There’s many reasons the S&P is rising, you can’t say it’s from this without evidence.
Large companies have easier access to debt. And in a low rate environment, solid returns from debt are pretty much guaranteed.
Readit Newssdinsn commented on One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever nytimes.com/2020/08/03/ny... · Posted by u/ajay-d
sdinsn commented on Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
I am still shocked: months after research has shown that SARS-CoV-2 is airborne stable in aerosol form for over 3 hours, we still aren’t telling the public that room air purifiers are a ‘good thing’ (for making indoor air like outdoor air - in regards to virion density per cubic air volume)
The filter technology is essentially the same as in the N95, orders of magnitude more effective than cloth masks.
Put these indoors, multiple per classroom/working space to help the air refresh in sub 5 minute intervals.
> is airborne stable in aerosol form
AKA, it's not airborne. If it requires water particles to host the virus, its not airborne.
sdinsn commented on Why aren’t we talking more about airborne transmission? theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/KoftaBob
>By strict definition, COVID is not airborne since it seems to require a host material (e.g. water droplet).
You are wrong. Read:
1. https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/transmissi....
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2342-5_reference.....
Aerosol transmission is the main vector.
Consider posing your statement in the reverse: SARS-CoV-2 does not disperse in droplets, and/or is not infectious when not in a droplet. There is no reason to believe either of those things!
It's totally reasonable to assume the virus could separate from a droplet and would remain infectious by itself for enough time to infect someone. This is common in other viruses, and seems to make sense from first principles. Why would virus particles not be able to form aerosols?
> Aerosol transmission is the main vector.
Yeah. And that's not 'airborne'.
sdinsn commented on Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/kumaranvpl
The US has permanently lost China's technologists and entrepreneurs at this point. I'm seeing people in the tech industry advocating for Facebook to get secondary sanctions from China - as in, companies which operate in China are not allowed to do business with Facebook. Presumably, this would mean Apple and Google (via Android)...
Facebook is banned in China...
> The US has permanently lost China's technologists and entrepreneurs at this point.
What? We never had them. China's economy is closed and state-controlled.
sdinsn commented on Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to clinch TikTok deal reuters.com/article/us-us... · Posted by u/kumaranvpl
sdinsn commented on Justice Department is scrutinizing takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit propublica.org/article/ju... · Posted by u/jbegley
Really amazing we haven’t created an open source tax software yet.
Tax law is complex and change frequently, it would have to track 50 states + federal tax law.
Pros: competition with Starlink, more Internet connectivity for the world.
Cons: this + Starlink + OneWeb make wide-field Earth-based astronomy much harder, making it less likely that we'll notice new astronomic phenomena or inbound city-killer near earth asteroids.
SpaceX is testing a sunshield on one of their newest Starlink satellites. I hope we'll see Kuiper launch with those and other reflectivity mitigations from the beginning instead of being surprised by the whole problem like SpaceX (claims to be).
Here's some coverage that we did in Orbital Index about the issue: https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2020-02-20-Issue-52/#starli...
> making it less likely that we'll notice new astronomic phenomena or inbound city-killer near earth asteroids.
That is such a ridiculous claim.
sdinsn commented on Tax hike on California millionaires would create 54% tax rate cnbc.com/2020/07/30/tax-h... · Posted by u/onetimemanytime
The crazy thing is you get nothing for it. In Europe you pay high taxes but you get free healthcare, free college and the same for everyone in the country. In the US you get 14 aircraft carriers and something else which I'm not sure.
California state tax is very high, and it doesn't go towards aircraft carriers.
sdinsn commented on Apple halved app store fee to get Amazon Prime video on devices bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/gumby
And Cook is being honest: everyone can negotiate with Apple about their fees.
Don't be shocked if Apple doesn't budge, because you actually have to offer something to make it worthwhile.
I recently found https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-5/all-i-rea... which was a great read. Eugene V Debs had a similar conclusion about consolidation being inevitable, but thought that that was a good thing.
And to be clear, whether competition is possible / what's the right trade-off between efficiency and robustness, is really important to grapple with. If we don't know how to e.g. break up Google, proposals like having workers on boards become dramatically more essential.
He is probably being downvoted for saying that consolidation will lead to feudalism. That is a ridiculous idea that deserves a downvote!