Others have mentioned the size of projects, which might be true. Another factor is the incentive structure. There's immense pressure to obtain grants (due to indirect fund income) and focus on h factors increases this…
The missing variable in this is what happens when you lift lockdown in the absence of a treatment or vaccine. Comparisons with eg Sweden at this point have always seemed strange to me because the whole point of a herd…
It's not even correlational. They didn't even have a group of non-COVID patients to compare to, which would have been really easy. They could have looked at non-COVID ICU patients as well and did not. That would have at…
Related to this is that the current circumstances are different from, say, 2008, which was a sort of internal collapse. A lot of this is external, regulation-driven. Not saying it's not a bad situation, or all…
I'll say for a long time I was the same way, until I bought a Prius. A little while after I bought it, prices actually went up over what I purchased it for, and I was getting letters from Toyota dealerships offering to…
It's interesting to me when others come up with similar conclusions independently. There's studies of sales of works (books etc) and iirc, at least with books, the vast majority of sales are within the first several…
Business opportunity in that current asymmetry?
My guess is there will be mandatory testing for students wanting to return, along with heavy disease surveillance. I also suspect even places claiming "normal operation" will not actually be normal — certain things will…
We have geothermal HVAC. When we moved in we had that water heating setup, but then changed the water heater (natural gas tank). When we did, we asked about hooking up the desuperheater again and were told the energy…
I would but I have a young child and spouse. It's not even so much the risk of serious medical complications for me, it's the complications involved in isolating myself, if that were even possible. It's one thing to…
I've found that if you restrict purchases to goods in "preowned" condition for a lot of things you basically get the same Ebay as before. The tricky part is that there's a lot of people selling preowned goods as "new",…
I'm a former professor (tenured) and have been watching from the sidelines. I've been discussing this all with my friends still in university faculty positions. I agree with you 100% but think the prospects of returning…
Others have mentioned the size of projects, which might be true. Another factor is the incentive structure. There's immense pressure to obtain grants (due to indirect fund income) and focus on h factors increases this…
The missing variable in this is what happens when you lift lockdown in the absence of a treatment or vaccine. Comparisons with eg Sweden at this point have always seemed strange to me because the whole point of a herd…
It's not even correlational. They didn't even have a group of non-COVID patients to compare to, which would have been really easy. They could have looked at non-COVID ICU patients as well and did not. That would have at…
Related to this is that the current circumstances are different from, say, 2008, which was a sort of internal collapse. A lot of this is external, regulation-driven. Not saying it's not a bad situation, or all…
I'll say for a long time I was the same way, until I bought a Prius. A little while after I bought it, prices actually went up over what I purchased it for, and I was getting letters from Toyota dealerships offering to…
It's interesting to me when others come up with similar conclusions independently. There's studies of sales of works (books etc) and iirc, at least with books, the vast majority of sales are within the first several…
Business opportunity in that current asymmetry?
My guess is there will be mandatory testing for students wanting to return, along with heavy disease surveillance. I also suspect even places claiming "normal operation" will not actually be normal — certain things will…
We have geothermal HVAC. When we moved in we had that water heating setup, but then changed the water heater (natural gas tank). When we did, we asked about hooking up the desuperheater again and were told the energy…
I would but I have a young child and spouse. It's not even so much the risk of serious medical complications for me, it's the complications involved in isolating myself, if that were even possible. It's one thing to…
I've found that if you restrict purchases to goods in "preowned" condition for a lot of things you basically get the same Ebay as before. The tricky part is that there's a lot of people selling preowned goods as "new",…
I'm a former professor (tenured) and have been watching from the sidelines. I've been discussing this all with my friends still in university faculty positions. I agree with you 100% but think the prospects of returning…