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mxcrossb commented on Tesla no longer accepts Bitcoin due to climate impact   m.dw.com/en/tesla-changes... · Posted by u/pistoriusp
arcticbull · 5 years ago
So far, Elon/Tesla:

1. Bought a bunch of Bitcoin.

2. Announced they were going to accept Bitcoin, sending the price up.

3. Sold a bunch of Bitcoin to pad out otherwise poor earnings, citing their goal of "testing liquidity of the market."

4. Announced they were going to stop accepting Bitcoin, sending the price plummeting.

As though he didn't know the environmental impact a week ago? As though he didn't check for liquidity before investing one and a half billion dollars of company money.

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
I wonder if someday we get even more absurd. Musk wagers company money on the Chiefs to win the Super Bowl, announces this on Twitter, then hedges his bet when Vegas moved the line after a bunch of pro chiefs action. I mean, it’s not like there aren’t hedge funds that do sports gambling already.
mxcrossb commented on Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says   wbur.org/npr/996284927/co... · Posted by u/disabled
PaulDavisThe1st · 5 years ago
> the next pandemic may be just as bad as this one.

or worse. Keep the aerosol vector, but make it even more effective. Increase the effectiveness of surface transmission. Throw in greater resistant to surfactants (soap) and hand sanitizers.

boom!

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
I always try to use HIV as my point of reference for COVID-19. We got off lucky by that measure. So maybe my pessimism is unfounded, but I really wish we had learned more lessons from HIV.
mxcrossb commented on Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says   wbur.org/npr/996284927/co... · Posted by u/disabled
whimsicalism · 5 years ago
This was very early in the pandemic, I doubt that many people had masks early, and the problem of people hoarding was very real and medical professionals were having a lot of difficulty acquiring PPE.

I think it was a difficult situation, I don't think they handled it the best they could have, but the response (in the context of massive amounts of hoarding) was understandable.

I know that this will not be a popular take here.

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
Half a year into the pandemic the president of the United States was filling stadiums was maskless supporters. The WHO seems completely willing to fall on their sword over COVID, and indeed they failed in many ways. But in the long run, we’re seeing a disaster of anti intellectualism around the world, and the next pandemic may be just as bad as this one.
mxcrossb commented on My iPhone 11 Pro is 50% slower after I updated to iOS 14.5.1   imgur.com/a/vCO6OWQ... · Posted by u/raspasov
toomuchtodo · 5 years ago
Background process doing some sort of migration or other data conversion between versions? Strange the device wouldn't wait until during the night while plugged in, but without context, that might not be an option.
mxcrossb · 5 years ago
Stick a fan in it so I can hear if a background process is being run!

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mxcrossb commented on AAA warns on gas prices, North Carolina invokes emergency as hackers apologize   68k.news/article.php?loc=... · Posted by u/wrycoder
TomGullen · 5 years ago
AKA their PR budget

If they also prove they donated to charity via Bitcoin I would assume some legal rights for the victims to claim this money back off the charities. (And it looks like they've given $20k USD to date which is probably a paltry amount for what they've been extracting https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54591761)

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
More like buying indulgences
mxcrossb commented on Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays
sigmaprimus · 5 years ago
Evidence? Specifically? OK I will try.

A list of the variants and their DNA code? Or whatever makes them vary.

A solid explanation of how these variants are more infectious, not just saying that "The numbers show it" but instead what is the real world physical change in the shape or attack vector that makes them more dangerous, or admiting it is unknown but being studied.

True numbers of deaths caused by covid and vaccines, you can't have it both ways and say "They tested positive for the virus and died so it was covid" then at the same time say "yes they got the vaccine but people die all the time, it wasn't nessisarly the vaccine."

A genuine record of which vaccines the well to do have recieved. Eg: Celebrities, Politicians, Billionaires. I suspect there are a lot more Pfizer going in their arms but they are telling the rest of us to take what we can get.

Maybe drop the racist, sexist, political anti white, anti male, anti Trump bullshit for a while in the media, because fighting the pandemic is just so much more critical right now. Instead of being opportunistic assholes and pushing those adgendas while everyone is scared, locked down and having their loved ones die alone?

IDK there is more, like the stuff comming out about Faucci signing off on funding banned research in Wuhan or the 2015 chinese report on weaponizing coronavirii but I think the first couple items on my list would go a long way. And before I catch a bunch more hate Ill leave it there.

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
For the list of mutations, there is a convenient Wikipedia article [1]. For example, the South Africa variant has mutation E484K which means mutate amino acid 484 from Glutamic Acid to Lysine. It’s just that simple; you could even download a spike protein crystal structure from RCSB and try rolling your own mutations!

Why a mutation improves transmission takes a lot of investigating to understand. I am not sure why you were under the impression that we know the mechanisms. If you type something like “E484K molecular dynamics” you can find a lot of computer simulations trying to investigate the mechanism, this is standard biological research. Of course we E484K you have a mutation from a negative to a positive residue, so that might give you a hint why it’s harder for the antibody to stick.

I can assure you that here in Japan we do not care about Trump. Perhaps we should be more grateful to his good support for the Pfizer vaccine, which is the one we are now deploying at scale (after the government here did their own review of the evidence).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variants_of_SARS-CoV-2

mxcrossb commented on Current RNA vaccines protect against worrying coronavirus variants   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays
Spare_account · 5 years ago
This has me wondering: Are there any events in history (with any other viruses) where this hasn't proven to be the case?

Viruses that we've developed vaccines for, that have eventually been rendered inneffective due to a mutation? Is it a common occurence?

mxcrossb · 5 years ago
It seems like the flu virus is the example you want right? Every year the vaccines delivered is a cocktail based on the predicted most common variants, because no one vaccine can protect against them all.

u/mxcrossb

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