vladus2000's comments

The people screaming that it is a hoax and its their freedom I generally assume would react similarly to a even more severe crisis. Maybe I am over estimating their numbers based on the fact that they are loud, but assuming they will realize it is really serious in the cases you describe is a leap I am not willing to make.

On the flip side, NSAIDs do reduce inflammation and inflammation is part of the body's response to various stressors; I could see that lowering our response leads to worse outcomes when sick. I have always thought that cold medication increases the duration of a cold just from my own observations, so I do find it at least plausible.

I agree on the high blood pressure, if you are on it that means you have hypertension and are likely in poorer shape than someone who does not take it. I can somewhat see diuretics having an impact though as those can flush needed minerals out of your body when your body is in need. They also dehydrate you, so if you are on one and don't get properly hydrated and have a proper mineral balance, I can see that being a big negative.

When I was in school, the comp sci program was so full it was hard to get into classes, hard to find a computer free in a lab to do the assignments/projects. The same college a few years later didn't have that problem from people I talked to. I never looked up the numbers, but I would imagine the number of people going into it dropped quite a bit, at least if the anecdotal stories I heard are to be believed.

Where I worked had nothing to do with experimental tech or anything, we lived on selling somewhat specialized, expensive software and hardware. The problem was, no one wanted to spend money.

It was somewhat demoralizing, as the second round of layoffs really hurt and it wasn't a fun job anymore, but I couldn't do anything about that for awhile.

I also know people who invested poorly that had all of their savings evaporated. Some people were paid partially in stock that pretty much went to 0 very quickly. It wasn't the best time.

I am generally alright with law enforcement using public information like this, but it could be used against me without me ever making said data public. So I find your argument invalid.

I have had other issues where doctors thought I was lying to them, although no others that ended up with any serious consequences, just having to go see someone else.

I also had a doctor recommend dangerous surgery for a condition I ended up not having. Which, yes, getting a second opinion is good, but had I not done that, I would have had major surgery on my head that has a roughly 10% chance to deafen you for life.

I have the misfortune of having multiple rare issues (on more than just my eyes) and as a result, dealing with western medicine sucks.

My father has similar issues, so I have seen it with him too. For example, doctors let his appendix explode inside of him after he went into ER twice complaining of extreme pain in his abdomen. It exploded a few hours into the second visit and he almost died.

I just kept trying different doctors until an intern assistant to one of them saw the actual issue and got me referred to an awesome specialist who confirmed the diagnosis (and found the other problems I had not known about yet) and got me to a surgeon who did surgery to fix it. As a result of this, I strongly distrust doctors and I think they can sense that when I see them.

For those more curious, I had Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension as I am rather large. Due to being large and doctors being able to see that problem, they just assumed it was the issue and they never looked at anything else. They put me on NASTY drugs to fix the issue, but my eye sight just kept getting worse. I have no idea why it took an intern to see the problem, but in the end I had ABMD (also known as Map-Dot-Fingerprint Dystrophy). I believe a total of 6 eye doctors and two neurologists completely missed it. I really should have gotten the intern's name and properly thanked him, as who knows how much longer I would have had to go without a diagnosis. IIH can cause blindness, as it will slowly destroy your vision (or in some cases quickly), so I kinda understand why they may not have seen it, but from what I have read, it sounds like ABMD is pretty easy to see if you look for it, and none of the real doctors did.

So I hope no one out there ever has multiple problems causing similar symptoms, because doctors can't be bothered to think about that possibility, at least eye doctors.

The less lines of code, the faster you can read a code base, apply fixes and have less bugs. Obviously you can take that too far and make code so dense no one can read it. It is finding a balance between the two. Comments can go a long way towards making complex code understandable within reason.

And if they were good at planning, this would not have happened in the first place. At least give us a button or something for "I don't give a shit if it isn't signed, enable it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

But on a more serious note, while I somewhat agree that not all marketing is evil, some absolutely is. I do not consider the marketing that cigarette companies did to knowingly hook kids on an addictive, cancer causing substance a good thing; I find it rather evil. Since it can be used for evil, I would rather make it as difficult as possible for them to use it against me. It might be a mostly pointless exercise, but it makes me feel better about it.

Its just that pensions are more direct and easy to see.

I did use inbox before (and I still get some email to my gmail account) and it does have nice features like snooze that I miss. But on the whole I am happy with my choice to use fast mail.

I should also add that I seem to get slightly more junk mail than I did before, but it is close and hard to tell, I have not had a real email marked as spam yet, which did happen from time to time with gmail, so this isn't a complaint, just an observation.

is likely what the 2005 article is about.