matzab

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by matzab 2y ago
There are no family ties. These are two completely different companies. Axel Springer is the company that bought Politico (and produces rags like Bild in Germany). Springer Nature is majority owned by Holtzbrinck, a competitor to Axel Sprin
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by matzab 2y ago
> then it is only the selfish segment of society that is being protected But wouldn't that also protect the unselfish?
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by matzab 3y ago
It looks like they didn't scroll past the embedded video, so they didn't even get to the table of contents . >"HN, you can do better" - indeed.
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by matzab 3y ago
That's a brilliant excuse: Lie about the effects of emissions, lobby (and pay) Congress to not do anything about it (or change incentives to maybe use less gas rather than more) and then, when you are getting sued, just argue that the
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by matzab 3y ago
Well, the launch pad survived this one.
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by matzab 4y ago
And it's not even VW pulling out as a whole since Audi and others have similar programs. This whole thread is weird.
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by matzab 4y ago
It's obviously right next to Klaus-von-Bayerische-Motorenwerke-Straße. They didn't even try to seem legit, did they?
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by matzab 5y ago
inflation is a hidden tax on savings That's basically Germany's state motto.
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by matzab 5y ago
Some still do (it's up to the franchisee iirc) but it's not easy to enjoy a beer from one of those McDonald's paper cups.
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by matzab 5y ago
...and Germans.
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by matzab 5y ago
The NYT article they link to in the first paragraph does a good job providing that exact thing: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/15/science/camels-sculptures...
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by matzab 5y ago
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-16/sequoia-... And it's happening again as we speak.
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by matzab 5y ago
Deutschlandfunk alone is worth it imho
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by matzab 5y ago
According to TFA (a few paragraphs above your quotes, even) we won't stay at 1.5 degrees.
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by matzab 5y ago
This is definitely one of those topics where going public can have immediate negative consequences for someone even if it turns out to have been a false positive.
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by matzab 5y ago
The corollary is, that opposition to birth control while ignoring all the other factors you mentioned plays a huge role here - to the detriment of those involved, I would argue.
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by matzab 5y ago
Refraining from honoring someone is not the same as erasing them.
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by matzab 5y ago
This is explicitly aimed at producing energy in cold environments (high altitude, polar regions), so it's less of an issue (and not exactly the point). Anyway, they seem to aim at 12% STH efficiency and provide some examples (assuming
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by matzab 5y ago
Honestly, reading comments like these and articles like the OP has convinced me that we, as humans, will not at all be prepared for the next pandemic. And the one after that. These viruses and their potential recombinations are out there, w
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by matzab 5y ago
As always when there is hype, there will be an equal (or even larger) and opposite counter-hype. Both are rather tiresome.
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by matzab 5y ago
I'd say that also counts as "using it".
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by matzab 5y ago
That's such a mischaracterisation, I don't even know where to start. That Quay-guy obviously searched for "furin" on pubmed, found some papers (that don't even say that - and most definitely not for any coronaviruse
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by matzab 5y ago
You mean higher? This is not about "normal" blood clots. This is about cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, sometimes in conjunction with thrombocytopenia.
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by matzab 5y ago
In Germany incidence of CVST is around .3-.5/100,000 per year. (Higher in women under 50; some undiagnosed cases probably notwithstanding) Vaxzevira (the A-Z vaccine) has been in use for less than 3 months, ~2.2M doses have been given,
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by matzab 6y ago
A significant part of the vaccines the UK has administered were produced in EU factories. Now that the EU tries to do the same as countries like the UK and the US do - not exporting - they are bullies? Right.
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by matzab 6y ago
Why?
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by matzab 6y ago
This was a Comment (dated October 2018), not a paper.
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by matzab 6y ago
This is the full decision (PDF): https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/USA-v-As...
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by matzab 6y ago
They show the helmet design they are referring to in the gallery below (it's from the caption of the helmet picture on the Reuters site). It's obviously not the kind of helmet you'd fight a structural fire with.
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by matzab 6y ago
Probably Stories because that's what anything even remotely "social" has to do right now, apparently.

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