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by ascorbic 6y ago
Unlikely to be the latter, because they've already prepurchased millions of doses. Unlikely to be the former either. The UK regulatory system is highly-regarded, and until January the EU medicines regulator was based in London. It may
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Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK(bbc.com)
551 points by ascorbic 6y ago|728 comments
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by ascorbic 6y ago
This is not a prisoner's dilemma. The expected payoff if you get vaccinated is still far higher than the cost, whatever the rest of the population does, so you can ignore the cost in your calculation. It's like if the situation fo
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Vaccines are the only way we can end the pandemic though. However great a treatment is, it won't stop anyone catching it or spreading it. If we're to be able to go back to anything resembling normal, we need to stop widespread tra
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by ascorbic 6y ago
You're fine then, because the young, healthy and low-risk won't be able to access any vaccine for months after higher-risk people. It's probably closer to a year before the really low-risk people get any.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Did they though? I'm not a follower of second-tier Scottish football, but were their games normally televised before this? This seems to be a COVID thing, as fans can't attend matches at the moment.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Before you use this, check how it sounds in a screenreader
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by ascorbic 6y ago
> Having ~50% market share is not a monopoly. Most competition regulators disagree. 50% of a market is well above the threshold for both the US and EU to consider a company to be a monopoly. They usually treat the cut-off as around 20%.
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Disney Animation data sets (2018)(blog.yiningkarlli.com)
67 points by ascorbic 6y ago|2 comments
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The OS maps include all legally-designated public rights of way, and some permissive paths. It doesn't show if they're passable, safe or easy to use.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
OSM shows all of the paths. It doesn't say which are the best ones to use.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I don't think they'll be paying for most of their bandwidth. Most of their content is served from Open Connect devices deployed on ISPs' premises.
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Developer “Marketing”(helenmin.com)
4 points by ascorbic 6y ago|0 comments
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's not that they're better per se, it's that there's more effort involved. Pushing people towards quote tweeting instead adds a little extra friction and slows down the spread
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Yes, and they don't qualify for zero-rate VAT either.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
That applies to anywhere in the EU
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by ascorbic 6y ago
A supporter of radically free speech is attracted to a company because it bans political speech.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
The name of that site makes its partisanship pretty clear.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's the BBC. "Lake Jackson, Texas" isn't going to mean anything to most of its audience.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Why not just use one of the excellent free grotesque fonts instead? Some examples: https://hanken.co/collections/free/products/hk-grotesk https://www.freshfonts.io/ https://rsms.me
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by ascorbic 6y ago
It's a bit silly to call this "Tesla's nemesis", when the cheapest Tesla is about 10x the price. They're completely different markets.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
There are plenty of "regular" cars with 4x4, and mini SUVs. There's even a little Fiat Panda 4x4. Just because the US market is dominated by large SUVs and trucks doesn't mean that there's something inherent about t
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I guarantee that any engineer working on that product could get another equally well-compensated job which is not so morally bankrupt.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
They call them more secure because the whole TLD is on the HSTS preload list, so no downgrade attacks.
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by ascorbic 6y ago
This has been achieved not by buying energy from elsewhere (certainly not Russia), but from a reduction in the use of coal-fired power stations to effectively zero. They've been replaced by combined cycle gas turbine (which has far les
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I'd imagine that the privacy backlash is the reason they didn't see the benefit of rolling it out more widely. In most other countries with Street View coverage there's plenty of rural areas covered well. In the UK basically
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by ascorbic 6y ago
I'm also a software engineer in my 40s who has not had trouble getting jobs. My answer is yes, I definitely keep current. Right now I'm working on Gatsby in TypeScript. 10 years ago it was Phonegap and native iOS. 20 years ago it
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by ascorbic 6y ago
Why does anyone write anything on the internet? Why am I writing this? People write for lots of reasons, and the motivation for writing walkthoughs and FAQs aren't any different to anything else: because people like expressing themselv
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by ascorbic 6y ago
You also can't compare the effort in writing a novel, which involves a huge amount of time planning the story and narrative structure, researching, editing dialogue, multiple re-writes and more, with writing a walkthorough which just i
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by ascorbic 6y ago
This is a different issue. It's not about verifying your own identity, it's about verifying the account number when making a payment to somebody else. The name on their account must exactly match the one that you entered or you ge

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