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by cs702 7y ago
Wow, 50-70% drop in online reservations, phone reservations, and walk-in diners, compared to last year, in every country measured by OpenTable. The restaurant sector generates $3 trillion in annual sales worldwide, and provides employment t
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Thoughts on the Pandemic(gregmankiw.blogspot.com)
1 points by cs702 7y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 7y ago
> Social isolation and a declared national emergency have had an immediate impact on industries that cluster people; conferences, trade shows, airlines/cruise ships and all types of travel, the hospitability industry, sporting even
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McLaren Elva (No windshield)(cars.mclaren.com)
2 points by cs702 7y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 7y ago
Thank you. I do not enjoy flagging.
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by cs702 7y ago
True. I updated my comment.
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by cs702 7y ago
If tests indeed have such a high false-positive rate, then all estimates of fatality rate calculated by dividing over the number of individuals identified as "infected" are too low, i.e., by implication the virus is actually deadl
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by cs702 7y ago
Of course, but note that in both of your examples those limits are in place to make sure you don't inflict significant costs or damages on the rest of humankind. The limits you mention prevent you from making roads unsafe for everyone
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by cs702 7y ago
baybal2: I flagged your post because it seems way off-topic to me. Does a short update about day-to-day stock-market swings really belong on HN? Or would it be more at home at say, a Yahoo! Finance chatroom or a subreddit about stock marke
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by cs702 7y ago
I didn't even mention the words "licensing" and "banning." If a house, a car, a shirt, or a phone is offered to you for sale , and you buy it, then you should own it. FWIW, I agree with you. Please don't a
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by cs702 7y ago
When you buy a physical object, such as a home, a car, a shirt, or a smartphone, shouldn't you be be able to repair it, modify it however you want, use it for different purposes, loan it to friends, sell it to others, and so on -- yo
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by cs702 7y ago
Hopefully the collapse in lobster sales is just an isolated example in a relatively small sector of the economy, and not a portend of things to come. If more companies are forced to shut down or cut/postpone spending in response to sha
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by cs702 7y ago
Very sobering. If more companies follow Sequoia's advice and quickly decide to cut or postpone spending in anticipation of a potential slowdown, their vendors and employees will react by cutting or postponing their own spending, leadin
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by cs702 7y ago
This is the sort of "made up data that is politically convenient" that I would expect to see only from the most corrupt governments in some of the poorest, most underdeveloped parts of the world, not from the most powerful nation
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by cs702 7y ago
This is a thought-provoking piece, well worth reading in entirety regardless of your political leanings or whether you disagree with its premise. Trump is indeed waging a war on the DC establishment and its longstanding norms and practice
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A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research(nytimes.com)
1 points by cs702 7y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 7y ago
Yes. Definition of "pandemic": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic Even though the fatality rate in developed economies seems relatively low (on the order of 1%, perhaps lower), significant economic and lo
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by cs702 7y ago
Agree. That's what I mean when I wrote "for practical purposes" above... although in hindsight I could have articulated it better. Thanks!
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by cs702 7y ago
Based on an initial read, this looks like a significant breakthrough to me. I wonder if the techniques developed by the authors could make it feasible to take other piecewise linear/constant algorithms (which until now have been cons
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by cs702 7y ago
Any rules that can be gamed, sooner or later, inevitably, will be gamed. The "suspicious discontinuities" shown in this fantastic post are evidence for it. It seems to be an Iron Law of Human Nature.
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“Superspreader” in South Korea infects nearly 40 people at church with COVID-19(livescience.com)
3 points by cs702 7y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 7y ago
Sacha Baron Cohen proposed this in his widely seen/read keynote speech at the ADL's annual summit: https://www.adl.org/news/article/sacha-baron-cohens-keynote-... If you haven't seen it before, I wo
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by cs702 7y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22369039
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by cs702 7y ago
For me, it takes multiple passes too, but their quality varies significantly depending on how familiar I'm with the subject. If the subject is challenging and truly new to me , my approach is more or less like this: On the first pas
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by cs702 7y ago
Thank you. That link should be the OP. Mods?
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by cs702 7y ago
I'm predisposed to believe this is true... But I can't find a link to any evidence or research in the OP, which is a fluffy piece with little actual content. I'm flagging the OP unless someone posts a link to either evidence
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by cs702 7y ago
Love the name -- very fitting. > I said that the internals were so simple that you could implement a workable version... inside of an afternoon. So I wrapped up what I was working on and set out to prove it. Been there. Done that. With
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by cs702 7y ago
I couldn't tell you if it's "out of control" (your words), but it sure is a salient -- i.e., prominent, noticeable -- example of bureaucratic growth. Whether the "corporatization" of US high education will pr
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The Iron Law of Bureaucracy(jerrypournelle.com)
1 points by cs702 7y ago|0 comments
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by cs702 7y ago
It's part of the ongoing "corporatization" and "MBA-ization" of US colleges and universities. GW's attempt to institute a "culture" using techniques developed at Disney is just one of many possible ex

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