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by samvher 6y ago
Not the person you responded to but I found this course to be very good: https://www.edx.org/course/computer-graphics-2
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by samvher 6y ago
Obviously ethics are on a spectrum. I'm pretty happy with my employer - a science-driven NGO using tech that's cheap to scale (telephony) with the aim of reducing poverty. Not perfect, but among other things I've been quite i
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by samvher 7y ago
Not the person you're responding to but I do, or actually spacemacs does. The sequence would be $ -> J -> i -> ENTER -> ESC and I guess it's muscle memory. I agree that this kind of indentation might not make sense on
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by samvher 7y ago
There is quite a lively tech scene. One example of an interesting all-African startup is Africa's Talking ( http://africastalking.com ). If you're looking for a problem to solve, one thing I struggled with when living th
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by samvher 7y ago
I think one important component to the success of M-Pesa is Safaricom's near-monopoly on the mobile telephony market. If you are not the only big player in the market it's going to be much harder to get your mobile money network r
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by samvher 7y ago
Yes I came here to post this one as well, together with Narziss and Goldmund and Steppenwolf - I read all of them in a pretty short period. There is a sort of common theme where Hesse explores the trade-offs between a life of thinking vs a
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by samvher 7y ago
That's true and I think it's irresponsible. Even if the spread would be perfectly controlled and kept so that the number of patients in ICU stay below capacity, I don't think we can manage to get 60% of the population infecte
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by samvher 7y ago
I can't say that I've followed what's going on in Belgium but I think that at the moment that's probably the wise thing to do. It sucks but even starting a lockdown right now the number of cases in ICU is likely to grow
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by samvher 7y ago
I'm living in Sweden at the moment (am Dutch myself) and am quite disappointed with the response to the crisis. I live in a shared house (12 people) and many are still going to work as normal. One works in social services and sees doze
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by samvher 7y ago
Started this course based on your recommendation, and agree that it's very good. A lot of mysterious stuff (repo, LIBOR, fractional reserve banking) is making a lot more sense to me now.
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The model that may be making US, UK rethink coronavirus control(arstechnica.com)
2 points by samvher 7y ago|0 comments
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by samvher 7y ago
Do you have source for people over 65 being rejected? I read that there is some triage but this seems a lot more extreme than I imagined.
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by samvher 7y ago
I was going to say that all my favorite courses were kind of unique, and didn't share any particular characteristics, but writing this comment I found they actually all share excellent problem sets and an engaging instructor. Having ta
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by samvher 7y ago
Yes I think that makes sense. If you have real economic growth that can cause E to rise and through that mechanism P to rise. But even without economic growth, by reducing expected returns, you can keep E constant and get P to rise by incre
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Will the coronavirus trigger a corporate debt crisis?(ft.com)
2 points by samvher 7y ago|0 comments
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by samvher 7y ago
I've also been thinking along those lines - it seems logical to me that if you expect ~7% yearly profit that the P/E ratio should be around 14 (1 / 0.07) and that if the market is very competitive (lots of available capital,
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by samvher 7y ago
Disclaimer: not a specialist, this is what I gather from online research and discussions on reddit (please correct me if I get anything wrong!). The issue is with corporate debt. A lot of it is unsustainable in the event of an economic down
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by samvher 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation! I think it makes a lot of sense and I don't mind it at all. I was just surprised when I noticed the pattern at first, and was curious if HN was trying to reduce misinformation or what was going on.
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by samvher 7y ago
I actually got the impression that HN has already been under-weighting those posts. I noticed that often virus submissions are sorted below other submissions with lower scores submitted longer ago.
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Testimony of a surgeon working in the heart of Italy's coronavirus outbreak(reddit.com)
55 points by samvher 7y ago|1 comments
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by samvher 7y ago
Something to keep in mind is that you can't properly calculate the mortality rate if the cases haven't "completed" yet. Yes, a certain number of people died from the Diamond Princess spread (I read it's more than 6
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by samvher 7y ago
They were old on average though and all got relatively good treatment (not too many overcrowded hospitals). Something that data makes very clear is that there are many asymptomatic cases though - around 50% of the people who tested positive
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by samvher 7y ago
This seems like a very important point, thanks. Many people are pointing at differences between nations and comparisons with Diamond Princess to derive different fatality rates than are commonly mentioned in the media and to point at an &qu
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by samvher 7y ago
I like your optimism and I hope you're right. I don't think Italy, South Korea, Iran are outliers in the sense that there is something fundamentally different going on there though - I think they are just ahead in terms of time. O
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by samvher 7y ago
I don't know, Italy is doing pretty poorly with 79 dead on 160 recovered (2502 total cases). Only the numbers in China really seem to be dropping, and I wonder how that will hold up when people get back to work. This is not going to be
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by samvher 7y ago
Right. And from what I understand, even if monetary policy does not directly solve virus or supply chain issues, it can make life easier for corporations loaded with debt (there are many) which might get into trouble as the economy deterior
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by samvher 7y ago
I don't get this either - the front page has many posts with fewer points over a longer period. Maybe downvotes are treated differently from upvotes in the sorting algorithm?
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by samvher 7y ago
I can't see anything at your link - first it asks for a login, then I login with Google and get an error. Here [1] it looks like for a while around mid february the daily increase was getting less, but it's picking up again. [1]
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by samvher 7y ago
I think a lot of the comments in this discussion risk understating the potential impact of the virus. Yes, there are many unknowns, and we might not encounter the worst-case scenario. But many experts have basis for being worried, e.g. list
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by samvher 7y ago
Right - I am by no means an expert on this but I feel far more worried about ripple effects than about the disease or even direct effects of supply chain disruption. In October the IMF warned about corporate debt levels which could cause se

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