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Part of the point of the article is we don't need to guess, the people involved explained why they did what they did. We also have their correspondences and memoirs, and those of their confidantes and associates to back that up. We can also examine whether their actual actions match up with such speculation.
That’s just semantics around the word “scheduled”. The FDA insisted on a course of action that makes it unlikely the AZ vaccine will receive an EUA before April. They did this despite the fact that pretty much no one with vaccine expertise doubts that it will meet the safety standards or the (relatively low) efficacy standards required to grant that EUA.

No one disputes that AZ screwed up their trial, but it doesn’t make sense to prevent people from accessing a safe and reasonably effective vaccine just to make a point about that. That’s why the UK and EU have approved it and are moving forward with distribution, while the US waits months for absolutely perfect data before doing anything.
And windows still "reasonably" works after ?
Yes, I know one person can hack there way about all the Linux issues on their specific hardware for their specific work requirements.

I hate to beat up on Linux. I'm a 15 year user on my personal hardware who wishes he could use it for work.
Sure but there are plenty of perfectly acceptable alternatives to those services.
Honestly, you're not missing much. Using Visual Studio is always a clunky, slow experience with frustrating UI changes every time I click something.
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"Keep in mind that C++ doesn't exist"

Why did you post this?
While we're being pedantic: I agree with you about SI prefixes, but bits are indivisible. A millibit doesnt exist (only possible use would be if one was referring to something like a transfer speed as "19 millibits per second", but that's kind of lacking meaning - "0.019 bit per second" or "1.14 bits per minute" would be better)
Downside of buying enterprise for home use is noise - their turbofan coolers are insanely loud while consumer grade 120mm (Noctua et al) coolers are most quiet.
> I could not imagine I would be able to differentiate a billion colors from its previous factor

Dark scenes on a OLED might look better since your eyes can adjust to low light.
Mishandling of COVID is on the EU to a large part. Not only for the vaccine procurement. The EU also, for a very long time, actively prevented meaningful border inspections and border lockdowns that would have prevented a lot of spillover from hard-hit to not-so-hard-hit countries. E.g. in county-level charts you can see which ones border on high- and low-COVID neighbours.
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I actually find this piece hard to read. Sitting here tired. Late at night. It almost feels like the author is writing long sentences on purpose.

I only got a couple paragraphs in. But, again, I'm tired.
> It was not because we wanted to stop people from buying these stocks. We did this because the required amount we had to deposit with the clearinghouse was so large—with individual volatile securities accounting for hundreds of millions of dollars in deposit requirements—that we had to take steps to limit buying in those volatile securities to ensure we could comfortably meet our requirements.

This doesn't add up. How could the requried amount to deposit with the clearing house exceed the cost of the security being purchased? If it does not exceed the cost of the security, then why do they need to prevent purchases of stock from cash accounts?
Maybe you shouldn't assume that? Sure sometimes there will be no evidence, but you should only come to that conclusion after you shake off the laziness and go look. Again, someone not wanting to tell you something that you can easily check out yourself does not make them a conspiracy theorist by default. I'm sure you are special enough in your mind that every poster you reply to should take time to type you a personalized response but that is not the case. However, I think you are special.
> It's sad that your quality of life depends on Google or Facebook services.

Quality of life is not a binary, where you either 'have' it or not, so I don't think it makes sense to say "your quality of life DEPENDS on google or Facebook"

Many things make your quality of life a bit better, and some things make it a bit worse, but no one says they can't have a quality life without Facebook or google.

The person is saying that stopping using Facebook and google will slightly decrease their overall quality of life, but will have zero impact on Facebook and google.
The people I know range from very casual users to more regular users. Varying range of jobs from professional to shift workers. I think you guys are really trying to poke holes in the study without having actually read it.

If you’re covering 1792 users, that could be a decent cross section of society. Could also not be. But I can’t read the study.
Yeah for a whole 7 days!
Out of curiosity why does it need to have blockchain? If youre thinking “to verify identity” isnt there other means of doing this?
Which are, to me, of lower quality. Thus lower quality of life. Not zero quality of life. Just lower.
I can do it tomorrow, please drop me an email (email listed in my blog)
You’re absolutely right, but I didn’t want the overall message to get lost in the details. I’ve been seeing people parrot the “AZ is actually much better than it looks because they included asymptomatic patients” for months now and it’s just incorrect.
I don't understand why Fauci has made those choices and still find him plenty credible.

So you don't understand why Fauci has chosen to lie twice about very important COVID-19 issues, later admitted to these lies, and still find him "plenty credible." How do you know if the next thing you hear out of his mouth is true or a conscious lie???
You got banned for saying that? I am skeptical
If they did that, I doubt their would be retirements.

