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Merle Giles

@mgcpamba

Digital strategy, HPC, ROI, BMW motorcycles, coffee, single malts

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#could v #HPC on-prem costs are apples v oranges. Installed base is usu. funded up-front with resulting high depreciation and loss of relative performance. True comparison is to convert TCO to a sliding scale v perf. Then compare.

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"Overnight, The World Became The Twilight Zone" - Exodus From Cities Sparks Mountain-Dweller Greatest Fear zerohedge.com/markets/overni…

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Approximately nine out of 10 hotel rooms in downtown Chicago were empty last week as business and leisure travel continued to plunge. chicagobusiness.com/commercial-rea…

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This just in from zerohedge.com Bryan Wynwood, Joshua Tree Modern Real Estate: "Every call I get is related to the coronavirus. Some of them are from city dwellers worried about being stuck in the center of a metropolis that loses control of its basic public services."

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"Unlike some countries, we didn’t go into this crisis with a huge diagnostics industry. We have the best scientific labs in the world, but we did not have the scale." bit.ly/2w9zdvp

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On any given day during the epidemic, Republican governors have been 42% less likely than Democratic ones to mandate social-distancing measures econ.st/3bJC3pY

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I don't know if this will hold, say, 3 weeks from now (to say nothing of 3 months from now, etc.) But so far the degree of fairly level-headed, calm-and-collected adherence to social distancing rules and norms has been higher than you might have thought going into this.

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From my hometown: In quarantine, junior high band plays ‘America The Beautiful’ nbcnews.com/video/in-quara… via @nbcnews

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Just for grins! From Portage MI Central High School where son Austin is an Administrative Assistant. youtu.be/tAAjbLjqakw