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Re:The Outsiders – Homelessness in San Francisco
on Monday March 02, 2015 @09:38AM (#9131987)
San Francisco has a homeless problem because it invited such. I guess it's total coincidence that the most liberal cities in the US also have the highest incidence of homeless population. As long as it remains a profitable and easy lifestyle, homelessness persists. Change those variables however you want and the problem goes away. This is not to say there are not those who are homeless due to bum luck. In many cities, this is the majority. Not so much in San Francisco where homelessness is a true profession.
If life is a game, where are your trophies?
Re:A new report clarifies some misconceptions about the U.S. medical s...
on Sunday November 17, 2013 @08:33PM (#6751997)
the societal move to destigmatize obesity is the culprit. It's now okay to be big and beautiful.
Re:If Gmail were built with Drupal
on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @08:23AM (#6717615)
at first I thought this was a jab at drupal... then I see it's drupal failing itself. I don't think it's scaling well to YC traffic.
Re:Science has lost its way, at a big cost to humanity
on Monday October 28, 2013 @06:20AM (#6626136)
climate change.
Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:36PM (#6602737)
There are some situations where an organism can evolve overnight to exposure to an antibiotic. See Inducible Extended Beta lactamase resistance in E Coli. HOWEVER. Bacteria evolve just as any organism does via random genetic mutations that may or may not lead to resistance. It's Darwinism on the cellular level. The vast majority of antibiotic resistance occurred regardless of exposure. There is a segment of society that wants to blame humans for every problem it seems.
Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:31PM (#6602721)
This person reminds me of a lot of people I went to medical school with. Very smart, and yet, not very realistic. He outlines a scenario that is endgame.. when in fact, we are seeing cyclical events. We saw the emergence of penicillin resistence in S. Aureas, then methicillin resistance. we moved to quinalones, and sulfa and we see resisance develop there.. OF COURSE it does. The antibiotics don't cause resistance.. Natural selection is the process going on here. There are random mutations that occur regardless of antibiotic exposure. We do see antibiotics cause resistance such as in inducible extended beta lactamase resistance.. (I have a patient currently with E coli resistant to everything but Colistin) but the overwhelming process..it's still good old fashion natural selection that Darwin made us all aware of. We really don't need to panic.. we just need to keep fighting the fight..because it won't ever end, unless we give up. Relax. When I hear people claim it was wanton use of antibiotics that caused all of this.. I wonder if they ever read a word about biologic evolution. Right now, there are organisms out there that are already resistant to antibiotics that haven't been developed yet. How can we blame humans for that?
Re:Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: We’ve Reached “The End of Antibiotics, Period”
on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:19PM (#6602669)
antibiotics do not cause resistance to form. resistance occurs due to natural mutations. these are going to occur regardless of exposure to antibiotics or not. The antibiotics simply select out the resistant organisms from the auger. It was shear panic when S. aureas developed penicillin resistance decades ago. methicillin was the solution. Now we have methicillin resistant staph aureas. This is nothing to panic over. it simply means the battle is never won and we'll require ongoing research on new antibiotics. To say we have lost is just not true. This is the way life works. he also ignores the possibility of human evolution. We can develop resistance to bacteria as well.
Re:Show HN: I made a site that lets you bet against Bitcoin Hash Rate ...
on Tuesday October 08, 2013 @11:40PM (#6519271)
one thing I have learned. proving your legal is very, very expensive .
Re:Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:43PM (#6501173)
I guess my question is this.. Why is not okay for 'Roosh' to talk about 'Pussy Flow', but perfectly okay for 99% of rap artists?
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:29PM (#6501128)
Hard work and payoff. Food stamps and welfare doesn't buy trips to Bora Bora..
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:28PM (#6501125)
Right, we can't ever expect the masses to learn advanced skills that will be needed in the next cyclic revolution. This has to be the most negative thing I have heard all month. It's akin to saying, 'Our people are so incapable of moving with the times, we just have to throw them food.'
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @12:26PM (#6501120)
I agree. However, in communist countries (in which my co-workers lived (ex-Soviet)) The job was just a symbol. There would be department stores that sold hardly anything, with 3 people manning a cash register. This is no different than what Swit proposes.. It's just Swit has chosen to forgo the mock job.
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @08:30AM (#6500479)
I have to chuckle at the thought of forcing the wealthy to pay other wealthy a minimum income. Or is the 'wealthy' excluded from the definition of 'every adult'. What a complete waste of time and paper.
Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult
on Saturday October 05, 2013 @08:17AM (#6500450)
Atlas shrugged... and the leaches attacked. I find it hard to believe Swit doesn't already have some welfare system that provides for those who actually need it... but now, 30k a year just for breathing? Sounds like communism to me.... only you don't have to produce anything. Utopianism like this doesn't last. Eventually you run out of payers. it's human nature to eventually grow tired of working hard so someone else doesn't have to. When that time comes, you either join the leaches or you leave the environment. Eventually, you always end up with a negative balance. It is doomed to failure.. Eventually.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
on Friday October 04, 2013 @09:29AM (#6495197)
until you see some slime profit from your hard work by simply copying it... it's easy to talk about how evil drm, and copyrights are. I know photographers, great photographers, that were stunned when they googled their images and found them front and center on some scumbags webpage, claimed as theirs. musicians go thru the same ordeal. This isn't just about Hollywood, it affects creators who are far from rich.
Re:The copyright cartel's plot to indoctrinate California kindergartens
on Sunday September 29, 2013 @04:18PM (#6466352)
religious indoctrination? from the California teachers union? Now that is funny.
Re:Temperature chart for the last 11,000 years
on Saturday September 21, 2013 @11:36AM (#6423250)
Noone is arguing that there WAS a warming trend. The onous to prove its due to humans lies on the chicken littles. It has not yet been accomplished.
Re:Athletics cost colleges, students millions
on Sunday September 15, 2013 @09:24AM (#6388997)
Baseball did it right with minor leagues. Football needs to follow. College should not be a minor league football franchise.
Re:Left with Nothing
on Sunday September 08, 2013 @07:45PM (#6351036)
I especially like how the people who made the laws are in no way to blame... Nope once again, it's the lobbyists and the evil corporations, never the people who actually made the rule that allowed it to happen...made the rule to retain power.. No they are the good guys.
Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
on Sunday September 08, 2013 @09:21AM (#6348607)
Forget coding for health care. MD and coder for 15 years. You will make 10x the profit if you avoid the regulations and liability of health care software.. In addition, I'm not sure you have any idea how little few time you're about to have.
Re:I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare
on Sunday September 08, 2013 @09:14AM (#6348596)
As a physician of 15 years in internal medicine all I have to say is residency must have become ridiculously easy if you have time to start a company.. For me, 100 hours a week made that impossible so I waited until I was done. Your idea is an old one. It's been deliberated and contemplated. You forget that you're writing code that is essentially a medical tool that potentially affects peoples lives. You will need massive insurance, and lots of regulations to contend with. You will take on all liability with regard to patient outcomes. In the end, it will cost you 10x more than 500 a week. I don't even consider healthcare with my coding projects.
Re:Is The Web Dying?
on Saturday September 07, 2013 @02:45PM (#6346071)
Case in point..I am viewing this forum using hackbot android app. I prefer this emensly to the browser.
Re:We Need a Basic Income Guarantee
on Monday September 02, 2013 @09:41AM (#6315084)
Because welfare did such a great job of ending the poverty cycle...even Clinton felt it needed reform...Im only 45 and and Im seeing the cycle of stupidity.
Re:The flawed psychology of government mass surveillance
on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @09:04AM (#6283128)
We told them they cant profile, so they just spy on everyone and call it fair. Careful what you complain about.
Its interesting that there are > 200 comments on how easy it is to run snd not one on stopping the bastards who threw you into fear and retreat. You are _soundly_ defeated. Im not being forced from my homeland by a despot government or a coward with a bomb. Sorry.
Re:Apngasm Wants To Promote Animated PNGs As An Alternative To GIFs
on Monday August 26, 2013 @09:30AM (#6276881)
The name is juvenile.
Re:No HTML needed
on Monday August 12, 2013 @09:13AM (#6198975)
HTML is primitive. I'll take an internet application any day over a browser. I long for the day when my desktop is filled with application shortcuts, instead of browser shortcuts. I'm already there with android, where developers have learned that more rich, interactive and controlled experience can be had with an application instead of a webpage. I'm sure this burns with HTML developers, but it's only a matter of time before HTML is only a vehicle to direct the user to the app download link.
Re:40% Of US Workers Now Earn Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:42AM (#6165995)
And it has NOTHING to do with the current administration. That's pure coincidence. This is the sleeping in the bed part..