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Seems to good to be true, and in the FAQ starting page 9 there is some interesting info:In May 2020, 5.4 million people were included in the "other reasons" category—about two-thirds of the total 8.4 ...
show context + On: May sees biggest jobs increase ever
show context + On: May sees biggest jobs increase ever
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The data is entirely available from https://spotifycharts.com/regional including daily CSV download links since 2017-01-01.The OP submission just renders it on a map....
show context + On: Most-streamed track of the day by country
show context + On: Most-streamed track of the day by country
Here's the cdc estimates used for modelling.https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...Their best guess scenario is 35% asymptomatic. Of the symptomatic the rate is 0.05% for those...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
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Here is the link a meta analysis of IFR studies to date. possibly the one you referenced. Nearly every study to date has been in this range. Other reports have been based irresponsible pseudo journali...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
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Here is a WHO report from February saying the same thing:> Modeling is a helpful tool to try to account for missed cases, such as those that are mild cases potentially missed in current surveillance a...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
>the WHO is predicting 1 billion people will starve this yearThis simply isn't true and it undermines your argument. The UN and WHO estimate that the virus will push an additional 100-250 million peop...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
> 21000 deaths is not "near zero"I'm not sure what your contrived narrative is, but actually it is near zero, far less than several other causes of death. (The annual mortality rate is over ...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
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There we go again. In NYC, 19 out of 100,000 people aged 18-45 died. (1)There are roughly 110M people in that age group in the U.S. so that would mean 21000 deaths if the virus would spread as widely ...
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
show context + On: Antibody Tests Point to Lower Death Rate for the Coronavirus
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> Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jumping to misinformed conclusions.Likewise with the data you've linked. Submission of data to the UCR database is completely voluntary...
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
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The real question is "why is that?". Do blacks tend to get into more altercations with police, is it systemic racism, both?Without further investigation, this graph can bait people into jump...
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
Now is the time for us to start doing the hard work to make police accountability happen. Getting public records data accessible is a way to make good progress toward this.450+ of us are working on a ...
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
show context + On: U.S. Police Shootings: Breaking Down the Data by Race
Thanks for the info.If those dates are correct for the first week of Jan., then the CDC was actually very aggressive for a govt. agency, since Wuhan was still trying to cover it up that week. (See lin...
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
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> The only rational option I see is Americans must be some of the healthiest people. Kidding asideThe US was fortunate to have considerable ICU capacity. That has kept the mortality rate far lower tha...
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
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The problem arises when people talk about a single "death rate" without the proper caveats. It is well understood that the infection fatality rate varies with age, from 0.001% for those unde...
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
show context + On: The CDC's Coronavirus Death Rate Estimates Are Too Low, Many
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Fun fact, 30-40% of the food in our supply chain is wasted. So, we're actually not too far from that. Sure, the meals aren't directly wasted by the company and rather through the supply chain. But, th...
show context + On: We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
show context + On: We reduced the AWS costs of our streaming data pipeline
Being that Alameda County (and neighboring Santa Clara County) have the highest number of COVID cases in the Bay Area[1], I would argue that their response was not overblown and likely had numbers to ...
show context + On: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
show context + On: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
Indeed shows assembler salary at Toyota San Antonio at $12.89
https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Toyota/salaries/assembler/San-Ant......
show context + On: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
show context + On: Tesla plans to build a new car factory in Texas
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Growth in the US is 20% real, 80% bubble. Every now and then the bubbles burst, the baloons deflate to their actual value. And then greed accelerates things again. Unfortunately the acceleration happe...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
Not even close (case studies linked below). Their examples only look at individual projects from several cities, instead of whole cities. They convincingly show a few houses paying $252/year in proper...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
For those who want to see a more quantitative approach, that's totally fair. Joe Minicozzi with Urban3 is closely associated with Strong Towns and does some great studies with detailed numbers to back...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
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