traitsnspecs

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by traitsnspecs 6y ago
I wonder how many people will die from the economic impact of a prolonged shutdown. I wonder how many lonely older folks will wish they were dead now that they can no longer receive the few visitors they had. I'd be willing to bet it&
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
Yes, and this is why - the population of investors is honestly not all that panicky. If people start dying, investors will watch the death rate, and companies' share prices will reflect some instability but it will be somewhat in line
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
Fully agreed - but I'm wondering why the solution has been less bars, not more temporary hospitals, ala China.
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
The numbers matter here. Go up by how much?
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
If we had not taken prevention measures, the economic impact would be worse? I'm very skeptical of this. Keeps in mind that the disease has a 2-4% mortality rate among hospitalized patients, and the real rate is very likely to go dow
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
Yup, my gut feeling is that follow on effects from rampant unemployment and financial insecurity will have a much larger effect (via stress-induced heart attacks, suicide, etc.) than the 3.4% mortality rate among reported cases (WHO numbers
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
I've been on a team with a super productive whiteboard user, who made ideas more clear by the ability to draw diagrams. I have also been on a team with a unproductive coworker whose whiteboard drawings were confusing, took lots of tim
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
How do people do error handling in K? Or is the data typically well-formed in real programs? Not bashing anything, I'm just genuinely curious.
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
The interesting thing to me is that they had an open-source support business getting requests to buy their services, which the salesmen dropped because it wasn't the most lucrative deal they could be doing. But presumably there's
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by traitsnspecs 7y ago
I feel the same. I do full-time ClojureScript - at least a few jobs exist! If you would like a job doing ClojureScript, email me at the address in my bio.