with Actions to make it actually work.

This for me is the biggest contribution to open source: normal people like me (who don't want to get too familiar with proprietary or overengineered CI tech) will be able to have CIs for pretty much ALL their projects.
Why is Framer X not on this list?
It often couldn't figure out how to produce enough of the right things -- pricing signals were better across a wide variety of consumer goods. It did pretty well at some things.

Pricing signals are also bad at some things.

Saying "the government is bad at producing things" is an overgeneralization. It'd be bad to put it in charge of producing everything. But putting markets in charge of producing everything has points of failure too, which is why we're having this conversation.
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There is nothing more important than human life.
FOIA release on DOJ records of Tesla's documents at his death [pdf]
The Dutch government isn't in denial though. Cafes, restaurants, schools universities and day cares are closed. Large gatherings are forbidden and people are encouraged to work from home and be sensible about having contact with other people.

According to the PM, the chosen strategy should prevent both a super high hospitalization rate and a lengthy lock-down of the entire country.
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Ohio’s Governor Postpones Primary as Health Emergency Is Declared over Virus
Man, my heart breaks for Italy. (And the entire world.)

This is an unprecedented time, one we will all remember later. Hopefully, it's bringing the world closer together.
I have Addictive Drums 2 and used it even live on my e-drums. It just sounds amazing.
Sorry, I'm now picturing email offers from Nigerians that I would openly welcome.
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China has shown that it's possible to contain the virus even though they were initially criticized for it being "draconian".

They've capped out at under 100k cases (at least for the first wave) with 3k deaths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2020_coronavirus_patients...

Imagine if china had gone for the herd immunity strategy instead. With a population of 1.4billion and letting everyone get infected you are
looking at 42 million deaths.

If draconian measures is what it takes, that is what the world should do.
Capitalize profits socialize losses that is American corporate way. Executives keep the profit and expect taxpayers to bailout losses.
I thought this was relevant for discussion as a way to skip-aside corporate greed and help those directly affected. The union told Congress the same. Has this been tried before?

"We have told Congress that any stimulus funds for the aviation industry must come with strict rules: continued paychecks for every worker and NO stock buy backs, dividends, executive bonuses, broken contracts, or interference with organizing."
The therapeutic window for chloroquine is small, and there are very adverse side-effects if overdosed (heart arrythmias being the most dramatic I guess but macular toxicity is not something you'd want to risk either). I actually heard a story on that's how they dosed it "back in the days" - the sailors took it until they fainted our of various heart arrythmias and then they knew they had to back down a bit next time..
"<thing> is a human right" == "please spend time, money, and effort so as I can have it without paying, sucker"

Now replace it with housing, healthcare, and any other thing du jour.
Removing safeguards and oversight, cabinet okays mass surveillance to halt virus
1. Everyone already has voting rights though, and those in poverty are already incentivized to seek welfare, so how would UBI "create" that?

2. How does your suggestion prevent that?
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This theory speaks more to me of “because our effect on the environment is so excessive and unknown, we have no idea how the environment actually is naturally (in 2020)”
This is not new information, but some newly released documents about an already known story: what happened to Tesla's materials after his death.
Which is a fair point but ... and I'm going to stop after this because I've made my point to the best of my ability ... but if they did that then the money wouldn't be called free cash flow because they've decided they need it for emergencies. They could be extremely risk tolerant and they'd still be sending all their FCF to shareholders. The amount would simply be smaller.

I'm totally on board that bailouts are the worst and are inappropriate; but the statistic in the article is an accounting identity. They call the money they send to shareholders FCF, so obviously around 100% of FCF is going to be going to shareholders. If they think there is a potentially better use for the money than going to shareholders it isn't classed as FCF.
Where did you get the information that they've blocked people traveling from anywhere with Covid. You can still turn up now from Europe and be let in, they just ask you to install an app and report your health status daily.
It'd just be nice if integrators like lenovo wouldn't nerf things like displays. It looks like their lineup for AMD mobile graphics is going to be significantly different than the Intel counterparts.
Billionaires donate in a crisis, but don't forget they also help cause them
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> The whole point of the discussion around computer and computer languages/systems as tool for thought, is presuming that computing can be another form of mass literacy. Let's also not get into whether this should be the case (and my opinion here is less naive that one might think); I'm just saying that this is the debate.

Exactly right. The Jobs line is a half-baked and perhaps half-understood take on the thinking of people like Kay, Papert, et al. Anyone curious about this line of thinking -- which has fallen way, way out of the popular computing discourse -- might want to check out Andrea diSessa's "Changing Minds" for a decent summary.
The planes, airports, pilots and ground vrews are still there. Maybe unemployed, but the infrastructure doesn't simply disapear. So any government could always just step in and requirate them. If airlines would operate as effeciently is a different story. But that is basically what the German government has in the books for all civilian trucks if, you know, the Russiians would have attacked.

