sgw928 | 4 years ago | on: Tesla Q1 2021 Results
That $272M number is proceeds from selling digital assets, not profits.
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sgw928 | 4 years ago | on: Tesla Q1 2021 Results
See the $272M "proceeds from sales of digital assets" in the statement of cash flows on page 26.
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
That's just for public data reporting, so doesn't stop people from actually doing tests.
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
For clarity, a 500-patient study in WA (not yet peer-reviewed) showing self-swabbing to be as effective as swabbing by health care workers has prompted FDA to allow patient to self-swab at clinics, just not at home: https://medcitynews.com/2020/03/fda-says-patients-can-self-a...
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
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 research purpose, not clinical purpose? The program does tell users whether they test positive though.
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day
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 of existing lab capacity, such as at UW Virology labs, not being used. Skipping RNA extraction definitely helps with expanding lab capacity in places where that's the current bottleneck, but isn't the most pressing thing in WA.
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal disparity in deaths and tactics
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.
sgw928 | 6 years ago | on: How to Find New Music
NPR's All Songs Considered (https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/) has New Music Friday every week, available through podcasts.
sgw928 | 8 years ago | on: A Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power
Have you gone to the NLRB yet, or is this not something NLRB covers?
sgw928 | 8 years ago | on: Bill Ackman Surrenders in His Five-Year War Against Herbalife
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 conflict of interest legally, or is this just how crony capitalism works in the US nowadays?
sgw928 | 9 years ago | on: LinkedIn launches Salary to chart what we earn
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?
sgw928 | 9 years ago | on: How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M
It's juvenile, but I can't help laughing at "Visual Basic-ally."
sgw928 | 10 years ago | on: Brutalist Websites
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.
sgw928 | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
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 how democracy and capitalism work.
sgw928 | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
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 rating system ranking him at No.4: http://www.goratings.org/. Go is really a young man's game right now.
sgw928 | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
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 somebody will start a "Left Commentator" meme, just like Left Shark.
sgw928 | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5
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 for random people to vote on, but a large enough group of top pros might be able to do well just by voting.
sgw928 | 13 years ago | on: The economic logic behind tech and talent acquisitions
Stock price divided by revenue per share, or market capitalization divided by revenue.
sgw928 | 13 years ago | on: Hidden Fortunes of Chinese Leaders
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 and Jiang said he would personally look into what was going on. Soon after that, it got unblocked.
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