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I voted "just fine same as ever was". I haven't read the coronavirus thread at all, so maybe that has shielded me from what others are experiencing.

The internet is pretty robust, the protocols are all fairly simple and straightforward, and it routes around damage fairly well. There won't be a "hack" that "takes down the internet". You might take down some companies or even cut international cables, but the internet as a whole would probably remain. I think you'd have to take out the electrical grid in a large area to completely cut off the internet to that area. But even then, some people will have satellite connections and generators.

You would think that large corporations, especially tech companies will have secure VPNs and other security measures in place. But yeah, all it takes is one idiot employee to be logging on from a Starbucks public wifi. Twitter will let some employees work from home 'forever' https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/12/tech/twitter-work-from-home-forever/

I think most people are not taking seriously the possibility of civil unrest. In the US and elsewhere. If the lockdowns are not lifted, businesses start closing, and (most scary) food grows scarce, it could get really scary, really fast. People will go from neighborly to savages in very short order if the grocery shelves go bare.

I've lost a few pounds, about 5 as of a few days ago (I didn't weigh myself today). Without my 35min commute in the morning and 45min commute in the afternoon, I find I've been starting work earlier, ending work later, yet taking short breaks throughout the day to go for short walks with my wife or do 10min on the rowing machine. Also I've been eating better (low carb) since I don't have co-workers asking me if I want to go out to eat with them. I tend to eat much better at home than I do when I go out.

Don't get it. I did not sleep last night because kids are just small stupid people. Seriously who invented these things. My wife always said that kids act like mentally ill adults. It's true. Whenever watching a group of kids playing add 30 years to their ages in your mind and picture them acting in the same way. It's hilarious. Anyway, I'm not stepping on that lady's floor.

Great show so far. I'd also recommend ZeroZeroZero (Prime)... similar feel to the movie Sicario. Also, recently added to Netflix: WACO and The Last Dance. I’m 3 episodes into ZeroZeroZero & it’s pretty intense. Really good so far. I hope it ends badly for all the main characters. My wife and I are watching "Little Fires Everywhere" on Hulu. It's pretty good, but I absolutely hate every character. I hope they all die in a fire at the end. ;D I've had that one on my watchlist for a while. I'll try it next. I may have mentioned it before but Soundbreaking is a great series on the evolution of music technology & production. If I remember right, you play? Super inspirational! At one point they discuss the popular "disco sucks" movement, which I bought into, where synthesizers, vocoders & sampling were viewed as heretical. Fast forward 30ish years & here I am with a Yamaha MOXF8 experimenting with features those guys could only dream of. Awesome. I'll look for that one. Thanks. And I was exaggerating a little about Little Fires Everywhere. I hope the youngest rebellious daughter Izzy survives, everyone else can die horribly though.

Great show so far. I'd also recommend ZeroZeroZero (Prime)... similar feel to the movie Sicario. Also, recently added to Netflix: WACO and The Last Dance. I’m 3 episodes into ZeroZeroZero & it’s pretty intense. Really good so far. I hope it ends badly for all the main characters. My wife and I are watching "Little Fires Everywhere" on Hulu. It's pretty good, but I absolutely hate every character. I hope they all die in a fire at the end.

Some things never change

"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations" --David Friedman, "The Machinery of Freedom".

I watched that a few weeks ago just to see what everyone was talking about. You know it is nonfiction, because you couldn't make these characters up.

The Innocence Files on Netflix. Very well done documentary on people who have been wrongly accused and convicted, but heartbreaking to watch. Every 2 episodes is a about a new case. So it is really like a collection of 2-eppisode long stories. My wife couldn't finish the series, she said it was just too sad and infuriating to watch. The corruption it shows in the justice system is just pure mind-mindbogglingly evil. The widespread corruption of police, prosecutors, and judges coupled with the unreliability of witnesses, and the junk forensic "science" and it is a wonder the justice system ever gets anything right at all.

I just can't wait until I can drive around and search for which gas station will pay me the most to fill up my car.

I really hope that our company won't institute "grab a temp desk" office. This totally sucks (as do open plan offices). My cube is my castle. That wouldn't bother me at all if I could work from home most of the time. There is nothing in my office I care about or need. If I have a mouse & keyboard and a couple of big monitors, and as long as it's a cubicle and not an open office, I'm good.

One thing I've noticed now that I've talked to quite a few people about this subject (co-workers, family, friends, and neighbors) is that personality has a lot more to do with it than anything else. Introverts love it (I definitely fit into this category) and extroverts absolutely hate it. I've talked to a lawyer who works in Boston and has about an hour commute and she just loves working from home (she's an introvert), yet my uncle who also works in Boston as an executive in an insurance company, but lives in Rhode Island with an EXTREMELY long commute can not wait to return to the office. He can't stand working from home, just absolutely hates it. I think it works for some jobs and not others, but it also works for some personalities and not others.

