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Wearing masks is as much about protecting others as yourself(bbc.com)
28 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|14 comments
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Woman's Sense Of Smell Is Helping Scientists Find New Ways To Diagnose Disease(npr.org)
1 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|0 comments
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Do we have any old Theranos machines we can repurpose?
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
nice thing about the dalio narrative is that you will not get this view of credit cycles in a typical economics or finance course.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Lefevre and Security Analysis by Graham and Dodd
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How Namgoong's House Was Designed From Scratch as a Set in “Parasite”(indiewire.com)
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Do not coyotes bring in ticks and all the tick-borne diseases as well? perhaps public health priority #2 is to humanely remove these animals sooner than later.
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BBC pulls controversial story on quarantined British woman in Taiwan(focustaiwan.tw)
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How South Korea Reined In The Outbreak Without Shutting Everything Down(npr.org)
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Study shows that U.S. is best equipped to handle pandemics(ghsindex.org)
2 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|2 comments
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Salary update on governors of U.S. states(businessinsider.com)
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Perhaps we should coin the term "epidemiological debt" for the compounding costs of ignoring an emergent pandemic early on. The essential definition of such debt is: paying down the debt requires qualitatively greater expense and
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
this is very bad because some 300+ waffle houses have closed in the eastern U.S. out of some 1400+.
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Coronavirus party held to defy social distancing. One partygoer now Covid+(cnn.com)
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Taiwan, which has one of the best medical systems in the world, is heavily reliant on civil society -- which is many things, but one of which is heavy participation by unpaid volunteers. Social capital is a real thing and a valuable thing.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Just spent a month there. Sanitizer everywhere, masks everywhere; this was already in the culture.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
The ones who were able to unload at the moment they purchased were arbing. If you could sell the toilet paper before you even got it out of the store at Costco, you have executed a successful arb. There was no risk in this trading profit. T
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
An arbitrage is a risk-free profit. I think these amateur toilet paper merchants are discovering their hoped-for profits are not so risk-free.
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Ask HN: Which stocks should be scrutinized for Covid-related insider trading?
4 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|1 comments
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
This reminds me of the current situation we are in because of coronavirus.
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Costco will not allow returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water(today.com)
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Ackman goes all in, all longs, no shorts(bloomberg.com)
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
by the standards of the trump defenders he literally needed to say "there are WMDs in Iraq"
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
or an exact quote when George bush said there were WMDs in Iraq?
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
When trump was talking chloroquine, were we supposed to take him literally, or seriously? I don't know when I am supposed to do one or the other.
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
more like the 1910s. Taiwan was fully electrified with flush toilets everywhere even before the U.S.
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IP over Radio(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|0 comments
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To self-quarantine, or not, while awaiting test results? The Case of Rand Paul(cnn.com)
3 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|0 comments
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by mmhsieh 7y ago
Taiwan doing this = effective. china doing this = creepy. however, probably necessary in both cases. perhaps a rhetorical cease-fire globally would benefit us all.
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Replication Crisis in Social Science(vox.com)
2 points by mmhsieh 7y ago|0 comments

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