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Why do people plot exponential curves on a non-logarithmic scale?

American response: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/world/europe/cornonavirus...

The Guardian (British): "This is the case for Moderna and another Boston company, CureVac, both of which are building Covid-19 vaccines out of messenger RNA." So now it's a Boston company? According to Wikipedia the one in Boston is just a subsidiary.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/15/when-will-a-co...

You mean the report by "Welt am Sonntag"? They say `Der Grund: US-Präsident Donald Trump versucht offenbar [...] das Medikament exklusiv für sein Land zu sichern. Das erfuhr WELT AM SONNTAG aus deutschen Regierungskreisen.`

Translated: US president Donald Trump tried to safeguard the medication exclusively for his country. WELT AM SONNTAG got this information from government sources.

The article says: `Welt am Sonntag quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists’ work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, “but only for the United States.”` as well as `Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: “We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.”`

So the question is: What does `only for the United States` mean exactly?

However: `Germany’s Health Ministry confirmed a report in newspaper Welt am Sonntag, which said President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure the company CureVac to the United States. Contacted by Reuters, a spokeswoman for the German Health Ministry said: “We confirm the report in the Welt am Sonntag.”`

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/15/coronavirus-germany-tries-to...

CureVac press release: https://www.curevac.com/news/curevac-focuses-on-the-developm...

"...rejects allegations about offers for acquisition of the company or its technology."

I think it is reliable. Many German journalists report about that topic, e.g. Tagesschau: https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/corona-impfstoff-deutschlan...

I'm wondering what the Americans think about that and if it will be covered in American media.

Why is it called `Neutralino`? As a supersymmetric partner it's much heavier than the Standard Model particles.

The only thing which makes me not switch from VSCode to Vim is the debugger (specifically Node.js). I haven't found anything in Vim to make debugging pleasent. I hope there will be an easy to use Debug Adapter Protocol frontend impementation for Vim.

Check out Markdown Preview Enhanced https://shd101wyy.github.io/markdown-preview-enhanced/#/

This has support for mermaid, slides etc.

I can't take you seriously anymore.

Try not to be discouraged, it's okay to talk about physics. But try to use the right language for it - mathematics. In online forums, physical ideas or questions are often described in words, which is subject to so much imagination that it can be considered philosophy, but not physics. It's almost pointless to talk without mathematical support. Words are words and have no special meaning. In the example above: A better question would be: Why is classical electrodynamics described by Maxwell's equations? Is there a more fundamental theory behind it? Reason: The 'right-hand rule' is not a rule, not a theorem. It can be derived.

I'm sure physicists already put a lot of effort in trying to derive Schrödinger's equation, the basis of QM, out of a simpler theory. It's not easy and would for sure deserve a nobel price. There is no consortium hindering anyone from persuing this.

>> Supersymmetry doesn't provide a theoretical explanation for any physical observations we can't explain with current models.

Yes it does. It has dark matter candidates. The Standard Model does not have any.

>> But physicists aren't probing QM anymore

Physicists are probing the heck out of every theory. However, QM has proven to be _extremely_ reliable, even some 'Gedankenexperimente' by Einstein trying to make it look wrong turned out to be true ('geisterhafte Spukwirkung').

>> There is a lot to be explored there but academia tells people to avoid it.

I don't think so. I mean just look at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which probes fundamental forces which are... guess what... based on quantum field theory which itself is based on quantum mechanics.

But isn't that exactly what was done, e.g. in supersymmetry? The Standard Model could not explain dark matter etc., so physicists tried to come up with a new theory potentially explaining it. Yes it's based on math, on beautiful math, but isn't it always the case in physics? How did Newton create his laws? By using math. How did Einstein create his theories? By using math. It's math, math, math. So create your math theories, explain nature and then use Occam's razor to find the simplest. Maybe I'm just getting this all wrong but I don't get her point.

Those billions of books probably violate the copyright of other books themselves.

You can always use the 'cluster' module or worker threads.

They could have been more careful when designing the T-shirt: Both Elm and Ember are depicted as 'Em'.

No, please refrain from calling this a 'physics' model. It's just playing with words.

Ironic, the woman responsible for the catastrophe: "...rather than spending the day just listening to keynotes..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Pruxom9-8

Speak about what?

Reminds me of Clonk!

There is also 'Markdown Preview Enhanced' for Atom and VS Code which can render Mermaid.

https://github.com/shd101wyy/markdown-preview-enhanced