I just had my second child and I refused to give him the Hep-B shot on the first day of his life. The acting pediatrician (not his) asked if I was going to do it "in-office" the following week and I said no. She became visually bothered by this and I told her that I didn't think I could consent for him since I didn't understand the reason for him to get the shot. She said it is without risk and a public health issue.
Last week we went for his first office visit and my son's actual pediatrician explained that public health means that it's good for the population if they get everyone to get it but individually it has no value to him until he's much older and sexually active or sharing needles. Bonkers...
The models are always wrong. It's virtually impossible to model something with an impossible amount of unknown inputs. Even accurately measuring the Earth over time is a joke. Unfortunately the models are presented in pop science and mainstream culture as accurate or something that we should use to create public policy.
This is what killed IBM PowerPC in the ML market. Tried to get in with a faster CPU with NVLink embedded hoping that would win market share. But what won wasn't a faster machine or better architecture. A platform with more developers that has fewer bugs and everyone knows wins almost all the time. ML/AI developers are less rare today but still rare.
Even better was the BeBox running BeOS. That was a cool use of a fast dual CPU PowerPC platform with great graphics. Amiga vibes. But turns out that humans need software applications more than they need efficient use of the hardware.
I paid extra and scheduled an Uber with a child seat. After waiting 30 minutes, when the car showed up, there was no car seat so the driver canceled right away and drove off. Lesson learned.
Just wait until the Guardian finds out about all the ADHD diagnostic centers, tutors, therapy mills and drugs. Some might say there is a giant money printing industry of nonsense around ADHD.
It has been this way a long time. I interviewed and got a job offer with the Naval Research Lab in the late 1990's. It was a very cool job working on chips for space defense systems and I was told they could match any private offer and as a bonus I would retire with a full pension when I was 41 (I was 21 at the time). It sounded good and I loved the idea of making things that went into space. Then I started to get offers from companies in Silicon Valley. They were 50% higher and had free apartments for a few months plus a sign on bonus. I asked the NRL to match and they said there was no way they could. I moved to the valley...
In the late ‘90’s I used to brag about my Linux uptime being over a year. And that was a system was directly exposed to the internet. I can’t imagine how many unknown security holes it had during that time.
Sure, It really depends on the potential for abuse and the doctor's decision. There are a lot of critical medications that aren't likely to be abused. If you check with your doctor they may very well write you the prescriptions you need if you ask and explain why.
I’m reminded of the old comic where it shows that Facebook’s users are the product. The advertisers are the only customers. Why should they care to deal with one billionth of their product if it is accidentally marked bad?
I'm thankful that Hyatt isn't like that. Wifi and all the benefits of status in their program persist even on award nights. In fact, they wave the "resort fees" for all stays if you are their top tier. So at least they don't anger their best customers with this.
In the bay area and almost everywhere on the west coast you are looking at over $1k/month in property taxes for that house with a "paid-off mortgage." In most states you never really "own" your home. You only own it while you pay tax every six months until you are dead.
Agreed. "Whale" is a standard term in the free-to-play game industry to refer to any account in the top 1% or 2%. It has nothing to do with the age of the player or anything other than the revenue for that account.
The majority of the revenue for a f2p game will often come from whales.
I agree that the fault lies with the politician, but I would argue that the real issue is that they forced all ISPs to send notice to customers. If a politician wants something communicated, they can fund a public awareness program, not force it on ISPs. That fault doesn't exonerate CentryLink's action.
IMHO ARM64 server chips are suited for the cloud and cloud native applications. Containers and microservices can make better use of the high number of cores and greater mem bandwidth than old monolithic apps. Openstack, Kubernetes and Docker all work and are available with support. Virtualization with KVM also works fine.