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by agd 6y ago
Let’s see if any new data comes out, but from what’s public right now I can only see this pause costing many lives across Europe. We’ve had millions of doses in the UK without serious side effects, so unless there were faulty batches I thin
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by agd 6y ago
BBC is free to UK viewers but ad-supported for international viewers. This seems fair to me as UK citizens are the ones funding it.
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by agd 6y ago
Checking whether cookie banners are compliant should be mostly straightforward for regulatory bodies. In 90% of cases it’s clear if there’s opt in or not. Why can’t regulatory bodies set up automated flows and tools to handle this at scale?
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by agd 6y ago
Chinese friends tell me that the gov is increasing anti Taiwan propaganda over time - representing the Taiwanese as people who hate the mainland and who think that they’re superior. We’re getting to a position where the domestic Chinese pop
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by agd 6y ago
> I do want to question the effect on the society, and the personal responsibility of everyone involved. What does this mean? There are many factors at play here. Aside from mortality, you also have to look at the R0. Covid 19 has a sign
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by agd 6y ago
The MRNA vaccines were tested prior to the existence of the variants. The Jansen vaccine efficacy was likely affected by the existence of these variants, so I’m not sure we can assume the MRNA vaccines are better.
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by agd 6y ago
It wasn't the total quantity that was the problem. It was the timing. It's no use having hundreds of millions of doses if they aren't available until Q4.
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by agd 6y ago
Not sure why you've been downvoted. It seems very clear that the commission is whipping up a political storm here to deflect from the fact it's done a bad job with vaccine procurement, which will cost thousands of European lives.
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by agd 6y ago
Yes, correct. However you can use turbo streams with normal http request from form submissions (which is what I'm doing).
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by agd 6y ago
We're talking about UX designers, and in particular UX designers at large tech companies (FAMAG). UX designers at e.g. Amazon, do have huge optionality to go elsewhere and still get paid good salaries. They are not e.g. clothing worker
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by agd 6y ago
There are plenty of tech companies not using dark patterns (I used to work for one). Granted Amazon employees might not be able to get paid as much elsewhere, but that's the choice you make.
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by agd 6y ago
The article writer spends a lot of time blaming 'leadership' however it is up to all of us to act within our own moral framework. > While the best-trained (and highest-paid) UX professionals are put to work optimizing the explo
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by agd 6y ago
Liveview is stateful and uses websockets (or long polling) whereas turbo is stateless and uses regular http requests. NB. I haven’t used liveview, however turbo seems much simpler on a conceptual level because of the lack of state. This com
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by agd 6y ago
I’ve been using Hotwire (turbo and stimulus) with my latest elixir/Phoenix project and it’s been great. Adding dynamic behaviour to pages is quick and easy using the existing templating system. The stateless nature of it helps avoid bu
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by agd 6y ago
To suggest that inequality is due to people being lazy is not supported by the facts. Opportunity is not equally distributed and there’s a reason many people felt left behind.
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by agd 6y ago
One difference is that liveview / reflex are stateful whereas Hotwire (turbo) is not. This has varying performance implications. Turbo will do repeat work server side and payloads will typically be bigger, however development may be si
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by agd 6y ago
You could easily flip it around. Why should others expect me to sacrifice my privacy to socialise with them? For me, ditching WhatsApp is altruistic, helping make it easier for others to socialise without giving up their privacy and securit
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by agd 6y ago
I find this incredible to hear. I know many people who live very sociable lives who don’t have WhatsApp or Facebook. And these are not techno privacy geeks but regular people across different age groups. I have to strongly disagree based on
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by agd 6y ago
> Critical social infrastructure At least for the UK, this is not at all the case. It’s perfectly feasible to socialise and do business without going anywhere near WhatsApp.
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by agd 6y ago
> but the inertia is so great it's not possible. It is possible, but difficult. You may lose access to some groups, but you can't have everything you want without some sacrifice. Personally, I'm leaving WhatsApp. Yes, my f
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by agd 6y ago
Certainly better in the UK than the US. He gets to see family and has contact with support including calls with e.g. the Samaritans.
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by agd 6y ago
I’m not convinced by your implied equivalence of, on the one hand, phone hacking celebrities and murder victims to generate tabloid clickbait, and on the other, helping protect an intelligence source whose leaked material shows human rights
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by agd 6y ago
Not really. If you read his coverage it does mostly accord with the final judgement. I.e. the judge rejected all defence claims on whether the extradition request was proper.
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by agd 6y ago
This is fantastic news, however I’m sure there will be a lengthy appeal. In summary: - the judge did not agree with the defence that this was an improper extradition request - however she blocked extradition on the grounds that Assange woul
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by agd 6y ago
I believe the 2 doses will be administered 3 months apart. This should help get people their first dose more quickly and there’s a suggestion that this approach also has higher effectiveness.
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Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK(bbc.co.uk)
376 points by agd 6y ago|417 comments
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UK chipmaker Graphcore valued at $2.8bn after it raises $222m(theguardian.com)
13 points by agd 6y ago|2 comments
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by agd 6y ago
A problem in some ways yes, but also an opportunity. A fantastic opportunity for the environment and to solve the housing crisis. I’m still amazed how many politicians think a pyramid scheme of population increase is a good, sustainable way
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by agd 6y ago
Well it’s not clear which datasets palantir have access to, so I have no idea if this contradicts our data privacy laws or not.
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by agd 6y ago
GDPR does apply. UK has it implemented as domestic legislation. Lots of confusion and FUD about this. We have exactly the same rules today as we will in 2021.

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