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It doesn't need to be approved to be used, and the results of the trial were likely known for a bit now.

It's easily conceivable that billionaires have been pushing to be 'in the loop' on the meds from the start, and will have gained access long ago to whatever was used in the most promising trials. They can take it as soon as the insider doctors flag that it's ok, likely many weeks before any public announcement, and certainly before any governmental validation.

The value of said vaccines are considerable, there's massive money involved, I wonder if the R&D institutions themselves may have been able to find a loophole to allow for it.

With the sheer number of doctors and patients involved in the trial, and vials worth possibly $100-500K on the black market ... it's bound to get out.

And frankly, who cares? A couple thousand early vaccines is basically meaningless from a public health standpoint. It might even be moral to have publicly auctioned off the first mini batch and put the money into production. It's rational because the 'willingness to pay' of some billionaires for the almost arbitrary early access to a vaccine which will soon be cheap and plentiful ... works well as a 'win win' both for the buyer, and society.
Hacking? Really? You're gonna go with that?

Allegedly sending messages[0] to former colleagues is now hacking? The credentials for accessing the system to send such messages was shared by hundreds, if not thousands of people and posted on intranet sites.

So sending messages (albeit unauthorized ones) using a widely-known set of shared credentials is worthy of a whole bunch of cops descending, guns drawn, on a couple with young children?

I'd also point out that the biggest ISP in that area is Comcast, which routinely sets up free wifi for anyone in range[1] by sharing their customers' links.

As such, any one who had access to the credentials (hundreds to thousands of people) could have just driven over to her house and used her Wifi.

And the cops come with guns drawn? With small children in the house?

From the linked article:

"The search was part of a criminal investigation into unauthorized messages sent last month to a group of health department employees using an internal emergency alert system.

[...]

According to the affidavit, the users on the emergency alert group account shared the same username and password, which cybersecurity experts said left the system vulnerable to a breach that could be difficult to trace."

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/florida-coronavirus-da...

[1] https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/open-xfinity-wifi-h...
Why would you not explain this? By explaining it you answer the question. It seems like a strange thing not to explain?
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I will say that the Amazon Fire tablets (used to?) do this, and my non-technical family/friends would often come to me for help because they didn't know how to do or find what they needed.

As a side note, this caused me to throw Ubuntu on a desktop/laptop for a few of the people who needed the most support, and within a month they didn't need any help and were trying to get me to install it on their friend's machines.

Seriously, I was constantly being asked by old ladies to start an underground Ubuntu support network. They just needed a way to browse the web, upload photos to facebook, and play farmville. That was it, that's all they wanted to use it for.

If I were to do it again today I'd use ChromeOS probably.
‘Twas a joke!

This is what “they” said about the iPod when it was released.

https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
The learning curves of both renewables and storage are such than the advantage won't last long...
It would be great. We need a way of preventing "death by a thousand cuts" by bloated organizations and processes. I also think it would be good to upturn most processes since people learn how to exploit systems quite quickly.

But maybe it would be better to reset in a cascading fashion, rather than all at once.
> does anyone know who does have an interest if not texas?

The defeated candidate clearly would be able to articulate the kind of particularized harm necessary to establish standing. For some of the fact claims involved, insofar as they might raise a legally cognizable case, in-state political parties and other groups and possibly in some cases particular voters have claims (e.g., where an equal protection claim is raised based on differential treatment of voters within the state, voters on the disadvantaged side would potentially have standing.)

OTOH, having jumped through the standing hoop, Trump and pro-Trump litigants have fallen down on actually being able to establish anything illegal, despite having tried in each of the affected states, in both federal and state courts, in well over 50 different lawsuits total.
(Default) arguments are bound to the function when it is created not executed...
The problem with this question is that there are likely to be multiple vaccines. Each will have its quirks.

The first round of vaccines will require two doses a few weeks apart. Each one of those requires a visit. Failure to get the second shot will likely lead to severely reduced efficacy.

The first two vaccines likely to be available in the US will be mRNA vaccines. They are based on an entirely new platform that's never been deployed at scale. That's going to lead to some surprises - possibly good but maybe not so good.

Later vaccines will be more traditional such as the adenovirus-based vaccine being developed by J&J.

Numerically, we're likely to see severe reactions or even death in hundreds or thousands of cases at least. The clinical trials are being run on tens of thousands of patients only, and can only pick up so many reactions. As hundreds of millions get vaccinated, we'll see the full range of effects, some of which could be serious even with the safest vaccines. It's important to keep this in perspective as the news of incidents starts to come out.

