Strange (but common) reasoning. It seems lobbyists were very good at circulating these language elements: "patents are not a problem"

Would you build an IDLE factory, or extend an existing one, knowing you would not be allowed to manufacture the thing ? I personally would not. I would rather obtain the permission FIRST, THEN I would build/extend the factory, if proven cost effective.
In my opinion, we have lost months, and thousands lives because of to this patent stand on covid. When the time will come to deal the aftermath of all that, we'll feel shitty, for good reasons.

no comment.

then it looks like this host has built their diesel backup generator inside their hosting facility.

I'm anything but an expert in this area, but this is the first question I had while reading TFA: How would a generator incident trigger a water fire suppression protocol inside technical rooms ? It must be very close, or even inside the data center rooms, right?

Is there a real interest, or a particular constraint, to place generators so close to the data center ?

Complete sentence is:

Gatekeepers would be barred from favoring their own products over those of rivals — think Google steering users to its own restaurant reviews over Yelp's, for instance — or from using data in an exclusionary way that they've collected to develop their own products. They'd either have to avoid using such data or make it available to competitors to tap as well.

If you are a gatekeeper, you can't create products based on other's product sales data, unless you share this data. Think of amazon creating products based on what sales best via marketplace vendors.

Sounds fair to me.

Remdesivir would get people out of hospital more quickly, reducing the burden on the NHS, and might improve survival, said Hill, although that has not yet been shown in trials, as it has with the other successful treatment, the steroid dexamethasone. There has been no attempt to buy up the world’s stocks of dexamethasone because there is no need – the drug is 60 years old, cheap and easily available everywhere.

Accorting to TFA, there is a cheap alternative that works (dexamethasone) but US prefers buying the world production of the (very) expensive Remdesivir, which is not even publicly yet demonstrated as "effective". Even ignoring the "america first" or "egoism as a doctrine" thing, it still looks strange. On the other hand, 75M$ if my math is correct, is not such a big deal.

Obviously, if Remdesivir is later proven to be much better than other drugs, this thing will get really dirty... who would have guessed that ?

I fail to understand why GILEAD would not "licence" the drug to other big pharma, hence producing what the world (outside US) really need, but I don't pretend to understand anything in this field.

Interresting idea :) The first period is really difficult because you lose all your bearings and eating becomes a boring way to nourish your body without pleasure. You may be right this could be a great opportunity to change my diet. I have a wife and children; my diet was already quite good and was part of family habits. So I really couldn't have tried what you say :)

I learned that some people are really struggling with this and have become depressed. For some reason, this was not my case. The smell is a really strange thing. I lost most of it, but part of it remained "connected". It's a bit like losing the sense of color in vision and the "green" part still working, for example.
Odors disappear (Some wine, not all, became 100% tasteless); others remain intact (coffee in my case), and others change their nature. This last part is the most problematic: you have "good" flavors that become "bad" (Eggs in my case) !

Smell is almost 100% of the ability to taste. Lose your smell, and only basic things (sweet, bitter, acid) remain sensitive.
I've lost my smell a decade ago from an accident, and my taste was gone from then. Meat taste like paper and good wine like water.
But as contrary to what I was told, I recovered a fraction of the smell over time, and the brain try to "reorganize" remaining sensors and compensate what's missing. More or less. Very strange indeed :)

We all know AVAST is a very intrusive data business, as other "free" av likely are.
There as been several slashdot headlines on this subject.

I'm not a Lawyer, but I would not be surprized if this kind of law exists in most countries.
In France, this is a tacit law. Unless written otherwise by contract, every software you create as employee belongs to the company.

...creating solutions for missing problems, why not spending some time to make the native UI elements a little richer ?

In 2019, we are still piling tons of JS layers/frameworks/libraries/hacks to implement basic layout, searchable combos or simple tables with static headers/columns, to name just a few common brain teasers...

Making this shit faster and more obfuscaded is surely the best way to improve the situation, good job folks.

I second you on that one: create a whitelist of MY useful apps, and treat everything alse a potentially useless shit, hence hide everything such as popup and other annoyances by default on any other url/domain ; forget any cookie on closure ; kill any cache data for them, etc etc That would make me happy.

For some reason, this does not seem to exist... I have to combine several extensions to near this, but this stupid notification shit would remain unblocked so far !
(okay, I should create my own extension, but I've no experience on such things and I have no time)

My white list would likely be 5 to 10 entries long (most of my really useful sites won't create popups anyway)

Thanks firefox for killing this horrible implementation; better late than never ! In the same way, if you could implement an option to _really_ block _any_ popup, globally, I would love it.

It actually took a little more than 15 years (almost 30) to *build* the nuclear capacity we have today:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not sure about your math here :)

First, I won't substitute a "one-click purchase" of a 5$ thing by a car drive. In addition to burn more ressource, it would take a hell of a my time (as well as beeing plain stupid).

I had to change my habbits as a consumer, that's the point.

When I need something, I won't rush on the next store : I'll write it on a list. At some point I'll visit a shop where I can purchase the thing, as well as the other objects I have written on my shopping list.

That's much less convenient. Not very difficult either.

... realize we are doing dangerous things on earth.

We all can do small things to reduce our footprints; I for example greatly reduced my purchases on amazon to avoid individual shippment of $5 objects from asia. This allows me on the same time to not encourage the vat fraud scheme that rely on amazon platform's gross negligence, as well as destruction of local distribution businesses. This is less convenient, I admit. Much less indeed. But that's the price I'm willing to pay.

Look around you, you can do a lot to reduce earth destruction. This is my part of the dream; that people like you stop beeing so dumb sometimes, while you can be so smart elsewhere.

Regards,

This is not fair because those big corporate don't pay their share ; small business do (because they can't do otherwise).
It's not fair but it's better than nothing ; I wish the tax increase over time to reach an acceptable level.