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Comment #25746898
It also matters how long it takes to kill - but yes. Assume it takes a month to a kill a person... that’s a lot of time to infect others, especially if say 10 days of that are asym…
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Comment #25034119
I also find that handwriting notes forces a kind of “hear or read, digest quickly, rephrase in a short hand way the keep points so I can pay attention to the next thing I am hearin…
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Comment #25017095
I’m laughing too much at this. Agree “I’m making a $15mm investment I need you to cover my up to $100k in legal fees. If you can’t do that, deal off.” Has always sounded funny to m…
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Comment #24959817
I find that the “two minute rule” works pretty well. Whatever you want to do, set a timer for two minutes. Hit start and do that thing for two minutes and really beleive that after…
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Comment #24943252
I thought it was the other way around? As you get older your perceive time as moving more quickly? As you get older every hour is a smaller percentage of your total life, so that m…
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Comment #24943218
You are a legend - thank you sir (or madam)
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Comment #24932506
Came here to say this - this has been the difficulty with things like science and research since the dawn of time... you study one thing and then hopefully if you have a lot of peo…
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Comment #24931060
So, you’re telling me there’s a chance? Dumb and Dumber, got to love it But in all seriousness, there was so much printed money thrown into stabilizing things by the Fed that a fea…
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Comment #24930866
Agreed - but if you live in China, the government already has your face mapped and is tracking you wherever you go... so maybe it is a zero additional cost for their citizens to gi…
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Comment #24907044
I think I’ve seen someone pay with AliPay using their face... pretty far ahead of what we have...
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Comment #24852947
Isn’t this related to Pareto Distributions? Once you lose, you generally have lost some resources or access to resources, so now you have less resources. Having less resources, you…
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Comment #24852917
How will this integrate with passwordless infrastructure? Isn’t that the way we are going?
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Comment #24817899
It’s almost like that’s their business... thanks for pointing it out
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Comment #24779866
O really? Morgan Stanley has mortgaged they originate and sell directly to individuals? I’m learning new things
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Comment #24673339
MS isn’t a significant lender really so I don’t see that happening (they don’t get deposits like a Citi or JPM). Not sure how they could make that switch. That’s a huge cultural ch…
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Comment #24669498
Thank you for saving the clicks! Got excited there for a moment tbh!
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Comment #24669488
Thank you for this... I still can’t convince myself to get one. The health aspect I wonder if it really actually makes things easier to improve yourself... or is it just tracking n…
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Comment #24623567
"People who see stressful events as “challenges”, with an opportunity to learn and adapt, tend to cope much better than those who focus more on the threatening aspects – like the p…
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