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Costs are only borne by the taxpayer where the taxpayer pays for healthcare, but that's a choice as well. We could just as easily say that the taxpayer won't be responsible for the cost.

We've chosen to have the taxpayer bear the cost, which is very probably good and right, but I think we should be careful using that fact to make decisions about other people's body's.

I think this can be distinguished from other externalities like smoking, where other people have to smell the smoke, or pollution that other people have to smell, or that kills their plants or animals. Some externalities can't be opted out of, but some can, and that fact greatly reduces the case for regulation, in my opinion.
That separation exists in Sweden as well. The parliament makes the laws while the government is the executive branch.

But yeah, slightly different as its our prime minister who sets up the government, the parliament who picks the prime minister and the people who elects the parliament – through proportional representation.

The ban on ministerial rule is an additional separation on top of the one you mention – a separation within the executive branch, that even further avoids opportunities for eg. corruption. (And confuses foreign leaders who are unfamiliar with it)
Thanks, I didn't mean to offend. Which is the best starting point? Based on the blog post I was hoping to get some introduction by way of familiar concepts such as linear algebra and homomorphism, before confronting applications to theoretical computer science. Anyway, is the best starting point "Diagrammatic Algebra: From Linear to Concurrent Systems" or "The Calculus of Signal Flow Diagrams I: Linear relations on streams" or something else?
Thanks for the suggestion! I tested it on one file. Support for the format might turn out to be a problem: to use the flif command line tool, I had to convert my input file from TIFF to PNG first, which means I'd have to be extremely careful not to lose metadata if I started doing this for real. It was also pretty slow.

File sizes (DNG lossless, other formats 16 bits):

* DNG: 18.5 MiB

* TIFF: 84.2 MiB

* FLIF: 55.1 MiB

So while FLIF is unsurprisingly much better than TIFF, it's still ~3 times larger than the DNG, which means that a pretty noticeable amount of additional disk space would have to be sacrificed to store the final edited versions of all my photos.
> If there was a direct correlation between some metric and stock price, every trade would be automated.

80% of the stock market is controlled by automated trading machines: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/28/80percent-of-the-stock-marke...

> Tesla's stock is exhibit A for this.

It's probably not wise to extrapolate the behavior of the entire stock market (literally trillions of dollars in value) just off of one hype-driven anomalous outlier.
Tangential question:

What is the effect of touchscreen usage by toddlers on their peripheral vision?
In the short term, sure. But we have a more skilled, more educated population with more knowledge and better technology than ever before. We have challenges ahead of many sorts, but in terms of economics we’re pretty well equipped globally. You could argue the US is poorly equipped for manufacturing but that’s only one part of the economy.
I appreciate the advice! I've made peace with HN's unexplained downvotes in general. Still, I'm trying hard to improve my communication style, so any feedback I can get regarding bad/good tone in my comments is super helpful.
All of these risk exist in the past with flu and other diseases, should we then always shutdown ?
You can get IDless SIM cards overseas still. E.g. Colombia.

They probably don't have the infra set up (yet) to detect they are such SIM cards.
Diet Coke is like liquid Gold. I’m all in.
I use Slide from fdroid. It really has all the features I would want and is very customizable.
I see a VR headset is primarily a piece of hardware. Think of it as a next-gen computer monitor. Users like me expect it to work with any computer or ecosystem (Steam, Windows, Mac, Linux, etc). Thus the outrage..
Space in the wormhole is regular space. So we have regular properties of space and time - and if A and B are separated by a short distance, and they don't have accelerated motion against each other, the clocks have no reason to deviate.

> Why would you observe synchronized clocks when looking through the wormhole?

I think it's the same question as why we observe diverging clocks when looking via the "regular" space. Einstein provided answers to that - in "regular" space (that is, outside the wormhole - the space in wormhole is also space, with properties of space, including relativistic ones) we have accelerated motion, which is absolute and slows down clock in B, but not in A. In "wormhole space" we don't have that, so there is no reason to have, or observe, that difference. I think, other than entrance to the wormhole, you can't really say which of paths is "regular space" - the long one or through the wormhole, as you may argue that in fact A and B are close by, but they also have a wormhole with really long path - and the rest of the Universe - inside.
Since about April I've seen a daycare go on a daily walk with the kids every morning and 3-4 adults supervising them.
Same reason why Google always releases new projects and then quietly closes then a couple of years later: politics.

