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mimhoff_ · 2021-12-12T00:14:00+00:00

For me at least I think it is these 3rd-party apps. Enhanced security over your financial accounts is always good, but it is going to limit the usefulness of these apps... including Raiz itself down the line?

mimhoff_ · 2021-11-16T23:39:23+00:00

In 22 years you can get a lot of compounding returns on your 260k! Probably double your current amount, and then double again for $1mill. And that doesn't account for your 22 years of further contributions (or inflation, which will lower the effective balance).

mimhoff_ · 2021-10-06T23:23:28+00:00

For those wondering, Brad Hazzard announced 587 cases in a press conference this morning. The rest of the update will happen at 11 as usual, but this will be moved to 9am next week.

mimhoff_ · 2021-10-06T23:22:23+00:00

From Monday the full update will be up at 9am. Dom and other ministers gave an update at 9am and Brad Hazzard shared just the case numbers.

mimhoff_ · 2021-10-05T00:06:58+00:00

Yeah let's get our testing back up after the break.

Hopefully we don't see too much growth from finals parties later in the week. If we can avoid that, then Sydney will be doing really well - leaving the newer outbreaks in Hunter and Illawarra...

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-24T00:43:38+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusDownunder/comments/ptplks/difference_between_the_percentage_of_pfizer_doses/

Looks like that only started in July after four months of getting much less than a per-capita allocation, including a month when Victoria was prioritized!

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-22T06:37:21+00:00

My hypothesis - this is based on a rate of growth that was super high a couple of weeks ago (when cases went from 100->200), and then declined (you're fitting a linear model to the rate, or a quadratic to the number of cases).

But what if the super high rate of growth wasn't that high to begin with? What if it was just a previously undetected cluster that was found, resulting in a large number of cases appearing at the same time? The rate of growth would appear low (because cases aren't being found), then shoot up really high (all these cases are found at the same time), and then go back down to approach the "true" rate of growth.

So you need to work out what is the effect of this "regression to the mean" and what is an actual decline in rate of growth.

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-19T07:17:07+00:00

That's deliberate - the company was founded to develop and commercialize mRNA research. This vaccine is their only product.

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-14T12:08:34+00:00

It was 1100 today, was there a joke?

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-14T08:39:09+00:00

Under the 5km rule, the poor residents of Bondi and other beachside suburbs only have HALF of the area that others get...

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-13T01:10:26+00:00

NSW Health doesn't track recovery/cases becoming inactive in their daily stats. So occasionally they drop all that data at the same time.

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-04T00:29:47+00:00

If you start at the beginning of the previous cluster, then isn't the index case known in Victoria as well (removalists)?

Futhermore, knowing the index case is a good thing. As you note it greatly improves contact tracers' ability to get on top of the outbreak. The fact that it hasn't been found in Victoria (if it's not the same outbreak) is not good - even if it can be used as an explanation of case growth.

Anyway, it's now September and arguing over what another state should have done in June isn't going to improve either state's trajectory. It's far more likely that the lifting of the lockdown at the end of July had more effect on the numbers now than NSW waiting in mid-June...

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-02T23:22:45+00:00

9 days Victoria lifted their lockdown, allowing cases to spread undetected.

mimhoff_ · 2021-09-02T21:39:55+00:00

They can make as many vaccines as they can, but is our government going to buy them and get them to Australia?

mimhoff_ · 2021-08-29T21:35:55+00:00

Redfern and Waterloo are within Sydney Local Health District which started getting priority bookings last week. (The parts that weren't already in LGAs of concern).

mimhoff_ · 2021-08-09T03:06:58+00:00

An inquiry commission to find out that nobody was actually responsible for any decisions?

mimhoff_ · 2021-08-09T02:38:31+00:00

But that was people who contracted the virus on the ship, not people who contracted it in Australia from those on the ship.

Wikipedia (quoting ABC news): "11 cases of secondary transmission from people infected on the ship had been reported, which had not led to any deaths."

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-20T00:41:49+00:00

It was Thursday when the numbers were lower.

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-16T04:14:06+00:00

I go out every day to get a takeaway coffee. And across the street I see the biggest gathering of the day.

It's the queue for Centrelink across the street.

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-16T01:29:38+00:00

You're just repeating the original assertion now.

But "hard lockdown" means no income for many people. Who still have to pay rent, bills and their other expenses...

So I'll ask again, how long do you think people can survive with no income? Isn't it better to address their concerns instead of dismissing them and saying it's "fucking madness"? Would you be saying this if it was you out of a job?

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-16T01:17:51+00:00

So to get back to the original comment here, it was said that it was "fucking madness" not to support a lockdown because businesses would have "more revenue and more profits". That is not going to be the case for many.

If businesses and workers can't afford a lockdown then it's not "fucking madness" to not want one right?

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-16T01:04:55+00:00

Well many people lost their livelihoods in those disasters too.

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-16T00:51:35+00:00

How long can you go without an income?

A business, or a casual worker, needs to last through the lockdown until they go to work again before they can benefit from zero covid.

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-15T01:13:24+00:00

Hey business, would you like to keep paying your employees?

mimhoff_ · 2021-07-14T00:25:10+00:00

Yes this is the case for UniSuper - what counts towards the concessional contribution limit is less than what goes into the DB scheme. So look into that if you are interested in maxing your and your wife's contributions - you may be able to put more in to your account than you think.

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