There were private funds as well as public funds. If you and I both contribute into pot of money for the poor, your don't get to have your children claim it back by saying the homeless person that should be getting that money is their guardian. These people are cheating instead of the harder thing of going to community college and then transferring to a 4 year college or simply not having 6 children which they couldn't afford to provide college educations for if that was important to them. It's not as though when get conceived of a child 18 years ago this trend wasn't fully in swing. They chose to buy an expensive house and send their other children to expensive colleges. Now they are abusing the system because things got hard. I didn't get a dime of money from my parents. I joined the military and worked a full time job at night in a factory while going to school full time during the day. This person is just the child of rich parents who are used to not working for anything. What have they taught their child? They are without an ethical core and should be called out for it.
Yup. This is happening because rich people broke capitalism when they gamed the system and destroyed oversight by buying governments. When less than 1% of the planet controls 80% of the financial resources there's not much left to move. We're essentially in a neo-fuedal state in the US. Essentially you can point the blame at Reagan for destroying collective bargaining and SCOTUS for continually rolling in favor of corporations since Robert Bork. The natural correction based on history is the blood of the wealthy and then spreading their resources. Some of the wealthy have realized this and started trying to sound the alarm but it's falling in deaf ears. It's things like Jeff Bezos thinking space is the only way to spend his considerable wealth instead of someone like Bill Gates trying to make massive societal changes and improvements. Leave it to a guy with the money to literally wipe out world hunger to think space ships are the only way he could spend his money.
Literally the only thing they seem to say for sure in that paper is that they expect to see bone evidence they don't see. While I don't doubt the earnestness of the paper's authors, their primary study seems to be in Egyptology first. They practically gush about how the ancient Egyptian medicines are still in use today...but then only list ones based on papyrus. They don't account for the fact that our sedentary lifestyle is shown to increase cancer rates, they barely explore different cultures, with only a passing reference to Greece, who has numerous treatments, including excision to remove cancer, and admit that the ancient Egyptians didn't even classify benign tumors differently than no-benign. They don't account for the increased consumption of meat in a western diet. They don't account for massively higher numbers of humans.
Based on their paper alone I can think of at least 5 other hypothesis that they didn't even cover.
1. Periods of fasting and lack of food decrease cancer.
2. Less sedentary lifestyles decrease cancer risks(this has actually been shown to have some promise, with HIIT workouts showing improved response rates and decreased reccurance)
3. Decreased infant mortality caused an increase in susceptibility to cancer because weaker physical specimens are surviving.
4. Firearms. Cancer rates have increased with the output of firearms.
5. Decreased prayer to the Egyptian gods. As these gods declined cancer rates increased.
Some of these are obviously less serious than others, however it doesn't excuse the plausible possibilities. These aren't oncologists, their paleontologists, also known as historians who guess about things based on what they dig out of the ground.
I'm stage 4 Stomach cancer, started there because it's super aggressive, the OS for 5 years at stage 4 is 5% at last reading, based on my current treatment outcomes I've got at least another year in me based on available treatments as I'm still first line and the cancer is still responding to chemo. I'm aiming for 10 years, because go big or go home right? It was all through my periodontal cavity, but apparently aside from the primary tumor my cancer cells are too small to be seen on imaging, PET or CT. I'm apparently supposed to be dead already, and yet here I am kicking around. I get "you don't look like you have cancer" a lot, because I'm on the bigger side. It was the best damned weight loss program I was ever on though, lost 60lbs before my first chemo. It took me a while to realize just how stupendously lucky I was. Every single day I wake up terrified that it could be my last and every single night I go to bed terrified I might die in my sleep. Every treatment has a risk of death, or get this, causing new cancers. I'm heading into my 16th treatment of 5FU and just recently dropped the Oxaliplatin, which causes permanent nerve damage in most people, but it's way better than death, which it can also cause if you have a bad reaction. I've been planning out a Youtube channel for younger people like me who get cancer, and I suppose older people would appreciate it too. I've missed very few days of work over this whole thing and it's been mostly an inconvenience. I've got mostly good days, been way more chipper since getting diagnosed oddly enough, I have some bad days, and nights I straight up cry in the shower so my wife doesn't see. I think the best thing about getting cancer is that I have an excuse to make people in a cancer ward laugh with my dark humor and no one will say anything because we all need to laugh, it's the only time that constant nagging in your head about how close you are to death seems to go away. I suspect that's kind of like soldiers in long-term dangerous deployments, there's a lot of waiting and everything is normal and you get into a routine, and then without warning you're in danger and everyone's moving and serious, and there's no time for jokes because everyone's just trying to focus on staying alive. But again, I'm one of the lucky ones. I'm still lucky enough to have the privilege to worry about this. I'm still lucky enough to wake up and see the amazing person my child is becoming. I've been lucky enough to be able to finally push myself into doing the charity work I've always wanted. I want everyone to have the opportunity to feel this lucky.
