The word "hero" is mentioned twice in the whole article. Once in the section before he talks about his own work, and once in the section directly following it.
> As one of the commenters noted: "Amazing! The guy broke every possible rule. If he wasn't a fucking hero, he would be fired on the spot."
> **
> Once, I used to work as an SRE for Gmail. SREs are people responsible for the site being up and running. If there's a problem, you get alerted and it's up to you to fix it, whatever it takes.
I only know Mr. Sustrik from this one article but had to mention this because it was just a too low hanging fruit in terms of criticism.
Not to mention, he has awareness of the ways people absolved themselves of responsibility during the holocaust, but fails to take accountability for his work at a company supporting an ongoing genocide (whether or not he had any involvement with Project Lavender)
Frankly, if the author has Google-style FU money and can find no better way than this to spend that and his time alike, ego isn't the first of his faculties I see cause to question.
Doesn't surprise me to learn he's big on LW, though. A bloodless, passionless dork who mistakes dollars for IQ points and of whom
it's not obvious he ever had an original thought? He might have been made in a lab for those sad nerd wannabes to identify with.
That's two different components, so they're made by two separate cottage industries in two different states to make sure you have leverage on more politicians. Connecting the two would increase the BOM by $0.1, which means a $1000 increase in retail price, and customers don't want to pay that, so clearly everything is the customers' fault.
Yes, same for QA sometimes.. dev sets bar lower as the QA can test it. Just makes a bunch of back and forth. And when stuff breaks nobody feels responsible.
Sure, but on a global scale the rich are a small percentage of the world population.
Some countries are very restrictive on prescribing antibiotics (almost too strict) and it feels like it falls flat as you can get it over the counter in a lot of places.
In Switzerland it's tough to get antibiotics unless you absolutely need them. Even when I had a lung issue for 2 weeks I had to beg to get antibiotics. Weird. And they are not available over the counter.
In Hungary, on the other hand, they hand them out like candies.
So yes, the solution was to import them from Hungary. :-)
they didn't give in, but I actually checked hospital internal guidelines for doctors, and it states 3 weeks.
They could have done some more tests or whatever, as it was maybe the worst lung issue I've had and I was really miserable. I knew that antibiotics would help, and they did. I sourced them myself.
You could say lucky guess, but after I complained to my health insurer about the bad doctor's visit, they covered the cost fully without any dispute, so they must have agreed with me with at least about maybe running some more tests...
If it was "only" [1] a viral disease, it should dissapear even without antibiotics after a week or two. So perhaps your body solved the problem alone, while you took antibiotics that had no effect.
This is a real posibility and is a real problem to test how useful the medicines are. So all serious studies use a control group [2] to compare the rate of spontanous healing with the rate of healing with the antibiotic.
[1] Some virus are very nasty and can kill you. People confuse the common cold andd the flu, but usualy the flu is much worse.
[2] Preferabely a preregistered double blind randomized control group, becuse there are a lot of other problem that can cause a false result.
What kind of evidence are you expecting? Many diseases are treated with antibiotics without definitive evidence via some kind of test. Often, evaluating symptoms is deemed sufficient. For example, in the case of Erysipelas, an infection of the skin
The commenter did not expound on any specific evidence that would suggest a bacterial lung infection. 2 weeks of malaise and non specific upper respiratory symptoms is not strong evidence of a bacterial pneumonia, sorry.
For external infections, observation by visible inspection is still evidence, a sign, not a symptom. So, not sure what your point is. Erysipelas is invariably diagnosed by signs, not symptoms. Very rarely are bacterial infections diagnosed by symptoms alone.
It is but that doesn't help us here in Sweden, we pay the highest bid price for the electricity generated here but being exported.
The last government at least put in place windfall taxes to pay us back during the massive cost increase in the first winter after Russia invaded Ukraine. We got compensated a few months later the prices went insane. The current government already said they won't do that, which is rather absurd since a lot of our electricity is generated by Vatenfall, a state company.
