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by makomk 6y ago
Probably not just the US and EU that will seek out domestic vaccine and medicine production. Who knows how much worse off the UK would be if the EU could actually seize the UK supply of AstraZeneca's vaccine once our vaccination progra
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by makomk 6y ago
Probably because that's around the time he seemingly really pissed off one or more former employees who went digging for more information on him: https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Romio-RVW2...
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by makomk 6y ago
How that worked is that the US courts concluded that Donziger's own chosen experts found smoking-gun evidence showing the oil was spilled not by Chevron but by Ecuador's state-owned oil company, and that he then decided to conceal
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by makomk 6y ago
At least some of this is mentioned in the US court judgement linked to in the article: https://casetext.com/case/chevron-corp-v-donziger-28 (under the heading "Donziger Causes a Change to Less Probative Tests When
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by makomk 6y ago
As I understand it, the big problem was that the "oil spilled by a chevron sub" wasn't, at least not according to the evidence that had been discovered through the usual legal process... it was probably spilled by a company o
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, and even when the lie is causing harm to a specific person, the U.S. media are mostly immune from libel lawsuits when that person is a public figure like a politician or business owner they're opposed to. Also when they turn that
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, there's been a lot of misleading reporting on this, from much more mainstream publications than Reason - especially back when Trump was in office for obvious reason. The press has a narrative they want to push and they didn'
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by makomk 6y ago
If this is a fake news article, the Daily Express indeed also fell for it because it's clearly where they copied that from: 'Anthony Cook, who has lived in Spain for seven years, told Global247news: “The Spanish dream is over for
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by makomk 6y ago
Yeah, and I'm sure the author of this article worked hard to find that one paydirt quote which feeds its audiences' preconceptions... especially if the stats about how expats voted in the Brexit referendum someone else posted are
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by makomk 6y ago
If you want something more comparable, how about this: as far as we can tell, pretty much the entirety of Africa completely failed to manage Covid-19. Infection rates there as measured by antibody testing were massive, the population was mo
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by makomk 6y ago
There's definitely an element of truth to that. For example, Italy's mismanagement of Covid-19 probably did immense damage to the world - early on the European outbreaks were basically a gradient radiating outwards from there, the
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by makomk 6y ago
The big problem with recycling spent nuclear fuel is that the required reprocessing is much worse in terms of safety than the nuclear power plants themselves. Lots of lovely, toxic, highly radioactive solutions which are practically iching
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by makomk 6y ago
The actual answer is that we did improve on nuclear safety, and that all the regulations required to - for example - make sure that power plant designers didn't route all the redundant monitoring and control wiring down the same cablew
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by makomk 6y ago
It's worth remembering that all many of these companies did is make the weakest, most inconsequential PR statements possible. They didn't take any kind of action against China, they didn't boycott Chinese goods or even Xinjia
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by makomk 6y ago
On paper, that means you don't have to join the union in order to get a job - just pay the union fees and work under the union contract (which is to say, almost all the downsides of joining but without any actual say in how the union i
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by makomk 6y ago
I think you're off by an order of magnitude there? $100/kwh * 60kwh is $6000, not 60 grand.
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by makomk 6y ago
Probably in a lot of countries in the future. One common reason countries have lower average household electricity consumption is the widespread use of non-electric heating, and there's been a huge push to switch to electric heating fo
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by makomk 6y ago
I don't see how it could. If they had a test that X509_V_FLAG_X509_STRICT carried out the intended additional checks, and a test that non-CA certificates could not issue other certificates, and a test that valid certificate chains wer
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AstraZeneca updates US vaccine efficacy results(bbc.co.uk)
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by makomk 6y ago
Hundreds or thousands of years ago, most people would be born, grow up, live their entire lives and die within a few miles of where their parents were born. We're not living in that kind of society today and I don't think it'
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by makomk 6y ago
It's not just a question of guilt by association - she got kicked out of the Green Party for, basically, employing someone out on bail on child rape (and torture, and...) charges in a role where he absolutely should not have been emplo
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by makomk 6y ago
For a start, a whole bunch of containers ended up stuck in locations where they wouldn't normally be and there's not enough return goods, and for some reason shipping companies aren't interested in carrying empty containers b
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by makomk 6y ago
The subreddit mod in question seems to have some convincing arguments against the "automated moderation" spin: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/mbytxw/daily_me...
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by makomk 6y ago
The problem with that is that in reality, there's very little the UK can do to supply the EU with a meaningful number of vaccines. You've got to remember that the UK has less than a sixth the population of the EU and doesn't
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by makomk 6y ago
The trouble is that none of the parties involved have any incentive to fix this. The national governments certainly don't, because it gives them a convenient way to pass laws they don't like, and the EU doesn't either because
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by makomk 6y ago
Only for one clause of the contract. There's a requirement that all vaccines supplied under the contract are sourced from within the EU, with some provision for AstraZeneca to source from elsewhere under exceptional circumstances, and
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by makomk 6y ago
The UK doesn't quite manufacture its entire supply of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine - some is imported from India, and apparently one small batch was from a factory in the Netherlands which doesn't have enough production c
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by makomk 6y ago
No, the expectation was that the EU vaccine demand would be supplied by EU factories. The UK doesn't even have final manufacturing for any vaccines other than the AstraZeneca one - for the most part, our government has taken a policy o
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by makomk 6y ago
Pretty sure this is wrong. The UK and the EU paid to set up separate supply chains for the AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK having first dibs on the output of the UK one (which ended up with better yields, likely in part due to being agreed
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by makomk 6y ago
Italy stopped having meaningful Covid tracing well before their first detected Covid-related death in February last year. They'd reported zero cases in the weeks leading up to it and there are a whole bunch of reasons to suspect that w

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