We've got a runner (make sure to watch full screen with sound) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64UJ2vhsG8k&feature=youtu.be

Actually I misspoke. whatever method you use to group people, you will find that most of them suck and some of them don't. Because regardless of age, race, religion, IQ, location, gender, nationality, political opinions, hight, hair color, skull circumference, shoe size, favorite color or any other category you can think to put people in, most people suck. It is those few who don't who make everything work and are worth listening to, spending time with, and learning from.

Yeah, the so called greatest generation brought socialism to America, every generation sucks in some way, but people aren't all the same. I don't think you can clump people together by age and say they are all the same anymore than you can do so by race, sex, location, sexual orientation, etc. Whatever method you use to group people, you will find that some of them suck and some of them don't.

Or the coronavirus thread. It was started fairly recently and has more posts than the Tesla thread, the Amazon thread, BAM, Google, ... I haven't looked at it in weeks, it's just too overwhelming.

Job title/description: ASIC Design Engineer Industry you work in: Semiconductor City and Country: Boston Area (live 60 miles from Boston in Southern NH, Work 35 miles from Boston in Northern MA). Anything expected or unexpected from being forced to work from home: Nothing unexpected. I've worked from home a lot in the past already. On snowy days, when I wasn't feeling well, or just when I had an appointment during or after work hours. Many of my co-workers work from home from time to time as well. The difference now is that we are all doing it everyday. We've been using skype (mostly for IM and some audio and sharing of desktops to discuss things) to keep in almost constant contact with each other. Zoom for larger meetings with slides and a presenter. We successfully taped out a chip on a very tight deadline last week, missing our projected date by only 2 days. This deadline was unrealistic from the start and it was amazing that we got so close regardless of where everyone was working. All and all I don't see any productivity loss at all. Some other considerations is that my house is fairly quiet. My kids are adults, 1 lives in Florida on her own and the other works full time and is still working outside of the house. My wife is home, but she doesn't bother me while I am working. I did used to work from home occasionally when the kids were small as well (2003-2011), and I would keep the kids out of the room I was in. Back then I had a long commute and used to work from home often, but communication with co-workers was more of an issue. I had to call them on my house phone or they had to call me. It is definitely something that is doable at scale now for many jobs.

This. I was thinking about exactly this the other day. Also what happens to the inventory of all those F&B places? The commercial/wholesale food suppliers can not easily sell their stuff to the grocers I assume; packages, sizes very different. What about the farmers, do they have enough (seasonal) manpower to harvest/process everything? And what happens to all that food when governments don't allow the market to adjust to the changes? https://reason.com/2020/03/31/los-angeles-bureaucrats-barbara-ferrer-shut-down-restaurants-for-selling-groceries-without-a-permit

I was just reading something similar. This strikes me as probably the biggest reason. People are doing everything from home and the supply chain isn't set up for that (yet?). "Georgia-Pacific, a leading toilet paper manufacturer based in Atlanta, estimates that the average household will use 40% more toilet paper than usual if all of its members are staying home around the clock. That’s a huge leap in demand for a product whose supply chain is predicated on the assumption that demand is essentially constant." "toilet paper made for the commercial market is a fundamentally different product from the toilet paper you buy in the store. It comes in huge rolls, too big to fit on most home dispensers. The paper itself is thinner and more utilitarian. It comes individually wrapped and is shipped on huge pallets, rather than in brightly branded packs of six or 12." "While toilet paper is an extreme case, similar dynamics are likely to temporarily disrupt supplies of other goods, too — even if no one’s hoarding or panic-buying. The CEO of a fruit and vegetable supplier told NPR’s Weekend Edition that schools and restaurants are canceling their banana orders, while grocery stores are selling out and want more. The problem is that the bananas he sells to schools and restaurants are “petite” and sold loose in boxes of 150, whereas grocery store bananas are larger and sold in bunches. Beer companies face a similar challenge converting commercial keg sales to retail cans and bottles." https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0

The features I use most on the board are the 2 links right under your name at the top of the page: Show unread posts since last visit. Show new replies to your posts. These show you the thread titles rather than the individual posts so that you can click on the ones that interest you and ignore the ones that don't.

Financially and healthwise I am fine and my wife and kids are all fine. But I am worried and concerned for many in my extended family and others that I know. Just one example, my housekeeper for my airbnb property runs her own cleaning business and I am the only one still employing her. All of her other clients have cancelled on her until further notice. Luckily her husband is still working and she has a little in savings, but if this goes on for too long she may have to close her business and look for work. Just today I offered to pay her in advance for the next 10 cleanings so she can have some liquidity. She said that she doesn't need it yet, but if this goes on for another month or 2 she might take me up on that. There must be millions of people with small businesses in trouble or close to it.

My company gives us Dell Precision 5520 laptops with a 15" 4K display and an i7 processor. I like it and I've been working from home with it every day for the last few weeks. I have a 27" monitor hooked up to it, plus a wireless mouse and keyboard. I put my remote linux workstation on the big monitor and I use the laptop itself as a second monitor for web/email/skype/etc.