There is one thing I don't understand from the article. What is that he is so afraid of?that the website becomes more standarized and developers don't need to make a website for 5 different browsers? Or that because of that users will have less problems? Is that such a big deal to make most of the browsers dependent on chromium? Isn't chromium open source and tomorrow anyone could create a better browser? I use Vivaldi, can't be happier.... Some people seem to be worry about a lot of stuff
As someone who lived through the previous browser monopoly (MSIE), let me assure you that giving control over the entire web to one company is bad for everyone. Google didn't make Chrome out of the goodness of their hearts.
"Chromium would likely die if Google abandoned it."
I believe that is highly unlikely. At root the Blink engine is actively supported by several big tech heavyweights. Microsoft Edge is based on it. A rarely mentioned but important derivative browser is Silk (Fire tablets etc.) that Amazon develops. Then there are a bunch of smaller fish with Brave leading that pack.
I think the engine would survive just fine without Google. There was a time when you're view held, but that time has past.
I still don't understand how people don't get it. I don't think is worth the risk for old people either (it's my opinion guys, please don't bury me). But for children? They suffer way more with influenza and they don't get shots... don't you really understand that? Covid has Flu like symptoms, but at the beggining and maybe still, many covid patients were dying from something else but gave positive in a PCR... C'mon.. we can do better
> I still don't understand how people don't get it.
I've come to believe that it's all political and ideological at this point. There is indeed a contingent of crazy people who don't think COVID is real, believe in wild conspiracy theories about COVID, oppose any preventative measure (be it masking, social distancing or vaccination), etc.
And then there is another, larger contingent of people who believe that if they acknowledge any limitations of the vaccines, the minimal utility of rushing to vaccinate children, etc., they are letting the crazies win.
So now we're stuck in a Twilight Zone where the vaccinated have to be protected from the unvaccinated, vaccinating the group least likely to be affected by COVID is promoted as the latest key to ending the pandemic, "natural immunity" has gone from being accepted as basic science to treated like pseudoscience, and everybody who is vaccinated will probably be pressured to boost every 6 months no matter how much protection they continue to be told they have against hospitalization and death.
It is working. Sure infections are going up but a lot less people are dying or have to go to the hospital[1]. In Switzerland you can also very clearly see the Kantons with the lowest Vaccination rates have the highest new infections now.
A polio vaccine means that I won't get polio. A rubella vaccine means I won't get rubella. A Covid vaccine means that I'm only 10-40% as likely to get Covid. (Chime in with more accurate numbers if you have them.) And it means that I'm less likely to get a severe case.
That's not nothing. It's significant, both to me as an individual, and for society-wide epidemiological reasons. But it's not the same as the other vaccines. "One of these is not like the others."
And, yeah, I might get a one-in-a-million breakthrough case for polio or rubella. One of these things still isn't like the others.
So: The Covid vaccine works, but it doesn't work - not in the same way that other vaccines do. (In the same way, the flu vaccine works, but doesn't work.)
Where Covid vaccination could work (remains to be seen) is if, combined with other mitigation measures, it brings the effective reproduction rate down low enough and for long enough to eradicate the virus. Problem is, the long tail can last for years, and every time the goal has been within grasp, people would see the falling numbers and assume that meant it was already over. Vaccination makes that less of a problem.
Polio and MMR vaccines aren't 99.9999% effective, either. More like 80-99%. A breakthrough is extremely unlikely because you're not likely to be exposed to those viruses at all anymore. But it took decades to reach this point.
Resource based economy or this problem will never fade, we are just like chickens running around. If you have legacy code, you dont just patch it up to stop being inneficient, you either update the code to a new robust structure o create a new one. Our socio-economic system is legacy code, very old one, we either update it to a new structure or create a new one, and it seems a resorce based economy structure would be appropiate for the problems us humans have. In my opinion
Since free will doesnt exist, you can check that out. Anything that I make anytime of my day, like a thought, will unstoppably affect you all... That's why education is tremendously important, because you have to anckowledge that we either cooperate or kill each other. So this is so stupid to start with, that I won't try to make a point further that making people realize, how fucked up we are
They guy who invented it, or discovered it, won a nobel prize! I don't think they will be giving a nobel prize to the guy that created the shitty vaccine...
Indeed, there are some studies coming out pointing out that the hunger mechanism may be more related to a minimum-protein intake than we preoviously thought. Which means, you may stay hungry as long as a minimum protein intake is satisfied. I don't think there is one way out of the problem, but this seems to be a good one also
Yeah, you obese, diabetics, alcoholics, smokers, all of them cost more life to society and money, that those of Covid, go and check whats the first cause, second and third in mortality, it is related to lifestyle, and if you have a good/healthy lifestyle, chances you get severe covid are reduced to almost 0!!!! you are the problem, no the people like me, you just don't realize how most of the unhealthy people, who need the jab, medicines, doctors, etc are the ones forcing the healthy or whoever it is who doesn't want to take it. It is like in a rainy day, you expecting me to wear an umbrella because then yours wouldn't work. You should get another kind of umbrella then, or get 5 umbrella booster each year, so you dont get wet
