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  1. 2006 Scripps Clinic adopted EPIC on Why Doctors Hate Their Computers (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a huge transition from an IT system that had evolved upon a dedicated patient SNEAKERnet. Who better motivated than a patient to move essential data/records? It just worked. BUT it wasn't digital.

    EPIC solved that problem. BUT at the expense of facetime; medical speak for the amount of minutes M.D.'s spend face-to-face with patients. SO Dr's gave up family time to complete records, notes and messages AT HOME. At home most nights meant 12;00 AM+ eating screen time away from family usually only catching a meal then back to EPIC.

    It takes its toll on doctors.

  2. Originally, DST was politically conceived to address two anomalies.

    1) Duh, Daylight was very short during standard working hours, more daylight more productivity.
    2) Depression triggers - Change was good; more sunlight more vitamin D less moods swing

    Half a century its social media fodder for change, albeit back to no-change.

  3. AppleMAPS == useless on Apple Maps Has Surpassed Google Maps in Detail in 3.1 Percent of the US (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Itâ(TM)s hyperbole. 3% is dog food in a bowl in comparison to the quantity of mapping not quantized worldwide to become functional, as in rely upon.

    South America is abyssamal beyond placing country boundaries, LAT/LON and major cities. Apple would do well to nail one continent - then apply lessons learned at scale.

  4. Working in the trucking industry under DOT regulation, fleets of cargo and power units prescribed by state laws accumulates safety statistics, albeit private numbers. As Director of Safety with 1200 units and 9500 trailers nationwide with thousands of drivers, 70% of all fatals occurred 1/2 hr before or after the hours of sunrise - sunset. Animal .vs. Vehicular accidents where property damage was the result of a driver ' swerve' to avoid an accident overwhelmingly resolved to be driver responsibility finding a lack of attention, asleep at the wheel, medical condition or simply phantom; a lie; a coverup.

    There were no human .vs. vehicle damage claims against drivers who saved someone's life by driving over a cliff - so to speak. SO the dynamics established from experience in-fleet with AI technologies specific to each ' brand' or ' application' drive the resultant statistics, philosophy, risk factors and regulation around headless steerage.

    Elon with Tesla has steered clear of headless which is a major difference with a distinction that not only recognizes but ingeniously places responsibility where it ultimately rests; on the driver. DOT regulation will follow for headless steerage around the statistics to backup Tesla's stance, safety choices and the fact that legally the driver is ultimately in control and responsible regardless how he elects to do so.

  5. Vulnerable, in theory on Creating the First Quantum Internet (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if they choose a k-n quorum scheme among k nodes on a network.

  6. Re: People paid by big Corps say things pro Corps on Should We Break Up the Tech Giants? Not if You Ask the Economists Who Take Money From Them (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Itâ(TM)s insidious and endemic tech that fosters healthy economics numbers against a reality of unaffordable unsustainable rents. From housing, transportation to eats whether WholeFoodsPRIME or UberEATS apps inflate through subscription and inflated expectations prices.

    Economist donâ(TM)t want to talk rent. SO what we have is a tech driven rent culture masquerading as apps, subscriptions and services that disrupt and destroy the affordable alternative

  7. prior art exists - cellphones listen for brand names and substitute advertising in browser when it hears an M.D. Rx prescription. I don't know how its driven by adwords or mfgr, but we are about to find out

  8. 4 takeaways on The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    1) Contraction - globally environments are in a phase of reduction
    2) Impact - edge conditions are the first responders stripping models through innovation
    3) Stress - thrashes modes of use down to survival conditions
    4) Failure - Law of Diminishing Returns for those caught in the crux

    It not only spells doom for big UTILITIES but general everyday work that impacts jobs, change to part-time gig work who feel the thrash; which tolls will be taken in the future. Innovation doesn't lead people out of the crux

  9. Perfect fit on Uber CEO: We're Going After Groceries Next (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    UBER first order business success came from the UX marriage of software gamification and JIT order efficiency. A sub-3% margin distribution business model and HUGELY expensive brick and mortar UI is exactly the target rich problem that UBER knows how to disrupt.

    Interesting will be Amazon/WholeFoods PRIME subscription model .vs. UBER/grocery.app delivery model

  10. What? You're just now learning about it and act all surprised...please.

    There was never any question what price U.S. manufacturer's were willing to pay outsourcing to Asia. It was just a question how long.

    Apple et. al. are not stupid clucks, they went over motherboards with a microscope. They saw exactly how true to their design finished goods matched. Amazon paid a 3rd party due diligence and its public. SO, we have the answer now.

  11. Verizon at last has to off load its long term balance sheet obligations. The buyout maneuver takes it off the books.

    Can be, just before a merger.

  12. Insurance, rent & groceries: the new middle cl on Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution (brookings.edu) · · Score: 2

    In the U.S. by definition you entered ' middle class' when you had a job, bought a car, a home and sent your kids to public school.

