Simple: This is below the level where law enforcement will become active. That means it is below the level where it is a serious disturbance. Hence the accusers here, who apparently have not yet learned that exposure to some amount of unpleasant people is a price to pay for freedom, are suing the company.
The thing is utterly stupid though: If they are successful, this app will probably just go away. They could have had the same thing much easier by simply not using it.
It is a people defect and the company making the product does not make the people.
This is about as silly as suing the phone company for harassment phone calls, just transferred to the Internet.
I do realize the whole thing is a problem, but the only ways known to the human race to fix these people are far, far worse than these people. Hence some amount of unpleasant folks has to be tolerated. If they get extreme (credible death threats, stalking, swatting, etc.) law enforcement usually can do something though. But below that level? Forget it.
Just shows that Physics has gotten overly complex. I know it deals with a real object, buts if it were not I would call the whole thing an utter design failure.
Well, since all attempts to model a human mind conventionally have failed and since quantum stuff is pretty much the only additional mechanism Physics currently offers, it does have a point. I do agree that it is mysticism. But unless Physics finds something else that could explain the mind (seems rather unlikely at this stage), mysticism is pretty much the only possible explanation. Yes, I find this unsatisfactory too. But this does not blind me to the known facts.
You must never have heard of double-blind studies....
With finally starting to use sound statistical tools recently (compared to how long medicine has been bumbling about), some progress has been made in the aspects of methods. It is still a mess, mostly.
I agree. This is somebody desperately trying to argue that mass-production (of all things!) is better be done manually by hand than by automation. Complete nonsense. GM just did it wrong.
Trains do not change lanes at high speeds. And at slow speeds it is not impressive, as what lane a train goes in is not under control of the train at all.
I have a friend who is well educated, though in the arts, who reacted very negatively when I made a comment about the silliness of homeopathy.
Not "well" educated. May have learned some facts but never got what facts are or how they are found.
I was informed that in Europe it was generally accepted and had repeatedly been proven effective.
A complete lie. What happened a while ago is that some private insurers started to offer paying for some "alternative" treatments (only cheap ones). It makes perfect sense for them to do so economically, as they are competing for customers (you select your on insurance in most of Europe) and many of their customers are clueless how medicine works and unaware of that. The utter failure of politics was to not stop that.
Another failure of "education". Worthwhile education allows you to challenge, verify and, if needed, adjust your beliefs. Yes, it is hard getting there and yes, most people generally thought to be "educated" are in fact not.
Jobs saw the pretty extreme and not really appealing options modern medicine is offering and made the mistake to think the promises by "alternative medicine" are about as honest and accurate. With that, the "alternatives" look pretty appealing. But if you are not a scientist or engineer like Jobs (he never finished his studies), separating fact from fiction can get difficult. Anybody with a sound scientific education can immediately spot the scam, jobs could not. And the scam has been known for a long, long time. For example, the 3rd Reich was unsatisfied with the 30% cure rate classical medicine gave on pneumonia and looked into alternatives. (There were also political and philosophical reasons, I believe.) At that time, there was a big homeopathic "hospital" in Berlin that also did "treat" pneumonia. But search as they might, homeopathy had not provided a single cure, everybody "treated" homeopathically had died.
"Managing a chronic condition" is not curing it. It is just creation of somebody permanently dependent on treatment. (Probably intentional, as this is the most profitable case: permanent sickness, but late death.) I think the whole thing is an abysmal failure and nicely illustrates the incapability of modern medicine.
Oh, sure, for what they have, this is impressive. But what they have in insight and tools and methods is pathetic and an utter disgrace. It is basically the same thing if computer engineers were proud of having finally moved off the relays 10 years ago and now really rocking the vacuum tubes. Only that medicine has been a lot longer at it and should hence be a lot more advanced. They are not. They are backwards and slow. And it is a fundamental problem with them.
While I agree, a lot of what the Big Pharma got rich on and is continuing to rake in money by the shipload is not providing benefits and sometimes is outright harmful. So there is huge opposition to any such requirements already.