I'm not talking about brute forcing good encryption, I'm solely talking about nation states ability to find the back door entry. I may have confused the issue taking about GPUs.
Generally it's about being less strict, but it's typically done for health reasons. I mean pushing every into a box is hard. Intentionally eating any kind of meat or meat byproduct, including fish means you're not following a vegetarian lifestyle. It's not a knock on the person it's just in the definition, an example would be a professional sports player. If they are no longer playing the sport in the big leagues they are no longer a big league sports player. It doesn't mean they couldn't be one again, just that they aren't even they aren't. If they move to the minor leagues they are a minor league player. Veganism with it's stricter requirements would be like a big league player, vegetarian which is a bit easier to maintain minor leagues, and people who only play sometimes would be pick up players or adult league players. The problem comes when people confuse the issue for those unfamiliar with the lifestyle. Someone who occasionally eats meat around their family might confuse their family into thinking that all vegetarians are comfortable with this when most aren't. I'd personally prefer that people that do this use the flexatarianism name to avoid that confusion.
Strictly speaking veganism does generally include clothing as part of the definition, I typically dress vegan but eat vegetarian. I have no problem stealing honey from bees as I view it as a generally cobeneficial relationship. I plant flowers for them specifically, set up housing for them, and protect them from their enemies, all ensuring a higher survival chance and more production. Same with pets. I feed them, take care of them, provide them love, and mutually we have a relationship of family. Our pets are given every opportunity to be the animals they are with the benefit of free food and protection, just for being part of the family.
If you're looking for leather style formal shoes that aren't leather, look for things like PU (not PU leather) or vegan leather. It's all just a way of saying PVC clothing. You can also look for the tag "all man-made materials". Your headphones are generally not real leather unless they explicitly state it and are very high end. Couch guitar straps makes some great vegan belts from recycled car vinyl, clickbelts make some vegan ones too, mooshoes has only vegan shoes, and searching vegan shoes on Amazon will bring up tons in all difference price ranges. All of these are just suggestions if you're looking for them.
As has already been stated you can use the prior tissue to better individualize current treatment. For example I'm a really rare patient, most people in my situation are already dead by this point in their treatment. Chemotherapy worked so well most of my primary tumor was gone within days and they haven't seen it since my 6th treatment. They still think it's there but it's generally too small to be seen. They didn't save the samples from my cancer to figure out why it worked so welln or why I've been able to handle aggressive treatment for far longer than average with minimal side effects. No hair loss, minimal nerve damage, etc. If that information could help even one other person, I would want it out there. I've contributed to every study I can be a part of and consented to every bit of sharing of my generic material I could, I only wish I could do more. Nearly everyone with my same diagnosis at the same time as me is dead. Speaking just for myself, being able to contribute to keeping other people from ever going through this means the world to me.
Cancer has always existed regardless of pollution. It's cell mutation, which is part of evolution. You can't fix it by getting rid of pollution. You fix it by making your own immune system recognize it again so that it can not the cell properly. Either that or restore the proper cell death instruction. Cancer deaths have been going down for years, firstly due to less smoking and less salted meat in our diets and now due to better understanding. It's slow, but it's steady and every oncologist in the world is waiting for the hockey stick moment.
The Mueller report wasn't looking for collusion. That's literally the President changing the narrative. The Mueller report was looking into election tampering by a foreign power and it find that the Trump organization had numerous people that broke tons of established laws footing the course of running the campaign, including the President who incited action by a foreign power against a political opponent. How Republicans aren't running screaming from a guy who brags about committing literal treason I don't know. He's not even in line with traditional Republican values, he's not Christian, doesn't hate lgbtq people, has no problem with wasting government money, and hurts cheap labor by trying to close the border. His only real stated goal has been weakening the U.S government. A foreign power couldn't ask for a better mole inside the government.
GPUs have been shown to be very good at complex math problems. A nation state with unlimited money could find a weakness built into crypto in a matter of days at most. A bored hacker would probably find it in a few hours.
Whether I agree with you or not here's the difference. Stricter enforcement of who gets a firearm is not the same thing as putting a vulnerability into every firearm that allows police officers to cause the weapon to backfire into the legally purchased firearm owner's face. Breaking crypto literally makes it dangerous to the people who use it. I'd be opposed to remote police controls on firearms that caused them to fail as well. It's an unnecessary danger that circumvents the purpose of the device.