Some product manager at Reddit has his perfomance measured by app adoption, and not by the reputation of the company and future of it's service.
Many people simply aren't willing to indefinitely maintain a lifestyle that would protect them from the coronavirus, so the risk is already priced in. It's distributed over the times that I visit my family, my roommate visits his friends, I go to the cafe, etc.
Which has been the case since almost the inception of the country, as it is a direct consequence of the First-past-the-post voting system that the US government has implemented.
Larry is a Trump supporter because he can make money through pay-for-play agreements with Trump and the administration. Oracle is not going to enjoy the long term effects of Trumps immigration policies, and once it hits Larry where it hurts
(his pocketbook) he will suddenly support the DNC again...
I remember a few years ago Samsung selling a keyboard case for one of it's phones [0]. If I recall the phone would detect it and scale the UI so that the keyboard wouldn't cover any important part of the screen.

Sounds like the ideal tradeoff. I've never seen one in real life however, so that tells me how big the demand for a physical keyboard is.

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-keyboard-cover-for-gal...
The problem is the prolonged exposure to technology at a young age when they have to learn a myriad of other things. And the danger lies in how addictive these things are - needless to say a lot of things are designed that way. The technology is unevitable, my grandparents wrote on slates in school and our parents used to do caligraphy, etc. Tech changes, thats allright but because of its pace of acceleration some kids fall prey to other’s schemes to make money on their behalf.
"More arrogant than putting other lives at risk because you can't put your routine on hold for a bit? No. It isn't."

This is the part I'm confused about. If gyms were open, people who's lives were at risk still wouldn't go to the gym. Only people who didn't care would go. They are consenting to the risk that would inherently come with it. It isn't the type of place that at risk people HAVE to go, so why shouldn't we open it for people that are fine with the consequences? Also, restaurants are all completely open for dine-in in many of the places that gyms have yet to open. How does that make any sense? No one magically stops breathing for the hour+ they're in the restaurant.

I think quarantine should be down to the individual and the rules they'd like to implement on their private property (including their business), but you've probably already gotten that by now.
An irony of the "lockdown" is that all the activities that aren't "essential" are the reasons people have to live. "Essential" covers most of the basics in Maslow's hierarchy of needs. In the absence of Maxlow's top line items, why bother with the "essentials?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
Just as relevant as ever.
I'm really curious how does one end up forming an opinion like yours?

Have you ever done any honest self-reflection and asked why you are like this?

Really curious how someone could be that offended a) by something in another country & b) by something which reduces obesity/quality of life amongst vunerable & impressionable children?

What have you read/done to become the person I see here today?
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Unfortunately there is almost no dumb 4K TVs available in the market. Computer displays are small and expensive.
It's better to raise the cost than attempt access regulations as Mexico is doing. When it comes to food, access regulations are a nightmare to implement and enforce by comparison to taxes (which can be introduced in a fairly smooth, stealthy manner, and then gradually raised to experiment with consumption consequences). Especially when it comes to blatant non-essentials like cigarettes and junk food. You'll get a very nice direct reduction in consumption out of cost increases up to a point. Besides that, there's an excellent argument that junk food should not be actually banned for children (An 11 year old shouldn't be allowed to ever buy a bag of chips? That's some extreme government overreach).

If you're the US, step one is to ban high fructose corn syrup in food as being unsafe for human consumption. Step two, increase the cost of junk food via taxes. The US allowed its obesity epidemic to get out of control by making junk food too inexpensive and allowing high fructose corn syrup to be put into too many products. If Doritos cost $8 per bag instead of $4, people will eat a lot fewer bags; if boxes of Little Debbie snack cakes cost $5 instead of $2, people will buy fewer boxes. Regulating sugar in relation to calories in a packaged consumer food item, may also work quite effectively as a simple slider to test (just begin by gently nudging it downward, see what happens).
> My 7 yo pointed out that our 300 piece puzzle actually contains 18 x 18 = 324 pieces and I just don’t know what to believe anymore.

Did they actually count the pieces? In my experience, puzzles are rarely/never simply exact columns and rows of pieces such that you can count the outside edge pieces and multiply to get the number of pieces. Instead there are pieces of all sorts of shapes that create interesting patterns within the puzzle which could result in a number much smaller than multiplying the outside pieces might indicate.
Um, they have Jeff Bezos' personal piggy bank to fund it? He periodically liquidates his Amazon holdings to fund BO.

According to LinkedIn, they currently have ~2,800 full time employees. Their executive team comes from leadership roles at various aerospace agencies (both private and public).

They also appear to have no issues winning government space contracts: https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/04/30/blue-origin-wins-lions...

That they have the resources is just about the least controversial claim. Whether they can actually execute on it is another question entirely. Despite the uncertainty, no credible person can claim with certainty that they will fail.
There are 10 times more cases in US that haven't been tested for is one explanation.

Look - my country no one bothers to observe measures and our system is far from overloaded.

I think that a lot of influential l people threw too much social capital on stay at home and stuff like this and now they just can't handle the situation if covid is less dangerous than thought.

