Could KISS be applied to the medical sector?
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Could the KISS principle be applied to the medical sector? ("Keep It Simple, Stupid"). For example, how about a simple system without insurance in which everyone pays the doctor or hospital a price that is proportional to their income? would that work? would it be fair? would it create problems?
The Greece debacle is more about a government that increased wages and welfare to a point that the economy could not sustain, but it has nothing to do about health care specifically
Actually, the Greece debacle is not about that either. It is about lenders denying decreasing the interest rates. Lenders are willing to lend money to Greece, but only with a 6.5% interest rate or higher. If Greece truly had a problem, then the lenders wouldn't risk losing their money. You don't lend money to someone who is not going to play his debt.
Furthermore, Greece's deficit is not higher than other countries' debt. In fact, it's similar or lower to the deficit of Italy and UK. The real reason Greece is attacked it's because it is the easiest path to bringing the US capitalistic system to EU. European and US banks that lend money to Greece (Deutche Bank and Goldman Sachs) use Greece as a testbed for doing social changes in favor of the capitalistic system.
For example, did you know that the EU presses Greece to suppress the two extra paychecks each year in the *private* sector? in Greece, we get 14 paychecks each year, although our wages are much less than those in the rest of EU and US. Why do they want to do that in the private sector? the private sector is not funded by their money. It's because they want to lower the cost of labor so as that they can move their private businesses there. I've read in the newspaper that MGM wants to invest 2 billion dollars in building a movie studio in Greece, for example.
In short, the EU and US capitalists want Greece to become a 3rd world country in order to run their businesses there. That's why they are doing the current pressure to Greece, and that's why they are allowing lots of immigrants there from Asia and Africa. It's cheap labor, right in the doorstep of Europe.
Re:Taking care of people is not wrong
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It's a sad thing that you were modded insightful, but I guess your modding reflects the mentality of Americans.
Here is a simple question: if you make taxes optional, then what would you do if 90% of the people choose not to pay taxes?
A very safe way to browse is to do the browsing from inside a virtual machine. A good option is to copy the virtual machine hard disk image each time you start, so next time you start from a clean machine.
This ensures that your computer will not be infected, and that you can run an antivirus in it but not bother with it very much (AVG, for example, is the one I run). You could even risk running your machine without an antivirus.
Almost everyone has a computer in their pockets - it's called a mobile phone. With a simple SMS message, one could easily buy things either online or in a shop. Here is the idea:
1. you go into the shop and decide to buy something. 2. you write an SMS like this: "PP 6937123456 19.99" and send it to a special phone number. 3. the SMS is received by the phone company and forwarded to your bank. 4. the bank receives the SMS, and transfers 19.99 pounds from your account to the account that corresponds to the phone number in the SMS. 5. both you and the shop receive an SMS for confirming the transfer.
If your phone is stolen, you deactivate it with a simple phone call, just like you do now. This prohibits the thieves from doing shopping with your phone.
The technology is already available. Millions of SMS messages are sent to radio and TV shows as we speak. The black markets will get a severe shock from such a thing. Tax evasion will be stopped etc.
(Of course, such a scheme does not include a commission for the politicians like the new ID cards...)
Perhaps their technology is so advanced, they we can't see them. Perhaps they have figured out all the physics mysteries we haven't figured out yet, and those physics allow mechanisms for communication that we cannot comprehend yet. Perhaps aliens were here in the past and left.
There are so many possibilities...ruling out the existence of alien intelligent life because we only have searched for 50 years and found nothing it's shortsighted at best.
When I was in the university, I never kept notes. My effort in the class was 100% on understanding the professor. My co-students kept notes frantically, and some of them were so good that they sold their notes to other students. The result was that I needed to study much less than the final exams than my co-students.
What is the point of taking notes? the material taught in the classroom is available in books and online. No student should keep notes; they all must pay attention to the teacher and participate in the class.
Slashdot ads are not that intrusive. I hardly ever notice them. Unlike other sites that ads are truly annoying.
Some ads on Slashdot, when combined with specific topics, are truly funny. For example, an anti-Microsoft topic with an ad for Microsoft Office or Visual Studio, for example.
Personally, I don't mind if sites close due to lack of profit from advertising. The internet is not a TV. The really interesting things on the internet will be there, ads or no ads.
