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cobookman··on Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers
they can trade on margin. Making use of low interest rates.

So when the market recovers, which it will. They can see greater gains.

with fed interest rate at 0%. I’m sure the 0.01% can get incredibly favorable loans against their assets to double down.

cobookman··on I’m Bill Gates. AMA about Covid-19
Because it takes months to open a mask factory.
cobookman··on Netflix urged by EU to slow streaming to save internet
Netflix also is deployed directly in ISP's DCs. https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
cobookman··on Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
If you take every potential apocalyptic scenario and stockpile supplies. It’d add up to much more than 400$/resident.

The real shame is globalization. If manufacturing occurred in Europe. In North America...etc. we’d all just quickly ramp up our respirator production.

Instead the west outsourced this to China

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
The WHO and CDC are not allowed in China. The WHO’s data is the same as the CCP’s data. CCP historically provided false info to “save face”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/cdc-coronavirus-ch...

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
Is the WHO allowed into China to report on & collect data? Oh wait, nope.

So those WHO reports are being based of what exactly...oh yeah CCP provided figures.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/health/cdc-coronavirus-ch...

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
Western scientific entities aren’t allowed in China to study or collect data (to my knowledge). WHO/CDC/John Hopkins...etc are making analysis on CCP provided numbers. with the CCP numbers historically have not been accurate, with CCP trying to save face.

So what primary source would you recommend?

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
How do you count a dead person who’s apartment building was welded shut [1].

I doubt these deaths were counted, nsfw/graphic [2].

Just doing basic research will tell you the Chinese CCP numbers are not accurate.

[1] https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1226180829837025281

(Nsfl/ graphic) https://twitter.com/FinnaganMarina/status/122476176399400141...

cobookman··on Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
The WHO numbers are the CCP numbers. Foreign nationals are not allowed in to confirm.
cobookman··on Life and Death in a Wuhan Coronavirus ICU
Deaths are easy to count if they are counted. Local doctors have photos of more dead in the hospital than were reported by China.

Numbers don’t line up based on a basic statistical analysis.

Checkout these videos for reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIt496d82s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkF4qYdNU9Y

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
> mortality seems to be about three percent--and is predominantly a threat to the very young and the elderly.

The Chinese figures can’t be trusted as the CCP is trying to save face.

Li wenliang died from the virus and was a healthy 33yo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang

cobookman··on Coronavirus: Five Brits in French ski chalet catch virus
That and there was some news around that China’s infection rate matches the daily manufacturing supply of testing kits. With there not being enough kits to test patients.

Videos from China locals do show way more dead than the official numbers.

cobookman··on Tesla remotely removed autopilot features from used Tesla without notice
we'll soon find out in next 5 years, as the big car brands launch their new ev line-up.
cobookman··on Amazon has 150M Prime members
5950/12 = 496$/month. Not that crazy for family with kids to spend even at a cheaper grocery store.
cobookman··on Monoliths Are the Future
+1, Informatica was founded in 1993. Teradata in 1979. These are not new problems.

DataWarehousing has drastically improved recently with the separation of Storage & Compute. A single analyst's query impacting the entire Data Warehouse is a problem that will in the next few years be something of the past.

cobookman··on Huawei set for limited role in UK 5G networks
Huawei stole the Cisco iOS source code. I'm also sure the CIA/NSA has other information. However leaking such info might compromise a source.

Guess we'll need to wait 50 years to get an idea.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10485560675556000

cobookman··on The 'Race to 5G' Is Lobbyist Nonsense
Using cellular for home internet is what I hope 5G brings us.

5G is fast enough to the point where I could just ditch my cable internet line, assuming there's an adequate bandwidth cap.

cobookman··on 250M Microsoft customer service and support records exposed on the web
Good reason why defense in depth should be used.

Simply stating that your network configuration prevents access isn't the best answer.

cobookman··on Tesla races past $100B in market valuation
VW had a similar short run up.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-idUSTRE49R3I92...

cobookman··on Goodbye, New York, California and Illinois – Hello where?
It's not just prop 47 or the cops. The new DA just refused to prosecute a murder.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-District-Attorn...

cobookman··on Google vs. Oracle: The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future?
the philips screw head was patented.

By all accounts thats an “interface” for a screw to be driven in by a screw driver.

However i hope the court doesnt rule in Oracles favor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F._Phillips

cobookman··on Deploy your side-projects at scale for basically nothing – Google Cloud Run
aws lightsale and digital ocean are great alternatives for personal projects
cobookman··on Comma Two Devkit
OBD-II Interface Dongle

https://github.com/commaai/panda

https://comma.ai/shop/products/panda-obd-ii-dongle

cobookman··on SF Zoning Department rules that Workshop Cafe is an office, forcing it to close [pdf]
They charge per hour for `workspace`: https://www.workshopcafe.com/pricing & https://www.workshopcafe.com/meeting-rooms

A true cafe doesn't charge you an hourly seating price. Its somewhat a grey area though as a cafe might have an `order` minimum/hour or kick someone out who hasn't bought something recently.

cobookman··on SF Zoning Department rules that Workshop Cafe is an office, forcing it to close [pdf]
It has meeting rooms, desks,...etc.

Not really surprised the zoning department ruled it was co-working space vs a cafe:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x808580795532c08...

cobookman··on Henry Heinz used ketchup to improve food safety
Pickles also last a long time. As do other fermented goods.
cobookman··on U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
How do you ensure the new clothes aren't embedded with some chip placed by a spy who has access to the supply chain but not the black-site?

I'd assume they give them new clothes & microwave said new clothes. along with other precautions.

cobookman··on U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices
wouldn't surprise me if the military makes you strip naked, put your clothes in a microwave, then put them back on before getting on the plane to the black site. Each and every time.

Anything less than such ridiculous methods would be insecure. You can literally embed chips in the fabric of your clothing. https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?11587

cobookman··on Consumers who sought cash settlement from Equifax probably won't get full $125
Revenue isn't the same as profit.

" Net income attributable to Equifax of $299.8 million was down 49 percent compared to the full year 2017. " https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/equifax-releases-fo...

cobookman··on Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs for Google Compute Engine
Have you tried the new Aws pricing calculator: https://calculator.aws/
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