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by tomerico 7y ago
It's an odd comparison for sure. Italy has the highest car deaths rate in the EU, with 3,378 deaths in 2017. The Coronavirus has caused 2,177 deaths in just a couple of weeks. With that said, the real comparison is the Flu that had 24
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by tomerico 7y ago
Madrid has cold weather up until Tuesday - https://www.accuweather.com/en/es/madrid/308526/march-weathe... It’d be interesting to see if the warmer weather since Tuesday will reduce the number of new cas
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by tomerico 7y ago
It's important to understand the limitations of the paper. the paper simply plotted a set of regions where the outbreak happened, and analyzed the growth rate in these regions vs the average climate in that region. Notably, it did not
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by tomerico 7y ago
Wow. Quite an eerie find. Where did you come across it?
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by tomerico 7y ago
Italy has an older population, hence more susceptible to deaths and spreading of the virus: - Average age of death due to Coronavirus in Italy is 82 [1] - In Italy, 3.65% of the population is 80 or older [2]. - In Korea, 1.75% of the popula
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by tomerico 7y ago
Super interesting. For once it doesn’t look like a population density map.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just walk out vs deal with the self checkout? Also, there might be benefits to the store in reducing shoplifting.
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by tomerico 7y ago
That’s a very speculative statement. It’s quite possible that the Virus spread will stop as the weather warms up.
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by tomerico 7y ago
I think that people believe they’ll become wiser up to a certain point. There is no doubt that there is a large cognitive decline that is happening at very old age.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Good link. It looks like half of the purchase price was supposed to go to Anthony, but under a vesting schedule.
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by tomerico 7y ago
I wonder how he doesn't have more assets after he sold his company to Uber for $680 millions
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by tomerico 7y ago
I wonder if washing with water would work, given that salt dissolves quickly
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by tomerico 7y ago
That’s not what we are seeing though. Australia and Singapore are good example of many cases from foreign origins but little to none community spread
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by tomerico 7y ago
That is super interesting. You should probably submit it as a separate submission!
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by tomerico 7y ago
This is obviously a possibility. The longer term is harder to predict.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Or it could be an indication that in some countries, the current weather enables exponential growth. This could rapidly change as it did in China.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Looking at countries with wide community spread[1] the spread is very clearly tied to cold weather (Europe, Korea, and Iran). This pattern is similar to other air transmitted viruses such as the Flu. Warmer countries seem to be resilient de
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by tomerico 7y ago
And who would pay for that AI physician? Hospitals and other for profit corporation. It’s hard to believe that a less transparent, more centralized system could only have positive effects. The problem is in the US incentive structure, not w
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by tomerico 7y ago
Ironically, if people that care about the planet don’t have kids to save the planet, you will be left with more people that don’t care about the planet down the road
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by tomerico 7y ago
Curious, why would targeted ads make the user experience worse? (putting privacy aside)
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by tomerico 7y ago
Ironically, since the field has become harder to get into recently - newer doctors are more likely to be better.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Of note - the most important reason why a human would win the horse (and other animals), is because a human would carry water with them.
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by tomerico 7y ago
The fact that it seems intuitive increases the risk that the study is wrong
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by tomerico 7y ago
Part of this point is that Amazon / Google / Microsoft pricing is intentionally complex, which at the end of the day leads to surprise / higher costs
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by tomerico 7y ago
It looks like Kathryn posted her side here - https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/17/google-has-fired-another-w... A few interesting tidbits: 1. She received extraordinary performance ratings during her short time
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by tomerico 7y ago
For the gaming Niche, twitch is likely larger than youtube.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Not OP, but here are a few simple ones I encountered that swayed me back the chrome: 1. When switching tabs (ctrl + tab), instead of simply moving there, it showed a menu. This means I need to use that tiny menu to decipher which tab I’m on
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by tomerico 7y ago
Aren’t planes already designed for landing at full weight for cases where the plane needs to turn around and land where it departed?
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by tomerico 7y ago
With airplanes, it might open up new things that seem far fetched today. For example, commuting to work with a drone.
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by tomerico 7y ago
Why create new rail lines when driverless cars can take you anywhere?

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