I sometimes hear the statement "I'm waiting until it's proven safe." If that's you, you might want to ask yourself what evidence you'll need to know the vaccine is safe.
Keep in mind that Coronavirus vaccine are novel and not field tested, whereas other vaccines are field tested for decades.
I don't think it's religious per say but it is definitely ingrained in the my team Vs the other mentality us humans seem to have
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> I think the issue is centered not around people trying to have a reasoned debate, but those who have been lost to debate more or less permanently. Previously, you couldn't scatter this kind of information about on the scale were seeing today

you and I couldn't. Oligarchs and their governments could and did. The difference is that now their position is threatened by the democratization of information warfare.
Here is where risk analysis come in. Lower chance of vaccine rare side effect short term vs long term and vs getting Covid in those periods, which also has its own set of less rare side effects.

The best bet is get it the fist chance you are offered it as most people won’t get it right away and you will already see most of the effects.
Content filtering is impossible to get right.

For Example, Holocaust denial is shitty and something that anyone should be allowed to ban just because they don't want to be associated with it. The problem is that you have to draw the line somewhere between "The Jews faked the Holocaust and none of it ever happened" and " The exact number of deaths in the Holocaust will never been known but it was in the millions". The first statement is clearly false, the second statement could be an attempt to downplay the magnitude of the event, but it is hard to say without context and you may never know the intent of the person who said it.
The 90's were an insanely violent time, besides gun violence being at all time highs etc, I remember in high school in the mid-late 90's fights every day happening at school. Some people say lead caused the violence, all I know pollution was horrible in silicon valley (south bay) in the 90's. Every day in the summer you couldn't see the mountains and there was a thick brown haze in the air.
I have a few past comments on HN about how electronic voting was a recipe for civil unrest for the precise reasons that are playing out right now and that Taibbi gives examples of.

Google, Facebook and Apple are becoming less American companies as they are a kind of post-national versions of the British East India Company where they operate mainly as the arms of an empire, and instead of opium, they traffic in attention. Their interests are inseparable from those of the permanent state, and this year has been the moment when they have taken on that role in earnest.

The recent bans are tripling down on the wrong side of the issue, and what's most frustrating to me is that in over 100 years never have there been so many who were at once so wealthy and so wrong, and I can't see what the trade is.
If it's a condition for international travel, which in some way it likely will be, then anyone wanting to travel won't really have a choice. Given that, I'll be getting it. Australia is in a bit of a weird position in that I have no idea what level of virus circulating we'll tolerate even post vaccine though, and I must admit it's concerning that we might reduce deaths by 99% with the vaccine but still not tolerate any infections.
I was one of the ones that reported using org-mode daily. I had to think a bit about that at first. I don't use it any hard core fashion as an organizer or for task management or anything. But it has supplanted Markdown and RST as my go-to for lightweight markup. Whenever I would have previously started a .txt, .rst, or .md buffer to jot some quick notes down, I now find myself creating a new .org buffer instead. So on reflection I would have to say that I use it nearly daily, even if in a basic and ad-hoc way.
Unfortunately it's impossible to have this conversation when the person is saying "I'm following the science but I won't explain the science to you". You may as well run into a brick wall
> Democracy and free speech are intrinsically linked.

Not really. UK has far more limits on speech than the US but is just as much of a Democracy as the US.

"Free" speech has be weaponized in the internet age. It is a cancer that is actively destroying democracy.
It looks OK to me. Do you mean the $2.40 in the text or in the table?
He thought he was saving the world but it turned out there was a whole bunch doing just fine in Vermont.
Why do you say Teams is rubbish? We used it for the better part of a year before moving to Slack (corporation wide mandate). So far my opinion of Slack is that it is rubbish. I never had any issues with Teams, but Slack has been a nightmare for me. I don’t get updates and notifications about channels I’m following like I should. It doesn’t work anywhere near as well on my phone as Teams did. I’m not a MS lover (I was a web developer during the first two browser wars and the standards war and still have bad feelings towards MS), but Teams seems to be really well put together. I’m interested to hear why you disagree.
Take the team to read this one, especially the later section describing the Anti-Mac interface. It's incredibly prescient and basically describes the direction of modern desktop GUI + cloud + voice controlled assistants.

The article might be a bit aggressive on suggesting that language _replace_ icons, rather than augment them - but it seems just as likely that we're still in the middle of the transition and assistants being built from the ground up without icon-based UIs is exactly what the article is predicting.
Why take a vaccine for something healthy people like me fight off in a day or two? It doesn't make sense.

I can take a Zinc tablet, and some Vitamin D, or HCQ, etc.

Now older and sicker people should think otherwise, or those who interact regularly with those populations.

