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It's worth noting that part of the reason that inflation statistics are so "low" is that there's an official adjustment done when things cost more but (supposedly) have increased quality, called a "Hedonic quality adjustment"

This adjustment has been made multiple times in recent decades for housing, which is a large part of any given adult's spending.

So the Fed economists keep saying "wow inflation is so low even after we pump gazillions of dollars in during QE", while ignoring the fact that easy money has lead to massive multinationals consolidating control of real estate and jacking prices up.

So even if it is somehow true that houses have gotten better in some ways (I'm not really convinced), that doesn't matter to people lower on the income scale where the price of housing is the difference between having a roof over their head and not - they can't really afford to care about the latest greatest improvements in housing. They have a different demand curve - be homeless or spend most of their income on rent.

Rent vs income since 1960: https://www.apartmentlist.com/rentonomics/rent-growth-since-...

Skepticism about the application of hedonic adjustments
https://www.sgtreport.com/2019/12/what-worries-me-about-hedo...

"The theory is that the vast majority of that 70% price increase of a Camry since 1990 is due to quality improvements, with buyers today getting a far superior Camry; and that only a smaller part of that 70% price increase is due to monetary inflation, namely the dollar losing its purchasing power"
I miss the BBS days... sometimes.

I used to use JRComm on the Amiga. Before that, it was Apple Access II on an Apple IIc.
This has been happening pre-pandemic.....
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I talk to many people in Bali on a daily basis and I don't agree with any of the armchair virology in this post. Certainly the actions taken by the government there do not support the assessment either. Starting April 24 to July 1 they are prohibiting travel outside the city (Denpasar).

I don't think what you have is an island of super healthy people and Americans/Europeans lands of weak people. What you have is an island of people who do not flood their doctors and hospitals (of which not many exist an no where near Western standards) for sickness. Those that are bad enough to go there's lack of testing and therefore a small amount of confirmed cases.

In America and Europe you have a population trained to engage healthcare services early and often. Almost as if we're nations of hypochondriacs. Healthcare services also always assume the worst case as well. Any respiratory distress is assumed covid19 until proven otherwise. With the known false negatives in the test it's still assumed covid19 based on symptoms. Unattributed respiratory issues at time of death are being flagged as covid19 related by order of the CDC.

What you're seeing a culture difference in both the people and governments. My friends son in Bali was experiencing respiratory issues and was taken to the hospital. Was put on breathing assistance but no test was done. They were released and it was listed as not covid19 but all the symptoms were there. In America or Europe it would have been classified different.
I’ve never lived in NYC. This was in Chicago.
Just hypothesizing as well, but I think he might have it backwards. I'm not convinced you'll get magnitudes more virus in the ambient air from singing. But as a receiver if you're mouth breathing and taking deep breaths you're extra vulnerable. Nose hair is pretty effective
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This is a pretty good piece.

The work done in the restaurant paper is really good. It was a clever natural experiment but clearly was a lot of work to piece together.
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This. I used to read this comments and think it only applied to the US. Also happening to Spain. Amazon has become useless. Rankings are weird, quality stuff is is very hard to find and I have to resort to forums that point to Amazon links that you cannot find using Amazon search.

Also, I'm more and more attracted to specialized shops again. For example for the last two years I've been buying most electronic stuff from a local shop. I needed a laptop charger and it was a totally awful experience going by Amazon, even typing output values and such. Fed up, went out, walked 15 mins, got one that wasn't the same I had but did the job and matched the specs.

It's exactly that. Why should I use Amazon if I can go to Alibaba or Aliexpress, what's the point if it isn't more convenient than moving my ass to a local store or get it cheaper in China.
> meaning that they are not updated with security fixes in any systematic manner.

Interestingly, that exact thing was always my worry about Snap (or Flatpack) as well.

Sure, big-name software such as Spotify will keep their Snap package well in order; they've got both the incentive and manpower to do so. (Incidentally, they could also use this manpower to build distro-specific packages).

But what about all the little open-source hobby projects? They'll be packaged with whatever library version happens to be latest at the time. And then, be updated whenever the hobbyist dev finds the time and inclination.

So on my system I might have a huge zoo of different versions of the same library, with various bugs or vulnerabilities.

If they all used the same system-wide library, at least they would all be fixed at the same time (when the library maintainers publish an updated .deb).

