Aside from interfacing with ISA cards emulation is probably better - an old mid/high end phone with a portable bluetooth keyboard and limbo x86 (via f-droid) sounds promising.
For laptops, there are some lovely cheap little Chromebooks out there that are near/past their update expiration date and if you want a slight challenge you can get an ARM one like the Asus C101P.
But there's something about having real hardware to do things like this...
> The craziest thing is we keep seeing the phrase "the link between infections and deaths has been broken".
Death rates have fallen from a peak of around 1000 deaths per day in feb - with comparable infection rates, to 6 deaths per day. https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
i think most people would consider that to be having broken the link, between infection and death.
6 deaths today because UK numbers are always low on a Monday; it's been around 30 a day for the past week and the trend isn't pretty (given deaths lag hospitalisations by around 2 to 3 weeks, and the daily infections were considerably lower 2 or 3 weeks ago). Death rate is climbing 56% per week (200 in last 7 days, so ~30 per day average) [0]
The link has definitely been weakened, but it's still there
Death rate considerably lags behind infection rates especially at the start of a wave, for multiple reasons (for example, it does take take a while until people get admitted to the hospital, where they are often for multiple weeks before they die, or that in a wave first active people with lots of contacts get infected and only later it spreads to older people who often have fewer contacts). So might be too early to say that.
Death is the worst case scenario, but not the only one that we would like avoid. Having months of debilitating symptoms and possibly a lifetime of disability should be taken seriously.
Is “months of debilitating symptoms and possibly a lifetime of disability” common? I mean, if that’s the case then ok, fair point. But without any data to look at nobody can really say.
This recent research was sent to me [1]. It's in German but summarized: n=300, most symptoms are psychosomatic, seem to be more related to general fear or stress.
Some chemical markers of long Covid have been recently identified, which is great news because it offers hope of research towards treatment.
Psychosomatic is what doctors call illnesses when they can't find a physical cause, especially if it "looks like stress".
I don't wish to discount genuine psychosomatic illnesses. However a psychsomatic diagnosis is often found to be wrong in the end, i.e. a physical cause is found after all. This causes no end of trouble for patients, who are effectively told it's all in their heads when it isn't.
Sorry to come back with another link, but this happened to show up in my feed today [1]
Key result: "Seropositive children did NOT report long-COVID more frequently than seronegative children."
I want to add that a direct colleague of mine still hasn't regained his smell which he lost three years ago due to a serious flu.
There is so much we don't know about long covid. Some people seem to think it always happens after virus infections, but only now shows up on our radar due to media attention.
You're right, most people would consider that to have broken the link, and that's unfortunate because it's a misleading interpretation.
As explained in the comment you're replying to, the aggregate statistics are very different from the per-cohort statistics, which are unfortunately not prominently displayed.
And you also have not taken into account exponential growth and time lag. Predictions are that infections are to rise significantly to perhaps more than 100,000 per day. It hasn't occurred yet, and it's inevitable that it will accelerate if there's an abrupt change of behaviour.
It will be several weeks later that this will translate to whatever turns out to be the exponential rise in severe disease statistics, just as the current reported death rate is time-lagged from infection rates several weeks ago.
And not mentioned here is the non-death severe consequences: Long Covid mainly, which young people get. And all those people with cancer who can't get treatement while the hospitals are full of Covid patients, and for that matter, daren't risk going to hospital anyway because of the immunosuppressants they are on.
For those in the wrong cohorts, the link is not broken, and the death risk to them is about to go up as they are forced back onto public transport and back to workplaces with protections removed.
They are by no means all "laggards" with regard to vaccination, as though that's a personal choice.
I personally am eager to be vaccinated but won't be fully vaccinated with the appropriate post-second-shot delay until beginning of October. I'm in a slightly at risk group, and my family is significantly at risk. So there's no way I'm risking going to any shops or anything like that between now and October :/
That's why I feel for those who don't have work at home jobs. I do, and I'm eager to keep it that way.
If you're one of those people who likes to say "who cares if 10% of our users can't read our website", perhaps you also are the type to think "who cares if the death link isn't broken for 33% of the population, it's broken for the other 67% so that's fine!".
Apple are a patent troll company, often using their size and weight to beat down competition. They have stolen functionality at will to make the product they want, and then fought it out in court.
Some people exploit this to work you harder than you would otherwise. I've seen this in several colleagues who are on a visa and can't get a better job back home, especially more junior ones.
so what bitcoin (and of course other crypto) is, is complex and ultimately subjective : it's different things to different people, just like money.
