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by arrrg 5y ago
Please source the 4,000 number properly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29422105 As I point out in my other comment, you cannot interpret that number in any to imply as though we ever actually had those 4,000 beds.
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by arrrg 5y ago
Could you source that claim? I’m comparing the numbers from the DIVI registry: 2020-12-02: https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/7522 2021-12-02: https://edoc.rki.de/handle/176904/9047 I’m g
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by arrrg 5y ago
No country in the world has the capacity to take care of more than “a couple thousand” ICU patients (well, it’s more like a couple of ten thousand ICU patients for the best equipped and richest large countries in the world, like Germany). S
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by arrrg 5y ago
Is that a reasonable expectation to have? It‘s funny, when I started reading your text I first assumed that “so gross a misrepresentation that your average person would have a completely different view of the reality of the situation“ was a
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by arrrg 5y ago
Didn’t even imply it. The criticism is pretty clear: even though this was obviously a problem it wasn’t addressed for decades. That’s the point. There is no talk about the initial design.
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by arrrg 5y ago
This boss isn’t well meaning at all. They expect people (unlike what you said) to actually read all messages right away, no matter the time. Because, as they also say, sometimes it might be appropriate to respond right away (“Or it could me
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by arrrg 5y ago
Clicking a dislike button is not, in any sense of the word, criticism.
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by arrrg 5y ago
Sure, but you don’t want to do that. Nuclear is monstrously expensive already. For it to have any chance of being economically viable at all you have to run it all the time. It doesn’t make sense as an on-demand power source.
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by arrrg 5y ago
Gas and nuclear can’t replace each other. So that instead I’m your sentence is completely misplaced. We certainly need gas in the short term. Sure. But you can’t let nuclear take over the role of gas (and other potential on demand power sou
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by arrrg 5y ago
With renewables baseline doesn’t make sense. Nuclear doesn’t combine well with renewables, not in a way that would complete the picture. Meaning: you can’t build something that works with only those two building blocks. Even more: baseline
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by arrrg 5y ago
As others said, all bus partners. That’s also one reason why they could survive the pandemic relatively unscathed. They could scale down their networks pretty well and pretty quickly, for a long time down to zero. Sucks for the bus partners
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by arrrg 5y ago
It’s different and each has its own qualities. I noticed it during my vacation in Italy. Yeah, I still run around with a big mirrorless camera with a huge zoom lens (Fujifilm’s weird X-H1 absolutely no one bought but I still love very much
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by arrrg 5y ago
I think the problem is much rather that for anyone not poor late fees just don’t matter in any way financially. They do not cut into any basic needs, they don’t even matter in the grand scheme of things. The thing with being poor is that an
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by arrrg 5y ago
That’s probably less of a problem than you think it is. Historically it’s more likely than not that promises are kept. (That this isn’t the case is mostly dumb propaganda.) The biggest wrinkle to this is that Germany has coalition governmen
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by arrrg 5y ago
That’s the wrong framing. Vaccines have several effects. Frequently they prevent you from getting serious symptoms (or any symptoms at all) after contact with the virus. Often they reduce the time span during which you are infectious, somet
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by arrrg 5y ago
Yeah, but why? You are talking tactics, not strategy. What are the underlying goals?
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by arrrg 5y ago
Did they in that instance say beforehand in clear and unambiguous terms that they would never do anything like that?
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by arrrg 5y ago
Did they, in those instances, make an explicit statement to the contrary?
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by arrrg 5y ago
They answer that question. The answer they provide is that they would leave the Chinese market. You might not believe them but they are pretty clear on that point: “we will not accede to any government’s request” This is the standard you ha
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by arrrg 5y ago
I don’t think these people have the right qualifications to make that determination. Seems unlikely.
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by arrrg 5y ago
Does the article claim something else?
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by arrrg 5y ago
This was a concern during vaccine development and testing but it didn’t turn out to be an issue. So I’m not sure what you are talking about.
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by arrrg 5y ago
That‘s different from the US how exactly? $800k/year in San Francisco as a single is $436k/year net. In Germany that’s $431k/year net. You should argue with lower (more realistic) salaries. Social insurance (including health
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by arrrg 5y ago
The reality is that Mac OS only has a chance to survive in a good enough shape if any feature that comes to iOS can also easily come to Mac OS. Practically all of those features are stuff that are on its face a positive additions (OCR for p
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by arrrg 5y ago
If several people were hospitalized that means several dozen to hundred people in the lab actually had COVID (hospitalization rates are low, especially among people who haven’t reached retirement age yet). Testing was done on those people a
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by arrrg 5y ago
Nothing to do with animal testing. Also, your statement is highly misleading at best. No idea what the US did but the EMA in Europe didn’t relax any of its standards and often drug testing is mostly slow because it’s costly. Here cost wasn’
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by arrrg 5y ago
Why do you say that? As far as I know the vector vaccines were tested on animals. Nothing was skipped. The issue is more that this side effect is so rare that it didn’t register even during the quite large phase 3 trials. This is to be expe
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by arrrg 5y ago
Surveillance cameras, especially overlooking public spaces, aren’t that common in Germany. Probably more common than they were thirty years ago but also not a constant presence. Any kind of private person or company cannot install cameras l
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by arrrg 5y ago
Can you tell me what exactly I missed? The pill prevents millions of humans from existing and I just cannot for the life of me see any ethical issue with that.
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by arrrg 5y ago
Do you view the millions of existences prevented by contraception the same way? Those humans also don’t exist for entirely preventable reasons … This seems like an on its face absurd and pointless argument to me. In these scenarios we are b

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