To me, Snap and the like feel like they're essentially the same as static linking, except more opaque.
Yes! I remember JRComm! I used that up until 1994, on my A500 then A3000. Not sure why I never bothered to upgrade to Terminus.
But my understanding is also that current ventilator protocols are/were maybe too aggressive with COVID? E.g. blood oxygen below some %, they need ventilator.
Intel CPUs have QuickSync (hardware encoder and decoder) since Sandy Bridge. Using that is faster than using actual CPU cores.
I wonder what the impact of this will be on AMD.
I see it at that address now. Also at https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/
An article I read somewhere was suggesting that doctors should have tried using traditional antibiotics to treat patients instead of intubating them. This of course is strictly anecdotal.
That is the case with all VPNs, but that is not commonly understood by people without technical expertise who have heard that a VPN will increase their security.
I have a hard time feeling sorry for companies that are still churning out 32-bit software. The move to 64-bit wasn't a surprise to anyone that was paying attention. If the pro audio space is really decimated then I'm not sure they were that hardy to begin with.

Granted, the move to ARM is a bit more work, but again I don't think anyone should be especially surprised by it. As soon as the "A" processors started posting real, positive benchmark numbers I figured that Apple would move to them and away from Intel. In my minds eye I can see Apple differentiating machines depending on how many ARM chips it has. MacBook Air - 2 A15; MacBook - 4 A15X; MacBook Pro - 12 A15X; Mac - 128 A16X (or something like that)
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Yes I know, but the whole impeachment thing happened because of that modest amount nevertheless.
"The only rational solution is finding improvements in therapeutics. The solution is not to keep people from getting infected, but to keep people from dying of the diseases. And that is a far closer and more achievable goal than any other."

Regarding this point: what improved therapeutics have you seen arise? Is a ventilator a therapeutic?
Nice to see they have hired thousands of the top scientists to judge this. Unless this is just another rule that’ll be at best enforced poorly.
What would make such a board particularly cheap?

The CPU would be cheaper than x86 but not dirt-cheap. It should be reasonably fast to make sense for sata3 or nvme. This implies fast RAM, too.

If anything, the economy of scale won't be in favor of this board either, unless it's produced in millions.
> The UI is a mess and version 10 has put lipstick on a pig.

This is exactly how I've always felt about the Mac OS UI. Small example of why I feel this way: There are many windows on a Mac that you can open that you then cannot switch back to with the keyboard alone. Try it out - on an unmodified macOS open "About this Mac" then alt-tab to some other program. Now try to get back to "About this Mac" with your keyboard the same way you switched away from it. And it's the same for any window you open from a menu-bar.

Macs fail so horribly on such a very, very, very basic interaction and the entire OS is filled with shit like this. I could literally fill an entire blog with examples of how badly the macOS fails users, but that would mean I'd have to use my Macs more often for things other than just compiling iOS apps. No fucking thanks!

Windows is a mecca of consistency where it really matters compared to this garbage. Sure, you can complain about the rare times that you're exposed to 2 different control panels (yawn) but if you fuck up very basic things like window management like macOS does it's much, much worse IMO.

I feel like really good marketing, sex appeal, status symbolism, herd immunity (at least in Silicon Valley) and of course the fact that macOS is a very stable, low-maintenance Unix keep a lot of people blind to the glaring inconsistencies in the macOS UI.
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I'm a bit surprised to not see criticism of their SSL options. For a security company, Cloudflare makes it incredibly easy to set up insecure configurations to your origin. There are four SSL options to choose from, but only one is actually secure and it usually defaults to one of the insecure options.
Their hearts were never really in XScale. Intel only ended up having that group due to a bizarre legal settlement with DEC, and pawned it off to Marvell in some misguided attempt at corporate streamlining.
I would like to clarify that the MMT proponents that I follow are not favorable to the QE type of interventions that we have seen in the last years.

They only pointed(1), correctly, that QE was not going to be inflationary AND that monetary policy is not the proper tool for this kind of problem. Fiscal policy is the proper tool.

You will not find MMT economist defending QE or the buying of financial assets, other that public debt bonds, if it's legally required to finance fiscal policies.

If fact, many are very critical(2) of this kind of programs.

(1) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=28422
(2) - http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=4763
>I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it will do absolutely nothing. It is not feasible at the scale that people are proposing it and it cannot possibly work without even more disruption than we already have. All it will do is push the disease into the winter when it will be more lethal.