It does some things money can do & does some things that money cannot. FIAT money is the same, It does some s bitcoin can't but cannot do some things bitcoin can.
instead of advancing a concrete definition of crypto - which as i said is a subjective argument - i'd encourage you to look at what money, monetarism & fiat really are.
It's equally subjective, and arguably a more difficult concept that crypto.
At the moment, traditional cash can be spent much more freely than crypto, which is one of things limiting it's utility as a currency. But similarly, the lack of an immutable ledger, a practically infinite(or a least unknown) supply, and risk of physical counterfeits limits Cash as store of value.
....right now...crypto is something. Even if it's yet to be fully realised. It's mainstream, at least as an investible asset and It has some utility as currency, albeit limited.
For people in developed countries, with established currencies backed by a military force, either directly of indirectly, it will seem quite absurd that crypto could/should replace cash.
For people in unstable regimes, countries who've experienced hyperinflation, it's a massively attractive proposition.
And I don’t think it’s a lowbrow straw man to point out that stock has some fundamental value as the present discounted value of future cash flows, and Bitcoin doesn’t.
TSLA has far more speculators in the stock than users of the product - which was the criticism levelled at bitcoin by OP
You mentioned TSLA has future earnings, which is true, but it has 12bil of debt of the balance sheet too. Bitcoin has no debt on the balance sheet..
More significantly, TSLA is trading at a normalised P/E ratio of >700. For comparison, FORD is about 14. This says that unequivocally people believe TSLA is far, far, far more valuable that the sum of it's parts. Just like bitcoin.
There are both underground and licensed therapists who will work with patients who use psychedelics. Discretely ask around and you might find them.
Try asking around at psychedelic conferences and psychedelic meetups.
Also try contacting MAPS[1] and CIIS[2] (which has a training program for psychedelic therapists), and related organizations. Contacting people doing research in to psychedelics might also be fruitful.
The idea of a licensed therapist who does psychedelics is something of an oxymoron because even if they are licensed for doing therapy they aren't doing anything that they were taught to do in school so I don't see the point of looking for someone with a license.
There are places which train licensed therapists to perform psychedelic therapy. Take a look at CIIS for one prestigious example: [1], [2]
More from MAPS: [3], [4]
Finally, laws around psychedelic use and therapy vary around the world. In some places in the world (like in parts of Europe and South and Central America) psychedelic therapy is much more widely practiced above-ground than it is in the US.
It's been an established method of therapy for well over 40 years now. While it's not my personal preference to include them, there are certainly many experienced and licensed therapists that will conduct sessions with psychedelics.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this method of therapy but it reminds me of the time a relative went to a licensed therapist who did past life regression hypnotism. (And it's well documentation that there is something wrong with that!)
A licensed therapist who does psychedelics is someone outside the norms of society while at the same time carrying a license that carries the implicit promise of following society's rules. It just strikes me as "weird" to seek that out.
it is illegal in mine, a single therapist has the authorizations to perform this therapy here in switzerland.
on the other hand it is perfectly legal for food/oil traders in geneva to starve entire countries / destroy an entire planet for short term profit.
i suspect psychedelics will remain illegal here for a long time since at least half of our politicians are paid by the pharmaceutical industry, so that would crunch a multi billion market.
It's amazing! Hundreds of SciFi writers predicted such surveillance, I dont think many predicted it arrive by invitation - i expect many parents will support this.
Same for smart speakers. It's a hairs breadth away from complete audio & video surveillance.
Semi-coherent and very subjective thoughts about my favorite book follow. Sorry, I just have to gush.
Eh, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was more about empathy, the meaning of humanity, how we justify segregation, etc; its perspective on the human condition was at a much more fundamental/introspective level than the issues discussed in this thread. Though I suppose there might be parallels between the empathy box and the Mountain-Dew (TM) greentext in the top comment.
The subjugated population--the andys--were used not to critique subjugation itself as much as the analyze the implications of the justifications behind that subjugation, especially given the the fact that andys don't feel empathy and had to break the law to be where they are (and the protagonist + POV is a law enforcement officer). It wasn't about the what as much as it was about the why and its implications.
Books that critique the existence of norms/institutions are great, but my favorites are books that choose to accept their presented status-quos but analyze what the implications are and what accepting that status-quo means about ourselves; readers can then look inside themselves and make their own calls. It's the epitome of "show, don't tell".
There is no problem statement, a series of bad design decision and component choices, and a rather silly price.
It reminds me a bit of the British tradition of shed engineering and it’s great to see people still doing things for the dream