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Comment In Germany, gas is used to fight climate change (Score 2) 456

Germany raised a lot of laws to ban coal and closed all nuclear plants (Merkel said she feared episodes like Fukushima, while Fukushima produced ZERO deaths). Now, 2021, Germany is no more capable of produce it's own energy, and they have to import gas from Russia. But Russia is not capable of attend all the European demand, the prices are hitting records and now Germany is activating their coal plants again, fearing electricity shortage.

Sources:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/e... https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

Comment Not related to Brexit, right (Score 1, Troll) 354

Yeap, all the EU is suffering truckers shortage... but:

Brexiters: we don't like you immigrants, but you can fill this queue of paper and enter for few months, while there is this shortage, receiving lower salaries then EU.

Brexiters too: worst shortage here than in EU it's not related to Brexit.

Comment My family old members got the CoronaVac (Score 3, Insightful) 210

Here in Brazil, after our FDA equivalent approved the studies about CoronaVac at the beginning of 2021, and due this, it was the first vaccine we started to produce in mass against the Corona virus. My father has more than 70, a hearth disease and diabetes. One month after the second shot, he got the virus. He felt some body pain for 2 days, and during 3 days, a bit of difficulty to breath. But he recovered well and was not even required to go to the hospital. More important: he is alive! Same with my uncle, older than him. My stepmother, around 55 has not the same luck: she still didn't receive the vaccine and gone to the hospital for 3 weeks, received oxygen, and now she is back to home, alive, thankfully, with some minor sequels.

So, of course, if I could choose, I would pick Pfizer or any one with higher efficiency for my father. But even "ok" vaccines like CoronaVac are better than no vaccine in poor countries like here.

Comment Re:Somebody explain the implication to me (Score 1) 85

Second option. Additionally, this kind of hidden APIs usually have a lot of calls that have no performance penalties, so the owner (Apple) can make "fast" apps. I learned this in the 90s, while developing for Windows. The reason why I've switched to Linux and never looked back.

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