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This isn't much of a surprise. Previous large-scale disasters often destroyed capital. During the Blitz, bombs blew up factories.

COVID leaves physical capital almost entirely untouched. It is most harmful to people and in particular the poor who often work "essential" (but undercompensated) jobs, those without healthcare, and small business owners. National restaurant chains can ride it out while sole owner ones with less cushion fold. Small stores die while everyone flocks to Amazon.

The pandemic is essentially a net transfer of power to the rich. The stock market is an index of the rich—the wealthiest 10% own 85% of all stock. Of course it's going up.
Congrats you just described society.
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Despite both achieving roughly the same goals, I would argue that writing on a tangible piece of paper with a pen or a pencil is wholly different from writing on an electronic device with an electronic pen, and I suspect they stimulate different areas of the brain.

I might be biased by growing up with paper, but writing on my iPad with an Apple Pencil makes me feel very different things compared to writing in my notebook. Paper is physical. I can rip paper, I can spread my paper notes on the floor, I can put them away and find them 30 years later etc.

To me comparing writing on paper and writing on an iPad feels like comparing walking to travelling with an electric scooter. Yes, both take you from place A to place B, but they have very different implications and are very different experiences.
Those are big ifs. The reason businesses were shut down is because policy was put in place to enforce distancing and the business could not meet those policies.
You ninja'd your comment into something completely different... Responsing to your original comment about MREs: the supply chains for supermarkets already exist. I'd be very surprised if there were enough MREs to feed everyone for a year and then still have the ability to restart normal supply chains from a dead stop.
The infectiousness and lifeline of this virus is pretty uniquely long, for the record.
Amazon is making enough money now that they don't have to make a lot of sense immediately. They may choose to speculate on a future economic opportunity with concern to missing out on that if they fail to put up the network. Their market dominance also means they can only spend so much of their profit on traditional acquisitions realistically, they're going to be increasingly restricted there.

They're also piling up immense amounts of cash, with not much to do with it other than begin kicking it back to shareholders (the same 'problem' Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook have had). Needless to say, Amazon clearly isn't eager to return it to shareholders via a dividend or buying back its stock. Five years from now? They'll be drowning in probably $40+ billion per year in operating profit. They can trivially afford whatever it costs to do the launches with someone other than BO, even if it's very expensive. It doesn't have to make financial sense today.
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I've actually been planning on getting one of those mini Bluetooth keyboards, take it out of the case, and design a custom cell phone case where the top hinges up similar to how a tackle box opens up. Still working out the details and measurements though.
The old mobile design is still there. You can add .compact to the end of any Reddit URL to get it.
I don't see how this could all not fall apart. It seems like the divergence between the stock market and the rest of the economy, is going to be the biggest bubble that has ever been. Personally, I think it's going to be the end of the US dollar.
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Worthless listicle. No insights into how any of them perform, how reliable they are, etc. Just a short one paragraph description that reads like it was lifted directly from the plugin authors' promotional blurb
And don't get me wrong, I agree Microsoft is no saint on data collection. I use Firefox and encourage others to do so. But I'd recommend Edge over Chrome because I consider tracking prevention so necessary for safe browsing.

Microsoft's data collection and use seems primarily to be focused on telemetry for product improvement. They obviously do it in Edge too. I find it less malicious than ad targeting, but I'm strongly opposed to mandatory telemetry. And I think telemetry-driven development is a mistake that should be avoided. It dehumanizes software support and still provides incomplete information, while also violating the privacy of your users.
You have implied consent because as an informed citizen you know that the law allows this data to be used in the ways defined under the law.
I think there are quite a number of safe(r) things you're doing which speakeasies don't seem to be - you're meeting in an outdoor space with a continuous group you know. Based on other anecdotes it seems that there are people more or less literally renting out their garages and basements to strangers.
Reporting to the authorities in the US means calling the police. Don’t call the police in America.

Furthermore, virus or no virus, the right to peacefully assemble is a human right that cannot legally or morally be abridged.

I don’t want the police to shut down protests. I also don’t want them to shut down gyms, or voting, or churches, or any other peaceful reason (dumb) people wish to assemble.

Assembly in the middle of a pandemic is stupid and irresponsible. I don’t do it.

