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In a country level, the outcome is mixed. See Greece, Estonia’s drop in total mortality. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland show a slight wobble. Some excess deaths, but not drastic NYC-style. Without knowledge of an a priori knowledge of an epidemic I would not have guessed they experience a pandemic.

My comment was also that ICUs have been available for most of Europe - the hospital system was not overwhelmed at all for most of EU counties. If you take away the U.K., Italy, Spain, the rest of hospital infrastructure in EU remained under-utilised. This is good they remained under-utilised and it reveals that there are measures which can avoid a catastrophic event.

Please look at this chars, showing mortality across all causes. "Doing fine" is in eye of the beholder, but clearly more people are dying across all causes of mortality for the country-levels for Scandinavian countries. https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

Some countries have experienced higher than average mortality, but others experience lower than average.

Would you be fully confident to claim that the numbers in the other countries will not pick up by the end of the year? If in the fall, the virus returns spreading, would Norway, Denmark and Finland turn again to a strict lockdown? Note that the total number of mortality across all causes have remained close-to-baseline: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ All the time, the hospitals have remained with spare capacity - while the earliest, initial models have suggested much larger impact to ICU.

I understand that the perception of the impact of the virus can be large, when seeing a new virus. But considering that those countries have extremely large average lifespan would tilt the numbers to make the perception of the statistics have larger impact than they are.

I find it disappointing that your claims are not based on true facts.

You can make any claim, but be aware that claims not based on true facts are illogical and not constructive. There have been changes from the status quo to adhere to strict hygienic levels across large portion of the world. Find changes already applied across EU, USA, Asia, Africa, South Africa, etc.

In a circumstance where a person focuses on one area and disregards other areas fully, is a setup for failure. Focusing exclusively on this virus and disregarding everything else is not a recipe for a fulfilment.

>> completely overwhelmed every single health system in the world.

Please review the data in conjunction with this statement. In ALL of Eastern Europe, the hospitals are essentially empty. Note that in ALL Scandinavian countries, there has always been additional allocated spare beds. I am not to downplay the risk. I note that there were shortages in London, Spain, Italy. But please review the absolute value of calling *every single health system in the world”.

There are differences in vaccine regimen too, which lead to be a statistically significant factor. (edit) The first point is in reference to the BCG hypothesis, search at MedRHiv for similar entries such as: Correlation between universal BCG vaccination policy and reduced morbidity and mortality for COVID-19"

In addition to early travel exposure, common travelling, social factors-vs-car culture, obesity and diabetes, etc.

Within Europe, the BCG hypothesis seems a differentiating factor, though further studies are necessary. The reason for the effect of the vaccine are not currently known.

Are there differences in vaccination in the affected population? A noteable difference is the age group of high risk group is ~65 in Italy and ~80 in Sweden. (Citation needed, I only found secondary sources). These ages correspond to changes in vaccine regimen in the affected countries. Might the younger inmates have been vaccinated differently?

This is quite exciting news! My understanding is that the vaccine against tuberculosis varies from a country to a country greatly, which can explain variance in the outcome.

I believe you miss some crucial information in your argument. An administration which controls tightly a population must appear to be correct. The administration must make the perception its plans are infallible.

It is the perception that the administration’s plans and officials are infallible that it is after. Not the actual actions.

An administration which can confront when its officials can do wrong, which can act on errors instead of hiding them can do well. The perception of its actions take effort and steps to explain.

The reference on such institutions is outside the scope of the current comment. When I started writing, I realised it has to be a very long.

But my opinion is that democratic countries will do well. We might hear more, but their problems will be less. I used to live in an authoritative nation, so there is a difference between the information and the common communication on problems.

Check Hayeks’ writings to see how such communication becomes controlled by marketing ‘authoritative plans’

‘Potentially had an algorithm’ - if it is a potential algorithm, this implies it had not been sufficiently performant to work in practice, though.

I would like to point out that ID.3 will come in the future. These ranges are not observed ranges, but a prediction.

Traditional manufacturers also know that they make money from maintaining cars. If traditional manufacturers make cars that last, they will go out of business.

I see you got downvoted.

Your comment touches on topics outside the current article and its discussion. The reason is that Electrical grid balancing has been commented elsewhere; the economic operation of plants has also been commented in other discussions; if wind is blowing - there is energy left on the table without it being used; if operating a plant on fossil fuels, those fuels still have to be delivered. Wind energy is variable input, but review data on its variability over span of days.

