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6y ago
It is just my personal opinion but if I was in a position to plan for the upcoming academic year in US, I'd recommend below. - Start Fall semester with onsite classes. - For those who wish to participate remotely for medical reasons or
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>> 2. For landlords who cannot sustain the loss of cash flow, offer to buy them out at market price and then hire them as property managers for their previously owned properties. But who's going to decide on the value? And pay fo
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6y ago
I have read that S. Korea's disease control center has not approved antibody tests because antibody tests are not accurate enough. Multiple S. Korean companies submitted test kits for coronavirus for approval, and not all were approved
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6y ago
Nov through March. But barely.
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6y ago
Adam Savage (Myth Busters) once got a call from FBI because of a Star Wars movie prop (thermal detonator) he was making for a project. He meant to call his supervisor to leave a voicemail regarding the thermal detonator prop used in Star Wa
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6y ago
>> Now they said I won't be able to close on the loan and get the money until 4/24. Is they WellsFargo? WellsFargo said they won't be able to close the loan until 4/24?
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6y ago
Correction: I think COMMUTING to office work should become the norm. >> I think working from home should become the norm. Cutting down commuting will cut so much carbon foot print and also generally have a happier population.
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I respectfully disagree that airframe manufacturers should not be bailed out. Airframe manufacturer definitely should be preserved and not allowed to wither away. That kind of engineering/institutional knowledge should be preserved and
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6y ago
1. Lobbying Bribery (Korea) | Lobbyist (US) S. Korea has no concept called lobbyist. Definitely no official lobbying firms exist. So when a company or trade association wants something, it inevitably turns into something like bribery. 2.
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6y ago
Having a family at the top of a corporation does usually lead to the firm operating with long term vision more consistently. Yes, if a Chaebol style leadership was in Boeing, MD corporate leadership wouldn't have gotten the chance to
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A few years ago, annual profit of Samsung Electronics was greater than the combined profit of top 7 or 8 (?) Japanese electronic firms. Including Sony.
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7y ago
I really really wish Apple would build a replacement for zoom, that is available on as many devices as zoom is. This is a matter of national issue. This rush to remote is not something that will go away completely. I think many security min
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7y ago
https://youtu.be/gAk7aX5hksU This interview was quite helpful.
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7y ago
Honestly, I think US officials are NOT asking people to wear masks because they are afraid that it will cause supply to dry up, preventing medical staff from acquiring them. All nations that have had better result of slowing covid-19 are al
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The Korean model is test a lot, and quarantine those found infected. But that is just the beginning. The real effective tool is tracking down where the infected person had been by examining cell records, credit card records, interviews and
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7y ago
Passengers airlines making big money from shipping cargo is not new. From 2018 https://thepointsguy.com/news/how-airlines-make-big-bucks-fr... Airlines don’t make money just from flying passengers: air cargo is a big
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7y ago
Very sorry to hear your news. I heard from more than a few people that during the 2008 financial crisis, some strong companies laid off low-performers. They used the financial crisis as an excuse, to protect the company from potential lawsu
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7y ago
To all those MBAs who excelled at squeezing out the last dollar at any cost to the US society, thanks.
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7y ago
S. Korea has a very aggressive investigation of movements of infected persons. Once a person is found to be infected, they go through CCTV recordings, cellphone location records, etc and warn people who were in the same location at same tim
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7y ago
I read about 80% of the tests in S. Korea are done with Seegene test kits.
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7y ago
I would love to see you link/source. I have watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3URhJx0NSw&t=2357s with Michael Osterholm as guest. This is not a flat out lie.
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CNN article (March 12, 2020) on Seegene https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/coronavirus-south-korea-... Seegene is in talks to export of the excess test kits to 30 countries including Germany and Italy.
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I don't have the link but I read Seegene is providing about 80% of the coronavirus test kits used in Korea currently. 1. CNN article (March 12, 2020) on Seegene https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/12/asia/co
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In my opinion, S. Korea has less visible rage against inequality because of the Japanese colonialism, Korean War and the fast development of the economy since 1970s. For 500+ years before Japan occupied Korean peninsula in 1910, Korea had a
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Unemployment/underemployment has been a huge problem in S. Korea for a long time such that a college graduate getting a career track job (any like Police officer, government worker, job in a chaebol, etc) is a cause for celebration. On
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Below blog posting is old but one of the best info available in English on the Korean Healthcare system. http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2010/01/healthcare-system-in-... Some may consider the fact that Korean nati
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Invaded Chinese sovereign territory during the Korean war and got beat back into the current border of South Korea. I am pretty sure US did not invade Chinese territory during the Korean War. There are a few instances of US fighters stray
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There is an old Korean saying which is roughly translated this way: No family stays poor for three generations. And no family stays rich for three generations.
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I stopped reading news a long time ago. IF I click on a news to read, I usually head to the comments section first and don't even bother reading the news.
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Below is a comment by someone commenting on Rossmann's video on the testimonies for/against right 2 repair laws. I found it quite illuminating so here it goes. Silicon Valley has turned us into software subscribers. Now, they are
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