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Sweden is probably the most advanced in considering an "e" currency and so far the proposals have been of keeping the two-tier system, i.e., you still have an account with a bank.

At some point Netflix will have to stop thinking about how to get 'new subscribers' and focus on how to 'keep current subscribers'. It's all great if you can recapture the interest of burnt customers with new flashy shows, but how many times can you do that before they stop Netflix subscription and go to Disney or HBO instead?

It seems more like an unintended consequence, not a design choice by Apple.

In a previous video on his original channel he talks about the first strike which was made against on of his tutorials by a company who published their tabs a few years AFTER he posted the video.

The only thing you can say is that the number of videos that get traction is decreasing. You don't know how many are shut down.

He has Patreon, PayPal donate links, and (I can imagine) ad-revenue from YouTube. The content is offered for free otherwise.

I used to live in the UK 10 years ago and back then it seemed like double glazing was some sort of luxury while where I moved from it was the standard and people were converting old houses to it as well. Where I live now people use triple glazed windows...

As far as I know, in EU, you have a right to return anything that you bought online, no questions asked.

HPV shots are safe and effective.

Hep B is effective and the effectiveness window is being extended as time goes on. When I took Hep A/B vaccine I was told that it would last for 10 years. Right now the estimate is at 30 years.

> I say ship it to production now, and do a v2.0 release later.

I commented on that part. And yes, it seems to be safe in healthy subjects (Phase I). The OP wants to move from Phase I to production immediately. I take an exception to that approach and I agree with you that there is a point in doing the three phases. The later of which actually focus on effectiveness as well.

Shipping something that's not effective is counterproductive. Being vaccinated would affect people's behaviour, if you told them that they should not change their behaviour back to pre c19, you would be just faced with questions on what's the point of vaccination.

We can ship placebo right now.

In Poland, where I am from, there is both obligatory vaccination programme and schooling; yet the antivaxers are plentiful. The obligation to vaccinate rests on the parents (+requires their approval from what I understand) and their current GP so if they are creative they can avoid vaccination of their kids.

This also affects recommended vaccinations, like HPV. In Denmark, media coverage of alleged side effects led to a substantial drop (or delay) in vaccination against HPV (Hansen et. al, 2018).

It is not about me; and I actually think that if there is a safe and effective vaccine that vaccination should be obligatory.

This was just a Phase I (healthy subjects) and most of drugs/vaccines are successful at this stage.

Drugs are not software, you cannot ship a broken product and then fix it. Even if it is safe, but not effective, it would do more harm than no vaccination, as vaccinated people would change their behaviour.

Right now they are saying that 95% had a substantial immune response. But we do not know whether it is substantial enough and lasting enough. Imagine that it is both for less than 70% of vaccinated. 5/6*0.7<0.6 (and yes, 0.7 is to prove a point).

This is a very dangerous approach and would just add fuel to the antivax fire. Even if drugs/vaccines are effective that does not mean that they do not come with severe side effects. Imagine injecting the whole population with Thalidomide...

If you are trying to watch this on a phone then the YouTube app is limiting the maximum resolution to the resolution of your phone.

Because it is being sold to customers in a different context. Autopilot for planes does not need to take into account other planes (flight paths are separated) to the same degree as cars do (where other "obstacles" constantly zip next to you).

In Sweden, the best CC deals are the petrol station branded CCs (Shell/Circle K) as they both give you cash backs, have some insurance, have the standard grace period, and are "free".

They were only allowed back on after they've turned it into a big story online.

The author rediscovered Newton's method. Next in line is the realisation that Hessian can be approximated and we will see the rediscovery of BFGS, L-BFGS, etc.

In my experience Duo has better voice and video quality than the rest.

Reminds me how Google "upgraded" me to a better price when I moved from the Netherlands to Sweden. When I complained to them I got 3 months "free trial".

Jupytext [1] has been a good option to keep scripts alongside notebooks. The advantage is that it also keeps both versions synced so you can edit whichever you want (just not at the same time, as the browser will not live update cell contents for you).

[1] https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext

But Google made Hangouts/Meet G Suite only. My university is not using G Suite beyond student email (employees have outlook).

I only started using Zoom now and it solves a lot of my problems: virtual backgrounds while talking to students in my bedroom, recording my lectures, handling large live streams (50+ people), painless set up for non-tech-savvy users.

The only problem I had is that it would corrupt sound from my mic about every hour in a 4 hour stream.

They will be successful, but in part because other chose not to be.

She can use zoom to do that with the benefit of students seeing your wife. Otherwise if she is using _PowerPoint_ she can record her presentation with voice (only) in PowerPoint (slide show > record slide show)

Speed matters to a degree. A lot of resources around, including the ones linked in the Wolfram documents, are outdated by number of days or do not disclose when was the series for a region updated last. For instance, as I am writing this on March 12, Wolfram says last update is March 11. It lists Sweden with 355 cases. That number is actually from March 10 and the actual value should be 500 for March 11 and 565 as of now. It also does not give you sources for changes so you don't get an idea of where these cases are. Both BNO and worldometers give these sources. To me personally it is important to know what the growth is in my neighbourhood rather than in the whole country.

For the same reason, I am not looking at the map so I do not care that much that it is outdated. It conveys zero information about the geographic distribution of new cases/deaths within most countries. I am yet to see a resource for the whole world that is as detailed as what China/SK/SG have.

And before I am told that I should just look at local news. I am an expat with family and friends scattered across Europe. I want to know what's the risk for them in one place not 5.

I find that BNO [0] is the fastest in reporting new cases (both in aggregate and in detail) and gives sources so you can see what region of the country is affected.

[0] https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus....

I like using citymapper in cities where they have coverage, however, on Android (I found) that it simply destroys your battery. In comparison Google Maps is more gentle on memory.

In Poland, a great alternative (that predates citymapper) is jakdojade.pl that does inter-/intra-city transport and ticketing where possible.

I do not think it runs on anything but windows, but you can install the terminal software on any Windows computer you want. They are now selling "Anywhere" subscriptions that basically let you move from one machine to another.

I apparently had a very mild case of astigmatism that went undetected for years. It was so mild that it was easy to 'correct' for it by increasing the strength of the lenses. Now that I have the lenses with astigmatism correction life is much better. My eyes do not tire as quickly and I see more clearly at far distances than I used to. Granted I am sensitive to these small differences, but life quality improvement is vast.

So that's 1 satellite on average. Even though 5% means the same it makes you think the number is much larger if you do not constantly think of the total available.