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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> We can't mix together residential and commercial properties in the US (anymore) due to zoning laws You make this statement like there are national zoning laws. Doing exactly this is common in northeastern New Jersey, and the resu
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Clubhouse was "worth" $100MM in the sense that A16z paid $12MM for 12% of it. That's not the same as someone paying $100MM for all of it.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Something to consider, when evaluating cases like this: Politicians like Obama often make promises like this with the same open-source information about these programs that you or I have. What if the failure to follow through was driven by
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
I's say the government issuing that debt in the first place is already counter to neoliberalism.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
That's not true. It's hard, but not impossible as many people think: https://www.npr.org/2020/01/22/797330613/myth-busted-turns-o...
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Both of those links lead to insults to my EE education.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
I'm not sure what you took, but plain Tylenol is paracetamol (acetaminophen). It sounds like you may have taken a Tylenol-branded compound medication that added an antihistamine or something like that (there are several acetaminophe
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Very few students borrow, or at least need to borrow, 100% of the cost of attendance.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
I think the first bit, that is also always dropped, is also important: "We should forget about small efficiencies ". Removed from that context, it has morphed into an excuse by some people to not pay attention to efficiency at
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> There’s an estimated 190,000 on-street parking spaces in Manhattan How many of those are free, since that was the claim? Nothing in Midtown is free, for instance.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> If you excel at your job, your former colleagues will be more likely to do this, because they enjoyed working with you and want to work with you again. They very likely have no idea how good you are at Leetcode-style problems. Then, on
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> They are perfect world actual hours that don't include any unexpected downtime It isn't clear from this particular post, but considering Patrick refers to "overprovisioning" and having a "hot spare" I get
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> They're such an underestimate as to be laughable If I am reading the post correctly, those are actuals , not estimates.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> I ordered a fried breakfast in an American hotel and they put icing sugar on the sausages! That is not normal, and it isn't fair to extrapolate your single experience to be so.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
That report is very enlightening, and makes clear that the IRS is not doing their job WRT high-income non-filers. However, I don't see from its numbers how you arrived at > The top 1% of earners account for 70% of underreporting of
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Source 1 is showing a sum for the trailing 14 days. Source 2 is showing cumulative statistics for the entire pandemic. Your source 1 even says the UK as a whole is 372.1 per 100k.
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Communicating COVID-19 deaths is not a use case for log scales(twitter.com)
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
That statement is somewhat ambiguous, because there have been vaccines against adenovirus infection available since the 70s, but the use of adenovirus as a vaccine vector (which us different) is fairly new. The latter has not been the ca
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When Doctors Refuse to Believe Evidence(sciencebasedmedicine.org)
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
To be fair, GGP said six months (~180 days). That 35% is by 21 days, so not comparable at all. It is concerning, though, and I hope some of these observational studies are continuing to follow the people still experiencing symptoms for lo
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> natural persons holding in good standing one or more professional certifications or designations or other credentials from an accredited educational institution You cut off the critical second half of that statement, which significantl
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> The limiting factor in a North Korean artillery bombardment campaign will be the quality and training of troops and materiel. That, combined with how quickly and effectively the US and South Korea can start firing counterbattery missio
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Come to think of it, remote work is not that different. I've spent the majority of my career at large companies with multiple offices. My experience is that non-remote work is no different unless everyone in the company is in the
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Ok, so claiming I didn’t read the article is actually against the guidelines, and you’ve done so twice so I’m not particularly in the mood to really entertain it anymore. First off, you are responding to two different posters. Second,
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
There is no reason other than political will stopping the WHO and developed nations from subsidizing the purchase of vaccines for places like Africa. In fact, I don't think there is any vaccine that a country like Sudan could afford t
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> If the US government is happy to hand out billions in funding and then pay a high price for the doses, why would a private company not take advantage of this? The US government paid Moderna $1B to fund the development and $1.5B for 100
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
While I might quibble with the "very", beef is a rare vector for e. coli infection, even based on this limited outbreak list: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks.html To some degree it makes sense, because p
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
This assumes IBM had the institutional competencies and structure to make that division work as well as Lenovo has. It's quite possible, and IMO likely, that IBM's former laptop and small server/workstation business is doing
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Other developed countries have, for decades, reliably given results within hours of polls closing, without "automation or obscure technology". How do these other countries handle mail-in ballots? In most (maybe all) US state
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> an economy collapses and everyone is forced out of their homes as they go underwater on their mortgages People are not forced out of their homes when their mortgages go underwater, they're forced out when they can't afford to

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