There are people that are able to live on benzodiazepines long term without significant health impact. There are a lot of medications that are suitable for a lifetime of use in the SSRI and anti anxiolytic family that do not have the potential for habit forming either (and that's habit in the sense of your body becoming accustomed to it).
It's great that you're concerning yourself with the well-being of other people, but please allow concern over the use of medications to be between people with significant mental health issues who are taking those medications and their doctors.
I'm coming at this from a perspective of one doctor who advocated for long term use, only to meet with (several) other doctors years later who highly disagreed with the approach. In other words, there's lot of contradicting information out there and not every doctor is an expert.
This is me as a data point saying - if you're being lead down a path of long term benzo use - be aware that its a possibly dangerous trajectory and in some places its not even really allowed (UK).
Benzodiazepine withdrawal is hell at best, and at worst it can kill you. This is not something you often hear in a doctor's office.
There's no audio as per the article no one has played it yet. Just reading the sheet music, though, I don't know that it's actually playable or that if it's all within the human range of hearing.
I'm pretty sure, since you'll need 56va or more type notations to get it back onto the treble clef, where "8va" indicates play 1 octave higher than notated, that many/most of the notes will be above 18kHz. Before my Dad lost my flute, i used to be pretty good at reading notation in the 2 octaves above middle C range, but that hurts my eyes. Maybe you could revoice all the chords and we can figure out harmonic structure
Correct - as the article demonstrated, we achieved rather buggy results in the short time we had available to us. We're continuing to work on the project and have plans to get the piece performed for LeedsDataMill by a real brass band. I'm guessing the performance will be blogged and I'll cross post it to HN when it's published.
I think this is a great move for both Xamarin and Microsoft. The company I work for is currently using Xamarin to help create cross platform apps with a consistent backend architecture. Sure, we have to develop different front ends for each platform, but we can leverage C# for everything and we don't super stars on any one platform to allow us to generate things quickly and well.
Moving beyond all the security concerns and potential technology shifts in this space, I'd be concerned with durability. By the time my credit cards expire, I typically have had to replace them at least once due to wear.
I'm not charged an additional fee to get those cards, but this would cost me.
I'm glad that people are cycling and that this article pleads with everyone to follow the rules of the road, but beyond that, it's still pretty sensational.
Even with the best of intentions, discipline and strict follow-through, accidents still happen. I'm aware of more than a handful of people that have been involved in an accident where they or another person have died and no criminal charges followed.
I would think that in most cases where a vehicle and a bicycle are involved, the risk of death to the cyclist is more likely due to the size difference between the two (the author hints to the same thing). This is something that motorcyclists have been aware of and dealing with for some time.
In places like Minneapolis, there exist tons of specially created bike paths that allow for bicyclists to travel throughout the city without risk of colliding with motor vehicles. The road is a dangerous place, regardless of transportation method and I'd much rather avoid it if not surrounded by technology designed to survive in it.
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I remember watching it on some encyclopedia product that came loaded on my HP back sometime around '95. They also had presidential speeches and the Hindenburg crash among other events. I thought I was the coolest kid ever to have access to such historical information at my home; that so much data could be stored on a simple CD.
I really appreciate your response to this article. I've made this argument with a lot of people that just simply refuse to believe it.
I've dug into a lot of the statistical data around gun fatilities in as many nations as possible including the United States. The biggest obstacle is that none of it is standardized. Violent crimes and gun violence is reported differently through municipalities and nations, association of criminal and non-criminal behavior is not effectively broken down. To be honest, it really makes me unsure as to how a lot of the media and political decisions are made.
For instance, nearly two thirds of all gun related deaths in the United States are suicides and gun statistics seem to typically be reported on an overall number versus a per capita basis.
Per capita, Finland has about the same number of guns as the US, approximately the same laws regarding guns and yet, their per capita homicide rate is substantially lower.
This may come as a surprise, but I'm actually in favour of reasonable gun control laws. What I am opposed to is the idiocy of enacting laws as knee-jerk reactions. I'm also afraid that in about 10 years, our firearm homicide rate will go up.
First, some background: I have friends who collect guns. Hell, one of them has a working replica of a light naval blackpowder cannon! My relatives are active and eager hunters, some of them own several different guns (2-3 shotguns, at least 2 different rifles).
Without even looking at statistics, I'm certain that per capita there are more active hunters in Finland than in US. This means that the lessons of use and care of firearms have come from people who by their nature are cautious with their weaponry. If you've been taken out to woods to hunt starting from your pre-teens, you have most likely learned to respect firearms. Not fear - just respect. And having been around actively used and maintained firearms, they may just lose some of their glory.
As to why I think we're going to see a slow rise in our gun homicide rate? There's a rather lengthy story behind that. Finland had their own private financial crisis in early 1990's. One of the victims of severe budget cuts was the youth mental healthcare. It's had even more cuts since then. We're now witnessing the second generation of Finns who haven't had the benefit of pre-1990's level of mental healthcare. There are more undiagnosed unstable people around now.
We've had two school shootings in the past few years. I don't see the situation getting better, so over the next decade we'll very likely see more premeditated gun crimes by people in their early 20's.
I don't have statistics or studies at hand, so please consider everything above my personal opinion.
I'm in favor of reasonable gun control laws that aren't a reaction to circumstance as well.
Side note: I have a friend who grew up in Northern Finland and was hunting small game since a very early age (I think he said six or seven). He's introduced me to a lot of great Finnish things, like Paleface, salted black licorice and gravlax. I hope to visit there someday.
Seems pretty straight forward, but I have no way of knowing if this service actually works till market close. It would be nice to have a way of verifying the service works and authenticating the user with their phone.
My concern would be that people could sign others up for this service and they'd have no way of keeping messages from being sent to them.
You could handle this with a simple exchange of sending an SMS and having them enter that code on their site to verify. Have a 12-24 hour window that would turn the account off so as not to spam that number.
Thanks! Also, this seems as good a time as any to bring up Maltego. It's an OSINT network analysis tool that is as good as anything I know about in civilian law enforcement. You get some really cool results when plugging in Twitter data.
I looked into the tool and realized I'd seen my Information Assurance roommate use it 5+ years ago. It was a great application then, but has become even better since. I played around with it for a couple hours yesterday, lots of fun.
It's great that you're concerning yourself with the well-being of other people, but please allow concern over the use of medications to be between people with significant mental health issues who are taking those medications and their doctors.