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by aodin 7y ago
Having looked through more stats in the last hour, it appears I also dramatically underreported the lethality of the Spanish Flu. Some sources put it at 10-20%. It may have killed 3-6% of the world's population.
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by aodin 7y ago
Yes, seasonal flu in the US alone kills around 30,000 each year, and may have killed as many as 60,000 during the 17-18 flu season alone [1]. MERS and SARS have each killed less than 1,000 worldwide. A few things that may interest you: * Th
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by aodin 7y ago
While SARS does have a longer incubation period, typically 2-7 days compared to the common flu's 1-4 days, the "slow transmission" that you've witnessed is more likely the successful work of national and international pu
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by aodin 7y ago
I assume OP meant "last 4 reported financial quarters": 2019 Q3 139.48M 2019 Q2 (702.14M) 2019 Q1 (408.33M) 2018 Q4 143.00M Total of (827.99M) [1] [1] https://www.marketwatch.com/investin
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by aodin 7y ago
For 2013-2017, PG&E had a total net income of $6.1 billion, or about $1.2 billion a year from an average revenue of $16.9 billion [1]. Only in 2018 did they incur a loss of $6.8 billion, mainly because of the $11.5 billion in charges fo
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by aodin 7y ago
What gives you that impression? Arguably, it was his early $700 million parachute that undermined the WeWork IPO.
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by aodin 7y ago
For an article with quite a few numbers, it seems to be missing some basic ones: * Taiwan, area 36,197 km^2, population density 651 / km^2 [1] * California, area 403,932 km^2, population density 97 / km^2 [2] [1] https:/&#x2
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by aodin 7y ago
I think the best summary of Yang's view of UBI comes from his own FAQ [1]: > We are experiencing the greatest economic and technological shift in human history, and our institutions can’t keep up. Without the Freedom Dividend, we wi
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by aodin 7y ago
> over the very long term, automation probably has played a role in limiting manufacturing’s share of employment in the U.S. Factories really have become more advanced and efficient since, say, the 1970s. Can anyone at Slate read a chart
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by aodin 7y ago
You can read the study here: http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/driverless/ "Autonomous trucks could replace as many as 294,000 long-distance drivers, including some of the best jobs in the industry. Many other freig
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by aodin 7y ago
PG&E filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protections on Jan. 29th of this year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Compa...
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by aodin 7y ago
You're arguing against a straw man. I agree with you: PG&E has acted terribly. The attempted executive bonuses (currently being denied by a court) and stock buybacks ($250MM in F'18, $395MM in F'17, and $968MM in F&#x27
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by aodin 7y ago
Exactly, the question we should all be asking is how it got to this point. I reckon you'll find a lot to blame with both the utilities and state government, and the existing incentives for both. However, to your point about LADWP, I th
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by aodin 7y ago
The dangerous combination that warrants blackouts is high winds, dry brush, and exposed live wires. While this combination is more likely in a desert, it's not true of all. For instance, the Salt River Project that oversees electricity
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by aodin 7y ago
The intensity of these blackouts is driven not just by weather, but by a major change in risk assessment by the utilities. PG&E, the utility that services most of northern California, was sued by a number of insurance entities after it
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by aodin 7y ago
The issue at hand is dry brush and trees being blown across live wires and sparking wild fires. The blackouts are targeted at the areas where this is most likely to occur. Namely, not heavy urban areas. Although not as widely reported, SoCa
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by aodin 7y ago
The failure of gendarme knights at Mohács is probably the most salient point to the original topic. The Hungarian forces were clearly obsolete. That fact had been profoundly demonstrated over a year earlier with the French failure at Pavia.
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by aodin 7y ago
> The Houthi spokesman, Yahya Sarea, told al-Masirah TV, which is owned by the Houthi movement and is based in Beirut, that further attacks could be expected in the future. > He said Saturday's attack was one of the biggest opera
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by aodin 7y ago
Over 660 years before the Battle of Nicopolis, the French under Charles Martel defeated the Umayyad Caliphate at the Battle of Tours[1] using phalanxes of heavy infantry against lightly armored Arabian calvary. The difference being that the
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by aodin 7y ago
The change in job description from just "operations" to "developer operations" over the past decade is best captured by the growing number of systems that must be managed per person, often larger by a factor of 10 times
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by aodin 7y ago
RemovedInDjango30Warning inherits from the python built-in DeprecationWarning, so it can ignored on the command line with: python -Wa -Wignore::DeprecationWarning The above, however, will ignore all DeprecationWarning warnings. You
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by aodin 7y ago
When Jack White (of the White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and more) opened Third Man Pressing in 2017, he had the first vinyl pressing machines built in over 35 years. The machines were build by NEWBILT in Germany [1]. Third Man Pressing'
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by aodin 7y ago
> B Corporations have no special legal standing You're correct that B Lab's certification has no special legal standing. A "benefit corporation", however, is a recognized legal entity in many US states [1]. Patagonia
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by aodin 7y ago
I read your original comment as you wanting more references to 'consumer', which, of course, I found a bit odd.
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by aodin 7y ago
Patagonia is also a B Corp [1], and it has a legal obligation to the mission statement that you've mentioned, not just maximizing shareholder value. I think the parent comment is just snidely remarking that the C Corps that have signed
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by aodin 7y ago
What distinction are you making between the two?
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by aodin 7y ago
$1.1 billion cash https://www.businessinsider.com/yahoos-board-approves-11-bil...
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by aodin 7y ago
Women's dominance of open water long distance swimming is mostly from the higher natural buoyancy of body fat rather than any sex specific ketogenic effects. https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/the-obscure-enduranc
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by aodin 8y ago
As others have pointed out, Michigan has had a 10 cent deposit since 1978 and consistently has redemption rates over 90%, even hitting 94.2% in 2014: http://www.bottlebill.org/legislation/usa/michigan.htm The fear
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by aodin 8y ago
Marc Lore, the founder of jet.com, is currently the CEO of Walmart eCommerce U.S. Are you an insider? Where have you heard that Walmart was unable to use any of the jet.com technology?

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