No, I will not call homeopathy "medicine", because it is not. However, while homeopathy is basically a really screwed up belief, medicine is not doing so well. It would not be an overstatement that it is one of the worst and perhaps the worst performer in the STEM field. Still nothing really good on cancer, took half a century with AIDS and still no real treatment, still nothing effective against the flu or the common cold, the upcoming antibiotics crisis, etc. In addition hugely disproportional costs, probably because treatments are generally not really good. The list of failures of medicine is really long and it is totally inadequate for what science and technology can do today and what other STEM fields achieve.
As a result, people look for alternatives. And when you do not understand science and see the pretty bad options medicine has for cancer (e.g.), it is understandable that homeopathy may look like an "alternative". That it is not based on science and offers basically the 0-rate of cures (patients gets better by themselves, which even for cancer is not zero), is something people have trouble seeing. But the root-cause for this thing being still around is that the offering by medicine is so bad. Hence the fix for things like homeopathy is to have medical research finally get their asses in gear and start doing solid science, start bringing cost down and effectiveness and quality of outcome up. And, in particular, get their egos under control and admit where they really stand and begin to do something about it.
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The "S" stands for Science. I am lamenting that medicine is not really doing too well in belonging into that class.
No, they have not been able to model the human mind because it's too big
That is just speculation, i.e. it is not necessary the core problem and if it is a problem, it may not be the only one.
the most they've done with neural network processing is very tiny stuff. And the neurons in the brain are analog devices, not digital.
What tells you artificial neural networks are even the right model?
Also the articles linking of superconductivity with quantum computing is just silliness.
That I can agree on. Especially as we still do not know whether quantum computing does actually work for anything meaningful.
Attempts to _model_ the common cold are pretty good. Your analogy is flawed.
Simple: This is below the level where law enforcement will become active. That means it is below the level where it is a serious disturbance. Hence the accusers here, who apparently have not yet learned that exposure to some amount of unpleasant people is a price to pay for freedom, are suing the company.
The thing is utterly stupid though: If they are successful, this app will probably just go away. They could have had the same thing much easier by simply not using it.
It is a people defect and the company making the product does not make the people.
This is about as silly as suing the phone company for harassment phone calls, just transferred to the Internet.
I do realize the whole thing is a problem, but the only ways known to the human race to fix these people are far, far worse than these people. Hence some amount of unpleasant folks has to be tolerated. If they get extreme (credible death threats, stalking, swatting, etc.) law enforcement usually can do something though. But below that level? Forget it.
Just shows that Physics has gotten overly complex. I know it deals with a real object, buts if it were not I would call the whole thing an utter design failure.
...the idea free-will may be an illusion.
If free will is an illusion, then it cannot be an idea. The whole thing is pseudo-profound bullshit.
Well, since all attempts to model a human mind conventionally have failed and since quantum stuff is pretty much the only additional mechanism Physics currently offers, it does have a point. I do agree that it is mysticism. But unless Physics finds something else that could explain the mind (seems rather unlikely at this stage), mysticism is pretty much the only possible explanation. Yes, I find this unsatisfactory too. But this does not blind me to the known facts.
Oh, easily: Agriculture. It prevents people from dying very early due to starvation. Your argument is entirely bogus.
You must never have heard of double-blind studies....
With finally starting to use sound statistical tools recently (compared to how long medicine has been bumbling about), some progress has been made in the aspects of methods. It is still a mess, mostly.
I agree. This is somebody desperately trying to argue that mass-production (of all things!) is better be done manually by hand than by automation. Complete nonsense. GM just did it wrong.
As these speeds, the attendant is worthless. All high-speed trains drive automatically at high speeds. This is not new.
Trains do not change lanes at high speeds. And at slow speeds it is not impressive, as what lane a train goes in is not under control of the train at all.
German ICEs are doing it from 160km/h upwards, because humans are too slow. Pretty old tech by now.
