No. Diet can *reduce* symptoms for *some* patients. The patient will not return to regular health, and their condition will continue to deteriorate over time.

Again, this is false. Many diseases, like Lupus, can be see symptoms *reduced* in *some* patients. Even these mild improvements are often ascribed to placebo affects.

The notion that disease is in some way the fault of the sufferers life choices is a grotesque manipulation. It is intended to dehumanize the sufferer and put the blame on them. It should be rejected out of hand by decent human beings.

No basis? This is willful, coordinated market manipulation. It's not a matter of thinking it is stupid or inconvenient - these actions destabilize the entire market, not just the particular stocks. We should remember that 'free market' doesn't mean 'free to do as you please', but rather 'equal opportunity to participate'. The market runners (the boards and regulators) *must* respond to limit this activity, if they do not you will see companies and institutions move to closed markets and/or private holdings - both of which would be serious losses to the average person.

I'm not sure how we've reached point in society where 'freedom' is taken to such inane naive ends. Our actions impact one another.

The 'rules' are fundamentally unsound. You cannot expect people to know about health or related emergencies 24 hours in advance. This obviously discriminates against those with children, those that care of other family members, and those with preexisting conditions. How is this even a debate for you? Have you been so broken capitalist propaganda that you just accept you employer as god?

You often don't know about sickness 24 hours in advance. The requirement for notification is obviously unsound.

This was my first thought as well. Conservatives that I know are far more apt to see unhappiness as weakness. Unless you are very clever with your polling they will not reveal how they actually feel - in fact they regard it as a matter of duty to their beliefs to conceal any discontent. Mind you, they have no trouble voicing discontent in general, but in regards to their own decisions and situation it's an untouchable topic.

I'm sorry, but somewhere along the way they slipped you some kool-aid. Nothing in China's strategy is, or ever will be, about cooperation. It is merely the PR forward to introduce the familiar Embrace-Extend-Extinguish storyline.

Yes. Emphatically yes. These technologies dramatically increase the fine-grained control exerted over every day life. This allows them to censor/fine/imprison before movements build momentum. Consider this very post for example: In China the government would detect me saying negative things about the party. The government would then identify my real name and address from Slashdot and ISP logs. Shortly thereafter local police would arrive to 'escort' me to a 'reeducation center'.

China will never want that. They have not wanted that for thousands of years. Imperialism is at the very core of their culture. Xi is emperor in all but name.

So... given their options, users chose traffic congestion as something they were willing to deal with to improve other aspects of their lives & daily commutes. I fail to see how this is a bad thing or a failure of the highway build out. We built out the highway systems for all of these reasons, you aren't going to win on every front.

I had many papers published while in academia, and likewise helped to review. My field was optical imaging.

The process was broken long before this. On the receiving end we regularly got comments demanding we cite only vaguely related papers, with language strongly suggesting the reviewers (albeit anonymous) were pushing their own work. On the sending end you could go through and discredit the very core of the paper, showing the work was neither novel or useful, in one case they literally took existing models and just changed the variable names. The editors simply ignore the requests and let the papers through without edits.

Too much is tied to the publication mechanism, too much is tied to the prestige of editing journals, and too much is tied to posting only positive outcomes. It only looks like science from a distance, up close it is a cruel mockery of the intent.

I have no mod points, so I am simply posting my appreciation of your comment content, and the succinct manner in which you expressed it. There's no good reason to be married to existing jargon - if anything it's a weakness. We, the royal we, came up with plenty of new terms for electronics in general and computing in particular. Some like 'ram' are acronyms, while others like 'jumper' are similar to but conceptually distinct from previous usage.

Honestly it's a total failure of imagination to *not* come up with new terms. Master/slave isn't even a very accurate description, it's just the clunky description that some are so comfortable with that they ignore the clunkyness.

I hereby nominate the following terminology:
"Turtle" - this is the component making the command decisions
"Bog" - this is the component(s) that rely on a specific Turtle for purpose and coordination

Now mod me and the parent up, and let's make this a thing.

I just can't see your point. I think you're missing much bigger issues here.

Lost it to where? We didn't generate some value, but we've also used substantially less in goods and services. The losses are minimal.

Why do you accept that banks should be allowed to collect payments when the rest of the economy is paused? I would think you'd demand changes in the lending industry, not 'open up so I can die to make the rich richer'

Why do you accept that moneylenders should be allowed to collect payments when the rest of the economy is paused? Same issue - you should demand changes to the lending industry.

