I first saw this during Occupy Wallstreet (a protest I disagree with). Those on the right called is "astroturf", pointing to all the organizes behind it. Yet, this got things backwards. "Organizers" were those who hijacked the popular movement, not those who created it.
Likewise, the Tea Party was a lot of sincere people with real concerns, hijacked on one side by professional politicians, and infected by fringe loonies on the other side.
To imagine that people don't have legitimate grievances in a country that stifles dissent is absurd. Yes, outsiders (like the United States, Voice of America, etc.) support dissenters, but that doesn't mean their dissent is illegitimate.
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God I hate Twitter's censorship. Yes, the following tweet is stupid, but at the same time, it's completely accurate and not at all "misleading". It's Twitter's annotation that is misleading.
The original tweet doesn't even question whether the vaccine is "safe".
It does claim "cells from abortions" were used, and that's essentially true.
Pfizer and Moderna used the HEK 293 cell line during testing (but not creation or production of the vaccine).
J&J uses the PER.C6 cell line for production. AstraZeneca uses the HEK 293 for production.
Every company has internal political fights. Whenever something bad happens, some will claim victory for their side, that they should've been listened to.
The specific problem was OWASP Top 10 on their HTTP-based product. These weren't mentioned in the Bloomberg, instead they mentioned other security weaknesses unrelated to the hack.
Every company "focuses on sales". Every company has to make tradeoffs and take risks. Every organization has people claiming the risks are too high. Just because you always find them after the accident doesn't mean they were right.
Saying the vaccine is "experimental" is like saying evolution is "just a theory", technically true, but misleading.
Everything scientific is "just a theory", including all the theories that tell us how airplanes fly or that make computers work. Gravity is "just a theory".
Every medical treatment is "experimental" in some fashion, as doctors never know for certain what will happen.
After 8 months and over 3 billion doses with medical professionals focused on it, we have better understanding of these new vaccines than most old ones.
This is what my Starlink map looks like. The "dish" (not a dish but a phased-array) points north. At this precise moment, there's 3 satellites theoretically in view. In practice, because a hill north of me, only the one to the left may actually be usuable.
Each satellite is only visible for a few minutes before they disappear over the horizon. They are traveling at 550km above the earthy at 27,000 kmph. Here's an update picture between these two tweets.
I've been doing Facetime calls over the service. The handoff between satellites is pretty seamless. I see the occasional fraction-section hiccup -- but that's normal for wired connections due to brief congestion.
Starlink (Elon Musk's satellite Internet) is amazing and will change the world. You might miss this because of the many pundits defending the status-quo/conventional-wisdom, like this article. theverge.com/22435030/starl…
The first markets are rural Internet in rich countries, i.e. those who can pay for it. My major criticism is that @elonmusk is charging way to little for it. ($500 for the dish and $100/month?? is he insane? people will pay far more for it).
.@elonmusk calls the beta "better than nothing". He's wrong. It's better than Hughe's satellite Internet, as my sister explains after the experiencing the first 6-minute outage: