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Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know (II.)(reddit.com)
3 points by xorfish 6y ago|1 comments
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by xorfish 6y ago
The price of a stock doesn't matter. A company with 100'000 shares that are worth $100 isn't worth more than a company that has 10 million shares that are worth $1.
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by xorfish 6y ago
That is not what is happening in Switzerland. There isn't reallya reason why ot would play out differently in the USA. The beginning might be turbulent, but that should cha.ge after a few years
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by xorfish 6y ago
How is this connected to the post?
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by xorfish 6y ago
How would the country destroy itself?
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by xorfish 6y ago
Note that there were was significant civil unrest at that time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Swiss_general_strike
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by xorfish 6y ago
Concordance is more or less a consequence of referenda. An opposition party with enough support could force a referendum on every law. Giving them power prevents this tactic.
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by xorfish 6y ago
You know, the US is the only developed country where police officers that are called on an unarmed drunk person, end up killing him. You can find excuses for nearly every instance all day, but in the end you can't expect model behaviou
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by xorfish 6y ago
Police with bad training kill more and are killed more, not really a surprise there. A better trained police would reduce the number of violent encounters and be less likely to be killed in a violent encounter. I mean it is factor 40. This
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by xorfish 6y ago
So the taser is deadly? Why was it pulled in the first place? How many times can a taser be fired? Brooks is running away, are you seriously suggesting that he posed a serious thread to the officers? Nevertheless, the incident shows at best
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by xorfish 6y ago
Police killings in the US are around 40 times higher per capita than in the rest of the developed world. Murder Rate is also around 5 times higher than in the rest of the developed world. Clearly this are problems that needs to be addressed
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by xorfish 6y ago
Wouldn't that be a slow process?
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by xorfish 6y ago
Usually each party would provide a list with their preferred representatives that can be modified. Where I life, you can give up to 2 votes per representative. You don't need to choose 54 different politicians because "empty&quot
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by xorfish 6y ago
How hard would it be to change the congressional election system to proportional voting by party? In California you would vote for 53 representatives, each representative would be part of a party. First the seats are divided among all parti
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by xorfish 6y ago
I have seen that "infection level off after 10-20%" multiple times. It is simply not true. Some areas level off at 1-2%, some at 5%, 10, 20% or whatever else. It all depends on when strong social distancing measures were taken. Th
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by xorfish 6y ago
https://github.com/DP-3T/documents Here is the protocol it is based on.
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by xorfish 6y ago
Extreme left. I don't think this sentiment is popular on the left as a whole.
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by xorfish 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc... The US looks more like a third world country than a developed nation.
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by xorfish 6y ago
Seems like 28-Oct-2019 was the early limit of the confidence interval. https://virological.org/t/phylodynamic-analysis-176-genomes-...
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by xorfish 6y ago
I'm taking about genetic diversity over time. From there you can extrapolate back to when to common ancestor existed. To within a limited number of generations. This calculation shows this common ancestor existed between mid November t
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by xorfish 6y ago
Wouldn't there be higher genetic diversity of the virus if this were the case? There doesn't seem to be any real evidence for this theory in the genetic data we have.
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by xorfish 6y ago
What is the basis for this best estimate?
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by xorfish 6y ago
Seems highly unlikely, excess mortality is nearly 0.3% of NYC. You would need 150% of NYC to be infected to get to 0.2%. Many seroprevalence studies with prevalence >5% also show that the IFR is in the region of 1%.
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by xorfish 6y ago
Scientists and the WHO estimated the IFR to be around 1% in February. Most models that estimate fatalities use that number as well. That estimate has hardly changed.
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by xorfish 6y ago
Who exactly promised an apocalypse? The early estimates for the IFR from February turned ouf to be quite accurate.
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Coronavirus: First Google/Apple-based contact-tracing app launched(bbc.com)
1 points by xorfish 6y ago|0 comments
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First pilot for the Google and Apple-based decentralised tracing app(actu.epfl.ch)
1 points by xorfish 6y ago|0 comments
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by xorfish 6y ago
Average life expectancy based on age and comorbidities of the people who die is around 10-13 years. That is not an insignificant lifetime reduction. 0.5%-2% of the people who get it, die. That is much worse than the flu that kills 0.04-0.1%
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by xorfish 6y ago
The Swiss COVID-19 Science Task force recommends a test at the beginning and the end of the Quarantine and if someone shows symptoms. https://ncs-tf.ch/en/policy-briefs --> Contact Tracing
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by xorfish 6y ago
But it is more 5-40% of infected that don't show any symptoms. It is also not clear how infectious people that don't show symptoms are.

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