Again and again, each point you raise is - people have to risk exposure because they have to pay loans. Why do you accept that moneylenders and landlords are allowed to demand payment when the rest of society is on hold? Shouldn't they, like everyone else, be expected to suspend collection? This goes beyond Covid - think about people in natural disasters or family crisis. The lending industry is intensely predatorial - you should demand changes to that, that should be the focus of your outrage.

... yes, because unemployment in the US is a farce. It's designed to put the entirely of blame on the individual and coerce them in supporting the upper class. That's how you get healthcare, that's how you get stability. You should be outraged at the broken economic system, not the necessary shutdown. This was a problem long before Covid.

Yes. Because doctors too have blindly accepted that they must repay bills rather than acknowledge and work to fix a broken lending industry. Moreover, the healthcare system has become entirely profit driven - so disconnected MBA-types are furloughing and firing the medical staff to keep the company profitable. This was all a problem before Covid, Covid just makes it more obvious because it stresses the entire system at once.

I don't mean to downplay your concerns, they are entirely valid. But I think your anger is focused on the wrong thing (the shutdown) instead of where it would actually make a longterm difference (our broken lending and healthcare industries).

It makes me sad we've reached a state when nonsense like the above gets modded insightful. Let's go through the points...

You're likely referring to the soviet union or china, neither of which are socialist. They call themselves socialist as a PR move, while they are in fact oligarchies. Their failures and atrocities are not the result of socialism

You again confuse totalitarianism with socialism. They are nowhere near the same thing.

No, they didn't devolve in to totalitarianism - they were totalitarian power grabs from day one that called themselves socialism as a PR move. Meanwhile look at the US during WWI & WWII, during both periods socialism was the de facto state of government in the US. We simply didn't *call* it socialism. It was called patriotism. Meanwhile the democratically elected government controlled production and distribution at all levels to maximize the war efforts. Assets and patents were seized at necessary for the greater good.

We know (and have even discussed on slashdot for years) that this is not true. Money motivates only so far. And your loaded rifle has nothing to do with socialism, you have YET AGAIN confused it with totalitarianism.

You forgot the sarcasm tags in that note. None of those things are under your control in a capitalistic society. Your options for work are dictated by what employers need. Your choice of employer is dictated by your allegiance to their political will. You have little practical choice on your expenses beyond 'Would you like your McMansion in red or blue?' Sure, a portion of your income is allotted to the circus of your choice, but the bulk are funneled in to basic necessities like food, shelter, and medical - all of which are priced as absolutely high as possible. You can't opt out. Opting out just means you die under a bridge.

Your biggest failure is this - you perceive capitalism and socialism as competing models, likely due to your indoctrination. They are not. They are two tools available for a society to plan their collective efforts. Advocating one over the other is just silly, like advocating for saws over hammers, or nails over glue. A sane builder uses all tools available to them, and a sane society should do the same.

Even if we assume this is well intended, it misses the mark badly in regards to meeting client needs.

When I'm hiring I draw up a general skillset for the new position, but we're a group focused on prototyping and those needs are fluid. Upper management & HR then require that I put in absurd educational & experience requirements like a MS, PhD, 20+ years etc etc etc. *But* as soon as we talk with the contract agencies and headhunters the very first topic is, 'yeah ignore all that HR nonsense and just find us good people'. I might be looking for an CAD designer, and yes that's the general skillset I want, but if a rockstar embedded developer comes along with even a whiff of CAD/CAM experience you can bet they're getting an interview and the job description is getting updated.

But imagine this with an AI bot screening the original HR posting - I might get candidates that miraculously fit the requirements (or more likely candidates that lie), but I'll miss out on the one-offs with unique skillsets.

People aren't cogs, maybe a portion of the job is coglike, but the part where they excel and push real progress isn't recognized by these systems.

No. They won't. The organization will simply wither. You can't put market pressure on something like this. We'll be left with a vacuum when we desperately need a coordinated international effort. And that vacuum will obviously not be filled by anyone in the current administration.

^ Yes. This. People keep trying to claim that liberals/democrats didn't want a ban. We did. We wanted an *effective* ban w/ quarantine for those allowed in. Trump never put a ban in effect - he merely stopped foreign nationals from coming directly from China. He continued to allow anyone with US citizenship to return and allowed foreign nationals to travel to the US via any other entryway besides direct flight. When these travelers reached the US the 'rigorous screening' consisted of questionnaires that weren't even collected. There was no quarantine period or tracking.

I have no mod points, but I thank you for your insight. What seems missed in blaming the WHO is that the organization essentially has few carrots and no sticks. So it has very limited means to cajole unwilling participants. If a player like China does misrepresent information, then it is up to the other members to demand and enforce action. Blaming the WHO for our failures is just cowardice.