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I think it was more a matter of memetics.
I had to see the only available primary doctor to see anyone else, which automatically prompted medical releases that, even if unethical, would have still made it technically legal. If it was an emergency room trip, there were always the same 2-3 physicians there, so they were all fully aware of me from the first episodes. Same deal with labs when you've got only one or two options in town for anything, and they have your consent to release PHI since that's the only way to send results.
Fellow hypochondriac here. I was at the point where doctors, hospital, and lab staff would immediately warn new practitioners about me so they wouldn't waste finite medical resources in a small town, and I just completely discontinued normal activities out of terror as a result.
When I finally blacked out and fractured my spine, first responders detected a lifelong cardiac arrhythmia in the back of an ambulance. Only with that knowledge have I been able to receive care and begin to heal emotionally from that abuse.
AI-assisted medicine will prevent many of these mistakes in the future.
This has honestly been my unbiased opinion since essentially day 1. I believe that the release was almost certainly a complete accident, but there's just no realistic chance a novel virus coincidentally originates in the same isolated place as a lab that specializes in that exact same type of virus. The denialists, including the WHO and CDC and everyone else, need to get real and own up to what happened and figure out how to stop it from happening again. This has nothing to do with the PRC or anyone or anywhere else, it could have happened at any biological facility in the world and will eventually happen again somewhere unless scientific honesty and cooler heads prevail.
hOW sILICON vALLEY gave rise to Parler by talking about it until everyone knew the name of some obscure app for racists
The remorseless prosecutorial effort that led to his suicide should be talked about far more than it is. He was a very unfortunate loss for a generation, but was also one of many who fall victim to career prosecutors that play with peoples lives.
You can put more than one drug in a single shot. The MMR vaccine contains Mumpsvax, Attenuvax, and Meruvax to fight the mumps, measles, and rubella, respectively
On one hand it feels completely appropriate and even deserved. On the other, yes, this is unfortunately a path to a very serious totalitarian issue. Situations like this one underscore the future importance of cryptocurrencies.
Without an uncensorable currency, any political adversary -- especially an incumbent -- can just coerce payment processors into blocking payments to their opponents through threats of imprisonment or violence against a handful of executives.
First, I'll say that I've contracted for a state's caucus at the capitol building in addition to at the homes of minor politicians. That's my frame of reference.
The real answer? It's nowhere near as bad in my opinion as the other implications of an insurrection. These systems are already poorly secured and also physically accessible by a number of other staff, so one more potential compromise is not changing much.
The numbers start going down quickly once infections have been so prolific that crowd immunity is present.
I live in Texas, but I'm sure I personally infected no fewer than 10,000-20,000 people last March, including the sorority that purportedly brought it back from Mexico during spring break. No doctor wanted to listen and no hospitals would test me even after I begged some of the best providers in the region. It wasn't until almost 9 months later that the mistake was acknowledged, and it's highly likely that community spread existed even in the US in November 2019 or even October 2019 just based on retrospective serology studies.
Places with poor hygiene controls like India have likely had far, far more infections than anyone even can imagine. That might be one of the first places to be immune.
There are multiple points of failure. Pretending everything was A-OK is the largest one, failing to identify the virus's presence in the country for months was another, denying and downplaying the usefulness of masks was another, underfunding hospitals was another, failing to secure PPE was another, making it painfully difficult to get tested was another. There's a lot of blame to go around on this one. But reopening the economy was the biggest mistake.
LA is one of the most connected cities in the world. It's not LA's fault necessarily, but the country as a whole should've been on complete lockdown from April until whenever the situation was under control. Our national wealth and GDP have plenty of room for a complete quarantine, even if that means paying everyone's paychecks for a year or longer. We deliberately chose to allow 350,000+ peoples lives to end instead.
What are they supposed to do? Sometimes dealing with reality involves some pretty uncomfortable choices to make, even when that essentially makes you the bad guy.
The real issue here is that the economy was prematurely reopened before it was safe -- we have far more than enough money as a nation to have prevented this scenario from happening and chose a path of destruction out of sheer avarice instead.
Even as an American with no stake in the UK, this departure saddens me after how hard my family fought in Europe in defense of stability in that region.
The best thing that can come of this is that the UK promptly rejoins and everyone tries to put this indiscretion in the past. But even assuming they do rejoin, this tantrum has still significantly increased the risk of a massive conflict for probably a century or longer -- any hell-bent ideological maniac in any member state can now effectively use Brexit as a populist rallying cry that might actually work. (And most certainly, states with minority viewpoints will use it as leverage against the majority for an untold length of time.)