I also don’t want men with guns stopping those that do. You can’t fix (or stop) stupid with a Glock and a uniform, which is what TFA is illustrating.
This kind of comment asking for it to be banned is always from an extremely uninformed person. Addictive poison, really? Wait til they see what's in fruit. Or just talk to a sports scientist about why it's in sports drinks. Of course in excess it's bad, but normal sugar consumption is not an issue.
funny. :)
Hey now, that's not a very fair comparison; rattlesnakes leave you alone of you leave them alone.
About 60% of human body heat is lost through radiation. The cooling you would feel would be proportional to the percentage of the area around you that is covered by these cooling walls. Distance wouldn't cause that much loss because the air doesn't absorb much radiation in blackbody range of humans over distances less than 50 meters.(Infrared range with intensity peaking at 93 thousand angstroms)
> AirPods have become and ubiquitous sign of the technological times where people buy on brand and not on quality or functionality (plus they’re ugly imo).

Interesting that you say this. I don't own any myself, but my general impression from people that do is that the AirPods are the top of the class for wireless earphones.
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Hey there, Martin from Quell here. Thanks for giving us a look. Glad you like the sound of Quell! And if I understand your last point correctly, I can say that as it continues to develop, it's becoming more and more of a cathartic way to let off some steam...
I think that comment was not about people who manage people or raise money. It was not about those who can bridge technical, business, marketing either.

It was about finance people who could easily do their jobs from home.
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Covid shows that governments who fail to encourage nutritious diets will end up with higher healthcare costs.
If you count autonomous driving vehicles as robotics (I know it's a stretch), the funding (and therefore pay) story is a lot better, although you get the usual startup vs BigTech debate.

Source: I work in an ADV company.
Curious, is there a documented case of community spread of COVID via a grocery store or grocery delivery?
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> Think of the most vulnerable among us. You are killing them.

But I like going to the gym, partying, and maximizing the profits of my business! I'm fine with helping, but asking me to make sacrifices is just too much. Isn't what I prefer most important? /s

I've also contrived some sympathetic-sounding reasons to justify the choices I already wanted to make, so it's pretty clear that if you disagree with me, you're obviously wrong. /s
> I have an idea in my mind of what I want the drawing to look like, but my pencil does not follow my orders.

From my very short learning of sketching, I had a feeling that there's a precursor step before the pencil touches the paper: a mental rasterization process. Our brain wants to see things in a symbolic form, a dog, a yard, a tree. To draw, however, we must force our brain to see the imagery data: the highlights, the shadows, the gradients.

My drawing education was only a few months long, so I could be drawing a far-fetched conclusion here. I'd love to hear what experienced artists think of their own mental process before actually putting down the image.
The most general problem cannot be solved.
This is a great story but unlikely to be true given the radiation doses that would need to be involved.
Which gym-goer you quote matters.
Have you seen this? https://github.com/paulirish/headless-cat-n-mouse
>You can't just dismiss the fitness routines people have spent years choosing and refining and getting better.

I am not, It must be very hard, to take away something you love and trained.

Society is asking you to sacrifice a big thing for something that may not benefit society at all. The chances of you catching and then spreading are ~ 1/1000. Assuming a 1% mortality. We are asking 100,000 people to give up something they love to save one loved one.

My own value system is that my enjoyment is not worth 1/100,000 of a person life. I would say in the order of 1/1,000,000. Based upon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALARP is where I get my figure.

I am interested which figure you think is reasonable - 10^5 or 10^6 or between or higher or dismiss the risk entirely ?
> being outright hostile to anyone other than themselves managing the device is not being customer-centered.

But it is. The customer isn't you, the tech literate professional; their target customer is the average person on the street.

Apple doesn't want their device ecosystem to be inclusive to the things that confuse, defraud, or frustrate non-savvy users: unethical or unqualified repair, advanced (mis)configuration, side-loading apps, etc.