But I gree it would be best to keep these operations in civilian hands, all processes and tools are already there to move people and goods around.
In my head I had the right spelling! Somehow it didn't make it out.
Suppose you could implement 100% lockdown of a country (which is impossible). Yes you would contain the disease, but you would only delay an outbreak. Therefore flattening the curve enough so the health-care system can help the ill is the beat strategy.

The question is: is the curve going to be flattened enough, or do we need more extreme measures like china.

In countries where the health care system is poor extreme measures are indeed needed because they really need to flatten the curve a lot.
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The UK government says worst case 80% of people are infected. That is absolute worst case, based on their modelling, so highly unlikely, but it is coming from the Chief Medical Officer himself. It is not panic.
>As soon as it's safe, people will very quickly start working and consuming again.

Your premise is at fault ("this is about buying goods"). The virus is a catalyst, not a cause.

Do you know if the Chinese economy will ever recover in the way you claim? Are you even considering the world outside your country? This is bigger than a few people not going out to bars and restaurants. Industrial production has been slowing for months, global debt was increasing exponentially for a decade, political tensions are rising globally, people are dying around the world because of government mismanagement of a pandemic.

You can keep repeating that things will go back to normal when people start shopping again, but if that's the extent of how you view what's happening now, you're likely wrong.
China relies on rail, and a lot of high speed rail, to move their massive and increasingly mobile population. We no longer need to speculate on whether high speed passenger rail can substitute for a lot of air travel.

"...let the market figure it out" would work in a market that isn't already so strongly shaped by subsidies, regulations, and nationalist protectionism.

Autonomous vehicles will have a very large and currently underestimated impact on all kinds of other modes of transportation, but there is a wide range of expert views on when that will happen.
But some of these airlines have a dividend already. American Airlines has a 2.5% dividend. That is returning cash to investors. Why buy back shares then?

If they only paid a 2.5% dividend in 2015, they would have returned some cash to investors. But instead, they also spent $3.5 billion (!) on buybacks in 2015, almost half their market cap at the time. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2016/01/15/expect-mor...
All the current articles are terrible, because none of them have independent benchmarks. Apparently, no-one got review units in time because of all the disruption, but AMD went ahead with dropping the embargo anyway.
> Also, you should definitely be wearing protective equipment when outside the home.

Here in Austria, you can't even get masks or single-use hand gloves anymore. And I hear the same is happening in Germany. Moreover, we are advised _not_ to buy protective gear for individual use because that is needed for workers with much exposition to other people (like cashiers in supermarkets, helpers and medial staff). We have a lockdown, so everyone should stay at home and only go outside if necessary.
If they're bailed out the government should take over the stock and if they survive the government can recoup the money it cost to bail them out by selling stock again.

It's how it works in most countries at least.
I guess it depends. At least in my contract for connectivity is a clause then I cannot share the connection with people not living in the same household. I would imagine it is fairly common.
It’s the “native” solution. All of AWS’s examples and getting started guides use CF. Also you can find examples for anything for CF on places like
Github.

You have access to the “easy button”. AWS business support if there is something you just don’t get.

SAM, CodeStar,Elastic Beanstalk, etc all use CF and you can modify the templates.
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>Anyways I want to emphasize that your sobriety is really amazing and I genuinely look up to people such as yourself who can make it happen.

To get to this length I had lots of shorter ones building up to it. The previous 5 being 69 days, 27 days, 38 days, 127 days, 33 days, now into this stretch.

I've actually found this most recent stretch fairly easy, I avoid the liquor aisle like the plague at the grocery, I stopped using one drugstore because the liquor is kept at the counter and I stopped eating out (although that was rare anyway).

It's definitely a struggle most days still, sometimes even catching a whiff of hand sanitizer will put me in that mental space but since I've been basically bathing in hand sanitizer as we hot bunk desks at work with another shift, I've not had it trigger me since COVID-19 started popping up in the United States.

I think most of my success is just pure laziness. If I'm at home and get the urge for a drink, I'd have to get dressed and go out and then it becomes a 30 minute chore and I find I can talk myself out of going.

Using an app has helped a lot too, it gives me notification every morning and I can open it when I want a drink and watch the seconds tick by.
Oh yeah? Have you been watching any news in the last two weeks?
Well, they returned cash to shareholders in good times. Guess it's time for them to sell new shares to get the cash to tide them over bad times. Buy high, sell low? Oops. Stuff happens.

But the current capital markets will impose no such discipline, sad to say.
I am inclined to believe I am in the same boat. I have had a somewhat sore throat in the morning. I am producing a slight amount of phlegm with a light cough. I don't have a thermometer and they're unreasonably expensive locally/amazon. My chest feels fairly tight.

