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>A second important aspect is that if someone becomes infected with SARS-CoV-2, they may pass the virus to other people, including those who may be more vulnerable to severe disease, so that's another reason that's rooted in social responsibility -- vaccination is the more ethical choice, in our view.

Stopped reading there. Someone vaccinated still continue to spread the virus just as the not vaccinated when infected (Yes, the vaccine does not prevent the infection). This is FUD to me (again). Show me a study where someone that has good levels of vitamin d, zinc and magnesium is more at a risk than someone that was vaccinated. I will continue to bet on those than on vaccines, specially after the same interview says this when asked if we should worry that the mRNA from the vaccines can be found in lymph nodes up to 8 weeks after vaccination:

> Lymph nodes contain specialized cells that capture foreign proteins, including vaccine components, and display them for a period of time to the B cells that make antibodies. We suspect that these cells may be retaining the vaccine mRNA in addition to the viral spike protein.We don't have evidence that this is a cause for concern, especially given the very low rates of adverse events in people receiving these vaccines.

Yeah, we have a suspicion of why that is and we do not have evidence that this is a cause for concern, so it should be ok!

30 minutes of aerobic exercise for 1 hour of mental work is what was assessed. Does it have the same benefits if we have 8 hours of mental work instead?

I guess it was so hot, that the database melted.

How much did you pay for that 10'' ereader? I would love to have one as well but the prices are absolutely inflationated.

So when you need to do a hotfix, how do you know which commit to branch from if you do not tag the releases that were deployed to production?

To me the only additional complication of gitflow to trunk-based development is the existence of the main branch, because you also create a release branch when you want to make a release. Getting rid off the main branch is usually through tagging, but as I mentioned is not easy to automate the tagging when you do not have an additional branch to use in your pipeline.

>If we need to hotfix just need to go to the most recent release tag/branch and ship a fix based off that point, no merging back between branches

Thanks for your sharing. Just out of curiosity, how do you tag the release that is in production? Is it automatically? I don't see how you can automate this step when you merge everything only to master.

The process we follow is actually very similar but having the master/develop branches we can automate things more easily, like if a commit is applied to master we know it needs to be tagged as it should come from a release branch, if a commit lands on develop we create an alpha release, if a commit lands to a rc branch a production release is submitted to testflight/playstore beta track for final tests before publishing. We automate all this with a jenkins pipeline. I am curious to see how this is done in a trunk based branching model. Care to share?

I think GitFlow is helpful for mobile apps development. We cannot get into production every time we want, we are at mercy of app store review process. Also, if there is a bug in production it is very difficult to get a fix for all users once a version is deployed. I wonder if anyone uses successfully Trunk-based development for mobile apps development and if you could share your experience against GitFlow (pros and cons)

Really? Care to elaborate how demanding are these jobs in terms of productivity, hard skills, etc?

You spilt coffee on purpose for an upgrade? :)

Exactly!

I know :D But, I am only get annoyed when the questions are recurring. I think there should be more effort from the developer to learn by himself if he does not get it from us explaining 100 times, then.

Just now, one of the junior develops contacted me about a problem trying to start an application we are developing. I asked: "Did you follow the instructions in README.md file?". He said: "Yes". Then when I asked for him to show me the error, I could see he clearly had not made one of the steps in README to start the app. Just to confirm I asked if he had done it and he said: "No, maybe this is why I am getting this error then".

I need a punch bag urgently...

That is what I am trying unsuccessfully to do. I made a sugestion the other day and did not write the code. He understood the idea but implemented poorly. When I asked why did he implement it that way, he said "it was your suggestion". I tried very very hard to not explode here...

I need a punch bag

Unfortunately, it is not only me that has these problems. But I agree that I am not the best teacher in the world. However, I do believe that they are not trying very much and keep calling me or stopping the team with meetings for small problems. I get it when you are new to the company, but for god's sakes when you have 2 years+ and you still keep asking trivial questions, there is some other problem here.

Indeed, I keep being a jerk to junior developers that constantly comes to me with the same questions after I explained to them 10000 times and they say "Yeaah, I got it now". It is so hard to avoid being a jerk. What should I do?

I am not suggesting the virus is safer, like I said nobody knows. What I do know, is that I can work from home for now and I can use a mask when going out and have proper hygiene to avoid catching the virus. Also, if people vaccinated do not spread the virus as some people here suggest, then I should be okay, as most of the people here is vaccinated. I do not believe that, I am just pointing out a flaw in this logic that I must take the vaccine.

Another thing people are forgetting is that you will have to take additional vaccine shots after a few months as its protection will wane, like Israel is doing. Will be interesting to see people getting multiple doses of something they do not know its long-term effects.

> how many vaccine deaths occurred among people with 3/4 comorbidities?

It is not 0 as far as I know.

At the time, there was no guidelines to use the mask. Actually, people still thought that masks would be worse than not using at the time. This was at the beginning of the pandemic.

This has to be an emotional decision as well, I am not a doctor, I have to follow my gut before there is data to analyze.

Has the flu been fatal to people without comorbidities?

How many of those 700k deaths are from people with 3 or 4 comorbities?

If you remove that from the equation, it would give a lot lower number I am sure. Now compare this with the flu. Would these people with comorbities die if they catch the flu? Do you absolutely know they wouldn't?

