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Only if you have to think about money. What you point to is that poor and maybe middle-class people have to 'redirect' their consumption to 'higher priority things', which in some cases is equivalent to just going with
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Some states are looking at easing restrictions on lawncare/landscaping/etc. To all the folks saying "4 guys in a truck is low-risk" that's only true if they're the same 4 guys every time and they're not al
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Maybe a brief version, like a Passover commemorating COVID-19 instead. Passover isn't exactly a fun party kind of holiday.
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"Choose not to pay for it..." haha. COBRA for me was like a second mortgage. "Choose." If you don't have the money, you don't have the money.
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If you have enough money, you can do some of both.
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If economic impacts to less-well-off people continue, though, we're going to see significant impacts on consumer spending. If economic impacts wipe out every small business without enough cash to stay afloat for 2 stressed months, we&#
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These go hand in hand. In the US we cannot slow the spread because we refuse to test anyone who doesn't need acute care or who doesn't have documented contact with travelers or foreign nationals. The research from Helen Chu's
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Right: we do have those ICU beds because people are in them. Toolz, I just don't understand your math. You seem to assume that a neonatal ICU bed is just as good for a 55-year-old man as an adult one, and that no one is going to have a
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by kaitai 7y ago
Percentage of ICU beds varies widely. Minnesota, for instance, a state in the US, has about 500 ICU beds [1] and over 10,000 hospital beds total [2]. ICU beds are already heavily used and sometimes there simply are not enough, before COVID-
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History echoes and echoes and echoes. Redlining is still huge in its effects on generational wealth: housing is the single largest mechanism for wealth transfer in American families, and systematically and intentionally excluding black Am
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This is definitely worth thinking about, and in particular to put it into today's political context, Nigerian-Americans have the most PhDs per capita of any immigrant or native-born group -- and yet Nigeria was just put under travel re
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This is a hugely important comment and given the demographics of HN, I'll bring up prostate cancer as an example. It is important to catch prostate cancer in younger men, as in younger men it tends to be an aggressive cancer and lead t
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I have to say I'm a bit amused at the insistence on tabs/mice/telemetry :) In at least one project I worked on, there was a lot of survey data entered from paper surveys used in the 90s and early 2000s. The structure of the s
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Agree that "pay" has non-monetary meanings, which are whispered in "pay a visit" or "pay court to". But I just noticed that we say in English both "pay attention" and "spend time". Hm... pay
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I don't understand this statement: "You don't necessarily gain any new awareness by paying attention to something or someone, you gain information." How does anyone gain awareness of anything, then? Surely not by ignorin
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My kid doesn't know the alphabet in three languages (home language, school language, society language). 2.75 yrs of age.
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Freeloader... like those women who have been unable to work due to being full-time caretaker for a disabled spouse or child, or cared for their own parents until death, and so didn't have much or any income to save from...
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The point is there are a lot of people in this position. I personally know many people 65-75 working/trying to find work because of financial instability. Edited to add that there's a further problem: it's hard to find work w
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1) Meaningful outcomes are really hard, and research is piecemeal. As a researcher, I know I have to publish intermediate and smaller results, because I can't get grants for bigger studies without a track record of publication. This is
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The social aspects are subtle, and more important than most of the official stuff. In seventh grade a great (male) teacher of mine recommended a summer program for me, at the dawn of the internet (Gopher!). I joined the math & computer
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We practice constant pruning.
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I had a Saudi colleague in mathematics who said she'd never experienced discrimination in mathematics in Saudi Arabia, simply because every mathematician she worked with on a daily basis was also female. Saudi culture is sort of orthog
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For humor's sake, I hope that the above comment clearly conveys how misanthropic people make me... haha.... pun not entirely unintended....
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My engineering university only started taking women in the 1970s. My mother could not attend as they did not accept women.
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Most people, period, are not interested in programming a computer all day. My girl child likes trucks, not Frozen, and the pressure from other adults to get her to conform and play with Disney-branded dolls is non-trivial and unrelenting. U
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Throwaway commenter, despite being downvoted, you're absolutely right! I'm a woman. I AM A WOMAN IN STEM. You know what makes my blood pressure rise? People in real life and in this thread who tell me that I'm naturally not s
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To me, starting with the assumption that things are shitty for a reason doesn't mean "start with the assumption that it is ok that things are shitty", but instead, "start with the assumption that the 737-max is shitty be
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I'm at a new place; the managers there did it by picking particular topics and instituting a group learning time (blocked off everyone's calendar for the time, let people select one of two topics, are soliciting new topics for fut
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Yes, the history of tying health insurance (and thus health care, in the US) to employment is an interesting series of political compromises and deals -- and it has such extensive effects on day labor and the gig economy and entrepreneurism
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How do you justify the idea she'd be worse at picking colors that go together? If you pick points that are close together in four-dimensional space (to make a simplistic analogy) they'll continue to be "close" in a topol

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