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We'll have to do it as long as there's a risk that the healthcare system would get overloaded to a degree that significantly affects the population as a whole, due to delayed treatment of things like cancer or ICU beds not being available in the event of a medical emergency.

Beyond that, a lockdown is not the only non-pharmaceutical intervention that's available to us. It's just that many governments have failed to use other tools at the right time and in a way that's actually effective, often only implementing them right before the peak of a wave when it's way too late.
> Does anyone have a list where BionTech distributes directly?

It's Germany and Turkey.

In a press release earlier this year[0], BioNTech described their relationship with Pfizer and they listed the countries it covers. Also, for China they have another company instead of Pfizer.

Why Germany and Turkey, you may ask?
Well, the inventors and founders of the company are Turkish immigrants to Germany. So they are able to give the vaccine on special terms to the country they came from and the country that made them. To be honest, Turkey is extremely lucky that they feel like helping out the motherland. Thanks to them, Turkey has abundance of the vaccine and probably at a good price.

[0] https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-det...
Ignoring that the vaccines are free to the individual and therefore not at all similar to a landlord/tenant relationship, you always have the option of not taking it and dying, which is a cool loophole that gets you out of the implied contract. Life hack.
Glad to hear you find it useful!
Not the expert you were asking but one thing I know is natural immunity isn't just antibodies, which is why traditional inactivated vaccines yield more robust and long-lasting protection.
AFAIK none of my own work, nor work of the people I was team lead off was unethical, harmful or illegal. Neither in EU or elsewhere.

Before jumping to further conclusions - I would encourage you to look at actual differences in website before and post that announcement you're referring to. Wayback archive should work - though some of this stuff might have not be shown, or shown differently to bots; otherwise over years there have been a bunch of articles covering persuasive techniques with examples/screenshots of Booking.com.

And then perhaps even ask specific questions based on those observations - and maybe, just maybe someone can answer them without actually breaking the law.

Though since it would be against the law for me to give too many technical and business details (employment contract, regulations related to publicly traded companies ...etc). Only way I can think off for you to get a peak into implementation - would be to become a colleague.

And finally - I will agree with you on that last sentence. It's never too late to reflect on things. That includes not acting surprised (or in denial) to hear that some "big company" you thought is doing bad things - is not.

Oh and definitely keep up with the good fight. Based on news with actual specific details of lawsuits and outcomes (some of which I initially only found about when they were used as examples in internal ethics workshops & trainings). There's a lot of companies out there that should be getting more scrutiny both internally and externally.
I had the same view until I tried dmt. With dmt, you can easily find a "break through" dose. This is the point where your consciousness stops being a disinterested spectator and gets sucked into the experience. The moment your consciousness gets pulled in is extremely disconcerting, I'd never felt anything like it (including other psychedelics).

The resulting experiences are basically religious visions (I'm an atheist). Often, an entity appears and reveals a vision.

> Maybe it's that psychedelics also induce feelings of having discovered something important, and a lot of people don't try to double-check whether they actually did.

I think psychedelics solidify or clarify feelings or ideas that you previously had. Lots of people take them as evidence of their superstitious feelings. For me, not being superstitious, they did not have that effect but they did clarify my worldview.
The reason why people are obsessed with case numbers and not deaths is that case numbers control the case numbers in the insufficiently immunized which predicts death toll 3 weeks ahead of time.

Why would you want to control a system with 2-3 weeks of additional lag in your input data when case numbers (a thing that is somewhat easy to measure) correlates so well future deaths?

Ideally politician would have some family of models the equivalent of the CDC runs 3 weeks into the future which accounts for seasonality, social events so we could model predictive control on the death numbers but my impression is that is not done (transparently), due to mistrust in experts.
They compare to wavelengths that cause pigmentation changes, which occurs only in exposed areas of skin. So it may be that results would be lacking if you are simply outside & normally clothed.

It is still a significant finding: Intricacies of our metabolic processes do not seem extremely advanced, and this gives further clues about them. Although it does not appear to be something that would be a major contributor to weight loss. (wouldn't any screen addict have exceptionally thin faces?) Nonetheless, I'm sure there's some eager snake oil sales folks already working up marketing for the latest fad weight loss schemes.
>"Don't ban heroin. Kids will still get hooked on weed!"

Except I can see zero good about heroin, while social Media ( inclusive of instant messengers ) have their own good. So it is not as clear cut.
Actually she probably got the name from the sci-fi novel this is named after:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
At its core companies sell stocks to buy machinery and other things to invest in their business.

