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Basic economics. The problem with basic economics is that all models are wrong and there are not in fact infinitely many perfectly fungible producers of identical commodities in perfect competition with eachother, but under perfect competition, nobody makes economic profits.
I thought Google TiSP was funny.
You can solve issue #3 by whitelisting that hostname in the NextDNS dashboard.
Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021
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*laying off our 0 employees
AFAIK every other rich country regulates some or all medical costs per procedure or what have you (that is, they have price controls). Some do it directly and others by establishing a monopsony on buying healthcare, but that and a good fall-back insurance provider (or a system set up such that one isn’t needed as everyone’s basically already on it) seem to be the common necessary ingredients in keeping costs sane and everyone covered, as far as I can tell.
It’s the ideal storm to push the US to universal healthcare. It would’ve happened eventually, COVID simply pushed up the timeline by rapidly overextending an already failing system.
"Quality Federal Health Insurance for all" = yes
"Medicare for all" = Terrible idea

Medicare is insufficient coverage. Almost all folks on Medicare need supplemental insurance, or a state plan to actually get the care they need. Medicare under pays on claims, typically under the costs of providing care. Every industry group, union, medical association, who has looked at all the various plans has said it would lead to more hospital bankruptcies, particularly in rural areas.

Now, if you want to break the current system and force a government take over of the whole system it's not a bad idea, but selling it as something that would give folks the care they need is very disingenuous.
Worldwide Military Equipment Guide from 2001 [pdf]
The German air ambulances flying Covid-19 patients
Same. What tankers do you own? I’m looking at STNG.
Sounds like how it should be. Business owners are taking the risks, but also profit more in good times.
Oil spills melt the superpowers of the double-crested cormorant
I think that the line about the artists granting a non exclusive license to the players was key. Otherwise no tattooed public figure could appear in movies, shows, newscasts, etc without getting a license from the tattoo artist
Might be true with AWS, but I had to go back and forth with GCP for days and threaten them with a blog post proving that their budget alert arrived 6 hours late (with our response in <15 minutes) in order to get refunded. Still pissed.
Sure.

And now it has been better for the last 5 years, and does solve the problems it intended to solve.
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Why can't we use or modify a dialysis machine to filter co2 and add o2 to the blood stream as away to offset the need for a ventilator... the lungs in covid-19 are clearly failing... it seems like a ventilator is only going to helps so much if the lungs are failing already...

Has there been any research into this or anyone thinking this way?
From 2011, but the message is unchanged: the US spends more than 2x per capita, but receives average results: https://thesocietypages.org/graphicsociology/2011/04/26/cost...
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This isn’t my field, but: you might simply see further developments in determining whether users are ‘real’ or not, resulting in even more data collection and tracking. However this is probably only likely if a significant percentage of the data was known to be fake.
So you set a hard limits then suddently storage doesn't work anymore, queries don't get routed etc ... really bad and weird behaviour ensure.
Three Musketeers is my favorite but Monte Cristo is definitely the best one
The best solution to avoid huge accidental AWS bills due to mismanaging AWS services yourself is to manage your own AWS billing alert service?
This assumes that nothing in the medical field will change.

In most professions, an increase in demand would cause wages to increase, which would cause more people to flock to the profession.

Medicine has intentionally put barriers up to prevent more people from entering the field. But then, when the shortages are pointed out, they throw up their hands.

You can't tell me that everyone needs to go $100K's in debt and devote 10 years of medical school/residency to be able to practice family medicine. But the people who are benefitting from this system (the doctors who already went through the training and loans) aren't willing to change it.
Not to be pessimistic but I assume when a CEO cuts their salary there are other forms of compensation like stock. Maybe someone here with more experience can weigh in?

Cutting $70k only helps one person keep their job. How many employees do they have?

Anyways, I still applaud his desire to keep 100% of his employees. It is noble. Board and shareholders might disagree but it is nice to see someone looking out for the people ahead of the business in this time.
I have a 200 amp panel. Today that's fine, but my home is heated by gas, my food is heated by gas, my pool is heated by gas, and my transportation is powered by gasoline.

Let's be naive and say that the panel was properly provisioned for the loads in the house when it was built in 1975. Now let's switch out gas heating for a heat pump, costing us 40 A. Induction cooktop? 50 A. Oven? 50 A. Two EVs? 100 A. Pool heater? 50 A.

Having a 400 amp panel quickly starts to sound pretty good. On the other hand, so does having a huge solar array and a bunch of batteries. But code and permitting and PG&E does not smile on such beefy residential installations.
> Every problem software solves can be solved by a sea of pencil pushers or factory line workers or human calculators or office clerks with filing cabinets or telephone switchboard operators or typists. The world used to run that way.