Barring that more evidence be supplied for that point, I can counterbalance it by saying, "contract tracing will be amazing because large-scale social distancing will push the case count down to a level where it is feasible. Quick cheap and accurate tests are coming soon and will make it even easier. The whole economy will be able to go back to normal in a couple months." Do I know if that's true? No, but I don't know if the above claim is true either.
I'd wager that is by design, and one of the ways they keep people from avoiding insurance when young and healthy, and then getting it when old
I hear the same thing is happening with all grocery deliveries (at leat in the UK), Amazon Fresh isn't special in that regard. You probably know current times are rather exceptional.
And it's not just "business requirements". Many people are now forced to work from home, and they need working internet to do so. Their paycheque and ability to buy food and shelter may now depend on it.
how about a raspberry pi and dyndns?
We need to separate the accounting of ‘financial flows of money’ (money spent on financial instruments) from money spent on goods and services that are not financial. We need to be able to compare the gross financial product with the gdp. This way we can speak more precisely about inflation that affects the real world of Adam Smith vs the world of imaginary values and wealth.
The size of X Compact was perfect. Too bad it was so thick.
Doing it nowadays with a no bezel screen would give me a screen of the size I'd like to have. I mean: my current phone as a larger no bezel screen, but I'd chop away at least 2 cm of it to get a smaller phone the size of the Compact.
iPhones use NVMe storage and have done since the iPhone 6S and the quality of the NAND chips has been increasing since the iPhone 6.
It could mean 20 hours off the same chassis and battery, or 8-10 hours off of a much skinner machine. I'll happily take either.
Like the first SE (and the far less successful iPhone 5C) this is an attempt to sell to a more price-sensitive market that wouldn't consider their flagships in the first place. It's also not exactly unique; Samsung has everything from 100 euro units to those folding phones that cost twice as much as an 11 Pro, say.

The original SE didn't noticeably cannibalise the flagships, and it was in some ways a more appealing device than this (it filled the "smaller" niche, whereas it's hard to see how this one is in any way better than an 11 Pro).
Probably the latter. Bezos wants a piece of the action.
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The housing changes in the form of primary residences won’t change much. The housing market changes in the form of short term rental properties re-entering the long term rental space however....
Or if those are initially organically selected and then pushed further by the algorithm. Likely a combination of real preference + manufactured
For those interested, Facebook already does something similar, and also has an "Ad Library" [0] where you can monitor ads related to "social issues, elections or politics." It's pretty interesting, worth checking it out.

[0] https://www.facebook.com/ads/library
Don’t know what you mean by havks to run Linux. Rpi has excellent Linux.

You’ll just find tons of things that don’t work when you use anything but rpi.
toomuchtodo's response covers the relative importance of security. My concern is more about taste in marketing.
It's a good sign.

In cases of normal business operation, normal corporate management, delegation, and accountability techniques generally work quite well. Decisions are extensively researched and weighed before being taken. Doing things right, not quickly, is the goal here.

In times of urgent emergency, normal management techniques fail because they can't respond quickly enough. Not because they're inferior, but because they weren't designed for it. Therefore you need one person making big, hard decisions in a timely manner.

There's probably nobody in the world who is better qualified to make big, hard, fast decisions for Amazon than Bezos, obviously. And considering his wealth is tied up in the company too, this is the smart, responsible choice for everyone involved.
> if those loans are paid back, they will cause net zero inflation.

Assuming you can get the fed to make that money disappear, which it doesn't have a good track record of doing so far.
Bear in mind that SD Express is SD only in name and otherwise it is just an NVMe in SD form-factor. And how much UHS-II is still an SD is somewhat questionable.
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I’m no expert, but the videos out of Italy showed patients in personal pressurized plastic bubbles rather than being intubated, so maybe that’s the same thing?
It will impact the upper to middle class who go to paris to visit or to shop, and maybe homeless people living in their cars. middleclass commuters don't park on on-street car parking place, and poor, non-homeless people don't own a car when living in or close to Paris.

Also subway cost 35€ a month (well, 70 if you're not working), or ~20 a week if you're a tourist (unless you take one-use ticket, but don't do that, especially if you arrive by the airport). One-use ticket if you stay within Paris last 2 hours and cost ~2€, but it is more expensive if you're not actually in Paris (i think its 15€ from CDG to the center).
> they usually end up buying an expensive automated report that provides little or no real insight.

That's totally what we are in the process of doing (with even two separated tools for even more wasted time!)
The countries where contract tracing actually worked such as Taiwan, South Korea, and New Zealand started much earlier in the infection cycle. We should have done the same, but now it's basically too late. Locking the barn door after the horse has run away.
The author seems to ignore the obvious confounding factor here of selection bias -- super spreader events all seem to deal with people who are in the same social circles rather than outside them, as would be the case in public transportation, movie theaters, gyms, etc. The reason being that events with people in social socials are readily traceable to an infected individual attending, whereas contact tracing for anonymous infection in a shared area is much more difficult.

Even diseases with low transmissibility are known to be disseminated by public transit, such as tuberculosis.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338233/
You can sort a bunch of books like that - cool
I would like to think that in a global pandemic costing hundreds of thousands of lives, trillions of dollars of economic costs, and significantly lowering the quality of life of future generations, this research would have been done months ago.

How hard can it be to find 100 similar workplaces, and to 33 of each say "You guys must wear masks". "You guys must have all windows open all the time". "You guys must wear gloves all the time".