Not even sketchy. Monitoring how long techs take on calls is a requirement in some roles for quality assurance and training purposes. Company I worked for had GPS tracking that they used to make it show that one employee was visiting another employees wife because our home base was over street over. It was a funny prank until it wasn't.
For g suite location is under Mobile management. They list it as a find my phone type of feature. There's even a picture of it on their marketing.
A company cannot force you to use your hardware to run their business at least not without compensation. Having a phone number that can be paged is significantly different than installing MDM software that can track literally everywhere you go, wipe your phone without your permission, etc. If a company is saying you "must" install something in your personal device without any compensation on top of your regular paycheck this is incorrect. If you use your own car for work you're typically compensated with mileage or you can write it off on your taxes.
Generally MDM software swallows up everything. It's been a while since I managed an MDM instance but we could track everywhere the employee went by default and when I suggested we turn it off there wasn't an option nor did management want to. We could see every app pretty much everything on the device. I will never install MDM on my phone after managing it. I've also seen phones accidentally wiped. Back up your phones.
Flexatarianism is for people who do it for health reasons. It allows for a mostly plant based diet without the strict no animal products like gelatin, red 40, and other common animal products as well as occasional meat consumption. If you eat no meat just for preference and stick to it then it's vegetarian. There's no moral or ideologic obligation with vegetarianism/veganism, it's just what you eat.
Every comedian mocks vegans eventually. It's the same stupid jokes over and over with every comedian when it comes to how people eat. It's on television, it's even a joke is Scooby Doo. It's lazy comedy. There are entire YouTube channels dedicated just to mocking vegans. Yes, vegans are legal to make fun of, doesn't mean they aren't beating a dead horse at this point. First it's about how weird they are, then usually something about bean sprouts, then about how the vegans claim it tastes just like the real thing, when no vegan would want it to. Then end with how the vegans are dicks and the comedian will just enjoy their burger thanks. I've seen this routine verbatim by at least 5 different comedians.
I actually say I believe specifically when I want to convey I may have doubts, usually followed with "please correct me if I'm wrong" but I have worked hard to foster an environment without blaming my team. If there's a need to correct an action after it's been done we correct the action and define it within the process documentation. We've also worked very hard to solidify expectations so that if decisions need to be made without guidance they are clear on the intent of what their actions should be and respond accordingly. It's not a perfect system but it allows us to respond quicker to customer needs without waiting for management decisions.
There's nothing wrong with capitalism or companies trying to extract the best deal they can get, but I can't stand people feeling devalued. It took me longer than it should have to realize my economic and personal value. If I can help just one other person to realize that they are valuable and more than just their work then that's a success in my book. It took my getting diagnosed with a terminal disease to get me to realize what I wanted my legacy to be and I'll spend every day I've got left trying to make this world a little bit less sucky every day.
As someone who used this very technique to get into a leadership position, there's a difference between using this to give other people credit and using this to get people into your side. The idea is to have a win-win situation where your needs and theirs align. You should have something to consider a win for yourself out of this. As an example, you have a customer who defines success as X. In order to get to X you need feature Y. By having a conversation with the product manager you use leading questions to get the product manager to suggest Y. You agree, the product manager gets a win in a new useful feature the customer loves, your workload goes down and the customer sees you as invaluable. Customer retention goes up and you get to celebrate that win for yourself.
It seems like a lot of work, but if you do this continually then you build trust with other teams, and you become more skilled with the process. Bad actors generally aren't smart enough to realize when you're giving them rope to hang themselves so this same technique can be used against them and they will look insane blaming others for their own bad ideas.
It sounds as if you could use a mentor to guide you through the technique and avoid the pitfalls you fell into. I'd also suggest learning how to effectively market yourself. I'm nothing special, don't have a bachelor's degree, and used to have terrible people skills. I'm now highly in demand and effectively can make my own roles wherever I go. It's definitely possible for anyone to do.
No, but there's definitely been a muddying of the definitions so it's understandable. Sociopaths actually have a purpose in society. Psychopaths are a detriment. Sociopaths can be very good and productive members of society. There's evidence to suggest that it's both a gene that needs to be present as well as the correct conditions during upbringing to trigger it.
It's in the article he was traveling with his brother who had a Texas ID which requires a US social security number? Was there someone else mentioned in the article I missed in my reading?
