I guess because people want to track some things about their health, and people provide good pieces of software with a simple UI to do it, and this is more useful that, say, writing it down in a notebook, or in a text file or notes app.
I guess also people feel that corporations _shouldn't_ be allowed to do bad things with it.
Sadly, we already know with experience in the last 20 years, that many people don't care about what information they give to large corporations.
However, I do see more and more people increasingly concerned about their data. They are still mainly people involved in tech or related disciplines, but this is how things start.
As a doctor, I often get asked when I'm going to be replaced by AI, or if AI can help in my work.
The reality is that our work efficiency could have been made so much efficient with a bit of decent user-friendly software that is optimised for the user.
I also love computers and IT, but as a result I understand highly-optimised (usually open source) software.
The proprietary system we have at work is a mess. Inconsistent widgets, some keyboard shortcuts for some dialog boxes, but not for others. Lots of forms that need filling that I shouldn't be having to fill out (it's the same every time but I have to go through the whole process just to speak to a patient over phone).
As others have mentioned here, senior doctors used to look at the patient, and give their opinion. Admin and junior doctors would turn it into action in a safe way, following protocol and prescribing advice to make it happen.
These days senior doctors are checking in their patients themselves, clicking through many menus to order blood tests, checking out their patients, writing their patient letters, and basically sorting out the majority of the admin for enacting what they recommended should happen.
Hard disagree. Boredom is the consequence of a disengaged mind. Seems like his life was pretty fulfilling, with new music and entertainment, new people to meet and talk to, and new issues to solve, and when he did get bored I'm sure he had ample opportunities to do new things and take on new endeavors to satiate his mental appetite.
> IMO it is in fact dark pattern and goes against of how people perceive "Share" action
Yes, exactly this. I use 'share' all the time on my phone between various apps which privately share photos, webpages etc with other people through messaging apps. That is my current understanding of what 'share' means.
Lots of people here stating that this is an epigenetic change rather than a change in the genetic sequence, which I think is missing the point somewhat.
Epigenetic changes are an important part of your genetic make-up. To give you an example, the only reason that your skin cells remain your skin cells when they divide, and your liver cells remain your liver cells when they divide, is due to the epigenetic make up. Their DNA is the same, but the cells are very different, and epigenetics pass that information along when the code is copied.
In the same way, these stress-related epigenetic changes are being copied down and inherited by the generation two under.
This is already known, I think it was first seen in the Swedish famine cohort. At that time it was not clear it was due to epigenetics, but there was a clear signal in the health of those descendants [1], published here in 2002.
I used to run a Jungle night, and once we booked Paradox to play. He brought his entire Amiga set up and we had to replace the decks with it for his set. He had to load each track from a floppy disk and it took like 2-3 mins whilst the beat of the previous track would play out and the crowd waited for the next track to load. Crazy seeing a whole dancefloor chilling waiting for a floppy disk to load up!
On my commute to work, I often run into a very sudden traffic slow-down. It's general practice round here to slow down carefully, checking rear mirrors and to put your hazard lights on as you're doing so. My hazards on my ID3 are not a proper button (it is a 'touchbutton'). It is awful, I can't find it by feel, but I want to keep my eyes on the road in these kind of situations.
Oh god another free-market nut job. Why are there so many on this forum? What you pay for doesn't have a consequence limited to yourself, as a road user something going wrong can have disastrous consequences for your passengers, other car drivers, buildings, expensive infrastructure, pedestrians etc..
I guess also people feel that corporations _shouldn't_ be allowed to do bad things with it.
Sadly, we already know with experience in the last 20 years, that many people don't care about what information they give to large corporations.
However, I do see more and more people increasingly concerned about their data. They are still mainly people involved in tech or related disciplines, but this is how things start.
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