Then wait 5 days, and see how infections spread.

That activity might lead to the deaths, in the worst case, of a couple of workers. Yet the knowledge gained would save tens of thousands.
I don't think you actually have to do that. At least with my iPad pro, when it is in landscape, I don't have to do anything different with my head. The only issue I have is if I am holding it in landscape with my hands I have to move my hand off of the camera so it can see me.
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The sold out part? No it absolutely hasn't. And as long as you stick to "Sold by and shipped from Amazon", "clone crap" is virtually never an issue.

Yes, one person in ten thousand might receive a co-mingled counterfeit item or something, just like you might buy a laptop at Best Buy only discover a brick in the box because somebody scammed a return.
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Well, it’s clearly in response to isbgpsafeyet.com, since iscloudflaresafeyet.com was registered 2 days after the former was launched by CloudFlare https://blog.cloudflare.com/is-bgp-safe-yet-rpki-routing-sec...
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90% isn’t inevitable. A 1/10 odds of survival is greater than quite a few cancer treatments, yet we still try.
Who sets the policy?
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Do we have any evidence that it is actually giving them that 10% chance, or are the people that survive on the ventilators just the same ones that would have survived without it?
Are you an epidemiologist? I'm seeing a lot of very confident opinions in this thread!
> Absolutely none of that is Amazon's fault.

This is 100% Amazon's fault. If you are going to be a seller, a platform and a supplier you need to verify the authenticity of the goods provided. Especially if you set prices, shipping options and take a cut of sales. This has been going on for years, its just be exacerbated now. I placed an order and was given a estimated delivery 5 weeks out.
It's not too harsh. It seems pretty clear to me the blasé conclusion that essentially "things are gonna get much worse in a month" (no duh) was loosely backfilled with numbers after the conclusion was already made.

Writing in a circuitous manner may have been necessary due to the author's immigration status but it's also a very convenient smokescreen that makes his group's results look more dramatic.

For example, the timeline for March 24th, the day before this epic whitepaper was released: "a sporting event is postponed." This "sporting event" was the Tokyo OLYMPICS! But showing that Japan was already starting to take COVID-19 a lot more seriously than some of their public pronouncements may lead you to believe before the whitepaper release date might undercut the article's implication that his whitepaper changed the public narrative and thus the author would be less deserving of asspats and clout.

I've heard people say that this pandemic highlights the (unfortunate) severe lag time of real-life discourse to Twitter's discourse (what is "known" on Twitter versus public narrative).[^1] From that angle this report could be a good thing to try to short-circuit that gap. My opinion is the attempt failed (more accurately their conclusion was already stale), and this writeup brings it right back around to the worst parts of Twitter's discourse - personal brand marketing and clout-chasing.

[^1]: While that's undoubtedly true, Twitter also generates a massive amount of garbage takes which are conveniently forgotten through severe selection bias (looking back with hindsight to see who was right is easy). Online takes also have zero cost compared to reality; you can throw infinite virtual darts at a dartboard but in reality you can steer your meat machine down only one path. Thus there will always be a lag between the two.
Isn’t this just “agile” and TDD; 40-odd years ahead of its time?
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No, I mean zero of the pure-FOSS video codecs have ever been anywhere near stare-of-the-art in their time. So FOSS codecs have for three decades been unable to compete on technical merit.

Even the current state-of-the-art audio codec Opus gets a lot of its efficiency from proprietary algorithms from Skype that were Open-sourced and parents made royalty-free.

Video codecs are bleeding-edge comp-sci and expensive to develop (lots of highly paid engineers, test labs, and test subjects (people) required).
The ventilators became more of a signaling issue. Tons of people with no medical knowledge making a big issue about it to signal to others that they care about something they think people should care about. Every politician and vocal amateur healthcare system critic were commenting most on it. It was as absurd as the disproportional outrage over the vaping deaths last year.

Any one who knew anything about vents was making the point that the number of vents only matters if you happen to have enough qualified medical professionals like intensivists and anesthesiologists to operate them.

I wonder if the 9 out of 10 dying is because patients are really too far gone and vents are useless or because of a mismatch in number of vents versus number of professionals that can successfully use them.
>On one hand, you can limit information we know is false, but restricting spread of information is censoring people, something that is pretty widely regarded as oppressive.

Yes. But liars, cranks and con artists should be oppressed.
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Google also has a website similar to Facebook's Ad Library: https://transparencyreport.google.com/political-ads/region/U...
They've been deferring for a long time.

The RKPI RFC is from 2012. Cloudflare's been publishing blog articles like "RPKI - The required cryptographic upgrade to BGP routing" (https://blog.cloudflare.com/rpki/) for years now.