cjhopman

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by cjhopman 7y ago
That controversy never made sense to me. Most restaurants in the US "effectively pocket the tips" in the same way. In fact, any servers that are being paid roughly minimum wage up to minimum wage + $5 could have their tips pockete
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by cjhopman 7y ago
R0 is not a biological constant for a pathogen as it is also affected by other factors such as environmental conditions and the behaviour of the infected population. R0 being different in different places is expected. It's especially e
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> Telling countries they shouldn't close their borders for fear of "creating stigma" That's a huge misrepresentation of why WHO made those recommendations. The main point is that closing borders is ineffective and so
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by cjhopman 7y ago
For those wondering if the people minimizing this disease as nothing more than a weaker influenza are correct, here's some data from new york's hospitals: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pd
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Huh? NY is explicitly not a "shelter in place". It is a restriction only on employers, not individuals.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> My point is that the number of exclusions make this policy a joke Bullshit. You are changing your stance once it was called out as wrong. These were your examples for "I will say that lots of places are ignoring the shelter in pla
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> I'm not excusing Musk's decsion, lots of places are ignoring the shelter in place request Wow, really? Let's take a look at your examples. > Residential construction workers are still putting up drywall, laying tiles,
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Sure, but it's a good argument against calling something a "small upstart".
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Definitely wouldn't call them that. Maybe "luxury-priced electric cars".
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Well, by definition there's only one doctor in the world that first raised the issue. Other countries have done similar things. Ex. USA - silenced one of the NIH's director of infectious disease only allowing him to say what the g
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by cjhopman 7y ago
What does one have to do with the other?
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I don't understand what sort of person jumps to this response. Would you be similarly negative if FB decided to give their employees 6 months of parental leave?
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Probably not (possibly giving bonuses skirts the contractor-employee line, idk). But they are still getting paid even if they are sitting at home all day when the cafeteria shuts down and the shuttles stop running.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I suspect that for many employees, the important thing isn't even the income aspect of the 'exceeds' rating, it's the fact that they don't need to be stressed about maintaining high performance when they are dealing
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by cjhopman 7y ago
It may be tough for a company to provide bonuses directly to contractors (especially those that are earmarked for buying equipment to wfh). FB has said that they have agreements with all the contracting companies that they work with that ev
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> this is basically the worst use of the money Facebook could have considered for anything with a remotely philanthropic angle Huh, this isn't philanthropic. The $100 million they are giving to small businesses is philanthropic. Thi
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by cjhopman 7y ago
It's kind of racist to describe the chinese response as suppressing and censoring and then for others its, "well woops, we were a little slow on response".
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> It is unlikely that this virus will kill more people than die in car crashes in a single year. Let's keep some perspective. I wouldn't be so sure. Italy may hit that amount this week. Italy has 3,333 deaths from car accidents
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by cjhopman 7y ago
For some more perspective: Italy has 3,333 deaths from car accidents per year. Currently 0.04% of Italy has confirmed covid-19. They have 1809 deaths from it.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
You're right. I swear I saw some article that said that South Korean drive through would text results as fast as 15 minutes, but looking at a couple more reports just now all said 24 hours.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Chill and maybe take it slower so you understand things better. The previous post was simply quoting a (rather amusing) joke that appeared in the comments.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
How does Korea have 15 minute tests (from when a sample is collected) and we're excited about a 2 hour or 4 hour one? I'm not being flippant, I imagine that whatever korea is doing they've been open about it and we know how t
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by cjhopman 7y ago
In what way were China's statistics severely misleading. For a long time, they reported lab-confirmed cases and were upfront that this was limited by the amount of tests they could perform. In addition, they reported how many people we
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by cjhopman 7y ago
I don't think you understand. The $20B isn't the cost to make the cars, it's how much they've lost doing it. There's nobody in the world that is losing $20B making ICE vehicles, and even big daddy elon might have tr
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Haha. It's a $100 deposit for a car that'll never sell as they showed it. I wouldn't read too much into that.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
$60k that he claims is much closer to the ASP than the $35k that Tesla claims.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
Tesla has burned through more money than all of them combined.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
> why not make a car that looks more like their already successful models? Most auto manufacturers are limited to making things that are profitable. I'm sure any one of them could have easily sold a million electric cars if they wer
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by cjhopman 7y ago
The point isn't that there may be an argument that it's moral even if it's ineffective, but rather that, even were it effective there's no moral argument to be made for it.
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by cjhopman 7y ago
A lot of modern cars have some ability to see around corners. This is mostly just used to give a warning when backing out of parking and there is crossing traffic in the lane.

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