I know what you mean, but this is the wrongest thing I've seen in quite a while!

Because it ignores performance.

Try implementing a video game with human clerks.
Zero profits in economic models are usually in the context of economic profits, not accounting profits. So yeah, kind of (though there's risk adjustment needed, but when you start bringing in real world stuff like that your econ 101 supply curve/demand curve abstraction really starts breaking down, there are far more sophisticated economic tools for that). Perfect competition doesn't also really exist so we're just being guided by the math.
Very well written article. But i dont agree you should always rely on someone elses solutions. I think we went too far with it. Too many dependencies is as bad as duplicating code. Also i would add that sometimes solving problems with software can create new problems. Problems that can be solved only by more software. And this is also a risk
Friday evening in Europe – February 28 vs. March 27
Thanks for that. Will be much appreciated by the parents of a two-year-old in locked-down UK. :-)
If you have to ask how to do this on HN, you're too late. Pricing has already been set by Black-Scholes, and unless you have a seat on the CBOE you're better off going to Vegas.
I know it depends on the site/app, but for a hobbyist, what is the biggest gotcha in a "got super popular over night" situation? If I look at the quotas and overages for low-end plans from the following providers, e.g., it's not obvious to me where the realistic bottlenecks are:

* Firebase Hosting with Firestore

* Cloudflare Workers Sites (using KV)

* Netlify (possibly w/ FaunaDB)
This article’s credibility is highly suspect. The source of this article appears to be unidentified “media reports”, so where are the media reports?

The names of the alleged “patient zero”, Wei Guixian, is followed by “as identified by The Wall Street Journal”, so I searched for “Wei Guixian site:wsj.com”, and the only result was a March 6 article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-it-all-started-chinas-early... which, not surprisingly, is paywalled. So what has changed since March 6 that warrants this news article? The article doesn’t seem to point to any new research.
I agree, that book can be replaced by reading the classic K&R2 and reading the C standard, you can get your tips/tricks by reading stack overflow posts, and man pages for your API reference.

It's a luxury item. For comparison K&R2 sells for $51.99 new on amazon.

I think a fair price would be $49.99.
Of 4800 flights we're currently tracking worldwide, 2/3 are seen in this image
> Engineering in the traditional sense plays very little role in modern defense systems. The overriding concern is profit: How can we extract the most money from the DoD? Good engineering that avoids recurring costs is discouraged in favor of gee-whiz technology that's easy to sell but expensive to build and maintain. The icing on the cake is that bids no longer matter; the largest contractors always underbid to get the contract then send bills that are 2x, 4x or 10x the bid, knowing they have the DoD over a barrel.

As a government contractor, I agree and fully endorse this.

> The solution for this nonsense is competition. Real, honest, open, transparent competition. Combined with laws that dictate refusal to pay in excess of the bid, instant scrapping of programs that exceed cost estimates, and a 10-year timeout window between when people in DoD leadership can transition out and get jobs with DoD contractors.

...And I disagree with this fully. The solution is for the government to return to in-housing, relax the rules they hold themselves to, and aggressively expand their own capabilities. The things the government makes are far and away superior to anything in the private sector. At its best, the government does it better, cheaper, and longer-lasting than anyone else.

Real competition for the things the government needs done is just not possible. Roughly 50% of contracts are based on just flat-out lies, and it's even worse for shitty contracts like SBIRs. I'll tell you, I have seen some real dumb shit. The BUYER needs technical expertise in order to not get ripped off, and if you already have expertise it makes much more sense to go the extra miles and build it yourself.

The market for government contracts would need to be way more lucrative to allow companies to fail honestly, and even then, why would they when lying is more profitable? Plus, this doesn't even cover the worst part of large contracts, which is that they're effectively negotiated by politics, either congress itself or inter-DoD factionalism. That, more than anything else, creates large-scale rot.
Stewart Butterfield (Slack CEO) was asked if he'd commit to not doing layoffs and I appreciated his response[1]. Effectively pointing out that it's easy to just say yes in their position, and that it's presumptuous of Salesforce to be asking for no-layoff pledges. It's pretty meaningless and comes off as shallow or self-serving PR for types of businesses that are doing better than ever right now or can easily weather the event.

The CEO of Texas Roadhouse, a chain of restaurants, gave up his salary and bonuses to redirect to employees[2]. A particularly noteworthy example, I think.

