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  1. Re:It's known that diabetes can spread on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    And yet it's absolutely not type 1 diabetes. Type one is an auto-immune disease, end of story. Any other cause of diabetes - even those that require exogenous insulin - are not Type 1.

    From your link:

    What causes type 1 diabetes?

    Type 1 diabetes occurs when your immune system, the body’s system for fighting infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.

    The rest of the paragraph is just speculation that has not been proven - even the paragraph you cite admits it's just speculation. Also, it wouldn't be the virus causing the destruction of the insulin-producing cells directly, but the body's immune system failing to distinguish between an infectious agent and the Islets of Langerhans. Even cow's milk getting into the bloodstream from the gullet in an infant can cause such a reaction, as the antibodies fail to distinguish between the cow protein and the islets.

    And you're wrong when you say "I'll give you a hint: doctors typically give names to disease symptoms not to disease causes.". Doctors call diabetes Type One or Type two based on cause. Type 1 (used to be called Juvenile Diabetes) is inherited, type 2 isn't.

    Same as there are two types of strokes, depending on the cause - ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke, depending on whether a blood vessel gets blocked or blows out. Both end up with the same symptoms (including death), but the treatments are vastly different, same as type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

    You really don't know shit.

  2. Re:It's known that diabetes can spread on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Again, the poster is still full of shit. That was my point. While people who lose the function of their pancreas for other reasons also require exogenous insulin, it has zero to do with type 1 diabetes. Type one is NOT transmitted by a virus. The guy is an idiot, in the same realm as the anti-vaxxers and flat earthers.

  3. Re: Throw them in the trash... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    I have never said that I think you would be someone who would be a desirable visitor or immigrant to Canada. That's the voices in your head.

    And when I sued for sexual discrimination, I demanded an apology in the newspapers and a $100 donation to charity, not "suing people for insane amounts of money for offending" me. Again, that's the voices in your head. Or you think that a $100 to charity is an insane amount of money. Either way you're below pitiful.

    You're such a liar. But then again, everyone already knew that.

  4. Some alternate uses on Red Hat Acquires Data-Cleaning Company Permabit (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    "Data cleaning" - remove all redundant data, so that you only have to bitbleach ONE file.

  5. Re:Not even possible on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's only when politicians discovered that they can get HIV from having penis/vagina sex with female prostitutes that government research funding took off.

    This isn't a public health issue? Check out the rates world-wide.

  6. Re:Not the best summary on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disorder, where the body's immune system attacks the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Has nothing whatsoever to do with what you eat.

  7. Re:It's known that diabetes can spread on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The poster is full of shit. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease. Any form of diabetes caused by pancreatitis (which isn't all that common in people with pancreatitis) is NOT type 1 by definition, since, instead of the immune system destroying the cells that produce insulin, digestive enzymes produced by the pancreas activate while still in the pancreas, damaging it.

  8. Re:Or Sugar on Could Diabetes Spread Like Mad Cow Disease? (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 0

    Well, since they're only talking about type 2 diabetes ... (type one is an autoimmune disorder).

  9. Re: Throw them in the trash... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 1

    Why would ANY Canadian want you to go to Canada? Keep your fuckups within your own borders. Bad enough we're getting 150 of refugees illegally entering from the US every day.

    As for non-anonymous opinions creating hardship, that's a bonus. It filters out the noise, as then only people who are willing to put their money where their mouth is will say anything. You are an excellent example of the torrential flood of shit that comes with anonymous and pseudo-anonymous speech from cowards.

  10. Re:Regenerative braking on Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    PACs and Super PACs handle millions. Lobbyists and candidates both know that. Your election funding laws will continue to be bullshit until you disallow all campaign contributions except those from individual voters.

  11. No, you don't have, in your words, a fucking clue. They're talking about content owners encoding videos, which is what happens when you upload them (once) to a server, not every time you download them. If the videos are encoded by the user before being uploaded, then the server is just a bare-bones file server, doesn't have to do any encoding whatsoever. Saves on both hardware costs and bandwidth to the server receiving the upload. And no, the user isn't just the downloader - do you have ANY idea how much video users upload per second? In 2012 people uploaded 1 hour of video every second, or 1 century's worth every 10 days. It's gone up a LOT since then - latest is 10 hours per second, or a century every day.

  12. Re: Quick! Rewrite it in Rust! on GNOME's Text Editor gedit 'No Longer Maintained', Needs New Developers (gnome.org) · · Score: 1

    And even if it isn't "fixed" by adding even more poorly-thought-out features that nobody will use, who cares? "Good enough" is good enough.

  13. Re:Regenerative braking on Electric Cars Are Not the Answer To Air Pollution, Says Top UK Adviser (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you expect informed opinion from someone after the lobbyists have paid them to express a contrary opinion? Seriously?

  14. Re: Throw them in the trash... on Ask Slashdot: What Can You Do With Old Coaxial Cable? · · Score: 0

    You're a real fuck-up, you know that )I suspect you do). I have no reason to go to Pakistan or India. However, I would have zero problems in Iran, or Cuba.

    As for your "psychological insight", you have none. Unlike you, I don't cherry-pick articles off the web, I actually use medical specialists. Anyone who takes medical advice from you is even more fucked up than you are.