Assuming all eco-tech companies on WS are trustworthy enough (not Enron-esque), and investing in eco-tech will "create a world worth retiring in", most people would have seen a significant part of their retirement go to zero.

Or if they decided to invest in a publicly traded life-sciences company in hopes of finding more breakthroughs, they would see their investment go towards funding some pricey acquisition instead.

"Create a world worth retiring in" is as vague as it gets.
I quit Reddit, Amazon, Twitter, Google, Instagram and Facebook. My life has never been better. Minor inconvenience does not outweigh major improvements in my mental wellness.

(Edit: I mention mental wellness because those products, and the ads they carry, are designed to be addictive.)
> They were 4mb and 8mb

640px x 480x x 3 bytes per channel = ~1MB. So yeah, 4-8MB is about right for a VGA card.
Interesting. I hold my left hand roughly on the home row, but like you, my right hand is at an odd angle. As a programmer, this seems very natural to me because I have rapid access to the brackets, parens, etc. without stretching my pinky. Coincidentally, I use a trackball too.
I have read a number of comments where folks state that AZ is accused of shipping doses out of EU to other markets (I assume the U.K.). However, I don’t believe any evidence of this has been presented and it is a suspicion of officials in Brussels.

WSJ reports:

“ As­tra­Zeneca says it hasn’t sent vac­cines or raw ma­te­ri­als meant for the EU mar­ket else­where. The com­pany has used a Ger­man plant to pack bulk vac­cine made in the U.K. into vials and ship it back to the U.K., peo­ple fa­mil­iar with the arrange­ment said. That “fill and fin­ish­ing” step isn’t the source of bot­tle­necks, they said.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-astrazenecas-covid-19-va...

I am interested in any other sources for this.
But what about the wives' boyfriends' accounts?
Here's the best practical demonstration I've found; it's about as well as can be accomplished considering we're talking about looking at pictures of HDR on non-HDR displays.

https://prolost.com/blog/edr

It's decidedly not a gimmick. However, it not exactly magic either, and to extent it really relies on the effectiveness of your display's local dimming and maximum brightness.

If you're running your display at 50% brightness, then yeah... it's got "more brightness to spare" when it's time to render those extra brighter-than-bright areas.

If you're running your display at max 100% brightness already then... well, there's nowhere to go from there.

I briefly played around with my 2018 iPad Pro, which has an EDR display. I watched the Apple TV movie "Greyhound" with Tom Hanks. That movie appears to have been shot as something of a demo for HDR rendering. Lots of shots inside the dark, cramped ships, with INTENSELY bright light coming in thru the windows.

Watching it on the iPad, the windows were WAY brighter than the rest of the ship interior. But, I could still see everything in the ship interior. It wasn't lost in the shadows. Watching it on my nice Dell IPS monitor, it looked totally different. The portholes were brighter than the ship interior, but not by much. It just looked like a normal movie.

It was a very convincing demo. However, perhaps hilariously, I thought it looked better in non-HDR on my Dell. Nonetheless, it was an impressive tech demo.
I'm using it as we speak and I'm finding it helpful rather than frustrating. I'm not sure what you're clicking that's changing your UI, but maybe you need to configure it a bit? You can disable Ctrl+Click for example if you don't like it, then forget about it.
Trump’s vitriol was so powerful it actually propagated backwards in time to incite past acts of violence, perhaps indeed ALL past acts of violence. Any claims to the contrary are without evidence.
I'm not sure anyone cares, but the way to think about this is simply to ask if you would own GME at $300 a share if you had to hold it for the next 20 years. The answer is just obviously no. You'll never receive anything remotely close to that in dividends from the company. It's just a mania.
> I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting.

Does Windows even allow to not reboot? I've heard that if you miss the update popup it will automatically do the update and reboot. And if you click "Remind me later" or whatever too many times it will just remove the button and force you to update. Did they fixed that or is it still doing that?
I'm unable to disagree with most of your points, but "I can barely run Windows for a day or two without rebooting." is hyperbole. If this is actually true, there is something seriously wrong with your install. Apart from that, Win10 pisses me off daily. It's insane that I harken back to the Win7 days as often as I do.
Excellent points, well said. If any claims that were not immediately supported by secret video were not at least thought about then no investigations would ever start. At this point the allegations are 50/50, either true or false, the onus is on our regulators/journalists/whistleblowers to investigate and find out if the claims are true.
Agreed that accuracy is important, and we're in sort of a safe space here on Hacker News, but at the same time I feel that the media's portrayal of vaccines so far has done us a disservice. "only 66% effective" may be accurate, but if it's 100% effective against hospitalization that should be the lede. It's also true that we have not proven that vaccines prevent asymptomatic spread, but that's not the same as saying they don't; they almost definitely do, and by being "scientifically accurate" we give rise to people thinking "hmm, this vaccine is only slightly better than a coin flip and I can still spread, what's the point." That's NOT TRUE! Again, all of these vaccines are nearly 100% effective against serious infection and almost definitely inhibit spread—that should be the headline!!!
The J&J and AstraZeneca vaccines are both also very new technology.

