Yep, much like chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Cancer and bad bacteria are more likely to kill or permanently damage you than the treatments but the treatments wont be very kind to your body either.
Yeah but there is a difference in the price between a medical app that people check the boxes on and, say, a full body scanner with full EM and audio capability. When we get AI with diagnostics capability that exceeds doctors, it may still be a while before they don't cost significantly more.
That is unethical. If you didn't have it, then he made your sore throat worse. Also, it leads to more antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He should at least done the quick test which works about 20% of the time then also done the culture that takes a week that works more than half of the time. Of course, in a week you'll feel better and won't even bother with the antibiotics. That's all part of the scam. You get billed for the visit and the tests and usually get nothing out of it. I've had strep throat at least once a year for the past nearly fifty years, and not once have I been able to take antibiotics for it. I know the smell you're talking about. Too bad our medical system can't treat it.
"did the test for it, and handed me a prescription"
Though I know the scam of which you speak I was on antibiotics for something like 6 times in a 6 month period (8 month?) when I was 14. Last time I had antibiotics for a cold (age 17), I was in worse shape after I started taking antibiotics up until a day after they stopped. Haven't gone to the doctor for a cold since. Antibiotics certainly have their place but if the cold is minor enough for the body to handle it, is there actually any benefit to taking them?
That's why YOU tell your MD what YOU want, not what he wants to push. If you have no idea what you want, watch the network news. Take notes. Avoid druggie forums because all they know is what they're on.
And of course if your MD refuses, find another MD. Or my.pharma.ca will do.
I have a COLD and I DEMAND you give me antibiotics!
Because most studies find AI is not mature enough yet. We are getting there but it isn't time to retire humans of any profession in favor of AI programs.
In every generation there is a bell curve of workers. Half of all workers are worse than average and more than half are less than exceptional. As people get older, the less than exceptional workers tend to get replaced by younger and cheaper (not always more talented) workers. Thus those in the older generation that remain are often better workers, or very good a brown nosing.
Computers will soon be capable of programming themselves
Computers will soon be able to translate algorithms into code themselves. I know of many a programmer that can do this just fine but gets very confused when the computer does exactly what they programmed it to do but not what they wanted it to do. It will be a long time before a computer can know what we want it to do, not what we tell it to do, particularly when a significant percentage of coders can't do this.
2 drives, minimal RAID capabilities. I actually bought the skeleton one and picked up a couple drives on black Friday. For me it has been working pretty good for a few years, just have to wait 5-10 minutes for it to come online sometimes. But I primarily use it to share development files between computers, rather than a media server.
Yep, I'll stick with my $150 for a NAS with hard drives that actually powers up and down on demand. I'm not seeing how exactly this is an advantage, maybe unlimited storage but I don't need that.
And yet one of the biggest problems I see with programming is due to people defining programs imprecisely and becoming confused when the computer does something different from what they think they just told it to do.
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious. I'd give examples, mainly from my childhood, but given the sheer excrement you wrote it would fall on deaf ears. That said I have decided about 20 years ago to completely cut off all religious nutjobs from my life, and I have never been happier.
"religions are recipes for life"
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious. I'd give examples, mainly from my childhood, but given the sheer excrement you wrote it would fall on deaf ears. That said I have decided about 20 years ago to completely cut off all religious nutjobs from my life, and I have never been happier.
Usually I've found some of the worst people I've met feel the need to tell me just how religious they are. Some of the best people are deeply religious but you wouldn't know it because they don't advertise it.
And without technology, evolution only cares that humans on average live about long enough to reproduce and raise their children to an age they can fend for themselves. Personally I prefer to do things likely to extend my lifespan a bit longer than nature requires.
In my meaningless opinion, this is because Twitter made the horrible decision to sell stock. A stock company needs a continuous, profitable, growth model to survive. Sure Twitter can try to make money by advertising but I can't see how it could have gotten any bigger than it was before selling stocks. Google expanded but by diversifying as a company, not by somehow making being a search engine more profitable.
Who in their right mind would insure a satellite of that cost for flight on an experimental vehicle? I can't see any insurance company betting on something that high risk.
