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by bildung 6y ago
Romania has cost-free universal healthcare, free maternity care, vacation after labor, with 85% of previous net income paid. There is unemployment aid, and subsidies for heat and electicity for the poor. State pension relative to previous i
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by bildung 6y ago
TextSecure was available from Google Play for years, I've used it since release. The transformation to Signal was pretty seamless.
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by bildung 6y ago
TextSecure (essentially the old name for Signal) is 3 years older (2010 vs. 2013), isn't it?
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by bildung 6y ago
That made me try to find the remission rate of Hodgkins Lymphoma, and according to this 2005 paper [0] it is indeed very rare, the paper says that only 15 cases have been recorded. The interesting part: The patient in that paper had "c
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by bildung 6y ago
which CPU?
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by bildung 6y ago
This is wrong, the most common type of foreign investment uses "Wholly foreign-owned enterprises" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholly_foreign-owned_enterpris...
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by bildung 6y ago
While the US sure is dominant, there are dozens of software companies larger than those in that list, e.g. Zoho has about $5B revenue, Baidu $11B, Tencent $23B, Accenture $41B, ... The list employs some particular filters (e.g. SaaS seems t
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by bildung 6y ago
And the last year with record overdose deaths was: 2019. And with the exception of 2018 every other year backwards from 2017 to 1999 was also a record drug overdose death year. That is the opioid crisis. Source: The CDC WONDER database, gro
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by bildung 6y ago
I'm not yet done with all comments, but so far I've not seen anyone defending Russia, just asking for evidence or at least indicators. Proper attribution of hacks isn't exactly a trivial and foolproof thing. There is a big as
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by bildung 6y ago
Indeed they don't appear on the member list: http://aomedia.org/membership/members/ ARM is listed as a founding member, though.
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by bildung 6y ago
Probably because it is indicative of a script written by a scientist, ignoring software engineering principles.
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by bildung 6y ago
That is technically true but misleading because a) all of those plants were planned before the nuclear exit and b) they all close in 2038. Still a shame, though.
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by bildung 6y ago
China actually has more ambitious CO2 targets than many other countries: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/china/
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by bildung 6y ago
While there obviously has to be an upper limit somewhere , this isn't (only) about latent demand, but induced demand: People actually drive more because they have to. More lanes have more consequences than wider streets alone, they en
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by bildung 6y ago
The idea that if 4 lanes are not enough we just have to add more lanes, ad infinitum, until we eventually hit the upper limit were traffic won't increase anymore, has, to my knowledge, no empirical foundation. Current knowledge says th
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by bildung 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. I fully agree that the Trump framing is horrible, BTW, though it's hard to properly deep link to the data tables on that site. There was no intention to add spin to this discussion :) Here is the raw data: https:
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by bildung 6y ago
Correct, though keep mind that this was explicitly demanded for this program: https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-3035.html chapter 4, second bullet point. That doesn't mean they don't get reinbur
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by bildung 6y ago
See here: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-1... Going from zero to preclinical is about 1/3 of the costs of going from preclinical to phase 2. Phase 3 is not part of this study,
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by bildung 6y ago
What you quoted is the shortend version of the goals of the funding program, here is a more complete description: https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-3035.html The program is funding clinical trials 1 to 3,
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by bildung 6y ago
Do you have any actual evidence for this? BioNTech has about 1k employees strong and got about 375 million Euros. Even if everyone would exclusively work on the vaccine for the whole time, which obviously didn't happen, that amounts to
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by bildung 6y ago
Biontech's research definitely was funded with public money, over 300€ million, in fact: https://investors.biontech.de/de/news-releases/news-release-...
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by bildung 6y ago
It's not hard at all in Germany, I already had to do it a few times. It's just regulated, i.e. you have to follow a defined process (two written warnings first, only then the dismissal) and have proof of what happened. The range o
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by bildung 6y ago
Example for Germany: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2020/10... (German language) See the line chart at about the middle of the page, with three lines in black, blue and red. The cha
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by bildung 6y ago
It's a recurring theme when discussing US and European tech companies on hn. US tech giants tend to be more visible as most are consumer facing brands (Apple, Facebook and so on). The European multinationals are mostly like ZF Friedric
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by bildung 6y ago
You have to look which countries people are actually migrating from. Net migration to the US from the richer EU countries is about 0, i.e. about the same number of US citizens are moving into the EU as are moving from those EU countries int
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by bildung 6y ago
Are you aware how Silicon Valley came into being? The Internet? The moon landing?
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by bildung 6y ago
You are right, I was mistaken because of the table in this link: https://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/verkehr/elektroauto-neuz... The downtrend for Tesla is clear though, if you compare the quarterly sales. I doubt the
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by bildung 6y ago
No, right now. Tesla isn't even in the top 5 of EV cars sold in Germany anymore. Edit: Renault already reported gross margin profitability of its EV models in 2017: https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industri
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by bildung 6y ago
In Jena there were about one dozend(?) infected people when masks were introduced. Already wrong, the very article shows that Jena had about 145 verified cases in April 6. And test availability was absolute shit in March/April. It st
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by bildung 6y ago
* Where do you draw the line with what a “human right” is?* By looking into the declaration of human rights: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

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