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The government does have stockpiles for emergencies, mandated buffers will guarantee overproduction and affect market equilibrium
> The government does have stockpiles for emergencies As you can see now, it doesn't. Neither does any other government.
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It's not just CPU though, but IO - I've worked with horrible enterprise systems before that had response times measured in seconds .
Even 5 seconds will work if the actions can overlap. If it can't do things in parallel then we have issues much more fundamental than "performance", and there's no defending it as a competent system. (That is not to say it's necessarily the devs' fault.)
Aside from potentially having to interface with dozens of unreliable, painfully slow SOAP-based web services, everything is often hosted on creaking, over-subscribed VMWare hosts, in VMs that would be under-specced regardless.
There is also often a "governing body" that severely restricts your tech stack choices.
Want to use Postgres? Nope, our standard is SQL Server - 2008 edition, actually!
Want to use Python/Ruby/Elixir/Clojure/Kotlin? None of that hipster nonsense here, we use good ole Java/VB.NET here!
Message queue, you say? It's Windows Message Queue with distributed COM all the way down here!
"Containers"? What's a one of those? You'll get a crappy VM with 1 vCPU and 1GB of RAM, and you'll thank me for it! etc...
As a dev, it's horrible and soul-destroying to work under such limitations, but if you have no choice...
And this is just the start. While I think the US response to Corona was slower than the response in my country I feel the US is the only country that's seriously discussing economic repercussions and debating the medical experts. In EU (at least in my country) it's doctors running things and we are in "stop the pandemic at all cost". Everyone is in panic due to Italy situation. But doctors are only trained to see the…
I think this is a false choice. As Bill gates said, we can't say- "Hey, keep going to restaurants, go buy new houses, ignore that pile of bodies over in the corner. We want you to keep spending because there’s maybe a politician who thinks GDP growth is all that counts" The truth is that it seems our choice is relatively simple: 1) Allow the virus to spread rapidly, overload the health system, kill many people, until…
How do we assess contingency levels, other than after-the-fact measure of fatalities? Contingency is highly variable across the country. Rural areas have a lot of personal distancing built in. Urban areas certainly aren't in China-style lockdown, or South Korea-style technology+culture distancing based on prior experience. Nationally, I think the U.S. is at best taking a "moderate contingency" approach.
Each state's governor has control over the contingency, short of the president declaring martial law. e.g. in Mississippi the governor has declared most businesses are "essential" and thus open for business, expressly contradicting local ordinances more strictly defining what is essential. We very likely will see localized variations in infection and fatality rates as a result of these variations. https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-mississippi-gove...
Therefore I don't know whether the progression of the disease is even predictable.
Semi tangent, about dealing with mass unemployment. I like to think this event changes people's perspective on folks out of work in the US. There's a lot of recrimination, and even self loathing about being poor or out of work in the US. It doesn't seem based in reality and certainly isn't helpful. Perhaps it is time we realize that much like a pandemic things in this world change fast and we need to be able to help…
Reading your post made Andrew Yang's voice pop into my head: "And do you know what would really help those people while they retrain for new jobs? A thousand bucks a month!"
Let's be real about what he put on the table.
And this is just the start. While I think the US response to Corona was slower than the response in my country I feel the US is the only country that's seriously discussing economic repercussions and debating the medical experts. In EU (at least in my country) it's doctors running things and we are in "stop the pandemic at all cost". Everyone is in panic due to Italy situation. But doctors are only trained to see the…
Unfortunately yes. Even if one wants to keep the quarantine at all costs, it should be a political decision, not only medical, after weighing everything. In Italy, where I'm in my third week being shut in, experts and doctors are being quoted tiredlessly by the news: the problem is that they're doing their job (which is good!) however they do not realize the impact of their suggested measures. Not their fault by any…
As soon as the government can detect a 16-times increase in the number of cases, act, and still be soon enough for the next 200-times increase not to be a tragedy, it is a good time to leave the quarantine. Right now Italy can't stand the first increase.
The good news is that each time the disease spreads, those numbers become smaller, the bad news is that we don't know by how much.
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I suggest by campaigning to bring logic and critical thinking into early childhood education. Then philosophy, the classics. Science education. Once you have more people who can understand that there are scientific and moral issues with manifest destiny, and religion isn't going to solve global warming, there will be some shifts in the public discourse and public policies.
What's the scientific issue with manifest destiny?
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No it is exactly how the issue should be characterized. Besides, it is a false dichotomy. There will be an economic collapse either way.
> Besides, it is a false dichotomy. There will be an economic collapse either way. In what way is the fact that there will be two different levels of economic costs in two scenarios a 'false dichotomy'? Edit: I think this is worth clarifying. I may misunderstand you, but it looks like there are two errors in your post. The first is treating differing scenarios with differing outcomes as if they were the same, simply…
It is indeed a false dichotomy. If anything, just irresponsibly letting nature run its course will be worse. Besides, recessions have been consistently associated with decreases of death rates. There is no evidence, and plenty of counter-evidence, that recessions cause increased death. Of course, we are getting a recession either way.
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> The government does have stockpiles for emergencies As you can see now, it doesn't. Neither does any other government.
Well, they do. But they were just way to small.
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What were the provisions?
Stuff like: - 35MM for the JFK center in DC - 300MM for migration and refugee assistance - no voter id - early voting - emissions stuff regarding airline industry.
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Reading your post made Andrew Yang's voice pop into my head: "And do you know what would really help those people while they retrain for new jobs? A thousand bucks a month!"
Except Yang wanted to make people choose. A thousand bucks a month [with no structural controls on costs], OR food stamps and housing vouchers. Let's be real about what he put on the table.