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by drtillberg 6y ago
Taibbi is not alone in this, but he's prolific, consistent and the best. If he was anything less, traditional media relentlessly would tell us about his "fake news." It says something about our moment in history that it woul
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>> [M]any Facebook team members are now questioning the moral compass of [its] chief executive .... Nothing about FB or its chief executive indicates they're using a 'moral compass.'
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>> Why are companies driving away people who make multi-thousand dollar purchases with scummy behaviour that nets them spare change? I think the problem is you have a VP of this and VP of that, each of whom are tasked to squeeze penni
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by drtillberg 6y ago
A competent lawyer can find a violation of Federal law violation in almost any impromptu government action, mainly violations of due process rights. The key substantive benefit of making such a claim, piling onto state law violations, is r
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by drtillberg 6y ago
This. Sweden's path has been conventional. The attention is coming from nations that executed extreme and even revolutionary policies of universal home arrest, "shutting" an entire nation like a coffee shop, and sending
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by drtillberg 6y ago
That's a seven day death rate. The specific shortcoming its government is looking into, according to the article, was inability to "protect care homes where half of all Sweden’s Covid-19 deaths have occurred." Sorry, don&
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by drtillberg 6y ago
For example, MarketWatch has been pushing articles for months about discrimination relative to public health measures to generate a narrative critical of the U.S. travel ban earlier this year affecting flights to and from China.[1] Closer
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by drtillberg 6y ago
My takeaway is that "news" from commercial outlets like MarketWatch (the publisher here) largely is not fact-based. Compare to reports in February about waves of anti-Asia discrimination, correspondeding to a major and ill-advise
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Everyone's situation is different. Unemployment isn't 100% and the class of 2021 won't have this gap. Think employers are rational enough to iron that out? Nah, you have more faith than me.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>its on the governments to provide the safety net until we have everything under control. Let's be clear-- there is no true safety net for middle-income professionals. We can draw down savings and cross our fingers that this resume
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by drtillberg 6y ago
If insurers or sovereign wealth funds or newly unemployed need to raise cash by selling stock then ... naturally stocks like P&G should fall with the rest of the market ... because market action is determined in all but the long run by
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by drtillberg 6y ago
13+ years ago the same academic modeler predicted 200 million deaths from a bird flu outbreak that killed 282 people in total.[1]. That's a pretty enormous error-- alarmist publicity-seeking behavior then and now, but the damage was f
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Don't discount the impact of reduction of air pollution on all causes of mortality. It's not often discussed, but every so often someone makes the connection between small particulates and heart attacks, etc.
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The balance, nuance, respect for law-- this is absent from the public discussion in the U.S.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Comments from previous threads about the Santa Clara study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22903284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22899272
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by drtillberg 7y ago
There are several variables here but it's also important to keep in mind that the 36% positive rate in this cohort presumably does not include people who had the virus and recovered.
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by drtillberg 7y ago
The Boston Globe this morning ran an op-ed advocating testing a random sample of residents to get a better sense of community-wide infection rates.[1] It's amazing that this needed to be stated in a major market newspaper four weeks
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by drtillberg 7y ago
So next does Google get to dictate ownership of the Trello account, since there's an @gmail.com login?
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by drtillberg 7y ago
One could write this article about Bloomberg ... or one could write this article about China. I think the China part of the story is more relevant and newsworthy at this point, considering how things have unfolded in the years since. The
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by drtillberg 7y ago
I would be really impressed if it were possible to control for the differences that would occur if one state did a very good job tracing potential cases and then testing them (Massachusetts), versus more ordinary blanket efforts elsewhere
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by drtillberg 7y ago
Inkscape was the only free, viable vector image (svg) application in Linux that I could find a few years ago. On the other hand, GIMP is the Linux go-to for raster imaging (everything else) but AFAIK GIMP only works with vector images by c
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by drtillberg 7y ago
I think it would be interesting to see a tabulation of all the implied government guaranties compared to the practical limits of the government to generate money by "printing" dollars. The first category is practically unbounded
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by drtillberg 7y ago
Pensions are Federally insured (PBGC). As for 401ks -- the custodians aren't at risk. So are you asking, "What if I make a bad investment in my 401k?". You lose money. Investing in a bankrupt company would be a bad investme
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by drtillberg 7y ago
We wouldn't insist that people 'stop breathing' to prevent the spread of coromaviris. It's only somewhat different to insist that we all stop living and working. Masks and gloves, plus generally keeping 6ft apart and ro
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by drtillberg 7y ago
You mean down-voting and incivility? It depends on the topic.
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As long as there are a few cases in the community-- and there always will be-- the end of each lockdown potentially will trigger a surge of cases, and thus a new lockdown. I think what is really going on here is world leaders assume China i
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by drtillberg 7y ago
Executive leadership is directive, actionable, factual, simple. It's not about taking direction-- at least not overtly-- it's about giving it. You already sound like a great person. Some great people also are leaders and execut
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by drtillberg 7y ago
The article referenced a closure of beaches. New York recently closed "parks." This is counterproductive. People need spaces in order to be socially distant. If you close all the spaces, they will not be distant.
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Studies have suggested that something like 80% of Covid-19 infections in China were not reported. In addition, recently there was credible reporting concerning the numbers of cremation urns released post-lockdown. I don't think it&#x
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by drtillberg 7y ago
This Gates dude has a 66,000 sq/ft house. Easy for him to say that everyone should just stay at home with no access to public parks and beaches. And he has a private waterfront. For the rest of us, there's no no scientific study

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