The attack has benefitted both sides in a very cynical way. Netanyahu's reaction has made Israel much more isolated internationally and if any Palestinians make it through all this, they will be even more likely to support a violent and extremist organization like Hamas.
It's a win-win for Netanyahu and Hamas and a huge lose-lose for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Bessere Politik finde ich grundsätzlich unterstützenswert, aber das wird an der Macht der AfD überhaupt nichts ändern. Die werden alles so verdrehen wie es ihnen passt und ihre Unterstützys werden es bereitwillig glauben.
Because AI is unpredictable. Which is not a big issue for art, because you can immediately see any flaws and if you can't, it doesn't matter.
But for actually useful work, you don't want to find out that the AI programmer completely made up a few lines of code that are only causing problems when the airplane is flying with a 32° bank angle on a saturday with a prime number for a date.
You'll never be able to keep these people from talking to each other, but you can quarantine them in their own little circles where they cause as little damage as possible to the outside world.
It's time other advertisers, media outlets and public personalities leave the platform. We should hold them accountable for keeping it afloat.
The whole idea is to make it easier for humans to remember and more difficult to brute force. Long passwords are much harder to brute force than complex passwords with lots of special characters. And they're a lot easier for humans to remember.
There are enough words in any language that it's virtually impossible to guess the correct four words, even if they're in the dictionary.
People living comfortably here in Germany are flocking to extremist parties, because having to wear a mask during a pandemic or minding the rights of other people makes them feel oppressed.
The rise of Hamas was absolutely inevitable given the way people in Gaza were treated. If you're literally fighting for survival and you realize more moderate groups are unable to change anything, you will support extremists out of sheer desparation.
That is just misinformation. First of all, nuclear power never contributed that much anyway. If all nuclear power plants ever built in Germany were running at full load 24/7 for 365 days of the year, they would produce 231 TWh, which is less than 10% of our total energy demand. So there was never that big of a hole to fill in the first place. Especially in the last ten years, when only a handful of power plants were still in service.
In reality, renewables have managed to replace both nuclear power and a large chunk of fossil fuels (source). Last year we had to export enormous amounts of energy to France, because their nuclear plants had proven so unreliable (source). This has admittedly led to an increased use of fossil fuels, which we could have avoided by building more renewables here (or in France).
It depends on whether you mean by weight or by volume.
By weight, hydrogen has an almost unbeatable energy density. It's much higher than methanol or even gasoline.
By volume, hydrogen has a horrible energy density, several orders of magnitude lower than any modern type of battery, for example.
So if you have infinite space, hydrogen is great. But a plane does not have infinite space. So you try to compress the hydrogen or cool it down to increase the energy density. However, this will still come out at much worse than gasoline or jet fuel.
Eh, it's an issue and it may get worse than it is today, but it will never be as big of a deal as cancer.
The nightmare scenario of antibiotics one day becoming useless because all bacteria are resistant to them is just not realistic. First of all, antibiotics aren't new. Many of them weren't invented, they were discovered. Which means they existed in fungi or other bacteria for millions of years and were used to fight unwanted bacteria. Penicillin is named after the Penicillium mold, for example.
Antibiotic resistance is a survival strategy for bacteria that are under a lot of stress from antibiotics. This happens in hospitals, nursing homes or farms where antibiotics are used en masse. In these places, resistant bacteria have a clear advantage over normal ones, so they can quickly replicate without much competition. But as soon as you take away the antibiotics, that advantage disappears and suddenly they have to compete with the normal bacteria again. Plus, maintaining the antibiotic resistance is effort. They have to produce special proteins or change the ones they normally use, which can make them less efficient.
So most likely, antibiotic resistance will continue to be a problem mainly in places where lots of antibiotics are used all the time. As soon as we reduce usage, resistance will go down. There are certain antibiotics that haven't been used in decades due to side effects, such as Colistin, which can now be used to treat multi-drug-resistant bacteria because they haven't been exposed to it for so long. Other antibiotics like quinolones are currently falling out of favor, so they may be the magic bullet of the future.
One more aspect is that antibiotics don't make a lot of money for pharmaceutical companies, because they're usually only taken for days or a few weeks, while other drugs such as heart medication are taken lifelong. That's why there's not a lot of (private) money going into antibiotic research. But if the situation gets bad enough, this may change and it will likely mean that a lot more new antibiotics are developed.
Wir haben in Deutschland viel zu viele kleine Kliniken, die kaum noch ein schweres Krankheitsbild adäquat behandeln können und einen Großteil der Zeit nur damit beschäftigt sind, Patient*innen in andere, geeignete Kliniken zu verlegen.
In jedem Dorf ein kleines Krankenhaus, das ging vielleicht früher mal als die Behandlungsmöglichkeiten sehr überschaubar waren und es Personal in Hülle und Fülle gab. Heute ist das einfach nicht mehr drin. Selbst einen einfachen Herzinfarkt oder Schlaganfall kann man heutzutage nur noch mit spezieller Ausstattung richtig behandeln und der Unterschied für Patient*innen ist enorm.
Das wenige Personal das wir haben, sollten wir in großen und leistungsfähigen Kliniken bündeln, wo es alle wichtigen Fachrichtungen und eine gute Ausstattung gibt. Schon alleine um die permanenten Verlegungen zu reduzieren, die unheimlich viel Zeit kosten und Personal binden, das sich in der Zeit nicht um andere Fälle kümmern kann.
Can you imagine having to teach your kids about these risks, help them to deal with them and prepare them for adulthood?
That would be so much work.