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> USA "loaned" us 1.5M doses of AZ

USA has no choice. By agreement, USA cannot give vaccines to someone else, as the indemnity agreements ("can't be sued") don't transfer.
That meeting room looks super uncomfortable and awkward. Why can’t they just use some simple criteria for coming back to work: if you have two vaccine shots + time for second shot you can come in to work (unless you have a medical/religious reason not to).

Also, if everyone is vaccines can we do away with mask requirements?
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Which finish line? We don't need 100% of people vaccinated(No I'm not anti-vax I'm team pfizer, I simply respect people's choice not to partake at their own risk) and we don't need to stop all respiratory illnesses forever, we just need enough done to keep the healthcare system under capacity for life to go on. I consider measures taken in Australia, Canada and the UK to be overkill and would never wish that here.

People in general made good faith efforts to obey mandates but the "finish line" or goalpost keeps moving.
The UK doesn't have a technical export ban, just a contractual requirement that all UK manufacturers have to first supply all UK contracts before supplying any export contracts. Even though the UK contracts were signed after other contracts.

Whether that's an "export ban" or not is semantics, the result is the same: nothing is exported.
> What does the socialist healthcare system have to do with government-planned vaccine rollout?

Maybe you should re-read that sentence
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In addition to the supply constraint that has also been mentioned, there is a lack of political will to target vaccines in the hot spots.

In Canada, health care delivery is a Provincial responsibility. However, the Federal government is the one procuring the vaccine doses. The Feds are distributing doses to the provinces based on the population-based formula all the Provinces could agree to. And the Provinces are then incentivized to get into arms locally to show they're doing something.

It appears there is no political will or strong enough incentives available to change the dose distribution to be "needs-based".

The result is that we're unable to target vaccination to the cities and provinces that need it most, so those places are now responding with a 3rd wave of lock downs to prevent the spike in hospitalizations.
Many of the consumers in the "dating coach" industry begin from a situation where they are not meeting any women at all. Now, regardless if you are looking for short-term or long-term relationships, the first step is actually meeting new women. If a dating coach can help someone do that, great. If you don't meet any women, you won't magically stumble into a long-tetm relationship.
When people bash Blizzard, they aren't bashing them based on their revenue or market penetration. A bad opinion of Blizzard does not translate into also believing they are failing to generate revenue or attract players. They have plenty of other reasons to bash Blizzard.
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Yeah, Asimov's "psychohistory" was also an empty fictional buzzword.
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Which was and still is a completely artificial controversy pushed by certain interest groups.

Blizzard is a private company, it's their tournament, their platform. If they don't want that to be instrumentalized as a political platform then they have every right to disallow that.

For another, very recent, example of this: The International Olympic Committee just issued a strict warning against wearing BLM apparels, or any kind of social protests, at the Tokyo Games [0].

Yet the popular mainstream response to that is not "The IOC is bowing down to attempts of censorship by an evil regime!", as it was the case with Blizzard and China, but all around agreement how the Olympics shouldn't be a political platform.

[0] https://thebridge.in/tokyo-2020/wearing-blm-apparels-social-...
Sure. But it still pollutes, and wasting the energy it produces is still harmful.

It doesn't matter how energy is produced, bitcoin will always be harmful.
I have this bittersweet feeling. surely you had a wonderful dad. Thanks for sharing this wonderful story.
Although from what i understand you had to buy them before they figured out if they worked. So either hope you get lucky with what one you buy, or pay through the nose for all of them which is cost prohibitive.
> if there weren't vaccines we would not be completely screwed?

Probably not. The infection and death rates were plummeting even before general availability of the vaccine. States that locked down super hard, and states that barely locked down at all, have essentially the same infection/death rates as well.

The US is a big country, with a lot of people. However, the average health of an individual in the US is far better than the East Asia area, and much of the world. That's before we even consider the vast young population in the US which mostly are asymptomatic infectees...

The number of people who have been infected already and cannot become infected again with the same variant is likely massive in the US, making it quite possible the US would have weathered even the latest variants due to a lack of infectible people (ie. "herd immunity").
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They don't like it because they think I'm sharing fake news because our MSM will not report this. If you look at the other comments here they believe the Canadian response is one of the best.

Obviously, I don't live there so I'm open to changing my mind. I've just read some stories that don't sit well with me coming out of Canada and even if they're in the minority they should still be addressed.
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Not surprising as a result of the activision purchase- they don’t care about playerbase, only revenue.
I looked at several approaches, but I absolutely wanted to do floyd-steinberg, as this is what were, for me, "realistic" images on my Mac back in the 80s.

