cuchoi

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by cuchoi 5y ago
Had the same symptoms both times (dry cough for 5 weeks, using inhalator, loss of smell, etc.). It could have been a very a flu very similar to COVID at the exact time NYC was locking down due to COVID?
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by cuchoi 5y ago
What made you 99.99% before reading this? I have seen plenty of experts saying that they don't know how long immunity will last. Anecdotal data: my wife and I got COVID twice 9 months apart last year. The second time my wife ended up i
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by cuchoi 5y ago
My wife and I got COVID twice 9 months apart last year. The second time my wife ended up in the hospital. We both got vaccinated as soon as we could.
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by cuchoi 5y ago
Any interest in expanding to the solar market in Chile?
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by cuchoi 5y ago
This is the biggest pain I have in Twitter. I use Twitter mostly for Statistics/Bayesian methods (in English) and Chilean politics (in Spanish). I wished people could chose which topic to follow — I don't want to SPAM people with
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by cuchoi 5y ago
But weren't circles selected by the poster? In this case the "follower" want to filter
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by cuchoi 5y ago
What would be the minimum viable hardware to give someone?
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by cuchoi 6y ago
> Corporate taxes also create huge incentive to offshore jobs to tax havens That's why Yellen is proposing a global minimum corporate tax.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Sadly still not available, do you know of any fully functional alternatives? Even if more expensive. Just surprised no one has done a Transferwise / traditional bank alternative yet considering it is one of the main publicized advantag
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Does it make sense to use BTC (or another crypto) to wire money internationally? I assume that there are fees for transforming USD to BTC and BTC to local currency, but are those higher than Transferwise or doing a traditional bank wire tra
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Bitcoin uses the same amount of energy as Argentina. I think is fair to raise the issue.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
So cool, this idea makes a lot of sense to me. I sold a data viz article to a newspaper and was surprised to learn that the biggest value we provided was compiling the (publicly available) data.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Looker is basically a SQL generator
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by cuchoi 6y ago
In the equilibrium, this would probably lower rents and increase house prices?
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by cuchoi 6y ago
This comment seems like a reasonable hypothesis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25184877
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing
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by cuchoi 6y ago
The 70% is the combined data, so probably the most reliable estimate. For two high doses, they got 62% effectiveness and for one low and one high dose they got 90%. They don't know why the latter was more effective. 70% is still a grea
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Diving into the pool (a lot of water, a bit of bleach) is very different to swimming in bleach.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
What makes you think that the implementation of dicts is a low hanging fruit? Only asking because there has been a lot of work to make them faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npw4s1QTmPg
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by cuchoi 6y ago
There are some bindings that are the same as vim (gg, G, /, i, v, etc.). But overall I wouldn't say it helps you learn vim.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Not being a pure monopoly doesn't prove that Apple doesn't have market power. Moreover I don't think people are saying that Apple has a monopoly of smartphones. The argument is that Apple is using their market power to set pr
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by cuchoi 6y ago
I think the assumption that tricks most people is that the host will never eliminate the door with the prize. Since this makes sense for a real TV show (it would kind of crappy from the host to eliminate the door with the prize) sometimes i
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Is it considered piracy to distribute a free trial?
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Which courses do you recommend?
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by cuchoi 6y ago
I meant demeaning the independent variables. My understanding is that the beta_0 will have the meaning the curiousgal attach it only if you demean your independent variables.
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by cuchoi 6y ago
The threshold would be beta_0 on every case or only when you have subtracted the mean from your data?
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by cuchoi 6y ago
> I doubt anyone would willingly buy a car when they knew upfront that it was only able to drive to xyz. Because there is competition. If there was one or two car manufacturers following similar practices you have no alternative. Some
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by cuchoi 6y ago
The risks that he mentions are not far fetched, but are probably not the biggest risks the Fed should worry about. It does make me doubt his predictions that in the 2009 financial crisis he also predicted that inflation would pick up, which
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by cuchoi 6y ago
I agree. Synthetic controls can be powerful but they are not magic wand for causal analysis. The fit on the left seems too good to be true. It could be that it using the outcome (Tesla's stock price) as part of the calibration, which b
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by cuchoi 6y ago
Caveat from the paper: "This study had several limitations. First, our sampling strategy selected for members of Santa Clara County with access to Facebook and a car to attend drive-through testing sites. This resulted in an over-repre

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