>>You didn't work for it and - since you were able to put it aside for a later use - you didn't actually 'need' it. So from a moral and societal point of view, that money should have rather gone to pay for teachers wages

wow. just wow. So morally a person should only be paid what the need to live

that is your honest position.. If so I certainly hope people that think like you never attain any real power
I don't intended to create FUD but there's a scandal on Tether that is waiting to explode.
Oh sorry, my bad! Still, that does not sound much either.
The theory of trickle down does not suggest or imply that inequality will decrease. It suggests that allowing the entrepreneurs (eventual billionaires) to succeed will result in an overall increase in wealth throughout society. Using an inequality report to "debunk" it is to entirely miss the point.

You could note that, for instance, despite having a lower-than-average cost of living for the west(^1,2) and lower-than-average taxes for the west (^3,4), the US is top-five for both average wage (^5,6) and PPP-adjusted median income (^7,8). And despite what you may think, even adjusting for government transfers (e.g. healthcare) does not tilt the scale: the US boasts a #1 (or #3, depending on who you ask) PPP-adjusted disposable income (^9). These generally apply to medians too, so one cannot even fall back on skew to explain it away.

Meanwhile, when we speak of "inequality" and billionaires, China has above-average taxes (seems to be 25% across the board with no carve-out for capital gains), yet has far worse inequality than the US.

As with most things economic, reports like this can be crafted to fit whatever narrative you like. But if you are sitting in the US in 2021-- one of the wealthiest societies in human history-- and complaining about how bad capitalism or low taxes are, you're badly misinformed about the "normal" economic state of a human and where you sit. Here's a hint: it's probably in the 95th percentile across history and the 90th percentile today.

Sources:

Cost of Living

1. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/rankings_by_country.js...

2. https://www.worlddata.info/cost-of-living.php

Taxes

3. https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/personal-income-ta...

4. https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=TABLE_I6

Average wage

5. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...

6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

PPP-adjusted Median income

7. https://statisticstimes.com/economy/countries-by-gdp-capita-...

8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

PPP-adjusted Disposable household income

9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
"All rights reserved" is a subset of AGPL. We're just not sure how far from AGPL the SSPL actually fall, because it is worded ambiguously.

In practice the original claimed aim of the license does not matter that much.

Thankfully there are other licenses similar to AGPL, like BSL.
JSON support in PostgrSQL is indeed extremely powerful however it is not as simple.

MongoDB provides "native" document persistence for programming languages, where with PostgreSQL JSON you have to live in relational database SQL land
Thankfully Firefox can be configured not to do that. Brave, on the other hand, imposes it.
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So much for not editorializing titles.
You call Firefox malware, but use Google services?
Maybe, maybe not. It is clear, even to someone with zero background in vaccines, that the COVID vaccines are no resulting in sterilizing immunity. Everyone said as much since the first trials.

What does this mean? IMHO it means that once we reached sufficient levels of vaccinations (no idea what that would be, definitely above 70%) COVID will be nothing more than a severe flue / cold for most of the population, if they get it at all. It would also, I would assume, push mutations down the more infections and less severe route in order to overcome the limited spread among the vaccinated (they are still overall less infectious then unvaccinted people) and the vaccines themselves. Both are good news.

And that drives me so crazy with the anti-vaxxers (among a lot of things with them). They don't want the shots because a) COVID is just a flew (and simultaniously a deadly bio weapon the Chinese spread in order to win a global economic war...) and b) vaccinated people are also infectious and can get it.
Well, they kind of have it backwards there, don't they? it actually will be like a cold because people are vaccinated, not before. At which point the fact that vaccinated people can also transmit COVID is not really important anymore.
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Do you seriously believe that income or wealth is strongly correlated with the amount of hours one puts in? In fact one of the clearest things shown by the pandemic is that many of the most crucial workers in society, which often put in insane ours, and without whom much of society would stop working are also the most underpaid. I can tell you nobody would notice if wall street investment bankers would stop working for a couple of months, but everyone would notice if the rubbish collectors would stop working.

Research shows that inequality is largely due to starting conditions and some luck. In fact some research shows that if we don't work against it (i.e. tell people how they spend their money) inequality just grows [1]. Also it's funny, how many say we should not take the money from the rich and "tell them how to spend the money", but at the same time are quite happy with a large buerocratic apparatus dictating every aspect of live for poor people.
Yes, as far as I understand it's somewhat of an indicator for infection risk, but can't capture overall consequences, and I think right now any strong statement for "it's going to be this bad/not bad" should be taken with a large grain of salt - we just don't know yet and are watching datapoints coming in day by day.
My point is that investement isn’t money that flows from the rich to the poor, like the trickle down analogy would suggest. Investment is meant to be recouped. It’s always about creating a bigger pie…
Yeah, I acknowledged 1:1 for excavation in a comment up a couple levels. That said, where are you that 3:2 is a standard slope for unreinforced permanent slopes? That's 34deg, which is outside the angle of repose for many materials, and doesn't leave much factor of safety even for a crushed stone.

