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Pfizer themselves: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

> Vaccine was 100% effective in preventing severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 95.3% effective in preventing severe disease as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Vaccine was 100% effective in preventing COVID-19 cases in South Africa, where the B.1.351 lineage is prevalent

Depending on what you're doing. Many apps that reach out to the internet at launch will hang if there's an unstable connection, but will recognize when there's no connection and open in an offline mode.

Is the cell phone transmission theater even lifted in the US? I still get asked to turn on airplane mode regularly (though Wi-Fi is okay)

The gun buyback surely had ads just to get people to even show up, not yet including the staff time of people working the event and the gift cards.

3D printing is largely "set and forget" too, with occasional monitoring. A remote employee can easily spend less than 20 minutes per day babysitting the printer while going on with their regular life.

Case in point: https://www.thedailybeast.com/crude-homemade-shotgun-used-to...

"We're holding a gun buyback. But no, not that gun."

For anyone curious, 40% of 45,222 is 18,089

If all it takes for a "forgotten" attic gun to be secured is something to trigger those gun owners to take action on securing them, a simple ad campaign would be a lot cheaper than $500 gift cards.

This is a fantastic move by both Cloudflare and Yubico. I have several keys in rotation and they're definitely the future for security.

Psychological effects? The contestant volunteered for this, and was able to step out at any time (many times while still making a good amount of money).

How many people were kept locked in their - possibly smaller - homes during COVID with no option to exit and no end date in sight?

Technically yes, but functionally no. https://jmap.io/software.html

I've been looking for an alternative to Spark (Readdle) for iOS and MacOS for years, and have yet to find anything that even comes close. I'm not a huge fan of a lot of things Spark does and it's missing some nice features, but the unified look and feel across both platforms is fantastic.

That's typically what cancellation fees or early termination fees are for.

100% agree, I was just using it as an example. When I had an Alexa, it was much more well-rounded than Siri is. Living with Siri (or without?) is just an inconvenience of the consolidation.

At least that's what current society shows us. If the humanities graduates were actually a mass of well-rounded people that contributed to society, and happened to also have debt as a result, we'd be having a better conversation right now.

The current reality is that that many (not all) humanities majors are societal annoyances with little to show for their education and also have a ton of det.

I'm okay with this. It's nearly impossible to stop every company from collecting your data, but it becomes a hell of a lot easier if you try to consolidate and trust one major company. For me, I try to limit the collection by Facebook and Google by putting more trust in Apple services and features. The alternative to this isn't Apple getting less data from me, it's that same data also going to Google and Facebook.

As an example, if I'm going to buy a "smart assistant", it'll be a Homepod instead of Alexa or Google Home. Not by brand loyalty, but by the nature that Siri may already be capturing all of that anyways so the additional data loss is minimal.

Or how little is the service being used now?

That wasn't the comment though. The comment was "That's [do it] been the case for vaccinations for quite a few decades" I'm saying that there has been an exemption process for vaccinations.

Updated my original comment, I thought it was 2 and 3 weeks, not 3 and 4 weeks.

The military has had an exemption process for vaccines since long before COVID.

Additionally, many doctors have said that 2 weeks between shots was too quick and would not be enough time for the first shot to "primer". 2 weeks acted more like a single larger dose than 2 spread out doses.

Edit: My memory failed me, the spacing was 3 weeks and 4 weeks (Pfizer and Moderna respectively). Point still stands though.

Ref: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/marty-makary/94315

> We really need cost-benefits of adverse effects v. COVID outcomes stratified by ages, and it takes more than one study to build the picture.

Also when taking this into account, one must take note that many who have had the vaccine still end up getting COVID at some point, so the additional adverse effects that COVID brings may add onto any risks the vaccine brought.

4/10's are fantastic, especially if you commute. The extra 2 hours a day really doesn't feel like much, and I often find I have better "productive" time than in a standard 8 hour day.

Unions are inherently free market. If government controlled all labor, Unions would not exist.

Humans are free to enter contracts of their own choosing, not forced by arbitrary government regulations. As many other commenters here have pointed out, negotiating oneself to a 4 day workweek (or other offers) is possible.

I for one, choose to not take the 20% pay cut and will happily work a 40 hour work week. That's my choice.

One can still say that freedoms they had are being restricted or backsliding while acknowledging that other people are far less free.

I think this is the effect of Tik Tok and Instagram Reels. Our already short attention spans have become even shorter to where if something doesn't get to the point in .2 seconds, people might lose interest.

(Obvious exaggeration, but there is a trend to hyper-compression of content)