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by rhino369 7y ago
>Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor. Labor isn't the limiting factor. You need machines, raw materi
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by rhino369 7y ago
Whether or not you think our model is broken, price controls of goods you want more of is a terrible policy. If you want someone to open up a factory churning out PPE, which might only be needed for a few months, you need to let them charge
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by rhino369 7y ago
The Trump thing is a huge distraction. Doctors in China and Europe were already singing its praises before Trump got involved. These tests aren't happening because Trump got excited about it.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>Firstly they didn't upgrade anyone, even though first and business was basically empty. They rarely upgrade to international first/business because the meals and other perks cost real money. And it'll piss off the people
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by rhino369 7y ago
Companies need to be careful with these clauses. Postmates is deep trouble because thousands of employees actually demanded arbitration, and now Postmates is trying to get a class action instead of thousands of arbitrations. Arbitration ar
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by rhino369 7y ago
It's how companies give profits back to their shareholders. It's just tax advantaged compared to dividends.
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by rhino369 7y ago
Nationwide lockdowns don't really work unless you are trying to totally contain it, which is likely impossible in the US, Europe, and India. Each metro area and state should lock-down when they think they are going to get near their ma
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by rhino369 7y ago
In Chicago, the stores still have Kleenex, so it can't be too bad out there.
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by rhino369 7y ago
The horse left that barn when we had a couple weeks of unknown spread in Washington state.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>However, they clearly CAN, and while they almost certainly don't on any massive scale, if they by their overlord or a security hack, did on a targeted basis listen, record and send conversations on, that would be very possible, and
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by rhino369 7y ago
This move by California is pretty much step 1 in China's plan no? >China's strategy seems simple enough. Close off borders of a region, stamp out all existing cases with aggressive testing, then keep the region at 0 cases by re
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by rhino369 7y ago
Testing is only part of it. Korea never mass tested the population at large. They traced the chains of the infections and quarantined everyone until they were tested clean. They found new chains through sick people who were tested. Without
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by rhino369 7y ago
>What is up with this obsession with testing? Partially because of the idea that South Korea tested its way to safety. While its true that heavy testing was a key part of their containment plan, it also relied on a lot of investigative w
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by rhino369 7y ago
VOIP, VPN, video conferencing etc. traffic should be prioritized to enable working from home. It's a crisis. Economic cost of not being productive at home is worth degrading leisure activities (especially if its just 4k->480p). Th
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by rhino369 7y ago
Not really possible to further degrade discussion that begins with "let 4 million people die"
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by rhino369 7y ago
The beds aren't really anything special. "Beds" is code for capacity in an ICU ward with ICU level medical equipment and doctors/nurses trained to provide that level of care. Any hospital bed + a ventilator is probably g
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by rhino369 7y ago
I'd imagine a lot of key pathways of trade don't really stop at the border. I'm sure that trucking, for example, doesn't hand off goods. They probably drive straight through after a short border check. Unless they think
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by rhino369 7y ago
For example, the "poor" American system has the most ICU beds per capita than any other country. It might be cost a lot to stay in one, but that's probably they we have so many.
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by rhino369 7y ago
It's not really illegal in the "go to jail sense." But you can definitely be liable for patent infringement if you give it away, even if they aren't selling it. That said, there is no reason to assume a product is cover
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by rhino369 7y ago
It just doesn't make sense to pay your employees more in hopes that they will spend more and you'll get the revenue back. Even if you could capture 100% of their extra pay (an absurd assumption, realistically 2% is huge) you are
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by rhino369 7y ago
Even for costco, most employees aren't cashiers--which is only job really affected by this tech.
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by rhino369 7y ago
Midwest was defined when the country didn't stretch to the west coast yet/ Midwesterner's east of the Mississippi tend to consider Kansas and the Dakota's "Great Plains" states and not Midwest.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>Our takeaway here was that Getty use bots to find large collections of unique high-res images on sites that aren’t explicitly copyrighted, and just take them, on the odds that they’ll get away with it. While that is a distinct possibili
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by rhino369 7y ago
It probably doesn't have to said, but there would be huge repercussions if it was no longer possible to make income on capital investment. 5% is if you magically redistributed the money. But if that happened, every small business in A
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by rhino369 7y ago
Who gets harmed by it though? If Walmart execs suddenly got 300k a year, that money would just go back to the richer owners. >someone shaved $32 off of everyone's salary so 5 people could get paid a total of ~$70M/year. But tha
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by rhino369 7y ago
Buttigieg is probably hurt the worst by the confusion and delay. His probable second place finish is unexpectedly good. He probably is also hurt by Biden’s bad finish being lost in the chaos.
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by rhino369 7y ago
A lot of the marketing budget is all expenses paid conferences for doctors and samples, etc.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>research funding is dwarfed by marketing for example In an industry with high fixed costs, marketing may in fact reduce the cost per consumer. Using software as an example, you can't just take the marketing costs per customer and s
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by rhino369 7y ago
But does that same rule prevent bankruptcy after getting a final judgement. She's going to get hit with a 200 million dollar judgement. But she doesn't have 200 million dollars. I assume, at that point, she can declare bankruptcy
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by rhino369 7y ago
Foreign interference is a big deal and shouldn't be overlooked. But I just don't think its plausible that the identified Russian activities swung the election. The Russian fake news trolls were a drop in the ocean of social media

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