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by Slartie 5y ago
Increasing manufacturing capacity is happening. BioNTech as the most important producer in Europe has brought multiple additional partners into production as well as an entire new plant, which by itself is churning out 1 billion doses per y
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by Slartie 5y ago
"I'll sell you this box. I know it is empty today, but I assure you, tomorrow it will contain a lump of gold!" On the next day: "I'll sell you this box. I know it's empty today, but tomorrow..."
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by Slartie 6y ago
It actually has been running Jira on premise with zero unannounced downtime for ten years. So...yes, I think that's not the problem to simply continue doing what we did for the last decade. CI and GitLab infrastructure are the same sto
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by Slartie 6y ago
Same here. I even sometimes catch myself being kind of happy about incidents like this happening, because every single one gets us closer to the tipping point at which companies staying away from third-party cloud services requiring getting
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by Slartie 6y ago
It feels like we spend a disproportionate amount of energy running the bitcoin network for its benefits. That's the reason it comes up a lot in those debates. Sure, cars use more energy emitting more CO2 right now, but the benefit of a
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by Slartie 6y ago
> In order for signal to compete in the 21st century with messaging apps around the world they need a payment story. No, it does not. There are two distinct groups of people using Signal. None of these groups needs MobileCoin-based payme
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by Slartie 6y ago
It's also good from a very personal business perspective to have the crucial inside information of an obscure coin named "MobileCoin" (sitting on CoinMarketCap Rank #2378) about to be pumped HARD once the news about inclusion
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by Slartie 6y ago
But they're not adding a "money" transfer option, they're adding a "MobileCoin" transfer option! For the overwhelming part of society, these are not interchangeable terms. When people want to send "money&q
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by Slartie 6y ago
And now imagine all of this logic has to be implemented in the form of silicon transistors that cannot be changed without incurring many millions of $ in losses if a tiny bug slips through. And the tiniest bug will most likely make every ap
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by Slartie 6y ago
Since the EULA was the one thing downloaded from their servers, they could have easily make it permit this specific hack. Though it really seems weird to me that someone thinks of the necessity of maybe updating the EULA later (and making i
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by Slartie 6y ago
Don't conflate Merck with Merck. There's two "Merck", one is Merck KGaA, which is a German company, and the other one is Merck & Co. Inc., which is the US company. These are independent entities today, they just shar
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by Slartie 6y ago
Because it's mostly not like you can throw a folder with a "recipe" over a fence and just have someone manufacture a vaccine in the required amounts and quality. The closest ones to this are probably vector vaccines like the
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by Slartie 6y ago
Naively thinking I would assume they're only queueing the updates, but running the read requests against the slaves in that timeframe. This would mean that there is probably a possibility for people to "overspend" money they
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by Slartie 6y ago
It's the other way round, and you hint at it in your last sentence: the critics have had huge opportunity costs, while Elon had virtually no cost for his repeated overselling of Tesla's FSD capabilities. To the contrary, a good ch
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by Slartie 6y ago
I would not say that it's freedom of speech that makes it a DoS attack possibility. We've had freedom of speech for a while without having disinformation going rampant, because the distribution costs of bullshit were still about a
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by Slartie 6y ago
Not if your SSD delivers data at more than 2500MB/sec, as the one in the MacBook Air with M1 does. SHA256 calculation can probably be performed at that speed as well, thanks to dedicated silicon, so even a large 250MB binary (haven&#x
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by Slartie 6y ago
My dad had one of these, it was stored in the attic because it was already hopelessly outdated, until little me found it. I found the various graphical characters pretty interesting (that was before I could read, let alone read English BASI
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by Slartie 6y ago
There is no amount in the entire screenshot - the number in the "principal" field is an account number, not a monetary amount. And nobody would put thousand separators into account numbers.
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by Slartie 6y ago
Not yet, because the cake is still growing. Wait until the cake has reached its peak size and starts shrinking (not for a short intermediate timeframe like 2017-2020, but for a timeframe long enough to consider it "the end game" f
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by Slartie 6y ago
There's no adjuvants being used at all with mRNA vaccines. Also, there were smaller sub-trials done with just one shot, and those showed significantly weaker immunization, although telling exactly how much weaker is hard due to little
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by Slartie 6y ago
Do you have any source or proof regarding that "retroactively" claim? Because AFAIK they only started to bill customers for 6 doses per vial when they received official regulatory approval for the 6th dose. Vials delivered earlier
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by Slartie 6y ago
It's a weekend of work to change the spike mRNA in both mRNA vaccines to accommodate a new virus mutation. An additional 4-5 weeks for production to take this new formulation from code to finished vaccine. So in a matter of 6 weeks tot
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by Slartie 6y ago
But those stocks' rises pale in comparison to the rises of some of the aforementioned securities - particularly Tesla. BioNTech/Moderna are poised to income streams of billions of $ through guaranteed sales, with the very real po
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by Slartie 6y ago
They could just as well hedge the "PayPal-Bitcoin" they hand out to their customers with unbacked Bitcoin futures. They don't necessarily have to buy the underlying as long as they can find some other party who's willing
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by Slartie 6y ago
> 1. The card handles also selling some off for taxes every transaction and put that in an interest-accruing account. > 2. The card tracked my capital gains for each transaction for easy reporting on taxes. How should it ever do that?
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by Slartie 6y ago
For some reason the Euro does not need all that "grossly oversized military" to be a proper, stable and usable currency. That alone kind of contradicts the entire grossly overstretched argument of this Nic Carter guy.
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by Slartie 6y ago
This is true, and it will stay that way for a while. The US (at federal level) failed at nearly everything regarding containment of the virus, but got one single thing right in this pandemic: ordering vaccines. Ordering enough from the most
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by Slartie 6y ago
first thought: What, Tucows still existed? clicks on link second thought: That's not Tucows! Where is the logo with the two cows???
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by Slartie 6y ago
Even if the applications don't care, there's still the (Docker) container, which cares very much, and which seems to be the vehicle of choice to package and deliver many cloud-based applications today. Being able to actually run t
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by Slartie 6y ago
Ah yeah, you got me. Though I don't really count that as good evidence for an actual "redemption" since it apparently was burning Tethers that came from Bitfinex: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-just-burned-50

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