Insurance, corporate gambling where the house (almost) always wins. I'd self insure my car if it wasn't for regulations and the possibility of getting successfully sued for hitting someone if they run a red light.
That really interests me for artwork. My primary laptop is for development though so it wont ever be replacing that. I just can't do touch screen typing, makes my fingers hurt without some spring action.
And less facebook in my news. I can't remember my facebook password and don't feel like e-mailing them a copy of my drivers license so facebook is pretty well dead to me.
I've never actually found any Facebook posts about me from other people and my page has never had anything posted to it. Probably a couple I don't know about but not that much. There are on the other hand a dozen other people on Facebook with the same name as me. Wonder if Facebook knows the difference between me and them.
Can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say the true decommissioning costs of these solar plants are built into the prices today?
Of new ones? Yes. Modern panels are required to be recyclable. But even of old ones, it's not anywhere near as big a deal as it is to decommission a nuclear plant. It's not the same ballpark. It ain't even the same motherfuckin' sport.
Yes nuke plants have a lot of nasty radioactive materials but solar panels and electronics have a lot of nasty materials of their own that most people ignore.
So how is the recycling currently going of these modern panels? Just as good as projections?
Not a lot. A small amount. A tiny, minuscule amount compared to nuclear waste. Nice FUD though, troll.
Can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say the true decommissioning costs of these solar plants are built into the prices today?
Yes nuke plants have a lot of nasty radioactive materials but solar panels and electronics have a lot of nasty materials of their own that most people ignore.
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Yep, much like chemotherapy or radiation treatments. Cancer and bad bacteria are more likely to kill or permanently damage you than the treatments but the treatments wont be very kind to your body either.
Yeah but there is a difference in the price between a medical app that people check the boxes on and, say, a full body scanner with full EM and audio capability. When we get AI with diagnostics capability that exceeds doctors, it may still be a while before they don't cost significantly more.
Strep throat is caused by a bacteria and a virus can also lead to a bacterial infection if it lasts long enough.
> handed me a prescription for the antibiotics
That is unethical. If you didn't have it, then he made your sore throat worse. Also, it leads to more antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He should at least done the quick test which works about 20% of the time then also done the culture that takes a week that works more than half of the time. Of course, in a week you'll feel better and won't even bother with the antibiotics. That's all part of the scam. You get billed for the visit and the tests and usually get nothing out of it. I've had strep throat at least once a year for the past nearly fifty years, and not once have I been able to take antibiotics for it. I know the smell you're talking about. Too bad our medical system can't treat it.
"did the test for it, and handed me a prescription"
Though I know the scam of which you speak I was on antibiotics for something like 6 times in a 6 month period (8 month?) when I was 14. Last time I had antibiotics for a cold (age 17), I was in worse shape after I started taking antibiotics up until a day after they stopped. Haven't gone to the doctor for a cold since. Antibiotics certainly have their place but if the cold is minor enough for the body to handle it, is there actually any benefit to taking them?
That's why YOU tell your MD what YOU want, not what he wants to push. If you have no idea what you want, watch the network news. Take notes. Avoid druggie forums because all they know is what they're on.
And of course if your MD refuses, find another MD. Or my.pharma.ca will do.
I have a COLD and I DEMAND you give me antibiotics!
I sneezed! I demand antibiotics!
Because most studies find AI is not mature enough yet. We are getting there but it isn't time to retire humans of any profession in favor of AI programs.
In every generation there is a bell curve of workers. Half of all workers are worse than average and more than half are less than exceptional. As people get older, the less than exceptional workers tend to get replaced by younger and cheaper (not always more talented) workers. Thus those in the older generation that remain are often better workers, or very good a brown nosing.
Computers will soon be capable of programming themselves
Computers will soon be able to translate algorithms into code themselves. I know of many a programmer that can do this just fine but gets very confused when the computer does exactly what they programmed it to do but not what they wanted it to do. It will be a long time before a computer can know what we want it to do, not what we tell it to do, particularly when a significant percentage of coders can't do this.
2 drives, minimal RAID capabilities. I actually bought the skeleton one and picked up a couple drives on black Friday. For me it has been working pretty good for a few years, just have to wait 5-10 minutes for it to come online sometimes. But I primarily use it to share development files between computers, rather than a media server.
