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chadmeister··on The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility
Along with Facebook, internet and cell providers. That alone would add so much value to society.
chadmeister··on The evidence behind putting money directly in the pockets of the poor
This was such an excellent way of illustrating your point. Thank you for sharing
chadmeister··on 6ft Is Not Always Enough: How Saliva Droplets Spread Through the Air
Not peer reviewed and reads extremely politically charged. I'd hardly call this science.
chadmeister··on Wall Street heavyweights are sounding alarm about stock prices
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.
chadmeister··on 4D Toys: how objects bounce and roll in 4D – paper accepted to SIGGRAPH 2020
Thank you this is still much better than the useless original title
chadmeister··on Harvard professor rides 170x return in Moderna stock to become a billionaire
Wow that was an incredible bet.
chadmeister··on A secretive group trying to bring down North Korea’s regime
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...
chadmeister··on Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?
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.
chadmeister··on Ask HN: Are we looking at a recession ahead?
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.
chadmeister··on Ask HN: How to self study management, especially supply chain management?
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/

chadmeister··on FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
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.
chadmeister··on FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
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.
chadmeister··on FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
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.
chadmeister··on FDA grants emergency use authorization for 5-13 minute Covid-19 test
This sounds like a much easier problem to solve than what we're dealing with now
chadmeister··on Ask HN: Will this be the end of Airbnb?
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...

chadmeister··on 3.28M file for U.S. jobless benefits
Looking like you are right about this. Approval ratings are up somehow: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
chadmeister··on Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets
Ah finally someone who understands basic economics. This is exactly right btw
chadmeister··on Federal Reserve pledges asset purchases with no limit to support markets
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.
chadmeister··on Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
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.
chadmeister··on Airbnb Racks Up Hundreds of Millions in Losses Due to Coronavirus
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.

chadmeister··on S&P 500 drops 9%, extending losses after 15-minute trading halt
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.
chadmeister··on Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet
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.
chadmeister··on Machine Learning, Kolmogorov Complexity, and Squishy Bunnies (2019)
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.
chadmeister··on Death of rocket man ‘Mad Mike’ Hughes ends years of close calls
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.
chadmeister··on Servers for an Accelerated Future
"Notably, for the first time, Intel is not inside. We are not using their hardware for any major server components such as the CPU, board, memory, storage, network interface card (or any type of accelerator)."
chadmeister··on The Next Leap in Self-Driving: Prediction
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?!?!?!?!????
chadmeister··on Ask HN: Schedule of a solo founder?
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.
chadmeister··on Windows vs. Linux Scaling Performance with AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
The juicy bits:

"From all of these benchmarks, the geometric mean does show that the Windows 10 Enterprise does perform better than Windows 10 Professional on this HEDT processor particularly at 32 cores and above. Going from 16 to 128 threads on Clear Linux was 3.3x the performance with the tested software to Windows 10 Enterprise at 2.7x. At 16 cores, Linux was just 7% faster than Windows 10 Enterprise with these benchmarks but when taking full advantage of the chip at 64 cores + SMT, Linux was 29% faster. Going from 64 to 128 threads with SMT on Linux led to a 15% boost while Windows 10 Enterprise saw just a 7% boost overall. So, yes, for those wishing to take full advantage of the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, so far Linux is offering much better performance assuming your software is natively supported outside of Windows."

chadmeister··on OpenSSH 8.2
Very enlightening. Thank you for explaining this. Are there any resources you might recommend to someone looking to learn this stuff more in depth?
chadmeister··on Coherent spin control of s-, p-, d- and f-electrons in a silicon quantum dot
This is seriously super cool. Thank you for explaining!
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