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Comment Re:I've done it all wrong (Score 0) 23

If it was obvious, please guess without looking at the paper which of the years 5 past years had the highest and the lowest well-being at work; and which managerial levels had the lowest and highest well being in years 2022 and 2024. Or which year the level of satisfaction of older and younger suddenly swapped, and by how much they differed in 2021 and in 2024.

Comment Re:This commentary is really depressing (Score 1) 15

(That there are only few comments is not that we don't care, just that we don't have an insight.) Related to western/rich countries, tuberculosis still occurs and is more prevalent within the homeless, prison, and migrant communities; also with the immunocompromised such as people living with HIV (AIDS). These populations for the most live at the margins of society and therefore bear a lower online footprint, or have fewer members to talk for them.

Now since you allowed yourself to criticise everybody here for supposedly not caring about the sick people in this world, let me criticise you for not caring enough to summarise your point effectively. How many people do you expect will follow a random video link? The time you took to conceive an elaborate a=href link could have been spent composing a two sentence summary which mostly everybody here would have read, and the message you care about would have spread.

Comment Re:Why can't Europe (Score 1) 13

Europe obviously has rival cloud providers. The criteria are very simple, and apply to EU and foreign companies alike; it's 50 million monthly users. The only reason these particular ones were not considered before, as mentioned in the summary, is that these particular companies make it difficult to count their users.

Comment Re:I almost do that... (Score 2) 90

I can launch Folding@Home next time. However in the Prime numbers vs. blockchain I do favour the prime numbers.

The calculations of blockchain are entirely senseless, in that they will vanish in time when the blockchain technology is phased out and replaced by something else. (I personally have no interest in helping the blockchain.)

Prime, known non-prime and known factored numbers will stay engraved in stone for the foreseeable future. We only need to compute them once. M1277 (2^1277-1) is an intriguingly "small" Mersenne number known to not be prime but without any factor to be known. People are still trying to factor it as we speak https://www.mersenne.org/repor...

A previous similar case, 2^1061-1, was solved in 2012, and its factor is: 46 817 226 351 072 265 620 777 670 675 006 972 301 618 979 214 252 832 875 068 976 303 839 400 413 682 313 921 168 154 465 151 768 472 420 980 044 715 745 858 522 803 980 473 207 943 564 433.

Comment Re:Need a prescription. (Score 2) 49

if you do this expect the price of meat to go way up,

Use of of veterinary antibiotics has been on the decline for the past decade already. We can continue. Besides, the decline has been faster in Europe than in the USA ("US lagging Europe in efforts to cut antibiotics in livestock" https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/ant... ), and we have not gotten news that the price of meat/egg prices have diverged in this direction between the two blocs.

Comment Re:Need a prescription. (Score 5, Informative) 49

tetracyclines have 4 percent human usage rate.

It's not about the percentage, it's that when we need them, they should work. Wikipedia: “Tetracyclines remain the treatment of choice for infections caused by chlamydia, Rickettsia, brucellosis and spirochetal infections” Maybe these infections only account for 4% of what we need to treat. It still would it be a pity if we suddenly stopped having the treatment of choice for all of those, and that includes typhus, the bubonic plague, Lyme disease.

Also: why we don't use tetracyclines that much anymore: “their use for these indications is less popular than it once was due to widespread development of resistance in the causative organisms.[6][7]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The whole conversation is we need to use less of them in cases they are less needed (e.g. the large scale use in veterinary) so we avoid creating resistance in bacteria that also attack us.

Comment Re: I Can't Math (Score 1) 122

I meant people are biased towards positive or negative views in connection with their personal history, political views, what they hear in the media, etc. For example I assume there is a negative bias against EVs among right-wing supporters in the USA, which divides by 2 the market potential. I assume people in the Nordics are positively biased (for example they might think electric engine is more comfortable to drive, or that migrating out of fossil fuels is important). If the price is roughly similar, and if performs roughly the same for their use case, then this tips the balance. As the Nordics are among the more affluent in Europe, the difference in price isn't all that relevant, as they wouldn't go for the base model and can play with the options to match their budget.

Comment Re:I see one problem (Score 1) 54

Try deleting your profile, start from fresh, re-install your add-ons. I was getting a constant Captcha treatment on my corner of the web (not Cloudflare in my case, some European equivalent). I had privacy-protecting settings in about:config that I set years ago and forgot about, possibly something there triggers the bot suspicion. Restarting with a new profile solved it.

Comment Re: I Can't Math (Score 1) 122

Here they are expected to sell basically on their own merits and the price doesn't yet match their utility.

Right I concede you that the end of subsidies in the US certainly affected the growth of EV sales. However, subsidies do not make EVs so much less expensive than ICEs, just maybe slightly lower. Purchasing a new vehicle is still a large amount of money that one wouldn't make if their utility wasn't at roughly equivalent. Therefore I think more important argument is perceived value, including in terms of being fashionable (living in the times). Like for example the compared market share of Apple devices in USA and elsewhere (Apple devices do the same as other brands, are more expensive, yet have a very high adoption rate in the USA).

Comment Re: I Can't Math (Score 1) 122

1) That "USA" or "Canada" are bigger does not matter. Sweden is integrated in the EU, which serves the purpose of the larger country. The correct comparison is with US or Candian states that have similar characteristics. 2) Sweden obviously has low-populated remote areas. Data shows the EV adoption ion these areas are not lower than in the more urbanized area of the capital city. See. F. Stamm, Electric Mobility in Sweden: The geography of BEVs in Sweden, https://evs38-program.org/imag...

Your calling government subsidies "bribing" people is ridiculous. We're also bribing people into getting kids into schools and many other yearly subsidies.

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