    You really can't accept that someone can be happy changing sex, can you? You're one of those guys who sees me as being a "traitor." Just goes to show how fucked up you are that someone else's happiness is a threat to you.

    As for attention-seeking, you're the one always indulging in trying to get my attention by stalking my posts so you can turn the conversation off-topic because you secretly have a thing for transsexual women that is so obvious it's not funny. Anyone can verify this by checking your posting history, stupid tranny-chaser.

  15. Re:I've heard this before on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And AI.

  16. Re:Hormones are nasty things to screw with... on Why We Can't Have the Male Pill (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The reason that male contraceptives cause depression is easily understood - both sexes need a sufficient quantity of one or the other of the sex steroid hormones - either testosterone or estrogen. This is why drugs such as dutasteride (to treat prostate cancer by dropping endogenous testosterone) come with warnings because they can cause depression and suicidal ideation.

    One option is for the woman to sneak sufficient quantities of estrogen in the man's food (known as medical or chemical castration), same as happened with the fish that changed sex.

    Or they could just follow the plan to neuter Hitler with estrogen

    Agents planned to smuggle doses of estrogen into his food to make him less aggressive and more like his docile younger sister Paula, who worked as a secretary.

    Estrogen was chosen because it was tasteless and would have a slow and subtle effect, meaning it would pass Hitler's food testers unnoticed. The Allied plot to turn Herr Hitler into Her Hitler was just one of a number of wacky ideas cooked up to break the stalemate, according to a new book.

    He said: ‘Research had showed the importance of sex hormones – they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London.

    The Allies hoped to smuggle oestrogen into Hitler’s food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive.’

    Professor Ford, a fellow at Cardiff University and a pioneer of popular science, said the Government gave serious consideration to the plan, and that it was perfectly plausible. British spies were already in place and poised to carry out the plot.

  17. True except for people making and uploading their own videos - which probably the vast majority won't have much of an audience, and why not put the onus on the uploader to encode it (and then upload a much smaller file)?

  18. Re:I don't even want on Facebook Is Working On a Video Chat Device (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. There were videophones that worked on 56k dial-up modem lines. They saw very limited sales because nobody wanted them.

  19. 1. There is still no evidence of life elsewhere - just guesses, and possiblies. No evidence of life itself. In other words, my original statement stands.

    2. Human life will end at some point no matter what. Even if we avoid every doomsday scenario, it's not like we're not still evolving. It's be like the Neanderthals all over again.

  20. Re:Free, assuming your time is worth nothing. on Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV: the Antenna (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You do know that those breaks are good times to go to the bathroom, wash the dishes, make the bed, start a load of laundry, etc.

    Also that a PVR works with it.

  21. Re:H1B indo-chimps get paid less on paper on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    But you have to pay someone to clean up the shit in the parking lot.

    Or just stop hiring people who shit in the parking lot in the first place. Or you can pay them to crap in toilets.

  22. It is when Tech Companies go before Congress claiming they need more H-1B visas and claim H-1B visas don't cost jobs and don't depress wages. Having facts to refute those arguments is handy.

    Congress has never let facts get in the way of listening to lobbyists. When it comes to special interests vs. the good of the public, they know which side their bread is buttered on. Otherwise, everyone would be covered by Medicare already.

  23. Re:time to unlike healthcare from jobs like the re on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    time to unlike healthcare from jobs like the rest of the world

    I think you meant "unlink". It could happen, now that the government was unable to change anything so far. People want certainty. Especially with health care. The majority do NOT trust the government any more with respect to health care - which is why this has a chance to catch on finally

    Bernie Sanders pushes universal health plan in wake of Republican repeal failure

    Bernie Sanders has spent the first months of the new Congress defending Barack Obama’s health reforms as Republicans vowed to repeal them. But after the GOP’s seven-year drive to eliminate the Affordable Care Act collapsed on the Senate floor last week, Sanders is ready to introduce his own solution - government-run universal healthcare for all Americans.

    The Vermont senator will spend the next several weeks leading a campaign to build support for his plan before unveiling the bill next month. On Wednesday, he launched a six-figure digital advertising campaign on Facebook and Google that encourages supporters to become "citizen co-sponsors" of his plan, which he calls "Medicare for All", according to Sanders spokesman Josh Miller-Lewis, a reference to the public healthcare program for older Americans.

    "Bottom line is: if other countries around the world are providing quality care to all their people, we can do the same," Sanders told NPR in an interview on Tuesday.

    Surveys show people want this. And with the total failure of the current regime to get anything done, it will be a delicious irony if Trump's stupidity ultimately results in the US bringing health care supply into the second half of the 20th century.

  24. My dad is not a technical person and he could do their QA.

    Judging from a lot of the crap out there, that would probably be an improvement.

  25. Re:"...they are not pretty." on New Data On H-1B Visas Prove That IT Outsourcers Hire a Lot But Pay Very Little (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine it's the same basic reason I'll have a few beers with my brother via video chat, but almost never talk to him on the phone - a great deal of information is conveyed via nonverbal communication.

    And when you're trying to distinguish between potentially good employees, and good liars, every little bit helps.

    Depends. Are you looking for someone in management or sales or marketing? Then you want both.