"Bitcoin is popular in the west and the US specifically because it lacks the cutting edge financial networks rest of the world has."

This only applies to the US, Europe has a instant bank transfer system.

Yeah I was just gonna say, it's been instant for a while now. I think outside of my country it can still take a workday though. But then again it doesn't cost anything, where BTC can cost a few dollars per tx.

I know what you're saying, but the fact they don't do this doesn't make the statement untrue.

Tesla's mission is (from their website): "Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy."

You mean that's the mission the want to sell. I mean, can you tell me of even one company that states their mission is 'increase the share value'? Or even something close to that?

That's probably an artifact of the reporting process. Most hospitals don't report during the weekends.

Indeed - there have been many cases of where when things have been reported is what gets graphed instead of the actual dates of particular statistics.

The lack of consistent context and framing around the human malware has made most discussions of it pretty useless, but easy to skew in a particular direction for those wishing to make political hay out of a trend (on either side - very few have clean hands in this regard).

I also wouldn't be surprised if there seasonality in medical care, like people receive worse care certain days, for some reason.

You're not being genuine here. The grand parent clearly states medical policies, which are not up to the EU to determine.

That the EU has the power to dictate policies in other areas is not relevant.

Yes, but the areas over which the EU has a say are clearly defined by the member states and healthcare isn't one of them.

So the fact that the EU creates policies on other topics isn't relevant to the COVID-19 situation.

It's well established within the EU that healthcare is a handled on a national level, so the EU won't respond to COVID-19 like the US does on a federal level.

The countries within the EU all have responded to COVID-19 in some way or another.

More like the other. In the western states whistleblowers on cases like this are immediately punished and the documents are being put down. While in the more eastern states even some government agencies are independent enough to criticise wrong policies or coverups. The few German whistleblowers were immediately silenced, in Austria there are several, still open in the public. The best are internal documents about the government expert commission, which had to resign, as the chancellor mostly cared about publicity, not so about facts or expertise. I'm sure the same happened in Germany, here a high ranking interior ministry manager complained about media damage control of the culprit politicians, which would essentially cause more deaths than less. Doctors don't dare to speek out to keep their jobs. The government expert board is wholly incompentent coming up with fantasy projections every new week which is immediately proven wrong when the real data is coming out in the next week. The gathered raw data is not public, kept private, only the wrong models and projections are being published daily. There are exact and good models by competing universities, but they are not used. Institutes are playing politics, not science. Government offices are not independent.

You can patent things even if you don't know exactly why it works. However a patent has to enable others to create the thing that is patentend.

That is to say, somebody who is up to date in the field should be able to create the invention using the knowledge from the field plus the details in the patent.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficiency_of_disclosure

Apparently they are already selling them to RyanAir under the name 737-8200 to get rid of the MAX naming

Here in the Netherlands GJ (gigajoule) is used for buildings that use blockheating.