1. https://youtu.be/3aVh0QYPtVI?t=427

2. https://abc13.com/6052453/
This is amazing! I'm going to have a lot of fun with this. I would love to be able to save these as videos but I guess I could just use my mac's screen record functionality

edit: I'm going down a rabbit hole looking through your site. Digging the twisted early internet aesthetic.
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The Open University is pretty well respected: http://www.open.ac.uk/
Thanks. Fixed it. My mistake.
Does AWS still not have a way to stop accidentally huge bills? How is this not intentionally negligent on Amazon's part at this stage?
Are you saying "fantastical" about a system that every other industrial nation has?
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“The Fed will finance a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for each acronym to conduct these operations. The Treasury, using the Exchange Stabilization Fund, will make an equity investment in each SPV and be in a “first loss” position. What does this mean? In essence, the Treasury, not the Fed, is buying all these securities and backstopping of loans; the Fed is acting as banker and providing financing. The Fed hired BlackRock Inc. to purchase these securities and handle the administration of the SPVs on behalf of the owner, the Treasury.

In other words, the federal government is nationalizing large swaths of the financial markets. The Fed is providing the money to do it. BlackRock will be doing the trades.

This scheme essentially merges the Fed and Treasury into one organization. So, meet your new Fed chairman, Donald J. Trump.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-27/federa...
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That's true in Javascript because its highly dynamic nature isn't amenable to static analysis.

But in general, AoT is usually a win, even though it doesn't have access to runtime data. C and Fortran are still the gold standard for performance, for example. One reason is that JITs are time constrained, even in long-running processes. Another is these languages are designed for AoT compilation.

And there are ways for AoT compilation to have some, albeit limited, access to runtime data. One way is 'profile guided optimisation'. Another is inserting probes for different types of CPU.
Do you consider laptops mobile and not desktop? Laptops with touchscreens are pretty common these days
Can attest, once racked up $10k AWS bill due to a silly mistake, got it nulled. That was a great lesson about how fast things can go wrong with pay-as-you-go pricing if not monitored.
And when the grocery delivery person comes and sees the addresses don't match, your address gets blacklisted.
I was typing the exact same solution when I saw your response. Completely agree that this should exist.
This machine exists. It's known as an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine.

https://www.thoracic.org/patients/patient-resources/resource...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2761778

Some extreme COVID patents have been put on ECMOs to try and save their lives. It's a last resort, however. The machines are intricate and hospitals have very few of them, if at all. There's also concern that ECMOs filter or damage immune system cells, making the recovery even harder.
Also, the environmental impact is largely missing from this thread. In states that have lax environmental laws and oilmen at the helm, towns are being destroyed by extraction side-effects. To the extent that these states are OK being polluted will indicate how far this drilling will proceed.
I’d replace “hospitals” with “care and testing providers generally” but yeah, I reached the same conclusion looking into this on my own. Each is screwing us a ton, which adds up to 3x a ton, but they can always say “don’t look at me, I’m not most of the problem!”
In modern Java I don't see why you would directly use an HttpURLConnection. The stdlib provides an easy to use HttpClient.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.net....
Depends widely on the market. Well-diversified urban markets have been doing much better than rural markets.

Diversity in this case is on healthiness and age axes rather than gender or racial axes.
Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
> It's a shame they also haven't wasted redundancy resources on the electromagnetic catapult system used to launch aircraft, and which as of 2018 had a failure rate consistent with a 70% chance of completing a full day of flight operations without downtime. (1)

Note that this system is a privately-contracted one and was supposed to work as delivered.
I'll grant you that for the sake of discussion (although I don't think it's strictly true), but that acre doesn't have to be all in one place eh? Every bit helps.

My sister's neighbor farmed in his (San Francisco) backyard and got about 3~4 crops a year, all year round. It wasn't enough to feed their whole family but it helped.
Please don’t link directly to sites with unskippable paywalls.

https://archive.is/3TPqE
Actually you're right, it would get rid of the worst of the lemon dropping, which is when they find excuses to dump cancer patients with the least ability to retaliate (least family, least social media, whatever).

The example that was at the top of my mind when I made that claim was the cherry picking, because at this point in my life I'm a cherry, so that's what I have experience with. It's the situation where insurance companies all provide first year discounts, encouraging companies to switch every year, and then make getting set up a hassle so that relatively healthy people forego interaction with the medical system entirely.

Reinsurance wouldn't fix that problem, but that problem is much less pressing than the "dump cancer patients" problem.
If you read the GAO report[1], most of the costs are due to commercial outsourcing- either outright failures on the part of private contractors, like the unreliable automated systems, plane arrestors, and other misc. equipment and services, or on the part of the DOD making assumptions about those equipment and services (like one notable instance in several classes where the navy assumed that commercial equipment would not require service or repair for the life of the ship).

These high costs occur when contractors have the government by the balls, because... that's what markets are for. The gov will pay $10,000 to replace a bulkhead (toilet cover), because well, toilets need to be covered on an airplane. $10,000 is just what it costs for someone to pick up the phone.