There is nothing wrong with LS. HCT is not in all cases better than LS.
The RPi is generally pretty badly engineered and has a really stupid choice of SoC. This is one of the effects.
I have a friend who is well educated, though in the arts, who reacted very negatively when I made a comment about the silliness of homeopathy.
Not "well" educated. May have learned some facts but never got what facts are or how they are found.
I was informed that in Europe it was generally accepted and had repeatedly been proven effective.
A complete lie. What happened a while ago is that some private insurers started to offer paying for some "alternative" treatments (only cheap ones). It makes perfect sense for them to do so economically, as they are competing for customers (you select your on insurance in most of Europe) and many of their customers are clueless how medicine works and unaware of that. The utter failure of politics was to not stop that.
Another failure of "education". Worthwhile education allows you to challenge, verify and, if needed, adjust your beliefs. Yes, it is hard getting there and yes, most people generally thought to be "educated" are in fact not.
Jobs saw the pretty extreme and not really appealing options modern medicine is offering and made the mistake to think the promises by "alternative medicine" are about as honest and accurate. With that, the "alternatives" look pretty appealing. But if you are not a scientist or engineer like Jobs (he never finished his studies), separating fact from fiction can get difficult. Anybody with a sound scientific education can immediately spot the scam, jobs could not. And the scam has been known for a long, long time. For example, the 3rd Reich was unsatisfied with the 30% cure rate classical medicine gave on pneumonia and looked into alternatives. (There were also political and philosophical reasons, I believe.) At that time, there was a big homeopathic "hospital" in Berlin that also did "treat" pneumonia. But search as they might, homeopathy had not provided a single cure, everybody "treated" homeopathically had died.
"Managing a chronic condition" is not curing it. It is just creation of somebody permanently dependent on treatment. (Probably intentional, as this is the most profitable case: permanent sickness, but late death.) I think the whole thing is an abysmal failure and nicely illustrates the incapability of modern medicine.
Oh, sure, for what they have, this is impressive. But what they have in insight and tools and methods is pathetic and an utter disgrace. It is basically the same thing if computer engineers were proud of having finally moved off the relays 10 years ago and now really rocking the vacuum tubes. Only that medicine has been a lot longer at it and should hence be a lot more advanced. They are not. They are backwards and slow. And it is a fundamental problem with them.
While I agree, a lot of what the Big Pharma got rich on and is continuing to rake in money by the shipload is not providing benefits and sometimes is outright harmful. So there is huge opposition to any such requirements already.
No, I will not call homeopathy "medicine", because it is not. However, while homeopathy is basically a really screwed up belief, medicine is not doing so well. It would not be an overstatement that it is one of the worst and perhaps the worst performer in the STEM field. Still nothing really good on cancer, took half a century with AIDS and still no real treatment, still nothing effective against the flu or the common cold, the upcoming antibiotics crisis, etc. In addition hugely disproportional costs, probably because treatments are generally not really good. The list of failures of medicine is really long and it is totally inadequate for what science and technology can do today and what other STEM fields achieve.
As a result, people look for alternatives. And when you do not understand science and see the pretty bad options medicine has for cancer (e.g.), it is understandable that homeopathy may look like an "alternative". That it is not based on science and offers basically the 0-rate of cures (patients gets better by themselves, which even for cancer is not zero), is something people have trouble seeing. But the root-cause for this thing being still around is that the offering by medicine is so bad. Hence the fix for things like homeopathy is to have medical research finally get their asses in gear and start doing solid science, start bringing cost down and effectiveness and quality of outcome up. And, in particular, get their egos under control and admit where they really stand and begin to do something about it.
Like your sig. Seems to sum up most of the followers pretty well.
Using social media for several hours a day is pathological behavior already by itself.
I mean 1...3 hours/day as "normal" and >5h/day as the group that has a problem is pretty insane.
Indeed. Also seems to be an illegal act under the GDPR. Why, for example, is MS not forbidden to sell their win10 Spyware in the EU?