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by disabled 5y ago
Austerity literally kills, and often leads to neoliberalism. “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills” by David Stuckler MPH PhD and Sanjay Basu MD PhD is an excellent read on the subject. The British, in no exaggeration, get taxed to death.
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by disabled 5y ago
LOL Switzerland (i.e. extremely punctual society) actually does this with their rail system. There is a time buffer in the rail schedule for each of the stops. If a train is running late, and is /expected/ to be late, according to
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by disabled 5y ago
> news organizations have generally terrible performance and deserve to be punished for it in search rankings. Most news on the internet is plagiarized off of a few original sources at best and then redistributed on various sites and por
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by disabled 5y ago
> trained on 75+ languages, can transfer knowledge between languages There is zero possibility that Google accomplished proper "language transfer" with the vast majority of Silicon Valley programmers being native English speake
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by disabled 5y ago
No, but this is an excellent reason why healthcare should never be tied to your employment. This is not an uncommon occurance, at all. 10% of the general population can theoretically benefit from an orphan drug. In America an orphan drug co
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by disabled 5y ago
They are way ahead than the US when it comes to competence in tech legislation.
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by disabled 5y ago
True. But, honestly, health insurance claims would be an excellent target. If released via a torrent at the right period of time, it could be powerful, such as right before health reform, if it is the right legal bill to prey on. The same w
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by disabled 5y ago
Yeah, true. But, the EU is a regulatory stronghold. The EU does take action on this sort of stuff, and will create standards if necessary. We still have a long ways to go, but it is a "going to the moon" type of an issue rather th
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by disabled 5y ago
It would happen pretty quickly, based on how these cyberattacks are going. Also, Russia would like it. The tip of the iceberg has not even been identified with the recent US SolarWinds cyber attack. Then again, nationalizing care would brin
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by disabled 5y ago
I cannot wait for my US based medical record to be leaked at some point. There will probably be somebody who creates a torrent of these records to be downloaded at some point in time. I have little faith in the US government or the various
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by disabled 5y ago
Here is a good read on where it goes: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html All I know is that there is no way that I am going to be physically in the US for the next presidential e
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by disabled 5y ago
> Just raise the air exchange per person and or per volume by a significant factor and mandate a very fine particulate filter. An alternative in the meantime is to use a PAPR (powered air purifying respirator), which are more efficient,
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by disabled 5y ago
Original submitter comment: This hits the spot. > It's what happens when your public health system is overloaded. Every single thing that requires that system (i.e. more or less any healthcare situation that can't be resolved v
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by disabled 5y ago
Original submitter comment: Agreed. However, I am a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen living in Croatia. I am culturally American. The US had the expertise, technological capacity, and economic investment capacity to be able to eradicate the vi
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by disabled 5y ago
Thank you for the link. I am the original submitter of this topic. WBUR is Boston’s NPR station, which has a huge listener base, and I say this as a west coast person.
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by disabled 5y ago
Not true: You ideally still need as many electrodes as feasibly possible for a more complete BCI interface, implanted or not, regardless of the resolution (constant bitrate) of the electrodes. It is true though that certain implanted electr
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Covid-19 Was 'A Preventable Disaster,' WHO-Ordered Report Says(wbur.org)
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by disabled 5y ago
The entire commissioned report can be read here: https://theindependentpanel.org/mainreport/
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by disabled 5y ago
I cannot pull up studies now (on mobile), but it’s believed to be more of an issue about change of identity than disability or brain injury. 1. Audio Narrated Version of New Yorker Article: https://share.audm.com/share/
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by disabled 5y ago
It is believed that a lot of this is due to a shift in identity. Look at the examples of this used in people with epilepsy (medically stable for years, that has not progressed) for example. The divorce rates are similar with other users of
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by disabled 5y ago
Agreed. The divorce rate of married people who get these government regulatory approved BCI interfaces is also extremely high. There are also other extremely severe problems that such interfaces cause. EDIT: To the downvoters, it’s true, an
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by disabled 5y ago
As another poster said, they used RNN to decode handwriting. While there was an increased character rate observed, that is substantial compared to other such systems, that is not necessarily what is groundbreaking here. You would probably n
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by disabled 5y ago
Thank you so much for the link! :-) I am going to share it with everyone I can!
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by disabled 5y ago
As a dual US|EU (Croatian) citizen, who is culturally American, you always use an immigration lawyer (no matter the country) for immigration matters. There is just too much on the line and too much risk not to. For example, I got a Croatian
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by disabled 5y ago
> could we see Facebook banned from the EU? I wish they were banned from the EU, for a variety of reasons. As an American living in Croatia, I can affirm that social media works differently abroad and it is a lot more pleasant. Facebook
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by disabled 5y ago
A lot of this work has been research of Dina Katabi at MIT, via a function called the Sparse Fourier ("4-E-A") Transform. I am not excusing the privacy implications, which will be abused to the extreme. However, it will be used al
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by disabled 5y ago
This is a good tool to use when dealing with health insurance in the United States. You should at minimum keep an Excel spreadsheet of date, whom you talked to, which department they are from, purpose of the call, follow up actions, etc. Bu
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by disabled 5y ago
I made a post about this about 2 weeks ago on a less popular thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26849275 It is way worse than cigarettes, on so many levels. It is much more profound than one would initially a
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by disabled 5y ago
This is an old post of mine: Croatia is part of the European Union, and allows US citizens and other third-country nationals (non-EU/EEA/Swiss citizens) in, very easily. This includes during the coronavirus pandemic. They also hav
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by disabled 5y ago
As a dual US|EU citizen, I would not mind it at all. I am no Luddite either.

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