Reinforced earth is a different beast altogether for sure.
The superseded government (by way of Jens Spahn) admitted that it held back on acting w.r.t. COVID in 2021 to avoid negative impact on their campaign. General inaction or adverse action in other areas (e.g. ICU staffing, leerdenker) did not help, either.
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Not a hiker myself: What is typical hiking gear such that it (mostly?) prevents sunburn in someone with sensitive skin?
I moved from Windows to Xubuntu recently, and the single thing that I miss most is this feeling of simple sturdy low latency applications that Windows once provided. Notepad, Paint, the whole Windows pre-Vista aesthetic. It was even present in IE6 - every website felt as a heavy paper form in it. Now everything went to Chrome-like weightless fragility. Microsoft should've fixed all the WPF issues (including blurry rendering, stupid lack of margins by default etc.) 12 years ago and made it ready for the cross-platform evolution of dotnet. That would've solidified their desktop presence for a decade at least. Now they are just putting more and more nails into the coffin.
Booster is also established immunology nomenclature that perfectly fits the situation, I don't think it's an attempt to "spin" it.
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There's the whole t-cell and b-cell stuff that protects from serious disease but it's much harder to test/measure so you don't get these rapid headline grabbing lab studies. T-cells as I understand it are much less likely to be thrown off by spike mutations because they react to whole genome of virus (edit: T-cells from an infection that is).
That's shocking. Why would it do this?
Rather, I think it's time the higher-ups here at HN take a good look at your account for repeatedly spreading conspiracy bullshit. First about the vaccines, now this. Just stop. It's enough. Shut the hell up with your unfounded crap.
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Web3 will first and foremost have an agreed upon Bitcoin fork\alternative that will be about x118 faster. Otherwise no one will leave Visa (1780/15 ratio of transactions/s). Same for Ethereum and any app that will be built on top of it.
We have a couple of online retailers in the UK (John Lewis, Argos) where you can search for a product and get maybe 20 - 30 results, mainly leading brands and some own-brand versions. It's a much better experience, however, you often find many of these items are sold out or not available in the colour (for example) that you want - which is frustrating.

Amazon always seem to have stock of the same thing in addition to multiple knock-offs and me-too versions. No surprises they get most of the business.
FerretDB is not Percona's Project through me (Peter Zaitsev) is involved in both companies, CEO at Percona and Board Member/Advisor at FerretDB

AWS is not funding FerretDB either
It's an assurance that the current vaccines work + less severe cases/fatality compared to other variants. Good enough for the bulls to stay bullish.
This reminded me of the comedy reddit thread of China using the sea to hide its submarines:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/ap374i...
This was basically my experience in learning morse. Stopped after I somehow couldn't learn the next letter properly.

Come back a year later, and I was way better at it --- with no practice whatsoever in between.
Expert on tv explained it just yesterday.. 3 shots is actually what you need for most vaccines and is the common procedure for most if you remember..

1st shot "warns" your immune system
2nd shot really triggers your immune system (that's also why most people see strongest side effects here)
3rd shot then makes your immune remind, and massively increases B+T lymphocytesmemory memory cells

So yeah, you can expect a lot from it.
A financial product is ultimately a claim on real assets. That is their essence.

Buying stock in an IPO in a multinational corporation based in Taxhavenlandia is capitalizing a presumably enterprise which will generate a positive return. I can understand that you might be concerned about capital leaving the country rather than being invested domestically, but I'm not sure you've been advocating capital controls.
you might even say most software is ruined by NOT having ads, I wish everything had even more ads, I say!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't we be looking at whether the people at the bottom gained more wealth, rather than what percentage of the gains they hold?

The wealthy will always have more opportunities bc of the 80/20 rule, and the fact that inequality is inherent in all animals. It is called "trickle down" after all, not "ration down."
You can also try to run Windows in a VM and do GPU passthrough (assuming you also have an integrated graphics card aside from the NVIDIA GPU). Last I've heard it's rather easy to do nowadays, back in 2017 when I tried that it was quite finicky.
From what I can remember from my immunology class, B-cells specific to a particular antibody will detect the antigen in a re-infection, start to massively clone themselves and quickly increase the specific antibody titer in the blood in response.

It doesn't make sense from an energy point of view for these to get produced in large volumes in the blood forever, so unless you're continually re-infected, the antibody titers will then drop but the memory B-cells remain, ready for a new round.

