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by bb2018 6y ago
Perhaps it would indulge the conspiracy theories too much - but I'd kinda love to see an actual breakdown of how something like this could ever make him money. Think of the huge amount of money he has lost from this in the other busine
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by bb2018 6y ago
Yeah - Id love to know if there are any cases where someone was sick enough that they were treated, recovered, and then got sick enough they need actual treatment again.
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by bb2018 6y ago
I feel like the source of the virus has become too politicized in most reporting and I'd really like someone with expertise to weigh in on what the unknowns truly are. The Newsweek source is a professor who says "it is not support
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by bb2018 6y ago
NY still has their old number of "confirmed deaths" which they were using previously and continue to report as a separate number from "probable deaths". The article linked to doesn't mention that but what NY is doin
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by bb2018 6y ago
This number included "probable" deaths that had not been included before. This is an improvement in seeing the totality of the situation. However, if you want to track change you can see deaths by the old methodology are level: h
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by bb2018 6y ago
Not exactly a scandal there...I would hope that a congressional staffer would handle all mass communications with constituents.
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by bb2018 6y ago
This is pretty interesting. I think it may be slightly overconfident in the sense that the data is still not super granular and there aren't too many other data points of comparison (geographic restaurant data, work data, etc.). Howeve
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by bb2018 6y ago
Do you have a link to that? I'd love to know more about why this would be the case.
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by bb2018 6y ago
This is extremely ridiculous. It would be like if every time you paid your taxes your forms said "Please make your check out to the order of Donald Trump"
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by bb2018 6y ago
I'm not too sure reinfection is as important mathematically as some think when you realize the goal will be to operate below a threshold of cases, not eliminate covid entirely.
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by bb2018 6y ago
If there are zero people who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have the same name. If there is at least one person who cannot tell two colors apart, they should have different names.
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by bb2018 6y ago
A) Saying the "last three months" is intellectually disingenuous because the virus hadn't even been introduced to most states three months ago. I'm sure in some areas more people have died in the last three months from s
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by bb2018 6y ago
If the lettuce killed people and then everyone who interacted with the people who at the lettuce also got sick and the economy had to be shut down the United States would strictly ban selling lettuce immediately. If China can enforce the la
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by bb2018 6y ago
I feel like it is completely speculative as you said and I am not conspiratorial at all. Because China is so secretive and has already been known to punish people for reporting on this it seems likely that these theories will only increase
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by bb2018 6y ago
Agreed. "Flattening the curve", at least in its original meaning, has to do with the new case total. Additionally, it is very hard to detect recent changes in a state's results on the cumulative chart.
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by bb2018 6y ago
This poll was conducted by a very conservative group and interviewed as many republicans as democrats. It made no effort to adjust for likely voters so I don't see the point of rewarding this.
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by bb2018 6y ago
Perhaps I am heartless, but what percent of people believe Amazon should not ship non-essential items? I would guess very low. Amazon has prioritized essential items - but this was due to a surge against their capacity and it is a positive
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by bb2018 7y ago
Buybacks serve the same role as dividends. A company takes money they have no need for and instead of giving it to investors in the form of dividends (which is taxed) they buyback stock. As a shareholder you don't end up with cash but
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by bb2018 7y ago
This will obviously be studied for years but I imagine plotting taking "total deaths in region X for time period Y - total deaths in region X given comparable previous time period Y" will give a pretty good estimate of the complet
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by bb2018 7y ago
Does anyone have a good explanation for the statistics of these types of data. For instance, I've heard keep six feet away. However, I assume six feet is the distance where the chance of contracting is <0.1%, at five feet it is 1%,
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by bb2018 7y ago
I don't get this. I do not think she is being corrupt in any way by why invest/trade on such a high-profile stock (or allow your investment team to trade on such a high-profile stock) when you are arguably the most powerful Democr
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by bb2018 7y ago
I think it is a bit misleading. A college may reasonably come to the conclusion that a certain percentage of their alumni contributions are because of a high-profile sports program. Additionally, at many schools alumni networking revolves a
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by bb2018 7y ago
This was very surprising to me! Canada is also extremely high at 97% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_rate
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by bb2018 7y ago
I sort of wish there was more polls on issues like this. What percentage, of the general population, thinks it is beneficial to have security cameras share information with the police? My house was broken into a couple years ago. Windows sm
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by bb2018 7y ago
Elizabeth Warren is the author of a book called The Two-Income Trap - which is mostly apolitical and talks about an interesting economic/statistical paradox. If a man and woman make equal amounts in a marriage, they are twice as likely
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by bb2018 7y ago
I'm a really naive when it comes to tax law and a lot of economics statistics - but I'm having trouble seeing this. If I am a waiter who made 35,000 in reported income and 10,000 in unreported income I made 45,000. I can take the
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by bb2018 7y ago
Adjacent to this, has anyone ever seen statistics/estimates on income percentiles of illegal/underreported income? I've always wondered about this as a huge portion of jobs is based off tips or cash transactions (servers, con
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by bb2018 7y ago
This is clearly not true - if you are making that much and are a constant (but not even especially frugal) saver you will have 10M by the time you retire. The top 1% includes people of all ages - including people collecting paychecks their
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by bb2018 7y ago
I sort of wonder this too. The logic seems simple. Companies are attacked for being bad for the environment. In ways such as fossil fuel consumption it is impossible for them to change. However, in ways such as making packaging slightly lig
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by bb2018 7y ago
It is a complete waste of time in many ways but every once in a while I will log on and take a couple surveys while watching a rerun of something before bed. I used to do some survey design/analysis in academia and sometimes it is inte

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