Back when I worked as an IT tech, upwards of 80% of issues I dealt with were caused by one of those confusions that are completely solved by a walled-garden approach. It might not be your preference, or my preference, but there's no denying the utility it has for others.
I don't know about law, but it's less infectious than the normal situation in which kid's peers are from different families than parent's peers. Of course, it's much more infectious than actual isolation.
The first transistor wasn't really all that useful either.
but they aren't in that process, they haven't even started it
Once one gets past the sexist language like "swole, maskless bros," there is an interesting idea in the article that a societal risk of long duration prohibitions is the development of shadow economies and contract enforcement mechanisms. I'm surprised to see such a libertarian POV from NPR.
Who authorized you to push OS conributions on company time?
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal
Because we live in the worst possible timeline
The app wasn't blocked for copyright infringement. Apple hasn't asked for any changes. Evernote isn't blocked, or Pocket. You're talking about something different.
Goderich also has active salt mines... I'm presuming this project is using a played out branch of them.
Idk if pihole blocks these but here you can see the ads https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-specs/fire-tv

It also requires signing in at all times (not 100% sure on this) to use the device so I don't consider it a viable alternative to a "dumb" android box which has a plain experience throughout
I was in your exact position including having worked at a FAANG last Oct. In Silicon Valley still, I quit before the pandemic to be a fulltime dad to a newborn, thinking after about a yr I can go back and find something. ack. then the pandemic hit. Now...I'm contemplating your exact situation of starting something.

I have too many ideas, all great, but seem to lack focus and motivation although running out of money should be enough....but aint?

I guess "startup" isn't what I'm after per se but more of some simple very vertical SaaS I could code up myself like time sheets, scheduling, proj mgmt, journaling etc.. why? I can't deal with deal people/employees at the moment for many obvious reasons. I should be able to create something where I could launch and maintain myself.

I'm looking for something that is..
1. minimal administration w/o needing a physical location
2. self servicing platform where content is user generated
3. fee based, no ads

I'm trying to get motivated by watching these adventurous people:
https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses

Time is of the essences so I need to get moving on it. however, hard when I only have a 1-2hr window max a day after 10pm provided he sleeps through the night :(

My current and possibly the idea I may implement:
A private social network, necessity is mother of all inventions. I'm need a way to share my kid with extended family that isn't IG/FB/Whatsapp etc.. I want something more closed, personal, grandmother tested and very private. The common denominator is it needs to work on very under powered tablets running Android 4.0.

Writing up a mini bizplan then wireframe then proto it as a PWA. No one these days uses a PC.

Hit me up for mutual motivation? lakota @ gmail
I was really into FIRST robotics when I in HS and would love to make something at home. I thought about a VEX kit but didn't really want an erector set like. Does anyone have a recommendation for something like Misty Robotics [1]. I can only think of the Mindstorm but wanted to do some visual AI with it.

[1] https://www.mistyrobotics.com/
> There are 10 times more cases in US that haven't been tested for is one explanation.

There are 10x more deaths as a percentage of the population in the USA than in Qatar. The number of tests / positive cases is not relevant to that number.
You’re confusing a constraint of the granted power (time-duration for an emergency action within the social contract) and the constraint of the situation (time-duration of the virus).

No one is arguing whether the virus is on our clock. The argument is whether we’ve granted our governments the right to indefinitely extend their emergency authorizations.
35k murders is a lot of fucking murders.
If you have any choice in how you are treated, you will make your best judgement based on information available to you, such as by the recommendation of a friend, or a Yelp review. This is the same process you use to make any important purchase.

Before you have work done on your car, do you fly to China to inspect the part factory? You don't, because the relatively low risk you perceive that these parts will fail doesn't justify the expense of travel.

Do you perceive low risk because a government agency put a stamp of approval on the part? Probably not. Most likely, your risk assessment is based on information you've gathered about the final product, the auto shop -- that it is well-reviewed, and that your mechanic seems knowledgeable.

Furthermore, only you really know your exact needs. An expensive high-performance car part might provide you some marginal benefit, but not so much benefit that you're willing to buy that part at the expense of something else that's important to you, like your electric bill. A race car or Uber driver might make a different decision and choose a different part to suit their needs.

Medicine is like car parts. Bad ones can kill. But through the free market, a system of feedback is established that tends toward a wider variety, and higher quality, of parts overall.

When politicians prioritize some drugs over others, they interfere with this system, and money is spent on drugs and research that people don't necessarily want or need. You can imagine race car drivers getting together and lobbying politicians to subsidize high performance parts. Because these subsidies are funded by taxes, money is effectively taken from individuals who might prefer a different part. Now, those individuals who are not race car drivers have less purchasing power, and fewer choices overall.

