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by s_dev 6y ago
>really want to change the name why not just use "Volta" Because that would be undoing the entire VW brand they've been building for decades at the cost of billions. Voltswagen is a natural increment to Volkswagen while st
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by s_dev 6y ago
People who are used to it are mostly power users generating content for reddit and their subs. It's absolutely reddits right to ignore their preferences but also at their peril. Reddit is precariously close to doing a 'Digg'.
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by s_dev 6y ago
It hasn't disappered -- it will be preserved because it's important. The tooling will exist in automotive museums and the expertise will reside in engineering historians and engineering academics -- the first tractor engines are g
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by s_dev 6y ago
I think we can see that in hindsight that Epstein was the common denominator in all these controversies and had he not existed Stallman and Minsky will still just be normal nerds with strong opinions on software unrelated to any sex controv
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by s_dev 6y ago
>seems the answer is to genetically engineer a weak variant with a bigger reproduction and let it rip? A weaker varient of a disease often just is the vaccine. As for letting her rip? I'd imagine the concern is future mutations that
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by s_dev 6y ago
Surely it's inevitable that during a worldwide rollout of a new vaccine a few 'pauses' happen -- even if people find them deeply distressing. Lots of people were claiming this was politically motiviated reather than scientifi
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by s_dev 6y ago
The culling of the Mink Farms in Denmark should be evidence enough that it can travel through animals. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/05/pollution-fear... The fact that it already mutated goi
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by s_dev 6y ago
Thats not so easy -- vaccine shortfalls are very real problems. In many cases AZ is the only option.
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by s_dev 6y ago
Focal is the Irish for 'word'. Is that the etymology? 'Wordboard'?
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by s_dev 6y ago
I would imagine part of the explanation is that Apple is a trillion dollar company and System76 is a million dollar company.
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by s_dev 6y ago
BioNTech partnered with Pfizer.
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by s_dev 6y ago
>These include France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands - not really a politically homogeneous bunch. Litterally all members of the same economic and political Union. The EU.
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by s_dev 6y ago
So not having a license means a default one was used? Which licence is that?
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by s_dev 6y ago
>the repo does not have a license file, which makes me a little uneasy. Surely the author is bearing the liability of getting burned by not specifying a licence.
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by s_dev 6y ago
>As far as I understand it, the EU member states are not generally short on doses Let me correct that understanding. The EU is absolutely short on doses. AZ has only delivered 10% of what they promised. There is no doubt if the EU had a
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by s_dev 6y ago
Since you can't read your own link: >The second exception is for organizations with fewer than 250 employees. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not totally exempt from the GDPR, but the regulation does free them from re
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by s_dev 6y ago
Right but since when is "We investigated our data and found no problems" sufficient -- only independent verification will do.
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by s_dev 6y ago
It's entirely possible a facility is producing vaccine that isn't up to QA standards i.e. a bad batch. The Irish reasoning for suspending AZ wasn't just because of blood clots but blood clots in the brain which have a complet
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by s_dev 6y ago
>No, the answer is "Anyone infringes on those rights." Nope a small American firm can infringe those rights and face zero consequences. A US Multinational with operations in Europe can't. So implicitly -- bigger companies
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by s_dev 6y ago
Nothing explicit* in the regulation -- but -- it IS the tech giants that egregiously guilty of: >From having their information processed/sold without their consent. The targeting of tech giants is implicit here.
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by s_dev 6y ago
>GDPR is just there to protect the privacy of EU citizens and that's that. From what exactly? You'll see where I was going when you try to answer that simple question. Because your answer will be -- tech giants.
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by s_dev 6y ago
I have a feeling that GDPR is actually mostly about giving tools to reign in the tech giants rather than stomping on the little guys.
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by s_dev 6y ago
What happened to that war Steve Jobs declared on Adobe?
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by s_dev 6y ago
Paul Graham: Startups at the begginning are alot more fragile than people think. It may be the case they've very little to show. I'm not seeing some tipping point here. YC has always had startups that were a bit funny or outright
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by s_dev 6y ago
Both table salt and kosher salt are perfectly fine for seasoning or decorating -- michelin starred restaurants use both for each purpose. The only important thing to note is that they have different saltiness grades. Table salt is finer and
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by s_dev 6y ago
Seems like a clever solution but not sure how scalable it is for cleaning the ocean. Cleaning the water would require pumping it which has to be super expensive. Maybe a such a filter at the end of residential waste pipes might be an approp
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by s_dev 6y ago
There really is no option to turn off Bitcoin even if humanity agreed on it -- author can only imagine suggestions that might thoeretically work but won't. It was designed like the internet to be virtually indestructible.
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by s_dev 6y ago
This whole 'Bitcoin is bad for the envoirnment' reads like: "Volcanoes contribute massively to climate change we need to turn them off to save the planet"
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by s_dev 6y ago
So is this standard considered 'free' and 'open'?
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by s_dev 6y ago
Is this like having an encryption standard that you have to buy to inspect? Is this analogy appropriate?

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