Here's the "platform" for the AstraZeneca vaccine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChAdOx1

They are somewhat similar to the mRNA vaccines, triggering cells in the recipients body to produce the SARS-CoV2 protein, but the mechanism is different, they use a virus to introduce the instructions into the cells instead of mRNA. The carrier virus has been altered so that it can't reproduce.

So they aren't traditional vaccines either.
It is at least partly developed (or funded) publicly.

Lots of comments are complaining about how EU "paid less" for the vaccine than country XYZ, but actually EU funded AstraZeneca with hundreds of millions of euros to develop the vaccine in the first place.

In any case unless AZ, EU etc. are able to come to reasonable agreement I think this might eventually lead to EU simply breaking the patent and then anyone can make the vaccine. That would be extremely hardcore measure to use, but in current situation, definitely possible.
I understand that.

I still maintain it's sad that removing Facebook/Google can have any significant drop in your quality of life. And by significant, I mean one where you're willing to debate about it.

I like to keep my happiness as far as possible from the services that some soulless multinational provides.
I don't know how effective it is but CDNs like CloudFlair have DDOS mitigation and lots of bandwidth. Might be worth a try if your content can go behind a CDN (especially static content).

Edit: I see you tried that already.
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Sometimes I wonder if the mindset on HN seems to unhealthily skew towards the “hustle”.

Believe it or not there are people who get into public service for the “service” aspect and not just because it’s some calculated career move.
Time to Riot again.
I'm intrigued which method you are referencing. If I recall, he goes through many. :)
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Good question. I don’t know. I hope the next version at least they’ll have these bugs fixed. I noticed this pattern over the years, every other major version of VS is decent and in between lemons. Im so reluctant to upgrade when everything works fine, you don’t even know.. But I have to unfortunately, my work dictates that
Instead of pressing buttons, you bridge a pair of high voltage electrical contacts? Little risk of heart failure, if you type one handed and avoid ground... (don't take my advice, kids)
I don't think it's that Win10's UI is actually "More simple". Everything I've seen suggests that it's just what people are used to.

I put some small kids in front of some Windows and some Linux machines running GNOME 3. They had an easier time with GNOME.
But if both Apple and Google remove your app from their stores, at least Android has a fairly straightforward method for your users to install it straight from your website.

For iOS your users will have to sign it themselves (but still via Apple, who could block that too) with their own developer account, just to get a time-limited install. Or, even worse, use a jailbroken device to work around all this.
Sure, occasionally.

But I think that the most common side effect is an increase in class stratification--which I'd argue undermines the political stability of the future that you're hoping to retire into.
I don't think it was that bad. Also, do you have a better option?
> Sure you can, by petitioning your government to draft laws and so on.

Ask the government to do something about it? They're allies, they're in it together.

There is no scenario where they don't take out encryption this decade. It's a top priority and big tech is going to very happily assist them. Big tech will give them what they want, they will act as an arm of tyranny assisting the government in smashing human rights, and in return they'll get to continue to expand (they'll get a light touch regulatory treatment). It now has a lot in common with how China handles their giant corporations (so long as you do what we tell you to, you get to exist and thrive), and big tech in the US looks more like a CCP apparatus by the passing day.

All forms of expression and speech will continue to be restricted more by the passing year. The government won't need to do it themselves, big tech will do the dirty work with a wink and nod. That includes all app stores, all online content and forums, all software.

So, when you can't petition your government any longer because it's hell bent on taking your liberty away, what does that leave? The War on Domestic Terrorism of course. They'll create it, spur it, and then have an excuse to crack down on their own invention (not terribly different from how they ran the war on drugs). The US will be a horrible place to live in the near future. The foreign war on terrorism, in which the US did such unbelievable vicious things to other nations, will now turn inward, and the monster will come home, rolling over human rights as it goes.
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Maybe I can with _duckduckgoing_ /s
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This is not relevant to what is being discussed. Also if anything that is due to battery advancements.
Some companies do buybacks that provide the same value as dividends - but avoid capital gains. Since there are less shares after the buyback, the remaining shareholders have relatively more value in the company.
Maybe it would have been even better in windows?

