chadmeister

Along with Facebook, internet and cell providers. That alone would add so much value to society.

This was such an excellent way of illustrating your point. Thank you for sharing

Not peer reviewed and reads extremely politically charged. I'd hardly call this science.

These guys are just as prone to bandwagon and herd mentality as those in Venture Capital. When they're all saying the same thing I feel it's the best time to do the opposite of what they say.

Thank you this is still much better than the useless original title

Wow that was an incredible bet.

This sounds like propaganda looking to provoke NK leadership. No super secret coup is having articles posted on msn about them...or you know they'd all be dead...

There is nothing in that article or that individuals opinions supporting such a claim with any form of evidence whatsoever. This is the sort of loose claim you can recall later on and regardless of what sort of recovery we see, still be able to tell everyone that you were right.

A recession is already guaranteed as it by definition is 2 consecutive quarters of contractionary gdp. Q1 and Q2 will both see negative growth. The real question here is when it will bottom and how quick the bounce back will be. So far the means of production have not been affected in manner that will permanently reduce their productivity. However the longer this healthcare crisis goes on the more likely that is to change. Right now it looks very likely that we are able to get people back to work fairly soon, especially now that testing capacity is ramping up so that resources are more efficiently allocated to mitigate the spread and mortality rate of this disease. Note this does not require a cure, but rather a rate of infection that does not overwhelm our healthcare systems, which is near term very solvable.

Look up some Harvard Business Review Case Studies [1] to get some real world examples. Studying high level thoery out of books is pretty worthless IMO. Industries are very specialized and specific. This is really a field that is very difficult to learn without real world experience in it.

1. https://store.hbr.org/case-studies/

Look, you couldn't make a more wrong assertion. You would destroy countless more lives by keeping this quarantine going on indefinitely. Our economy would implode and we'd wind up in a situation far worse than what we saw during the great depression. We'd go into full stagflation and I guarantee the suicides alone would dwarf the possible death count from mass testing ppl with this device.

So we allocate 0.0001% of that 2 trillion stimulus package that just passed to educate and train people on it. Worst WORST case is nothing comparable to the worst case we could face otherwise. This is an insignificant problem.

This is a really interesting perspective on the result. I also share your optimism on what this will mean for the state of the pandemic, at least in the US for now. This very well could be the begining of the end of this crisis.

This sounds like a much easier problem to solve than what we're dealing with now

They're included in the bailout package that just passed [1] so no they're not going anywhere.

1. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/a-guide-t...

Looking like you are right about this. Approval ratings are up somehow: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Ah finally someone who understands basic economics. This is exactly right btw

Awful policy. The fed needed to hold off on this and the previous rate cut until Congress finally passed a useful bill. Powell had all the power to force Congress to act and he's blown it again.

Look, I'm all for affordable housing, but when viewing this within the context of a looming recession and potential financial crisis I can assure you that the last thing you want to do is add in a potential amplifier to a housing market crash. Houses may get cheaper, but everyone is going to suffer in very difficult to imagine ways. Corporate debt markets are looking scary as hell right now. If you threw a housing market meltdown at it right now, we could easily be looking at something much much worse than what we saw in '08.

It's kind of frightening to think of the broader economic impact it would have on the whole real estate market if Airbnb went belly up. Aren't there a ton of cases where people are mortgaging multiple homes and paying them off with the revenue they generate? That cash just dried up over night and there doesn't appear to be any incoming federal support.

Edit: Look, I'm all for affordable housing, but when viewing this within the context of a looming recession and potential financial crisis I can assure you that the last thing you want to do is add in a potential amplifier to a housing market crash. Houses may get cheaper, but everyone is going to suffer in very difficult to imagine ways. Corporate debt markets are looking scary as hell right now. If you threw a housing market meltdown at it right now, we could easily be looking at something much much worse than what we saw in '08.

My mind is blown that the fed would cut rates again before the Senate passed that bill from the House. All they did was highlight the fact that this is a huge problem and that we have absolutely no plan in place to deal with the fall out. Powell caving to Trump's tweets is embarrassing, I've lost so much respect for the Fed.

I think you're the only person in this thread presenting arguments based on facts. I would just like to say that I really appreciate that, especially when everyone else is running around like chickens with their heads cut off like the sky is falling.

Are there any recommended resources to learn more about the design of the fabric physics simulation. The demo with the mannequin looked incredible and taking a stab at an ml algo that could learn that sounds like a fun project.

Who would've thought that an avid proponent of flat Earth theories was thoroughly unqualified to launch himself into space in a homemade rocket... I'm shocked I tell you.

What the hell have we been working on if not that? What good is an autonomous driving system that is not able to consider what happens next?!?!?!?!????

This last point on motivation is spot on! If you're gonna schedule, make sure you schedule in some time for yourself. We all need time to recharge.