So the question then becomes: why should every possible code path and input be tested? isn't there a way to verify software without having to go through all code and input paths?
I think everyone agrees that writing documentation is not very interesting. Unfortunately, it's a vital part of software engineering. As I a software engineer myself, I had spent some times in the past trying to write good documentation, but it always ended out of date because writing the actual code is always a priority.
In my opinion, a high-level programming system that allows the programmer to develop a solution without looking at the implementation details is the solution to the problem. The programming system would be used to describe the business logic and the actual functionality of the system. The programming system could then produce a template for the actual implementation in one of the available programming languages. The high level code would be the documentation of the system.
The idea of a browser is a grand fail. What is required is a data/code distribution platform. A platform that:
-handles security transparently, with encryption at all communication paths. -handles (lazy) resource distribution, updating, versioning and caching. -provides a *binary* protocol for managing information. -treats code as data, so as that code can be managed by the system just like data.
Anyone up for this task? an open source project could be created...
But it's the government, or the men at top, to provide the solutions. They are in charge, they have the knowledge and the tools. They are just not willing to fix the problems.
I've searched the web but I can't find any picture of an image rendered with RT Fact. The news are repeated in various news sites, as always, but none of them has a single image of the 3d engine output.
Politicians these days have no ideas on how to solve the enormous problems society has. They can only think of solutions that treat the symptoms and not the cause. The cause for civil unrest is, of course, the economic situation. It is bad, and it will only be worse in the future...and then no music will save us from the urban "terrorism".
I hope that the opposite will happen, i.e. the CPU will go onto the GPU.
Let me explain: code is much smaller in size than data. It makes sense not to move data from memory to the CPU, but move code from CPU to memory! a big step in processing speed will come if each memory chip is also a CPU with a separate buffer for code. Instead of copying data, code will be copied to each memory chip's code cache and then applied over the local data.
This will considerably increase performance, as well as provide the basis for safe concurrency, since the data processed by a memory chip can't be processed by another chip.
Indeed. I always wondered why people don't prefer the simple solutions...for example, why should there be a health care insurance system? if you are ill, visit the nearest doctor, pay, and that's it. If you have an accident, go to the nearest hospital, pay, done. If you have a very expensive disease, and you require an expensive treatment, for example, chemotherapy, get a loan from a special medical bank that lends money with a very low interest rate.
Same goes for taxation. We pay heaps of taxes, and we see no progress in any sector of social life. I am not talking only about America, but for other countries as well. Where does all this money go? a much better system would be to pay directly for the roads, schools, garbage collection, traffic lights, and all other systems and services provided by the state. And if we don't like something because it is corrupt, we stop paying. Voting with our wallet is the best system there is.
An even better approach would be to pay proportionally to profits. For example, if I make 100K$ a year, I should pay more for a visit to the dentist than a person making 50K$ a year.
As for truly poor people, that wouldn't be able to afford the aforementioned services but really need them, the cost should be covered by the rest of the wealthy citizens, or by social banks that loan money with very small interest rates.
It's not the browser that is the reason for the world being online, it's the internet itself, of which the WWW is one application. The real problem is that there is no distributed code and data delivery platform. If such a thing existed, there would be none of the issues with plugins, updating, broken addons, etc.
The idea of a browser is a grand, failed experiment, not only the plugins. Slowly but steadily the browser is turned into a software distribution platform, which is the thing that should have existed first. The document browser is just one application of the software distribution platform.
The only reason you believe the moon landings happened is that the alternative makes you feel nervous. There is nothing in the Apollo program that couldn't be faked in one way or another. It is a matter of faith, just like the global warming or 9-11.
It has nothing to do with "Star Wars being for children only".
If Star Wars was only appreciated by 12 year old kids in '77, it would never have been so successful. The original Star Wars was successful in adults, not only in kids.
Nowadays Star Wars-like films do not appeal to 30 year old adults, because expectations are different. Society has changed. What was acceptable back then it is not acceptable now. It has nothing to do with "SW being for kids".
And that's why successful franchises are being reinvented, as you say. Today's tastes are different than those 33 years go.
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Could the KISS principle be applied to the medical sector? ("Keep It Simple, Stupid"). For example, how about a simple system without insurance in which everyone pays the doctor or hospital a price that is proportional to their income? would that work? would it be fair? would it create problems?
