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Jeremy Cherfas

2020-03-17

1 min read

There's no way I know of to find old spam that came into WithKnown while I was not getting notifications. I had thought that my scheme of jumping on spam as soon as possible after receiving (restarted) notifications had found them all. But no. Today surfaced a bookmark post that had accumulated 10 spams since August 2018.

Lotta continua!

Jeremy Cherfas

COVID-19 by the Numbers by Anatole Kaletsky - Project Syndicate

On the plus side, maybe more people will stop using "exponential" as a synonym for "very large".

Nah.

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Just wondering, what's so bad, the way Hans sees it, about the way Italy has handled the coronavirus?





Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

G-FEED: COVID-19 reduces economic activity, which reduces pollution, which saves lives.

"I calculate that the reductions in air pollution in China caused by this economic disruption likely saved 20-times more lives in China than have currently been lost due to the virus in that country"

Oh boy! Data analysis rocks.

Jeremy Cherfas

Get political reporters off the coronavirus story because they don't distinguish between right and wrong | Press Watch

[W]hen they’re just talking smack, maybe the best thing to do would be to ignore them – and instead rely on sources who actually know what they’re talking about and reporters who know enough about health and science and reality to discern between what’s true and what’s not.

That would be almost all the time, right?

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Jeremy Cherfas

Woke to an unsettling SMS and email from Ryanair telling me the return flight at the end of March had been cancelled. What about the outbound flight? I need to decide what to do.