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Yep, I'll stick with my $150 for a NAS with hard drives that actually powers up and down on demand. I'm not seeing how exactly this is an advantage, maybe unlimited storage but I don't need that.
Everything else is just a way to translate design into a language a compiler can translate into machine language.
Curious to see if this gets voted up or down.
And yet one of the biggest problems I see with programming is due to people defining programs imprecisely and becoming confused when the computer does something different from what they think they just told it to do.
Not to mention a great places to build ships to send further into the solar system or out of the solar system, I would think.
Well stated
"religions are recipes for life"
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious. I'd give examples, mainly from my childhood, but given the sheer excrement you wrote it would fall on deaf ears. That said I have decided about 20 years ago to completely cut off all religious nutjobs from my life, and I have never been happier.
"religions are recipes for life"
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious. I'd give examples, mainly from my childhood, but given the sheer excrement you wrote it would fall on deaf ears. That said I have decided about 20 years ago to completely cut off all religious nutjobs from my life, and I have never been happier.
Usually I've found some of the worst people I've met feel the need to tell me just how religious they are. Some of the best people are deeply religious but you wouldn't know it because they don't advertise it.
And without technology, evolution only cares that humans on average live about long enough to reproduce and raise their children to an age they can fend for themselves. Personally I prefer to do things likely to extend my lifespan a bit longer than nature requires.
In my meaningless opinion, this is because Twitter made the horrible decision to sell stock. A stock company needs a continuous, profitable, growth model to survive. Sure Twitter can try to make money by advertising but I can't see how it could have gotten any bigger than it was before selling stocks. Google expanded but by diversifying as a company, not by somehow making being a search engine more profitable.
Who in their right mind would insure a satellite of that cost for flight on an experimental vehicle? I can't see any insurance company betting on something that high risk.
Insurance, corporate gambling where the house (almost) always wins. I'd self insure my car if it wasn't for regulations and the possibility of getting successfully sued for hitting someone if they run a red light.
Samsung will replace them for $45. It's not $8, but they'll stand behind them better than that Chinese knock-off you got for $8.
Yeah I've tried the Chinese knock-off for $8, did not go well for me. I pay for proper OEM batteries to keep my Galaxy S5 going strong.
That really interests me for artwork. My primary laptop is for development though so it wont ever be replacing that. I just can't do touch screen typing, makes my fingers hurt without some spring action.
And less facebook in my news. I can't remember my facebook password and don't feel like e-mailing them a copy of my drivers license so facebook is pretty well dead to me.
Funny back in the early 90s we'd go to the M-1 simulator and run through that. Then go back to the barracks and play M1 Tank platoon on my Amiga 500.
Jesus, Dude! Too bad we don't fight big wars like WWII anymore. You'd be our Rommel! Or at least this generation's Patton.
These days with our fights against insurgencies, WTF is a tank good for? Cover for infantry?
Taking out the hospital the insurgents are hiding in? ... I'm not sure which part of this statement is sarcastic...
I've never actually found any Facebook posts about me from other people and my page has never had anything posted to it. Probably a couple I don't know about but not that much. There are on the other hand a dozen other people on Facebook with the same name as me. Wonder if Facebook knows the difference between me and them.
Can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say the true decommissioning costs of these solar plants are built into the prices today?
Of new ones? Yes. Modern panels are required to be recyclable. But even of old ones, it's not anywhere near as big a deal as it is to decommission a nuclear plant. It's not the same ballpark. It ain't even the same motherfuckin' sport.
Yes nuke plants have a lot of nasty radioactive materials but solar panels and electronics have a lot of nasty materials of their own that most people ignore.
So how is the recycling currently going of these modern panels? Just as good as projections?
Not a lot. A small amount. A tiny, minuscule amount compared to nuclear waste. Nice FUD though, troll.
Can you honestly put your hand on your heart and say the true decommissioning costs of these solar plants are built into the prices today?
Yes nuke plants have a lot of nasty radioactive materials but solar panels and electronics have a lot of nasty materials of their own that most people ignore.