Actually, the Greece debacle is not about that either. It is about lenders denying decreasing the interest rates. Lenders are willing to lend money to Greece, but only with a 6.5% interest rate or higher. If Greece truly had a problem, then the lenders wouldn't risk losing their money. You don't lend money to someone who is not going to play his debt.
Furthermore, Greece's deficit is not higher than other countries' debt. In fact, it's similar or lower to the deficit of Italy and UK. The real reason Greece is attacked it's because it is the easiest path to bringing the US capitalistic system to EU. European and US banks that lend money to Greece (Deutche Bank and Goldman Sachs) use Greece as a testbed for doing social changes in favor of the capitalistic system.
For example, did you know that the EU presses Greece to suppress the two extra paychecks each year in the *private* sector? in Greece, we get 14 paychecks each year, although our wages are much less than those in the rest of EU and US. Why do they want to do that in the private sector? the private sector is not funded by their money. It's because they want to lower the cost of labor so as that they can move their private businesses there. I've read in the newspaper that MGM wants to invest 2 billion dollars in building a movie studio in Greece, for example.
In short, the EU and US capitalists want Greece to become a 3rd world country in order to run their businesses there. That's why they are doing the current pressure to Greece, and that's why they are allowing lots of immigrants there from Asia and Africa. It's cheap labor, right in the doorstep of Europe.
It's a sad thing that you were modded insightful, but I guess your modding reflects the mentality of Americans.
Here is a simple question: if you make taxes optional, then what would you do if 90% of the people choose not to pay taxes?
A very safe way to browse is to do the browsing from inside a virtual machine. A good option is to copy the virtual machine hard disk image each time you start, so next time you start from a clean machine.
This ensures that your computer will not be infected, and that you can run an antivirus in it but not bother with it very much (AVG, for example, is the one I run). You could even risk running your machine without an antivirus.
Almost everyone has a computer in their pockets - it's called a mobile phone. With a simple SMS message, one could easily buy things either online or in a shop. Here is the idea:
1. you go into the shop and decide to buy something.
2. you write an SMS like this: "PP 6937123456 19.99" and send it to a special phone number.
3. the SMS is received by the phone company and forwarded to your bank.
4. the bank receives the SMS, and transfers 19.99 pounds from your account to the account that corresponds to the phone number in the SMS.
5. both you and the shop receive an SMS for confirming the transfer.
If your phone is stolen, you deactivate it with a simple phone call, just like you do now. This prohibits the thieves from doing shopping with your phone.
The technology is already available. Millions of SMS messages are sent to radio and TV shows as we speak. The black markets will get a severe shock from such a thing. Tax evasion will be stopped etc.
(Of course, such a scheme does not include a commission for the politicians like the new ID cards...)
The above quote, although written many eons ago, seems remarkably accurate for the not-so-distant future...
The film and music industry must realize that there is a new distribution model: the online distribution.
Perhaps their technology is so advanced, they we can't see them. Perhaps they have figured out all the physics mysteries we haven't figured out yet, and those physics allow mechanisms for communication that we cannot comprehend yet. Perhaps aliens were here in the past and left.
There are so many possibilities...ruling out the existence of alien intelligent life because we only have searched for 50 years and found nothing it's shortsighted at best.
What about us humans? maybe we are the dramatic evidence we are looking for.
When I was in the university, I never kept notes. My effort in the class was 100% on understanding the professor. My co-students kept notes frantically, and some of them were so good that they sold their notes to other students. The result was that I needed to study much less than the final exams than my co-students.
What is the point of taking notes? the material taught in the classroom is available in books and online. No student should keep notes; they all must pay attention to the teacher and participate in the class.
Slashdot ads are not that intrusive. I hardly ever notice them. Unlike other sites that ads are truly annoying.
Some ads on Slashdot, when combined with specific topics, are truly funny. For example, an anti-Microsoft topic with an ad for Microsoft Office or Visual Studio, for example.
Personally, I don't mind if sites close due to lack of profit from advertising. The internet is not a TV. The really interesting things on the internet will be there, ads or no ads.
So the question then becomes: why should every possible code path and input be tested? isn't there a way to verify software without having to go through all code and input paths?
