sgw928

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by sgw928 5y ago
That $272M number is proceeds from selling digital assets, not profits.
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by sgw928 5y ago
See the $272M "proceeds from sales of digital assets" in the statement of cash flows on page 26.
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by sgw928 6y ago
That's just for public data reporting, so doesn't stop people from actually doing tests.
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by sgw928 6y ago
For clarity, a 500-patient study in WA (not yet peer-reviewed) showing self-swabbing to be as effective as swabbing by health care workers has prompted FDA to allow patient to self-swab at clinics, just not at home: https://medci
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by sgw928 6y ago
A self-swab surveillance program has been launched in Seattle: https://publichealthinsider.com/2020/03/23/introducing-scan-... . Is self-swabbing allowed there because it's for research purpose, not clin
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by sgw928 6y ago
The situation is similar in WA state, where the current bottleneck is specimen collection, as there is a shortage of swabs, vials, PPE and personnel. This results in large amount of existing lab capacity, such as at UW Virology labs, not be
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by sgw928 7y ago
Also when 85+ year olds die for other reasons, they don't all occupy ICUs for days or even weeks as in the case of COVID-19.
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by sgw928 7y ago
NPR's All Songs Considered ( https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/ ) has New Music Friday every week, available through podcasts.
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by sgw928 9y ago
Have you gone to the NLRB yet, or is this not something NLRB covers?
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by sgw928 9y ago
Imagine someone super rich shorts Herbalife like Ackman did, lobbies congress to make Herbalife's business model illegal, and then profits from the short position. Would this be conflict of interest legally, or is this just how crony c
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by sgw928 10y ago
Then when someone resubmits new data, how do they know that a previously submitted data point is now stale and shouldn't be used any more?
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by sgw928 10y ago
It's juvenile, but I can't help laughing at "Visual Basic-ally."
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by sgw928 10y ago
It reflects the outsized influence Le Corbusier had in the architecture circle. Many people imitated him and built piles of concrete mostly for government and college projects.
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by sgw928 11y ago
Fair points. Thanks for pointing this out. I used "random" to really mean "not-top-pros." Moves suggested by experts being voted on by a large sum of people are kind of similar to how democracy and capitalism work.
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by sgw928 11y ago
Lee is widely considered the greatest player of the last decade, winning 18 world titles, but has been surpassed in the last few years by younger players, with this unofficial ELO rating system ranking him at No.4: http://www.gor
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by sgw928 11y ago
As the only 9p player in the western world, Michael Redmond is of course very impressive. Chris Garlock, on the other hand, doesn't add that much value to the broadcast. Maybe somebody will start a "Left Commentator" meme, ju
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by sgw928 11y ago
Random human beings simply voting fared pretty well in chess though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World Of course, Go has way too many eligible possible moves for random people to vote on, but a la
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Flawed Android factory reset leaves crypto and login keys ripe for picking(arstechnica.com)
4 points by sgw928 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgw928 14y ago
Stock price divided by revenue per share, or market capitalization divided by revenue.
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Amazon.com Zombie Protection Storefront(amazon.com)
2 points by sgw928 14y ago|0 comments
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by sgw928 14y ago
NYT has actually got blocked and unblocked back and forth several times. A funny case was that in an interview a reporter asked former president Jiang Zeming why NYT was blocked and Jiang said he would personally look into what was going on