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"loud pipes save lives"

I don't necessarily agree with it, but that's the common refrain yes.

I happen to entirely agree with you, but the counterargument is that a treatment (not vaccine) becomes available earlier which makes the incidence of actual lasting damage from wuflu so low as to not warrant any more shutdown.

Alameda backed off elon musk pretty fast, probably because they had little legal footing

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2020/05/13/elon-m...

There's likely to be a teary-eyed politician who goes up in front of Congress as unemployment benefits end and insists they be renewed because it's almost Christmas and how heartless must you be to take food out of an orphans mouth during the holiday season yada yada

There's a long history of this happening in the USA if you're interested: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Good-Intentions-Entitlement...

I live in Boston and drive every day still. This is anecdotal - but I've seen the same amount of bad driving as ever (largely around merging, roundabouts, and turn signal usage) but now it's at a significantly higher speed because on I-95 and I-93 you can easily hit 85 mph instead of the customary 45 mph the whole way during rush hour.

I don't have any data, but I imagine that explains the similar serious accident rate.

Is this the same general concept as in Spaceballs (1987)?

Lone Starr : Listen! We're not just doing this for money!

Barf : [Barf looks at him, raises his ears]

Lone Starr : We're doing it for a SHIT LOAD of money!

In 3 weeks I assume they re-assess and could very well leave restrictions in place

I had assumed that as well. No reason things will look better by then, and the preventative measures taken in that time probably won't sufficient enough to otherwise resume normal life either.

Also, the cynic in me says that the government class wants to get people used to the idea of a shelter in place piecemeal, because it might not go over as well if they said 1 month straight out of the gate.

Love the quotes on this. Those individuals you're asking are guaranteed to be risk averse from a game theory perspective, rightly or wrongly (probably rightly here).

Don't just call, get it in writing if you're in the USA. At the very least record that call if it's legal to do so in your state, but that's problematic for other reasons.

When the hospital decides after the fact to bill you thousands of dollars you won't have much of a recourse besides telling your family members to ignore the calls from aggressive medical collection agencies at 3am.

username checks out

This is incorrect, it was somewhere during/after the 2008 recession that these circuit breakers went into effect (because I remember they didn't exist at that time)

Commercial aviation had barely begun when the Spanish Flu occurred, and the world was nowhere near as connected.

Kazaa was chock full of adware and possibly full-on malware and centralized solutions like Napster were shutdown. Still using Usenet to this day tho..

I'm not defending the US healthcare system, which is deeply broken, but the particular statistic on infant morality rate can be deceiving. For example:

"...very low-birth-weight infants who are at high risk of dying within the first day tend to be counted as live births. In countries where the health care system does not place the same emphasis on neonatal intensive care, the outcomes of such pregnancies are not likely to be recorded as live births. Hence, it appears that the more resources a country's health care system places on saving high-risk newborns, the more likely its registration will report a higher IMR" [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193257/

7. California housing market will collapse due to high electricity prices, lack of electricity and wildfires

Hope you're right about the CA housing market coming down, but I think more likely is just that Gavin Newsom and ilk get booted out for their failures to reign in PG&E and housing prices aren't particularly effected one way or the other.

Wildfires are generally not in the densely populated areas, so I don't think they'll move the needle much.

Netflix doesn't quite belong with the others but FAAG is a more problematic acronym and FAAMG isn't pronounceable.

I've also seen GANDALF (google amazon netflix dropbox amazon linkedin facebook), but dropbox probably doesn't belong in that list. There's plenty of backronyms, but one ends up just hitting critical mass.

Google is typically very lenient on harmless offences

I know somehow who got fired from Google for taking a half gallon on milk home, because it was late and he didn't feel like swinging by the grocery store.

True. Typically property taxes are to fund things at a local level though, and not sent back to the federal government for massive programs.

My biggest issue with a wealth tax on the super-wealthy is that it would quickly morph into a wealth tax on everyone above lower-middle class.

Old article but the numbers have scaled proportionately...

"If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode." [0]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/danbigman/2012/04/03/john-stoss...

Europe's negative interest rates

Couldn't believe it, so I looked it up https://www.ft.com/content/74573de6-0a15-11ea-bb52-34c8d9dc6...

that is bizarre

> Also, governments are finding new and creative ways to put new taxes on already legal money.

In addition to the soft tax of excessive inflation mentioned by the other poster, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed wealth taxes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wealth-tax-definition-explai...

You can agree with that or not morally, but it is by definition a tax on already legal (and taxed during income) money.

Check Point wanted to tamper with the code responsible for calculating hash block signatures or for comparing segments of hashes with verified ones to trigger an exploit.

So fundamentally it's a parsing exploit on untrusted user input. They should have been able to simplify and test this mechanism extensively enough to not have this type of vulnerability, because it doesn't sound like researchers even had to go to the level of the timing attacks that came up recently in a related area [0] [1].

[0] http://tpm.fail/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21520074

That would be funny. An arms race of cancel-out fakes.

There's some quote (I thought it was Peter Thiel but can't find it now) along the lines of "when they mention how important diversity is, ask them how many conservatives there are" at silicon valley tech companies.

If a non-negligible subset of Facebook users already believe questionable articles from non-reputable sites, imagine how much worse it'll be when it's a seemingly real video of a politician saying something.

Presumably you don't pull shenanigans like this if you actually have any savings to lose.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/what-does-judgment-p...

Latinx is a gender-neutral neologism, sometimes used instead of Latino or Latina to refer to people of Latin American cultural or racial identity in the United States.

Colorado [0] and Idaho have this going on as well in conjunction with miniature tech booms. Although probably not to the same extent as Austin.

[0] https://pagetwo.completecolorado.com/2017/12/15/colorado-has...

I'm not interested in starting an American women flamewar.. but I've traveled extensively in the developing world for work, and I'm pretty sure that women in other countries would be much more inclined to accept an age gap with that type of net worth.

I don't have hard statistics and won't try to look them up.

year round fire season

I'm not sure if this is referencing the current predicament in California (which Gavin Newsom is attempting to blame on climate change [0]), but if so the reality is closer to...

-failure to carry out proper controlled burns [1]

-corrupt California legislature being heavily backed by PG&E lobbying [2]

-those same California politicians not reigning in PG&E [3]

-and a couple other more minor things.. maybe including people living in risky areas [4]

The sea level change of 3 inches over the last 25 years, while ultimately an issue, is a cop-out for political failings in California right now.

[0] https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/10/28/...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2018/11/16/californ...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/us/pge-california-politic...

[3] https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/PG-E-plans-near...

[4] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-28/kincade-...

Legal residents of a country choosing to relocate to a new city is a different issue than the enforcement of national borders.