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Comment German study ... (Score 4, Insightful) 89

back in the early 00's I read a study from Germany. Children from big cities, were given exposure via country life to mice and other animals... the subjected population ( it was in excess of 1000 but could have been bigger ), had a lower allergy rate than the control group.

just sharing my knowledge that's all

Comment Re:because I don't know ... (Score 1) 65

I don't know if you are trolling me or not, but your statement needs more clarification.
the original model changes when you re-train right?
so if it's open source, run it locally on your Beowulf cluster, and the problem of the censorship is gone.
or have I missed some sort of critical point?

Comment Re:We didn't have a computer room (Score 1) 192

Funny you mention Cobol. If you still recall any of it, ( Vax or IBM 370 ), the pay rate is in excess of $ 280 an hour.

I still get calls from some fun code I did back in the late 80's to early 90's ( I documented my code exceedingly verbose and had my name and number and address. every time someone calls I ask them to update it ). I sometimes got the desire to help the coding team to improve my trading reports and issues I encountered. 30 or 40 hours later, boom, solution, after solution after solution. I was really good at finding bugs and reporting them and getting invites to code parties. I have not picked up a terminal in 23 years so I would not even know where to start

Comment Re:We didn't have a computer room (Score 1) 192

1982, we had 8 x apple 2 plus and I had a teacher that was always asking me questions.
I bought that summer my C-64 and my dislike of apple just kept growing.

I don't have that many happy memories of that class because I had to learn to code on my own and never got the mental gift of coding to see how far I could push myself. Also the other 2 guys that enjoyed coding were always bullied by others, so I being somewhat bigger, working class, and fought my brother growing up, got into fights looking out for my group of friends. couple of black eyes, broke a jaw of someone, hit one kid with his football helmet and things started to calm down. Geeks like me had keys and little to no detention.

Comment Re:Of course. (Score 1) 63

I don't think you are right about that. There needs to be change, small changes that have big effects.

First limit awards in litigation. That should solve a big part of frustration.

There is a need for evil, because evil cause good people to innovate against evil and improve the world usually.

Now remove most political leaders from receiving any sort of funding, forcing them to be in the job to help society not to hinder. think Jimmy Carter - ish ... now you solved many problems that were costing society.

Bring back capital punishment for environmental polluters that won't fix the problem. and it has to be the top executives, I prefer the Division head and the person they report to. improve the health of people over multiple generations on time.

Sorry we need the military ( just an FYI to most readers, the US military is constitutionally bound, they don't get involved in the political aspects like other militaries), but you can imprison dictators.

Without bank lenders, you get bigger problems of usury.

in reference to CEO's and there pay... it's simple... no stock options, just a percentage of the outcome of success. that forces taxable money into the system and your company needs to make a lot of money in order to pay. so bad years they have a base pay. The inherent risk of the job will make them more conservative. and produce more stability and efficiency over time. but at the same time if there are loss's they can't be held liable for the risk.

Comment Re:Why do they trust the results? (Score 1) 52

the verification of this type of tool is easy because of some known science that has been discover.
history has shown us, that once we discover something, we get a good laugh about it and say "duh, I should have thought of that sooner"

I explain in another answer above this one, how they most likely get the correct image of the inside of the scroll.

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