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Figures like that are not how much cities need to spend to maintain everything they have, but how much they choose to spend on maintenance in a single year. The problem is almost every city engages in...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
The US is pretty close to a lot of the rest of the OECD in obesity rates (in particular, UK/Australia/NZ) https://data.oecd.org/healthrisk/overweight-or-obese-populat...) while costing twice what othe...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
>In healthcare we have astronomical costs that have not bought us more vitality, but an extended morbidity. Gone are the days of grandmothers with sinewy arms maintaining huge gardens. Obesity in the ...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
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https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novdec-2015/bloom-and...>What, then, is the missing piece? A major factor that has not received sufficient attention is the role of public policy. Throughout mos...
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
show context + On: America's Growth Ponzi Scheme
> Now they've added some mojo to prevent this but still sell location data.Strava publish a "heat map" that shows aggregated activity of all their users. It's useful for finding common runni...
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
"On average app publishers make $10,000 a month with Tamoco data monetization."https://www.tamoco.com/blog/best-app-revenue-calculator/...
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
Reminded me of this New York Times article where they got hold of location data from 12 million americans.
I think NRK found some inspiration from that.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/o...
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
show context + On: Norway: Soldiers' location history found in data sold by Tam
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I'm sure European governments love all the press that the US gets for this kind of stuff because it draws attention away from them. A lot of Europeans seem to know more about wiretapping in the US th...
show context + On: Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go
show context + On: Germany's data chief tells ministries WhatsApp is a no-go
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Yes. Data is the key. You can't automate and employ AI without harvesting data. That's one of the reasons all this is being consolidated. Farmers are too fragmented to act together to generate and pro...
show context + On: An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data pr
show context + On: An Airbnb for farmland hits a snag, as farmers raise data pr
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Indeed. One of the more infamous examples comes from the field of positive psychology [1]. A psychology researcher used fluid dynamics formulas to come up with ratios of positive to negative experienc...
show context + On: Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth (2015)
show context + On: Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth (2015)
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That would be a valid conjecture if we didn't had the ONS data already there are virtually no additional reported deaths for that age group above what PHE reports:https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
> if you are under 45 and healthy your chances of dying from covid-19 are exceedingly small.Yes, I did say that.However,> as the ONS figures only a additionally include out of hospital deaths primari...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
Not obvious this works though. 70% is herd immunity threshold when there is no epidemic. With an active epidemic it may be 95%.Here are some epidemiologists arguing that: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
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The comment above is overstated, but more or less correct. All the naive herd immunity calculations assume a well-mixed population. A large fraction of recovered and immune young people will protect t...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
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Other highlights:Death rate for under-45 is under 0.024%Look at the "Deaths incidence" tab of the graphs at the bottom to see actual deaths with the curve-fit model.EDIT: Meant to include in...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
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This is interesting ...The positive rate for those tested in the Bay Area started at 10% 2 months ago, but new test in past week are under 2%:https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/dashboard.aspx...
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
show context + On: Cambridge research team estimates 12% of England has been in
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Dataset for sale on RapidForum: https://raidforums.com/Thread-WORLDWIDE-Name-Job-Email-Phone...Similar data structure: https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-soswe4?file=src%2Fapp%2F...Owner works for: h...
show context + On: The unattributable "db8151dd" data breach
show context + On: The unattributable "db8151dd" data breach
An estimate last year claimed Tesla's costs were ~$160/kWh[1]. This article suggests by end of next year, <$100/kWh. In percentage terms that's a big improvement, but even going by last year's estim...
show context + On: Tesla's readying a 'million mile' battery that could greatly
show context + On: Tesla's readying a 'million mile' battery that could greatly
This article is pretty low quality. The claim that the new million mile battery technology is coming to the China Model 3 first is not supported by a source and contrary to what people who follow thi...
show context + On: Tesla's readying a 'million mile' battery that could greatly
show context + On: Tesla's readying a 'million mile' battery that could greatly
> Does IKEA do smaller-format stores anywhere?In central Paris, there is one: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ikea-france-store/ikea-op... - I'm guessing it is slightly experimental.Also, the Ikea ...
show context + On: IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play
show context + On: IKEA's shopping malls arm plans U.S. entry in major play
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