What's crucial is how fast the immune system can ramp up again in a re-infection, perhaps for COVID19 this is almost always fast enough to prevent a deadly re-infection but not fast enough to prevent any form of viral replication and shedding and this is why vaccinated still spread the virus around (and this might keep being the case with the current type of vaccines for corona viruses unless you deal out 10 billion booster doses every quarter).

So the question is complex and depends on what your goals are, and all of this has to be dumbed down in a way for consumption by the general public who just want to know "how long is my vaccine good for"... :/

Perhaps the antibody blood titer is not the only data that is relevant, but maybe it's determined that it correlates to one of the outcomes in a good enough way..
It almost certainly would. But with all vaccines, there is a balance between enough and too much immune response.
I would assume that this is a good thing.
You need to check your facts. East-India company had nothing to sell and was spending its gold.

It was precisely because of the concentration of wealth (from Europe) and the hemorrhaging of gold that it desired conquest and taxing the locals.

Political weakness in India as against strong crown and church in Europe made conquest easy, but it did take a long time and it was mostly indirect (100s of princely states).

Industrial revolution in Britain started 4 years after they set up their trading port in Calcutta and most definitely copying Industrial knowledge.

If all they wanted was spices, they could have got that from North and West Africa, or in their new colonies in the Americas.

Populations go through ups and downs as do their wealth and power, everyone copies not just China. Nobody grows in isolation.

The idea that Europe suddenly started innovating from the dark ages and became industrial needs to be revisited. Call it revisionist all you want.
X ray vision, heat vision, electron microscopes all exist and translate things outside of our visual ranges into something we can perceive.

None of those validate LSD induced hallucinations. If you have some ideas that those technologies are wrong, go enter the field and prove it! Until then this conjecture is intellectually lazy.
True but those wavelengths will maintain your circadian rhythm if you time it correctly. See the Huberman podcast on this: https://youtu.be/nm1TxQj9IsQ
Not in your lifetime.
Ah, perhaps it has been misinterpreted. That was not my intent. "Take occasional breaks, they seem to help" was the goal, not "stop entirely and never start again."
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How can you look at rate and range of mutation and make blithe comments on how many will die based on original covid rates?
Ordering is too expensive. Don't ever count on it when using an asynchronous queue. It's akin to storing session in a cache -- you're mixing your metaphors.

A queue should NEVER drop messages - otherwise it's a shit queue. Or you have a bug in your application code that needs to be fixed.

Poison messages are DEFINITELY A SMELL. This means you essentially have a broken interface contract. The code that is adding messages is expecting one thing -- code that is processing messages is expecting a different thing. It needs to be fixed by clearly documenting your message queue expectations and fixing your code. Most likely you need to add clear expectations for the lifetime of a message.
This has always been my fear. I'm vaccinated (Moderna) and got COVID in September. I recovered quickly - about 3 days. But I'm worried that my body did not get to have a proper immune response and that as such, I'll have to continue get vaccinated forever whereas if I had just gotten COVID without the vaccine maybe I would be set. But I haven't found _much_ data to back up this concern.
>No. Why would it be?

Because the doctor had to evaluate the investment opportunity and risk what they invested.

>Those layers of abstraction cut out the risk

And that's why you only make pennies on the dollar doing it that way vs the risky way of picking specific things with high growth potential to invest in.
Not at all. It means that the account was using fake accounts and/or bots to help spread information that was viewed to be false.
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Parent called it a return.

The “return”, or benefit of the operation can’t be properly understood without taking into account that you’ve taken that 20M$ from some people to give it to (presumably) others.
Same as with the Telegram's DRM.
Well, it was effective as promised against the strains it was marketed as effective against. Those strains have been effectively eradicated. The issue is Delta, and now Omicron, which developed after the vaccine was designed.
Through patronage and performance. And since reproduction was difficult, you had to have these people around. You couldn't pick and choose among a thousand SoundCloud composers to find a song you liked. You needed a Mozart or Bach. You needed orchestras because recordings don't exist.

But now, it is dead simple to propagate someone's work once they've finished the act of creation.

And this isn't a discussion if others are getting their fair due. Even if they are not, it does not mean we should shaft everyone. Everyone should be fairly compensated for their work. But not enforcing some level of protection for the creation of art is pretty much ensuring no one is compensated for their work. Fairly or not.
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The love hasn’t changed but the buying strategies have. Amazon is still the hands down best place to actually buy things on the internet. But their dominance in product discovery is slipping.

If you figure out what to buy somewhere else and then buy it on Amazon then the product is better than ever. If you vaguely search for what you want and buy the top few results you probably think the quality has gone downhill.
Thats ghost towns were noone lives.Art that nobody really appreciates. Companys that produce nothing anyone can really afford. Value is artificial scarcity and the power to uphold it.

To trade a investment, is to dig a hole and sell the void.