I think we are in the sink cost fallacy.
Something I've learned, which I definitely did not know before covid, is that a lot of common viruses do this kind of damage. Including the ones which cause colds, and definitely more serious viruses like influenza. Heart problems are definitely not unique to coronavirus, and in fact a lot of what we are seeing is par for the course. It's just that this is a very high profile pandemic and there is a huge amount of research being aimed at it.
That's valid, and I dunno why you're being downvoted. I didn't read "elective surgery" from your original comment, but re-reading it, there's nothing in it that discounts it.
This is a good moment for black swan thinking. Any time you get somebody arguing earnestly 'exponential growth will of course continue because it will continue, barring heat death of the universe' it's probably a crash indicator :)
Or you know Congress could spend some money as the fed chairman has called for
When armies mobilize, they don’t carry supermarkets, but they do carry barbers.
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That's the sort of thing that one would assume would create a news cycle, if the USPS failed to handle holiday shipping.

Chewing back through the archives of 2019 news, I don't see such a news cycle, or really anyone complaining about extraordinary delays. I do see that the Post Office did an unusual amount of gearing up because the distance between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2019 shortened the peak shipping window (https://www.marketplace.org/2019/12/05/six-fewer-shipping-da...). But they appear to have handled it fine.

Here's their self-reported tracking metrics through 2019 Q4 on package delivery (https://about.usps.com/what/performance/service-performance/...). No real deviation from their regular numbers indicating a performance drop.

What's our source on the notion that they got crushed by Christmas rush?
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Its Lessons for COVID-19 [pdf]
Both firefighters and doctors are a relatively recent “invention”, I’d say 100-150 years old (with the medical profession being re-invented after a first stint back in Antiquity). As such there’s nothing “essential” about them, you could say that bakers, fishermen or even sex-workers are more essential than doctors and fire-fighters.
> According to this article the DMV is making 50M

That was $50M in revenue, not profit. I blame the Vice headline; it said "makes," but in the article clarified that it's revenue.
While I agree, I've never seen rage like taking someones preferred foods away.
- Have some remnants of freedom
- Some people make poor decisions
- Tyrants restrict freedom
- Repeat until gulags are full
> I'd love to see you try and add all that up in micromorts of personal risk and show me that it's actually a bad rational decision.

Isn't that the whole reason public health is necessary? Because a large group of individuals making rational health decisions alone can, collectively, make poor health decisions for the group? It's kind of like polluting or littering. Yes it's perfectly rational for me to throw my trash on the ground because it's cheap and convenient but when everyone acts "rationally" then everyone is worse off compared to when we coordinate.
Also helps them rank higher on app store which is a discovery engine
right, covid is the only danger as far as the better-off are concerned, and they have the influence to dictate the response. everything else can be conveniently ignored, and they have the influence to dictate that ignorance as well. it's been like that my whole life from faux-concern for africa to 9/11 to the near and dear banks of the financial crisis.

edit: i should add that this is not an argument against taking precautions, particularly distancing, but a callout of the hypocrisy underlying this kind of asymmetric mobilization and resource allocation, which exacerbates inequality.
you mean like taco's and enchiladas? as well as the myriad extremely tasty but insanely unhealthy Mexican foods?
KaiOS would have been a great opportunity for Amazon. (especially for India) They could move away from Android and boost Alexa for voice assistance.

They missed it and Google is now heavily investing in KaiOS pushing Google Assistant and their other services.
>These products should be outright banned. Folks can make wonderful pastries at home.

Sugar is sugar. What's the difference between a homemade pastry and store bought pastry?
Right, the argument against screens shouldn't be that they aren't natural. It's not "natural" to go to the gym and do repetitive contrived exercises, but this turns out to be a healthy habit.

On the other hand I don't think any great leaps are required to be wary of the effects of screen time. Even as an adult, if I get into the habit of scrolling through newsfeeds, I notice a strong effect of being distracted and seeking stimulus when doing work. My brain has been trained for quick hits of novelty.

In general, there's a night-and-day difference between activities that are easy and tempting vs. challenging but rewarding. I'm sure there are some great educational games on the iPad, but realistically the vast majority of screen time falls into the easy and tempting category.
Yes, pith aside, everybody knows that space is hard. The GP commenter is arguing that it's odd to write off BO when they are currently in the process of launch -> fail -> learn -> repeat.
>Why would anyone choose the first option?

True if there is no downside, but I can easily think few benefit going to gym :

- some sports can't be done indoor

- some sports can't be done alone

- some sports require equipment that you don't have at home

- social benefit
Yeah, I'm sorry but there is clearly a pattern in the US and maybe elsewhere of mental professionals not being all that mentally stable and more often than not raising kids that have problems of their own. I'm not sure if it's a result of something innate or that their brains become sponges that soak up the worst in people and that translates into issues within their lives. Unless you are at a level where you can't function in society, I feel that it's wise to steer clear of these shrinks.
TIL: my butt is could potentially blow my cover.
"Citing U.S. national security interests, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe granted the Pentagon a temporary waiver to further assess a broader waiver request from DoD."

