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by chvid 6y ago
I have been following unherd for a bit and while they are on the let's do as the Swedes side of things, this is wellreasoned long form interviews with established experts and opinion makers. I don't understand mechanism on why som
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by chvid 6y ago
You can also read the same story in the South China Morning Post if you want to see a different angle: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3085412... Two Sessions 2020: Beijing will anno
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by chvid 6y ago
Where is this? Would your friend not qualify for some sort of government payment?
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by chvid 6y ago
Given that Facebook has a market cap of 650 B the valuation sounds reasonable ... maybe even cheap.
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by chvid 6y ago
By the looks of it, this is major news and a big escalation of the US China "trade" war. But I notice this: "TSMC shares in Taiwan were down more than 2% in Monday morning trade, while the benchmark index was down less than 1
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by chvid 6y ago
The truth is that in the current situation most restaurants should not be in business. And the fees charged by delivery services are artificially low due to the high level of competition and all the investor money.
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by chvid 6y ago
Judging from the chart at p. 11 age is really the dominant factor. Moving the "hazard ratio" from 0.25 (<50) to 10+ (>80). Completely dwarfing other factors such as sex, obesity, and various health problems (that the study h
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by chvid 6y ago
I can see from the comments that it is being celebrated here.
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by chvid 6y ago
Taiwan is strategic to the US-China battle because it is strategic to China; if Taiwan reunites with China, China will have full access to the Pacific.
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by chvid 6y ago
I can see some American politicians are celebrating this as a blow to (communist) China. But is this not hurting Taiwan in a major strategic long term way? And risks turning the whole island towards mainland. And for the ones celebrating &q
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by chvid 6y ago
Therefore it follows: everything is software and we are all living in a simulation.
732.
by chvid 6y ago
If I was told to work from home forever, the first thing I would do would be go and find a co-working space.
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by chvid 6y ago
I use them regularly and given what they cost they are great. Just follow their rules and use the app.
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by chvid 6y ago
“Let’s be clear: Without a coronavirus vaccine, we will never be able to live normally again. The only real exit strategy from this crisis is a vaccine that can be rolled out worldwide.” Worldwide? It is fair to expect this will take years.
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by chvid 6y ago
You can go outside and have a smoke ... that helps too ...
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by chvid 6y ago
In Denmark in the 80es we had similar companies such as Regnecentralen and Dansk Data Elektronik creating business focused "micro" or "mini" computers. Big and innovative companies at their time but suffering about the s
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by chvid 6y ago
But that would be a quite a different app from what is described here; as far as I can see self-diagnosis is how you use the app.
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by chvid 6y ago
For example (from the paper) in a decentralised approach how would you protect against: The targeted false alerts problem Assume an attacker wishes to target a particular user and cause them to self-isolate. They can get sufficiently close
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by chvid 6y ago
I think this is a quite reasonable design that also takes into account basic privacy concerns. I can see the central component can be used to better protect against certain spam-like attacks as mentioned under the section "Notification
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by chvid 6y ago
For: - Marketing - Delivery - Payment services 30% is actually not a lot. Delivery platforms has economies of scale when it comes to delivery, marketing, payment that the individual restaurant does not have. Therefore they are (i
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by chvid 6y ago
Midlife crisis hint: don’t ever start a restaurant.
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by chvid 6y ago
As I understand the animals that infected humans in the case of SARS and MERS where respectively civet cats and camels. Neither of those are generally bred for food consumption.
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by chvid 6y ago
You can tell from the way the Chinese authorities reacted in the beginning that they did not know what they were dealing with. Had it been a lab accident their reaction would have been quite different. Also as I understand it. Bats acts as
744.
by chvid 6y ago
The two sentences you quoted are completely correct. In fact claiming the opposite would be kind of ... stupid?
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by chvid 6y ago
For comparison China’s gdp fell by 6.8% in the same period.
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by chvid 6y ago
Curious that this video gets removed given that YouTube is chuck full of COVID19 videos that are wrong, dangerous, racist (often at the same time), some with millions of views, all fully covered in random advertisement.
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by chvid 7y ago
The whole thing is about to be so political that everything is buried in noise. China's numbers cannot be trusted. Turkey's numbers cannot be trusted. WHO cannot be trusted. Even Germany cannot be trusted; I saw a statement from a
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by chvid 7y ago
Deaths are also counted differently.
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by chvid 7y ago
This is a good example of how terrible messy JavaScript library creation is. There is no change to the actual functionality of the library. Only in the way it is packaged, here to support something that is an "experimental" featur
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by chvid 7y ago
And the source code of the library is: function isPromise(obj) { return !!obj && (typeof obj === 'object' || typeof obj === 'function') && typeof obj.then === 'function'; }

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