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Plain and simple.

* USA acquires a Vaccine
* USA Gov. gives the vaccine to some big pharma corp.
* Big pharma will patent the vaccine
* The world will be sued by big pharma if it come up with a vaccine
I’m really surprised at the public reaction in the UK. Many of my friends are still going to pubs and concerts like nothing is going on. Life is just continuing as normal. Feels a bit like they’re being used a cannon fodder in this huge “herd immunity” gamble, because some of them will get it, and some of them will die. Personally I’m staying as isolated as I can until the worst of this is over, regardless of the official advice.
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What are you saying?

How many people are going to sit at home for a year without food?

Someone's going to have to make and deliver the food. If food manufacturers and distributers lack people to do it, then someone will have to step up to the plate and help them or we'll all starve.

Yes, people have been told to stay home, but at the cost of starvation? I don't think so.
Supplies for vaccinces of any kind are always subject to constraints and so deliveries are prioritized by the highest bidder. I know for example the flu vaccine gets delivered to the US and Japan first from a certain French pharmaceutical because they pay (by far) the highest prices. Of all G7 countries, Canada pays the least for the flu vaccine so they get the the vaccines last.
Have some spare GPU cycles and want to help? covid19
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I don't know. I think the answer in a crisis is less finger-pointing and more visible displays of willingness to cooperate with one another.

There'll be plenty of time after the crisis to bring out the guillotines.
If you're 'afraid' to move to a new and better add-on then don't blame the messenger for it though.
I think the future is still hazy for managed languages, the GC side of Wasm is still in the design phase and it's not clear how widely it will be implemented. And it's been quiet for a long time, is the effor even alive? (https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals/issues/16)

If it's going to encompass the possibility to hook into the JS side GC engine, this might not be implemented at all in headless Wasm applications, and so you wouldn't be able to use the GC'd languages on those platforms, just C(++)/Rust. Which is not very attractive compared to the easier / safer high level languages most programmers are used to.
This article is incorrect. This company already has a large footprint in the United States in Boston, which is the epicenter of much of the covid effort. In addition, it's backed by the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (which apparently has a stake in the company).

The same rumors are going around about China buying US companies.

This kind of mob-raising by the media happens in every pandemic, and it does result in people being killed. Knock this shit off until the facts are in.
> I do agree it's difficult to formulate how to ask for donations (money or cpu-time), you need to seem optimistic otherwise nobody would do it but research takes a huge amount of money and cpu-time and calendar time so there surely is a gap here between expectations and reality..

And there is a tricky balance between over-promising and under-delivering vs being realistic and lacking enough "flashyness" to get funded/thrown money at.
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This is a really misleading title. The evidence here is extremely thin, and The Guardian has no actual source, just reports from _Die Welt_ that themselves claim only an anonymous source.

I suggest something more like: “Anonymous German source claims that Trump offered…”. It's a lot less misleading, and a lot less interesting.
China is going to win this. USA mishandles the pandemic, blocks the EU-US transit way after it could help anything, and now pulls stunts like this. Meanwhile, China is restarting their economy, and is scoring points by sending teams of doctors and hundreds of tons of medical equipment to countries around the world, including two in EU.

When the dust settles, I think Europe may end up reconsidering who to side with.
> "America First" is the administrations primary guiding principle.

No, kleptocracy is the administatin’s primary guiding principle. “America First” is one of the main propaganda tactics they use to sell their kleptocracy to the masses, not a guiding principle.
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I don't know if this is the reason but it'd take a lot longer to fill and stack then unstack and empty 200 containers than it does to fill one cavernous space.

Then you still have to clean those containers just like they are cleaning the ship.
It might happen eventually. Possible explanation for why it hasn't happened yet: it's influenced by how the government employee views their relationship to the individual.

I work with very detailed patient data in a state health department. It's been drilled into me that patient privacy is above everything. Everyone I work with is out to help these people. We would be ashamed if we looked at, let alone made decisions with, data beyond what was necessary.

Law enforcement is different. One of their major tasks is to gather data. Data on people suspected of a crime. Or data from innocent people that can lead to suspects.

Maybe convincing public health to push the boundaries of collecting personal data to combat this disease will be as hard as convincing law enforcement to be less gung-ho. It goes against long history of professional ethics.

I have no sources, so take it with a tub of salt.
Yes, the best way to fix something dysfunctional is to slash its budget, repeatedly make statements contrary to what they actually say, and downplay worldwide pandemics.