And yes, I know asymptomatics allegedly, potentially, in some rare cases, might possibly spread it to people who may get seriously ill. That is what we called "nature" before 2020.
TFA said "40 horsepower continuously and, in short durations, peak power reaches 70 horsepower." This is a 40hp tractor.
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Why is it your civic duty? What will you having this vaccine do for anybody but yourself?
If I'm not mistaking, Dynamo's streaming is pulling under the hood. I suppose it depends on how frequently it pulls how quickly the price goes up and how expensive such a pull is in reads.

In Fauna we have temporality as a first-class citizen. You can get efficient and cheap changesets by leveraging temporality since you can just ask: "what has been added/removed in this collection or index match after timestamp X" and can combine that by writing an index that delivers you the answer to "what are the updated documents in a collection after a certain timestamp?". That brings you very cheap pull-based CDC.

We recently introduced a second possibility that allows for push-based streaming for documents. Document-based streaming allows you to open separate streams for multiple existing documents to get updates on those. This is only the first phase, sets (such as index matches or whole collections) are coming up. Streaming becomes cheaper if you want your data to be really life (<1s) which is excellent for UI redraws but could potentially also be used for CDC (probably in combination with the temporal features if you need to restart streams). Both push-based as pull-based are strongly ordered.

I describe how to get the query for the pull-based approach here: https://forums.fauna.com/t/example-custom-subscription-funct...
And a blog on the streaming API can be found here:
https://fauna.com/blog/live-ui-updates-with-faunas-real-time...

Once set streaming (next to document streaming) is out as well, we have two strong solutions and you can choose what suits you best and what is most efficient for your use case. Do you want instant UI redraws? Use push-based, are you pulling a changeset every houre? Use pull-based.
The reality is that a lot of enterprises and organizations don't really need a chat service. It's not a must for them.

On the other hand, what knowledge worker today can function without video conferencing, desktop sharing, file sharing and VoIP?

No that many.

Teams provide all of that natively. That's why they're wining.

Let's be frank, if Teams had been just a chat application, it would never have had the success it currently has, even as part of O365. Being bundled with something popular is not a guaranty of success. IE is a very good example of that.

The reality is that MS made Teams a complete collaboration platform and Slack couldn't do the same with their product.
The process has been too rushed and now the white house is interfering with the approval process. If the vaccine is not safe, then administering it to everyone at once could be as bad or worse than COVID. I'll be looking to the CDCs/FDAs of other countries because ours is tainted at this point.
Because you can unknowingly transmit it to someone who simply cannot take the vaccine (allergic people, pregnant women, etc).
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I think his argument was "government is typically inefficient." is your counterclaim that government is typically efficient?
You make that sound like a bad thing? There are some that believe (as I do) that democracy will leads to oligarchy. But then again I've been reading a lot of Rothbard recently.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/iron-law-of-oligarchy

As for populism in a democratic system is a symptom of politicians/political parties not being seen by their citizens to be taking actions in regards to thorny subjects such as immigration, globalisation and law enforcement.
What do you think about all these people with long covid then? I've seen studies suggesting that it's pretty common, as well as anectodal observations, although I don't have any links handy off the top of my head.
JumpCrisscross is on point here, the level of naivte in the discussion is a little much.

This is a global pandemic, trials with 30 000 patients x 5, each one of those vials worth an absolute fortune, there's a 100% chance quite a bit of it has fled into the black market and a sophisticated one at that.

And to wit - there are a lot of people being 'officially' vaccinated right now behind the scenes they're not going to tell us about.

It might be dangerous for politicians to get it early, because if asked by reporters either they have to lie, or say 'yes' and then public outcry.

Special Forces, the Secret Service and some other security personal - just a some examples are going to get it long before we plebes. Among others.
At current rates that would happen 4 months from now; it's hard to see how that's not at least plausible.
use code snippets and templates to copy pasta code together into a flowchart to create a proof of concept.

start with hello world or fizzbuzz to get the code working, then build the snippet library.

in short a macro like coding environment to reduce typing, and produce somthing quickly to kick around with other programmers until its at least beta stage.
Free speech isn't implicated here.
Because last I checked, HN was not pregnant women's favorite forum.

You could create a poll if you doubt it, I trust my gut :)
I don't even know where to start here. Common carrier laws? The post office? Court cases forcing shopping malls and company towns to allow freedom of speech? I guess these are all innovations by the Textualist/Originalists you despise.
Jeez, yeah, Wally-World would be a great place to look. Gonna approach that topic a little slowly, the solution is pretty drastic. Hopefully the court system will work out and the abuser will end up in prison for a good while. At least enough time to figure out the next move.

