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by hkai 7y ago
Well people argue that having millionaires in the society is unethical, yet somehow they still like when millions are donated to charities.
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by hkai 7y ago
Wow. The credibility of Forbes...
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by hkai 7y ago
If that news is true, they may probably put this plan on hold for a few years until the financial damage from the stay at home thing is over. Or perhaps I misunderstand where that heap of money will come from at the height of the financial
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by hkai 7y ago
Perhaps you are correct that this is not a cause for alarm, but the way the headline and the first few paragraphs are written, it seems the author is trying to induce anxiety in people reading it, presenting heart damage as inevitable and f
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by hkai 7y ago
Flu in the US: 0.13-0.28% mortality [1] Covid-19 in China: 0.50-0.66% mortality [2, 3] I mean from numbers it is indeed not much worse than flu, but we don't know the potential extra deaths caused by running out of ICU beds. [1] https
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by hkai 7y ago
If the author discovered tslint/eslint he'd be surprised that this problem was long solved in the JS world :)
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by hkai 7y ago
Here in Hong Kong, folks have set up six mask production lines already, working round the clock to produce surgical masks. Don't know how they managed to get the equipment but kudos to them. That's because people don't hate b
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by hkai 7y ago
The variations in deaths between years is so large (over 30k deaths difference, sometimes up sometimes down) that year on year comparison may not be meaningful. You could just twist the data to prove any point, even that covid-19 reduced de
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by hkai 7y ago
Incidentally, we can also test sewage for drugs and then swat places where people consume drugs. How very helpful. It's just because we need to fight the virus! ️
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by hkai 7y ago
Or, if you use SourceTree, you don't need to struggle at all.
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by hkai 7y ago
The 2008 crisis brought us extra half million cancer deaths, according to a study in Lancet. That's only cancer! It doesn't include poverty, other disease, less funds for charities, suicides and other forms of misery. It seems we
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by hkai 7y ago
Our company instituted a smart policy that only management need come to the office because they tend to be extroverts unlike the ordinary developers
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by hkai 7y ago
Did you do the math? Somehow it doesn't work out
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China used alternative medicine to treat 96% of Covid-19 cases(xinhuanet.com)
4 points by hkai 7y ago|3 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
Arbidol is totally fake Russian medicine though, shame on China for falling for the scam.
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by hkai 7y ago
Uganda sent aid to China as well. So what. Literally anyone can send aid to anyone, often for political gains.
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by hkai 7y ago
Also there are blood tests that are dirt cheap and get you the results in 15 mins, but they are only 80% accurate
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by hkai 7y ago
I think you underestimate how easily you can be identified from your spending on that card
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by hkai 7y ago
Thanks, please give me my money, I will settle in Thailand and will never work again. I'd rather learn Chinese or violin or read books.
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by hkai 7y ago
Most airlines seem to allow rescheduling free of charge at this time? In Asia at least
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by hkai 7y ago
I was hoping to find out if it collects keystrokes but authors seem not to mention it.
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by hkai 7y ago
For us in Hong Kong, the effect of working from home was the fact that revenues and productivity plummeted, and we are now forced to take one day of unpaid leave per week while still putting in 40 hours a week and taking a 20% pay cut for t
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by hkai 7y ago
There's a single button that you install in your site and it works in Chrome and Safari, both mobile and desktop. If you have a saved credit card in your browser or apple/Google pay on your phone, it will work. Demo describes it b
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by hkai 7y ago
It is absolutely not a responsibility of businesses to effect social change. Get politics out of business and business out of politics.
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by hkai 7y ago
The stock market didn't like the news. Perhaps investors don't believe working from home is more productive.
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NTT urges 200k employees to work from home as virus spreads(asia.nikkei.com)
2 points by hkai 7y ago|1 comments
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by hkai 7y ago
I think one obstacle is that in practice, it is difficult to tell someone "your performance is bad today and you are not getting work done".
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by hkai 7y ago
I am familiar with the argument you are making, but I haven't seen that in practice. I noticed that if you give someone an extra day off or extra 3 days off, less work gets done rather than more. Here in Hong Kong we have quite a few 3
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by hkai 7y ago
No, you can't. An at-home DNA test doesn't test whether you have cancer* - it tests your chances of getting one over your lifetime. For some people, for example, there will be an 80% chance to get breast cancer during their lifeti
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by hkai 7y ago
Well for one, video calls don't really work, even with excellent internet connection. A lot of time is spent just trying to understand what the other person is saying and asking them to repeat or get closer to the mic, or mute themselv

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