triangleman

The federal funds rate is the rate banks pay when they borrow from the Fed.

The "pushing on a rope" analogy is usually used to describe how monetary policy stimulates demand but not supply. I do agree with you about asset prices.

Indeed, "atypical pneumonia" is a killer, you're basically drowning in your own blood and fluids. This can happen to anyone.

Explain.

Democracy dies in darkness... behind a paywall...

Yep, notice how in the speech how many times he mentioned China and blamed Europe for not closing off to China.

Unfortunately this kind of measure is going to increase the R0 of the virus, because some people will think "oh I see, the virus is over there, and now the president has closed off that vector."

The insurer paid about $3000 according to the screenshot. The $10,000 is an illusion but I believe it's for tax purposes. If someone gets a $10k bill and the hospital eventually writes it off, they can write off the whole 10k.

Favorited your post. Most projects are small and limited in scope. So I agree most of these extra layers are overkill most of the time.

I was pleased with his essay on discount brokerages.

It could have been cognitive dissonance. Certain segments of the population couldn't possibly be dismissing this virus as no worse than the flu, could they?

https://www.scottadamssays.com/2020/03/05/episode-840-scott-...

"Nobody under 70 has died, and over 700 people infected on that ship. So that's impressive."

That's just from randomly seeking through one of his recordings.

I'm already starting to get tired of all these frequently-restarting Nomad jobs, and I've only been at it for a few months.

I think it's worth noting that founder Russ Leatherman is still doing well for himself; for instance, he apparently has a syndicated radio spot called "Six Second Reviews".

And Hot 97

Reading this article actually had the effect of reducing my level of alarm, because it introduced the possibility that some of my household has already caught this bug in the last 6 weeks and we got through it.

To be fair, even if this new virus was equally deadly as the flu, it would be concerning. We don't have a "tamiflu" to treat it, it's more contagious than the flu, and could therefore overwhelm our health care systems.

I don't know but my wife helped out with a few tests, all negative. The number from the CDC seems low, maybe it's only the tests that were shipped to them?

For point of reference, the clinic where my wife works has been testing for coronavirus since January 25. There are many private institutions with the ability to test patients as they saw fit. I know the protocol was more focused on travel but it seems like there would have been more reports since then.

With that said, my family has indeed suffered from the same kind of persistent cough you describe, so I don't know what to make of that.

One time a Dell support install overwrote my Helvetica Neue font and it took me months to figure out why some sites looked absolutely terrible.

Not saying that you shouldn't use native fonts but man Dell threw a wrench into that idea for me.

Is there no way to resurrect the old system using the pattern described in the article?

I'm sorry can you help me understand how to stop using Join? Some examples or articles on the subject? I can't wrap my head around such a concept.

Ouch the Bitcoin example is terrible and really detracts from your argument. Currently Bitcoin is sucking value away from real economic output in the form of energy (electricity), financial speculation, money laundering, and cybercrime.

While I agree with others that Google should be able to deal with this by spending a small percentage of their revenue on better service, but probably won't...

Is there any way a site owner could switch over to impression based ads from the ppc ads for a time?

Holy freaking irony, Batman. Isn't this the guy who founded Palantir, the company enabling the current industrial/surveillance complex that will surely prevent "sclerotic" institutions from being reformed? A gay man writing in a Catholic journal about the problem of low birth rates? WTF am I reading?

Nonetheless he makes a few good points, but the irony burns!

Isn't that basically Tom's shoes' business model?

I know it's against the guidelines, but has no one here read the article? Everyone's talking about what they like/dislike about Costco but nothing about 'Costco Capitalism' as described. It's almost a confirmation of what the author was saying--"consumers only are pressured to act as ethical as their value-maximizing formulas allow them to be."

You know what was nice? They have my phone number and called me when they announced a peanut butter recall. Well it wasn't that nice to find out I'd been eating potentially poison peanut butter, but it's better than other retailers.

Bringing up Mozart is somewhat ironic, as he is basically the first pop music artist. A lot of his stuff is just catchy tunes.

Have you ever seen the film _Revolver_?

Hi draw_down, I believe you are shadowbanned on HN. Just thought you'd like to know.

Hey man, I had a great retort for your self-loathing comment on that climate change thread. And then you went and deleted it!