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by jdm2212 6y ago
Ah, makes sense. Thanks for clarifying. Those reports struck me more as "normal big company issues" than "shit show" but maybe I'm a bit jaded.
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Did Bezos care about warehouse worker safety when he ran things day to day? I thought there have been sporadic reports of warehouse worker mistreatment going back years, like that story about the one warehouse that had to have an ambulance
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by jdm2212 6y ago
You can make this argument more general (and IMO, even more ridiculous): Fossil fuels are global commodities. Anyone who reduces their oil consumption is reducing demand for those global commodities, which makes them cheaper. Making them ch
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by jdm2212 6y ago
The IFR is estimated to be something like 1%, so the direct effect on housing will be not that large, and also the surviving spouses will continue to occupy the home. At least in the US, pensions and social insurance generally get redirecte
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by jdm2212 6y ago
This is sort of a "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded" criticism. Huge delivery times are because they're getting so many orders (which means so much revenue, which means so much profit).
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by jdm2212 6y ago
> perceived shit show Honest question: what are you talking about?
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by jdm2212 6y ago
Why would AI solutions help the fossil fuel industry burn more oil and gas? The fossil fuel industry sells oil and gas to others to burn, it doesn't light the stuff up itself for fun.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
My wife and I are planning where we'll settle down based on where there are direct flights to see our parents, so, yes, people do that.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
FWIW Google hiring is just generally really slow. Give it a few more days.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The Obamacare rule about preexisting conditions was specifically to fix the individual insurance market. The pre-Obamacare individual insurance market was really broken -- you need the "three-legged stool" (pre-existing condition
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> The biggest moral hazard is in colleges. The boards of colleges justified higher expense structures in the name of trying to win a zero sum rankings game. That's not what "moral hazard" means.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
If the entire effect were guaranteed to be attributable to the magnet intervention with 48% as the baseline likelihood of remission, the p value is ~0.0003. That's just math. The question is how believable it is that the entire effect
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> I think there is a very good chance that some effect holds up. Huge RCTs with many thousands of subjects only sometimes find effects for SSRIs which are the first thing doctors prescribe for depression after telling you to go get some
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The paper doesn't claim to be proving efficacy, just safety and feasibility. But university PR office gotta PR.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Either this will win the Nobel Prize, or it won't hold up. (Guess which one is more likely.) A few reasons I don't think it will hold up: - this is a university press release - N = 21 - no control group - no blinding - university
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The goal of establishing a lower bound is to inform decision-making. A lower bound of 0 is trivially true and doesn't help decision-making. A lower bound of 0.5% rules out some policy options, though -- in America, it means over a mill
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Anecdata: I've taken three cruises over the last twenty years, and the obesity rate on those was an order of magnitude higher than what I see in my everyday life as a coastal yuppie -- the only other place I've seen that many peop
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by jdm2212 7y ago
That's how research works. You have to wait for the researcher with the right skill set to attack the problem in the right way. Sometimes it takes a few years.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> When penicillin was first isolated in 1928, there was so little demand for it that it took over a decade before anyone even bothered working on a way to commercialize it. That's false. Penicillin was discovered in 1928. It took un
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The same concern applies to any American company with Chinese offices, including Google, Facebook, etc.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Their employees are mostly American, as I originally stated. Their engineers are not. Huawei USA is almost certainly majority controlled by Huawei China, whereas Zoom's Chinese subsidiary is almost certainly majority controlled by th
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The concerns about TikTok are that it's potentially Chinese government spyware because TikTok is owned by a mainland Chinese company which has legal obligations to the Chinese government. Zoom is a US company that is not answerable to
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by jdm2212 7y ago
> zoom may or may not be a witch (im no China apologist Zoom is an American company, headquartered in the US, employing mostly Americans, subject to US law, etc. Its CEO is an immigrant, but that's true of half the American tech c
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by jdm2212 7y ago
It actually works, which sadly makes it way above average. I've had to switch off between WebEx, Zoom and Hangouts for the last month and Zoom is head and shoulders above the other two in terms of usability and call quality. And there&
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by jdm2212 7y ago
FWIW Yelp's page specifically says "but don't just take our word for it" and links to independent reporting: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sandraeallen/is-yelp-evil-or-just-mi...
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Still not clear how it relates though. A dollar is a dollar is a dollar. It's not like old dollars are gold and QE dollars are copper.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
The exclusivity bit is what I was referring to. The only reason [1] to make it US-exclusive is to boost reelection prospects. [1] There are other, way dumber possible reasons but I guess I'm trying to be charitable. He might not be abl
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Pretty unlikely that a German newspaper reporting what it heard from German government sources is Chinese propaganda.
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Gonna go out on a limb and say this is a (dumb) Trump ploy to get reelected. If only America has a vaccine, then in the run-up to the election he'd talk about how much better we're doing than the rest of the world and hope every
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by jdm2212 7y ago
Yeah, "beds" are a proxy for overall resources. If they just needed beds, they could just order some from Casper or Ikea or something.

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