Overall, having variable input of energy in an electrical grid is not the blocker. It is also an extensive - and ‘done enough for now’ area of research.

The variability is not what has slowed down wind energy deployments.

2013 was 6 years ago.

Meanwhile, I am confident that the point wind energy becomes cheaper than fossil energy was within reach much earlier than that. Note that without peer-reviewed research - which I am not providing here - this is just my opinion. But I hope it counts.

The code is at: https://github.com/S-March/smarchWatch_PUBLIC

I would suggest a different action for this specimen. Previously, specimens were terminated. Valuable information is lost.

If specimen 46, Vat 7 experiences a romantic relationship, our corporation will gain valuable research on emotional development past nihilism stage. Suitable partners are: Specimen 114, Vat 7 Specimen 126, Vat 7 Specimen 67, Vat 89 (pending switch)

Replied to a different comment - but the same question applies here.

Are you sure that they are a single entity, where people are of uniform opinion? And every single person follows law to the letter of it? Trump could request this task unofficially from someone as a 'favour' - the agency as a whole might not have access to the request.

>>Trump is the president and all, but to hack and release (by a third party) the personal information if a citizen (not suspected or related to any crime) seems to me to be something that even Trump or his supporters can't doTrump is the president and all, but to hack and release (by a third party) the personal information if a citizen (not suspected or related to any crime) seems to me to be something that even Trump or his supporters can't do, the intelligence agencies just wouldn't do it in my opinion.

For me it checks out - leaking informations sounds like something that Trump or his supporters would do. Why would not they, if they have the option to? Per the intelligence agencies - are you sure that they are a single entity, where people are of uniform opinion? And every single person follows law to the letter of it? There is the example that those services employed Snowden - if the services were so organised as to avoid such hacks, we would not have heard of Snowden.

Sure, Sanchez' phone might have had leaks in it... but it is just as plausible as a government officials (US or non-US) accessing his phone.

Oh, thanks. Since there were two options, at first it seemed the earlier reply was concerning both.

Also, on the falling-iphone-sales - I also wonder how big the fall is; but I am conscious that journalistic reporting might use hyperbolic comparisons to an extreme.

That is the Apple stock price, not iPhone sales. These are related, though separate issues. A stock price can go or down for a number of reasons.

To add: the change might play a role jn smaller emissions from normal agriculture.

To make a differenece in CO2 consumtion, a large area has to be planted. On a global scale, think Sahara-area size. At such scales, the limiting factor would be the nutrient availibility in soil. So, such GMO might play a role; albeit not as the main factor.

Some years ago I run into a e-mail loop.

An e-mail request is sent to a marketing e-mail service. For a specific e-mail notification, we do not receive a confirmation from the marketing e-mail service that the e-mail reached the recipient. So our service re-sends the e-mail.

This goes on for several days. It turned out a filter did not let the notification reach our end. By the time we figured it out, someone received thousands of the same marketing e-mail.

It the vendor specific tool facillitates the work of the user, why not use it? An academic is another type of a job, and using proprietary tools occurs in multiple professions. It’s use is not that different compared to other jobs.

I believe tax competition between states reaches problematic levels in the States. While individual rights are preserved, a race-to-the-bottom between states reaches a negative outcome for individual states; and for United states as a whole.

Setting aggressive tax breaks to lure companies for a short period of time guides companies to jump state over state, with less revenue to each state. The aggressive tax breaks might better be revised in the States.

Furthermore, was it that the Irish tax break to Apple was below that permissible by Irish law itself?

Wow, I had to watch the road a second time to see markings of the split. In the beginning of the movie, I was expecting that there would be two lanes on the left and two lanes on the right.

I also hope for innovation in the mining business.

This also seems to be underserved niche for start-up companies. From miners that I have talked with, this is a small-moving enterprise setup.

This approach has helped me significantly.

Another aspect that is also useful has been my experience of Pomodoro technique. At a job where we were practicing Pomodoro technique, I realized I don’t struggle with concentration anymore. The minimalistic explanation of the technique is to work on a task inside 45 minute intervals; then walk away from the computer for several minutes.

Can this phenomenon be used as a shield for spacecraft? If a laser travels inside a fiber cable, then the laser beam can wrap around the spacecraft. If the beam can stop electrons, it can potentially stop the larger particles traveling in space.

A crook created an online persona, pretending to be working in the airline industry. He used public photos from an Air France employee on a LinkedIn profile.

The crook had created the persona from 2012. It was a scam to obtain credit card numbers by selling airline tickets.