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Why?
As far as I understand, the copyright owner has control of all copying, regardless of whether it is done internally or externally. Distributing it externally would be a more serious vilation, though.
No purpose except for actually knowing whether it actually reduces severity.
> What we can observe is that given matched populations the unvaccinated die at a considerably higher rate than the vaccinated. Beware of some bogus "studies" to the opposite--which didn't use matched populations. Those at higher risk are more likely to be vaccinated and a vaccinated high risk individual can easily still be more likely to die than an unvaccinated low risk individual.
The sad reality is that you can't do matched population without a randomized controlled trial. You can't control for confounders you don't understand.
A recent hillarious example is the well-publicized paper that showed a drop of over 90% in Covid-related mortality after the first booster. Other researchers managed to obtain the data and it turned out there was also a similar drop in non Covid related morality. This resulted in the following correspondece, which is well worth reading:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683
A choice quote from the authors of the original paper:
> During the B.1.617.2 (delta) wave in the United States, similar associations were observed between the use of mRNA vaccines and lower mortality not related to Covid-191 and mortality from any cause.
They mean that many of the studies showing a drop in Covid mortality after the mRNA vaccines, also showed a similar drops in non-Covid related mortality. In other words, the vaccinated population were healthier at the outset and the drop was bogus.
You need a proper clinical trial here to make this claim, as the observational data is ridiculously confounded.
With a large enough lithium battery, a charger can easily take you part of the way there.
That's called preventing Covid. Covid is the disease, not simply an infection.
The problem is that the vast majority of people who got the vaccine did in fact notice very well they've had Covid.
> That's what they got against Covid/Wuhan and the world actually did achieve herd immunity--against Covid/Wuhan. (The Wuhan strain has been extinct for some time.)
The Wuhan strain wasn't that relevant even before the vaccines were widely available.
> Unfortunately, it turned out to mutate quite rapidly (like the flu) and soon the battles weren't always a rout.
Which was predicted and expected all along.
> It still reduces severity, though, and thus is still used.
Only if you take really awful studies seriously.
Nobody bothered to test this hypothesis in a proper trial.
The problem was that almost everyone who got the vaccine also caught the disease.
Why haven't Eric Schmidt or Steve Jobs spent a single day in jail or become felons? The DOJ didn't even try.
This is a criminal matter. It should not be too hard to prove criminal intent :
> A few months later, Schmidt instructed a fellow exec not to discuss the no-call list other than “verbally,” he wrote in an email, “since I don’t want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later?”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/02/google-apple-cl...
> SECTION 1. Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on con-viction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
As a foreigner that observed a lot of other foreigners speaking English: it is not an easy language to master.
English has more than enough of ways to easily embarrass yourself without the need for arbitrary noun gendering.
It tells us nothing about reality.
Not only the general architecture, but all the natural history theme that applies to all the Gothic design elements. Animals replacing Gargoyles, etc.
A beautiful building.
Better fake than the the latest fad in architecture.
At least fake gothic could never have resulted in brutalist buildings.
That's not fraud. Not even the most gullible reviewer believes a word of it.
Leave it to anthropologists of science to describe the ritualistic aspects of writing abstracts.
The behavior of the tachometer needle was dictated by the marketing department.
A BMW engine accelerates smoothly and confidently. The tachometer needle never shakes, it rises smoothly and confidently.
As you say, of course there's an association, it is harder for sick people to climb stairs. We expect disease and stair climbing to be inversely correllated.
The press release is as bad as saying that carrying umbrellas can increase rainfall.
> Move your vehicle out of traffic if no one is hurt. Then call 911.
They did neither.
Looks like they haven't increased the number of operators enough.
> They're also overstaffed to deal with surges
Are they? How are they going to handle the next bay area earthquake? Will they have enough operators for that, or are they going to block first responders all over the city?
Fortunately, this is a moot point, because it is doubtful whether they are going to survive.
> I recommend you go read the (ex) CEO's response to these claims. As the number of cars on the road goes up, the number of employees required to deal with surges increases more slowly. At some point the ratio increases from 1:20, which is where it's already at.
Nice theory. Note that the number of remote operators shocked everyone that was following Cruise. They were constantly asked about number of cars per operator, what exactly the duties of a remote operators were, etc. They always avoided these quetions, and for a good reason. It turns out this was far worse than anyone outside Cruise could have imagined.
And they need all those people because their software cannot reliably handle it itself.
Otherwise they would not used so many people.
> A human driver can easily get away with the latter, and often do. A self-driving car can't, because people hold them to higher standards.
LOL. They've been blocking streets all over the place.
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/cruise-robotaxis-blocked-t...
From the leaks it is clear that safety was never the top priority at Cruise.
Few people were surprised that Cruise car seriously injured a pedestrian by unnecessarily dragging her screaming for 20' in a completely unnecessary maneuver.
I'll stand by my opinion that Cruise is not long for this world.
That's a utterly ridiculous statistic. If you need a human to monitor to prevent a bad result, it doesn't matter how often the human has to intervene.
For example: With Tesla Autopilot, the driver doesn't have to do anything the vast majority of the time. Still, your life expectancy will be measured in days if you don't monitor it.
Even if the vehicle makes completely random decisions when faced with a binary code, you could still say that 50% of the support events don't result in the remote operator doing anything.
And then we had all the other leaks.
That they couldn't reliably distinguish children from adults, making them (even by their overly optimistic models) more dangerous to children than humans - which is why they started operating mostly at night, when there are few children.
And then it was reported they had 1.5 employees per car in operations, requiring support every 2-5 miles. Very surprising given that they've reported a disengagement every 95,000 miles last year.
Cruise was a company that could not withstand transparency.
Who will be willing to spend a billion or two every year with no end in sight?