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sgw928

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    Comment #26947749

    That $272M number is proceeds from selling digital assets, not profits.

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    Comment #26947722

    See the $272M "proceeds from sales of digital assets" in the statement of cash flows on page 26.

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    Comment #22809821

    That's just for public data reporting, so doesn't stop people from actually doing tests.

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    Comment #22809812

    For clarity, a 500-patient study in WA (not yet peer-reviewed) showing self-swabbing to be as effective as swabbing by health care workers has prompted FDA to allow patient to self…

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    Comment #22808687

    A self-swab surveillance program has been launched in Seattle: https://publichealthinsider.com/2020/03/23/introducing-scan-... . Is self-swabbing allowed there because it's for res…

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    Comment #22808642

    The situation is similar in WA state, where the current bottleneck is specimen collection, as there is a shortage of swabs, vials, PPE and personnel. This results in large amount o…

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    Comment #22563309

    Also when 85+ year olds die for other reasons, they don't all occupy ICUs for days or even weeks as in the case of COVID-19.

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    Comment #22194518

    NPR's All Songs Considered ( https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/ ) has New Music Friday every week, available through podcasts.

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    Comment #16506181

    Have you gone to the NLRB yet, or is this not something NLRB covers?

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    Comment #16488357

    Imagine someone super rich shorts Herbalife like Ackman did, lobbies congress to make Herbalife's business model illegal, and then profits from the short position. Would this be co…

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    Comment #12856891

    Then when someone resubmits new data, how do they know that a previously submitted data point is now stale and shouldn't be used any more?

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    Comment #11881727

    It's juvenile, but I can't help laughing at "Visual Basic-ally."

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    Comment #11517590

    It reflects the outsized influence Le Corbusier had in the architecture circle. Many people imitated him and built piles of concrete mostly for government and college projects.

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    Comment #11260999

    Fair points. Thanks for pointing this out. I used "random" to really mean "not-top-pros." Moves suggested by experts being voted on by a large sum of people are kind of similar to …

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    Comment #11258245

    Lee is widely considered the greatest player of the last decade, winning 18 world titles, but has been surpassed in the last few years by younger players, with this unofficial ELO …

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    Comment #11258217

    As the only 9p player in the western world, Michael Redmond is of course very impressive. Chris Garlock, on the other hand, doesn't add that much value to the broadcast. Maybe some…

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    Comment #11258207

    Random human beings simply voting fared pretty well in chess though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World Of course, Go has way too many eligible possible moves …

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    Comment #4825543

    Stock price divided by revenue per share, or market capitalization divided by revenue.

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    Comment #4700891

    NYT has actually got blocked and unblocked back and forth several times. A funny case was that in an interview a reporter asked former president Jiang Zeming why NYT was blocked an…