The other person was another US citizen and they were in the United States and stopped for being tan. After proof of citizenship was provided he still hasn't been released. What about this story is okay with you? U.S. citizens shouldn't be being stopped by customs away from the border, US citizens shouldn't be detained without representation and denied civil liberties, US citizens shouldn't be forced into signing deportation documents in order to get legal representation or talk to their family. They definitely shouldn't continue to be in custody for immigration after their legal documents have been provided.
Yes and this isn't your fault, no matter how much employers want you to feel. It's entirely up to a company how much they offer employees. Think about this, they could at any moment increase the pay off every employee without as single complaint from employees. They make a conscious choice to not increase the pay of more senior employees intentionally because they know the employees won't leave to get more money. You shouldn't feel bad because of choices the company makes. The friction isn't your fault or your concern. As I stated before companies tell you not to share because it benefits them, not you. No one feels bad when someone leaves the company for more money elsewhere, there are even companies that ask their employees to take a cut and they do and everyone feels okay with it because you're all in it together. The only time this friction occurs is when a company chooses to bring someone in for money they choose not to offer to another employee. You stated yourself that you became demoralized before sharing, in fact it was the company that brought it on. The company is trying to make you feel bad for sticking up for yourself in a contract negotiation, don't let them do that to you. You're worth more than that, both as a person and as an employee. The contractor makes other sacrifices including benefits and stability as part of their wages. If the company can't explain that it's on them, not you.
Learning to effectively communicate with others is the single most important skill you can learn. It will help you improve your relationships with others, clearly communicate your own ideas, and address areas for improvement in ideas and others in a way that is constructive. There's been quite a few great books on this thread already. Here's some I haven't seen.
* The Ultimate Sales Machine - Chet Holmes - good even if you're not in sales
* The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker - Great book overall
* The Phoenix Project - good for understanding project flows and silos.
* Thinking in Systems - good for how to set up processes so that even if you step away the job still gets done. Essential for getting promoted, no one can promote you if you're impossible to replace.
Sadly the higher up you go, the higher the likelihood you'll be dealing with sociopaths and psychopaths. While sociopaths can be very effective executives, psychopaths should always be watched it for as they thrive on the drama and power. Sociopaths just lack empathy which makes them highly useful in making emotionally difficult decisions. For a Star Trek reference sociopaths act like Vulcans when it comes to empathy. Psychopaths act like Romulans in nearly every situation. Don't get emotionally invested in either.
If you're debating you've already lost the debate. The effective way to win a debate is not to have one. You either convince the other person the idea was theirs, which is easier than it sounds, or you get them to argue your point for you at which point it is their idea. Learning how to do this takes effort and a willingness to realize how little one truly knows about the art of effective speaking. You'll also begin to recognize when other people are manipulating you using this method. A really quick trick for this method is to start a conversation with something the person said and then say that what they said gave you your idea. Very few people won't take the compliment, you'll immediately validate their who ego and intelligence, and they'll immediately feel like you owe than something which means they'll want to be around you more. A good book as a primer for this is Influence by Cialdini.
Here's the kicker it even works when the person knows you're doing it. So it was good you brought this idea up, it allowed us to have a really good conversation about it and explore it more fully.
Something I've had to learn with larger organizations is that the logic at the top isn't always conveyed to the bottom. Perverse incentives play heavily into this. An example of this is executive bonuses. Everyone knows that for long term health of a company short term gains should be subservient to long term gains. Bonus structures are typically structured for short term, which means that in order for an employee to get a bonus they have to do something that farms the company long term.
Another example is RIFs (reduction in force). An executive in IT gets a bonus for cost containment by not hiring appropriately. This leads to longer hold times, poorer service techs, and less training. Overall it costs the company more time lost and wasted effort, but this isn't tracked, only bottom line. The exec gets his bonus for cost cutting and the company gets less efficient and effective for it.
This is a major problem in large corporations and why CEOs are really useless employees in most cases, and almost universally overpaid compared to results. Generally a company could do without a CEO it choose one at random and get the same results.
Just getting along with people is pretty reductionist on that idea I agree. It's a fantastic book and I agree with you on every part other than that bit of explanation. I think a better way to phrase it might be to find a way to say things in ways that aren't offensive, which takes a long time to learn, and don't look for a fight when it isn't looking for you. You're not always going to be able to say the same thing to different people and get the same results, this is a lesson that took me a long time to learn. I would say things I didn't find offensive in the slightest, nor did I mean in any way insulting, however others would take it as a personal insult, even if it was just simply the reality of the situation.
A way to meet the second part of don't go looking for a fight is to follow advice that's actually a rule here and assume the best possible interpretation of what's being said.