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The ethics in big-lab science are as dire as you say, but I've generally got the impression that the publication imperative has not been driving so much unethical behaviour in computer science. I regard this as particularly cynical behaviour by the standards of the field and I think the chances are good that the article will get retracted.
Apples vs oranges comparison you made, they probably given indemnity in case of unknown sideefects as other vaccines were given in europe, us etc

This seems to be a contractual dispute.
Just wondering isn't it frustrating being a Rubyist not on Rails? was just wondering what's life like on the other side of Rails. I have deep respect to what you're doing don't get me wrong, it just seems hard.
Well, the good part about these metaverses is that they can actually create an income for people who own this virtual land/resources. I personally know people who earn a substantial income from owning land in games like MegaCryptopolis.

I understand the skepticism, but to me, it seems like a better model than you paying a video game developer for virtual resources and getting nothing in return. With these metaverses, you at least get to own the resource and perhaps even make money off of it.
in the US maybe?
Reason for sharing Twitter URL: FT has paywall when visited using direct URL and I couldn't find other reliable source for this news as of submission.

Mods can replace the source as they seem fit.
As far as I understand it the levels of what “mandatory” mean were different in the Uk contract to the eu one.
So it’s not quite true that that’s always the point, there are shades of gray which is exactly where this went wrong.
As an italian, i'm a bit amazed that BBC wrote an article about this, and also that someone posted here on HN.
As someone already pointed out, reminds me of the forgotten employee tale, except this guy is probably mafia.
This must be illegal in many places in Europe, though.
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> UK where politicians wrapped the vaccine in union jack and hitched it to Brexit bandwagon for jignoistic reasons

Something I have learnt from the whole AZ business is how much media bias affects your thought process, even on topics which appear to be reported relatively neutrally.

Here in the UK, the implicit messaging I've picked up from the media is that EU politicians have been briefing against AZ in order to discredit Brexit. One (fairly similar) country over, and you've received entirely the opposite message.
What a seriously fucked up response to personally attack someone that made a statement based on existing research that YOU don't know about, just because YOU decided to divide the world into two people. Those that YOU think agree (which you conveniently labeled vaxers) and those that YOU disagree with. Not only that, but you don't even have the balls to actually use your account to write that incendiary comment.

It's fascinating that you dare say that given that I my content completely disproves your BS when I mentioned the BioNTech vaccine in the same paragraph.

This kind of sick narrative is exactly what made Trumps following grow so much. You are the two sides of the exact same coin that led to the hundreds of thousands of dead in the US.

"This platelet loss induced by Ad5 corresponded with increases in coagulation D-dimer levels, splenomegaly, and, later, production of megakaryocytes in the bone marrow. In contrast, these responses were blunted or ablated after injection of Ad-PEG. Ad5 activated both platelets and endothelial cells directly in vitro as evidenced by induction of P-selectin and the formation of von Willebrand factor-platelet strings and in vivo as evidenced by the induction of E-selectin messenger RNA"

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17767399/
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Docker containers are kind of neat
Arrogance. No. It is very simple: Germany does not have the concept of "National Security" and does not act like that. Germany has many big pharmaceuticals in the country. But guess what: We Germans searched a solution in a European context. We tried to not only vaccinate all of us but also everyone around us. We are exporting the shots all over the world (Canada as an example is supplied by Germany and not by the US).

And that European bureaucracy (consider spending taxpayers money) is screwing things (once in a while) up, is not a new thing.

I would call it naive and not arrogant.
What? The Biontech-vaccine is mentioned all the time in news about vaccination progress and vaccine distribution. I really wonder how you could have gotten the impression that it isn't used.
Agreed, I really like the paint examples to explain diffie hellman.

https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/diffie...
HUGE pagefile.sys!
The vaccine clots killed 19/76 cases or something like that in the last report, so not exactly “always deadly”
For those not fluent in Latin (I had to look up) "quid pro quo" means "a favour or advantage granted in return for something".
That's a great fluff piece to bury the PM having just been caught in corruption ... can you see that story in the top 10 "most read" ...

The story is there, it's hidden in a "top 5 things about Covid today".

When something random and unimportant hits the top of BBC news in recent years that seems to mean there's a story on Tory failure/corruption being buried.
1.0MB is quite large compared to 6.34kB :)
Wow amazing! Thanks :)
Would you be able to put the point and counterpoint into layperson's terms? Does the brain repair itself after 4 weeks or not, or is it still unclear?
One thing I'm wondering -- why are people obsessed with container size? A lot of enterprise is Java shops which deal with huge dependencies, huge distributions, and generally pretty heavy software -- with internet speeds what they are today, it's not hard to throw 100-500MB around internal networks (building the code closer to the deployment area is also a solution). Even gigabyte size containers are not impossible to deploy these days with the right caching (lord help you if you invalidate a bunch of layers though).

