nraynaud

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by nraynaud 6y ago
I am not so sure, without cheap manufacturing the midwest could never afford their trucks, their tractors, their ATVs and their AC units. Look at the difference between middle America and middle Portugal.
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by nraynaud 6y ago
it's more like the police actually gave fines for it, and fighting a fine is a hassle. (in particular now, I don't think really can, probably have to wait fo re-opening).
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by nraynaud 6y ago
does that mean that China was right to try to ignore the issue for a few days at the beginning?
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by nraynaud 6y ago
Yes, you can cultivate the right human cells and infect them. I suspect this kind of thing would be restricted to the highest security laboratories, because you’d be actually multiplying the virus in its infectious state.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
What is weird is that those figure were always reported in a lot of countries, including 24 countries of Europe with https://www.euromomo.eu/ . I live in France where the statistics service does an accelerated counting sinc
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I would add that WHO requires nations to inform them of the measures they are intending to take so that WHO can do some coordination, and nations don’t tell them and WHO has to do catch up by reading the newspapers.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
there is also the fact that as seen from a lot of people in China, American universities are a way for bad students with money to get a degree they wouldn't get at Chinese universities.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I'm pretty sure you don't really learn Chinese law, Chinese state accounting, and make connections in the CCP by studying in the US either.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
they are a 1B people country, from their point of view, foreign education is a fringe anecdote, no country in the world would even be able to house a significant share of their students.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
It has to be said that most employers are corrupt in the US too, non-compete, arbitration, weird ways of paying salaries, generalized surveillance of employees, brutal layoffs, Gag orders in exchange for severance, etc.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I think if a company wants to buy back, now is the time.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
Well, isolationist policies are not really possible for small countries, they can't possibly make everything they need. Having bigger countries depend on each other is also the opportunity to somewhat teach them diplomacy; otherwise th
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by nraynaud 7y ago
Maybe GM could be renting space and manpower to a ventilator manufacturer?
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I saw a tweet by a MD recently saying that some preliminary explanation of the effect of the virus (something about heme) would also explain why chloroquine would work. There seem to be a web of low quality data going in a coherent directio
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by nraynaud 7y ago
you can't lockdown too quickly, because you need a plan for removing the lockdown, otherwise you have to stay on lockdown forever. In this epidemic the lockdown is meant to avoid overwhelming the medical system while we get herd immuni
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by nraynaud 7y ago
that's a 26km tunnel frequented by bullet trains, take some water and a helmet.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
“It’s just an element” is not good enough as a discriminator, plutonium and polonium are elements, and I want them heavily regulated. Now, I a bit skeptical of putting Phosphorus into the drug law, it has too many uses and not too many inhe
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by nraynaud 7y ago
and those smaller cars get crushed in accidents, and pedestrians and bikes get killed and kids run over. This is a race to the bottom.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I wouldn't read too much into their stake into Renault, they give a lot of money to PSA also. On the subject matter, Tesla cars are a problem, they are too big and heavy for Europe. And European car makers should stop increasing their
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by nraynaud 7y ago
My bank was already sending me advertisement by push notifications on my phone.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
that's the difference between "best" and "perfect"
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I was watching a conference, they were saying the cruise ship was the best data, because everybody got exposed, tested and had a follow-up.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
with a wide definition of "this", because it would be normal for people to try to be cautious if they have a flu and quarantine or go to the ER, but they would not have gone to the ER with very early symptoms absent the specific p
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I think the panicky aspect of the story is completely valid, people won't get tested for COVID-19 alone, they will have to pay for the ER or the person coming and the precautionary measures, and the other tests. The details are wrong b
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by nraynaud 7y ago
because now there is a minimal pay per worked hour. And a worked hour is an hour where you're on call (this is very well settled), not just the driving with a client in the back. And overtime after 35h/w.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
Lyft doesn't exist in France.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I think we should give it time, look for other evidence, and slowly solidify the idea.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I am surprised, isn't cloudflare a Go shop?
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by nraynaud 7y ago
Tory Bruno in an interview says ULA does between 1.1 and 1.25 safety factor for pressure vessels.
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by nraynaud 7y ago
I think it's a bit more precisely that the new plate is entirely retro-reflective while the old one was not reflective at all on the letter, almost binary.

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