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That’s fine. If it’s not possible to buy insurance for a particular house at a price that you can afford, don’t live in that house. The state’s other taxpayers shouldn’t be assuming your financial risk.
In many countries, the degree you must obtain to qualify as an MD is indeed a bachelor’s degree, the “Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery” (often abbreviated MB ChB or MBBS).
The fact that some NULLs are indeed undefined doesn’t contradict my point that it would be inaccurate to refer to all NULLs as UNDEFINED.
> It’s undefined and known to be so… And because four value logic was left out, nulls have to fulfil multiple incompatible roles, and ends up being weird.
You know it to be undefined, but if you just leave that field blank on the form, the database still can’t know whether that’s because you don’t have one or because you didn’t provide the one you have, unless there was a field on the form that allowed you to explicitly indicate that you don’t have one.
E. F. Codd thought about this issue.[0]
> Codd indicated in his 1990 book The Relational Model for Database Management, Version 2 that the single Null mandated by the SQL standard was inadequate, and should be replaced by two separate Null-type markers to indicate why data is missing. In Codd's book, these two Null-type markers are referred to as 'A-Values' and 'I-Values', representing 'Missing But Applicable' and 'Missing But Inapplicable', respectively. Codd's recommendation would have required SQL's logic system be expanded to accommodate a four-valued logic system. Because of this additional complexity, the idea of multiple Nulls with different definitions has not gained widespread acceptance in the database practitioners' domain. It remains an active field of research though, with numerous papers still being published.
The article states that he was fired because he did not read the script he was required to read.
“How could you” is a rhetorical question to which the asker already knows the answer they would be given, which is almost invariably “because I lack empathy”.
Who is in this group?
“Normally, I am at home because I do not have a reason to go out; however, sometimes I am at home because I am sleeping.”
Notice how this statement does not actually mean that I am always at home.
> To change your charging option with iPhone 15 models and later, go to Settings > Battery > Charging and choose an option. You can choose a charge limit between 80 percent and 100 percent in 5 percent increments.
> For a hydrogen atom to escape from the exobase, it must first travel upward through the atmosphere from the troposphere. Near ground level, hydrogen in the form of H2O, H2, and CH4 travels upward in the homosphere through turbulent mixing, which dominates up to the homopause. At about 17 km altitude, the cold tropopause (known as the "cold trap") freezes out most of the H2O vapor that travels through it, preventing the upward mixing of some hydrogen. In the upper homosphere, hydrogen bearing molecules are split by ultraviolet photons leaving only H and H2 behind. The H and H2 diffuse upward through the heterosphere to the exobase where they escape the atmosphere by Jeans thermal escape and/or a number of suprathermal mechanisms.
Why?
What does it mean to give a model a calculator?
What do you mean “let it show its working”? If I ask an LLM to do a calculation, I never said it can’t express the answer to me in long-form text or with intermediate steps.
If I ask a human to do a calculation that they can’t reliably do in their head, they are intelligent enough to know that they should use a pen and paper without needing my preemptive permission.
Nobody who uses the phrase ever means it in this way. The point of using the statement is to convey that you are familiar with the person’s history.
As another commenter has already pointed out, “has never failed to disappoint” is not the same statement as “never fails to disappoint”. The habitual present can’t refer to empty sets, as it is only used to refer to repeated actions.
How?
As alluded to by the source in my last comment, formaldehyde is produced in a variety of ways inside the human body, including literally inside our cells, in the mitochondria. It is also used as an input in other biological processes. These processes collectively result in formaldehyde being continually present in the bloodstream in quantities more than a thousand times higher than the residual amount potentially present in a single vaccine dose. Therefore, one vaccine dose would not have a measurable effect on the amount of formaldehyde already in the blood, let alone inside cells and elsewhere. The body is very good at maintaining formaldehyde homeostasis. If it were not, we would be poisoned by our own cellular processes and typical diets.
> The continuous generation and degradation of formaldehyde in the body serve to maintain the homeostasis of formaldehyde metabolism. A common mechanism of formaldehyde generation is located in the mitochondria by the action of serine hydroxymethyltransferase 1 and 2…
> The main source of exogenous formaldehyde in healthy individuals may be through various fruits, vegetables, meat and alcoholic beverages…
> Formaldehyde in human fluids and tissues maintains the metabolic balance of formaldehyde through the continuous action of formaldehyde‐metabolizing enzymes through multiple metabolic pathways…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8184665/
Regarding aluminium, the link I cited in my previous comment addresses this.
> Once aluminum ends up in the blood, its source does not matter, meaning that our body processes it the same way regardless of how it arrived in the blood…
> Once the aluminum associates with one of these new partners, it is carried to the kidneys, where about half of it is removed from the body within 24 hours. Half of the remainder is removed by the next day, etc…
> Although the relative quantity of aluminum introduced on a vaccination day may be significantly greater than that introduced by food on that day, over time, we are exposed to more aluminum from food than from vaccines because the exposure from food occurs daily. If you consider that half of the aluminum in the blood is removed from the body every 24 hours, you will realize that each day additional aluminum is introduced through food. As such, over time, most of the aluminum in the blood could be traced back to that source…
> Formaldehyde is essential in human metabolism and is required for the synthesis of DNA and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). Therefore, all humans have detectable quantities of natural formaldehyde in their circulation (about 2.5 ug of formaldehyde per ml of blood). Assuming an average weight of a 2-month-old of 5 kg and an average blood volume of 85 ml per kg, the total quantity of formaldehyde found in an infant's circulation would be about 1.1 mg, a value about 1,500 times more than the amount an infant would be exposed to in any individual vaccine.
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...
> While infants receive about 4.4 milligrams* of aluminum in the first six months of life from vaccines, they receive more than that in their diet. Breast-fed infants ingest about 7 milligrams, formula-fed infants ingest about 38 milligrams, and infants who are fed soy formula ingest almost 117 milligrams of aluminum during the first six months of life.
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...
Simplifying a lot here, but people with ADHD are statistically more likely to exhibit addictive behaviours because the addiction provides dopamine that their brain otherwise has trouble getting. Treatment with prescribed CNS stimulants is very effective at preventing those behaviours because the brain no longer has to engage in the addictive behaviours to obtain sufficient dopamine.
Here’s one study where patients reported significantly lower rates of alcohol and drug use over at least a one year period.