The example on the website are identical to the ones in the first video, as the simple looping gif is a by-product of the encoding.

On the second video (the one with sound), you cannot compare, as the video is compressed and not all the parts of the image are updated. But the algo is the same.

The swimmy bits come from the fact that I encode images using the preceeding one, and use the pixels from the preceeding images to "control" where the error gets diffused, to try to get some temporal stability in error diffusion (I have a long blog post that explains that, but I never got around finishing it, it seems people were more interested by having me coding sound).

I am not completely sure why the swim effect seems to always be in the north-west direction (I understand why pixels go in that diagonal, but no why they always seem to crawl on the top-left, and never the bottom-right).

The dithering code can be found in the encoder, on github:

https://github.com/fstark/macflim/blob/main/flimmaker.cpp#L3...

If you have other dithering ideas, let me know. I am happy with the one I have, which matches what I was looking for, but we never know. Also, for the compressed version (the one with sound), the dithering have a huge impact on the ability to play on slow machines.

(Btw, I tried ordered dithering, but I have always found it awful looking. Maybe in motion it would fare better?).
When you’re carrying a hundred people inside on a weekend trip, what is “reliably”? 99%? five nines? Planes have a much less risky failure mode..
Lots of unreinforced masonry buildings are in these regions. The shaking from such a large quake will go on for minutes and make them crumble.
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Current administration? Developing a vaccine supply chain takes a very long time, it's not like firing up a tire factory. Trudeau's Liberals have held office for 5 years, with Harper's Conservatives holding office from 2006-2015.

I think without pointing fingers, the COVID situation has shown the world just how fragile global supply chains are in times of stress. The US learned this lesson with PPE, if you remember that debacle.

Hopefully Canada invests in such capacity moving forward.
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It's unclear whether or not that's actually prohibited. It looks like Creekstone was the only beef processor who desired to test for BSE, and this was based on them wanting to export their beef to Japan. The rejection was made on this basis.
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And yeah, I'll wait and see.

> Covid is 'deadly' to the overweight & immunocompromised.

Oh and what percent of our population is overweight again?

Not going to continue this conversation, enough of the usual covid canards that I can tell it wouldn't be worth it.
The same could apply to blocking. What's your problem?
My wife, in Australia (I'm in the USA; we saw each other over Christmas but we've been otherwise involuntarily separated since January 2020), could get the shot here on our medical coverage ... if only Australia would actually let her leave the country.
It's very difficult to describe how bad this earthquake is expected to be for a large swath of the Pacific Northwest when it happens again (and it's when, not if). It will be similar to Fukushima except absolutely nothing in the region is designed for earthquakes of this magnitude, not to mention the expected tsunami. Given the massive investment required and lack of motivation to do it, there will be almost no preparation in advance. It is not unreasonable to predict it will be the biggest natural disaster in American history by orders of magnitude.

Here is the best attempt I've seen so far to novelize what will happen in Portland. While obviously speculative, it's all very much based on the evidence at the time and I think does a better job of describing what will happen than just reading the dry (and usually incorrect because they assume supporting infrastructure) reports from the utility companies on how long they think it will take to, for example, repair the transmission lines. If you live in Portland, I implore you to sit down for an evening and take the time to digest this:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8q8gyx/first-five-minutes-bi...

Don't panic, but take this seriously, this is a scientifically verified thing that will happen. It is never too early to consider things like earthquake retrofitting your home (bolting the frame to the foundation) and preparing emergency supplies like properly stored food and water. If you're on the coast, memorize your escape route, you won't have time to look it up and your phone won't work anyways.
US: 248M doses, 106M fully vaccinated, 32.3% fully vaccinated.

Canada: 14.3M doses, 1.16M fully vaccinated, 3.1% fully vaccinated.

Vaccine companies refused to manufacture vaccines in Canada due to lack of facilities. This is a fact. So Canada is waiting on getting them from other countries.

Despite all the flaws of the US system, US is doing much better than Canada for vaccine roll outs as well as lockdown measures. When USA built temporary hospitals and 2 hospital ships, Canada has yet not done it and it's been a year. Main problem here is that instead of building temporary hospitals to boost the hospital capacity like US did last year, we have simply kept locking down which is equivalent to throwing the problem under a rug. It's been a year and even though they were talking about it last year, only as of couple weeks ago, they are planning on using temporary field hospital in the coming weeks. Why wasn't it used for a year to boost the capacity? Also the 2 temporary hospitals in Ontario have only 73 and 84 beds. That's tiny.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-says-a-covid-19-field-hos...
I was so mad at their cancellation dark patterns I cancelled my otherwise-useful subscription. I live in California, but still didn't see an easy way to do it, so I swapped my billing method to PayPal and then cancelled it in the PayPal UI, which worked great.

