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by sytelus 7y ago
TLDR; the article argues that the actual fatality rate is possibly 0.06% as opposed to 1-6% touted in media. The reasoning is based on estimating actual cases given confirmed cases. For example, in Italian town Vò, the entire population was
812.
by sytelus 7y ago
Singapore govt had been in news with the development of TraceTogather app for COVID-19 detection and now this. Typically, governments, with all its bureaucracies, are not expected to build things efficiently and with quality, especially com
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by sytelus 7y ago
The article is also missing the point that the majority of cruise ship consumers are from the US. A lot of these folks live for going on a cruise. I've met people who have been on cruise every single year since over a decade and the pe
814.
by sytelus 7y ago
Not true. Cruise passengers practically run the economy of many cities around the world including US. For example, a lot of towns in Alaska basically live off of cruise ship docking there. If they stop, many of them flat out collapse. I don
815.
by sytelus 7y ago
To put it into perspective, Coronavirus would just fit in 25 transistors long at this scale! However, to be fair, it has 30 kilobases where each base is 2.5nm X 0.3nm. So we still have some way to go...
816.
by sytelus 7y ago
Just 72 hours ago Prime deliveries were still on March 23. About 48 hours that changed to Match 26. Now it's April 21. Could this because of staffing issues in warehouses? I also wonder how AMZN ticker will do tomorrow based this news
817.
by sytelus 7y ago
The fascinating thing is that the Titan was completely inertially guided, i.e., no GPS or ground-based navigation. The high precision IMU + gyro send the computer acceleration and angular velocity and you integrate that over time to figure
818.
by sytelus 7y ago
Quite refreshing note than so many exec "Thank you" emails. PS: Interestingly, Arash has Mac and Drew has Thinkpad in first picture :).
819.
by sytelus 7y ago
Even better: https://www.amazon.com/Supervolcano-Catastrophic-Changed-Cou...
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by sytelus 7y ago
Any business-customer agreements can be overridden by government mandates in an emergency. So no, this is no bs.
821.
by sytelus 7y ago
I'm against this barbaric tradition of putting people in cages for whatever XYZ crimes. I think the isolation of the rest of the society from the criminals is essential but should be done in a much more humane way. For instance, prison
822.
by sytelus 7y ago
General philosophy: Buy ETF that is (1) below at least 52-week lows and below Dec 2018 price point (2) too big to fail (i.e. large market caps), preferably with investments from big wall street+political influencers (3) diversified, and (
823.
by sytelus 7y ago
I think AMZN and FB will be few of the companies that would have killer quarterly earnings.
824.
by sytelus 7y ago
Not too sure how they would do. Their major assets are getting crushed right now. I also worry about Buffet retiring and see as single point of failure for long term term investing.
825.
by sytelus 7y ago
I mostly believe this (which is also largly the Buffet philosophy) but have learned few caveats: 1. Not all broad indexes are great buy because lot of companies will do great in this crises but others will suffer long term. Instead of inves
826.
by sytelus 7y ago
VGT is still far from "good" price. My yard stick is crash of Dec 2018 which is not too far in past. If price hasn't fallen below that then the stock is holding up still well. Also, instead of VGT, why not QQQ? I like to go f
827.
by sytelus 7y ago
Future generations will look to us in amusement that in 2020 only thing robots could do people’s home was vacuuming.
828.
by sytelus 7y ago
This is actually bigger impact by far and away than any others. I think people in a position of power and influence need to lobby governors and congressman to pass a relief act that is squarly aimed at minimum wage workers. This law can m
829.
by sytelus 7y ago
Most restaurants around here already had 1/4th of customers and almost never over 10 at a time sufficiently distanced away. It still provided workers to come in any way and get whatever minimum wage they can. I feel this move is bonehe
830.
by sytelus 7y ago
I think this is related to the fact that Microsoft announced a deal few years back that any entity with more than 4% stock ownership automatically gets right to have a seat on the board. During those times, stock was struggling and this mig
831.
by sytelus 7y ago
That's not how it works. When CEO wants to take on big bet, he will typically need board approval. You can imagine Steve Jobs standing in board room and presenting costs and promise of iPhone. If your board is all classic investor suit
832.
by sytelus 7y ago
No. Governance squarely lies with CEO and fiduciary responsibility with CFO. Board is supposed to look at these but they are not responsible for it (i.e. Enron board members don't go to jail for fraud but CEO and CFO may). The board do
833.
by sytelus 7y ago
This is not true. Look at Google board. Very few investor suits but many tech visionaries.
834.
by sytelus 7y ago
It's coincidental to have this announcement come on the same day Bill Gates announced he is resigning from the Microsoft board (I'm sure completely unrelated). Microsoft was founded on the idea of writing Basic interpreter by Gate
835.
by sytelus 7y ago
They do. In a healthy company board is a sort of dampening force that steers CEO away from bad moves and advice him/her so that opportunities are not missed. Elizabeth Holms would be at much better place if board had excercised its aut
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by sytelus 7y ago
Most of the board members seem to be partners at various investment firms. Many of them don't seem to even remotely tech people. It's kind of sad that the Microsoft board lacks any external visionaries.
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by sytelus 7y ago
There is huge amount of cash sloshing around as it is. Folks like Mark Cuban have already been mostly cash. Big tech have $100B cash lying around. I think it would be disgenuous to say there is no cash available for trading but perhaps righ
838.
by sytelus 7y ago
So here's the thing: 80% of the population doesn't own stock. When fed pumps such massive money to prep the stocks, where does that money end up? I guess the idea is that then we pump the stock so companies continue to hire people
839.
by sytelus 7y ago
Please do not do this. Long essay style commit messages are not really searchable, have no real way of discussions, do not support formatting, images etc and are hard to even read in many tools. A better way is to create an issue first and
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by sytelus 7y ago
Good find! But I am struggle to understand how come this sensitive information available wide open in public to whole world with convenient download buttons.

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