Without conceding the point of prior dysfunction, I have to say that trump has yet to find a bad situation that he can’t make worse.
The Lyme disease vaccine:
"By 2001, 1.4 million doses of the vaccine had been distributed, but the FDA’s Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System only picked up on 59 reports of arthritis."

Rates of arthritis roughly at population baseline level.

People who talk about going through the motions of 2 years of animal trials have zero perspective. In wartime, this pedantry needs to be chucked our the window. Do the high yield human tests asap using heroic volunteers, and do it fast.
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It’s not “at this point,” it’s “at this stage of world connectivity and interdependence” (where we’ve been for the past twenty+ years).
On the other hand, if it works the payoff will be quite significant in terms of impact to the economy compared to the rest of the world.
So, on the one hand, people react with aghast to find out that a bottle of Purrel soap costs 20$, when it actually should cost 2$ to produce.

But, here in CA, on the other hand, when a House (something far more crucial to people's lives), costs 800,000$ instead of 200,000$, that's okay (at least with the vast majority of voters).

I should mention the reason for 1 and the other are completely different. The soap, is merely due to the seller, wehreas the housing shortage is a political choice voters agreed to.
this creates hate against Americans among moderate Europeans. General public (in Europe) is fed up since the Bush years. With such actions he just deepens that divide. Soon it will be America against anyone else. But I believe that has been the plan all along since Neocon Wolfowitz times. Bannon just knew how to weaponize this toxic ideology using the Internet and creating a global movement of right-wing f-heads and despots. 2 or 3 weeks ago Bill Maher interviewed Bannon and he actually claimed that Brexit was one of Trumps many achievements (it's not but explains their global thinking). Their ideology is the original virus (and one that is much harder to eradicate).

US diplomats associated with the GOP need to be purged from Europe and denied a visa. Also close all US air bases in Germany it's time to GTFO. European countries also should create a travel-ban against the Trump crime family.

Let's reason with Americans again when they sober up and vote somebody into office who are actually worth talking to. As Popper said, you don't reason with these people. This is our (Europeans) original sin.
(edit: removed my comment because it was unnecessary)
Same here, I'm continuously amazed people are actively "standing up" to a virus. Like it's some terrorist threat that they won't back down in fear from. A dude last week told me he's flying out for a cruise this week. How many spring breakers hopped on planes to Mexico? Can you really not live without going out for a few weeks? Stay inside, read a book, watch some movies, work on that video game backlog, get some work done. The quicker we stop the spread, the quicker we can all go back to our normal lives. All you're doing is just making it longer and more devastating.

wtf people. Use your brains. It's totally irresponsible for you to be spreading this to everyone else.
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Any city really. Imagine gardens at rooftops and some window vegetable gardens being more common place or balcony gardens.
USA is so far behind China and Europe in so many ways, I don’t think these type of dirty games are gonna make Americans feel better about themselves. It’s a dying society and it shows.
maybe he only wears them for public appearances? I like my levis, but tbh I would probably buy more expensive jeans if I were worth millions of dollars.
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Lets just say it that way: There is a lot of anti-american undercurrent in the german population. The obvious hate for germany and the economic war agains europe and especially germany from the Trump administration did not help that.
Currently, China wants to supply Europe with masks, desinfectant etc... while our "ally" tries to steal a vaccine. This might do a massive, massive amount of damage.
Trump's entire platform is "America First", so this should surprise no one.

Since I got a few downvotes, I figured I should support this statement with a reference. What's more "America First" than making sure only America gets a vaccine?

https://www.promiseskept.com/about/

While serving in office, President Trump has continuously delivered for the American people to put America First both at home and abroad.
German here. I am wondering if German government cannot prevent this legally (national security reasons?)
Surprised there is no mention of Goodwill. It's fairly good for donating clothes as well as getting used clothes. Some of the shops are very un-orderly so be sure to checkout atleast 2-3 stores before making a judgement.
Why was the title changed to something less informative?
Harvard prof. of infectious diseases: I thought UK herd immunity plan was satire
When you look at the incentives: less vulnerable people (because the vulnerable ones will be wiped out) will make it more economical for the trade deal with the US to go through, the part about healthcare.

So yeah they probably are making them cannon fodder, whether its intentional or not, the incentives would let higher ups look at the proposal and say "by golly that makes so much sense", whereas the rest of the world wouldn't consider this proposal as killing two birds with one stone and just reject the proposal.
And even up until 1972 the command economy in the north and the (more) liberalized economy in the south hadn't really diverged. NK's growth slowed as they lost the support of the USSR and went negative during the collapse. Not really what you'd expect if authoritarianism was the cause of economic collapse, but exactly what you'd expect if during that time, a hostile state ascended from superiority to supremacy.

