So the person interviewed is a linguist who's colleagues "helped crack the Unabomber case by analyzing Ted Kaczynski's 35,000 word manifesto."
So the Washington Post published the Unabomber's 35,000 word manifesto in it's daily paper in 1995 as a special section. The Unabomber's brother recognized and turned in his brother. There was no crack in the case by investigators. His brother received the $1 million dollar reward from the Department of Justice for turning him in.
This isn't fake news but it is incorrect. Linguistic experts were involved but it doesn't go much deeper than that.
It was great at beating the rate of inflation and great financial results for cable companies.
My college years saw the decline of MTV and rise of ESPN. The OJ chase inspired MTV to make a show out of idiots driving across the country. If ESPN Sports Center wasn't on it would be shortly. Every other channel had the OJ trial save PBS. Seriously! It was nauseating!
ESPN spends around $7billion/year on licensing. Eight dollars of every cable bill goes to ESPN. I cut the cord when it was less than $4/month.
Starting in 2013 Time Warner agreed to pay an average of $335million a year for 25 years for broadcast rights to the Dodgers. The average payroll and luxury tax for the Dodgers peaked at $235million. I'm sure in the next 20 years it may approach the $335 million.
So who's your ISP? The profit margin for cable packages is in the mid 40%. The profit margin for ISP is 97%.
They don't just want to be the only ISP service available today they want it for the next 30 years because that's where the market is going.
Sorry to dump a bucket of cold water on this but medicine is all about metrics. So they just need to see a certain number of patients a day? There is no "they" and it's a lot darker than that. Each individual physician has a profile and some physicians even get daily reports. The annual financial cost is $40,000 per physician for "quality reporting," "process quality measures," "quality based incentive programs," or "value practice metrics." I didn't believe it at first either so I suggest googling it.
For profit or non-profit, it doesn't matter. They don't exist to loose money. If a physician can't or won't adapt they are terminated.
Does AI have the potential to advance healthcare? Absolutely! Who stands to benefit most? Countries currently lacking in quality healthcare and infrastructure.
This author wrote a piece:"Getting to the Heart of Arrhythmia with GPU-Powered AI." There are over 100,000 EKG technicians making $45K-$68K/year in the USA while the EKG machine is $10,000. Actual interpretation of the output requires a trained physician.
Then there's the medical device industry that both Apple and Google have been pursuing with only miniscule victories.
If you want in interesting read:
JPMorgan Chase (Assets 2.5 Trillion) and Berkshire Hathaway (Holdings 620.8 Billion) have joined forces with Amazon (Value 720.04 Billion) to form a new healthcare company for all U.S. employees.
Everyone thought I was some self taught computer genius. The reality was I wanted to play Wing Commander without having to choose between having sound or a using joystick. Autoexec.bat, config.sys, and himem.sys and an insane amount of time is all it took.
It's not just our political system. Italy had a crippling drought not seen since 1800 in 2017. Rome shut off public fountains, drinking stations, and finally addressed the 40%-45% water loss due to leaks in the pipes.
When it comes to many antipsychotic medications patients suffer from the side effects of taking their medications.
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So I'm a little curious why an article on monitoring compliance digitally only talks to patients who are very very unlikely to be noncompliant.
Then there's this misstatement:
"Many patients with these conditions do not take medication regularly, often with severe consequences."
These people take this medication daily. They may miss a day or two and not notice. Longer periods, they would notice the slow return of phobias or irrational thoughts and realize they had been missing their medication and start taking it again.
For those admitted to the hospital or having a history of severe mental illnesses:
People wonder why anyone would stop taking the medications and relapse. I have no proof but think the treatment can be worse than the disease.
Schizophrenia: a serious mental illness that interferes with a person's ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make decisions and relate to others.
> So I'm a little curious why an article on monitoring compliance digitally only talks to patients who are very very unlikely to be noncompliant.
Noncompliance is a huge problem with schizophrenia. I'm not sure why you'd think otherwise. Something around 50% of medicated schizophrenics go off their meds. Google <schizophrenia noncompliance>.
Is that really the best reason you can think of to treat schizophrenia? I'd think "so they don't harm themselves or others" might rate a bit higher, just for one example.
