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by tristanj 6y ago
Not anymore. They removed the rule in 2013 after they were hit with a $5.7 billion antitrust settlement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us-judge-app...
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The 'rides' division of Uber is profitable, or at least, was profitable before Covid. The rides division brought in a net positive of $742m in 2019. Uber as a whole is not profitable since they lose money on their Eats, Freight,
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by tristanj 6y ago
On Uber's platform, the marginal cost for one ride, i.e. the cost for Uber to coordinate a ride, is tiny. Uber's cost of a ride are its server and maintenance costs, its incremental rider/driver customer support costs, and cr
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by tristanj 6y ago
The legal framework is explained in the executive order. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/order-regard... Bytedance acquired Musical.ly in 2017, and merged it into TikTok the next year. The administratio
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by tristanj 6y ago
I'm confident Wuhan does not have community spread of Coronavirus. To eliminate the virus, China tested all 11 million residents of Wuhan for coronavirus in just 14 days [1]. That's more than 500,000 people per day. Dozens of asym
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For context, in September of last year, Airbnb publicly announced they intend to IPO during 2020 [0]. The IPO delayed due to COVID. Airbnb has a lot of pressure to IPO. In 2018, The Information described how employees & investors were f
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by tristanj 6y ago
They were not denied by US immigration. United airlines flight staff told a H1B holder they weren't allowed on a flight to the USA. This was based on speculation US immigration is not allowing H1B holders to enter. Airlines do not want
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by tristanj 7y ago
Google invests 10s of millions in their nonprofit google.org. They work on some software projects. Google Arts & Culture also comes to mind, I don't believe they make any money from it.
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by tristanj 7y ago
> I think you're putting words in his mouth... again, you put words in his mouth as well. FYI I am totally different person to jacobolus, who made the original post you responded to. I'm not the one putting words in people&#
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Gabriel Leung: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/coronavirus-ex... Marc Lipsitch: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1228373884027592704.html?...
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by tristanj 7y ago
> hundreds of thousands of deaths from Covid-19 I find that a severe underestimate. Barring a miracle medical cure, given the death rates we've seen so far the number of deaths will be in the tens of millions. It's not hard t
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From what I understand, they waited until the city of Austin ordered the event to be cancelled so they could collect insurance money.
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The article is a bit out of date, it's not only Seattle. Facebook and Google announced tonight that all employees in the Bay Area can work from home. Microsoft/Linkedin announced all employees on the west coast can work from home.
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Some nits: > the highest mortality rates reported for COVID-19 are around 2-3% The CFR reported in Wuhan is 4-5% and some reports from early February estimated it as high as 18% [0]. We're seeing a similar CFR reported in Iran. Na
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Coronavirus: Thousands of Google staff in Dublin told to work from home tomorrow(independent.ie)
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One sentence summary: Twitter suspends all non-critical business travel and events; says nothing about potential changes to COVID19 content moderation.
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Yes, assuming access to medical care. But we see that COVID19 quickly overwhelms medical systems, as it did to Wuhan & Iran, and upcoming in Italy & South Korea. For instance, this week 4 South Koreans died while waiting to be hospi
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by tristanj 7y ago
> In the study last week from NEJM of 1099 hospital patients BTW that NJEM paper you keep referencing is very out of date. Yes it passed peer review and was published last week, but it's using data from Jan 29. It was actually wri
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by tristanj 7y ago
More here: Study finds N95 masks reduce risk of coronavirus infection https://www.livescience.com/respirators-prevent-coronavirus-... As Wang's study revealed, rates of infection differed between doctors and nurses wi
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by tristanj 7y ago
> If you are under 60 years old, the lethality of Covid19 is only 2-3x that of the regular flu. That does not pass the smell test. According to the CDC, in the 2017-2018 flu season, there were an estimated people 14.4 million cases of
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> Most cases with mild symptoms are not even reported This is outdated. Dr. Bruce Aylward said in a WHO conference this week that the Chinese tested 320,000 samples in Guangdong and they are not seeing huge transmission beyond cases fo
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You do realize that if those death rates [0] hold up, when you take today's global population by age demographic and tally up how many people are expected to die within each age group, you get a total of 90 million dead. Given that top
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> I really don't get why people get so worried about this. The virus has overwhelmed the healthcare system in multiple places (Hubei, Iran). Hospitals operate at or near capacity (empty beds don't make money), and do not have
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by tristanj 7y ago
Bridgewater bet over $1B that the stock market would fall by March. The article is from November 2019. If they're still holding their bet, it would have paid off handsomely.
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Bridgewater Makes $1.5B Options Bet on Falling Market (2019)(wsj.com)
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I'm not sure why you're trying to spread fake news. The Trump admin absolutely made cuts to the CDC in 2018 and pushed out key officials. > In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSC’s entire global health security unit shut down, cal
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by tristanj 7y ago
I strongly disagree. The articles I linked talk about 2018 budget cuts and eliminations that went through. The article you linked talk about proposed 2020 budget cuts, and how they came up at this week's democratic debate. They are
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The Trump admin fired much of the CDC pandemic response team in 2018 to cut costs. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/ > In 2018, the Trump administration fired the government’s entire
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A 15% critical rate is very plausible. A widely shared report [1] on Chinese media described how an entire family died to virus. A man, his sister, mother, and father all died to the coronavirus. His wife is in serious condition. Using the
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by tristanj 7y ago
EDIT: Hubei Province added 14,840 new cases today, my earlier analysis isn't right anymore. I've left it below. Infected case growth has slowed down primarily because of the quarantine of Hubei province. The virus has up to a tw

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