Australia, Queensland, Brisbane has the highest incidence of skin cancer in World. So Drs and dermatologists would have more experience detecting it here. UV is probably much less intense in England . This link graph shows skin cancer is over 2x in Australia
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1032114/countries-with-t...
Sadly, a friend of mine died from this type of problem. He traveled from Ghana to Jordan and fell ill in Jordan, the Jordanian doctors didn't diagnose it as malaria in time to save him because Jordan doesn't have malaria. I'm sure it would have been obvious to a Ghanaian doctor.
Weird. Pretty much every time I've gone to a doctor (in the Midwest US, no less) for an illness, the second question they ask is always "have you been out of the country recently?" just to rule out anything caught from abroad.
Then again, my one experience with a university hospital was pretty shitty, so maybe that's it?
I came back from Bali and shortly after came down with a really high fever when I was on vacation in Maine. When I got home week later called my primary as I was still running a bit of a fever and got blood work which was pretty bad. Went to ER and my primary care figured it was something tick related. The infectious disease guy on call immediately identified as Dengue Fever. At the end, including sending blood to the Louis Pasteur Institute in Paris I spent something south of $1K to get told I’d recover on my own—the Paris tests came back like weeks later—and there really wasn’t much they could do.
I had a weird cardiac issue, for which they kept me in the hospital for a few days and brought in more and more doctors to hear my story. Added tens of thousands to my bill. Eventually checked myself out "against doctor's advice".
A good family friend caught abdominal TB while abroad, came back to Canada, and was terribly misdiagnosed. TB is very rare here; abdominal TB even more so, and early symptoms look like a lot of other diseases. It took several hospital visits before the doctors realized the actual problem. He very nearly died, and spent nearly a year in the hospital recovering from a parade of complications.
When I first heard the clinical idiom "When you hear hoof-beats, think horses not zebras" I thought it was a precautionary saying about the bias toward assuming the familiar. But it's meant to be instructive!
Being a pasty Brit, going to Australia was a real eye opener in how much more on the ball they were about skin cancer, not just in medical terms but culturally. We're getting better here (I was there more than a decade ago) but it's still seen as quite amusing when people get sunburnt here.
Speaking with some 70 year olds, their opinion on the "best doctor in town for skincare" was basically a doctor who'd simply cut out whatever you like and send it for a biopsy.
At most you had to deal with a stitch or two but often only a bandaid. Nowadays the hydrocolloid bandages seem magic.
My neighbour who is a doctor moved to another city because that's where he managed to get a spot to train for his field.
It appears that he's learning much more there than he would back home because in this country some procedures are rare outside of his current location.
Reminds me of that South Korean trauma surgeon who trained in the states and has pushed for Korea to get US-style trauma centers.
Dude got plenty of experience dealing with gunshot wounds, which probably helped him when that one North Korean defector came over the border, riddled with bullets (you may have heard this story, it was big news at the time). The especially weird coincidence was that the surgeon's mentor from the states was in Korea at the time this happened, what are the odds.
Similar vein: during The Troubles, physicians in Belfast got particularly good at dealing with managing cranial pressure and making skull plates from bar bombings, and dealing with bone repair from kneecap punishment shootings
My experience - Having had at least 10 skin cancers cut out over the last 30 ish years, is the only way that it can definitely be determined ( skin cancer or not ) is a biopsy.
Can't speak for Google's case - but Apple certainly goes to great pains to make it clear they don't collect location data on users - it's left on the user's device.
Isn't it interesting that it takes an international mega-corporation to take a more realistic and principled approach to user privacy than a democratic government.
> Can't speak for Google's case - but Apple certainly goes to great pains to make it clear they don't collect location data on users - it's left on the user's device.
It's very clearly marked as being collected, so I'm not sure why this myth of Apple not collecting data is being perpetuated. It's seriously misleading actual iOS users about their privacy.
Well put! These are the moments which everyone remembers and refers back to when the next troll comes along and claims that Apple must allow third party app stores.
People are not trolls to demand the freedom to do whatever they want with their property and the freedom to pass laws to force Apple to permit that. The argument that if you do not like Apple or Goole use Linux can be reverse and if Apple or Google does not like EU or other market with anti-competitive laws they are very,very free not to do business there.
Should I remind the fanboys again that Apple gives China direct access to users data? Apple does not have principles but PR people with spreadsheets, you as an user could use your brain and not install a government app or don't give it permissions but if you want the freedom to delegate your thinking to a for profit company you don't have to demand the others give up their freedom too (I don't need X so you should not have it either )
> People are not trolls to demand the freedom to do whatever they want with their property
But you can do whatever you want as far as it’s possible by the product that you purchased. If you buy a Gameboy you wouldn’t sue Nintendo for not supporting you to play Playstation games on it, unless you’re a troll. Same thing for Apple products. Do with your iPhone what you want, but if you don’t like the Apple software on it then return your device or try to hack it or just buy another product which better meets your needs.
Sure, but I have the right to ask my government to pass new laws, so I don't beg Apple,Google, Facebook,Steam to be moral I ask my government to act for our common good and the giants are free to pack their bags and leave.