It's absurd to view the Koreas in isolation since they were both extremely obviously the subjects of a proxy war in which one side lost decisively. The two countries' economies were driven by export and the US and USSR were by far their largest partners. That wasn't an accident.
We're not. It's the same article about Trump that has come out every weekend for the last four years.

Here's the formula: He's literally a Saturday morning cartoon villain. There are no sources, but it's bad. We only have one half of the story so far but it's a real scorcher. Surely he's finished this time!

By the time the clarification comes out, they will be on to the next villainous plot. You'll get that sweet rush of denouncing him as an asshole and then we'll be off to next week's villainous plot.
"unidentified government source" is all it took for the New York Times to go full propaganda on invading Iraq.
My use of 'monopolize' is not right, I retract that. It does appear to have become a money making enterprise.
We Germans generally like Americans a lot.

In recent years (beginning with Bush II, I'd say), we've felt much colder towards America the country, but I don't see or hear much dislike for Americans.

It certainly helps that the Americans we come into contact here are mostly what counts as liberal in America.

And those who aren't (I was certainly surprised to find out that my friend and colleague from Connecticut was a Republican with Tea Party sympathies) are courteous without fail and don't run around telling us how they feel about free speech or gun control in Germany.

Unlike your Ambassador, I might add…
If condemning 2-5% of your elderly population to death with a shrug is seen as shrewd economic policy, I’m moving to Mars. Fuck this place.
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Not all food has to be made by hand. There's a lot of machinery that can make it, and food could be run through pasteurization and other disinfection processes (such as irradiation) to kill off any pathogens.

This machinery has to be operated by somebody, and people can be trained to do it. It takes people willing and able to do it, however.

Also, once delivered the food doesn't have to be eaten right away. The virus only lasts a certain number of hours or days (I've heard estimates of up to two weeks). After that, it can be eaten safely even if it was contaminated with the virus when it was made. Of course, that means perishable food that won't last that long is out of the question, but other food that can last should be fine.
Here is another German newspaper with some more info: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/corona-trump-impfstoff-c...

Trump offered around (only?) 1B € for the exclusive development of the vaccine.

Apprerently 80% of the company is held by the SAP co-founder Dietmar Hopp. I would guess that his incentive to accept sth like this is quite slim.
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> for your convenience and safety

I always assume they mean "for our convenience and safety".
I think there's a lot of truth to this bias
You don't need to put your first through the 2x4, because they're only every half-metre or so - you can walk between them if you've knocked out the drywall.
It’s the same in New York. At this point we can talk all day about it on message boards but we are going to find out who’s right soon enough regardless.
Bunch of reasons - never intended to do anything other than have fun with it, co-founded another startup that ended up catching a little fire, and finally, it was just me (marketer) and a designer doing this. Would love to see it work, though.
If BGP is busted, those errors were probably stuff like connection timeouts on services running inside borg/k8s.

But like, it's not impossible to measure temp on devices. It's entirely possible to design a temp monitor that tracks the physical grouping of equipment: datacenter -> aisle -> rack -> server

The real question is one of prioritization: if a rack's temp has raised but there's no customer error, is it an immediate problem?
>Someone's going to have to make and deliver the food. If food manufacturers and distributers lack people to do it, then someone will have to step up to the plate and help them or we'll all starve.

>This machinery has to be operated by somebody, and people can be trained to do it. It takes people willing and able to do it, however.

Sure, but it's on the companies to make the move and hire people, not the people to go and beg to volunteer for them. This isn't the old days where you walk into a factory and give the manager a firm handshake and then you get the job.

If a company is willing and happy to train anyone who is up for these jobs and will pay them properly, then there will be people who will do it. But if they are still going to reject people based off credentials or experience like usual, then that's their problem if no one wants to do the work in a crisis like this.
It's me.

More then ten years ago my fiance have converted three bedrooms into additional wardrobes (or more like storage rooms). All expensive designer stuff that she has been rarely using (if at all) just purchasing and storing for later.

Since then I wear mostly Uniqlo, $1 t-shirts from a heap or almost new re-sold stuff.

Clothes and especially cotton are killing the planet.

> About 5 % of household expenditure in the EU is spent on clothing and footwear, of which about 80 % is spent on clothes and 20 % on footwear. It has been estimated that in 2015 EU citizens bought 6.4 million tonnes of new clothing (12.66 kg per person). According to European Environment
Agency (EEA) estimates, between 1996 and 2012, the amount of clothes bought per person in the EU increased by 40 %. At the same time, more than 30 % of clothes in Europeans' wardrobes have not been used for at least a year. Once discarded, over half the garments are not recycled, but end
up in mixed household waste and are subsequently sent to incinerators or landfill.