:-)

I remember playing with governor's, disabling hardware, supporting Nvidia Optimus and other stuff in Linux in order to get decent battery life (actually, i got decent out of the box. I wanted good battery life)
Personally, I heavily rely on Google and Amazon. All my emails, purchases, photos, and browsing goes through them. Opting out would mean uprooting gigabytes of data to other services, which takes time to research, backup, and transfer. And even then you can't fully get rid of them, because switching to Apple from Android costs money, and I am not willing to root Android. This is merely my personal situation, but saying that people don't need Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon is ignoring the massive dependence these companies have forced onto users and the cost of leaving, which is not worth the time and money for many.
You don't use history to solve the problems. You use history to find when people were fighting similar problems. Then, you link that to when other people solved still similar problems. And you look for what changed between, to see if you can leverage that.
That billion dollars, while not downplaying it, is not a loan or bail-out but a transient float while transactions clear.
Canada has similar laws as USA, UK has the same situation as most of Europe where you can lie to the police and they can't lie to you. So I think the advice is mostly for countries like USA and Canada with reverse rights, that is the police has more rights than you. In Europe where you have more rights than the police talking to them is safer than talking to a civilian.
mRNA vaccines are not your average vaccine.
I totally agree. Last time this happened with an app I use and trust, I rooted my phone and switched to lineageos to allow F-droid auto-updates. Google is not making me want to keep using their services.

https://f-droid.org/packages/im.vector.app
Mac Outlook is so totally neutered compared to the Windows version. I thought Outlook on Windows was a crappy, crashy POS application, then I used it on Mac. It actually hinders my productivity. There's not even an option to manually run mail rules that you create. I guess you just have to wait for that e-mail to come in again to see if you set up your rules properly. No option to rebuild your mailboxes. I have had to remove and recreate my account multiple times already just to keep it functioning.
Yes! I haven't noticed any difference.

I've started using OOSU10 on all my Windows installs as well as Windows10Debloater. It makes a performance difference on resource constrained devices and for other devices I just like a cleaner Windows install.
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No you really can't because of what is known as free riding.

Consider a scenario where you have a cash account with say 100 dollars and you buy 1 share of stock X for 100 dollars. That's it, you can no longer trade for two days. Because trades take two days to complete, if you have a cash account you need to wait that full two days before you technically own the shares and can sell it. Until that two day elapses, your account has 0 dollars in it.

This is known as free riding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_riding_(stock_market)

Now if you have 100 dollars in your account and you buy stock A for 30 dollars, then your account will have 70 dollars left that you can use to trade with, but this is an incredibly inefficient and impractical way of trading.
Well then, this setup isn't for you. Why not read some of the other articles on Hacker News?
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> What people and authorities?

- Make bank account.

- Bank forces you to use their app for obtaining TANs.

- App refuses to run because "your phone is rooted", i.e. because you removed Google's crap.

- No bank account for you, sorry bro.

I have personally been through this shit. Sure, some banks offer using a physical TAN generator - but not all!
To me they are close enough to not mind.

Especially when considering the unethical nature of these businesses and how they abuse their power.

That ties into the quality of the platform and it is alarming that some people will tolerate it for some comfort.
I'd pay for a book that sheds light on the questionable decisions Mozilla has made throughout the years and the rationale behind them.

From where I'm standing, they seem to consistently make the poorest decisions.
Teachers and such in many states have approximately the priority you've outlined (with over 65 overlapping).
On chain, sure, but Lightning is pretty close to instant
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Exactly. And in the face of ambiguity, the payoff for having a strong opinion can be fairly high because you cannot be proven wrong.
The downturn hasn't happened yet. There's significant stickiness to getting money out of robinhood; they let you trade instantly using margin, but they don't let you withdraw it until its all settled, and settlements take 2 days after exiting your last trade. Even many of the WSB fanatics who hate RH are stuck with them, because even transferring securities in-kind to a new brokerage is often accompanied by a week or more of a freeze on liquidation.
I'm pretty much the same as you --- the best description of my method would be "closest available finger". I can type at ~150WPM for long periods of time without any strain or tiredness, can reach 200+ in short bursts, and have done over 50WPM with only the left hand.

However, one thing I've found that really affects typing speed and comfort is the key travel and actuation force; I think a "light, spongy, bouncy" feel is best. A light force reduces strain, sponginess is a good cushion, and the bounce helps speed up the return stroke. You can type a lot faster once you train yourself to not try to await any tactile feedback, but just "trust" that you've hit the keys and they've actuated.
> letting 40% of the population become obese

"letting" seems like a strong verb. I'm all for empathy for those who struggle with maintaining a healthy weight—imagine being addicted to something that you must consume about 3 times a day to stay alive—but it seems a stretch to lay the blame of obesity on the feet of public health experts. Are they also responsible for alcoholics? Other drug addicts?