Per a UK study, the Pfizer vaccine is 93% effective against infection for Alpha, and still 88% effective for Delta. ASZ isn't quite as good, but we should expect broadly similar results across specific formulations.

While 50% more infectious is technically true, actually nearer 75% worse, it's grossly misleading. The vaccines *do* prevent infection, they *do* prevent spreading the virus, and they're still *highly* effective against the Delta variant.

While there's all sorts of misinformation about the "platform vs. publisher" false dichotomy, nothing Zuck said here is novel.

The liability protections have never been blanket protections that allow a "platform" to ignore reports of unlawful harassment, threats, IP violations, etc. Likewise, 230 is already clear that "platforms" are entirely within their rights to "make and enforce rules about content that is harmful but still legal" however they see fit without forfeiting the liability protections for user generated content that has "evaded detection."

Adding some requirement that as a Facebook competitor gets larger that it be required to put in place pre-emptive measures is just Zuck looking for regulatory capture to protect his position.

2/28 was an inside job!

"The amount of PET required to deliver bottled beverages depends on numerous design and manufacturing factors (e.g., bottle capacity, the shape and texture associated with the brand, the oxidation rate of the contents, many parameters of the manufacturing technique). Because so many factors are involved, the mechanical design of plastic bottles is still, largely, a trial and error process18. No closed-form expression for the relationship between bottle weight and design attributes exists to our knowledge (most relevant academic studies rely on numerical methods). Thus, we opted for an empirical approach to quantify this relationship."

I'm sorry, what? There is absolutely no need to be doing this empirically. Apparently they could fill libraries with the gaps of what exists "to [their] knowledge." In fact, they do. They're called libraries.

The actual citation [18] they make states, "The problem is that the process continues to rely to some extent on trial and error." Not "largely" trial and error.

"The process" referring to the process of converting closed-form optimized solutions (they do exist! it's actually the entire purpose of that citation) into something that can be made consistently with blow molding. That entire reference is about the challenges of modeling blow molding, not packaging design, and how much progress there's been over the last 30 years in taking closed-form solutions from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor.

And the most efficient current designs were between 0.5 and 2.9L? Oh, so basically every PET plastic bottle? Real groundbreaking stuff, guys.

>Its counter-argument to the above says that Valve has co-operated to what it believes to be a reasonable extent -- "Valve already produced documents regarding its revenue share, competition with Epic, Steam distribution contracts, and other documents"

This is already above and beyond anything Valve should have been obligated to provide.

If *I* were Gabe, Apple would've gotten a simple "lolno" to any request for information about my business and competition. Go look over someone else's shoulder if you don't know the test answers.

But then, the gall of Apple to take that good will and demand a trove of trade secrets? Total insanity.

Agile done correctly doesn't have those issues. Agile done with a waterfall mindset means releasing incomplete/untested features like this because the ship date is the ship date.

Back in my day we didn't put up with people TRASHING our rights like that.

Snip & Sketch has buttons for freeform, window, and fullscreen snips right next to the rectangular button. Note I only say "has buttons" as using any of them, including rectangle, doesn't actually do anything on my system.

The most frequently used method of producing hydrogen *is steam reformation of natural gas*. The goal of experimenting with different catalysts like this is to make electrolysis cheap enough to actually become the most frequently used method of producing hydrogen, eliminating the need for cracking hydrocarbons.