How remote work is changing tech pay: “As remote work has become more of an expectation in 2022, salaries have begun to converge toward the higher-tier metros” https://t.co/tEdVMi3wRf pic.twitter.com/VXtvwhoTri
— Jim Russell (@ProducerCities) July 11, 2022
contributed by Andy on Jul 11, 2022 in covid
This is one of the craziest plots I have ever seen.
— Jan Leike (@janleike) July 6, 2022
World GDP follows a power law that holds over many orders of magnitude and extrapolates to infinity (!) by 2047.
Clearly this trend can't continue forever. But whatever happens, the next 25 years are going to be pretty nuts. pic.twitter.com/NwZmW9Xphg
contributed by Andy on Jul 6, 2022 in things that go up, logs logs logs, power laws
Movies left, NIH right. 🤔
— Patrick Collison (@patrickc) July 4, 2022
(From https://t.co/0D0vA6b6jC.) pic.twitter.com/t1LxaW5HHY
contributed by Andy on Jul 4, 2022 in stripe press, progress?
This is about the weirdest temperature distribution in #NYC you'll see. A rapidly moving backdoor front (east -> west) has dropped temperatures in Queens/Bronx down to below 70F (aided by Long Island Sound). Meanwhile, it's still 90F in parts of Brooklyn/Manhattan! #nywx #nycwx pic.twitter.com/PFnu98FxhH
— Nick P Bassill (@NickPBassill) June 1, 2022
contributed by Andy on May 31, 2022 in weather, actually this is a map
In 2021 Alexa continued her reign as the most disastrously declining popular name, falling from 495th to 883rd among girls born, and shedding 46% of births, from 1281 in 2020 to just 698 in 2021. In percentage terms, no other major name fell more than 25% (which was Lauren). pic.twitter.com/EIZXYUbbyn
— Philip N Cohen (@familyunequal) May 13, 2022
contributed by Andy on May 13, 2022 in things that go up
Known reinfections had higher Ct values (indicating lower viral loads) with each variant than ones where no record of a previous symptomatic infection existed, here shown in the unvaccinated. 6/9 pic.twitter.com/QRvYQJh9GJ
— Sebastian Funk (@sbfnk@fosstodon.org) (@sbfnk) April 27, 2022
contributed by Andy on Apr 27, 2022 in covid, small multiples
Fintechs tends to have worse delinquency rates than banks in personal loans. Source: @JPMorganAM pic.twitter.com/ROslktYnib
— Snippet Finance (@SnippetFinance) March 7, 2022
contributed by Andy on Apr 18, 2022 in curves
Vaccines are the single most important tool in our fight against COVID
— Michael Mina (@michaelmina_lab) April 15, 2022
However, I’ve worried our approach using a narrow single protein mRNA Vax may limit our ability to keep up w the virus
This new data suggests it might
I’ll explain
1/ pic.twitter.com/G4RU3Y8qo1
contributed by Andy on Apr 15, 2022 in covid, small multiples, logs logs logs
Isn't Japan somewhat unique since a significant amount of land (major cities esp) is "leasehold," held by the same families for generations. Lessors (users) build for short-term use, maybe a generation or 20 years before expected teardown, and
— Rob Frances (@RFrances2) April 7, 2022
Japan's population is shrinking: pic.twitter.com/2ApBe5OOfs
contributed by Andy on Apr 7, 2022 in curves
Real wages and real disposable income aren't a great way of summing up what the purchasing power is of consumers. If you back that chart up to the great financial crisis: pic.twitter.com/zHSU4h8qBG
— Nate DiCamillo (@Nate_DiCamillo) April 5, 2022
contributed by Andy on Apr 5, 2022 in fred, hmmm