I actually like the integrated browser that allows me to swipe to the next feedly story after looking at the website. What I don't like is how slow/laggy the interface is trying to get into the first story.
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JimFive

I may not be understanding your suggestion, but I'm not so sure this would work in an environment that has 1500 practically identical rooms each of which have an identical sink and where leaning forward to look down at and manipulate things (such as a patient) is common.
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JimFive

Removing the gloves (potentially) contaminates the hands, thus you must wash your hands after removing the gloves. (Or, at least, that's the policy at my local hospital)
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JimFive

I just wanted to expand on this a little bit. You enter A's room, wash hands, deal with patient, wash hands to prevent contaminating the door handle with whatever you just picked up from A.
You enter B's room, wash hands to wash off whatever was on the door handle of the last two doors you went through etc...

Policy at our local hospital is to wash hands whenever you remove gloves so this wouldn't really help.

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JimFive

Doesn't it let you send the one bit of information "I have broken the entanglement"? If so, then that would send information faster than light.
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JimFive

This isn't a revenue generating bill. It is not a federal tax being imposed. It is a law requiring businesses engaged in interstate commerce to collect sales taxes for the state of the purchaser.
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JimFive

A single professional earning ~$100,000 with a modest house and no student loans (basically unable to itemize deductions) will pay a combined federal tax (income + SS + Medicare) of right around 30%.
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JimFive

No, it doesn't work that way. What matters is if the player is playing the game as intended by the owner of the game, not the programmer. The player is committing a crime as soon as he intentionally takes advantage of the fact that the machine is not playing by the stated rules. Note the key words, intentionally takes advantage. The first time the player accidentally mashes all the buttons and the machine pays out extra he didn't commit a crime. When he does it again just to see if it happens again then he might have committed a crime. When he tells his friends and they use the trick to beat the machine then they have all committed a crime.
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JimFive

I just wanted to point out that Kinesiology is not the same as the quackery that is called Applied Kinesiology.
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JimFive

There may be (ok, there certainly are) instances of the stupidity of our courts, but this isn't it.

Botanically speaking ALL fruits are vegetables and a lot of things that we consider vegetables are fruits: green peppers, squash, tomatoes, anything with seeds surrounded by flesh; and a lot of things we don't consider vegetables are, such as nuts and grain. The fact that the court declared that the law meant the colloquial definition of vegetable is reasonable. What may be stupid is that the definition wasn't spelled out in the law, itself.

The fact is that the botanical definition of fruit and vegetable is irrelevant for policy purposes.
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JimFive

Check out the exercise portion of The Hacker's Diet. You might also check out something like One Hundred Pushups. Or, take a walk at lunch time and during breaks.
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JimFive

I want to add to this that the "politically correct" movement of the late 70s and 80s worked. And, in fact, that is the correct way to deal with ideas that you (want to) deem socially unacceptable. You put the idea out there and you shame the people that express those ideas. You don't, generally, pass laws about it, you use social pressure to make people rethink their words.
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JimFive

Not really. If the restaurant stocks those condiments then you can do that whether it's automated or not. Automation is not going to make it more financially practical to stock little used condiments. In fact, it may make it less practical as food costs will be a larger portion of operating expenses if labor is eliminated.
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JimFive

These phrases imply that labor is reduced, but not eliminated, in the production process. If fast food labor is eliminated then opening new fast food restaurants does not offset the displaced labor.

This part of economic theory makes the assumption that the demand curve is not disjoint. If there is a large pool of wealthy customers and a large pool of poor customers but not many customers in between then there is no incentive to reduce the price (the benefit of reducing the price enough to pick up the poor customers does not make up for the lost revenue from the rich customers buying at a lower price). In the dystopian scenario in which all low skill jobs are automated we end up with a large unemployed class and a large wealthy class with a small or non-existant middle class.
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JimFive

It's called an automat
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JimFive