> We're on 400Mbps, and even then I manage to block internet for others when I download a large file at full speed.
That's more of a router/QoS issue. A large download shouldn't negatively affect quality for other uses, especially VoIP. If the place you're downloading from has a pipe bigger than yours and can saturate your bandwidth you're going to need to implement some kind of rate-limiting/queue management.
I would be very surprised by this. Raster ops, yes. Alpha channel image compositing operations, no way - that's an entirely whole nother level of complexity.
But usually, they are treated as such. American companies have a hard time treating most of their white collar workforce as anything but.
On the other hand, Stripe has been seemingly well managed up to this point - but they have only existed in happy times so far. Many companies change their tune when the chips are down.
> It's also very expensive and difficult to hire new ones, even if you're hiring them at a cheaper salary than the last ones.
This may be true - but the average tenure of a tech worker shows most firms are not able to do act on this.
> Stripe 100% wants to retain its employee base, just like any company would.
I wouldn't put it past Stripe, but "just like any company would" is pretty naive. Serious retention efforts are by far the exception in my observation. This also weakens your argument - is Stripe not actively working to retain talent or are they just like "any company?" If really the latter, then they are fucked.
> and not when the console was still in production?
The "Atari 8-bit" refers to a line of 6502 based personal computers manufactured from 1979 until 1992! There was a commercially unsuccessful video game console, the 5200, derived from this general architecture - it's wild that for their illustrious place in video game history, Atari was a one hit wonder - they never really succeeded in a console release after the 2600.
Atari also had a line of 68k based 32/16 bit computers that sadly also discontinued in 1992 so that Atari could focus on their pathetic attempts to break back into the console market.
It’s a fair point but also back in the day - “everybody” (especially the younger BBS and hobbyist crowd) incorrectly referred to them as 1200 baud or 2400 or even 9600 baud modem - as evidenced by the numerous historical references.
QR code is not particularly dense (like compared to something like a hard drive) - why waste space that could not be put towards more redundancy (error correction)?
Ironic since you are the one making the claim and have not produced any references. I can’t prove they don’t exist but you could easily counter if one did.
that is chock full of balanced references if anyone is so inclined to peruse them and takes a critical examination at the various publications and the arguments can be evaluated solely on merits alone. There is continued research in this area but so far no smoking gun as to causality.
There are no meta-analyses I know of on your specific claim as there is a lack of primary research in human subjects to even substantiate it.
> Most likely they don't actually know any endocrinologists
I’m a practicing academic internist. I know endocrinologists both personally and professionally. This is absolutely irrelevant though as the literature is available for you.
> Some people just feel compelled to jump up and defend sugar
I did nothing of the sort. I treat diabetes and hyperlipidemia on the daily - that would be ridiculous.
Edit: oh and I missed your edit - a reference to Perlmutter? A celebrity neurologist who has widely been debunked for making wildly unsubstantiated claims. You are not arguing in good faith. You have the entirety of PubMed and Google scholar on which to reference peer reviewed literature - some of it is also crap - but you aren’t even doing that - you are sticking to the lowest quality unsubstantiated celebrity bilge.
This is not an RCT nor does it point to one supporting your uric acid claims.
And Lustig is well known, he's on the border of being a crackpot, unfortunately.
Mehmet Oz is a professor emeritus of Columbia, and contributed some amazing shit to the field of cardiology, but now he is undoubtedly a crackpot, so just having some credentials and even a good history is not an automatic pass to get out of presenting high-quality scientific methods.
This is a non-response - or do you have a specific cite linking uric acid as causative of diabetes or cardiovascular disease? It can be in a colorectal journal for all I care.
> Have to be, to do it at all.
Lol. Yeah bud, I have a ton of friends that are endocrinologists, all mostly great and intelligent folks, but I’m not letting them touch me with a colonoscope - or pretty much any implement. It’s not exactly a field for the procedurally inclined.
> Most of these are products of high uric acid level
That's a very unsubstantiated claim. I'm not debating the association of hyperuricemia with metabolic syndrome or cardiovascular risk factors, but I don't think we have much evidence to establish a causal link between hyperuricemia and all the morbidities listed.
Medical failure in the literature is a jargon term. (Internal) medicine and surgery are traditionally two distinct fields of, er, medicine. So it is just a matter of fact that a disease such as Crohn's that is refractory or resistant to treatment with medicine is a "medical failure" - no spin on it, that's what we call it.
Biases in referral across services is a complicated topic, and there is quite a bit of literature about it over the years. I am not sure about Crohn's/IBD specifically, but it's one of the well known co-management touch-points between surgery and GI, so there might be something written on the subject. There are many complexities at play here, some is definitely due to human factors, but the simple thought of "medical failure" doesn't have much to do with it. The average internists make thousands of consults to surgery every year, so that's really not it, there's much more to it.
You have actual Crohn's or IBS? Because your symptoms while distressing don't sound like Crohn's at all. Crohn's is an autoimmune inflammatory condition with actual tissue destruction. People with Crohn's flares don't show up to the ED with constipation, they often show up with profusely bloody diarrhea. Additionally weight loss and anemia. They may likely require admission for high dose steroids. People with Crohn's will often need surgery. What you're describing sounds more like IBS.
A bottle of kefir is unlikely to hurt. However, I am quite skeptical that such a thing has any prophylactic effect once a recurrent process like Crohn's is set in motion - like pissing on a gasoline fire. A bottle of kefir is not going to touch an actual Crohn's flare at all.
There's no good evidence that any specific diets seem to help the chronic course of Crohn's unfortunately, and it's not like no one has looked.
That's more of a router/QoS issue. A large download shouldn't negatively affect quality for other uses, especially VoIP. If the place you're downloading from has a pipe bigger than yours and can saturate your bandwidth you're going to need to implement some kind of rate-limiting/queue management.