My mom builds EMR workflows for a major hospital and my father and sister are doctors (both very tech savvy--my sister has a computational bio background for her Bachelor's prior to her MD).
None of them have anything good to say about Epic.
My comments just went right over your head. Didn't comprehend a word I wrote. It honestly makes me sad.
Let's be specific:
In the "Gender" executive order, Sec 2(a) and Sec 3(d), the administration has set it up so that the passport, global entry, social security, or other identity document of any transgender American citizen can be scrutinized, denied in the future, or in an expansive reading, retroactively revoked.
Since all such changes require documentation, there is almost certainly a list of all such people, unless the previous administration was clever enough to destroy it.
For example, a valid document for this man https://www.uri.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/news/sites/16/20... (picked at random, a picture of an openly trans man who has stated as such on a website), can no longer list an M. A document with an M on it is subject to government scrutiny, for example at any border crossing or other location where identity may be verified. The government may now argue that such a document is not valid. If he has no documents with such an M marker, he can no longer obtain them. Additionally, he must use the women's room, per sec (4).
"We're all gonna be okay!" The federal government is simply subjecting trans people to increased scrutiny, limiting their freedom of speech and expression and their freedom of movement. "Nobody's gonna lose their rights."
But hey, enjoy your brisket, right? How's the price of milk doing?
I mean, descriptive information on an ID isn't used for like tying someones appearance to their name or anything, right?
So it makes sense for the news to say something like "the police are searching for a female suspect 5'9" " despite them looking similar to the person in rpearl's example.
That description will really help the public identify or be on the look out for that female, right?
People with a trans belief shouldn't be given extra privileges over everyone else, such as being allowed to record false information on government-issued ID. Changing the sex on your ID documents is like changing your date of birth. It is quite simply incorrect.
What's an ID for? Identifying someone or to list arbitrary information about a person, like political affiliation, faith, natural born citizen or immigrant?
who cares if Panda Touch/BigTreeTech was making money off the ecosystem? it did nothing more than sell more bambu printers. It's not net-zero--money for BigTreeTech is not coming out of Bambu's pockets; I seriously doubt it was net-negative for Bambu.
Because the writing on the wall is that this was always meant to be a subscription based, continual revenue stream for Bamboo Labs. They are just edging that direction.
Whether or not it’s simply greed or that they didn’t make as much selling the printers as they had thought. The next step to closing an API and killing 3rd party interactions is almost always so they can introduce some form of continuous monetization scheme.
That was always something that rubbed me the wrong way with Bamboo Labs. They threw an absolutely obscene amount of money at influencers. Essentially buying a ringing endorsement from nearly the whole hobbyist community and made their brand a household name.
Having 2nd and 3rd party support only make an ecosystem more robust.
This whole kerfuffle only sours me to them. I like the printer but the desktop software quality is low and features in LAN mode are not available for what one can only think of as a shity move to Hoover up data for the enshitification
I mean if you'd like, you could reimplement the necessary client on an airgapped computer, produce an encrypted value, take that value to a networked computer, send it to the server, obtain an encrypted result that the server could not possibly know how to decrypt, and see if it has done the computation in question. No trust is required.
You could also observe all bits leaving the device from the moment you initialize it and determine that only encrypted bits leave and that no private keys leave, which only leaves the gap of some side channel at the factory, but you could perform the calculation to see that the bits are only encrypted with the key you expect them to be encrypted with.
Why do cyclists need an injury attorney when motorists have insurance? Why are there so many attorneys offering this service? High demand? Is it because personal injury law is a well paying grift? Would any of these attorneys represent a driver if it was a cyclist fault? Much harder to collect from a private person than from insurance.
You either discovered a massive unreported cause of harm to our society or you are fitting a narrative you have in your mind.
The anger against cyclists is so weird to me. Like I can relate to seeing a cyclist taking up a whole lane on highway 1 somewhere they shouldn’t be riding and me thinking, this is ridiculous, they shouldn’t be risking their own life and slowing everyone down like this (and feeling some anger). But I have only encountered this a few times and even then, it’s just a minor inconvenience… Most cyclists ride relatively responsibly through city areas and are a net positive on the community, environment, parking, traffic, city budget, etc. Look at some data instead of coming up with some narrative in your head based upon some immediate emotion.
This negative sentiment towards cyclists is real, I see it on Facebook all the time and at first I thought it was a joke. Maybe they should add a few questions to the drivers test
Insurance does whatever it can to avoid paying and having an attorney represent you is almost a matter of course.
But please continue theorizing that this zero effort google search you went in to knowing nothing about is instead evidence for a world in which there is a large market for attorneys forcing payment by cyclists causing significant damages.
Next, have your last word because this conversation appears completely disingenuous and I will not be continuing it.
Darktable may make you better understand the technicalities of editing, but I don't think most photographers want to spend their time learning the minutiae of what specific image processing algorithms get used to achieve their desired effect.
> California hadn't been able to build a train a fraction of that distance without delays and squandering[??] massive amounts of money.
It costs money and time to build HSR. Fine. The J(N)R director who ran the shinkansen project literally lied to multiple levels of government to shield the (2x+) budget overruns. He resigned and then within a year of it opening he was given a medal for extraordinary contributions to Japan.
> Because nationwide high speed rail isn't as easy - or practical - as you think.
Who is claiming that it is easy? However, it is practical! It takes 6 hours to drive Tokyo to Osaka; it's 2hr by train. Trains leave every 5 minutes.
A west coast HSR network is just obviously practical! Beijing-Shanghai HSR is 1300km; SF to Seattle would be the same. It'd be 4-5h on a train. Right now it's 2.5 hours on a plane plus a recommended 1.5 hours for security and boarding plus transfers on each side--I'd rather take a high speed train If I could! SF to LA could be ~3h. 90 minutes on a plane plus lead time and transfer times and it's competitive. Again.
> There are US states similar in size to EU countries with comparable rail networks.
>A west coast HSR network is just obviously practical! Beijing-Shanghai HSR is 1300km; SF to Seattle would be the same. It'd be 4-5h on a train. Right now it's 2.5 hours on a plane plus a recommended 1.5 hours for security and boarding plus transfers on each side--I'd rather take a high speed train If I could! SF to LA could be ~3h. 90 minutes on a plane plus lead time and transfer times and it's competitive. Again.
So just to be clear you are saying at best the time difference between flight and HSR would be minimal - so where is the payoff for the billions the infrastructure would take to build. If it's purely capacity couldn't you spend a fraction of the billions you'd spend on the new infrastructure to bolster the existing system?
I think it's relevant that Shanghai and Beijing are 5x the size of SF and Seattle while construction cost are a significant upfront barrier and don't go down much by needing to service fewer travelers.
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