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This happened to me once, and it ended up taking about 6 weeks before they back got to me. It was a similar “just wait” response the whole time until then.

It turned out to be a very simple change they wanted, but because of the nature of the change I think it’s something they needed to consult their legal team for.

So if they are not giving you any info, but you are able to make an educated guess about what change they might want, you can reject the binary and re-submit. Otherwise you probably will just have to wait.


No, there were plenty of cases in the control group, it's just that there were zero cases in the experimental group. So they know it's very effective, but they were unable to measure the breakthrough infection rate.


How many cases in the control group are we talking about when there were only about 1,100 kids in it?

Also, why is it believed that the vaccine is "very effective" against breakthrough infection in children when that is not the case for other age groups, where the story is "doesn't prevent infection but it works against severe illness"?


18 cases. I'm not sure I understand your point about breakthrough infections in other groups; do you mean that a significant percentage of vaccinated individuals are getting infected, compared to unvaccinated individuals?


Where do you get this data from? It's not in the press release.

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...


Enough vaccinated individuals are being infected for the CDC to conclude in the Provincetown study that "the vaccinated may spread the Delta variant as easily as the unvaccinated." Any time a breakthrough case is reported now you can consistently find statements from public health officials saying "the vaccines don't necessarily keep you from getting sick but they are still effective against hospitalization and death." Given that they don't do routine testing of trial subjects, we can't really even conclude anything from "18 cases in the control group and none in the experimental" except that the vaccines are suppressing symptoms of illness.

Second the other child comment's request for a source on "18 cases," the only thing I can find in the Pfizer press release and major media sources on this is statements about antibody levels.


Nit: Neither the OA, nor the link I provided contain the string '18'. Would you please be so kind and post the link where you get the data from?


At current difficulty, 2 hashes/second gives about 614 trillion years to find one block. Not quite the heat death of the universe, but wikipedia says all stars in the universe will have exhausted their fuel.


At my current electric rate that would cost me $912,997,246,800,000 in electricity to find a hash.


And $47,261,000,000,000,000 in electricity to watch the stream that long.


A bitcoin would easily be worth that by then


huh. I have 1.61 hashes/second, and I only came to 535 trillion years. Maybe the difficulty changed since I did my math.


I'm sure to a philanthropist it matters. How much would it cost to eradicate malaria? $100B?


Are all billionaires philanthropists?


I guess I misinterpreted your question as, "What's the use of all that money?" Philanthropy is one use. There are many others.


We all have different tastes, I guess. Humarsúpa, kjötsúpa, and plokkfiskur are some of the most delicious things I've ever tasted.


To understand what is going on here, note that List(()).toSet() returns true.

The "apply" method in Set introduces tricky issues for little benefit. It should have just been left as "contains".


Actually, in popular music I'd expect I6/4 not to resolve normally to V in a lot of cases, since that's a cadence that sounds characteristically old. I'd expect to a lot of I6/4 straight back to tonic (alternating bass line) or deceptively to vi.


Apple already rejects apps that switch out to mobile safari for payments.


If your name comes from eta reduction, shouldn't it be "H Reduce", not "N Reduce"?


It's true. We messed up the capitalization

η-reduce is the correct name. Ah well, N Reduce looks a bit nicer so we went with it :)


You should change your logo to η , otherwise you're going to be getting this question over and over. At least the hint in the logo may forestall some of it, and if not you can point people to it and give them a little test.


I don't think it will matter. Google misspelled googol. Flickr misspelled flicker (that one was probably on purpose though). If N Reduce hits it big, no one will care about that and they will recognize it as a company that works.

Edit: I just noticed Chrome doesn't have googol in it's spell checker dictionary. I wonder if that is intentional.


FJFJFJFJ takes "centuries"? Probably needs a little more tweaking.


It certainly needs more tweaking. FJ, FJFJ, etc isn't in any of the 10k passwords people commonly use, isn't a sequence, isn't a single repeated character, etc, so zxcvbn recognizes it as bruteforce.

A fun extension would be to recognize repeated chunks in addition to single characters.


One thing would be to try to measure entropy in a different way, e.g. run gzip on it. Right now FJFJFJFJ has the same entropy as FJGJFJGJ.


That's a great idea. More generally, whatever the approach, I agree zxcvbn would be better with a more conservative rating for non-pattern-matched regions.


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