In a world of xTB thumbdrives, why are we so worried about containers being <1MB? Security is one thing, minimalism is another, but I do sometimes wonder about this.

Anyway, if you want to build minimal containers and want to do it with a bit more backing than this one (pretty well written) blog post, probably also check out distroless:

https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

I personally find most of the time alpine-based containers are more than small enough and good enough with nice ergonomics (sometimes you just want to shell in to the container), but maybe it makes sense to build containers with and without debugging/inspection tools (a `project:vx.x.x` and a `project:vx.x.x-debug`) and switch them out when problems arise.
From my personal experience (at least the German) media focuses on that as well. I read a lot of articles on how the companies are working to scale the output up. One good and recent example is this article (paywalled) https://www.zeit.de/2021/15/biontech-werk-marburg-corona-imp...
Don't forget Microsofts x86_64 emulation, which does the heavy lifting in your case.
Wonder what the smallest containerized c10k web server would look like.
> A government can scream and shout but they cannot block a bitcoin transaction.

Blacklisting bitcoins gained from mined blocks containing blacklisted addresses would easily do that.

Probably processing transactions from those addresses already is illegal with current laws. Why should you be able to earn transaction fees from that?
Why didn't you read the article I linked? It says:

"The contract makes clear the Commission and EU countries can't sue the drugmaker for a host of issues, most notably if there are 'delays in delivery of the Vaccine under this Agreement.'"
> It’s unfalsifiable because ... very difficult to do

That’s not what that means.
Hang on, I don’t think it’s “not recommended” to under 30s. I think under 30s are just given the choice of an alternative vaccine, if they’d like it.

In many EU countries, the vaccine was banned for large segments of the population for extended periods of time.
OK Flash died but you could have easily made a nice career going deep on C. Us devs need to find the right balance between remaining relevant and going deep enough in the tech we choose.
I'm pretty sure the default build of openjdk dynamically links glibc. If you build it statically, that should work.
Ioannidis has made claims of very low IFRs throughout the pandemic. If you go look at hard hit areas though, the population fatality rate is higher than his infection fatality rate. Just as one example, New Jersey has close to a 0.3% population fatality rate. If Ioannidis were correct, that would imply that every person in New Jersey had been infected twice.

Ioannidis may have had some very interesting ideas, but his data analysis on COVID has simply been shown to be incorrect.
The rocket market is not anywhere near as developed as the games industry. Everything related to the development part of games is very much cleared out.

There are plenty of small studios that have huge successes, and they are all smart enough to not develop a huge MMO. Simply because they know they don't have the resources to pull this off.

Starting a rock band is a long shot. Beating the best NBA team in basketball is a delusion.
So ship the static binary and a systemd unit file like a lot of packages in the repos of your linux distro do.
I can't remember exact values but my guess is this friction comes from the price point.

AZ was negotiated at something like less than 2 euros per shot for EU markets, and the Pfizer contracts varied wildly for different countries but it was negotiated at about 15 euros per shot for EU.

With my cynical hat on if you are having to vaccinate millions that order of magnitude difference probably matters.

What I haven't seen anyone discuss at the EC level is what would be the maths of just paying premium Israel prices for the Pfizer vaccine?

Would the economic benefits of get out of this mess as quickly as possible outweigh the extra euros per shot spent on vaccination. My guess is it would likely pay off but then again I am not a European Commissioner.
Why not mention the very negative mentions of AZ by macron and merkel? Macron even wanted to stop all foreign vaccines and rely on some French one.

I have no love for Putin or Johnson but this most certainly wasn’t down to just their politics. EU leaders are massively at fault here with their rhetoric too.
The main problem with the Pfizer vaccine is that there is not enough of it. The government of my country gladly orders any Pfizer doses that are offered, but it's not enough. People here generally favor the Pfizer vaccine over the AstraZeneca vaccine, given all the bad press of the latter. Pfizer is very well known and desirable, that's not the problem.

AstraZeneca on the other hand promised plentiful quantities, and my country made plans based on those promises, but AstraZeneca failed to deliver. I guess the EU feels screwed over.
That's just magical
It's also slowly, becoming an alternative for VR development. They even had hand tracking on the Oculus Quest before Unity and UE