GhostVII

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by GhostVII 7y ago
Pretty much every freedom you give to people will cause more deaths, and that was true before COVID-19. You could make the same argument you are making now to justify requiring everyone to be tracked during a regular flu season - flu deaths
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I think it is pretty dangerous to tell the entire population that their choices are either to install an app which tracks their movement, or essentially be under house arrest. Even outside of the privacy issues, some people just don't
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I could imagine a situation where some private events or businesses require you to have a contact tracing app installed in order to go inside. Not sure if that would neccesarily be a good thing (we certainly wouldn't want essential bus
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by GhostVII 7y ago
The real gains come not from decreasing the distance travelled (sometimes the racing line does the opposite), they come from limiting the radius of the turn so you can carry more speed through. At least thats what I've learned from pla
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by GhostVII 7y ago
That R0 assumes we are taking essentially no measures to stop the virus though, right? I don't no much about it but it seems like the R0 would drop significantly if we keep doing social distancing, expand testing, make people wear mask
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by GhostVII 7y ago
It would be good to get a comparison of a brightened version of the sample image compared with the CNN version. Right now the sample image just looks black, but if you scale up the brightness you get an image that looks more like the higher
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by GhostVII 7y ago
This is not a new valuation, is an extension of their series G from last year which also had a 35B valuation.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Pretty much all of my University friends got into team matching at Google for an internship position (myself included). All of them would have taken the job, and none of them were able to because the process was too long. It's pretty a
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Fair enough, it was just an offhand comment I should have run the numbers. It looks like if you are under 50 and have COVID, you are ~3x more likely to die of COVID then to die of a car crash in that same year. So that's probably the b
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by GhostVII 7y ago
If you are elderly than you should definitely fear death. But yes if you are under 50 it's more likely you will be killed driving to the hospital than by the virus.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Nice, I always wanted to make something like this for my school notes but never got around to it. One thing that could be useful is if it would let you write longer paragraphs of text, which could be expanded on-demand. Ex. # Fruits
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Under what laws would it be illegal? I think it is completely reasonable for a company to have access to all data on company-provided accounts, so long as the employees aren't mislead into thinking it is private.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Sounds like that's what they did: The cleanup diffs I’d written that afternoon mostly just annotated clearly-intentional fallthroughs
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by GhostVII 7y ago
They disabled it temporarily ( https://status.zoom.us/incidents/16ll08mmddk6 )
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I find it much easier if I pick projects that I actually could benefit from. For example I started working on a note taking app a little while ago, because I couldn't find one that I liked. I know I will probably not get a complete ret
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by GhostVII 7y ago
The market has crashed like 25%, so yes it is priced in to some extent. Also, small businesses aren't traded on the stock market, so I think it makes sense that the market wouldn't be affected by this. In the long run, small busin
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I think most day-to-day problems are easily solved by just getting a credit card, there are lots of no-fee cards that pretty much anyone can get. They work everywhere, and have fraud protection (edit: In North America at least). For me, the
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by GhostVII 7y ago
My understanding is that, as you said, the purpose of the mask is to stop droplets from coughs and sneezes from getting to other people and surfaces. However if others cough on you when you are wearing a mask, the rest of your face is still
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by GhostVII 7y ago
That's true though, isn't it? A mask will not prevent you from getting the virus, since covering your own mouth from others coughing doesn't really help you. If you are sick though, it protects others.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
That's kind of a false equivalency. The purpose of the government is to step in when the market fails, so of course it is going to do things that support businesses and individuals which would normally have failed. However that is not
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by GhostVII 7y ago
How many workers are actually involved in this strike? The news and medium articles don't give any indication as to whether this is just a few dozen workers putting out a statement, or a larger group.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Which part of the world in particular are you referring to?
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Panic selling is generally a poor strategy. Feel free though I'd be happy to pick up some more cheap VGRO.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Job losses are expected and are priced in (which is why it crashed a couple weeks ago). The job losses were less than some expected so the market went up.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I'm not saying that the throttling is useless, just that I don't think it is due to congestion in international pipes.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
How would lowering YouTube quality help with that? Pretty sure videos are going to be served to users by CDN servers close to them.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
Except for every time you hit the brakes, they heat up and stop working after some time. There are significant economic impacts of the measures countries are taking, and the reality is people will only put up with quarantine so long. I thin
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I have a laptop with 8gb of RAM and have never had any problems browsing the internet or even playing intensive games.
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by GhostVII 7y ago
> If you're already in the market, well you're kind of stuck now. I don't think this really makes sense, unless there is some barrier to entry to selling. If you wouldn't advise someone with a free $20k to invest, why
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by GhostVII 7y ago
I think it is too early to say much about the mortality rate. 4% is an upper bound, since that is how many lab confirmed cases have resulted in death, but that doesn't account for all of the minor cases where people didn't even kn

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