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by chopin 6y ago
Thalidomide had been tested as well. That alone is not conclusive. Afair there had been hints of its ill effects in animal trials.
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by chopin 6y ago
Like, the FAA? I think governmental institutions lost much trust the past few years. If big pharma execs band together to publicly state that they will not go onto a fast track on administration wishes, something is very wrong with institut
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by chopin 6y ago
Oh, I am pretty sure they realize that. However the ones taking the decision will not bear the consequences. They didn't the last time. That's what I fear.
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by chopin 6y ago
> It is probably pretty safe. I wouldn't hold my breath. MCAS may have been fixed although I am even unsure about that. The regulatory capture problem hasn't been solved and I didn't hear that the FAA widened its capabilit
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by chopin 6y ago
> The philosopher in me doesn't mean to be snarky, but what the author concedes here is that APIs actually aren't like user interfaces. I'd say that the 'proper' API design depends very much on the language you t
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by chopin 6y ago
That was the point where I retreated from Microsoft. Couldn't be happier.
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by chopin 6y ago
Fun fact: chiral molecules affect left and right circular polarized light differently.
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by chopin 6y ago
Light is always chiral (spin).
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by chopin 6y ago
As opposed to when the mainstream media define the truth? Mainstream media are not much better in that regard. Especially wilful or negligent omission of either facts or entire stories is something I observe quite often. Or wording is chose
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by chopin 6y ago
>"Disturbing the Peace" is one example off the top of my head of something that's incredibly subjective that we consider the purview of the legal system. That doesn't mean it's a good thing. Good laws (especially
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by chopin 6y ago
Worth one year of compute on a mediocre PC if my math doesn't fail me. Not that much for such a task. We tend to forget how fast modern computers are.
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by chopin 6y ago
I am pretty sure patients outcomes would be much better with no regulation at all. Be careful what you wish for. Many regulations have been written in blood.
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by chopin 6y ago
Microsoft has been broken up?
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by chopin 6y ago
This is unfortunately not true for health data. There is an exemption for those that those can be collected for research purposes if a member entity legalize that. That is the case in Germany for people who are not privately insured. Their
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by chopin 6y ago
The problem with these lines is that you need to out yourself having mental problems. After this breach I'd be very reluctant to do this. Eg. in Germany, pseudonymous health data is centrally stored for research purposes, open to a non
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by chopin 6y ago
If we do nothing that's going to happen anyway.
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by chopin 6y ago
Yes but only since it's very poorly enforced. I can't count the occasions I see the GDPR is violated a day . Like, almost every website I open.
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by chopin 6y ago
I don't have an account with Quantcast. That's the whole point.
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by chopin 6y ago
It'd be useful if the author revealed how she managed to obtain her data. I am pretty sure that a request with just your real name wouldn't reveal much. I assume that most data is collected under some identifier which isn't m
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by chopin 6y ago
> Medicine has a unique and extreme case of the "uninformed consumer problem." In medicine it's incredibly difficult even for professionals to tell whether something actually works, let alone individuals. It's extreme
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by chopin 6y ago
Yeah but Ireland does everything to not lose them over privacy regulations. The delegation of authority to national regulators is a big weakness in GDPR.
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by chopin 6y ago
That worked well for Beirut, though...
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by chopin 6y ago
I dare to say that I'll never donate for a charity which takes money from the Sacklers. I will remember the name for the rest of my life. I think this is too big to be easily cleaned up.
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by chopin 6y ago
I've written PLC code in the 90's which still runs today.
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by chopin 6y ago
+1 for induction. Gas heats up the handles pretty fast, too.
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by chopin 6y ago
Rulings of the constitutional court have almost no real life consequences. If there is a negative ruling the parliament is given ample time before the unconstitutional law must be replaced. If there is any replacement within that time, the
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by chopin 6y ago
How would that be in the interest of any government? Even in the most liberal democracies (I know of) there is a strong surveillance tendency.
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by chopin 6y ago
But only one switch for both camera and mic; I am sitting right in front of one. Better than nothing but not always what you want. Same for for bluetooth and wireless which I find even more unpractical.
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by chopin 6y ago
If I can, I never use the classical singleton pattern because of testability. On the other hand I use one single instance of a class if I can make use of a dependency injection framework. I prefer that over static classes which have the bad
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by chopin 6y ago
Wild mixes of consumer and provider API's for example in Swing. The later designs have been much better in that regard. The built-in http client library is borderline horrible.

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