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My understanding is the that AstraZeneca and J&J are also new tech. Vector-based and mRNA are different than attenuated (weakened) form of the virus which is used in most vaccines. (I'd be go…

I suppose they don't know what is the cause and what's gonna happen in the future(6 now, 10 000 in a few years). The communication that public gets is outrageously bad.

I had bad experience with k8s. The learning curve is step. A few days ago k8s decided to run a cron job just after the deploy (it was scheduled for Sunday). Why? it could be a bug ( https://…

> When an appliance (fridge, cooker, washing machine) breaks, it's cheaper to replace In a lot of cases it's not, but people don't want to troubleshoot or 3rd part makes more money b…

There is one theory missing. What about a sacrifice? Child sacrifice was quite common in the area (Moloch) and it was repeated in a lot of cultures. Maybe people decided that a child is a bit too much…

is it really $45k in US? Or just the company told you they are billed 45k but they "negotiate" it down to 10k. In my country a birth in private hospital cost $3k...

hydrogen maybe the only economical way of transporting goods on medium and long distances - you don't wanna drag 5 tonnes of batteries with you.

Looking at the current trend, it's highly unlikely e.g. single casting, structural battery packs. Car companies are for profit, so they have every incentive not to make it repairable. What is mor…

Does such car exist? (Tesla Maybe?)

And they will be commodities in less than 10 years. What is the range that would cover 99.99% of use cases? 500 miles/800km? After that it's just a bragging number. Tesla will release new mo…

> n product driven startups, where engineers are 2nd/3rd class citizens. in consultancy, is somewhat bette The the exact opposite of my experience.

Is anyone working on a hybrid system? I'd imagine having extra electric motors would help with taxi manoeuvrability, give extra boost from takeoff and could save fuel while cruising.

Keep it mind that without Covid there will be more death than in previous years. Baby boomers are dying.

performance and % can cause problems with tuples https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1455602/printing-tuple-w... …

Anyone care to explain the downvotes?

Out of desperation to stop the new variants UK decided to vaccinate people with a single dose only.

> Authoritarian states have been able to manage the pandemic because sure, but even poorer European countries managed pandemic better

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not really https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53856776

It seems we need to cull a lot of bats.

How do we know that lethality ("a") has increased? My understanding is that there is an evolutionary pressure to become less lethal.

Electric cars are at the sweet spot. If you look at larger vehicles e.g. Semi-trailer truck, battery doesn't make sense. To have a good range you would need 5 tons of batteries which limits your …

For places like, say, UAE it could be national security issue (you are 9 meals away from a revolution). It's a great back up in case of natural disasters.

That will never happen for national security reasons. Even in 2050 I'd imagine 10% of the energy will come from carbon sources. You want to keep one gas plant open and one coal ready to start qui…

PL: 2 nuclear plants (one in place of old brown coal mine). There could be one left which won't be economical in the near future. The rest of coal is getting to expensive to extract.

>"Detroit" moved to the suburbs Similar thing can happen to SV. People moving to "suburbs" -> other parts of CA.

Could you make a similar statement in 1970 about Detroit?

> Especially not because of something as temporary as a pandemic. One could argue that diseases were major contributors to the collapse of the Roman Empire - internal problems didn't allow the…

Sending a message may have some impact, but what he says doesn't matter in practice. This industry is dead in 30 years due to economic reasons. Offshore petroleum drilling is too expensive.