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But think about how we got here.

In US you can get 100 mil in liability damages per injured person in lawsuits, which doesn't make any sense when you consider that with that sum you could save thousands of lives (poor people, ...)

So you could easily be made to pay 10 bil for causing vaccine damage to a 1000 people, while disregarding the hundred of millions the vaccine saved.

Do you think that would be fair?

Re:I'm getting tired of modern meme culture on Friday December 17, 2021 @04:57AM (#29590065)
HN is also becoming memefied:

Electron is bad

Nuclear energy is good

Pharma makers of opioids are bad and should be fined out of existence

Drugs are good and should be legalized and available in pharma-grade purity and consistency

Re:NY Man Pleads Guilty in $20M SIM Swap Theft on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:28PM (#29584167)
> How would you do this

You port your number to a super-cheap carrier and keep paying for their lowest subscription, even if you don't need it anymore.

I payed for 5 years $5 per month to keep a number alive, even if I wasn't living anymore in the country that issued it.

Re:IBM and Samsung Unveil Semiconductor Breakthrough on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:54AM (#29577028)
Maybe alternate each computing layer with a cooling layer made from gold (with holes for wires obviously).
Re:Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:38PM (#29573445)
Why doesn't the NSA/FSB/... open source their crypto systems then so that people can search for flaws?

And there would be interest, imagine the street cred...

Re:Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:58AM (#29565318)
It's about 1 in 10000-30000.

That is 33-100 micromorts. You can use this unit to compare with other activities (higher value is more lethal).

Base jumping is 400 micromorts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

Re:Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:41AM (#29565178)
Lawsuits against who?

The vaccine producers already have immunity.

So that leaves you to sue the local authorities, so if they recommended mix-and-match you have cover.