I think everyone agrees that writing documentation is not very interesting. Unfortunately, it's a vital part of software engineering. As I a software engineer myself, I had spent some times in the past trying to write good documentation, but it always ended out of date because writing the actual code is always a priority.
In my opinion, a high-level programming system that allows the programmer to develop a solution without looking at the implementation details is the solution to the problem. The programming system would be used to describe the business logic and the actual functionality of the system. The programming system could then produce a template for the actual implementation in one of the available programming languages. The high level code would be the documentation of the system.
The idea of a browser is a grand fail. What is required is a data/code distribution platform. A platform that:
-handles security transparently, with encryption at all communication paths.
-handles (lazy) resource distribution, updating, versioning and caching.
-provides a *binary* protocol for managing information.
-treats code as data, so as that code can be managed by the system just like data.
Anyone up for this task? an open source project could be created...
But it's the government, or the men at top, to provide the solutions. They are in charge, they have the knowledge and the tools. They are just not willing to fix the problems.
I've searched the web but I can't find any picture of an image rendered with RT Fact. The news are repeated in various news sites, as always, but none of them has a single image of the 3d engine output.
Politicians these days have no ideas on how to solve the enormous problems society has. They can only think of solutions that treat the symptoms and not the cause. The cause for civil unrest is, of course, the economic situation. It is bad, and it will only be worse in the future...and then no music will save us from the urban "terrorism".
I hope that the opposite will happen, i.e. the CPU will go onto the GPU.
Let me explain: code is much smaller in size than data. It makes sense not to move data from memory to the CPU, but move code from CPU to memory! a big step in processing speed will come if each memory chip is also a CPU with a separate buffer for code. Instead of copying data, code will be copied to each memory chip's code cache and then applied over the local data.
This will considerably increase performance, as well as provide the basis for safe concurrency, since the data processed by a memory chip can't be processed by another chip.
Indeed. I always wondered why people don't prefer the simple solutions...for example, why should there be a health care insurance system? if you are ill, visit the nearest doctor, pay, and that's it. If you have an accident, go to the nearest hospital, pay, done. If you have a very expensive disease, and you require an expensive treatment, for example, chemotherapy, get a loan from a special medical bank that lends money with a very low interest rate.
Same goes for taxation. We pay heaps of taxes, and we see no progress in any sector of social life. I am not talking only about America, but for other countries as well. Where does all this money go? a much better system would be to pay directly for the roads, schools, garbage collection, traffic lights, and all other systems and services provided by the state. And if we don't like something because it is corrupt, we stop paying. Voting with our wallet is the best system there is.
An even better approach would be to pay proportionally to profits. For example, if I make 100K$ a year, I should pay more for a visit to the dentist than a person making 50K$ a year.
As for truly poor people, that wouldn't be able to afford the aforementioned services but really need them, the cost should be covered by the rest of the wealthy citizens, or by social banks that loan money with very small interest rates.
It's not the browser that is the reason for the world being online, it's the internet itself, of which the WWW is one application. The real problem is that there is no distributed code and data delivery platform. If such a thing existed, there would be none of the issues with plugins, updating, broken addons, etc.
The idea of a browser is a grand, failed experiment, not only the plugins. Slowly but steadily the browser is turned into a software distribution platform, which is the thing that should have existed first. The document browser is just one application of the software distribution platform.
Why doesn't US leave Afghanistan then? they don't have anything to gain.
Or they have? there is a big oil pipe built in the Southern part of Afghanistan...
Those features can easily be programmed into a robot; all that is required is pattern matching towards a specific goal.
The only reason you believe the moon landings happened is that the alternative makes you feel nervous. There is nothing in the Apollo program that couldn't be faked in one way or another. It is a matter of faith, just like the global warming or 9-11.
It has nothing to do with "Star Wars being for children only".
If Star Wars was only appreciated by 12 year old kids in '77, it would never have been so successful. The original Star Wars was successful in adults, not only in kids.
Nowadays Star Wars-like films do not appeal to 30 year old adults, because expectations are different. Society has changed. What was acceptable back then it is not acceptable now. It has nothing to do with "SW being for kids".
And that's why successful franchises are being reinvented, as you say. Today's tastes are different than those 33 years go.