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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
>Medical understanding is not getting worse, unless I’m severely mistaken. You are mistaken. To realize that you will have to look back several decades and read the literature of those times, of what is left. Now note I'm taking abo
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>medicine is improving. I doubt whether this is true. Lots of hype, but no tangible improvement to show for chronic conditions for common people.
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>I think it's a power dynamic - they can ask the questions because they know the applicants are more desperate. Or they are more stupid. Stupid people tend to psychoanalyze and stereotype other people more often.
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>>Some of the stuff is possibly wrong, like this >There's a lot of nonsense floating around regarding exercise and weight control. The only way to lose weight is to eat less than your body burns. Period. Exercising causes your
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>Ultimately it will take strict legislation and compliance measurement along with penalties to protect the government from overstepping the bounds they promise not to step over already, let alone new ones. They will find ways to not comp
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>There seems to be something unique about the relationship between codering and the concepts of transparency, honesty, and truth more broadly. And what is worse than lies, is self delusion, even if honest. To nit pick on radical honesty,
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>>we're addicted to the notion of making everything software-defined so you can change everything later if needed. Man, hammer, nail, etc
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
>We’re eeking out tiny wins over decades, I glean from many non-main stream sources (who are generally labeled quacks or naysayers, I have lost track of sources) : - There have been almost no improvements in cancer treatments especiall
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
One of the Nobel Prize winners ( there were 3 I think) for the discovery of AIDS virus, Luc Montagnier I think believed that even conventional AIDS was completely due to nutritional deficiencies. He ended up being a heretic in scientific ci
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
From the link: PRETENTIOUS DICTION. Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilize, eliminate, liquidate, are used to dress up
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I initially misread the word 'international' to mean 'intentional'. Come to think of it, it may all be very intentional indeed.
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
>Is not paying tax on income from theft actually tax fraud? Well tax on income is theft ( my opinion). So tax on theft income would be theft on theft. Life sure is complicated ;)
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Put another way, the current generation of earners have a raw deal. High inflation, high cost of housing etc. etc. Oh, Canada!
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>It wasn't about the amount of the tax on tea but rather the fact we didn't vote for it I didn't vote for the US Congress...
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Homo Corporatus, a very lowly animal indeed.
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Seconded. It make the lowly programmer feel intelligent.
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>, the handymen, plumbers, and electricians of the world will be mostly unaffected. I will actually then think that all this AI stuff is not smoke and mirrors, the way it currently appears to be.
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Been doing it myself. 12 years and counting...
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So no leetcode if you join AWS Professional Services?
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Generally yes. The nuanced view: People who can handle freedom responsibly so (just like having a driver's license) should be allowed to do so. The rest can be protected from their own stupidity by big brother if they want to. Essentia
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
Takeaways: A sort of boiling frog phenomenon. The creep sets in because the founders hired or promoted people who did not uphold the core principles, and prioritized short terms gains. My comment: Sieving and assessing multitudes of prospe
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by dennis_jeeves2 3y ago
>(especially for management hires) is a diversity quota exercise. Tangential, but a less obvious way of decline is hiring people you trust ( old friends, classmates etc.) but who are be other wise incompetent.
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>Just as some doctors are bad, some vaccines are bad. I suspect that most doctors are bad, because in general medicine appears to be very medieval to the extent I have explored. Same goes for vaccines. Most seem to be ineffective or harm
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>See smoking, leaded gasoline, trans fats, various other food additives, etc. Good observation, as a general rule any new substance must generally proven to be safe ( and there are reasonable ways to do it, without being overly cautious)
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>Give me immortality, and then check in with me yearly if I still want it. I will let you know once I'm over it. I like the rational attitude. Like you pointed out, somehow people think it's some magic portion that you drink wi
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> this is a failure of basic society functioning on so many levels. True it boils down to people really. Society has just a facade of being functioning, in reality it as bad as the govt, banks that it represents.
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>Physics, chemistry, and biology The last I heard ( meaning it's hearsay) they were not well grounded in the practical aspects ( as opposed to theoretical) of these subjects either.
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This is the correct answer. Disturbing how some people bay for the blood of the rich even if the wealth was gained legitimately and voluntarily.
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> The thing is, Jeff Bezos has done far more to push up my wages indirectly by virtue of Amazon existing and hiring talent, and offering great salaries Well, you got to understand how the mind of a socialist work. They would rather have
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Guess based on anecdotes (primitive tribes etc.) possibly well into their nineties, notably they were physically very strong well past their seventies. One really need not go that far. The 'idealized' diet often shows results in

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