Nitrolo

Do you have more information or some good sources on the MI5 director? That seems like a fascinating read.

Here's a post breaking down a few details of the ban wave:

https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/idclo1/unde...

As you can see a big majority, over three quarters, of banned subreddits had less than ten users, and 99% had less than 5000 subscribers.

It's very possible that the other 82% are distributed over the larger, more popular subreddits which are not encouraging hate speech. As an example, if someone posted antisemitic content on r/dataisbeautiful, that might be counted towards those 82% but that is not a reason to ban the whole subreddit.

Not doubting that this is the case, but what's the reason for nVidia wanting to restrict use in virtual machines?

Fair enough, of course any vaccine that does get distributed to billions of people should be tested very, very carefully. Chances are the first option might not be the best one (see the vaccine that's being rolled out in Russia).

But the article is talking about the logistics of distributing an effective vaccine, once it's found, not distributing the first best thing someone happens to come up with. It seems pretty likely that at some point a safe and effective vaccine will be found. Should that vaccine not be distributed widely?

I'm a bit surprised to see so much opposition to vaccination here on HN, I would have thought that this would be a very pro-science and pro-vaccination crowd.

As far as my understanding goes, herd immunity is not a real alternative to vaccinations. Herd immunity means that a very large percentage of the population, spread evenly across every community, would have to be infected and recover, another commenter cited a source estimating between 50% and 80%[0].

This means getting basically everybody infected, the reason a vaccine would be necessary is that we don't want everybody to get infected because it carries significant risks to health and life with it.

Also the timeframe needed to reach such high percentages of immunity would be very long. Looking at the US, if you assume a continued infection rate of 50 000 new infections each day (much more would probably mean overwhelming hospital capacities) it would take 8 years just to reach the 50% threshold, 13 years to reach 80%. Lot of time and suffering saved by going the vaccine route.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics

Because getting infected still carries a significant risk of illness, permanent health problems, or death with it, especially for at-risk groups. Getting vaccinated would sidestep that risk.

And even if everybody did recover, there's the economic cost of an infection. Productivity missed because workers are sick at home, or worse in a hospital being cared for.

I'm not sure what the dollar figures are, but I would not be surprised if vaccinating a large population turns out to be significantly cheaper than having a small percentage of that large population in ICUs for weeks on end.

Why does letting EU-Immigrants in limit immigration from the rest of the world?

I think I just naturally gravitated to that method after a few levels.

I wonder what an algorithmic approach to this would look like, would it act similarly?

Acting in your self-interest does not excuse you from the consequences of your actions. That is not a justification one would accept from individuals and neither should it be acceptable for companies. It may technically be legal (which I would argue is something that should be changed) but that does not mean that it is automatically good.

Yes, TurboTax will make more money thanks to their incredibly effective lobbying efforts, but the price is that all Americans have a somewhat worse experience filing their taxes each year. This compounds over hundreds of millions of taxpayers and most importantly, is completely unnecessary.

If I managed to somehow convince the government to pass a law that everyone has to pay me 1$ every year, that would clearly be in my economic interest, but nobody would argue that that would be a good thing.

Lastly I highly doubt that TurboTax is employing hundreds of thousands of people.