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by misun78 6y ago
The issue with something like “free” healthcare is that proposed policies like Medicare for all only really talks about the demand side of the equation. It purports to expand the coverage without mentioning how we can pay doctors more so th
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by misun78 6y ago
Diamond princess skewed heavily towards an older age population, as did some of the hardest hit cities in Italy like Lombardi etc. To counter your point, there isn't any evidence to infer an IFR or 0.5-1% either. We simply don't k
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by misun78 6y ago
Where were you able to test for antibodies and how accurate is this test? Asking since AFAIK, now widespread testing exists right now.
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by misun78 6y ago
Doesn't even have to be widespread, a randomized set of say 1,000 New Yorkers tested for antibodies across age and demographics could give us invaluable insights into the infection rate of this virus. It's infuriating seeing polit
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by misun78 6y ago
Large companies also employ my neighbors, and clearly for a better value as otherwise they would be with smaller ones. As for ownership, Amazon is part of the S&P 500 which is quite literally owned by millions of folks in their savings,
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by misun78 7y ago
We quite literally do do what you're saying with general influenza that also takes folks outside the 20-50 range as collateral damage to keep the economy float. Hence your comment is meaningless without understanding how much more seve
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by misun78 7y ago
This comment applies to any viral disease that spreads amongst humans. What warrants a complete shutdown this time around when we didn't do the same for H1N1, SARS etc?
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by misun78 7y ago
No idea why you're getting downvoted, this comment is spot on.
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by misun78 7y ago
These are all unsubstantiated claims that I am pushing back on against the mainstream narrative. Can you cite data for: 1. "Seeing younger patients facing graver conditions" - are we seeing excess mortality rates amongst the young
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by misun78 7y ago
https://www.epicentro.iss.it/coronavirus/bollettino/Infograf...
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by misun78 7y ago
Which countries are you referring to?
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by misun78 7y ago
Hospitalization does not imply high risk. That article also has an unnecessarily wide range to make the data meaningless. Why are 20 year olds and 54 year olds bucketed in the same category? For more accurate data, 0 deaths have occurred in
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by misun78 7y ago
Source?
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by misun78 7y ago
"Rides produced $742 million in EBITDA, up some 281%" Time for the narrative of Uber burning VC money/subsidizing rides/selling-$2 bills-for-$1 to die?
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by misun78 7y ago
As others have suggested, a corresponding decrease in income and corporate tax such that you get a revenue neutral framework with no additional wasteful government spending would be supported by many, including those on the right. This may
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by misun78 8y ago
But this is where their one-trick pony hurts them. Where will growth come from if they stop growing in the one market they're currently in?
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by misun78 8y ago
Glassdoor is heavily skewed towards older data points and hence underestimates significantly given the sharp rise in comp in the last few years.
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by misun78 8y ago
Glassdoor will be significantly off as it doesn’t discount older data
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by misun78 8y ago
Uber’s losses have shrunk siginifantly. Google for Q1 financials.
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by misun78 8y ago
Top line grew by 70% YOY so the reduction in losses cannot be attributed just to Uber exiting markets (which would correspond to reduced growth). 70% increase in bookings with 55% reduction in losses is pretty remarkable.
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by misun78 9y ago
Uber never came out mentioning the homelessness of the person. The police did. This is typical HN banter on Uber, thanks for calling it out.
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by misun78 9y ago
Also source required where the number of sexual harassment cases at Uber > the number at a comparatively sized company. Otherwise you are just going off of who gets the most publicity in the media.
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by misun78 9y ago
Facebook is downright unethical in how it shows a notification on Messages “from a given friend X” when the notification is instead by Facebook, on behalf of friend X (birthday etc). How do we prevent companies from such shoddy behavior?
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by misun78 9y ago
Stats - I’m an Uber employee who can’t disclose much more than the general statement from above :) There is almost no reason for a Lyft driver to also not do Uber for maximum earnings potential. Uber on the other hand has enough volume that
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by misun78 9y ago
Prefer Lyft drivers? Almost every Lyft driver also drives for Uber.
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by misun78 9y ago
While you may be right, something about what you said just sounds so Orwellian and terrifying.
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by misun78 9y ago
1. Not rebuilding our reputation/changing things for the better. 2. Not competing in self-driving.
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by misun78 9y ago
You are both anecdotally and factually incorrect. Go on LinkedIn and set past company to Uber. Most engineers (and nearly 100% I personally know) are either at Netflix, Facebook or Google. These companies in fact set targeted recruitment ta
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by misun78 9y ago
Both? I experienced nothing anywhere close to the egregiousness mentioned in the media. But TKs ruthlessness, long work hours ethics was always omnipresent. It wasn’t so much top down mandated to work hard but the culture was there. Paradox
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by misun78 9y ago
Peacetime doesn’t necessarily mean not being competitive. Uber is at a stage where it doesn’t need to bend the rules anymore. Read up on how Dara handled the Brazil legislation for example. Rather than fighting any regulation as TK may have

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