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Comment Insulin Resistance (Score 1, Informative) 95

This is an engineering breakthrough. But we are still waiting on a medical breakthrough.

The real problem in diabetes is not limited to having the correct amount of insulin in the blood in real time. The problem that makes diabetes so hard to treat is that a person's cells develop insulin resistance, requiring larger and larger doses of insulin to break down sugars correctly.

Comment Re:Reddit (Score 1) 114

Where are my mod points? Insightful!

More and more, I am beginning to believe that we either make ourselves comfortable with the fact that all information of any kind WILL flow through these digital lines, or we oppress ourselves with biased rules and unfair restrictions on freedom of speech.

I think we can adapt our expectations to the new paradigm. But it will take a lot of time and testing of our pre-set inhibitions and impulse to hide to adapt our culture to the information age in such a way that it doesn't make us prisoners of rules.

Comment Re:If you hate Change so much...... (Score 1) 516

Of course itzly, you know this has nothing to do with getting your job done better.

This issue is about style. One of the things that has a big impact on a human being's mood is being exposed to a new aesthetic. I will have plenty of time to sit around in the same stagnant environment for eternity when I'm dead.

For now, let's just embrace the fact that constant change is here to stay.

Comment Re:Say No to IoT (Score 1) 101

If in the end Anonymous' one single effect on the real world is to cause people to think cautiously about ridiculously hooking up everything to the internet for laziness, er ... convenience, they will have been nothing more than a boon to the wisdom of humanity. Let's hope that's all they cause.

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