Wait, what? If the stated reason for the ban is "espionage threat", how is it possible to allow the said espionage in the Department of Defense, arguably one of the juciest targets?

It either means the real reason is different, and we are being misled, or the threat of espionage is low, and we are being misled. Or am I missing something?
I agree 100%. I think hip-hop in particular makes it very easy to trace these relations with it's heavy use of samples and collaboration.

For example, Common's Album "Be" is the album that started me on my path back in 2009. I really liked the album and using those relations I was able to discover so much more music:

1. Kanye West produced it

-> Check-out other Kanye production credits

-> Jay-Z's "The Blueprint"
-> Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III"
-> Kanye's solo albums

2. Marvin Gaye's "God is Love" is sampled in the song "Love is..."

-> Check-out Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On"

3. John Legend is a feature on "They Say"

-> Check-out John Legend's album "Get Lifted"

Of course, it might be a little silly to think I needed to discover big names like Kanye, Common and John Legend but the process of discovering them through the music itself can help separate the artist from some of their non-musical pursuits that might not be as interesting.
The difference here is that the ban is applicable to minors. We already ban minors from a slew of products, this is only extending that list.
Interesting! Never heard of pizza steel before. I've been using a pizza stone in a regular 230 °C oven for quite some time now. Do you think a pizza steel will make a difference at such a "low" temperature?

And one more question: why should I want to choose a higher/lower hydration of my pizza dough?
Already 6 years ago! I feel so old.
Not really, during my military training a there was a focus on management vs leadership and how the two intertwine.

Great leaders can be terrible managers if they don’t want to do the associated admin, fortunately management skills are much easier to teach than leadership skills. Generally the latter (such as officer training) is cultivated in people that show requisite qualities (hence the UK cultivating potential military officers from 16 like the program I was in).

Neither is a given for success but the most successful people in management structure have a good mix of both to navigate. Also, I think n being empathetic doesn’t always mean being nice, it just means seeing other view points and making decisions with that extra insight.

It’s a fascinating topic I think.
To be fair, cigarettes have additional restrictions like where and to whom it can be sold, and also advertisement. Or even being explicitly called out on media ratings: PG-13, contains smoking!

I don't know if anyone has quantified the effects on sales of each measure, but they certainly add up with the additional taxes.
I have never understood the demand for timelines. Pandemics do not care about calendars, and expecting our response to a pandemic to have an expiration date struck me as both folly and hubris of a lethal variety.

Now if we expected our government to set conditions of the lock down ending, that would be better. Something based around the pandemic itself, such as new infections per day and test positivity would probably be best. But time? That’s not how this works.
I'd like to believe that the scientific and medical authorities who are being consulted by local and state leadership have done exactly that calculation... and that result was states mandating that these businesses be shut down.

Why do randos think they understand the threat model better than the CDC and state medical authorities?
It's also pretty untypical.
Yes, they used crowd-sourcing to build their empire, yet they seem surprised that the crowd wants to have a say in how things work.
It is apparent that Apple has been successful financially and has reached new heights but I don’t think this can continue for much longer.

People have been declaring the death of Apple since the mid 80s. I was around then with my Apple //e.

We are hanging on longer and longer to the iPhone and the services (namely Apple Music when compared to Spotify

Yet and still Apple Music is growing faster than Spotify, service revenue is growing like crazy, and Apple doesn’t have to spend a hundred millions of dollars to get one person on their platform (Joe Rogan)

Where does Apple go from here? They can’t keep making iPhones and pissing developers off forever.

Developers really overstate their role. Developers go where the money is. Most of the money from the App Store comes from loot boxes and whales buying virtual currency. Developers have been jumping through larger hoops for over 4 decades developing for consoles.

I’m sure people asked where does Apple go from here since they introduced the Apple // in 40 years. Apple has shown an ability to evolve.

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).

People have been accusing Apple to sell on brand for two decades. Now, but especially when iOS 14 comes out, the integration between AirPods, iPads, iPhones, Apple Watch and to a lesser extent the AppleTV is second to none. Yeah, I have all of them....

Maybe you don’t have the pulse on what the consumer wants? I’ve seen analysts who believe that the AirPods by themselves are larger in terms of revenue than the iPod was at its peak.

They must either rise to a new zenith from a pure business standpoint (new products, cannibalize the old)

Has Apple ever shown an unwillingness to cannibalize it’s own products? Microsoft for instance has been one of the five most valuable companies for 20 years. This is not rah rah Apple. The only one of the five big tech companies that have shown an ability to evolve and diversify over the past 10-15 years is Google.