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> And regardless of what you think the purpose of a company is, they are places where friends socialize and families look out for each other

You are mistaken about how companies actually work, and how they should work. The only rational way to treat a company is in an amoral, unfriendly (wouldn't go so far as to say adversarial) way. Because when push comes to shove, that's how they are going to treat you.

Your personal relationships with coworkers are completely different thing than your relationship with the company. I may have misspoke when I said "corporations are not places where ...". Of course those things happen at corporations; after all you are spending the majority of your waking hours there. All of my best friends come from previous jobs. But the corporation itself is not there to facilitate that and support that, not even as a "side purpose".

ISTM that you do not understand capitalism.

> The reason this is bad optics is because rational and moral people look at these decisions and see them not as amoral acts like you pretend, but evil ones.

Really? It's evil to cut pay by the exact amount the government is giving out, thereby maintaining worker's salary, at a time when it's clear there's not really work for them to do, rather than cutting by an arbitrarily large amount? Or furloughing workers entirely?
Gitlab CE is just amazing. It's hard to fathom going back to GitHub (and I wrote a book for O'Reilly about the GitHub API). The tight integration with CI rather than using external services is amazing.
Are positive people lucky or something? Because on the opposite side of the fence, i function along the lines of "what can go wrong, whats plan B, whats mitigation, whats actionable?" and i cannot imagine life otherwise.
I can't imagine there was much cheering from those actually at the front. It's just too big. Cheering is for spectators.
Apparently, given the recent education push, most people didn’t know how to wash their hands properly either. The answer isn’t to give up, it’s to educate.
Really cool. Also, the showcase website is made really well, kudos.
One way to address mask hoarding in the Czech Republic has been a ban on selling any masks in the categories needed by medical personnel to anyone else than the state, which then bouth the remaining stocks a redistributed them to hospitals, first responders, etc. Similar thing has later been done also for some medicaments that looked promising for treating those seriusly sick with covid-19.

Doing this really seem like a much better way to handle the situation than giving a really really dangerous false advice like this.
Can you explain more please? I dont understand. If I buy a thing that was once worth 100 million dollars for 10 million dollars, I havent lost anything yet because it would need to go down even further from 10, right?
It's a zero sum situation when there's a finite quantity of masks.
The ship is sinking and there aren’t enough lifeboats.

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I second that. When I did the College Fed Challenge, FRED was my team's go-to source, followed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and National Bureau of Economic Research. We had a little pipeline where we'd take their data and make nicer-looking charts in Excel that we could import into our slide deck. When I'm taking to laymen about economics, I still refer to FRED charts because they're so accessible and the number of series is enormous.
>Investment is typically in already-taxed dollars.

A huge portion of investment in publicly-traded companies comes from funds like pension funds which don't use after-tax dollars.
My wife is just like that. She can't deal with conflict or opposing views. Her mother and father are limited imitations of human personalities.

Somehow we get on together but our families are so different. In her family emotions outside of an accepted range are verboten. Growing up in my family was the exact opposite and emotion ruled everything. Neither are healthy.
https://www.acceleratemed.org/supporting-our-covid-19-respon... for UW medical center (Seattle)
An example in Michigan: https://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/202003/u-m-asks-comm...
Please see my response above. Enterprise Edition(EE) code is open to everyone and wider community members have also been contributing to EE.
Totally agreed. I hate to repeat a phrase that's essentially a right wing / denialist talking point, but, at a certain point, the cure is definitely worse than the disease. You can see this pretty obviously if you imagine shutting down literally everything, so that GDP drops 100%. Clearly, people will die in that scenario.

So, the question really is: at what point is the cure worse than the disease? To answer that, you have to look at the impact of people at the very bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, not professionals who are WFH and largely insulated from it.
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All I remember from that book was that the kids botched seperating their laundry. It was a real snoozer, but it planted a persistent seed of doubt whenever I have to do laundry.
Neither "double-taxed" nor "already-taxed" make sense to me as phrases.

From the "regular person" side of the world - dividends vs capital gains vs estate tax, how I would've loved to have such problems for most of my life - I've always seen it as transactions that are taxed, not dollars. I pay income tax. I pay sales tax. That's about it (property tax would be something entirely different, but requires owning real property), but how is it not "double tax" by the same logic? Why all this consternation about "double taxing" in certain investment circles, but not around sales tax? Just because it matters less to the super-wealthy?
> still no one is wearing a mask (in America at least)

In Seattle, I'd say around half of the people I've seen in public are wearing masks this week.
async/await-based code is deterministic until you deliberately introduce the ability for tasks to race. Look at Noether for a language design that explicitly makes those steps. Whereas if you have channels (and don't have some kind of single ownership) then you have nondeterministic races right from the start. So I rather doubt that any such thin wrapper could be formed.