1: https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705463.pdf
These days I wold argue that especially in small businesses and startups the first employees are the real risk takers. The owners/founders will usually find a way to get some money when a company is failing while the employees get nothing.
> Before that you are going to need every drop of that oil.

No, you’re not. You want to fundamentally damage oil production economics to make oil as expensive as possible, to speed the uptake of EVs.

Cheap oil slows down the electrification of transportation. We don’t want cheap oil. We want this price war to cause a spike in oil prices causing pain to oil consumers.
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sure, but you'd imagine basic alerting to tell you the circuit breaker in action right now. Depending on your application, bad behavior is better than a dead company.
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There are reasons that Enterprises don’t trust GCP. Google doesn’t exactly have a sterling reputation for customer support. Anyone who stakes their business on any Google service should know what risks their taking.

If their reputation isn’t enough to keep you from depending on GCP, their hiring of a lot of people from Oracle to beef up their sales staff should be a major warning.
Yup. Did that. The service is crazy simple to use and so effective. I wish there was an option to start paying now.
Makes sense, stock buybacks should be illegal for companies that required bailouts. Better yet, they should be made illegal for certain essential industries like healthcare.
The solution is definitely single-payer. Otherwise you can't hope to eliminate the administrative bloat that is a Hallmark of the system and is responsible for so much of the extra cost.
WTF?

I had a new employee dev include AWS creds in his github which was pulled instantly by hacker bots that launched a SHITTON of instances globally and cost $100K in a matter of hours...

It took my team like 6 hours to get it all under control... but AWS dropped all charges and we didnt have to pay any hosting costs for it....

So why didnt you work with AWS to kill such charges?
Sure, I can agree with that. But many countries have hybrid systems that mix public and private insurance (Netherlands?) and then add it in a bunch of regulation and control to keep things sane.

I’m not really sure what health insurer roles are in Switzerland, since the cantons heavily regulate premiums and care. Maybe a Swiss could make light of the situation.
So is the opposite, namely citing the apparent effectiveness of the Chinese response to argue for more authoritarianism broadly and generally.

Emergencies are not normal conditions, and it is both rational and ethical to behave differently and even employ different political and ethical models during them. In an emergency, naked pragmatism rules. Do what works, whatever that is.

Example: its normally very unethical to torture someone. What if a nuke is about to destroy a city and they know the disarm code? Maybe it is under that condition, but if so it does not follow that torture is now broadly legitimate. That was an ethical edge case.
Are you seriously claiming that, say, the sand of the Sahara (or the ice at the south pole) is as rich as, say, the Amazonian rainforest?

Sure I guess technically anything is an ecosystem, but some clearly support far more life (and variety of life, and sometimes exclusive life) than others. They obviously have different ecological "value".

Also pumping oil in the desert doesn't lead to the local residents being able to set their tap water on fire, you know, the way fracking can.
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What I've been hearing on the internet is that companies are racing to lay off as many people as they need to now, before applying for their free bailout money from the government. It also sounds like businesses are trying to lay off more than they actually need to lay off, in order to get the maximum benefit.

The terms of the bailout loans are such that they can lay off people before they apply, get the money, and so long as they don't lay off any additional people after they get the money, the loan converts into a grant (i.e., a free bailout from the Federal government).

My personal opinion is that giving free money to companies is a terrible idea, and they should just give helicopter money to individuals. Companies are going to engineer this to their maximum benefit, and the amount of money going to companies is much much greater than the amount going to individuals.

Interesting times we live in. It's important to ignore what people say, and instead focus on what they actually do.
FYI all limis are maleable - and you CAN request limits increase/decrease as you desire - you just typically cant do it in the console - but you can speak to your rep and have it done
One plot I was hoping for by now is a back-in-time plot. Something that assumes for each case we find positive today, we assume that person has been polluting the world with covid-19 viruses in an effort to track events and spread based on todays data with the notion that they really caught it 2 weeks ago.

The idea is that even if we started social distancing about 7 days ago, we won't see any benefits to that for another 7 days (since the average symptom time is about 2 weeks). And so any spikes you see in these graphs is all of the people that got infected 2 weeks ago, and aren't really sick until right now.
And you can play with the parameters yourself using scipy:
https://scipython.com/book/chapter-8-scipy/additional-exampl...
Medicare for All isn’t an extension of existing Medicare benefits to everyone, it’s an expansion of those benefits,
for everyone, under a single-payer system.

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/10/18304448/bernie-sanders-medica...
It might be hard to sell the idea that you're tracking people in another country for that. The data is on a miniscule number of peope in the US and you're missing a lot of data you'd need for a reasonable analysis.

All of which is to say yeah, they're probably going to.