You then have to deal with weeks of constant spam from the NYT about the failed billing process, further cementing the my view that cancellation was the right thing.
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Not every country has the capacity and ability to manufacture everything locally. With increased globalisation we're also seeing countries specializing in certain industries.

Generally it was understood that most western countries would not abuse this dependency for their own benefit, as they all were counter-dependent on each other. Obviously, as so often, the US and UK didn't get that memo.
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No, that's only where it's invented.
> Stay in lane for 20 minutes? Sure, why not

You mean you are pretty much stuck doing just that for half the game. Hope you like lasthitting all day, GLHF.
Cost prohibitive but still net revenue positive to governments, even with that uncertainty.
If you watch this dev interview, you can see they actually love the game and put an incredible amount of thought and care into it. It looks really promising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3dL7ZeIAsE
> Canada has adopted the one-dose first regiment

Huh, interesting, TIL.

I was not feeling very confident in the vaccination response seeing that 3% number, but this changes my perception quite a bit.

I do still have questions about the overall handling of pandemic risks though. I recall reading last year that several million masks went to waste because they expired in warehouses, and not having vaccine production facilities despite being aware of the potential risks after SARS seem... suboptimal.
The problem was that for a long time they had no open queue, you either had to play healer or wait a long time. That killed the game, there is no coming back after losing that many players.
So to be clear, the myth of the 10x programmer is the person that learns Japanese when you start working with Japan as a market, sits around a lot talking about various types of teas, has an eidetic memory, has 3 months to write a major new service, and just thinks about it for like 2.5 months then comes in and types it in, in 30 hours. Not some well meaning person that makes up for a lack of skill by longer hours. Typing the wrong code in at 10 pm is harming the whole company. Hardworking and well-meaning programmers typing out a lot of code can be a disaster. The myth is "Much better the smart but lazy genius who thinks till the right solution is intuitively obvious."

Now I've know a few people like that, but in general it is a myth. But at least get the right myth. Long hours are not part of 10x myth. I mean unless you mean loves math/computer/etc. and is always learning weird complicated stuff. But that's "taking care of your mental flexibility and strength" not "working long hours to meet a deadline."
Oh yes, there is no doubt there is monetary incentive to utilize credit cards for the business, and perhaps tools that can help integrate them.

My take is that at an Enterprise level your calculation should be more toward business continuity and chain of custody, rather than squeezing value out of financial instruments that are not your core money-maker.
Maybe the difference is smooth full screen playback? I remember the early QT too, and used it on my old LC. Playback was mostly ok (15 fps or so) at 320x240 (think that was the resolution) but would strain if I increased the size.

Memories are a bit weak, so I might be misremembering some of this. But I do clearly remember full screen videos dropping a ton of frames. I used to put full screen videos up when I had parties (computer video was still a novelty and it made for a nice backdrop as people danced/drank) and it was 5 fps at best on that poor underpowered machine.
They probably picked a poor audience for the announcement. By nature, those present were never going to be all that receptive to a new mobile-first game. Slightly better venues would have been either E3 or PAX, where the audience doesn't consist almost exclusively of hardcore fans of their more traditional offerings.
FYI: The transcript is available on the official site, if you prefer.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-e...
Immediately after that post, SpaceX began encrypting the streams from both Falcon 9 and Starship.

The SpaceX engineer who implemented the encryption apologized on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/skiboysteve/status/1375507358814674944
Re-read the comment; saying things just aren't, don't make them so.
Thats a good point.

But I'm not sure that throwing extra engines into the scenario will help much. It takes very precise control to land a rocket. Those SuperDraco things are for going up fast, not coming down with sub-meter accuracy.
We discussed this already in our other comment chain in this thread :)
So alberta, canada is getting close to health care system over capacity (not there yet but worrying trend lines). I think its contradictory to say that canada has done too much well also saying we need it to stay under capacity. We wouldn't be under capacity without the lock down.

Finish line would be heard immunity (65-90% vaccinated. Unclear precisely where depends on lots of factors. 65% seems doable, less sure about 90%)
It's hard to talk about numbers like that, especially before they happened.

I know in Philadelphia, the murder rate is up about 40%. When I was looking at deaths data from the CDC, I found that deaths were up (from 2% on average increase) substantially. I dont remember the % increase, but I do remember 40% of the deaths were not directly from covid-19. if those numbers remained consistent, about 400k extra people died this year from other causes.

that 400k, its hard to tell where 'they would have died as a direct result of covis19' and 'lockdowns caused it' begins and ends, but that is not a nebulous number, and its not a small one.

