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Telemedicine is fantastic and an amazing advancement in medical treatment. It's just that people keep trying to use it for things it's not good at and probably never will be good at.

For reference, here's what telemedicine is good at:

• Refilling prescriptions. "Has anything changed?" "Nope": You get a refill.
• Getting new prescriptions for conditions that don't really need a new diagnosis (e.g. someone that occasionally has flare-ups of psoriasis or occasional symptoms of other things).
• Diagnosing blatantly obvious medical problems. "Doctor, it hurts when I do this!" "Yeah, don't do that."
• Answering simple questions like, "can I take ibuprofen if I just took a cold medicine that contains acetaminophen?"
• Therapy (duh). Do you really need to sit directly across from the therapist for them to talk to you? For some problems, sure. Most? Probably not.

It's never going to replace a nurse or doctor completely (someone has to listen to you breathe deeply and bonk your knee). However, with advancements in medical testing it may be possible that telemedicine could diagnose and treat more conditions in the future.

Using an Nvidia Nurse™ to do something like answering questions about medications seems fine. Such things have direct, factual answers and often simple instructions. An AI nurse could even be able to check the patient's entire medical history (which could be lengthy) in milliseconds in order to determine if a particular medication or course or action might not be best for a particular patient.

There's lots of room for improvement and efficiency gains in medicine. AI could be the prescription we need.

How long before some supermarket introduces, "surge pricing" for post-sunday-mass shoppers and gets sued based on religious discrimination?

Or some store just up and decides that they want to charge black people more? They'll say it's based on credit score or similar nonsense.

It's probably not that the light is losing energy it's just that the distance it travels over time (the time we "know" is supposed to take for a given distance) appears compressed because of unknown/unseen gravitational forces.

Think of it like this: If there were only one star in the universe and it emits a particle of light we could calculate the distance it would travel over time. Yet we know that star will still have a gravitational effect on that light... No matter how far away it gets.

That's what they mean by light "losing energy". Is the energy actually "lost"? Not really. Is this slowing (aka appearance of lost energy) caused by dark energy/dark matter or something more fundamental like spacetime itself being stretched or compressed due to the gravity of astronomical objects we can see or "dark matter"/"dark energy" or... ? We don't really know for certain yet!

Generally speaking: Things that humans would never survive. Like, if someone is thrown so hard against a wall that they go through it, they're not going to live (this happens with non-super characters). Or when someone is falling from a great height and they grab hold of something to catch themselves. Yeah... No.

Or in scenes where fire is present... People having a discussion without coughing their brains out, being able to see, and easily keeping their eyes open, just a few feet from raging flames.

After experiencing any and all of these things the characters will just continue in the story and be able to move and breathe like nothing happened. Sometimes they'll move with a limp or cough occasionally but this is usually right before they make a 100m dash in record time.

This:

Anyone who's ever driven by this area and sees this article will be like, "yep".

How do these people even get home insurance? I bet they don't even have any. No insurer in their right mind would insure these homes.

I don't see the issue. If the Republican party dies conservatives will just flock to a new party. It doesn't happen very often in the US but such things have happened.

Republicans were too accepting of extremists in order to win short term gains. Now they're paying the price as moderates leave the party, making it even more extreme and unredeemable.

They embraced an authoritarian and just like every authoritarian he won't stand for criticism. Anyone that doesn't support the authoritarian is out.

If conservatives really want to have a political future they need to abandon the Republican party and make something new. Something that isn't extremist. The problem with making that happen is they're coming to find out that even their most fundamental beliefs--the things that make them conservatives--are what everyone else thinks of as extreme.

This might not necessarily be the case for much longer with storage costs finally reaching certain thresholds.

2TB SSDs only cost ~$100 and you can cram a lot of SSDs into a tiny space with only a minimal amount of cooling (still need a fan but just a fan).

The next bottleneck to overcome is upload bandwidth. Too many providers offer asynchronous service with weirdly low/slow upload limitations. However, that too might be changing over the next few years as DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gbit down/6Gbit up (DOCSIS 3.1 only supported ~1Gbit up). An important note about DOCSIS 4.0 is that in order to take advantage of it's improved features (on the ISP end) you need to provide more upload bandwidth to the client (well, you can still cap it at the router but at that point the ISP is just being an asshole instead of actually "managing bandwidth").

It's just a general statement. Not specific to this article or comments 🤷

I don't care what justification you throw out. Misuse of literally drives me figuratively insane!