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A vaccinated person may only spread if they are indeed infected, which is less common to begin with. Then, if they are indeed infected, the rate of transmission is much lower - as they usually don't develop heavy viral loads.

Most EU tech giants are B2B and mostly don't have this problem in the first place.

That may be wrong, but the ars article didn't have any counter arguments.

No idea why this gets repeated here so often, but this statement is simply wrong.

From 2013 to 2020 nuclear as share of Germany's energy mix went from 17% to 13%. https://energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&...

During the same time, coal went from 45% to 23%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany

So yes, nuclear is 4% lower, but coal is 22% lower.

Germany is also pretty heavy on high tech production, so there's a big existing supplier network.

Key suppliers like ASML are nearby (Both the Netherlands and Germany are part of the Schengen Agreement, so logistics-wise almost as open as cross-state transports within the US).

Also, salaries usually only account for low single digit percentages of opex in high tech production, so ready availabilty of the needed specialists is probably more important.

In e.g. Germany Teslas are <10% of the new EVs sold YTD, I doubt it would make much sense for Tesla trying to maintain a Tesla-only network there, as they have to support the standardized connector and communication protocol anyway. They can only gain by opening up their charging network there.

As I doubt the US will adopt GB 20234, my bet would be on CCS.

This is almost identical to the use Bret Devereaux uses in the artice.

It is not any shared cultural feature (but e.g. a common origin myth would fit), and the people have to feel a sense of purpose, of common past and future relative to their homeland. As stated in the article, that certainly fits Native American Nations, but not the US as a whole, as Barrington discusses in the next paragraph, "Nation: Misuses".

The distinction between these three has been discussed very deeply in political science (in Germany, I have no idea about the US discourse). Usually these three can be imagined as different points on a scale, with the US on the citizenship end, France in between and Germany at the ethnic end.

Of course the German state nowadays doesn't refer to race as the defining element anymore, but there is still a distinct difference in the minds of the average citizen.

I've heard a great anecdote about this in university: If an immigrant in the US raises the US flag on the 4th of July, this would be seen as quite normal behaviour. If an immigrant in Germany would raise the German flag on 3rd of October (the German equivalent to 7/4), that would usually result in raised eyebrows.

This does not imply that the Germans are racist here, just that the unconscious definition of what it means to be a part of a nation is still quite different from the US. It more heavily refers to common values and allegiance to the constitution in the US, and common ancestry in Germany.

One “important reason”, Rischard said, was the failure of the UK and EU to agree on mutual recognition of database rights. While both have an agreement to recognise copyright protections, that only covers work which is creative in nature.

But most racist problems actually manifest themselves as socioeconomic problems. And you can tackle those. And when doing so you can even gain allies, because poverty, bad schools and so on affect people regardless of skin color, which means fighting for better schools, higher wages etc. unites people regardless of skin color.

> It's not all that great blaming the victim.

Which is what I was replying to.

Of course this incident was inconsequential for Newsblur's customers. That in this case the impact for the customers was approx. zero doesn't change the relationship of Mongo+Docker <> Newsblur <> customers (i.e. who has responsibility and who feels the consequences, which defines who can be a victim), just the outcome for the customers.

Of course the behavior of Docker is really problematic in this case, and ditto for MongoDB not having auth active per default. But both applications were consciously chosen by Newsblur.

Everyone wants to be treated as a (software) engineer here, but the engineer's perspective in this situation would be the opposite: The victims are the customers, and the perpetrator, acting in negligence, was Newsblur. Risk management is a core part of the engineer's job. https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Risk_Management

> However, they are still allowed to use the website to purchase and sell crypto-currencies, which is not regulated

A great example is prostate cancer. It often gets detected now, people are informed they have cancer, but most often the correct answer is "watchful waiting", i.e. no treatment, probably forever. But people now know they have cancer, and are frightened, because cancer, and thus press for treatment. But this comes with a 10-90%(!) chance of incontinence and 50-90% chance of erectile dysfunction - for a cancer that most probably wouldn't have caused them bigger problems for their whole life.

Edit: Even better: the chance of being shot is way lower for an LEO than the average US citizen: Its .000122 for the average person vs. .000066 for an LEO.

(2017 numbers: 1/32510000039773=.000122 for the average vs. 1/80000053=.000066 for LEOs, gun deaths from here https://time.com/5476998/risk-of-guns-america/ and LEO deaths from the source above)