Oddly enough, in Australia there are certain scenarios where increasing your pay can make you earn less. The marginal rates work as described, but due to convoluted children's benefits and other concessions, there is a band of income, between low and medium, where you go backwards first.
It affects students and low income parents the most, and is very frustrating.
Ketamine is the most widely used anaesthetic in the the world.
In the developed world for intubation of severe asthmatics, hypotensive trauma victims, and for sedation of children for short procedures.
In the majority world it is widely used as it can be given intramuscularly or intravenously and is the safest to use without cardio-respiratory monitoring.
I agree. My mother (who just got 'an internet' at home) should be able to press 'go' and use a computer, with very little training. Why not? The vast majority of computer users do only very, very simple things on their computer.
2) Same thing on a larger scale for boats - just make the plastic sensitive to direct contact to water.
When the lining of a blood vessel (the endothelium) is intact, blood flows without clotting. When it is damaged, the highly negatively charged extracellular matrix underneath (mostly collagen) is exposed, and this causes a change in the shape of platelets. This makes them bind together and release a whole bunch of chemicals that causes clotting.
We understand a lot about the processes that go on in the body, this skin is an example of how we try to simplify and replicate them to make something useful.
Although it could be a long discussion, I see a theme repeated:
In nature, the interplay that allows a function (blood clotting for example) is decidedly analogue. When a vessel injured, many factors promote healing and clotting, but simultaneously many promote clot breakdown and remodelling (some enzymes do both!). Evolution fiddles with the balance, and gets it close enough to survive, until we have a heart attack or stroke.
In engineering and science, we stick with digital. When we build things, we like to know just how and why they work or fail
I imagine as our technologies get more complex, we may make the frightening/liberating decision to cede complete understanding. ie. Not sure why this A.I./nanotube stucture/ whatever worked better than all the others but we ran 600 trillion simulations and it was okay 99% of the time which is better than my 100% standards compliant banking website so it'll do.
When technology starts to evolve (in the literal sense) things are going to get really interesting.
It's sickening. I mean, they'll track all the sites I visit, build a detailed psychological profile of me, and then.....
...put targeted text advertising down the side of my screen! The horror! Make it stop.
God forbid they'll ever sell my personal information to companies who might try and sell me stuff!!
As for sensitive and personal behaviour? I look at porn. Really weird stuff sometimes. But nothing harmful or illegal, so I don't really care as long as Google doesn't tell my mother.
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Oddly enough, in Australia there are certain scenarios where increasing your pay can make you earn less. The marginal rates work as described, but due to convoluted children's benefits and other concessions, there is a band of income, between low and medium, where you go backwards first. It affects students and low income parents the most, and is very frustrating.
Ketamine is the most widely used anaesthetic in the the world.
In the developed world for intubation of severe asthmatics, hypotensive trauma victims, and for sedation of children for short procedures.
In the majority world it is widely used as it can be given intramuscularly or intravenously and is the safest to use without cardio-respiratory monitoring.
I agree. My mother (who just got 'an internet' at home) should be able to press 'go' and use a computer, with very little training. Why not? The vast majority of computer users do only very, very simple things on their computer.
...are enormous.2) Same thing on a larger scale for boats - just make the plastic sensitive to direct contact to water.
When the lining of a blood vessel (the endothelium) is intact, blood flows without clotting. When it is damaged, the highly negatively charged extracellular matrix underneath (mostly collagen) is exposed, and this causes a change in the shape of platelets. This makes them bind together and release a whole bunch of chemicals that causes clotting.
We understand a lot about the processes that go on in the body, this skin is an example of how we try to simplify and replicate them to make something useful.
Although it could be a long discussion, I see a theme repeated:
In nature, the interplay that allows a function (blood clotting for example) is decidedly analogue. When a vessel injured, many factors promote healing and clotting, but simultaneously many promote clot breakdown and remodelling (some enzymes do both!). Evolution fiddles with the balance, and gets it close enough to survive, until we have a heart attack or stroke.
In engineering and science, we stick with digital. When we build things, we like to know just how and why they work or fail
I imagine as our technologies get more complex, we may make the frightening/liberating decision to cede complete understanding. ie. Not sure why this A.I./nanotube stucture/ whatever worked better than all the others but we ran 600 trillion simulations and it was okay 99% of the time which is better than my 100% standards compliant banking website so it'll do.
When technology starts to evolve (in the literal sense) things are going to get really interesting.
It's sickening. I mean, they'll track all the sites I visit, build a detailed psychological profile of me, and then.....
...put targeted text advertising down the side of my screen! The horror! Make it stop.
God forbid they'll ever sell my personal information to companies who might try and sell me stuff!!
As for sensitive and personal behaviour? I look at porn. Really weird stuff sometimes. But nothing harmful or illegal, so I don't really care as long as Google doesn't tell my mother.