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Key points:

1) Seroprevalance of antibodies in just 5% of the population in one of the hardest hit European countries

2) No difference in infection rates based on gender

3) Large variations in seroprevalence based on symptoms:

No symptoms - 2.8%; Several Symptoms - 12.3%; Loss of smell - 40.1%

Actual cases 8x the official count and IFR of just over 1%

This study is the largest yet and weakens the case for the pursuit of herd immunity without vaccines (28k fatalities with an infection rate of just 5%)

VSCO let go 30% staff today

Disney Owns Star India which has subsidiary company Novi Digital Entertainment that operates Hotstar. Hotstar is the exclusive syndicating partner of HBO, Showtime and ABC in India. Around this time next month, Hotstar will also have all the content of Disney Plus in India.

No telemetry data since about 10 minutes starting just as it was about to land. Looks like it didn't make it.

The fact that Chronic procrastination = Likely ADHD i.e. an inherent neurological issue, needs to be propagated more widely so people can stop feeling guilty about it and not treat it like some emotional/moral/work ethic failure.

> Every president has declared the ICJ irrelevant. The Pentagon would send tanks to the White House if a President so much as hinted at accepting ICJ jurisdiction.

Uhm...as far as 'even hinting' goes President Clinton did sign on to The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court without any tanks being rolled out.

Wait till you hear about these crimes:

1) Section 497 in The Indian Penal Code Adultery.—Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.

2) 498. Enticing or taking away or detaining with criminal intent a married woman.—Whoever takes or entices away any woman who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of any other man, from that man, or from any person having the care of her on behalf of that man, with intent that she may have illicit intercourse with any person, or conceals or detains with that intent any such woman, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.

3) Having consensual sex with someone you promised to marry becomes rape retrospectively if you renege on the promise of marriage

4) And of course - Marital rape is legal. A husband (even an enstranged one) cannot be charged with raping his wife

They sell orders/trading data of small retail investors to Big High Frequency Traders so that they can gain an edge in the zero sum game of day trading. 'Robinhood' seems like an apt name.

Speaking from personal experience, for first time founders rasing early rounds I would actually recommend going through an associate as you likely have no idea what you are doing and associates have more time and patience to hand-hold you through the process and prepare you for the partner meeting. You only get one shot with the decision makers and if you have no previous experience you are almost certain to blow it even if you have read every piece of advice on the internet.

Sure if you are Justin Kan you don't want to bother with another gatekeeper but if you are not then convincing the gatekeeper may actually prepare you to convince the decision maker.

India has 22 official languages & English is the lingua-fraca.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_with_official_status...)

Almost everyone middle-class and up can atleast read English so makes sense that online retailers use that.

> but then I can't understand why they refused to leave.

Why did Rosa Park not give up her seat? Or Why did Gandhi choose to be thrown out of the train rather move out of first class?

Because they knew that they were being treated unequally.

I’m getting a 404 on the article link now. Did someone (on a Sunday evening) notice that this story resurfaced on HN and had their lawyer send over a cease a desist to business insider to get it taken down?

Zuckerburg today:

"I remember, one Saturday morning, I got a phone call and we detected that people were trying to spread sensational messages through — it was Facebook Messenger in this case — to each side of the conflict, basically telling the Muslims, “Hey, there’s about to be an uprising of the Buddhists, so make sure that you are armed and go to this place.” And then the same thing on the other side."

You are completely wrong. I have lived my entire life in Delhi and I can tell you that there is rampant caste discrimination in urban India. I can cite many anecdotes but usually the denial of discrimination, which your comment does, is in itself an indicator of bias.

The Foreign office claims to have expelled “undisclosed spies” and not regular diplomats.

It's the velocity that makes things tricky. Imagine trying to hit a bullet with a bullet, you may know where it's being fired from and where it's headed, how fast it's going, the wind speed all other variables but hitting it would still be an impossible task.

One way to improve missile defense accuracy would be to use a small nuclear warhead but that's impractical when defending populated areas and anyway your adversary can make new missiles more quickly an cheaply than you can make nuclear bombs.

Modern missiles make things more complicated by using multiple re-entry vehicles, midflight maneuvering, creating a cloud around the warhead to prevent targetting etc.

Space Junk and bio-contamination are two separate things. Should the car fail to enter orbit and crash onto mars or any other body there's a possibility that it could introduce life where it does not belong.

Most people are migrant laborers, they don't have families in the city or home.

> But, from a game theory perspective, I'm employing my best strategy.

Your best strategy would be to be kind by default and then repeat their response. By being a defensive jerk you remove any incentive for people to be kind to you.

What if Al Capone offers you 200m for 10%?

>So throwing people in metal cages is a good solution here? Cause that's the cost that the US has accepted when violating these controls. And these laws don't exactly have a good result either.

Compared to the Opium Wars where China had to go to war with Britain to prevent civilizational collapse from drug use, yes jailing peddlers of poison seems acceptable.

> I tend to go on the side of freedom, even if it's "free to be dumb"

The issue is not as simple as you characterize it. Should 'freedom to be dumb' include freedom to drive drunk/while texting?

>And both attempt to say that their actions are addictive, therefore we cannot trust their actions, so we have to decide for them.

You seem to think that these controls exist for the protection of the addicts. They don't. They exist to protect the society and economy from a downward spiral caused by widespread drug addiction - which is what will happen if you remove all controls.

'Drone this guy' in an embassy in the middle of London?

This is no mild reorganization but a reorganization to the tune of trillions of dollars. And while I am all for redistribution of wealth, taxing rich people at 91% (or anything over the average rate in developed countries) is a great way to get people to leave for good and lose out on even the 39.5%.

Does this blog have a RSS feed?

Your competition should read the EULA and if they were purchasing it with the intent of reverse engineering it then they should abort that purchase.

You are oversimplifying the situation. Two sufficiently sophisticated parties having more or less balanced bargaining power, as was the case in this situation, should be free to contract according to their will and good/bad judgment.

Of course, if you are a retail consumer who had no bargaining power and agreed to a standard form contract without any legal counsel then different rules should apply to you and in such cases courts will apply the test of unconscionability before enforcing any clause.

I'd upvote this 10-times if I could.

> Who is responsible for covering damages caused by this satellite?

Space Law is a developing and mostly uncodified field of International Law, but it is generally considered very uncontroversial that the nation(s)/cosporation(s) responsible for causing the satellite to go out of control should foot the bill for any cleanup/damages. It could be the entity that made a faulty satellite or the entity that failed to launch it to the proper orbit or even an entity that created the debris that caused another satellite to lose orbit.