Oh, so they're talking about the ferric chloride? The Virginia Tech study did two experiments that showed that this would only have made a difference where two different metals met (e.g. solder joints). Most of the lead was from the breakdown of scale which was caused by discontinuing the use of corrosion inhibitors.
The US does NOT have "consistently worse outcomes" in medical care. In fact, when you compare similar patients, the US medical care system provides BETTER outcomes at almost every level.
If you measure people who are actually treated, the US has better than average outcomes (for comparable developed countries). If you measure overall mortality rates for the same conditions, the US has worse than average outcomes.
The one exception to this is cancers, where the US has performed better than average since the mid 90s.
Of course, the mortality rates for all of these diseases is dropping everywhere in the developed world. But apart from cancers, the US started behind and is still behind the developed world average.
Countries experimenting with UBI are generally not considering getting rid of their public health systems to offset it. They're considering offsetting unemployment payments, low income housing assistance, etc etc.
The theory is that in the long term, the money should come from savings. UBI would remove the need for a bunch of expensive-to-administer welfare services, for example.
The United States has one of the least efficient social welfare systems in the world. The US famously spends something like 17% of GDP on health care in return for consistently worse outcomes than almost every other developed country that spends 9-12%.
That's the theory. As with all such reforms, even if UBI worked elsewhere it's unclear that it would work in the United States because it would require a critical mass of people in charge to believe that the US system is not the greatest in the world. It's a very hard sell.
And if you're thinking "omg Flint, MI!" keep in mind that the problem was created by NEW regulations on cleaning pipes either by energizing the water system or pumping cleaning agents through. Which of course ripped the mineral layer off the inside of the pipes and allowed lead leeching.
Err... no. It was caused by NOT adding anti-corrosion agents to the new source.
I'm not accusing you of anything partisan, but the idea that the Flint crisis was caused by additional regulations (and not good ol' government mismanagement) is quite bizarre.
You don't even need to do anything. When you have plea bargaining, elected prosecutors, and elected judges, actual innocence usually gets you off with a misdemeanor.
Lifespans in the ancient world are sorely misunderstood because of infant and child mortality. If a typical Roman made it to age 14, they had a 50% chance of making it to 60.
Just to be clear, I was not trying to make a serious point. But that is precisely the point I was trying to make, yes.
For most men in most countries where Twitter is big, war is a rare experience, and even compulsory military service is rare for any country which isn't at risk of invasion.
It was a "ha ha only serious" moment. But it's undeniably true that in countries where Twitter is big, a very small proportion of men go to war these days.
As I pointed out, you have to weigh it by the number who go to war. This is one of those rare situations where the experience of those who never went to war and those who never had children is relevant.
Last time I checked, there was a gap in the market for accounting database systems. Small businesses don't need to roll their own database because they can get by with Intuit or something. Large businesses build on top of a middleware system from a big database vendor like Oracle Financials or PeopleSoft or IBM or something.
This is something that (again, last time I checked) the open source world hasn't really tackled even though a general ledger is a fundamental piece of business infrastructure. It's probably because there are a thousand small things you have to get right to not be a toy, plus there's legal liability and jurisdiction-specific rules.
But this is an example of one area where it's hard to dump Oracle.
Yes, the world is moving towards walled garden devices which hands control of personal data and your personal life from the "users" over to unregulated companies who will use that data against you or sell it to the highest bidder as soon as they go out of business.
They, or people paying them, may also try to use these devices that you don't really own or realise you're using to influence public opinion.
I'm probably from a different country, so I don't know how these things work, but can you do that without paying postage, and do these shipping boxes fit in a typical post box?
I don't understand why they chose South Australia and gave up the advantages of a site closer to the equator.
Same reason that Pawsey isn't anywhere near the Murchison radio quiet zone. Where would you rather build an office whose main job it is to coordinate with industry and academia, Adelaide or Jabiru?
I've never released code through the app store, but my anecdote is that I have been told using LGPL code in an iOS app is tricky but not impossible.
You must give your customers enough to be able to modify the LGPL part and produce a working app on their device. You do not need to give them enough to be able to redistribute the non-LGPL part through the app store. Difficult but not impossible.
I think the only remaining issue is DRM. Deal with the devil and all that.
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Oh, so they're talking about the ferric chloride? The Virginia Tech study did two experiments that showed that this would only have made a difference where two different metals met (e.g. solder joints). Most of the lead was from the breakdown of scale which was caused by discontinuing the use of corrosion inhibitors.
Which report are you referring to? I've read a couple of them and neither mention new regulations.
The US does NOT have "consistently worse outcomes" in medical care. In fact, when you compare similar patients, the US medical care system provides BETTER outcomes at almost every level.
