Comment and Link Roundup: March 20, 2020

[brin_bellway]

We'll be formatting this slightly differently today. First, the comments/links that *aren't* COVID-19 related:

Comments on my own posts:

The one about how hard it is to control the exact phrasing of your speech

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by etirabys) Granola bars are a solution to many of life's problems.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by etirabys) Books within dreams.

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Links:

[GitHub; Wayback] (by gildas-lormeau; h/t Gwern Branwen) Tired of wrangling the file proliferation of saving webpages to HTML? Tired of the broken formatting of saving webpages to PDF? Try SingleFile! I've been testing it out on parts of my archive where I was previously making do with shitty PDFs or multi-file HTMLs, and it's been working great.

Laugh rule:
[Diaryland; Wayback] (by Grizzly and Ninja of the Clan)

Oh, and Jack liked the exercies. He thought they were fun and he likes the color yellow. He wants me to make sure I included that in this review. He likes the color yellow.

There is a blanket [cw: illness] on the rest of this post.


Comments on my own posts:

The one about beginning to get a grip on the situation

The one about the importance of moisturiser

The one about how hard it is to get my family to coordinate on quarantining

You see the what, but not the when

And so they form a single vine

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Comments on other people's posts:

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by contrarianarchon) Suitcases as makeshift shopping carts; the wonders of tinned fruit. [four comments]

[cw: food] [Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by deird1) Many people were *specifically told* they should have more toilet paper: the focus on toilet paper is not (entirely?) some weird hive-mind thing.

[Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by judiciousimprecation) The varying social acceptability of masks.

[cw: food] [Tumblr; Wayback] (OP by dagny-hashtaggart; in response to rustingbridges) Bread and the importance of storage space.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by siderea) If your temperature suddenly jumps one day by about one degree Fahrenheit, it might not be a fever: you might just have ovulated.

[Dreamwidth; Wayback] (OP by sophia_sol) The interaction of plagues and contamination-anxiety.

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Links:

Two laugh-rule entries:
[Bloomberg; Wayback crawling forbidden, but here's a Google cache] (by Matt Levine)

In general, if you are in the process of selling a business on the mergers-and-acquisitions market, the last couple of weeks have been bad for your prospects of getting a good price.

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So if you started a sales process and got preliminary non-binding indications of interest last month, there is a good chance that the ultimate price will be a lot lower than those indications of interest. Unless your business makes hand sanitizer in which case you should probably ask for a trillion dollars

[Slate Star Codex; Wayback] (by Scott Alexander)

I’m usually pretty harsh on Bay Area governments here. So I want to give credit where credit is due: they’ve reacted to the coronavirus epidemic with a level of swiftness and ferocity they usually reserve for attempts to build new housing.