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by nkohari 6y ago
The key piece is young and healthy . Very few people who are under 50 and don't have chronic health conditions have succumbed to Covid-19. A recent study of NYC patients [1] indicated that only 6.4% of hospitalizations (for all age gr
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by nkohari 7y ago
Asymptomatic means the person had no symptoms at the time of the test, and possibly never developed symptoms. They could also have been presymptomatic , in which case they subsequently developed symptoms after the test. This study didn&#x2
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by nkohari 7y ago
There wouldn't be 3 million new patients per day. Wouldn't each phone just need to download the newly-discovered cases since the last time they checked?
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by nkohari 7y ago
In my understanding, herpes and varicella (chicken pox/shingles) are thought to be "reactivations" of dormant viruses, not reinfections. The virus is never fully eliminated, and sometimes it becomes re-activated.
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by nkohari 7y ago
This nonsense happens all the time with public companies. All it takes is a law firm with the gumption to file a suit claiming that the company misrepresented something material which resulted in a significant change to share prices.
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by nkohari 7y ago
Viruses can't reproduce on their own; they need to invade host cells and reprogram them to generate more virus. As potential hosts, we would consider a "bad" virus to be one that does this too aggressively, sickening or even
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by nkohari 7y ago
It's good to be skeptical. You asked a fair question, and when presented with evidence you changed your position. Those are all positive things.
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by nkohari 7y ago
The opposite happened with H1N1 (swine flu) in 2009, though. The CFR was estimated to be significantly higher during the pandemic but afterwards was estimated at 0.02% with 60M American cases. [0] Policymakers should use conservative estima
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by nkohari 7y ago
It was barely 10 years ago. Between April 2009 and April 2010, H1N1 (swine flu) sickened 60.8M people in the US alone. [0] [0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemi...
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by nkohari 7y ago
Meditation is an intentional pursuit; it's about focus rather than daydreaming.
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by nkohari 7y ago
Yes, it's a little confusing. [0] 2019-nCoV (2019 Novel Coronavirus) was a temporary name. SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-related Coronavirus 2) is the official name for the virus. COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) is
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by nkohari 7y ago
I work on developer experience at Stripe. If you'd like to email me at my HN handle @stripe.com, I'd love to hear more about the trouble you've run into.
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by nkohari 7y ago
The parent post was referring to stock-based compensation (ie. RSUs), not bonus. This site might be interesting: https://levels.fyi/
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by nkohari 7y ago
Lots of companies would block their developers from using a plugin if it was determined to contain any sort of non-trivial telemetry.
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by nkohari 7y ago
> you are quite literally injecting other units into that unit In tests, you will usually inject a mock of any dependencies that you don't want to test, in order to isolate the unit you do want to test.
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by nkohari 7y ago
> The company just won't pay their fair share to the city to offset their impact. I'm not sure what you mean by "offset their impact", but regardless, employees living in SF will still pay local taxes. [I'm a Str
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by nkohari 7y ago
Because it's bizarrely xenophobic and has nothing to do with the article?
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by nkohari 7y ago
There is an argument that it will become cheaper if more investment flows into the technology. For example, when solar power was originally conceived it wasn't cost-effective, but over the years it has seen tremendous gains in efficien
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by nkohari 7y ago
Nowadays, it's very rare for a software company to be profitable when they IPO.
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by nkohari 7y ago
> Look how good we are at hiring minorities Wait, what? Are you talking about the software industry?
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by nkohari 7y ago
Transactions aren't the only solution for that problem space, and using them can introduce other (likely even harder-to-solve) problems with distributed systems.
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by nkohari 7y ago
It's unfortunate, but it's rare for any company to give direct feedback when passing on a candidate. It creates legal exposure for very little benefit to the company since they've already decided not to invest further. As a c
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by nkohari 7y ago
I think the real reason for this might be that clever hacks using current technology are looked on with disdain, whereas yesterday's hacks are seen as impressive ways of making the most of limited hardware and tooling.
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by nkohari 7y ago
You might need to resort to this kind of childish stuff in grade school, but in the workplace, HR/management needs to step in and take care of it. The professional way to handle it is to directly address the person's behavior once
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by nkohari 7y ago
I think we interviewed for the same job. I did the same thing, and got the same response. It was such a short timespan that I assumed it was a trick question, and they wanted to see if I could come up with a creative solution that technical
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by nkohari 8y ago
At the stage in which they're investing, a bank loan will generally be secured against your personal assets, whereas the money from Earnest is not. If you raise money from Earnest and your business fails, Earnest loses their investment
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by nkohari 8y ago
> The word 'app' to me strongly implies that whatever the service does can only be meaningfully accessed via an app on Android or IOS I don't think this opinion is generally held. App just means application, which can desc
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by nkohari 8y ago
> Amazon's innovation was bigger catalogs, easier ordering. I don't know, I'd say Amazon's innovation was logistics. They don't need patents when they have a distribution network capable of delivering an order in
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by nkohari 8y ago
Unfortunately, that's what happens when you get a windfall. It happened to my wife and I when we sold our company. It's a fantastic "problem" to have, but it takes some time to get comfortable. This is especially true in
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by nkohari 8y ago
I tried this a bit myself. You are right that you can provide tremendous value, but early-stage startups either don't have, or aren't willing to spend, the money that you deserve for the value you'd provide. Maybe there'

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