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I really hard to compare UK and SA. - average age 28 SA vs 40 UK - a lot of immunocompromised people in SA (AIDS) - UK has most of it immunity from vaccination which was mainly targeting AC2 receptor.…

If China would discover they are developing nuclear weapon they may choose to attack. There is a rumor that Taiwan has rockets that are targeting Three Gorges Dam. In case of an invasion they may choo…

I think that might be the biggest sin with today's school system. Big penalties for mistakes and optimisation for perfection (math and spelling tests). In reality you "want" to make mis…

> Will NATO come for let’s say Latvia or Lithuania? I honestly don’t think so. Poland may, because they see Russia as a nr 1 threat. USA have to because they(NATO) will lose any credibility. If the…

Exactly, the main threat model is the Russian aggression via hybrid warfare (anything below the classic war, which would trigger article 5) or full fledge offence. In both cases F-35 sucks, Poland is …

> it is borderline cruel keeping them in an apartment in some cases I don't think this is true. You can have a husky in a flat, but have to go for a run every morning. I have a German Shepard…

Also people with weak immunity e.g. HIV positive, can stay infected for months.

> The omicron variant could be a blessing in disguise Not really. There is a very low evolutionary pressure to become less deadly.* You start infecting people in day 3, have symptoms on day 8 and d…

I don't mind a touch screen, but let me program the buttons on the steering wheel e.g. there should be a fn button. When I press it and arrows I can change the temperature. I'd have pretty m…

That is not true for Covid. It's an upper respiratory virus which infects others before causing symptoms. It's possible to develop a variant that spreads, but kills everybody (highly unlikel…

> actual racist/sexist hiring practices are what led to the imbalance in diversity in the tech field Can you name "actual racist/sexist hiring practices"? I'm not american,…

Since immunocompromised people haven't "produced" super flu variant so far, is it safe to assuming we won't have it with Covid? I may spread faster, but won't be more deadly.

Japan is fascinating for me. Do they just not test people? https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor... …

it's hard to compare cases without knowing how many tests were done and how they are administered.

It's possible that mRNA would reduce the time to the market, which would give use more time to gather data and have better predictions of dominant strains.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/covid-variants-ma... …

There is also a train congestion in Kazakhstan. A few articles mentioned end of summer 2022, but I guess this was assuming no extra disruptions.

slower sales cycles, more risk-averse.

I used to work for a startup founded by a few Brits. We had engineers in London, but no sales people, because of the culture. I was much easier to sell to Walmart than Tesco.

Meta: Anyone owns a 10 years old model S? What is the range of battery? I wanted to buy a used electric car, but 10 years Nissan Leaf has 40km of range, which is not enough.

licensing I presume

It's really hard to compare these. Netherlands has 4.7 per 1 billion vehicle-km, UK 3.9. I'd guess this is because population density (more crossings) and a way more cyclist in Netherlands. …

Is this number really true? I remember a study from Italy (on Dr. John Campbell's channel) that there were 0 death from Covid* in people under 40 that were healthy. *Covid was the cause of death,…

> Developers who can't figure something out from documentation and are too impatient (or sometimes critical) to be helped over Slack. Maybe it's a symptom they miss human contact.

but the stigma is still there.

> denied burial in religious cemeteries Same for Catholics and most of Christians, hence no suicide attacks.

it's a bad idea to compare cash to a number in a computer which estimate share value (taking future cash flow into account)

We are, but not Niger.

That's why it's never gonna happen, they don't have resources to support this population growth.