Apparently our state has a program for secret mailing addresses. From what I gather, victim advocates can set up a mailing address at a state govt building and from there it'll get forwarded on. I think the plan is to use that for official documents for the foreseeable future.
They are called Best cost countries now.
Do Australians have strong dislike of their setup as well?
Oracle was a fantastic place to work for me. I had a private locking office with a mountain view as an intern - many people on here say they'd kill for that kind of respect and working environment! And they paid me a full senior salary while I did my PhD. Really can't argue with that.
Lowers the risk you are infected and infect other people and/or take a bed in a crowded hospital
It’s brutal.
> It is amazing to me that there are so many people, smart people even, that are adamant that we shouldn't have free speech in society.

This can be attributed to nothing more than personal political bias. There is no way these people would be arguing for censorship if the censorship favored the other side.

It also makes me want to move. There is no advantage to being an American without the freedom of speech and press.
> (Genuinely trying to understand if there is something that makes this different from any other sort of fraudulent communication - I don't see people defending the other stuff under the guise of "Free Speech", and I'm not clear why this would be different)

People are not defending fraudulent communication. They are observing that the same factors that make audiences vulnerable to misinformation affect the censors and the process by which censors determine which information is harmful.

If we had a test for truth or sincerity we could use it to determine which information was false or put forth in bad faith. We don't, so any person who acts as an information gatekeeper could be one of those people who is lying or deceived and they would then be able to corrupt the discourse by censoring the information that exposes their lies or misunderstandings.
Many companies are planning to hit their carbon reductions through purchasing offsets. From the article, "And Microsoft Corp. and Google recently vowed to erase all of the historic carbon emissions from their operations, which will require them to buy millions of offsets (most cost about $8 to $10 per credit)."

Unfortunately, many offsets are "empty". "about two-thirds of offset projects allowed into this market don’t represent true emissions reductions, say academics studying the projects." Researchers found that many projects would have been built with or without the carbon funds, and many possible carbon-releasing developments weren't going to happen anyway.

Kudos to Lyft for announcing they won't use offsets to hit their sustainability targets.

Salut to Stripe for indisputably reducing carbon in the atmosphere by paying to actually remove it. "Stripe recently paid $775 per ton to Climeworks AG, a Swiss company that uses renewable geothermal energy to capture CO2 from the air, concentrate it, and store it underground in rock formations. In this case, the carbon payment from Stripe is causing the reduction to happen, because there is no other reason for Climeworks to carry out this expensive process."
Its a good question let me answer - some people can't get the vaccine. Right now, it's banned for people with allergies. Babies can't get it. For some people, they can never get it due to their immune system.

Their only chance is never coming into contact with a contagious person, so that means as many of us need to get the vaccine as possible to ensure that doesn't happen.
It will help stop the spread
> When do you use packrat parser vs LALR vs LL?

This is not something you can expects candidates to know.
Same as a mask? Keep him from transmitting it to other people.
I completely agree if you test positive and don't follow the isolation period then that's a problem. However op seems to be saying that if you go shopping (could be classed as high risk?), don't know you have the virus, and pass it on then that's a problem too?

What's the difference between passing this on unintentionally and passing any other virus or disease unintentionally?
You can't spread a disease if your immune system kills it on contact.
“Only paid subscribers can post.”

That certainly is American.
Yes, but I'm in a pretty isolated context currently so if that continues I might delay it not because I don't trust the vaccine but because it just wouldn't make sense (EDIT: be worth the hassle for anyone and consume a by the beginning limited resource). (But then there is a good chance the context changed when vaccines are available for the general public in Germany ;-) )
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It doesn't make sense from a weather perspective, since Austin has brutally hot summers and cold winters.
I didn't know that part about his girlfriend. I've had a hard time finding info on what he did.

But I wasn't suggesting that it's a "good" way to make it. I just said it's something to do to help.
Like I said -- With guns drawn[0]. Pablo Escobar this was not.

[0] https://twitter.com/georebekah/status/1336065787900145665?s=...
Having the vaccine decreases the probability that I spread the virus.
Is there not home delivery where you live?
The coronavirus vaccine is free in the US.
Assuming this is a good faith question: while this is not guaranteed, it is highly likely a vaccine will prevent disease transmission (given how the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines help create an antibody response to coronavirus's spike protein), breaking chains in viral spread.

Edit: correction to better reflect the mRNA vaccine mechanism.
haha a downvote. Seriously been on here since 2009 getting tired of the thought police. At least responded with some kind of point then the normal business school bashing that happens on this site.