I don't know if it's allergies or what, but every one on my office floor is coughing. We're all fairly young so I can't help but believe they're all also infected and just rolling along.
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Me either, they're vile things.
that's why the government should never bail out shareholders. Bail out the company, sure - if the company is vital for "the system" (which airlines are, long-term) - but only after bankruptcy, i.e. wiping out the shareholders.
That is true, but web-design and web-development are pretty close to each other and I'm pretty sure there is a lot of people out there doing both.

There is also counter-examples: KiCad is an EDA tool which is very, very close to the commercial ones.

But it's a great point, we could look at the counter-examples - good Open Source tools not aimed at developers - to maybe find out why they exist and how to do it.

Browsers come to mind, Android in some regards. But hopefully we can find something else than ad-delivery infrastructure.
If they go under the aircraft will still be there. Just new owners. Ban foreign buyouts then let them go bankrupt and be sold to the highest bidders.

We're about due for different owners of capital; the situation has been far too static. The bailouts in '08 kept a bunch of very poor managers in charge. 100% wipe-outs were appropriate in '08, and they will be appropriate again this time. Of all the people we need to feel sorry for, capitalists are the last. And I say that as an ardent capitalist. The social contract there is very clear and literally written down in many cases.
I'm guessing the vast majority of "wealth" is in assets/stocks. That isn't money just sitting around. The value is only realized when those are selled off. They also would owe capital gains tax. So now they gets taxed twice?

> The current system is also a redistribution of wealth, just from the bottom to the top.

I think that capitalism/free markets has been the biggest driver in bringing people out of poverty.

> That's what a wealth tax is supposed to change.

This is also hugely immoral. Property is a fundamental human right. There is no "right" in having as much money as someone else. In the US at least, there is supposed to be equal protection of your rights. Taking money from one person and giving to another is immoral. Besides, wealthy people are also people that donate enormous amounts of money. Let them figure out how they want to give it away.

> Regarding the argument about companies, I'm sure the French king also employed a lot of people, we still got right of the system of absolutism.

You will have to provide me some more evidence on how these are connected.
Airlines failure does not destroy the physical aircraft, or the skilled workforce. So, economically they can be restarted with minimal issues. Longer term the US so far from capital constrained and letting less efficient airlines fail is likely the best policy.
https://github.com/jcl5m1/ventilator
That’s how they transfer value to their investors. It costs money, but so do dividends.
Dividends and share buybacks are economically equivalent, the only difference is tax efficiency.
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Humour. We Brits have a fairly dark gallows humour anyway and we also genuinely have a cultural sense of 'grin and bear it', 'stiff upper lip', 'keep calm and carry on' also called 'blitz spirit'.

Today, after the UK generally and my office specifically required working from home, I made subtle references to this sketch [1] from TV show 'That Mitchell and Webb Look'. I make standups light and breezy; I add a lighter tone to emails.

The important thing for me is not to undermine the seriousness of the situation that we're in - in many ways I'd like to emphasise it and embolden it. On the other hand, I want to reduce the mental strain on people and to keep spirits high. High spirits, high productivity and everyone feels like they're being included and that everything is being taken care of.

Now is the time for managers to shine. We have the responsibilities of looking after our people, especially in a profession such as software engineering which could potentially be isolating and intimidating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
> What's a DAG?

Directed acyclic graph - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
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Just don't forget that a lot of "capitalists" are pensioners, college endowments, etc.
My wife is a managing editor (and used to be a hands-on-board) editor.

Books are edited.

There's a great book in the archives of Joel on Software (maybe he's even had it done); possibly two or N -- but that requires filtering. And then combing and rewriting/patching not to depend on links anymore (so it makes sense like five years from now, dig?), nor on an ongoing blog narrative. Then understanding the major themes to consolidate multiple blog posts in chapters.

I don't know that this has been done with a blog, but yes from lecture notes and slides, etc. Usually the writer has to come up with text (or hire a ghost writer); most of the time, he edits his work to some extent. But manuscripts never arrive ready for print.

You can see this in Lulu "books". I own Nobel Prize-winner Vernon Smith's autobiography published by a vanity press and holy hell what a mess.
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These are some very good points. Thanks for putting them together.
> Yes, especially if those persons were walking freely and minding about their own lives just a week or two before,

Then as I said, we're not talking about the same people. I'm strictly wondering how do the patients already on the death bed count. Not about more or less healthy people who are struck down by Covid-19. There are plenty of terminally ill patients in hospitals and they have a good chance of being exposed to this (there are hospitals in Italy where 70% of the personnel tested came out positive).
I believe educating people how to validate information and use the Internet would have much better results than censorship.

I will say though there is a certain decline in older people where they become highly gullible and susceptible to fake news, robocalls, scams, etc.