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by jlmorton 7y ago
Indeed, we're currently somewhat above the nadir in 2018 when we were all worried about the effects of 10-25% tariffs on $250 billion of US imports of Chinese products. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am definitely not f
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That's ridiculous. We're only testing people with severe symptoms and telling everyone with minor symptoms to stay home. We're not testing anyone without symptoms. And the positive test rate is 18.6%.
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Not really a fair accounting at all. Everyone points to local efforts to control information about the disease, but that lasted a couple days, not two months. Genetic analysis indicates a single index patient sometime around mid-November.
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The disease, obviously. When the disease was running rampant through Hubei, there were innumerable reports of it on social media. The WHO has had a large team of disease experts, public health experts and others in China since late January
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I mean, this is intentional. They even allow you to set your meeting ID to a well-known number, like your company's published phone number. If you want to join the all-hands meetings of a company I used to work for, you only need to g
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by jlmorton 7y ago
You're suggesting that for a small business, because the value of five minutes of a single employee's time is trifling, the small business does not care to regulate bathroom breaks. I don't really see it that way. In my view
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> Amazon is running domestic sweatshops where they don't even provide basic PPE during a global pandemic It doesn't help your argument to frame it in hyperbolic terms. Amazon pays a minimum wage of $15/hour, every warehou
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Note that China implemented a draconian lockdown in Wuhan beginning on Jan 22nd, with 571 confirmed cases. By Jan 25th, China declared a Level 1 Health Emergency in 30 out of 31 provinces, and began locking down other provinces. On Jan 26th
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I know, personally I think in the midst of the largest world crisis of the past fifty years, the prudent thing to do is let the banks all fail, which will really teach them a lesson about not properly preparing for the totally-predictable n
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I think it's pretty clear why you are insisting on calling this disease wuhanvurus and have no major complaint about H1N1. It is pathetically transparent and not a great look.
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The WHO has already named the virus SARS-CoV-2, which perfectly distinguishes it. Commonly, the pathogen is referred to as coronavirus. As I said, I don't have any particular problem with naming a virus after its location. I think it&
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Europe has given us many positive changes in online regulation, but the cookie warning is not among the positive. Please, can we get rid of cookie warning? If we we want to do something, let's regulate the path browser makers are alre
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> The common name for the virus is Wuhan virus. Except the common name for the virus is _not_ wuhanvirus. This simple fact destroys your entire point. The virus is overwhelmingly known as coronavirus, and less known by it's officia
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I doubt it. They send a push notification to your Amazon Go app immediately upon exiting the store. They then later send an email receipt, as you said, about an hour later. Because of the novelty of the store, and because it's on my
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by jlmorton 7y ago
About the same range as influenza, which is thought to be about 48 hours, but significantly longer than most common cold viruses, which remain active for only a few hours at most.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
That's because there's a popular musical artist called DDG with tens of millions of streams, because guided missile destroyers are designated DDG by the US military and NATO, and because not many people refer to DuckDuckGo as DDG.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Well, let's be clear about the timeline. Silevo was planning a factory in upstate New York, and the State of New York was planning to invest $225 million in that project. In June 2014, SolarCity agreed to acquire Silevo. Three months
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by jlmorton 7y ago
If it becomes clear that containment can't work, then it no longer makes sense to disrupt the economy and people's lives with social distancing. But let's be clear about the costs we're talking about. When we talk about
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by jlmorton 7y ago
This is a really weird take I keep hearing from people. Let's say Covid-19 is equal to influenza in every way. That is a disaster. Influenza is one of the worst illnesses we deal with. If we now have another illness continuously spr
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by jlmorton 7y ago
At this point, it's much more likely that these residents and staff were exposed to Covid-19. We know of two confirmed cases at this facility, and no confirmed cases of influenza. Given our knowledge of the contagiousness of Covid-19
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by jlmorton 7y ago
"Thus, while Betelgeuse may explode tomorrow or any time in the next few 1e5 yr, the unprecedented current visual faintness is unlikely to be a harbinger of its impending core collapse."
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by jlmorton 7y ago
The US should have a tariff on intellectual property royalty payments from wholly-owned foreign subsidiaries of American companies.
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Probably because the tax avoidance scheme involves shifting intellectual property and technology to overseas subsidiaries and then charging the parent company a large royalty. Schroepfer would be asked to testify about the actual source and
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by jlmorton 7y ago
On the plus side, in a couple years you'll have a Starlink 600mbps spot beam all to yourself.
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I think the window issue is already well-solved. Emirates has proven that virtual windows work great.
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I don't think that's necessary, and it might even detract a bit. At my last company, we built a very similar tool in-house, using LVM w/ thin snapshots, instead of ZFS. The database snapshot host would receive streaming logi
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Possible you have strict tracking protection enabled? Firefox is pretty clear this may break some websites.
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Already exists. SpaceX launched ~150 sets of cremated remains back in July, organized by a company called Celestis [1]. https://www.celestis.com/
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Murder rate per capita: ...in the US: 5.35 per 100k ...in India...: 3.22 per 100k
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That's a problem for the future data engineers to deal with. The data lake is an insurance policy so you only need to think about these problems if you later want the data. If you already know you want to analyze the data, then a dat

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