You're correct that this is more or less the libertarian perspective, but I find it in no way extreme. I find it principled, direct, and humane. In our society, where nearly everyone has a smart phone and may conduct research at any time, I can't imagine a more effective system. I'm sure it was much easier to criticize the free market in a time when people couldn't read, or didn't have a global information database accessible on their person at every waking moment.
Improving diet would be one of the simplest ways of improving population health. Unfortunately any real changes will cause large, politically powerful corporations (Cargill, ADM, Coca-Cola, etc.) to lose a large amount of money[1], so I'm bearish on the ability to actually create meaningful changes. But just looking at photos on people on beaches from 2019 vs 1970 makes it clear how unhealthy the population is.

[1]: In the US many of these companies are large exporters too, so it is very hard to do anything that hurts them since our exports are generally not very competitive.
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I think it is more that there are lots of failed drug trials that need to be paid for in a ROI perspective.
LinkedIn actually disables some features, including certain types of messaging on their mobile site when not accessing it via the mobile app.

Infuriating.
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The ugly truth is that a large fraction of the population just doesn't care about at-risk people (that is to say, they may care to some degree, but not nearly to the same degree as proponents of quarantine). It's pretty gross.

This isn't new in any way; just look at how we've treated at-risk populations previously (e.g., homeless folks, the foster system, etc). The difference with the pandemic is that there was a rapid increase in who's considered "at risk".
The Fed is a driver of wealth inequality by inflating asset prices and backstopping risk. Inflation hurts the poor and middle classes the most.
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I guess the stock market is the new savings account, at least for the affluent.
It's weird on the surface, but it's because our entire electrical utility has roots in hydroelectric power.

Adam Beck was one of the people chiefly responsible for the creation of a public electrical utility in Ontario. I like one of his quotes "the gifts of nature are for the public" referring to his slogan "Power at cost".

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They have for their sub-orbital rockets. Everyone's gotta start somewhere, right?
What household tasks do you think are well-suited to robotics that aren't already addressed?

The reason so much focus has gone into autonomous vehicles is because there are trillions of dollars to be made there by the companies that solve it, and many obvious use cases will result in large profits even with imperfect solutions (where "imperfect" means it works only in specific design domains like the southwestern US during the day with no rain).
Given that difference between flu and covid is generally known at this time, trying to use flu as analogy is awfully bad faith argument.
I've seen exactly this with some friends and their kids. If they're at a more adult place to eat the kids are allowed to watch cartoons so they don't get bored and start wanting to leave before the meal's even started. The rest of the time they're limited in their screen time, read books with their parents and go out to all sorts of fun places like nature parks etc.

It's lazy to judge parents just because you see a 30 minute slice of their day
Covid strikes me as a unique situation that doesn't come up that often. It is a longer term threat than most "emergencies", but still fundamentally a temporary concern. One way or another, it will be resolved within a few years (hopefully sooner); and the facts on the ground still change relatively quickly.

It may last for a longer term than most emergencies; but still operates on a smaller timeline than legislatures are used to operating. The only analogous situation I can think of is wars, and those are already given special treatment (and have seen a steady growth in executive authority over the past decades).

Additionally, I am not aware of any executive (within the US) that has suspended or directly contradicted the legislative branch. If your issue is that the situation has gone on for too long to be dealt with using emergency authority, then your complaint is with the legislatures that have failed to either issue the rules themselves, or override the executive orders.

I could see an arguement for updating the various authorizations for executive orders to allow them to be repealed by a simple majority vote not subject to veto; or even by a minority vote. However, as far as I am aware, there has not been a major conflict at the state level where these powers would be relevant.
You can compare that with other big tech. It's not just ERP or Revenue growth, the stock is just in a bubble.
The plan is that you don't get involved in any of that. All you do is provide a platform that allows customers and drivers to connect in an efficient way. If clients don't aren't willing to accept that then I guess they don't need rides.
Even for investigations concerning vehicle ownership or theft? The DMV is the golden copy record holder for this information. It seems you have no background in this line of work.
I think "tolerable enough to our constituents that most of the people here are still here after the next election" is the threshold most state legislatures were trying not to cross.