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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by renewiltord on Friday April 17, 2020 @06:08PM (#22903416)
It turns out that all those people who write software and run startups do know better than the so-called experts. In tech everyone sounded the alarm way before. The last day I wasn't SiP was the day Google announced Google Next cancellation. And then for the month that followed, all this crap about masks being worthless and now suddenly they aren't.

Turns out a valid epistemological basis becomes more valuable rather than less valuable in a crisis.

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Re:Vox Media is cutting pay and furloughing 9% of employees by Viliam1234 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:37AM (#22906484)
Maybe in this situation it's simply useful to understand what exponential growth means.

To see numbers go like 1, 2, 4, 8, 16... and react with "oh, this seems really bad" while everyone else is like "16 infected people among how many millions? that's nothing. flu kills more people".

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