Certainly as a human reader, Future-based code (which async/await is sugar for) is the easiest form of concurrency/parallelism to reason about: yes you have small tasks that might execute in parallel, but all your functions still return values, function composition still works the way you'd expect, there's no way for parallel tasks to silently interfere with each other in some hidden way. The control flow is still what it looks like (unlike with general coroutines). Of course if you can afford to avoid parallelism entirely you probably should, but async/await is the least intrusive/most understandable way to manage it if you do need it.
My reaction was similar; I kept waiting for some specific example of the problem being complained about, but never found one. Which, if I were in a conversation with the author of the post, would probably lead me to say something along the lines of "let's not be so negative..."
Not if doctors still mostly fail to wear N95 respirators correctly after explicit professional training, no.
> Yeah so you lose me here. I don't see the justification for this. Investment is typically in already-taxed dollars.

You pay taxes on the gains over the initial investment. Why would where the money came from matter?
Anyone got a list of laptops with this in, I'm due an upgrade and would like a 4k ish screen. Don't really care about gaming at all, would just like everything to be very fast.

Battery life on these parts really shocked me. At least as good as Intel for far better performance!
It's OK using same mask every day. It still helps the virus stay local. CDC should tell everyone to wear masks right now.

If we just tell (or force with fine) everyone to wear a mask and have their mouth covered whenever in close proximity with some other person, we can go back to usual life. What's so hard about this?
And to add to that - the other if not the main benefit of masks is it reduces the chance of transmission from infected people, if they do not know they are infected but wear a mask.
Yes, I agree about the health insurance. Government should pay COBRA or figure something out. But why that system needs to involve paying businesses to nominally keep people on payroll (and thus provide health insurance) is what I'm missing. Why is that better than government directly replacing the salary and health insurance? Why should businesses have to deal with the administrative cost of a government decision
Where are you going to find a specialized consultant expert enough to judge if its fake who also doesn't know that the painting he is looking at was recently stolen from a museum?
The current business model in many companies is to run it with the money from the bank and minimal stocks ("just in time"), so there is no buffer and the impact is going through the entire chain until either kills everyone or hits someone with some buffers. If that's the banks and the government is trying to put some buffers there, it's a good enough plan, if not then it looks like doom for many companies.
Yeah, it'll take time to ramp up, but it'll ramp up.
I'd could argue that the "excess" cash might be better used to raise employee wages, reduce work hours, etc. etc. All those things that make human workers a bit happier but c'est la vie
The number of people with net worth in the hundreds of billion right now is... 1. The second-richest person is Bill Gates, at only $96.5 billion. By #10, we're at $50 billion. Fewer than 200 people are worth $10 billion. Granted, this only includes people with known net worths, but by the time you're hitting tens of billions, it's hard to hide that much wealth.
Yes. I have been promoting this message nonstop for the past few days. I created https://www.maskssavelives.org/ to help promote the benefits of mask-wearing in reducing COVID-19' virality.
Question: is there a recommended way to clean a cotton mask or mask of other material? Does running it through the wash risk contaminating other clothes? Should I instead spray it down with alcohol or wet-and-zap it in the microwave for 30 sec, similar to sponge disinfecting?
It may not be effective. Shelf life is usually rated at something like 5 years.
The POV that there will be some idealistic point in the future where companies call all of their employees back is absurd. There might be some chance of this happening, but it's not large. And the times we're wrong then we're very wrong.

This isn't going to be unpaused. The economy will be spun back up gradually for everyone's safety. People will likely still be getting sick. Some at-risk people may not be able to safely re-enter the workforce for a long time.
Hospitals are only accepting unopened masks. If yours is already opened, then wear it.
Just because the finance team has an eating disorder, doesn't mean I should have to go on a diet. Investing top dollar in a chair, monitor, work machine, light snacks and drinks is plenty. I'm not the one asking for new offices and sponsored ski retreats, give me a break.
Not everyone will afford to do that and you will definitely not make up for weeks of loss of business for that barber shop.
WHO said January 15 that there was no Human-Human spread of SARS-CoV-2. They are a politicized organization and you should not depend on what they have to say for unbiased factual information.

There is ample scientific evidence that masks work both to prevent being infected and to prevent infecting others.