So when someone in EU asks for Apple to open up the US people should not trigger as much since they can keep their locked versions of the phones, nobody would force them to buy the unlocked EU version. Similar when banks were forced to reduce commissions on stuff, or mobile networks were forced to reduce big charges in EU the companies could ahve left, but the banks and companies are still here and not US citizen was directly harmed (maybe some will still cry that there are places where big money is not enough )
> Sure, but I have the right to ask my government to pass new laws, so I don't beg Apple,Google, Facebook,Steam to be moral I ask my government to act for our common good
But the electorate didn’t ask the government to collect location data on them, quite the opposite, so everything that you just said is literally fantasy cuckoo land argumentation. The reality is that people don’t want to be spied in by the government and people don’t want Apple to give the government that access and Apple is acting in the interest of everyone except a few people in parliament.
The UK government has a democratic mandate to track infections, including by tracking visitors to areas of risk. The correct way to do this, and how most other governments do it is to provide two Apps. One for trivial QR/location based tracking, one for contact based tracking using the government-exclusive APIs.
The point is, the UK government made a technical error, we cannot extrapolate a democratic deficit or malice or anything like that from the information we have from this event.
I am arguing about the freedom to install what application you want, I don't demand you to install UK or other government app, if you would think for a moment this would mean that if your repressive government would force Apple to pre-install an app you would have the freedom to remove it(wow, to remove or change the defaults , such a revolution, think about it, and nobody forces you to do anything, you can keep all the Apple locks in place).
Apple definitely have a stronger case here, because as you say, they do more generally go to lengths to protect user privacy. That being said, they do use location-based advertising themselves.
Apple sent users data about what app their run and when they to their servers, and if I remember right the protocol was not secure enough. So either Apple does not care about privacy or they are incompetent not to implement that feature respecting the users privacy.
To be honest I thought the same thing. Pricing was also a little hidden.
I have been looking for something like this - as patio11 would say, you should always charge more than you think but I’ll be honest, my workplace could not really justify this price for an hour.
In non-pandemic times, it would not be unusual for a company to blow more than that on a laserquest outing or an escape room or something. Seems in the right ballpark for a teambuilding budget.
I'm not the person you are replying to, but just wanted to add another data point, even if it's probably not what you want to hear - I think $50-$125 is more realistic.
FWIW, I also just polled my manager about this (without revealing my thoughts above), and he said $100 absolute max. For reference, this is at a megacorp (technically they could of course afford more, but budgets for anything related to employee happiness are squeezed tight).
Thanks GordonS. Really appreciate the data point. Interesting, the few managers we talked to as part of our user research indicated a much higher acceptable price point for employee engagement initiatives and the cost savings during the pandemic. Looks like we need to do more pricing research here.
ircshotty, thank you for the additional data point. Part of the reason for the higher price is that we provide prizes to the winning team. Perhaps we need to consider a lower price point without prizes. Would that help?
Or, maybe we need make the inclusion of prizes clearer in how the price is positioned.
An ultimatum to delete all content within 2 weeks, after they've not said a thing for 8 years, linked the site from their official blog, ... seems quite heavy-handed. Yes, they might have the right to do so, but it is shitty and not the only option.
Asking to transfer the domain with such short notice does feel heavy-handed for sure. But they haven't asked to delete the blog - only to remove offending references.
Removing all references to Raspberry Pi from a blog dedicated to discussing the Raspberry Pi is effectively the same as asking to delete it. What would they be left with?
I think that's a very interesting viewpoint, and probably says a lot about your background.
As a non-lawyer brit, this sound horribly harsh, we're about to sic the lawyers on you unless you stop everything immediately.
The very name Raspberry Pi Spy seems fairly clear - it is either using the raspberry pi to do something (spy) or it is spying on the raspberry pi. Either way, it screams unofficial.
This seems reasonable? Raspberry Pi is only successful because of the community around it. If you have a product that depends on community service engagement, you don’t do things that damage your community support.
This take was so wrong the raspberry pi ceo came out and apologized.
FWIW it's not true. You don't lose trademarks by letting others use them, you lose trademarks by not paying your renewal fees (or genericisation: but that's actually protected against by trademark use).
This is not legal advice; this is my personal view and in no way relates to my employment.
Also not a lawyer, but it is either literally what that boss said or very close to what he said — he may have used a different expletive, but he didn’t seem to be a fan, and I have every reason to think he was sincere.
This seems like a good thing in theory... but if it's all all successful, where goes the inventive for manufacturers to be more careful about their code?
Why should they make secure code if it's just going to be fixed for them?
Also, where's the incentive for lawmakers to regulate IoT security if less people are affected?
I think the general idea is more "they're not fixing it and there is no incentive, and while we wait and see if there is, botnets are spinning up huge DDoS attacks on demand, plus much much more."
The vigilante concept implies some known disregard or dismissal for the current law/powers that be for whatever reason the vigilante is motivated by. Add in the vast number of products made in jurisdictions where regulations aren't well enforced or can be circumvented easily, and soon it starts to look a bit dire to wait for the proper authorities to work.
I don't really know what to think about the Hajime botnet, but their motives are pretty easily understood.
But they are fixing it. And there is incentive. People are just upset that it isn't happening faster, so they clamor for more incentive. IoT is a new born baby in an industrial filled with 3 year olds. I guarantee in 100 years, we all will seem bumpkins developing the WORST ideas of security.
When I came back to Australia, it was checked and immediately removed as an obvious melanoma.
Perhaps the idea of Comparative Advantage also applies to healthcare between countries with natural variances to types of disease?