I, without looking at the comments here, immediately returned to homepage to unvote after seeing this on the homepage. Weird flex by creator; ironic that the OS community will happily ignore his creative intentions to use as needed if the value prop fits.
I get that Dave is a boss of a dev/designer, and the product isn't unimpressive in its own ways. I'd like to see data on how 'mac only' products do out there in the wild.
Can't be that hard to justify in some way for a filing. The industrials and big commercial guys do this all. the. time. I even bet there's bunches of SLA templates out there with the right litigious lingo to ease the filing.
Exactly: I want to see more/newer data on residency programs and placement rates per resident (MD, DO, IMG), because last I checked, residency spots (and the bottleneck created by limited Medicare funding, which I find interesting considering the profit created by residents) were the primary bottleneck; medical schools have every incentive to open new spots as quickly as humanly possible considering the ludicrous pricing they charge. We're firmly into 'money printer' territory for medical schools and their cost of operation.
My wife's a doc, in residency, and also Swiss, so I find myself referencing this study [1] on residency hours in Swiss residency programs over years. Bottom line: there are limitations on hours/wk and consecutive shifts, but enforcement of that is a joke + nonexistant, especially among residents (note resident's interest in maintaining their resident status and remaining 'bureaucratically blessed'). [2]
See the Albuquerque neurosurgery resident walkout for an interesting business case of the real value of surgeon residents and what might motivate them to cause a big kerfuffle in hopes of bringing about changes. [3]
I'm mostly acquainted with attending physicians who don't mind the 60hr weeks when they don't have a choice, and residents who pick up the rest of the work that attendings financially benefit from. Surgery attendings seem to be a special sort of animal.
It's just not as simple as limiting hours, unfortunately -_-
Further worthy to note the culture inside surgery departments and residency programs, which seems to feed on exactly this sort of toxicity to measure the worthiness of applicants / residents / graduates. Young surgeon hopefuls should seriously consider the residency process before committing to the field; one of my wife's former co-residents, now early in surgery residency, is surprised by her own fertility challenges, for example. Anyone 'in the business' knows cases like this, and it's a good thing that suicides are national conversation.
Ironically, the reason my wife, a physician, gets to see her dad, a private pilot, most often is when he's flying medical teams to harvest organs from organ donors.
'Agreed' to your points, at least in part ;)
Even with these chemicals being as difficult as they are to verifiably remove, I can only imagine it'll be easier to figure out the path forward excluding these from human contact on a reasonable timeline compared to augmenting or modifying human systems to resilience against PFAS contact. E.g., check out the EPA list [1] on known human effects. Our bodies really, really don't like these chemicals.
"Reproductive effects such as decreased fertility or increased high blood pressure in pregnant women;
Developmental effects or delays in children, including low birth weight, accelerated puberty, bone variations, or behavioral changes;
Increased risk of some cancers, including prostate, kidney, and testicular cancers;
Reduced ability of the body’s immune system to fight infections, including reduced vaccine response;
Interference with the body’s natural hormones;
Increased cholesterol levels and/or risk of obesity;"
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