adequateness's comments

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

> This is assuming that "what Apple thinks its customers want" === "what Apples customers want"

Considering the financial success of Apple I would say that is probably true.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

And in the past year, there were precisely 2 Android phones with <= 4.7" screens. Lava Z40 and BLU Advance L5. There were zero that were as narrow as the original SE.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: New iPhone SE

I can see people not liking phones like > 6" screens because they are too hard to hold but it seems like 4" screens are too far in the opposite direction.

adequateness | 6 years ago | on: L.A. Times to Furlough Workers as Ad Revenue ‘Nearly Eliminated’

Given how quickly forecasts were cut from 200,000 to 60,000 it is likely those estimates of millions of deaths were never correct. However, for the sake of argument lets assume that it was accurate and 2 million would have died. We can estimate the value of those lives saved using the value of statistical life that the EPA has for evaluating the effect of regulations[1]. Adjusting for inflation gives a value of $9.5 million today. Saving 2 million lives at 9.5 million per life gives a value of $19 trillion. The 2008 Great Recession cost Americans $22 trillion[2]. Many expect the recession now to be worse than the 2008 financial crisis[3][4].

[1] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...

[2] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/financial-crisis-cost-gao_n_2...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/18/coronavirus-economic-cr...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=v_-ZY1QAr2g

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