If you have comorbidities, by all means, take the shot. If you do not have comorbidities and want to take the shot as well, fine it is your body, you can do whatever you want with it that does not put me in danger. I, for instance, want to take the shot only when I know for sure it won't affect me. After all, the city where I live was one of the firsts that got Covid cases and it got so bad that the city was in complete lockdown and at the time there was no guidance for masks usage. So, I went to supermarkets, pharmacies, whatever at that time with no mask and if I had to bet, I would bet that I already got covid and was asymptomatic.

Sure it does not, but it does not say that it was not from the vaccine as well.

I am also very distrustful of our government influence in investigations after covid vaccines. The government wants the vaccine to work so that it can go back to normality and not have to worry about the impending financial crisis that would come faster if there was no vaccine.

How do I know that other people that died after getting the vaccine were not from a side effect of it? How can I be sure that these numbers are 100% correct? How can I be sure that all those covid deaths are really from covid and not something else unrelated to it? I am not saying that the vaccines are responsible for 20, 30% of the deaths or something like that, but there is the incentive from the government to not provide the real picture of these numbers (if they are not ridiculous numbers of course).

As in tech, be very distrustful of everything version 1.0. It always has some bugs to iron out ;)

That was only to make a point that it was a vaccine that was developed very fast and had some (nasty) side-effects and that we should be careful not to rush things out. But rest assured that the second example I gave about the woman who died, died after taking the Pfizer vaccine.

Both of these scenarios are possible (among others, obviously):

- I take the vaccine and either die or have a side-effect for life because of some unknown related to my body. - I contract the virus and have no symptoms at all.

Nobody knows which one will happen to each individual. That woman that took the vaccine and died one day later? We will never know if she was better off without taking the vaccine and having the virus instead. Our body is too complex to predict that right now.

I find it particularly amusing that people that question the vaccines safety are being treated as idiots that know nothing about science. Like, never the scientists were wrong before or the big pharma/government never had their own interests in their mind. I guess it is easier to attack us than to have a rational conversation.

> Although vaccinated people can be infected and even spread the virus, the disease is usually mild, amount of infectious virus and the time they are infectious is much smaller.

I confess I haven't watched that video yet, but I believe there are not any studies that claim that "amount of infectious virus and the time they are infectious is much smaller". But I will watch it later and see if something new came up. I claim this because not long ago, our prime minister was infected after being fully vaccinated and had to be at home for 10 days before coming back to work.

Like I said, I am healthy and can work from home, so I have the luxury of waiting a little while to make my decision. After all, I am only affecting myself with this decision. A lot of people die from smoking/drinking alcohol as well, should we prevent them from getting it?

Not at all. Here is the news of a woman who died after getting the Pfizer's vaccine: (In Portuguese) https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/estadao-verifica/gover...

The news say that it was unrelated to the vaccine and it was a heart attack. However, I do not believe in coincidences and am very skeptical that the vaccine has not had some effect on this. Note that she died 1 day after getting the vaccine.

Saying that lobotomy was good for mentally-ill people seems not very good science to me. Some people agree that he should be de-Nobelized (which I agree): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2004/aug/02/highereduc...

Disclaimer: I am portuguese.

> What I fail to understand is how you seem to think that you can can assess the risks associated with contracting the virus better than the risks associated with getting the vaccine.

As I said, I cannot. Actually, nobody can. What I do know is:

- A vast majority of who gets the virus does not die or get any effects. - A lot of people who die of Covid-19 has a comorbidity factor of 4 (Which means suffers from 4 comorbidities). - I am 40 years old and no other comorbidities than a very light asthma. I eat well and try to do some exercise (but not as much as I would like, for sure). - There are no studies of long-term effects of getting the vaccines or getting the virus. - Anyone who took the vaccine can be infected and spread the virus just as someone who is not vaccinated. - Things that are made under political/financial pressure rarely get right the first time.

So, with this data, for me it is logical for people to wait if they can. If they have comorbidities or are old, then it is another story.

As I said in another comment, Egas Moniz won the Nobel prize in medicine for the lobotomy procedure for mentally-ill people!!

>On the other, mRNA research goes back to the 80's, and mRNA vaccine research goes back twenty years; these facts are often overlooked by the "it was developed too fast" crowds.

I am on that camp, that it was developed too fast and I do not think people should be mistreated because they think that. After all, there has been some adverse effects for some of the people who took it (like the auto-immune disease for the Janssen vaccine or thrombosis that caused some deaths in women who were taking the pill at the same time). I am not against vaccines in general, I am just worried that, as there is clearly an economic interest in rushing things up, that some bugs may still be on these vaccines that will need to be fixed. We have no idea of the long-term effects these vaccines have, unless someone has invented a time-machine and gone to the future. When concrete, well-made studies have been made that these vaccines are safe long-term and effective, I do not see why should someone not take it. Until then, I will wait at the comfort of my home.

After all, even if I took the vaccine, I would also continue to spread the virus just as someone who did not take it.

Another point is: How deadly is this vaccine to someone who is healthy? Is that value so big that we should rush to take not fully tested vaccines? I would get that criticism if there was a rate of 20, 30% of guaranteed death to someone who contracted the virus. At these current values? I think I will take my chances.

What a utter lie Tim Cook said. Apple only sees money, do not try to make this about the user. I would love to have Ricky Gervais in the court replying to Tim, just like he did on the Golden Globes :D