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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
What the NAISD study and Fauci were talking about is that it accelerates time to recover (seemingly among those who were going to recover anyways), which is a big deal as that increases the hospital throughput.
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
How does this work with an asset the size of a house? Does having as little as say $5,000 in the house when the the other lender has $200,000 in give you this power to stop foreclosure?
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
Organizations most definitely still do that, including quite large ones that you might think should know better. Most large retailers have a decent amount of compute equipment at each store. Lot's of manufacturing facilities have criti
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
Ahh the old "shareholders are the only thing that matters" argument. Buybacks and dividends are not equivalent, buybacks are tax advantaged in ways that dividends are not. We've allowed numerous companies to get to a size whe
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
Ethanol is such a disaster. Is there any legitimate reason for ethanol production to be a thing outside of subsidizing mega farmers? Can we just cut them checks instead?
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
IBM may or may not be a good example, but I think the overall critique holds here. Stock buy backs weren't a thing until a SEC rule change in the 80's, this is a relatively new phenomenon and not intrinsic to a functioning market.
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
I've been wondering why there hasn't been more programs to test representative samples of individuals, just like a political poll. If I was in a Governor's or Mayor's shoes right now and I know there aren't enough r
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by godtoldmetodoit 6y ago
Get out of the VC backed world then. Plenty of stodgy old enterprises that make actual useful stuff need good IT talent, and they pay well enough. These environments come with their own set of issues, but I've never felt like I'm
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
That doesn't mean it didn't come from a lab though. "Coming from a lab" does not = man made. If they were doing research on the bats in this lab, looking to identify potential scary viruses to be ready, it is entirely po
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Tucker Carlson did a piece talking about how the bats that this jumped from do not live within ~900km of Wuhan, but that the lab in Wuhan did testing on the bats that they imported. It definitely seems plausible they were doing research on
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
It's really not though. Back when the US was a oil importer yes, but under normal market conditions we are the largest exporter in the world. The shale guys can basically flip a switch and go from 0 to millions of BPD. So we are really
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
I don't disagree with anything you are saying here, but I was heavily taken back by the statement the author made as it felt right out of the early 2000's, ignoring the last 20 years of Microsoft's shift to services and the c
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
> Since Microsoft’s other businesses are either hardware or office software, with the exception of maybe XBox’s gaming, it generally lacks operational experience in running “always on” services and preparing for unanticipated traffic sur
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
I work at a MSP that specializes in large enterprise workloads (SAP, Hyperion etc). I just don't know what the future holds for us, I'm sure the company will survive in some form due to our hospital, pharma and defense clients. Bu
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Current capacity is 500 tests a day from what I've read. That seems awfully low to me, other countries are testing thousands with a much lower population. We need to get these tests rolling out in larger numbers ASAP.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
If you'd like to help prevent people needing to use such a service, check out givedirectly.org Non-profit that just hands out cash on a regular basis to those selected to do with as they choose with 0 conditions.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
It feels to me like the US as a whole is getting more protectionist over the last decade, and that the free trade everyone is welcome, export to our market for free is seeing some massive attacks. This is a feeling shared by both the left a
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
My wife and I made the switch to vegetarian about 3 months ago, and it's been much easier then I expected. I love meat, but knowing both the health and ecological impacts I just couldn't justify my consumption anymore.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
I've been using it for about two months now, and while it takes a little getting used to, it is so much more powerful for actually getting a handle on your finances. Highly recommend. I finally feel like I have a solid handle on my bud
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
It used to be, my understanding is that these days many fracking operations are viable at $40 a barrel. The US didn't become the world's largest oil producer by producing the most expensive oil.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
I definitely struggle with the same thing, my mind just not wanting to calm down and running through a million ideas. That is not meditation though. Learning to meditate has helped me a ton in being able to calm my mind down and get to slee
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Branding is a moat. There's a reason Coke and Pepsi spend hundreds of millions on branding ads and I am sure they know there is a ROI there.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
In a Presidential election it really depends on the state you vote in. California is going team blue no matter what, Alabama team red. Voting 3rd party in one of those states is not going to change the outcome. Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
There was most certainly massive push back against industrialization. The Luddite movement being one obvious example. In the US we ended up with 40 hour work weeks, and universal high school as a government response. We will need similar la
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
I don't see how it was anti-intellectual. The reality is some combination of trade policy, automation and massive income inequality led us to electing a narcissistic reality TV star to be President. The bargain of cheaper goods in retu
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Ignore the legal aspect of this - if the technology gets good enough and cheap enough people will make their own nano-fabs and damn the laws. People would LOVE to pirate pharmaceuticals. It's an industry just begging for disruption.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Telemedicine is pretty cool. I was pretty amazed when I had a pretty nasty rash on my leg, went to my insurance site looking for a nearby doctor, and saw the "talk to a Doctor in 5 minutes option". Filled in some basic info and wa
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Yes! I'm a volunteer with them as well, great non partisan organization trying to get some simple but absolutely transformative changes done in how our Democracy functions.
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
This is exactly what Yang is proposing. A UBI by definition gives everyone the same economic floor, even the billionaires. He is also for universal healthcare. We already have public schools and roads, but perhaps I'm missing a larger
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by godtoldmetodoit 7y ago
Yes centralization of power is an issue, and our current system rewards corruption and listening to special interests. Democracy Dollars and some of Yangs other policies directly address this. His whole platform is about giving people more

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