lukevdp

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by lukevdp 6y ago
Probably depends on your deal size and risk. If you are selling puppy photo software for $10/month it is a different situation to 200k enterprise deals. Your contracts and insurance coverage exists to protect yourself from risk. Identi
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Is that actually a thing that states aren’t allowed to borrow?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
> but did the company prove they were an unreliable partner or did the government? The company. You can support the employees without needing to twist reality. There is no question that ending service on non service related grounds makes
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by lukevdp 6y ago
How do you know this?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
I don’t think you can say it’s objectively better. Whether you think they’re better or not depends on your values.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
The choice for companies is to either follow a country’s laws, or not operate in that country. It’s not moral relativism, it’s just business.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
I couldn’t tell from the article, but is the 3.36 loss on unit economics, or the loss of the company as a whole per order?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Because the value you provide is more fungible than you think, and it becomes an equation of supply and demand.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
The USD is in demand right now for a series of unique reasons, which is why the US can do infinity QE https://www.afr.com/markets/equity-markets/five-reasons-the-... https://www.refinitiv.com/en&#x
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Isn’t the whole point that you can stop them from collecting your data and also get them to delete your data if you want? Presumably you could get Google to delete all of your data. Is this not the case?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Yeah I was pleasantly surprised.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
From that article: “The first thing we want to do is make sure that we're protecting the safety and the privacy of individuals. Everything that can be released, will be, for sure,” I don’t share your cynicism but I do hope that “everyt
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Doesn't matter to me personally, but I think some people feel more comfortable with the data being held in Australia. I only mention it because the news story that parent saw did not mention it. I agree with you about the other issues,
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by lukevdp 6y ago
In the Privacy Impact assessment that was released here https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020... The government is planning to release the source code “subject to consultation with
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Do you have a source for the source code not being released for “national security”?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
PM said it would be stored by Amazon in Australia.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but in the app it states it needs location access for Bluetooth.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
This app has been released by the government.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
A determination was released under the biosecurity act https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480/Html/Text
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Why? There are massive legal protections. The data is unusable by anyone except contact tracers. I intend to use it. Anything that can help us reduce restrictions and let people get their jobs back sooner. Everyone can do their bit.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Yes, one study when the diamond princess was tested it was originally 50% asymptomatic and then later on that had gone down to under 20%
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by lukevdp 6y ago
I think both statements are true.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
My guess is it will slip to slightly below the norm after the pandemic has passed. There are still a lot of people dying that had many years of life ahead of them.
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by lukevdp 6y ago
Probably a silly question but what are the savings from?
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by lukevdp 6y ago
When there is a cheaper and cleaner alternative to base load power generation
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by lukevdp 6y ago
I took it as an observation on internet arguments and not about the programming concepts that were presented as examples.
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by lukevdp 7y ago
At the end of the week, you get paid, and you and the company are even.
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by lukevdp 7y ago
> This current situation had me wondering how hard it would be to coordinate a regular -- maybe not yearly -- global self-isolation for say 2-3 weeks at a time. Very hard. We can’t even properly do it in the face of this pandemic.
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by lukevdp 7y ago
How did you come to the .5% death rate after 3 weeks assumption?
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by lukevdp 7y ago
There is probably some selection bias - it’s 4.9% of people using the thermometers, which would skew towards people that are thinking they have a fever.

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