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by slv77 6y ago
The 1-1/R0 is the point that the virus starts to burn out but there is still a long tail of infections. The total population that is infected will be higher than 1 - 1/R0. Also if the estimates of IFR were too high than the estima
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by slv77 6y ago
The pay-per-click model has already forced news organizations towards producing click-bait content. I’m not sure why regulators would want to deepen that influence by making newspapers more dependent on Google and Facebook.
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by slv77 7y ago
The case fatality rate for 20 to 30 year olds is somewhere between 1 and 200 and 1 in 400. This population is one of the the least susceptible and the chance of death is roughly the same as doing 5 to 10 BASE jumps. The economic harm argume
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by slv77 7y ago
That is because China took drastic measures to control the spread of the virus. Many of these interventions were existing systems and cultural norms that were already in place due to the previous SARS epidemic. The US, for example, gave u
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by slv77 7y ago
SARS made people very sick very fast so it was easy to identify and quarantine patients. With extensive contact tracking it was able to be contained. With covid19 many patients are able to continue their lives and infect others without bein
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by slv77 7y ago
A company that has too much debt but is otherwise viable can go through the bankruptcy. Ownership is transferred to the debt holders and equity holders are wiped out. Companies that aren’t viable will have their assets sold off to other com
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by slv77 7y ago
The knot your looking for is the gleipnir knot: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxxhg-tf8Ug It’s a recently invented knot that works extremely well for bundling irregular objects
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by slv77 7y ago
When our kids were born our pediatrician who was from Germany mentioned that the US vaccine schedule was accelerated compared to Europe. The reason was that parents here are more likely to just stop bringing their kids in for scheduled chec
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by slv77 7y ago
Some ideas for the US investor. Invest the money with a payday lender to loan it out to your under-paid employees so you can grab even more of their paycheck! Buy a block of housing that houses your under-paid employees and raise rents so y
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by slv77 7y ago
State laws don’t apply to the federal government.
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by slv77 8y ago
Elizabeth Warren did a lot of research on the topic before going into politics. The bulk of the income went towards transportation, childcare, housing and medical care.
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by slv77 8y ago
The US consumers prefer spring mattress while European consumers prefer mattresses made from latex foam. Over time springs degrade faster than foam and so US mattresses have a shorter lifespan.
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by slv77 8y ago
Typically the HSM will be part of a tokenization service that is located in a separate security zone also called a data bunker or data vault. The customer facing application will pass in the sensitive data and in its place a token will be
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by slv77 8y ago
This was solve by banks a long time ago with hardware security modules ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module ). HSMs make it impossible to extract encryption keys from the device and turn a digital s
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by slv77 8y ago
Men as a leaf node on women’s social networks is a relatively recent social development. The male fraternities that used to form the nexus of men’s social lives were seen as exclusionary and withered or were integrated in the 20th century.
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by slv77 8y ago
Odd how many parallels this has to the “Jukes family” study that was used to justify eugenics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jukes_family
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by slv77 8y ago
Second that as we’ve started to see fraud related registration activity from zoho.com around the end of August.
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by slv77 8y ago
One of the key metrics for US casual dining firms is the number of times that they can turn a table in a night. In the industry the metric is called table turns and is often talked about on quarterly conference calls with investors. One thi
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by slv77 8y ago
Letting unemployment rise is the least desired outcome but is what will happen by default in response to a declining trade surplus. Wide spread unemployment doesn’t contribute to economic or societal stability and so China will attempt to a
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by slv77 8y ago
>When he says "China's debt problems", what exactly is he referring to? China’s response to the financial crisis was to loosen credit and “encourage” banks to lend. The result was that debt started rising faster than GPD a
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by slv77 8y ago
Every model designer is going to come to the table with his own set of lenses and biases based on this own life experiences. These biases are incorporated into our models based on the metrics that we optimize for and the features that we in
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by slv77 8y ago
Households today spend more on cell phones and communication but also spend less on fine china, dress clothes and food. When you net out all the pluses and minuses households today spend much more on housing, healthcare, daycare, transporta
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by slv77 8y ago
Compressed audio works better in environments with a lot of ambient noise such as cars. Since this is where most people listen to (and discover) the majority of their music artists are adjusting to their audience.
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by slv77 8y ago
Oxytocin fosters empathy towards people in the same in-group and reduces empathy for those outside the in-group. Oxytocin is the reason that a mob can be moved to avenge an injustice which requires both empathy and callousness towards anoth
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by slv77 8y ago
Care to share more about what kinds of features you cluster on?
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by slv77 8y ago
Oxytocin may be partly responsible for that wiring: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262 My limited review of the research suggests that humans tit-for-tat trackers of betrayal and reciprocated trust. Oxyto
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by slv77 9y ago
It’s mostly a cultural preference... Rice works as well as hard red wheat as far as calorie density goes and in the short term that’s all that really matters for adults. Rice also has some advantages as it’s more versatile in terms of cooki
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by slv77 9y ago
Most people are limited in storage space and canned foods aren’t very calorie dense as you’re storing mostly water. Inside cans are also coated with a plastic liner and over time that liner breaks down and can contaminate the food. This red
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by slv77 9y ago
Early communist attitudes underestimated the economic value of functioning nuclear families in regards to areas such as childcare and domestic services. Writings of idealists in the 1920's ( https://www.marxists.org/arc
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by slv77 9y ago
>That does not explain stats for European countries with good free public schools. It may still hold if public policy transfers income from families with children. This could range from mercantilistic suppression of exchange rates that f

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