ChemSpider

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by ChemSpider 5y ago
Pure politics. You can buy tickets for Taiwan's trains only in Taiwan, or online of course. Plus, they missed to include Taiwan's high speed railway system. I am sure that was on purpose, too, since it was build before the Chinese
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Patent Suspensions Threaten Germany's Booming Biotech Industry(spiegel.de)
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Top researchers are calling for a real investigation into the origin of Covid-19(technologyreview.com)
8 points by ChemSpider 5y ago|0 comments
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
The key part of my reply is: If/once the environmental cost is priced in, all will be fine. There are many ways to waste electricity. Bitcoin is a big one, but so is electric heating of uninsulated houses (still very common in the US):
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
Unfortunately the defense production act is still active. Curevac for example reports production issues: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
No, it is my/your personal decision how to waste electricity. You find Bitcoin a waste, I find Netflix streaming a waste (just as example). If/once the environmental cost is priced in, all will be fine. Once that is done, nobody
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
But the core problem is that dirty electricity is not (yet!) taxed for its CO2 emission. If the same plant would be used to power a data center for Netflix streaming it would be equally bad.
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
But how will waiving the IP help India to produce more? They already have all the licenses they need. It is a resource constraint, not a license/IP issue. If US/UK would finally allow vaccine exports like the EU does, _that_ would
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by ChemSpider 5y ago
Yeah, but the key difference is that Taiwan is under direct threat from China. Mr. Xi openly said that he will take back Taiwan by force if necessary. Weakening the Taiwan semiconductor industry is certainly part of this playbook, too. Imag
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
> I have also responded to her criticisms substance elsewhere, Link?
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
> That SARS-COV-2 was cooked up in a lab This is a straw man argument. No one is seriously claiming that this is a "cooked up" (artificially created) virus. It could be a natural virus that escaped the lab.
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
Alina Chan seems at least equally qualified and disagrees: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1374108473571557377
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
"Some...". Well, a few right wing idiots. Even the BBC calls it UK variant: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820 > it really doesn't feel good to be a person from one of those locations. I am from
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
> in a place where SARS outbreaks have already occurred in the past, Not correct. All previous SARS outbreaks were in a totally different places (~1000 km away). Prof. Shi (石正丽, the head of the Wuhan virus lab) herself said in her March
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
> they were making chips that were as good or better than the Snapdragons Which ones? And how were they better?
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
This is how it should be done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Caledonian_independen... or of course: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Scottish_independence_ref...
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
Chinese diplomats even go after Children books: China gets German children's book about COVID withdrawn https://www.dw.com/en/china-gets-german-childrens-book-about... "The Chinese consulate in Hamburg prompt
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
Well, if you are correct, the CCP could/would organize a public vote in Tibet and Hongkong, just like France did in New Caledonia. That is how you handle such a question. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Cale
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
Not only near east. By that logic Italy can rightfully claim almost all of today's Western Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empire
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by ChemSpider 6y ago
Yes. It is no surprise that they sue, but maybe that was a mistake. Because depending on the result, it might get TikTok banned in the EU as well. Or the result is that indeed their operation is 100% independent of their Chinese parent comp