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by misja111 6y ago
@JoeAltmaier I can't reply to your answer directly for some reason, but: to me it is not obvious at all that schools are a primary disease factor. Most kids show no symptoms when they are infected. AFAIK there is no proof yet that asym
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by misja111 6y ago
>> This is what Netherland has been doing, and it seems to be very effective. Schools have been partially open for 2.5 weeks now, and the numbers keep going down. As a Dutch person living abroad, I find it amazing how my fellow Dutch
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by misja111 6y ago
>> Look at German, French and netherland numbers and their evolution since the reopening and before the reopening. If I look at those, I see that the curve remains flattened after reopening, despite the fact that people are going out
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by misja111 6y ago
To me it seems that there is only one fundamental assumption that determines how to handle the pandemic: do you believe that we can have a lockdown until a vaccin is on the market, or do you think the vaccin will take too long. If you belie
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by misja111 6y ago
My mother (73) had Corona in March. She had a throat ache, headache and loss of sense of smell and taste. The symptoms passed after a couple of days but her sense of smell did not come back. Even today, almost 3 months later, it has still n
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by misja111 6y ago
How is looting innocent shop owners in proportion to the wrongdoings of the police force? And if this 'an eye for an eye' philosophy is what you are promoting, how is Trump's tweet then out of place?
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by misja111 6y ago
Actually I just switched this year to a job for a big data start up, I had no working experience with big data so far. I completely agree with you, you should do what you love to do. A lot of experience will only make switching easier, as l
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by misja111 6y ago
I'm 50, living in the EU and have switched jobs three times during the last 5 years. My extra years of working experience were seen as an advantage by most companies where I interviewed. I didn't interview at any FAANG though, may
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by misja111 6y ago
How about the USA's most valuable ally, Saudi Arabia? Anyway, I think many countries would want to do the same as China but they just don't have the leverage to do so.
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by misja111 6y ago
I can confirm. When I was implementing FIX to communicate with some big banks, it was common practice to put everything specific for the interface as XML in a single FIX field. FIX was only used because many banks had existing infrastructu
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by misja111 6y ago
No you're not the only one. It amazes me how strong the believe still is that our 'self' or 'soul' is something that can't be captured by machineries or neural networks. This belief has been around for centurie
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by misja111 6y ago
I don't understand your assumption about a current high marginal tax rate for poor households. I would say that in a progressive tax system, the marginal tax rate decreases when one's income is lower. In your other post you state
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by misja111 6y ago
If UBI is just a redistribution scheme and aggregate income stays the same, how is UBI than different from the various 'social' countries in Europe such as e.g. Sweden and Finland? Those countries have progressive income taxes and
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by misja111 7y ago
I think I'm at a similar level as you, I can speak and write fluently but I suspect that I'm not always using the right words in the right context. In my experience, the only way to really get a feel for that is to have conversati
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by misja111 7y ago
This is something that has really struck me during the Corona crisis: the misplaced Western believe of superiority towards Asian countries. I am European and I feel embarrassed about how much arrogance is displayed by some people and govern
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by misja111 7y ago
>> .. the ultimate challenge: to (ethically) hack a satellite. .. which will be used to coordinate drone attacks on foreign targets. So much for ethics ..
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by misja111 7y ago
The death rate in Sweden is comparatively high but it is too simple to just blame it on their avoidance of a lockdown. You took Switzerland as an example, but if you would have taken Belgium, Sweden would do actually very well. Still, Belgi
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by misja111 7y ago
>> .. that apparently everyone was in the specific window where they test positive for the virus. The data comes from 4 prisons. It is theoretically possible that all 4 of them happened to be in the same window after an initial infect
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by misja111 7y ago
I've seen some in the outskirts of Zürich, e.g. in Affoltern. I'm not Swiss so it took me a while to figure out what they were for ..
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by misja111 7y ago
>> But it looks a bit over engineered. Welcome to Switzerland, the origin of the Swiss army knife :)
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by misja111 7y ago
There are ways to limit the number of deaths and still reach herd immunity. For instance by keeping elderly and sick people isolated but the healthier part not, until herd immunity is reached. This disease has to be handled with intelligenc
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by misja111 7y ago
I was writing that we should both create hospital capacity and have some moderate flattening of the curve. Of course we shouldn't let the virus run free. But unless you are hoping for a vaccine to be invented soon, which would of cours
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by misja111 7y ago
>> get rid of the need to flatten the curve. This. A policy of flattening the curve will probably have to last for one or two years until either a vaccine is found or there is enough herd immunity. This will not only destroy our econo
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by misja111 7y ago
This is not news. The same was already reported one month ago in the Italian village of Vo, where the entire population was tested for Corona. Summary is here: https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1165 "In an
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by misja111 7y ago
That was one of the first programs I wrote when I had my first computer, back in 1985. Before that I was already fascinated by Game of Life and there was no other way than to write out every generation by hand ..
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by misja111 7y ago
You can code anything you want in ASM, so higher level abstractions as well. However while doing that you will lose some of the performance gain that ASM gives you. Optimised ASM can still be tested but one problem is that when the code doe
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by misja111 7y ago
In Italy the national lockdown was announced on March 9th, so 16 days ago. Today Italy reported 5210 new infections. So the government measures might have some effect, but nothing like in China. I don't live in Italy so for me it'
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by misja111 7y ago
In Spain and Italy the police is patrolling the streets and everybody who is outside without a valid reason can get a fine. Still the virus is spreading like crazy.
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by misja111 7y ago
Is anybody able to explain why there are so few new Corona cases in China? I mean, I know that the Wuhan area was locked down and that this way the outbreak was contained there. But China is far greater than Wuhan alone, and just like the v
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by misja111 7y ago
The source of the article does mention Antarctica: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020... "In Antarctica, ongoing high mass losses in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctic

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