TLDR version: "Good ideas" that are actually good are rare, more often than not they aren't.

Long version:

Now, that's not to say people can't experiment with ideas. We know, from US research, that you can temporarily (2 hours max) put humans into a dormant state and revive them successfully. It's used in some types of operation, when a beating heart is not a viable option.

If you do that, glucose uptake drops significantly in regular cells but not in all types of cancer. If the decrease in the most-active of human cells after hibernation is by a factor of X, then it follows you should be able to locally increase glucose-based chemotherapy around the tumour by a factor of X and guarantee healthy cells remain inside levels they can tolerate.

Since hibernation of this sort involves removing all blood and replacing it with a saline solution, washing the chemotherapy out would obviously be possible before reviving the person.

Would this work? Well, it'll work better than bleach, but a quick sanity check shows that this method is (a) impractically risky, (b) likely problematic, (c) likely to produce disastrous side-effects, and (d) unlikely to be effective. Shutting down the body like this is not safe, which is why it is a last-ditch protocol.

What does this tell us? Simply that "good ideas" on paper by someone who isn't an expert are likely very very bad ideas, even if "common sense" says they should be fine.

Now, there ARE cancer treatments being researched which try similar sorts of tricks to allow ultra-high chemotherapy doses, by actual biologists, and those probably will work because they know what they're doing.

Translation: No matter how good you think an idea "should be", it probably isn't. There will be exceptions to that, but you should always start by assuming there's a flaw and look for it. If the idea is actually any good, it'll survive scrutiny and actually improve under it.

Avpidimg confirmation bias is hard, but if you persist in looking for what is wrong with your idea and then try to fix the issue, you'll either avoid penning yourself in a corner or argument-proof your vision. Either way, you're better off.

Imagine these countries being exempt from copyright and patent laws in compensation.....

Very few businesses that are involved in IT in any way have anything remotely close to decent security.

Basically, they need to reintroduce the US' Internet Czar, who should have meaningful authority and who should impose meaningful IT security standards. That small companies can't afford to hire security staff is irrelevant as they mostly either work in the cloud using SAAS, at which point their provider should be handling all the security. If you want to roll your own, then you should accept the burden of paying for adequate security. Minimum standards apply to just about everything else in life, and I'd rate getting IT security right just a little bit more important than getting cars to not roll over (you can usually survive a roll) or preventing toasters from spontaneously combusting (you can park electrical appliances away from flammable stuff).

You can avoid catastrophes with defective appliances but you can't avoid catastrophes with defective IT systems.

Milli Vanilli for this old enough to remember them...

Friday (Rebecca Black song) comes to mind...ugh....

I thought Meta had its own AI, given all the data its slurped up you would have thought they would dog food instead of farm out.

I am not European.

The middle and low income earners in the USA are about to be screwed by the government.
Mean wealth per country, the USA ranks 4th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The CIA (yes the US CIA) places the USA 49th for life expectancy
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-...

I can see you are American, you speak English, racism, bigotry , dishonesty, and stupidity . Well done you...????
Have you ever travelled internationally, I have a lot (including the USA)
Ever been out of your home state 11% of US citizens have not, 40% have not been outside of the USA (Canada and Mexico make that easy to do)

Imprisoning people without dues process
Deporting people to gulags without due process
Ignoring the law
Fabricating "alternative truth"
Threatening media companies if they do not toe the line "party line"
Weaponising the judicial system

Chump is now attacking SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, FEMA which will make the poor/midle income far worse off
The tariffs are paid for end the end by consumers
Inflation has risen and you have yet to see the full effect of tariffs , the loss of food production due to deportations etc, what is the USA going to do, go back to slave labour ?
Tourism has dropped, exports have dropped (Made in USA has become a trade warning to consumers)
The BBB is going to cause a lot of damage, less money tot eh majority will see a rapid reduction is spending which will in turn cause more unemployment and round in round in circles you go.

BRICS accounts for 35% of the worlds GDP, the G7 28%
BRICS account for 60% of the worlds population, and THAT portion has massive growth potential, the G7 is tech saturated mature market with no real growth potential.

Yeah the US is rapidly heading towards a totalitarian state , and its declining every which way , peak USA was in the 1970's
US infrastructure is aging and not being upgraded / replaced which is another reason why manufacturing will not go back to the USA

Other 1st world countries have travel warning about the USA, started years ago with warning about the levels of violence

The USA may not be a shithole, but it has become a "Donnys Dirty Diaper"
The USA is losing ground in all areas.
The attack on education and STEM will mean the USA falls behind even faster.

Totalitarianism is indépendant of left/right wing politics.
Most 1st world countries have "socialist" policies in Universal healthcare, universal education, etc etc etc but they are also far more democratic, healthier, safer , happier, with better life expectancies than the USA . Trump is rapidly running further to the right WHILE also becoming totalitarian .

So...basicaly what the USA did when the industrial age happened.
The USA STILL steal intellectual property under the guise of "National security" needs.

So Pot, meet Kettle.

Good point. An army that sees all others as subhuman and sees only the next death is one that has to keep fighting. It has no choice. It's the only thing it knows. It can keep conquering more territory outwards, or it can slaughter its own government inwards. History shows those are your two options.

Whether or not Russia conquers Ukraine, it will attack other countries - vast numbers of bored, underpaid soldiers would seek entertainment elsewhere if they didn't.

This is what I'm going by:

The report said that in December 2018, the US Federal Aviation Administration issued a special airworthiness information bulletin based on reports from operators of model 737 planes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged.

The airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would warrant an airworthiness directive – a legally enforceable regulation to correct unsafe conditions.

The same switch design is used in Boeing 787-8 aircraft, including Air India’s VT-ANB, which crashed. The report added: “As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory.”

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

1. Were the safety guards, which were optional, installed?

2. We know investigators are looking into the computer system, does this mean the computer can also set the switch settings?

If the answers are "no" and "no" respectively, it was likely an accidental bump.

If the answers are "yes" and "no", then one of the pilots lied.

If the answer to the second one is yes, then regardless of the answer to the first, I'd hope the investigation thoroughly checks whether the software can be triggered into doing so through faulty data or the existence of software defects.

Birds ARE dinosaurs.

Well the rest of the world is laughing at the USA.
Turns out that American companies CAN easily set up quick and easy cancellation systems in other countries which require it.
Took me less than 1 minute to cancel our Disney account.

Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can buy Judges and Politicians....