The argument seems to be "there is sufficiently low risk from normal daily activities that it's not worth wearing a mask." If that's the case, why can't I leave my house except for groceries? How did all of those people catch this thing if the risk is so low? The reality is that the risk for everyone, given the severity of COVID is high. The risk for healthcare workers is beyond extreme.
Agreed. But the studies in 2019 would indicate that 10% still go out almost every night to sit down restaurants.
That's it - they don't depend on the BBC. It's more a troubleshooting step. If the light in the kitchen doesn't work, but the one in the living room does, there's something wrong with the kitchen light. If everything's off, there's something wrong with your electricity.

So if Northwood goes silent, but the cricket is uninterupted, there's probably something wrong with Northwood. If everything's gone, there's probably something wrong with your radio. But if Northwood's gone, the BBC's gone, but VOA is still up .. you start wondering if something's wrong with the UK.

(For example. I'm not privy to anything the rest of us aren't. But it's clear that it's an item on a checklist that happens to have some novelty value, rather than being our "systema perimetr".)
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Until healthcare workers aren't complaining about not having enough PPE to do their jobs safely, this is the correct line of thinking, zero sum or not.

Personally, given the vastly greater risk of exposure for them, I don't think it's a zero-sum game at all, which is precisely why all available supplies should go to them first.
I think people want this, and manufacturers can supply it.

But it doesn't conform to regulations and/or everyone that has a veto in the planning and permit process.
tl;dr: This is misinfoformation; Netherlands tests masks against the wrong specification and blamed on China.

KN95 marks that are bought by the Dutch government are not resistant to oily particles (the N stands for Not resistant to oil)[0]; while the European FFP2 standard specifies the mask has to be able to block oil particles [1].

[0]: http://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/433598O/european-standard...

[1] “Last Saturday, the first shipment from a Chinese manufacturer was delivered in part. These are masks with a KN95 quality certificate.”: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3077428/ne...

Disclaimer: I'm a China national.
Everywhere's the same on this, back and forth about this need vs population at large.

Obviously there's a need that's not being met, but it's nearly two months since masks became hard to acquire.[0] Can we not change the official recommendation to "make a cotton mask and wear it if you go out for groceries; here's a template. Don't use N95 masks, instead donate them"? It would be great to have numbers on this.

[0] anecdotal, Bay Area.

Looks like mask production has been ramping up since January, at least. But numbers of the big picture would be neat to see. https://www.wired.com/story/surreal-frenzy-inside-us-biggest...
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I think it's just sticker shock from the chair manufacturer's website. The 30" monitor is the same price everywhere. The chair is $3000 and has a 19 week lead time on the website... or it's $300 from some random eBay seller.
What is their track records for these estimates? Have they accurate in the past? My impression from GDP growth estimates is that everyone stays close to the average growth, but actual growth is apparently much more volatile in a random way. Similar with EPS estimates from stock analysts.
Seems like you took my statement "the modern global economy allows it," and inferred that I meant every system other than the modern one does not allow it. Of course not. Of course there are many systems that existed in the past that also allowed for gross levels of wealth disparity, but did I ever claim otherwise?

> massive leveling up of standards of living

For who? Impoverished workers in China and India? How have American labourers benefitted from globalism and Keynesian economics? They haven't, at least not in the last 50 years.

> That aside, how should something like your subjective notion of "disgusting" levels of wealth guide how much of what they earned people should be able to keep?

I think you're just pretending you're naive, but you can feel free to look up many of the proposed solutions. UBI, wealth tax, limits on how much money can be passed through inheritance, etc. There are many solutions that have been _proposed_, but the problem is that with massive wealth comes massive power, and the individuals who possess disgusting levels of wealth will never let these solutions come to be.

> what they earned

Jeff Bezos has not earned 100 billion dollars. You could probably convince me that he's earned at least 1 billion dollars, but there is absolutely no way one man can generate that much wealth in one lifetime. He has stolen his wealth through asymmetrical agreements with powerless individuals, who chose to work for him rather than starve due to a lack of accessible jobs.

We've created a system that makes individuals dependent on large corporations for healthcare and rent, and then we wonder why poor individuals can't start businesses or change jobs freely (hint hint, it's due to food security and access to healthcare). If I point a gun at you and take your money, I haven't earned anything, have I? But if I starve you out, and tell you you can't see a doctor, then I can rob you of the value of your ideas and labor. For some reason our system allows that.

Bezos got a $300k interest-free loan from his mother to start his business. Are you telling me he earned that? No, it was given to him by birthright, and it's a luxury the vast majority of people don't have.