> the global textiles and clothing industry was responsible for the consumption of 79 billion cubic metres of water, 1 715 million tons of CO2 emissions and 92 million
tons of waste. It also estimated that by 2030, under a business-as-usual scenario, these numbers
would increase by at least 50 %.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2019/6331...
In an open letter, the 229 specialists in disciplines ranging from mathematics to genetics - though no leading experts in the science of the spread of diseases

It's not clear to me why we should listen to these people over the likes of Chris Whitty. Especially as they seem to have mischaracterised comments around herd immunity, which I've only seen stated as an aspect that may help rather than the strategy (to reduce the peak).
All along by not stopping in earlier stage. Good lesson to learn how to eliminate your competitor in the long run are we?
That was Plan A.
The report has been confirmed by the German government:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to...
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typo: I think you meant: some "scientists" :)
TBH I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Trump's oval office speech where he announced the closing of flights from Europe was one of the most disgusting displays of "leadership" I've ever seen. Right at the moment we needed international cooperation, he was highlighting how great the US was and how bad Europe was and that's why they were seeing spread, when in reality the US is just a couple weeks behind Europe.
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Although I hope I'm wrong, he might be in for a bad surprise.
With regards to :
"...
German government sources told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. administration was looking into how it could gain access to a potential vaccine being developed by a German firm, CureVac.
..."

Is there a way, to independently check validity of Reuter's claims?

In the view as extraordinary claims, require 'extraordinary evidence'

My take on reuters, bbc, wash post, new york times ,vox, la times, ars technica
is, that they consider Trump and his administration as their 'sworn enemy'.

It is not unusual, therefore, for an adversary such as Reuters to engage in what's called 'Atrocity propaganda'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda

This has been an effective tactics of information warfare.
> “I want to thank Google. Google is helping to develop a website, it’s gonna be very quickly done, unlike websites of the past, to determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location,” Trump said.

It's important to watch the press conference on this topic for context.

The website is supposed the be the front line in the CDC's revamped testing effort. There are still far too few tests for everyone to get one, so they are being rationed. The website was to be the first stop made by a person who wanted to get tested.

No website, no coordinated testing effort.

All indications are that the president's announcement was premature and caught Alphabet, Verily, and Google flat-footed.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/13/google-says-its-not-p...

The president's bald-faced attempt to use this bogus announcement to elevate the stock market should be transparent to anyone paying attention. The presser was held just before the market close, just for this reason.

This is very, very bad.
The German press was explaining Italy all week... mostly trying to explain how it's all different.

Having seen the cutting of rural hospitals over the last two decades it will be a shitshow
I was thinking filling it would be faster, but unloading the sand they way they did, scoop by scoop, seemed like it’d be slower.

Also, I was thinking that if they used containers they wouldn’t need to clean the ship (or at least not to food grade) since each cargo would be in its own compartment.
> Like it's some terrorist threat that they won't back down in fear from.

Ironically, even the actual terrorists decided to back down in fear from it, suspend their terrorist activities, and teach themselves how to wash hands properly.

https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-isis-terrorists-...
I mean, potato/tomato. America First is very much framing every and all issue as zero-sum and the Trump admin as the state (in true fascist tradition). In that way, kleptocracy is "america first".
The cost of interop in WASM is currently very big as there's no way to pass non-numeric data to the host language without explicit conversion, which is very slow. WASI is trying to address this but as far as I know it's very far from being used by WASM language implementations. Most WASM implementations , by the way, are completely experimental at this point... listing 30 languages as supporting WASM seems highly misleading to me, as someone who has played around with a few languages compiling to WASM. I would say that only C, C++ and Rust have decent support. Even the Go support is currently extremely experimental and limited when compiling to WASM, and that would be the next "best" option. Lack of GC is a huge problem here and the current approach seems to be to allow runtimes to only optionally provide one.
Right. Because it's not linear.

The only truly exponential example that comes to mind is milk souring. But that's too slow, unless you keep notes.
Since this is going to play out over time, won't we reach a point where people are basically stocked up.. and the more avid shoppers have already filled their pantries?

We're going to keep shopping at this rate for months, are we? After all, we don't eat more than we usually do.
It will be one of the deadliest A/B tests this year.

Or, as I saw in one conversation among my friends:

- I thought that the UK is a rational and science-driven country.

- Yes. And it is why they've offered themselves to serve as a control group.