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How about we go one at a time?
by youeseh 5y ago
How about we go one at a time?
- cromka 5y agoWe do.
- Fordec 5y agoIn that case, get off HN and get back to work! You're needed in the ICU. We can only do one thing at a time and you're here?? /s
- gus_massa 5y agoI interpret the GP comment as like "we" are going to find a vaccine for one STD, and later for another, an a few months/years later a third one, and later ... It's not like that someone will go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexually_transmitted_infection make a list, prepare a vaccine combos for all of them and release it in a big announcement.
- cromka 5y agoThat's precisely what I meant. The OP's post was a case (or a variation) of "Appeal to Worse Problems" fallacy.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoImagine a world were concurrency is pegged to 1.
- dboreham 5y agoThat would be JavaScript.
- halfmatthalfcat 5y agoWebWorkers changed that in the browser. Could have always spawned child processes in Node or via utilities like PM2.
- furstenheim 5y agoExcept you can do different IO operations in the same user thread. Parallelizing calls without synchronicity problems
- tlhunter 5y agoYou might enjoy Multithreaded JavaScript ;)
- hnbad 5y agoNot really? On a language level, sure, but with native IO, web workers, shared memory and Node.js clusters, I don't think it's fair to say JavaScript has no concurrency.
- samus 5y agoJavascript APIs expose callback interfaces, and the callbacks are called on the thread that scheduled it. The real concurrency happens behind the scenes and is handled by the browser. So no, Javascript is not single-threaded in practice.
- akira2501 5y agoI don't think "move fast and break things" is a great example for healthcare products. We've used this product under emergency use guidelines, which allowed it to skip many steps, we should probably do those steps before we presume much more out of this platform.
- kadoban 5y agoAt least one mRNA vaccine now has full approval. No steps were skipped, they were just done in a more parallel manner than usual. The usual way is just cheaper, not more safe.
- tommymachine 5y agoSo there were long term human trials done like with actual vaccines?
- pertymcpert 5y agoWhat do you mean actual vaccines? As opposed to fake vaccines?
- tommymachine 5y agoSince you asked, the point could be more accurately stated as referring to vaccines meeting the pre 2020 definition of the term (which “mRNA vaccines” do not).
- robbedpeter 5y agoAs opposed to mrna vaccines which are significantly different than traditional vaccines. Which you knew, but for some reason, you want to deflect and prevent discussion of anything potentially negative about mrna vaccines? I'm not sure what the charitable interpretation could be.
- iratewizard 5y agoMachiavellian people co-opted the word vaccine because it has a generally positive connotation. They then retconned the word as if it has always included mRNA and viral vector therapeutics.
- pjc50 5y agoBlockchain: everything must be globally serialized.
- pensatoio 5y agoMeanwhile...the FDA says it needs 55 years to release Pfizer data. lol.
- wsc981 5y ago> Meanwhile...the FDA says it needs 55 years to release Pfizer data. This is crazy to be honest. If there was some malfeasance during the development of the vaccines, the people responsible will be long dead by then and cannot be punished. In that case Pfizer would just pay some fine and continue business as usual. The vaccine could be developed very quickly, I don't understand why there is the needs to wait so long to release the data - the data itself (emails, scientific documents and such) should be quite limited. I believe Pfizer claimed it's too much data to process and they need many years, but I find this quite unbelievable.
- detaro 5y agoWith full details for all the participants etc and revisions the scientific data is probably quite a lot, so I can imagine that the blanked "we want all documents!" is actually the claimed 300k pages by some metric. But obviously "and it's ok if we only prepare 500 pages per month for release" is a very questionable position to take in such a situation, even if legal. Smells like usual bureaucracy crap, with no sense for the somewhat special situation here.
- Fomite 5y agoBadly written or overly broad public records requests are often met with "Do you have any idea how long that will take?" "Just give me all of it" is easy to request, but hard to implement.
- OrvalWintermute 5y agoThey are a fortune 1000 in a heavily regulated industry. Their compliance and records systems probably have compliance and records systems Gathering this data would be a breeze.