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The 17th percentile in peds is not surprising. The model mixing it’s training data with adults would absolutely kill someone.

GPT will require every test and yet for the sake of authenticity randomly perform medical errors.

They’re instituting this for the generation that grew up with Vpns so they could watch pirate streaming sites on their school Wi-Fi? Good fucking luck.

Always an impressive operation they have one peering point in San Francisco and their data centers historically consist of a church and shipping containers.

https://www.theregister.com/2017/11/16/head_like_a_memory_hole/

You pretty much either put so much heat into urea that it turns to ammonia and melts your plastic while doing so or you wait for some bacteria to eat it and turn it into ammonia. It technically starts vaporizing at above 130 C.

It needed breaking anyway. Let’s make some rainbows.

It makes sense. Coal in English is a word that originally meant a burning ember and likely related to charcoal that we then changed to exclusively mean rock coal. Since it didn’t happen until the 1300s and we were producing charcoal long before that.

If anything charcoal is redundant. It’s a word with an origin like “burned burned” (though char comes from change, not burn)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/coal

I wouldn’t grill with anything but anthracite and even then, I don’t know that I would. You guys actually use coal from the ground at bbqs? We mostly use charcoal which is pyrolysed wood

It’s possible to craft a public company that has bylaws strict enough to make it like a good nonprofit, but why would you do that and still pay taxes?

precious hamburgers?

There’s a whole lot of bullshit going on around this story. People are acting like she violated national security interests, but they can’t articulate how. Like she shipped ebola to wuhan, but she wasn’t fired for that because cooperation with high level labs is kind of important (and I’m sure wuhan already HAD a sample of ebola before she even shipped it). The findings she shared would’ve been shared eventually(and the reason it started a kerfluffle is because China shared them and included her in as a co-author in a paper and included her in patents for ebolavirus treatments). You can still say she was working “against Canada” if you really want to twist it, but that’s not really what happened. She violated policy and got fired, then said the firing was unjust. The potential damage to Canada comes from intellectual property interests but there’s not much money in treating Ebola in the first place.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-1.5232674

Researchers working at the National Microbiology Lab on cutting-edge, high-containment research are not allowed to send anything to other countries or labs without the intellectual property office negotiating and having a material transfer agreement in place, in case the material sent leads to a notable discovery.

I sure hope people are sharing this research with Zimbabwe. They’ve got endemic marburg virus to deal with. The frank truth is, for something like Ebola, sequencing it isn’t going to change how you weaponize it. You weaponize it by breeding it and then blowing it up at low heat so it spreads over a large area. Any contact with it leads to infection, it’s a nasty bug.

This is different, than say, anthrax weaponization. You can go to cattle farms, dig in the dirt, and culture it, and you will eventually isolate anthrax. That strain, however, won’t really go into spore form well and won’t be super pathogenic. You’ll need to infect a bunch of sheep with it and try to get a better strain, like they did in my hometown at Ft. Detrick. Then you use specific drying methods to make it turn into weapons grade spores. That’s why specific strains are important with anthrax and you could theoretically use something like CRISPR to make your own that’s better than what you can find digging in the dirt.

I seriously cannot parse these two statements

The document show the service had a more rosy initial assessment of Qiu’s motivation, noting in spring of 2020 that she could be “susceptible … based on the belief in the power of science to help humanity.”

But as the investigation went deeper, CSIS’s concerns deepened. A few months later, CSIS wrote Qiu was using the level 4 lab in Canada “as a base to assist China to improve its capability to fight highly-pathogenic pathogens” and “achieved brilliant results.”

They’re the same picture

Like I get it, you want to secure medical research. And she was likely inappropriately sharing unpublished data against lab policy. But the tone shift they’re trying to make doesn’t connect for me.

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It really depends on what you’re talking about. If it’s dedicated counter staff no. If it’s waitstaff that is on waitstaff wages(as in a waitress went to get your food), maybe. The former should actually be having a competitive wage to employ them. The later were hired on with the expectation that they work for tips. Counter staff getting tips that they don’t even share with back of the house is kind of dumb.

Going to add to this, the confusion comes from people saying something is a tax wire off as being a good thing. That confusion comes from the fact that a tax write off is essentially a “discount” compared to paying for something out of your own pocket post tax. You’re essentially buying it for whatever percent cheaper you tax rate is. This is good if it’s something that you gain value from, but bad if it’s something like a wasted investment (though that gets complicated when you start actually assigning percentages to an investment’s potential return as you hedge it, that’s so far outside of my wheelhouse that it might as well be on the moon).

If that’s the case you can always try buccal administration. Looks like that uses a spray.

I edited my comment about strip clubs right when you posted this. There’s a legal gray area in my opinion by using it for tipping. If you’ve already received the service, you really can’t be committing fraud. Essentially, the producers can easily say the thing is not meant to commit fraud because it’s obviously not real money. But if you personally passed it off as money anyway and received something for it, you’d get nailed.

There is absolutely an intent to defraud aspect, and it’s clear the intent here is to pass of the money as real even if it’s monopoly money. This is particularly true in strip clubs where you’re getting a “service” based on your donations.

It is immoral because its a lie (if we’re going off of some definitions of morality), its unethical, because its a lie that is quite cruel and provides zero benefit, and it’s illegal because it’s fraud. So yes.