If you measure people who are actually treated, the US has better than average outcomes (for comparable developed countries). If you measure overall mortality rates for the same conditions, the US has worse than average outcomes.
The one exception to this is cancers, where the US has performed better than average since the mid 90s.
Of course, the mortality rates for all of these diseases is dropping everywhere in the developed world. But apart from cancers, the US started behind and is still behind the developed world average.
Countries experimenting with UBI are generally not considering getting rid of their public health systems to offset it. They're considering offsetting unemployment payments, low income housing assistance, etc etc.
The theory is that in the long term, the money should come from savings. UBI would remove the need for a bunch of expensive-to-administer welfare services, for example.
The United States has one of the least efficient social welfare systems in the world. The US famously spends something like 17% of GDP on health care in return for consistently worse outcomes than almost every other developed country that spends 9-12%.
That's the theory. As with all such reforms, even if UBI worked elsewhere it's unclear that it would work in the United States because it would require a critical mass of people in charge to believe that the US system is not the greatest in the world. It's a very hard sell.
And if you're thinking "omg Flint, MI!" keep in mind that the problem was created by NEW regulations on cleaning pipes either by energizing the water system or pumping cleaning agents through. Which of course ripped the mineral layer off the inside of the pipes and allowed lead leeching.
Err... no. It was caused by NOT adding anti-corrosion agents to the new source.
I'm not accusing you of anything partisan, but the idea that the Flint crisis was caused by additional regulations (and not good ol' government mismanagement) is quite bizarre.
You don't even need to do anything. When you have plea bargaining, elected prosecutors, and elected judges, actual innocence usually gets you off with a misdemeanor.
Lifespans in the ancient world are sorely misunderstood because of infant and child mortality. If a typical Roman made it to age 14, they had a 50% chance of making it to 60.
One of those sentimental things in my case is my grandmother's piano that I inherited at age 26. And yes, both I and one of my kids play it.
Just to be clear, I was not trying to make a serious point. But that is precisely the point I was trying to make, yes.
For most men in most countries where Twitter is big, war is a rare experience, and even compulsory military service is rare for any country which isn't at risk of invasion.
It was a "ha ha only serious" moment. But it's undeniably true that in countries where Twitter is big, a very small proportion of men go to war these days.
As I pointed out, you have to weigh it by the number who go to war. This is one of those rare situations where the experience of those who never went to war and those who never had children is relevant.
Some men fight in wars. Most women have to look after toddlers at some point. Who got the worse deal?
It's a good question.
Last time I checked, there was a gap in the market for accounting database systems. Small businesses don't need to roll their own database because they can get by with Intuit or something. Large businesses build on top of a middleware system from a big database vendor like Oracle Financials or PeopleSoft or IBM or something.
This is something that (again, last time I checked) the open source world hasn't really tackled even though a general ledger is a fundamental piece of business infrastructure. It's probably because there are a thousand small things you have to get right to not be a toy, plus there's legal liability and jurisdiction-specific rules.
But this is an example of one area where it's hard to dump Oracle.
"Adult content" is defined as "whatever doesn't fall foul of FESTA and gets us our iOS app.back".
Yes, the world is moving towards walled garden devices which hands control of personal data and your personal life from the "users" over to unregulated companies who will use that data against you or sell it to the highest bidder as soon as they go out of business.
They, or people paying them, may also try to use these devices that you don't really own or realise you're using to influence public opinion.
Right. See, I couldn't tell you where my nearest non-post-office courier service office is.
Sure, we have that. But I guess I kind of assumed that the purchase wasn't delivered by US Post in the first place.
I'm probably from a different country, so I don't know how these things work, but can you do that without paying postage, and do these shipping boxes fit in a typical post box?
I don't understand why they chose South Australia and gave up the advantages of a site closer to the equator.
Same reason that Pawsey isn't anywhere near the Murchison radio quiet zone. Where would you rather build an office whose main job it is to coordinate with industry and academia, Adelaide or Jabiru?
But you can buy it now for 3 pounds.
I've never released code through the app store, but my anecdote is that I have been told using LGPL code in an iOS app is tricky but not impossible.
You must give your customers enough to be able to modify the LGPL part and produce a working app on their device. You do not need to give them enough to be able to redistribute the non-LGPL part through the app store. Difficult but not impossible.
I think the only remaining issue is DRM. Deal with the devil and all that.
"Electron" means "amber".
Java was designed by professionals, like James Gosling, who knew what they were doing.
It was also designed in the early 90s. What passed for "bloated" in the early 90s is "lean" now.
Probably Qt. I think our team could probably write and debug it faster than anything written in JavaScript, too.