Here's a study just to top up some of the raging opinions with the best data so far:

https://www.medrxiv.org/conten...

In this study: 1.8 million cases, 47 cases of reinfection with BA2 after BA1 acquired natural immunity. That's pretty powerful natural immunity.

My personal opinion 4th booster is good but only if its evidence driven which looks at better data on T-cell response too.

I'd be waiting 6+ months like their older studies say for antibody booster eg: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It already happens. Its a common repair to usb type C ports when an inductor [buffer] dies on a power rail and you get burned pins on a plug or socket from in rush current. eg: reapired a laptop with a 65w switching power supplies burning cables, plugs, sockets when a capacitor or inductor fails.

Three stages to engineering here:

• You make the cables safe to carry more power assume this is done.
• You build in new logic to control safety for new high power operating modes.
• Then you build in normal failure you get during lifetime of use eg: laptop could last 10 years. What are the odds of a damaged/loose track/pin inside a connector, dust? metal dust? water damage? faulty USB power management controller. There are many variables.

Typical of large tech.

They get the 'eco+green' headline and when nobody is watching the real guts of the project is dissolved. Would love to have the names leaked of the executives who had the 'non-enthusiasm' for this project.

De googled or linux phones, vpn are just absolutely necessary now. What a rick database of your life with your tax, identity, bank accounts, purchase history, movements tracked analyzed. Certainly dont want a bunch of old samsung phones floating around with programmability to bypass this.

2021 is finally the year where the products being released by apple, samsung etc are so defective by design, SSD's soldered onto motherboards, parts glued in place with glue harder than the plastic surrounding them, serialised hardware components. It the e-waste apocalypse

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." -- Edward Snowden

So you're saying there's a centralized, means-of-production owning, profit motivated, non-democratically removable bunch of people in one centralized group thwarting a simple design change that could make said crypto coin environmentally/long term economically viable?

Or just say that simply to build an exchange payment system up from a DB with principles of ACID (Atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability). That system gives you interlocked balance sheets where a change of state on a ledger is Big Oh Linear for banking system. Where as its Big Oh Factorial for crypto that mines the blockchain. By design its built-in to be energy inefficient. You cant scale around that period unless you change the design. The only crypto that gets around his will be proof of stake 'coins'. Crypto is a mess at the moment between the various issues like POW and the numerous ideological flaws certein coins have. Eg: pegging to fiat currencies, being overly aggressively inflationary, ?deflationary?, weak spots in centralisation, undemocratic decisions made about various block chains and and generally the inability to be price stable for anything useful.

What the bitcoin pundits never realise: You cant use any crypto coin as currency because its NOT a currency. Crypto coins are a digital commodity but with one purpose unlike gold or silver.

Firstly its not price stable. Eg: try running a business with complex inventory of parts to manufacture ANYTHING when your currency yo'yo's up and down. Suddenly what was put on back order just sent you bankrupt, how do you do standard markup pricing for your product? Its so push-pull price volatile you cant. ;-). It makes Zimbabwe an easy place to do business compared to running a business on a stock of crypto. Get over it will never be a replacement for a fiat currency zone.

Secondarily: What they also fail to admit is mining for that decentralized ledger in big Oh notation N factorial. 'Printing money' which happens when banks mark up the assets/liabilities side of a centralized balance sheet is Order 1 computationally complex.

No dancing around 'but governments are oh so corrupt' can distract from the fact that bitcoin by algorithmic design is an energy nightmare. Go on convince me that computing the first >=30 sub-string if a SHA256 with brute force is not going to be bad for the environment to write to a decentralized ledger versus having a db adhere to ACID + standard private/public key cryptography.

Bitcoin is behaving exactly like the gold mining industry. Mining gold is no longer people panning streams. Is complex geology, chemical engineering and massive amounts of energy on a macro-industrial scale to mine current gold supplies. There's nothing fundamental about it its messy.

Finally i'd like to have a government i can ELECT DEMOCRATICALLY rather than an UN-elected investment group, they all fail to realise all Crypto IS centrally controlled, very easy to change the algorithm on a crypto and send the coin into deflation, inflation, make the miners bankrupt. Obsolete their hardware playing with the yield function for mining.

https://win-vector.com/2013/11... Ponzi schemes all run on the variant of the aphorism “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, and the second best time is now.” So unless you intend to assert Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme you don’t want past performance to be your sole justification of purchase (you need to find and reason about underlying mechanisms). Don’t confuse holding means of production (like a tree) with holding assets (like money, Gold or Bitcoin).

It is a significant consideration when science starts to fill in the blanks with data. 1 in 3 non hospitalised COVID cases are reporting long covid symptoms. That stays consistent through young patients too. What a price to pay for herd immunity if you make people crippled in doing so.

Danger with this "viruses all the time" kind of response is that abstracts over the composition of the issue. What kind of virus? How often? How severe? Yeah Its good to summarise a position on a problem starting with this statement but at some point you have to drill down/traverse to the next layer of abstraction of the problem at hand.

Evidently we're answering these questions as we go with any new virus. Run the timeline of the 1918 flu pandemic in parallel with COVID19, there are plenty of re warning flags this is going to trend towards long term bad health outcomes.

Its more fundamentally broken than HFT. Why have a system that is by measure of purpose:

99% inefficient at this purpose.

-john bogle

The problem with COVID is we don't know if it will mess with peoples health long term. Eg: 3+ years time all those people with zero symptom COVID get lung x-rays and they have smokers lungs?

Good luck with any advanced nation health system to cope with that unless they are expanded massively/permanently.

Now add in the cross-over with other illnesses a person can get during their lifetime, so suddenly COVID may have made other conditions more dangerous because it messed with somebody's heart, lungs, brain, spleen, arteries. IMO there is no herd immunity without risk when you do the top-down analysis of how this combines with other complex factors.

Anecdotal to my point of view but of the 4-5 statistically perfectly healthy people I know who got zero symptom covid, there is on that now has deep vein thrombosis, another one with a faulty spleen.

It seems people are delving into how its like/unlike the Spanish flu in behaviour. Just do best practice as per the medical experts to beat this thing because we're [mostly] not medical experts here.

If they say 'isolate for 6 weeks' then society has to do that.

Needless to say this is showing up the inflexibility and inefficiencies of the free market economy. Trying to rebuild that house of cards will not be possible there will be revolutions before that happens because in Europe at least people are seeing the political bulls**t unfold. The fewer people killed the better for the economic output. Anyone who has had to deal with co-workers who have lost partners or parents due to sudden accidents knows what that does to productivity now multiply that by hundreds of thousands random walk through industries. If its bad enough the virus will kill enough specialists or leaders in industries to affect the output/progress perhaps not but dont want to go near the domain of possibilities there.

Yes, funny thing is even Venezuela has a better electronic voting system. Real time auditing, one time cryptographic hashes for top down/bottom up audit. Just like the Russian spies used one time cryptographic pads so you cant even get a quantum computer to decode that you just get every valid/invalid result as plaintext so you cant tell which one was correct.

Wake up America its evident just from the result skew from the polls and exit polls plus the voting history and homogenous results as expected that some data has been tampered with

https://theintercept.com/2020/...

Put the airpod in the coffee, f**k that person. Simple HUMAN transaction f**k this 'custom' is right bulls**t

Waves bull**t flag on this comment. You're handicap? American right?