    Not a chance! A kid works 5 years at GOOG, lives in a $2400/mo apt in SF and still can't afford a car payment, mortgage and child care. A kid can even choose to work three jobs, 7 days a week for a start-up. And it will barely cover car insurance, rent and groceries but there is no pathway to a car payment, mortgage and child care for a middle class lifestyle in the United States.

    Bullshit...millennials are screwed by The Brookings Institution's white washed ivory proclamations to the contrary that insurance, rent and groceries is the new middle class.

  13. Travel is impossible without the right to repair on A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple is not located conveniently, if at all, outside the U.S. It became a joke traveling South America when my iPad mini stopped working. Apple had no presence in Uruguay nor Argentina. I had to send it off or buy a new one and have it mailed down to South America.

  14. NSA breadth in scale and scope... on NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum (ltsnet.net) · · Score: 1

    The solution is not collegiate.

    SO each participant have self pre-qual their code as candidate, target or suspect in future. Very much like fingerprinting is their signature coding style.

    Smart!

  15. Re: so go do it, David on David Patterson Says It's Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages (ieee.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The oxymoron here is that David uses hardware performance to substantiate his cliam.

    The computer revolution went askew taking the hardware track leaving software to rot in 1960â(TM)s state of the art computer science.

    The next revolution is soft not hard.

  16. Gates argument repackaged on Bill Gates Argues 'Supply and Demand' Doesn't Apply To Software (gatesnotes.com) · · Score: 1

    Back, back...way back at the beginning of DOS was the claim that real capital was made selling it and keeping it to sell again... ad infinitum

  17. Re: AI takes away doesn't give back on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    " They will have new car prices + tech prices + insurance + maintenance + accident coverage + corporate profits. Even with self driving they will be around as much as a taxi today if not more, and I don't see the young affording taxis every day. "

    Exactly - Taxis, Ubers and car sharing is the only option due to the fact Tesla's are expensively beyond the means of average American's - autopilot or no. The average car sits idle 92% of time. Accounting for all costs, from fuel to insurance to depreciation, the average car owner pays $12,544/yr for a convenience used a mere 14 hrs/wk. SUV's add $1908.14. https://bit.ly/2l0qNL9

    FORD not only saw the writing on the wall...its balance sheet's irrefutable evidence proved car ownership is dead in the US. FORD emblazoned pretty blue colored electric rental bikes are its future

  18. AI takes away doesn't give back on Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI jobs Threat (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A halcyon call to re-education for re-employment ignores reality that there will be no employment to re-educate displaced jobless. Its platitude. It is so last century.

    Tesla ' autopilot' categorically decimated ' private car ownership' i.e. FORD halted car production in US. AI is not even fun to drive much less fun paying for the thrill to own a car that has it.

    Steampunk has arrived

  19. Srsly... dead G bits go to heaven on Gmail Now Lets You Send Self-Destructing 'Confidential Mode' Emails From Your Phone (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even GOOG have access to them once they self-destruct.

    That doesn't mean no body does...

  20. GOOG - origin myth was " Do No Evil" . What does this company stand for since dropping " do no evil"? To what purpose does its (evil by explicit omission) platform now support? Each time its employees reveal adverse " Do no evil" moral implications Google is lofted on its petard. Google whines " Sorry" but... we'll keep doing it.

  21. Disclaimer: I know people in Facebook. They are friends of mine. I like those people. Facebook is no friend. Facebook is behaving like the new Fifth Reich.

    Can someone just step up, pull back the curtain and the Wizard?

    SteveJobs was right about many things. He saw Facebook as a service within an architectural framework. He envisioned it run by adults not an addictive standalone look-book and gaming platform. It has so perverted the utility, function and purpose of the service that it's just embarrassing; before it gets criminal can someone take away the crazy Wizard.

    Nationalize it for what it really is - CIA dashboard to the masses.

  22. ISM .vs. ISM - ENDS justify the MEANS on Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Bankrupt.vs.Broke - in the first ism, the state collapsed broke under communism. In the latter ism, a population went broke under capitalism.

    51% of millennials see unimpeachable testimony to concentration of power, demographics of corruption and proof positive means how ISM politics ends.

    BUT 49% are smart enough to question to what ends adding another ISM means.

  23. Obvious, Not-so-Obvious and Not Obvious-Oblivious on Researchers Use Machine-Learning Techniques To De-Anonymize Coders (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    ...there's code that just makes you wonder " how many authors, iterations and algorithms later?".

    The latter is the future that'll take AI to sort out evolution

  24. Wave eats Squadron of Fighter Pilot whole... on Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Wave theory now suggests Bermuda Triangle is a cemetery where nothing can survive the physics of its waves - sure.

  25. 1st Option...opt out on Apple Tells Lawmakers iPhones Are Not Listening In On Consumers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Tim Cook didn't make it possible to protect yourself explicitly by " Opting Out" of any and all microphone usage.