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Technology is global. Tremendous deck on the emerging global web: http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/the-emerging-global-web …
Residency goes digital. Soon, anyone with an Internet connection can open a bank a/c or start a business in Estonia. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429913.200-ecitizens-unite-estonia-opens-its-digital-borders.html#.VEMzOkVdaK0 …
Modi encourages reform optimists - Modi to axe India diesel subsidies: http://on.ft.com/1nv30U3 #FT
Just a terrific thought piece by @pegobry on the nature of free-market health care and its models around the world: http://bit.ly/1t1mj94
Inventor of Oculus Rift was homeschooled. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-palmer-luckey-created-oculus-rift-180953049/?all&no-ist …
@balajis the most intriguing basic discovery about biology of Ebola was made in '11 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866103 . Still waiting to be translated..
"It was unlike any of the Ebola viruses they've seen..much, much more severe. The pathology in lungs was remarkable." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkMKUa0sxBQ&feature=youtu.be&t=20m17s …
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6/ Yet woman who cared for now-dead Ebola patient (w/o protective gear) is walking around under weak "quarantine". pic.twitter.com/j4bIyX3bMu
5/ And even with these precautions, unprecedented number of medical staff have gotten Ebola: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/ebola/25-august-2014/en/ … pic.twitter.com/YZ6tVFlKfk
4/ Third, watch videos: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/world/africa/ebola-liberia-west-africa-epidemic.html … Ebola protective gear is highly elaborate (and harder to take off). pic.twitter.com/WK2tYp5GQE
3/ Second, self-quarantining likely to fail given human nature. Already an example in Dallas: http://ux.wfaa.com/story/news/health/2014/10/18/ebola-dart-station-dallas-monitoring/17503345/ … pic.twitter.com/PaksFEBoPV
2/ Several disturbing aspects of this story. First, raw data shows 21 day quarantine will not catch all cases (https://twitter.com/balajis/status/523308663490883585 …).
1/ Important to realize: a few hundred Americans are now "self-quarantining" after exposure. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/19/us/life-in-quarantine-for-ebola-exposure-21-days-of-fear-and-loathing.html … pic.twitter.com/mHto0hFpiD
9/ Not the fault of people on fire that they're on fire. And we need to put out fire. But we don't want them to run into the fire station.
8/ The right plan is: - Contain migration - Accelerate vaccine - When available, subsidize for affected regions - "Overreact" to halt growth
7/ Obviously, even if migration restriction doesn't have 100% efficacy, it will reduce probability of pandemic in industrialized countries.
6/ USA: block PhD computer scientists from immigrating for years, but won't delay nationals from Ebola epidemic regions for a few months?
5/ Thus surprising to see @NateSilver538 write something like this (http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/why-an-ebola-flight-ban-wouldnt-work/ …). Fundamental driver of spread: migration coeffs.
4/ A few dozen more references so I don't need to paste them all in: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/bitstream/2438/8029/2/Fulltext.pdf … pic.twitter.com/5VBq1Pu0tG
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