Bezos did not earn 100 billion dollars, he stole it.
After skipping a few paychecks they will eat at home almost every day until they recover; that may take many months.
This isn't stimulus. It's temporary economic relief that doesn't continue for as long as needed. A bandaid at best.

You also can't stimulate an economy that's paused.

This bill was stripped down compared to what European countries are providing because of a lot of vocal politicians worrying about creating disincentives to work which is such an unfathomably stupid thing to worry about during a pandemic.
> I pirate stuff too (although I try to limit my piracy)...

I’m not sure what you mean here; how do you try? Pirating content instead of paying for it is rather binary: you either paid the requested charge for it and obtained it in line with the mechanism the author or creator used to sell it...or you didn’t. If you have no option to pay because the creator didn’t make one available to you, that’s still piracy, isn’t it? If you respect copyright, and presumably a creator’s ability to make money off of their creations (within time limits, which I firmly believe are way too long in most of the world), I think there’s not much grey in this area.

As a wise philosopher once said, there isn’t really a “try” here, in my view. You either paid or you didn’t. So, why not not pirating? Am I off-base?
I'm wondering the same thing:

I bought in 2014 100 chirurgical masks => they're now expired (and I have ~15 left after giving all others to friends and colleagues after warning them about this) but from what I read the statements were that they can still be effective (not anymore 100% but at least more than 0%, which is more than not wearing anything).
One option could be to restrict repurchases (and dividends) that would take the company below some threshold of savings, based on expenses. For example: any company worth over $X needs to hold a years worth of expenses in hand at all times - if they go below, they cannot issue a dividend or buy back any stock.

Of course, the details matter enormously here, including how things like debt factor into the equation.
> From what I gathered from their guidance the basically say masks are not effective enough to protect you & people do not know how to use them.

Why give them to nurses and doctors then? It would suffice for the patients to wear them. If they do work at protecting you, then let's say a patient can't wear one, should you wear one? The answer is yes. Therefore the only logical conclusion is that an N95 mask protects you.
I also prefer checkboxes to switches – at least on desktop.

Although anecdotally, I've helped a few older, technophobic people learn how to use websites/phones, and the majority of them know exactly what to do when presented with a switch, but they don't realize that they can click a checkbox. To them, it just looks like a square and they ignore it. (Take this with a grain of salt, my sample size is <10.)
partly because oligopolies dont need to provide as good support
A better time to establish a mask wearing trend would be a time where masks were readily available, and stores were easily accessed. Let's plan to stock up for this fall.
I wrote a paper for an ACM conference back in the early 80's. It has existed behind a paywall ever since. I fail to see how this is aligned with the concept of sharing science...when an organization takes ownership of papers just because they happen to put on a conference. In my opinion, the same applies to IEEE and other organizations. And this, again, my opinion, is particularly true of taxpayer-funded university research that ends-up behind paywalls.
I have a friend (let’s say Peter) who is pretty bad about this and I’ve long found it to be pretty damn annoying. Watched recently as they started doing exactly what you described to a mutual friend (let’s say Paul) who was just wanting to vent about work over some beers and food while we played Uno.

Peter and Paul work together but in quite different roles. Additionally Paul has a considerable amount more experience both at their company and in their industry, Peter got his job from a bit of good old fashioned nepotism and never before this one had ever held a corporate job.

Well one day Peter tries shutting down Paul venting one day with the types of refrains you mentioned “It’s not that bad I haven’t had to deal with that my manager does it differently why don’t you just move teams” and Paul I guess had enough of it too and goes “never mind I don’t want to talk about this with you right now” in a friendly bit very noticeably annoyed tone.

I enjoyed that way too much.
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I personally arranged to donate several thousand gloves per size from just one lab at MIT. Lots of places have safety glasses outside the medical field, any shop might have boxes of spares laying around.
Governments should finance teams of thieves to steal those back from private collections and place them back to public museums.
As for me personally, since a few releases I've taken the vice of waiting on Sunday midnight for building the new kernel release and seeing what's new and what's broken :)

Judging from the bug reports, there's still quite a few people building the latest kernels - mostly from poweruser distros like Arch and Gentoo.

If you use Ubuntu, Debian or CentOS, then yes, you're going to get an old and boring^W^W^W^W^W^Wstable kernel. But there's still enough of us around on cutting edge, I guess.
Is ACM membership useful for just typical developers not in research or grad school?
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Ah it’s about licence not code availability.
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