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by cwhiz 6y ago
The fed is legally barred from directly lending to businesses or households except for in an emergency where they can do virtually anything they want. Congress authorizes $300 billion in direct checks to consumers. The remaining $2.7 trilli
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If we take the antibody test results at face value, NYC alone has already had 2+ million cases. The state of NY may have already had 8+ million. Even if there is a significant margin of error in those tests, and there may well be, the actua
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If you are in a higher risk bracket you should take extra cautions. Not dissimilar at all to people who have nut allergies. Social distancing and shelter in place is the nuclear option when we didn’t know what we were dealing with.
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It’s probably waaaaaaaay lower than 1 in 200. Early 20s with no existing conditions is probably closer to 1 in 10,000 once all the asymptotic people are added to the denominator.
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And yet... neither they nor their family are dead or sick at all. I doubt you would have skipped an opportunity to mention that. HN has veered way off the deep end on Covid. Not every place in the US is NYC.
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There’s no inflation when the fed buys corporate bonds or bails out failed corporations. It is just propping up the market. If the fed had given that money directly to consumers we might have inflation problems. They’ll never do that. Socia
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You’re moving the goalposts. This article doesn’t say big tech is the most harmful monopoly in the USA. You made a top level comment so you weren’t responding to anyone, either. This is an article about the justice department potentially br
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This is classic Whatabout-ism. Good is not the enemy of perfect. Google and Facebook should be shattered into a thousand little pieces. And we can also look into other monopolies.
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Let’s remove the fed money printing machine and find out what real investors think of the market.
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33% of Americans would use Apple/Google contact tracing app(axios.com)
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Hate to say I told you so, but... https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-coronavirus-week-9-contact... 66% of respondents said they would not use a contact tracing app developed by a tech company. The remaining 33% may give it a
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> Okay but what happens when Apple and Google build this into the operating system, and contact tracing is always on, like the bluetooth radio, the push notification service, or OS-level location services? They aren’t doing this and have
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TheVerge is sourcing Reuters but Reuters does not name their source, either. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-tesla-batteries-exc...
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You used the 2022 number for your calculation. The estimated number for 2020 is 257 million and we can assume that is an EOY number so the actual number would be somewhere between 248M and 257M. If we assume absolute linear growth from 20
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This has absolutely no chance of working in the US. Imagine you go into an average grocery store with 100 average Americans. What percentage of people in that store have this app on a phone in their pocket? 20% of Americans don’t even own a
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Yeah that’s exactly what we’re talking about... Which includes helping people print warning labels. Gotta protect people from that. But the malware is fine.
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Google has effectively created a private monopoly on any Android applications related to Covid-19. And the last time this sort of information was posted to HN the comments section was a race to see who could do the best apology for Google.
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I just want the cost on the screen to be a reflection of the actual costs to bring food to my door. Let me make the judgement on whether I want to pay the delivery surcharge. Don’t obfuscate the true cost and silently punish the restaurants
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Elon is defying a local county order, not a state or federal order. That county does not have the right to infringe on Elon’s constitutional rights. The constitution outlines the LIMITS of federal authority and outlines protections for indi
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I would say it definitely is an argument. I recently sold my 2016 15” MacBook Pro for $1,400. It held on to nearly 50% of its value. I tend to upgrade every three years and this cuts the effective price in half. It is no different than fact
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This is generally what I’ve been seeing and hearing. Places that typically sold to restaurants are struggling while others are unable to meet demand. It’s just a failing of our supply chain systems. Lots of cheese is sold out on grocery sto
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>I'm so utterly and completely burned out by being "a patronising and evil" presence when I make the mistake of trying to actually confer real information to people. Step down from your high horse. You're just parrot
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That is a supremely cherry picked list. GTA4 was a single player game with some thrown in "community" features. Fallout 3 was a single player game. You see... we didn't ask for you all to ban dedicated servers and take on t
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It doesn't have to be perfect. Some players are incredibly good and might show up as extreme outliers but whenever I watch cheaters it is so incredibly obvious. Cheaters don't play like Shroud. They kill people with snipers tha
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It just seems trivially easy to me to just look at game stats and catch 80% of cheaters. I assume they are gathering all sorts of information to balance the game... so just use that data to catch cheaters and ban them after the game. When y
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Game companies invented this “problem” so they could extract more money from gamers. Go back 10-12 years ago and most PC games had server software and the community hosted most of the matches. The community handled the cheaters. Game compan
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This is true but we did it for a reason. Buying a car used to require 35% down, 12-24 month payments, and 10%+ interest. The average price of a new car is around $30,000. What percentage of Americans can afford a $10,500 down payment and a
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Neither side is necessarily wrong here but we changed the law to address the problems you describe. I see this as similar to the payday lending debate. Payday lenders aren’t creating demand, they are responding to it. What happens when we e
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The outcome of that will be that lending standards go up substantially. Significantly higher interest rates and required collateral. The eventual end result is fewer people able to qualify to buy a car, buy a house, get a credit card, or
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Why are all the top comments about UberEats or food delivery apps? UberEats isn't mentioned in the article at all and this has nothing to do with food delivery whatsoever. I thought I was in the wrong comment section at first... but

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