> If there were advances in the state of the art of sky color,

My analogy is sensible and your attempt to extend it, is nonsensical. I don't think you're interested in good faith discussion, but I'll try to make the world a slightly better place with some facts.

There are multiple classes of Antiarrhythmic agents that address different chemical channels, to the same effect. Heart trauma, from surgery scarring to infarctions, and variable base chemistry, requires an array of different channels to reduce heart rate consistently. Multiple channel treatments are often used in tandem or rotated. These are called beta blockers for simplicity. ie These drugs stop the signals from the spine from getting to the heart the same way they normally would.

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Beta blockers are not magic, nor were they invented in the 50s or the 90s. The invention of a treatment does not correlate with the performance of a formal study accepted by modern medicine in some locale. Studies are necessarily narrow and it can take decades for a particular treatment vector to be confirmed or decried, despite the treatment being widely used prior in a more general application. Heart arrhythmias, have a very similar treatment across the world, across time.

> I've lived long enough to watch drugs be introduced, grow popular, and then be declared ineffective and even harmful.

As a heart patient of 50 years (first surgery at age 2), having spent a non-trivial amount of my life in hospital and bedridden at times, I am painfully aware that beta blockers are not one of them. Going from 200 bpm to 80 with an IV/pill is demonstrable and prevents the heart from tearing itself apart. Beta blockers save lives, period. Statistically, you will be treated with beta blockers as well, regardless of your feelings.

If you want to argue about blood thinners, the advances in that chemical realm are varied and a mixed bag. If you want to argue about valve technology, the blood flow dynamics and testing is generations beyond even my second valve replacement over 20 years ago due to automation, material technology, sample data, and evolved standards.

I hope this helps you in your next discussion about the topic.

From the Ancient Greeks. That's how old. Arguing there is no citation when someone says the sky is blue, is not compelling.

Brave killed FF for me and everyone I know. I suspect it's because of the scammy-crypto elements. I was nervous that it was a "cheap" Chrome clone...since the seamless Chrome looks is it's supposed to look like. I tried FF again last year and uninstalled again. I have to use Chrome for testing and specific sites that are too bound up in elements detected to be adtech. It's too much trouble to maintain disparate browser envs. - posted from Brave

> You got anything besides mindless propaganda?

I don't believe it's propaganda, but it's not surprising that you leap to the least gracious interpretation.

> Biden had no policies. Biden was a zombie. His handlers and the autopen ran the Whitehouse.

A worldview that I can understand. Biden was barely functioning, which is a form of being compromised since he lost large amounts of time. Trump is eerily similar, where I am sure he is running things under various blackmailed conditions *at best* paired with a lesser mental dysfunction. This is a different type of kompromat, but his policies are not fully his, all the same. One deception does not excuse another and focusing on this nonsense is a distraction born of tribalism.

Biden's policies (regardless of origin) were certainly better formulated than anything TACO has come up with or the absence of them. THAT is what's important. It's a net loss.

> Everything classified is air gapped.

Except for the classified info that's texted?

I feel like this is a step back and won't do anything for growing the audience. Ncuti Gatwa is a fantastic actor. My wife and I look forward to Ncuti's next project.

I do enjoy a nice bonfire. Especially when it's the self-immolation of MS.

Most companies have no idea who is an "under-performer".
Standard procedure is that you are "laid off". Being given a plan of improvement or being paid to exit as an option, is HIGHLY irregular.

> Defending not calling idiots the idiots they are is defending idiocy.

Not acting or admonishing unwarranted action, is not defending some imagined opposing ideal.

This is why you get modded down. Your ill-considered zealotry is indistinguishable from unbounded provocative drivel.

You are a classic troll, even when you refuse to recognize your own behavior. These tiny miseries are your own doing.

Sometimes it's a fierce burn. UK's Misfits had a 2 season planned arc, which was amazing for the time. After that a bunch of the talent quite out and it fell apart. It lasted 3 more seasons until it mercifully ended. Hey, didn't Iwan Rheon appear in another show like that?

I've worked at JPMC as a business associate, then as a software developer.
I asked other developers why they continued to work there when they could jump to most other companies to:

* Make more money
* Have a more flexible schedule or working arrangement
* Get better health benefits
* Get the same (or better) retirement benefits
* Still go back to JPMC if they were in dire need of a job

Many people did leave, over time. Most were complacent, liked the prestige and didn't believe it would be a simple transition.

I got a year padded on my resume then immediately jumped to make 25% more + wfh, at a job I still have well over 5 years later. I've interviewed since then to strong arm raises to another 25% on top.

I can't understand this blind fear to making your life better. I think software developers prefer low risk engagements, once they get comfortable. This may be most people with a comfortable job.

Nobody said to throw away the law. You are both deliciously ignorant and delusional. Gl with that.

> they need the evil-scientists-in-league-with-big-government to feel good and cope with the problems CoViD-19 caused.

I don't care. The situation is a lot like a basic murder mystery. The simplest answer is the likeliest multiplied by the interests of those involved.
Proving there is no definitive answer is fine and good. This doesn't change my view of the world.

> there's a special place in hell for people who work in that space.

I've been working in that space since 2005. Yeah, I dipped my toe into Medical, Gaming, Production (commercials), Finance for awhile over the decades. It's common knowledge that every industry is greedy. Advertising gets cut last. I deal with the world as it is.

Digital Advertising is the safest, simplest (despite large organizations trying to make it more complicated), reliable way to get a paycheck as far as I can tell.

> it's going to normalize corporate surveillance for the purpose of advertising as an acceptable business model - which it really, REALLY isn't

Many advertising businesses have started with this in mind. Good luck with yours.

The amount of plastic (packaging, et al) has gotten out of control. I'm sick of needing tools to get to things I purchase. If you visit Europe, you can see how it doesn't need to be this way.