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Doctors in hospital/healthcare systems are generally limited like the GP suggested. Independent doctors are much more able to do otherwise.

How does one conclude from genetics that he had hepatitis B? Similarly how can you rule out IBS from his DNA when it can be caused by e.g. specific bacteria in the gut?

I don’t see how we can say that pharmaceuticals don’t have serious safety issues.

Consider Vioxx:

> Merck withdrew the drug after disclosures that it withheld information about rofecoxib's risks from doctors and patients for over five years, allegedly resulting in between 88,000 and 140,000 cases of serious heart disease.

But, for example, deaths from e.g. breast cancer have gone way down since we started treating it.

Actually a lot of it is increasingly proactive not reactive.

No, because those things don’t dramatically increase the incidence rate.

But if, after the mass introduction of that medicine, the number of people with the disease skyrocketed, then there’s a decent likelihood the causality does actually go that direction.

With other treatments for diseases we always expect the incidence rate to decline — because the treatment works. If it stayed static or went up slightly, then the treatment doesn’t work (and you’re might have slightly higher rates due to new interest in the diagnosis). But huge increases…that’d not be good.

The assumption that the NSA catches (and discloses) most flaws in major open source software requires a high suspension of disbelief.

Please tell me you’re not still talking about IKEA.

Because it’s a fork those issues were in fact issues with freenginx IMO.

Systemic to manufacturing is not the same as systemic to the aircraft’s design.

Is this a way of saying that large language models don’t have the concept of “I don’t know”?

The title here is pretty confusing.

The truth is, as usual, probably somewhere in the middle.

I don’t understand the downvotes to this comment. Obviously you can disagree, but it’s the obvious question in response to lots of commenters implying this isn’t possible.

If the average home was using 10kW constant it be using 240 kWh a day, which is enormously high.

In terms of average usage an average sized home in the US is much closer to 50kWh a day, so roughly 2kW average demand. That would mean 1 MW is enough for 500 homes on average. The one thing that doesn’t is peak demand load, say when everyone gets home from work and turns everything on at the same time or a particularly cold or hot day.

Edit: the average US home uses just shy of 1000 kWh a month, or just over 30 kWh a day.

I don’t find the quotes shared actually proof of the claims made. Of course rooftop solar messes with utility profits, but the operative question is how. The article seems assume simple 1:1 demand reduction as the driver of lowering profits, but, for example, a larger driver could be a shift from base load generation (cheaper) to peaker generation (more expensive). Another possibility could be net metering laws creating demand for services (usage of utility at night as if it were a giant battery) without actually paying for the cost of utility infrastructure and the services provided by incorrectly equating a kWh as the same no matter when it’s generated.

Full disclosure: I have rooftop solar and also benefit from net metering, so I am not speaking as one who can’t see why the consumer desires those things.

It's an interesting idea, but in general you don't come most of the way to a stop coasting in an ICE car unless you're already at a low speed. Usually you coast some, and then you have to brake significantly still.

In fact they're both just means of generating the same essential force: rotational resistance on the axle.

Isn’t it true that it’s already widely known that some US states (or the US itself; can’t remember details) stores DNA of anyone ever booked by the police even if not charged or charged and acquitted?

I’ve had multiple GE appliances fail early on. And you can find plenty of people online saying the same.

YMMV.

Yes.

It's amazing how many people commenting here effectively refuse to acknowledge that there are ways (and more than one!) in which ICE cars are better than EVs and want to believe that no one could rationally decide on different trade-offs.

I own and EV, and I love it. But pretending the paradigm shift comes with no undesirable trade-offs is absurd. And wanting everyone to come to a uniform decision about what they value is a great example of technocratic tyranny.

I think the page features patch (which is a precursor to TDE, which Jonathan does mention) likely paves the way for better compression options.

That doesn’t have to incur actual downtime if you use pgbouncer in front of Postgres and pause the pool.

Most people don’t read the safety card or pay attention to the safety briefing either.

Sure, but by that (correct) reasoning the fact that it’s SMS (as a system) or some other system is similarly irrelevant to them and not the terms they think in.

Indeed here’s the NYT bemoaning “green bubble shaming”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/technology/personaltech/a...

If people don’t know it (at some level like intuition), why is that everyone I know (including non-tech 55 year olds) see the green bubble and know the other person has android instead of an iPhone?

A book, TV show, movie, video game, album, or comic book is not available on the internet served by the copyright holder’s own servers with no authentication or authorization checks. But the NYT is available in that way.