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Yes, but you can double down on this stuff or introduce it in places where it hasn't yet manifested. It's perfect precisely because these are natural inefficiencies.

What % are from family wealth?

Why was rotation ever a recommendation? Did it used to make sense?

"Arc gives scientists no-strings-attached, multi-year funding, so that they don’t have to apply for external grants, and invests in the rapid development of experimental and computational technological tools."

Fantastic. This is desperately needed. Thanks Patrick C, Vitalik, et al, for funding this.

The fear campaign is very powerful too. People radically overestimate the risk. A large % of the population overestimates it by 48.4%!

"For unvaccinated hospitalization risk, 2% of Democrats responded correctly, compared with 16% of Republicans. In fact, 41% of Democrats replied that at least 50% of unvaccinated people have been hospitalized due to COVID-19."

https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat...

But yes, on the other side of it, if a 60 year old obese person isn't taking the vaccine, they're misinformed too. Their risk benefit analysis is off.

I agree. It'd be the same with Covid too if the risk was high. Ultimately the reason so many don't want a Covid vaccine is because the risk of hospitalization is only 1.6% and is well below 1% if you're young and otherwise healthy. Or if you already had Covid and have natural immunity you're about as protected as the vaccinated (<1% chance of hospitalization).

If the risk of hospitalization or death was 10%? 30%? Almost everyone would want the vaccine except the real hardcore anti-vaxxers. You wouldn't have to mandate or otherwise coerce people to take something if the threat was that credible generally. Few resist the smallpox vaccine, for example.

Definition sponsored by Pfizer™

Absolutely. As things get more complex, the foundations become unstable and fewer and fewer people know how the underlying stack works.

You'll be interested in this talk, "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

It's a common prediction, not knowledge. I predict it won't happen because we'll solve it.

Hey, maybe we'll get a bundle deal with Disney and Pfizer+

SaaS is eating the world. Software, music, movies, games, books. Now the car industry and big pharma are flirting with this model.

It's a combination of the headline and subtitle (“It’s the most uncoordinated, messed up, insulting display of government incompetence,” one supervisor said) to fit in the character limit and reflects the overall message of the article.

Is big pharma transitioning to the SaaS business model?

I worry about the incentives here.

> If you're in Hawaii, you'll get a text.

Or even a missile alert! This must have been terrifying:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...

What's the largest company that uses FFmpeg and has refused? What did they say?

And not just less waste than fossil fuels, it's less waste than what solar panels, batteries and wind turbines produce. A lot of which can't be recycled and ends up in landfill.

For perspective, one person's lifetime nuclear waste would fit in a Coke can.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125740...

1. Smartphones allow video games while driving.

2. Isn't the intention to allow passengers to use the screen?

3. Idiots who don't pay attention to the road already don't pay attention to the road. They are text messaging, checking notifications, putting on makeup, playing candy crush on their phone, watching netflix on their phone, scrolling twitter, reading email, looking for podcasts and on and on.

I keep seeing this repeated. Why do so many people still think leaky vaccines prevent transmission?

If we were a serious society, then the conversation would be about:

immune vs non-immune

high risk vs low risk

infectious vs non-infectious

But no, it's jabbed vs unjabbed. It doesn't make sense. Everyone in Germany who wants the vaccine has had it, and if you've had Covid, you're about as protected as the vaccinated. Furthermore, leaky vaccines don't prevent transmission, can't eliminate the virus (animal reservoirs) and may even make it more virulent. See Marek's disease: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15757475/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/leaky-vac...

This is not a rational, science-based policy. This is about punishing the non-compliant, mostly the under class. As the upper class continues with their events surrounded by masked servants, with endless examples of officials breaking their own rules. Worse, we are normalizing the dehumanization of a group of people who we're told are diseased and dangerous and it's all their fault. Germany of all places should be absolutely allergic to such rhetoric.

UK is now recommending boosters be applied just 3 months after vaccination. If that's the trend, Vaccine as a Service has a bright future.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/29/covid-booster-...

Leaky vaccines can make viruses more virulent, though. See Marek's disease:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15757475/

They could easily afford it too. They have over $130B cash in hand.

I hope you're right, but what signs do you see that it's at the tail end? Home ownership rate is at 65%. They want their home value to keep increasing and I don't see evidence of millennials being any less self interested when the rubber meets the road.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat...

That, plus most of those vaccines were tested for 13+ years before becoming mandatory. Polio was an outlier at 6 years. The cost benefit analysis made sense in that case given how destructive polio is for kids.

Imagine if that was policy during the dotcom boom and bust.