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Re:New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU
on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:33AM (#32179876)
This is a point you can make, but it's distinct from sovereignty being infringed. If Parliament is sovereign, it can decide to give away powers, no?
Re:New UK data laws could be incompatible with GDPR in the EU
on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:46AM (#32177785)
The UK Parliament ratified the Treaty? How is its sovereignty violated by something it itself agreed to?
Re:In Response to My first impressions of Web3
on Saturday January 08, 2022 @06:38AM (#29850720)
This is the dilemma in a nutshell. There are lots of incredibly smart people working in the web3 space who are aware of its limitations, but for every one of those, there are 1000 people just trying to make as much money as possible.
Re:Interview with CEO of Flexport: Supply chain crunch, modern logistics
on Monday January 03, 2022 @06:59PM (#29788909)
IIRC this is exactly what the government has been doing, they're trying to find as much space as possible near LA.
Interesting podcasts for more background:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-25/the-white...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gene-seroka-on-the-log...
Re:Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors
on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @08:37PM (#29170109)
In theory yes, in practice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi...
The Housing Theory of Everything
Re:TSMC eyes Germany as possible location for first Europe chip plant
on Monday July 26, 2021 @06:28AM (#27957776)
Munich does have Infineon as well and it's closer to lots of the eventual customers in the automobile industry.
Re:CureVac fails in pivotal Covid-19 vaccine trial with 47% efficacy
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @04:57AM (#27537511)
Re:Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public...
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @08:23AM (#27514220)
Good point, however the more important question is what is meant by "careful".
Re:Poll: Only 18 Percent of Germans Feel Free to Voice Views in Public...
on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:59AM (#27514020)
The precise question was:
"Would you say that you are free to express your opinion in public or do you have to be careful with certain or many topics?" („Würden Sie sagen, man kann seine Meinung in der Öffentlichkeit frei äußern oder muss man bei einigen oder vielen Themen vorsichtig sein?“)
As a German, I believe that I am free to express my opinion, nevertheless I would say that there are obviously many topics of discussion where one has to be careful just because there is lots of potential to be misunderstood.
How am I supposed to answer this poll?
Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:53AM (#27062455)
https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...
This is about mRNA vaccines, but similar things exist for viral vector vaccines as well. Technology transfer, bioreactor bags, fill-finish capacity, all of these things are bottlenecked till next year basically.
Re:Covid: US backs waiver on vaccine intellectual property
on Thursday May 06, 2021 @05:24AM (#27060857)
They rightly fear that in 2-3 years, when the pandemic is likely over everywhere and other people have figured out how to commercialize the IP, they won't be the only ones producing their vaccines.
This isn't going to help India or anyone in the short term and there'll be more than enough doses for every person on Earth by next year. Why should they not retain the IP rights to make a profit on new generations that need to be vaccinated or potential booster shots? The manufacturing capacity will have been built up so scarcity won't be a problem at that point.
Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @11:48AM (#26793983)
J&J uses a very rare human adenovirus, AZ uses a more common chimpanzee adenovirus. J&J also has the so-called 2PP modification on the Spike protein compared with the AZ vaccine. Good writeup here: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/genetic-code-of-covid-19-v...
Re:Israeli study finds 94% drop in symptomatic Covid-19 cases with Pfi...
on Monday February 15, 2021 @03:59AM (#26140667)
I think you'd be seeing some improvements as we are seeing some upward adjustments in production capacity projections on a 3-6 month timeframe now that everyone is spending so much to get additional doses because of political pressure, but it wouldn't be nearly enough to change the situation drastically as some have been claiming.
Re:MuZero: Mastering Go, chess, shogi and Atari without rules
on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:15PM (#25523835)
I mean they pretty much solved protein folding this year...
Re:Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform
on Monday December 14, 2020 @11:22AM (#25419307)
Third-party foundations finding legitimate instances of sexual abuse of children is going to be incredibly rare because how would you ever tell 18 and 17-year-olds apart? Facebook has much more information available to them and they are aggressively checking their platform for it, that's why they find so many instances.
Re:Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:37AM (#25372569)
Thanks for the addition!
Re:Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity
on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:14AM (#25372000)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0960310011008808...
Futures markets do increase spot market efficiency.
Re:German Made State Malware Company FinFisher Raided
on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @07:57AM (#24775534)
It does if that's the only standard you apply in choosing to whom you deliver a product. If you sell to despotic regimes and not to Israel, you're criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.
Re:Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case
on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:21AM (#23859247)
US-EU data agreements are also about geopolitics.
Re:Dueling Scar
on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:31AM (#22907265)
Bierjunge!
Re:Preliminary result of the Gangelt, Germany Covid-19 case cluster st...
on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:28AM (#22899243)
For now.
Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalize...
on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:48PM (#22881478)
Independent of whether that is actually right, where did I consider them to be connected in this discussion? I'm not even inferring a political motive, I'm just stating that it is a dumb thing to say.
Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalize...
on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:20PM (#22881148)
I can personally discount everything he says, that doesn't make it any less legitimate to say that the President of the United States shouldn't hold press conferences in which he over-hypes the proven effectiveness of certain drugs during a pandemic.
Otherwise anyone can just claim anything whenever they want without any proof whatsoever.
Re:Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalize...
on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:30PM (#22880551)
The problem wasn't that Trump encouraged trying it, but that he clearly exaggerated what we knew about its effects and continued to do so for a long time even after having been confronted about it.
Re:Senate Stock Watcher
on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:43AM (#22840705)
This seems like it would suffer from the principal-agent problem.
Re:YC Summer 18 ( Invites / Rejections )
on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:34AM (#16864910)
Nope, this is agonizing.
Re:The rich are hoarding economic growth
on Monday August 21, 2017 @03:29AM (#15062609)
Right. The economy has a fixed amount of assets that generate money. Oh, wait.