I stand firmly for the non-aggression principle. There's no violence against others in self-harm and suicide. And unrequested intervention is aggression.
For our 10th wedding anniversary this past summer we went to Rome and a few other parts of Italy. Our tour guide took us through the Basilica of San Clemente so it was a treat to read this article. This was on our second day of our trip and realizing just how much history is in the city is a paradigm shift from being a 3rd generation immigrant from the states.
What really stuck with me was:
"...a slab with a Roman pagan funerary inscription on one side which was re-used and has an early Christian inscription on the other side, in much cruder lettering."
It's about 3 inches thick, 15 inches tall and 3-4 feet long. It is mounted so it can be easily rotated. On one side the letters are chiseled out to perfection. The spacing is perfect, all the edges crisp and the angle of the cuts identical. The flip side looks like a 6 year old with a dull crayon scrawled out the letters on a blank sheet. The first letters are jammed together and then continue to get farther apart to the right and the next line does the same. This side was carved more than 200 years after the flip side.
Civilizations rise and fall and with them knowledge and skills are lost and rediscovered.
When we first entered the church our guide pointed to the uneven floor and later the 2 row of columns are not symmetrical. One sits a few feet farther from the wall than the other side. The reason is the arrangement of the supporting walls underneath. I forget the exact reason the floor is uneven other than something with the archways underneath. The author notes this and how the columns themselves are not identical and were looted from different sources.
The St. Peter's Baldachin is a lot of bronze. Although not confirmed the source may have been the Pantheon which was stripped of it's brass in 1625. The 16 pillars or pronaos of the Pantheon are 60 tons each. They were quarried in egypt ~110AD. Every building has a story behind it.
Visiting Rome:
My wife wanted the tour guide, I was less than excited about the whole idea. My wife was right and I openly admit I was totally wrong. I'm into history and my wife is into art and we're both Catholic so having a tour guide who knew where to go and could tie what we were seeing with our interests, walk us through the history of the city, and point out the idiosyncrasies like the author in this article all combined and added dimension and depth to the experience that was priceless.
If this article is what turns your crank I'd suggest a tour guide.
My wife and I are not the typical tourists as our 3 different tour guides all noted. We didn't take pictures because postcards, shopping was limited to Venezia save holy medals and other items to be blessed, we were filling in our knowledge Roman and Church history with details few would be interested in, and there were parts we'd ask to skip to spend more time in areas of interest to us. For example, we skipped parts of the Vatican Museum to focus on others and didn't need a tour guide inside St. Peter's Basilica so we extended our time in the Vatican Museum.
We unconsciously read body language or nonverbal cues and listen to how they are speaking and give more weight to that than the words they speak. There are many ways of saying this such as"it's 80% how you say it & 20% what you say." and "it's not what you say but how you make people feel."
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
"Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand."
― Metallica
"Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness."
― Unknown
Personal experience: Granted I was a new hire but this was ridiculous. My supervisor's prior work at a beauty salon. Sample preparation virtually ensured cross contamination. Crushing tools wipe with fingers between wells, flying debris into neighboring wells, and multi-channel pressed crusher with rusty metal ends was brushed off between trays. No understanding of the difference between a true negative and a blank well.
Every laboratory I've worked in has the same basic unwritten rules of etiquette. The most obvious is don't touch what isn't yours. Another is one person, and only that one, does the work from start to finish. I couldn't just sit down and pick-up where my supervisor left off or get used to not knowing what steps may or may not have been done when I came back from break. The lack of an SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) meant I had to mentally work through the process which took a few minutes. To the ignorant it's just a simple sequence of mixing solutions, rinse, add another and done while I appear to be completely confused by a simple process. To me each step builds off the previous and my mental image of the process at the molecular level gets jammed up. I've spent years working research laboratories, have a college degree, and lots of graduate work. My supervisor thinks I'm mentally challenged and just will not stop asking the most obvious questions. When I pointed out the cross contamination it was taken as a personal insult. When I went to demonstrate she just turned and left the room.
You haven't failed, you've founded a successful startup. Now you're looking at options and obstacles to taking the next step up. Big money, and the potential for even more of it, does weird things to people. Look at where you are at in life and where you want to be personally. The problem with "possibly" is how it can change one's perspective of reality. Others have given you the "take the money advice." I agree with the push both fronts advice. The reality is you have the skills to start a company but finding investors is not your gig.
