HugoDaniel

thinking too much certainly does not help with sex

EU is not a country.

Here is the title of the article you couldn't read:

"Israel moves to head of vaccine queue, offering Pfizer access to country’s health-care database"

Guess who stayed bellow on the vaccine queue?

It was about Israel. 9m population.

The article uses Israel as the prime example.

There are multiple sources for the deal they made, here is one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-pfiz...

"the only statistic that matters"

this is the kind of certainty that hides misconceptions and forces biased perspectives.

Sort by total deaths. It is true. The parent comment did not specify the metric, every death counts and total deaths is a metric that should not to be disregarded.

You are disregarding total deaths, like a robot that only looks at percentages and ratios. These are real people.

If you remove micro-states, if you filter by this, if you only consider that, if you spin this enough, if you consider that this metric is invalid, if you this, if you that...

then what do we have for such a vague claim such as "-> more people dying"?

Those corruption cases must be verified and dealt with by the law.

The EU latency is a well known cost of the coordinating effort of multiple countries with different politics and perspectives. EU is not a country.

Make no mistake, without the EU the peripheral countries like mine would still be waiting for a vaccine.

Make no mistake, without the EU countries like France and Germany would be having similar, if not better, vaccination numbers than the UK/USA are having now.

"Huge corruption and bureaucracy disaster"

Please provide facts before making unsubstantiated claims.

This is how fake news proliferate. Don't contribute to it.

Doesn't it sound fishy to you when Der Spiegel compares a multi-country federation with multiple-languages and cultures to a single country with 9 million habitants with known shady non-democratic practices (like selling the data of its own citizens to move ahead of the vaccination stack)?

Its a coordinated effort, a fair comparison needs to at least take that into consideration.

Even so:

Why are you comparing "today" EU numbers with those of countries that started a one or two months earlier?

If so, what makes you think that is a fair comparison (even disregarding the cost of the coordinated effort)?

Can we compare "today" EU numbers with those of countries that have just started vaccinations? Would that be fair?

In that logic the parent comment disregards the original comparison operands. Innocuous, irrelevant, if not somewhat offensive and disrespectful.

Still there are a lot of variables to consider: production, distribution, shares, access, storage, etc...

In comparison to USA states, the European countries are a real mess: lots of small autonomous areas, language barriers everywhere (with some places only speaking particular dialects), hospital networks and management with wild variations (with a crude mix of private / public / semi-private-public / church / volunteer), population distribution with radical variations between country (hey Spain, how are things?), train network that still doesn't quite commute between countries because someone 2 centuries ago said that there might be a war coming anytime soon, etc...

To top all that, countries are much faster in claiming their autonomy than states (they are countries after all). This single fact has big implications in coordinated efforts.

Does not answer the question or expand on what time interval the data is collected.

However, since you played the Google card, please take it back:

"What shady tactics did other countries use?"

Also easily available by searching Google.

Please provide data. How did you make the comparison? Does it consider that these countries moved up the priority stack through shady tactics and started vaccination earlier than the EU?

Are you analysing the numbers per capita? total? average in 7 days?

Please be constructive.

I don't understand this comment. Could you please expand it in a more constructive way?

Vaccination is not the only way available to stop the spreading of the virus:

  - Keep social distancing
  - Avoid friends and familiar reunions
  - Wash your hands frequently
  - Wear a mask
  - Be careful

The top 5 places with most coronavirus deaths are:

1. USA 2. Brazil 3. Mexico 4. India 5. UK

None of these are in the EU.

Comparing USA states to countries is a very common practice of uneducated Americans.

I am a EU citizen, my standards are much higher.

EU didn't had to sell their citizens healthcare data to move up the stack (like Israel did). The EU negotiations with these Big Pharma corps made it wait for these 3 countries (Israel, UK and USA). Vaccinations started 1 or 2 months later in EU (depending on country).

A fair comparison would be the data of today in EU with the data from 1 or 2 months ago in those countries (per capita).

But the big questions are:

Why did we have to negotiate vaccines for a global pandemic? Why are countries moving up the stack with Big Pharma? Why is the vaccination rate higher in USA than in Mozambique?

"Europe is facing a vaccine disaster. Whereas countries like Israel, Britain and the United States. are quickly moving ahead with vaccinations, the EU is reeling from a string of setbacks. "

this is a lie, per capita EU is not that bad considering that it is a coordinated effort (as opposed to a singular effort by a singular country).

Overall this is Der Spiegel making an opinion article disguised as a news article. Shame on them.

I also love the Touch Bar.

One thing that have helped my tendinitis was getting used to the Ctrl-C shortcut instead of the Esc (both are defaults to enter normal mode).

:( I love the Touch Bar, I love to configure it per application to have the most common shortcut on the top left part of it (in Terminal that's the alt as mod for me).

Properly configured it really speeded my workflows.

Why? What are you missing from their current CVS usage that you think might be improved with git? Can you provide examples on their CVS usage that are proper arguments to why is it outdated or should be transitioned from?

Is there any easy tutorial for Geometric Algebra? Is it possible to learn it in like an afternoon? How can I learn it?

Is SceneKit still alive? I had the idea that it was abandoned by Apple.

One reason why I use the EUPL license for most of my hobbies.

what are the advantages of ortholinear ?

In the meanwhile they also somehow managed to file patents for rectangular products with four evenly rounded corners[1]. My kitchen cutting board might fit the bill.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/apple-awarded-design...

Wouldn't that mean that any wealthy competitor that wants to trash GitHub would just invest money in throwing DMCA takedowns at github.com/* ?

How does that make me, a developer, want to keep up doing business with them?

Http 1.1 is still awesome. Even with all the incoming changes on front-end like js modules and all that, it feels a great fit that is also simple and reliable. Not only that but in a way http 1.1 makes http 2.0 look like the typical over-engineering approach to a non-existing problem, for the most part.

What about webassembly?

There is a part of "The Future" that will always be "The Future". Maybe this is one of those parts.