And honestly, I dont care about how many would have died vs this and that, back off our freedoms. No one, for any reason, should be able to tell us we can't go outside, can't have family gatherings, can't run a business, etc. No one, for any reason even if the death rate was 100%. And HIV is 100% fatal, yet no one ever required showing someone their HIV status on an app before having sex.
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You can host your own Send, and the host need not exist when there's nothing you are sharing which is right in-line with utility computing as provided by "cloud" hosting companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle, &c. Should be possible for under $5 for a month of Send operation provided low disk space suffices, say under 5GB. Perhaps not micro enough though.
I'm not sure how to respond to this other than to say it is patently untrue.

Not least, Canada had a government that admitted the virus existed and might be a problem. Following that, we had a coordinated national effort to combat it rather than a laissez-faire approach of letting every state do as they please (which often meant nothing at all in many states).

Canada's approach was hardly bullet-proof but claiming the countries' responses were identical could not be further from the truth.
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With stable currencies, if I buy $10 of stuff today, then I have $10 of stuff, and at the end of the week my bank account will be $10 (+/-0.01%) lower than where it would have been had I saved the money. I don’t regret this purchase.

With inflation-stage cryptocurrencies (Which I’m assuming ETH is, given that the article says "At the time of writing, ETH is at an all-time-high”), if I buy $10 of stuff today, then I have $10 of stuff, and at the end of the week my bank account has missed out on $300 of inflation. I should’ve saved my memecoins and used some other currency instead.
This is because more than 20% of googles workforce said that they'd quit if they made them come back to office. It's a kind of compromise
Starting to think Vaccine Hesitancy is too soft a phrase. I thought most of the hesitant group are in the "definitely not" and "probably not" survey buckets, and fewer are actually "unsure". Probably more accurate to call them vaccine deniers at this point.
Yes. I just think it's important to have accurate information.
I've been playing (and paying a subscription fee for) WoW since the beta and while the current expansion is better than most, I'm definitely feeling bored with Blizzard's other recent offerings - they are all just revamps of existing things (WoW Classic, Diablo 2 etc.).

They have lost the ability to innovate.
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The “US” means many things.

We have tiered lockdowns all over the place, rent protections, paycheck protections, massively improved digital services from Google, Zoom, etc. Just the digital services alone have enabled home schooling and home working for a good chunk of the world.

I wouldn’t call this nothing.
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> Fortnite is a shallow

Hate to take offense to this, but as someone who plays Fortnite competitively, it is absolutely not shallow. It's so much more than just another FPS.
This is really stupid. Most people do not need to be in an office to get work done. Google, and all these other tech companies, made record profits this year.

I just don't get why they insist on keeping people in a seat? At least for google, offering all these on-site only perks is just a scheme to keep employees at work for as long as possible.
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Yes and they will. Big tech and the DNC are tightly coupled. If he doesn't like it he can build his own data centers, but they can still refuse to serve him at the DDOS protection tools, the DNS servers and even the browser. Edge, Chrome and Firefox are all run by DNC cohorts. If they really wanted to unperson him nothing would stop it.
Why are so many comments being downvoted for expressing opinions and countering data? Are HN readers beginning to aggressively use the downvote button?
So wokists want everybody to be as stupid as they are...?
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> I simply respect people's choice

Sadly, methinks that's why you're getting down voted.
Excellent launch! Just watched it taking off. And touched down.
>Doses of vaccine, yes.

I have not claimed doses of vaccine to be a good metric.

>I'm curious, what QoL increase makes up for 400k additional deaths over Canada's number?

Who has 400k more?

You also have to take into account that policy differences do not solely explain the difference in death toll. Saying 400k more death over canada = canada good response is a reductionist view when there are other factors in play.
I don't think the AZ doses really did a lot for getting Canada there? It was mostly Phizer finally starting to deliver. We've been getting that much Phizer every 1-2wks for a while now.

Current make-up of delivered doses is:

Phizer: 11m
Moderna: 3.5m
AZ: 2.3m
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Canada is only 15th because they aren't doing a 2nd dose until 4 months later. So you can't compare Canada to places that are actually scheduling the 2nd shot properly. NO ONE is getting their second shot. That's a complete hack because Pfizer and Moderna both said not to push the 2nd shot past their recommended time period.

If Canada did their 2nd dose in the 3-4 weeks as required by Pfizer and Moderna, their rank would drop precipitously.

Personally I understand what they are doing, they are going breadth first to slow down the spread, but I hate the propaganda that is saying that somehow Canada is doing "great". They aren't. They completely bundled the vaccine.