Options:
Small Business Association - Specifically the 7a Loan which tops out at $5 million. The "Lender Match" program may also be of interest.
Find a lawyer or banker with experience - What sgs1370 said.
Consulting firm or person - If you don't have contacts flush with cash hire someone who does.
Legal council - The cost of a hiring a lawyer is a pittance compared to later realizing you should have done so. Same thing applies to a banker if you sell the company. (Obviously)
Managing a small team of professionals is a different world from finding and managing competent workers. Your daily duties will change dramatically especially if outside investors have a controlling stake in the company.
So 22 medical experts state the War on Drugs "directly and indirectly contribute to lethal violence, disease, discrimination, forced displacement, injustice and the undermining of people’s right to health."
In Mexico 23,000 people were killed in drug related violence in 2016. Drug overdoses in the USA jumped to 59,000 in 2016. Arrest numbers in the USA in 2015 totaled 10.8 million. Drug related: 1.49 million; (Broken down: 1.25 million for drug possession; 340,000 for sale or manufacture.) 1.09 million drunk driving; 11,092 for murder or manslaughter.
Ratios of note: 438:1 Possession:Sale or manufacture; 1.25:1.5 Drunk driving:Drug related.
Government v Science: In 2009 a British psychiatrist and neuropsychopharmacologist was sacked from his position chief drug advisor position in government after publishing a list of most to least harmful drugs.
"Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis..."
He also stated horse riding was safer than ecstasy with 100 riding fatalities per year(on average).
The political blowback was massive. On the floor in House of Commons MPs vehemently rebuffed the document and its author. It was a parade of "my ignorance trumps your expert scientific opinion."
The congress and courts in the USA are no better. There's no official list but there is a pattern that has no scientific basis. The crack epidemic of the late 80's saw congress pass mandatory sentencing laws for crack. Crack is the crystalized version of cocaine. It was popular in the inner city minority population. Movie stars from the 80's would have a "cocaine nail." The nail on the pinky finger (it could be any finger) would be noticeably longer. Carrie Fisher in the Empire Strikes Back has one that really stands out.
It was difficult to locate reputable sources of recent data on costs in the United States. Tobacco and alcohol combined total slightly over $600 Billion/year while illegal drugs are estimated at just under $200 billion.
So you discussed your drug habit with your physician? Physician–patient privilege isn't a sure thing anymore. The police are requesting and getting warrants to access a person's medical files. I didn't know this was happening until I started writing this post.
- Alcohol is legal yet it's the only drug where stopping cold turkey can be fatal. Most people have heard of DTs or the shakes. So drinking too much too fast and not drinking afters of hitting the bottle every day can both be fatal.
- It's impossible to overdose on cannabis. People do have bad reactions or trips and go to the hospital but it's nothing life threatening.
- For profit prisons (almost always) cannot take prisoners who've committed a violent crime. Wonder why the dealer to possession ratio was 1:438? This is probably a factor.
- We have 5% of the world's population but 25% of the world's prisoners
- Tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis C - The sentence wasn't for live but these transmissible diseases are.
- "If we legalize drugs think of the damage to the economy. ATF, prison guards, police, cities that are only financially solvent because of the income from the courts and prisons would face financial ruin.
- Innocent until proven guilty unless there's a empty cell? How is this not a conflict of interest for the parole board?
- So we hear nothing about how many drunks get behind the wheel of a 3000lb vehicle. Only after 3-5 DWI's will they possibly face prison time. Someone smoking weed is "a threat to national security?" They pose a threat to the safety of the community. That car swerving down the road only get a slap on the wrist.
- I don't think it should be all drugs and I don't think the article made that argument. The point was to stop treating a health condition as a crime and end what Nixon started.
So the Washington Post published the Unabomber's 35,000 word manifesto in it's daily paper in 1995 as a special section. The Unabomber's brother recognized and turned in his brother. There was no crack in the case by investigators. His brother received the $1 million dollar reward from the Department of Justice for turning him in.
This isn't fake news but it is incorrect. Linguistic experts were involved but it doesn't go much deeper than that.