There's some real potential for abuse so I'd probably have to oppose this one, but I think when you're dealing with people willfully spreading a deadly disease, that's probably already actionable under current laws in most if not all states.
On face value, deliberately endangering others for no reason is a pretty clear sign that someone might qualify for court-ordered psychiatric evaluation and temporary institutionalization, especially since it's already a criminal offense to expose someone to infectious conditions like HIV without their knowledge.
1) Yes, even if you're sure
2) The running theory is that an immunological response is primed by a first infection, so you'll probably benefit little
Interesting, what's the performance like?
If the data is sensitive, keeping it on a locked down iPad is nowhere near enough to protect it. I can understand if they're using the images for machine learning or something, but if it's truly just to prevent future malpractice, data like this should only be kept on air-gapped systems or offline media.
That said, let's hope we're beyond the point of anyone caring about pictures of the human body or whether someone's had plastic surgery.
If I were threatened with something like this, which could be pretty embarrassing since I lost so much weight and have loose skin, I'd tell the hackers that I'll release even more if they leak mine and then attempt to find dirt on them.
There are lots of businesses with this model. The correct way to deal with them is to exclusively use real credit cards, and to either threaten or immediately reverse charges from the financial institution's side as soon as anywhere near this level of shit is pulled.
This wreaks fear into most merchants, not only because fraud policies at banks greatly favor the buyer, but also because too many reversals within a certain period can cause a payment processor to charge higher rates on all transactions indefinitely, sometimes even if the merchant always cooperates.
Edit: Also usually works with most check cards, but I've come close to losing with them a couple times, whereas real credit cards are practically bulletproof in my experience unless you're just attempting some kind of egregious fraud.
About the last time I saw it, too -- I had no idea that it even existed anymore and especially didn't know that they could write lengthy articles.
It's some combination of those things. Lots of them are just random filler and arbitrary ramblings, but the ones he gets pressed on repeatedly are answered in whatever way provokes a desired reaction at that exact moment. Some of it even seems to be remorseless and haphazard A/B testing. He's well beyond a severe pathological liar, as most such people would lack an innate desire to deceive with such intense frequency, and there might not even be a name yet for whatever trait he exhibits. Psychologists are just forbidden by their licensing body from commenting on a president's mental state while still in office.
A lot of these drug overdose deaths
are COVID deaths, because alcohol and drug abuse has skyrocketed as a direct result of the pandemic.
The last estimate I saw, IIRC, was that the numbers (sans deaths) have tripled in less than a year. And as a former teetotaler with relatively few mental problems who has spent the last six months playing hooky and getting drunk alone at home daily to help cope, with multiple straight friends doing the exact same thing, I'd be inclined to believe that statistic may even be a massive underestimate when you factor for people who don't have a clinical-grade problem yet.
He literally has no ideology or apparent political convictions of any kind. His position on any given issue can change 3 times in the same day and his disposition has no other pattern besides consistent inconsistency.
I live in an area elsewhere with essentially zero crime, 24x7 security, cameras, and a well-lit parking garage. Someone stole the catalectic converter off my 2008 Prius last week, a part whose street value is only worth ~$100 and that requires equipment and professional-level skill to steal, likely by someone whose day job generates $70-90/hr.
Gotta be pretty damn desperate to risk a felony for a little over an hour's wages, especially when that theft requires actual work.
Studies have shown that light drinking has a positive effect on work performance, especially in creative areas. I had no idea that this was frowned upon and I'm from Texas, but that's probably just because I've lived my entire life in tech. Lots of startups provide copious access to booze and some even have full bars onsite. IIRC, oil executives drank liquor back in the day as well.
The situation with Tsieh is really sad and probably not a result of him being an alcoholic or drinking at work or anything else. Depression rates have tripled during the pandemic, and deaths are way up from overdose caused by people coping with isolation.
Notably absent from this analysis is a new tool called Nicepage. Took me years to find anything like it.
https://nicepage.com/
Notably absent from this analysis is a new tool called Nicepage. Took me years to find anything like it.
https://nicepage.com/
I won't comment on specifics, but just as someone who has seen this subject periodically surface over the past 20 years in various places, consensus is almost always that, no, there is no tenably justifiable reason for voting software's code to be closed source. (In contrast, there are numerous counterexamples of why it's a very, very terrible idea in general.)