adrianb

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by adrianb 11mo ago
Volvo cars was sold to Geely but Volvo Buses (+ trucks) is still a Swedish company.
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by adrianb 4y ago
> She was entitled to a refund or vouchers. Is this true? Many (most?) airlines offered vouchers en masse when they had to cancel most flights during COVID, with no option for full refunds.
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by adrianb 4y ago
At least Air Canada was forced by the Canadian government to pay back vouchers to people who asked for them, as part of a deal for financing. I was able to claim the full value of the flight I had to cancel in April 2020. Interestingly, eve
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by adrianb 4y ago
It's widely accepted that the Huanan market cases are an early super-spreader event and not the first human infections. Basically we don't know who and where the first infected humans were. We do know lots of people got infected a
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by adrianb 4y ago
Trillions and trillions of mutations and still the most dangerous H5N1 viruses were created a decade ago by Fouchier and Kawaoka. And how did that help us prepare for the inevitable natural evolution of the same virus?
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by adrianb 4y ago
I found it suspicious that it mentions "sleeping in cars" which shouldn't be needed for day trips as most places in the country are at most 3 hours drive from Amsterdam and places in Belgium and Germany can be reached that fa
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by adrianb 4y ago
Seems to cover more than that, things we should be ignorant of could simply be labeled as False. Malinformation seems to be about how facts should only be interpreted in a certain way. So for example a factual statistic but it can only mean
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by adrianb 4y ago
Actually controlling inflation means slowing it down. So the gallon of milk will be only 7 cents more expensive than last month, not 70 cents.
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by adrianb 4y ago
But a public company has higher public transparency obligations than a private one. Why do you think being afraid of Elon will make them more transparent than being afraid of the SEC?
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by adrianb 5y ago
> For 2021, national tourist board Visit Britain has forecast that visitor numbers will be lower even than in 2020, when travel restrictions were at their highest. Not sure how they evaluated the travel restrictions, but in 2020 there we
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by adrianb 5y ago
The point is that she gets called because of buzzwords such as Blockchain and AI and what have you. If the education and job experience is made up, how do you know you're not getting calls because you sent a fake CV mentioning great ed
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by adrianb 5y ago
How so? If these days a house listed for x gets offers at x+10%, after average wages increase it will receive offers at x+20%. Is there any historical precedent of house prices not rising faster than inflation, absent external factors? I th
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by adrianb 5y ago
I agree, religion offers simple ways to classify actions as good or bad. Following the church teachings or priest's guidance was enough to make an individual confident they are a good person, doing good things. Meanwhile, in real life,
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by adrianb 5y ago
Also it seems the agreement is that 7 countries agree that all countries in the world need to have that minimum rate? How would they convince the rest of 180+ countries? Especially, how do you convince the ones who would lose a lot of tax i
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The Other 'Tank Man' Photographs (2014)(wsj.com)
25 points by adrianb 5y ago|2 comments
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by adrianb 5y ago
The same was true of Yahoo in its last days as an independent company. Their holdings in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan (an independent, successful company) were worth more than Yahoo's market cap. Selling Yahoo to Verizon meant splitting the
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by adrianb 5y ago
Wearing masks when sick is a good hygiene practice in general. But in COVID context with significant asymptomatic spread it won't help as much as it does for colds and flu.
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by adrianb 5y ago
Could be. But one thing that was pointed out to me is that once our generation gets closer to retirement age, the governments will be more willing to address our concerns. Probably at the price of making the next generation's retiremen
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by adrianb 5y ago
Infected animals were found in the market where the outbreak began 4 months after it started. We have nothing comparable a year and a half after COVID.
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by adrianb 5y ago
Wikipedia [1] seems to include sources: > In late May 2003, studies were conducted using samples of wild animals sold as food in the local market in Guangdong, China. The results found that the SARS coronavirus could be isolated from mas
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by adrianb 5y ago
> if you made statements like "this started in Wuhan, in the lab there, not in the animal market next to it," you were called racist, even though race had nothing to do with it. Honestly I always felt like "a scientist wor
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by adrianb 5y ago
One reason this theory is becoming more mainstream lately is the lack of results looking for the natural reservoir of the virus after more than 1 year of searching and an amazing number of animals tested all over China.
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by adrianb 5y ago
It's been written everywhere that the horseshoe bats most likely to carry coronaviruses live in Yunnan province, more than 1000 km away. It's where the closest COVID relative was found as well. Also while there are other species o
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by adrianb 5y ago
I read it's because he only wants the most absolutely committed investors owning shares, not superficial speculators. You would overthink if you had to spend that much on a single share. Although modern platforms with their fractional
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by adrianb 5y ago
And the ones you mentioned have major regulatory hurdles to expand internationally. In industries where a single player can dominate multiple markets we are down to 2-3 major competitors, worldwide. See airplane or train manufacturers, beer
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Origin of Covid – Following the Clues(medium.com)
2 points by adrianb 5y ago|0 comments
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by adrianb 5y ago
Rewind 2017 must be worse? EDIT: Verified, it's not. But it must've been at some point.
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by adrianb 5y ago
Except the safety protocols would apply to similar labs worldwide. It's just a coincidence this started in China, a leak could happen anywhere.
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by adrianb 5y ago
Do you trust Boeing to revise their airplane safety systems after a crash? They surely will do an internal review and make changes. Or do you appoint an independent investigator that issues mandatory changes and evaluates how they're i
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by adrianb 5y ago
Was it a natural origin? We need to understand how bats came into contact with an intermediary species, how that came into contact with humans, how to minimize risks in the future. Was it a lab leak? We need to know if safety protocols were

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