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I have gotten into the habit when researching medical information to go to pg.15 on the searches, to bypass the captive Pharma and baleful fake news influences/infomercials disguised as advice.

On the beginning two pages at the start of the search, I came across an LA Times article that equated 'Statin Denialists' with 'Global Warming Denialists', just people who didn't know "The Truth" and what was mandated to be good for them. That was a refreshing cross pollination of nonsense equivalency for agitprop purposes from our depraved legacy press.

Ceffer says

On the beginning two pages at the start of the search, I came across an LA Times article that equated 'Statin Denialists' with 'Global Warming Denialists', just people who didn't know "The Truth" and what was mandated to be good for them. That was a refreshing cross pollination of nonsense equivalency for agitprop purposes from our depraved legacy press.

I have a suggestion - try using http://www.yandex.com instead of google. They are Russian so, since they have sanctions, they cannot be paid to promote US propaganda. They can be paid to produce Russian propaganda though.

Here's a challenge - find a paper that demonstrates a correlation between statin use, and longevity compared against a control group that foregoes statins.

Statins are evil - they do remove cholesterol, but guess what part of your body needs cholesterol - your brain. It protects your nervous system. My mother was put on statins then started to have difficulty remembering. My parents now live in a retirement community when they are near friends, and have ready access to doctors. I was so fucking pissed off that my brother - a nurse - didn't know about statins. I directly challenged him to find a paper that showed statins increased longevity - precisely because I know there is no such paper - but I dunno, i not in the medical profession, and it's not like I know everything. He couldn't find anything though.

I'll never take statins.

richwicks says

Statins are evil - they do remove cholesterol, but guess what part of your body needs cholesterol - your brain.

My brain doesn't need cholesterol. It just needs frequent pictures of lissome babes writhing in wanton lust.

Ceffer says

richwicks says

Statins are evil - they do remove cholesterol, but guess what part of your body needs cholesterol - your brain.

My brain doesn't need cholesterol. It just needs frequent pictures of lissome babes writhing in wanton lust.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cholesterol/2012/292598/

In the off chance you thought i was kidding.

Statins treat a test result, for those who totemize the significance of test results. A lot of men are terrified of heart attacks, especially if they had fathers or close relatives who have died of them. I know doctors who take statins because they fear heart attacks.

Internist tells patient 'You have this horrible test result and it means you are at higher risk of heart attack" "What do I do?" "Well, take this statin and it will bring the test results down and reduce your risk!" This often takes place with the doc minimizing the risks and side effects of the statins themselves, which are quite diverse and even can be life threatening. I think they tried to cover up a study that showed that statins overall not only didn't save lives statistically OVERALL (due to side effects of statins) but that in the study group that did not take the statins, there was even evidence to suggest the overall fatalities were very slightly lower, in spite of the modestly lower risk of heart attack per se that existed in the group who took the statins.

So If I were to pick my poison, i would opt to go without statins and endure the modestly higher risk of heart attack rather than the side effects of statins. My test for fats are all normal, anyway. However, they are one of the things that Pharma would like to have everybody on chronically.

Sort of like Covid logic: We are SAVING LIVES, when what you do kills more than it saves, but everybody is paralyzed by fear, so the fear is addressed rather than the reality.

HEYYOU says

Scientists say climate change is turning coastal Antarctica green "

Well I say it ain't!

Glad that's settled.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

Are you bayonetting the post man or do you hate AMERICA! ?

I am, he trampled flowers in my front yard!!!

Yes. He hurt my dog's teeth with his leg.

Ceffer says

Yes. He hurt my dog's teeth with his leg.

did he also steal your pellet by carrying it away in his back?

Ceffer says

I think they tried to cover up a study that showed that statins overall not only didn't save lives statistically OVERALL

I've heard the same thing.

Me? I'd rather have the heart attack then be a vegetable although I could be a vegetable either way. I've seen slow mental deterioration of older people on statins.

My grandmother was on a bunch of drugs - she was as sharp as a tack. Brilliant woman, she used to have times when she just felt exhausted and so would lie down. Doctor said she was having heart problems - so the drugs started. She slowly lost her mind and lived that way for 20 years. She broke her hip one day, and basically the conclusion was "it's time", so she was removed from the drugs.

She was back, sharp as a tack, completely coherent for weeks - then she died.

So.... I don't have much faith in being on 15 drugs to live, if you can call having no long term memory for 20 years as "living".

Most statins are generic now. But if you want to know the truth about statins look for the number needed to treat (NNT). It measures how many people would need to take the drug for one year in order to prevent one heart attack or stroke during that year.

Just one of many effects of the relentless effort of Cultural Marxism.

That is why they try to gain as much appeasement like this as they can.

They use the threat of more AntiFa-style violent protests and looting as leverage to gain as much as they can such as a city mayor forcing the removal of Confederate statues, etc.

Patnet, this is why I keep coming back. The OP has not responded to anything and we're now on the topic of statins. Which will then result in Tim coming back and reprimanding for you not staying on topic in 5...4...3...2...1...

Shaman says

One thing I know about jury selection is that they LOVE teachers of any kind. My wife is an educator and she always gets selected.

A few years back when I was on a jury, we had an elementary teacher who did not show up for the initial selection. The judge had her arrested in the classroom in front of the students and brought before him in handcuffs.

LOL! C++ is the lowest paid, and Pearl is the highest.

What a load of garbage, trying to keep Silicone Commies relevant, when they are busted up.

Ruby and Pearl users trying to promote their self worth.

I code in C# we have meetings and I get my action items, I can turn them around in a few hours to a few days.
The Ruby folks at the other companies then spend months and months and missed deadlines and buggy launches.

Then I always end up having to dumb down my code to accommodate shit the Ruby idiots couldn't accomplish.

I know it's about Lies, Liars and Damn Lies.

If you look at C++ most C++ jobs are teaching C++, or managing existing projects with minimal new code, because the Schools are doing a shit job at teaching people applied programming.
So we have people who learn languages that they don't have a clue on how to use to earn a living. So they end up teaching, or in QA.
When you actually see a job for C++ or any C variant for that matter. The bar to get the job is higher than other languages, and it pays more than the other jobs as well.

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These are all from Indeed, sure most C++ jobs are low paying grunt jobs, just need morons on the payroll, they wont be writing anything important.

But for the jobs that pays the highest no language will pay as much as C++ can pay, for the right opportunity.

You'll never find a Ruby, PHP, or C# job that pays anywhere near 180K, 200K and 300K.
Not unless you assume a larger title to go with it.

It could be they are conflating the pay scale with the skill set of the C++ developers, most can program in any of the popular languages.
Those high paying Ruby and Pearl jobs are going to C++ developers who answered the call, and have experience above and beyond C++.
You're not going to find a person that went to a Coding Dojo and learned a few Ruby tricks making anywhere near that money.

I'm not it that world, but have experience with several of those languages.

If scripting languages are at the top of the list it's obviously more about what the jobs are than what the languages are. I'm guessing network admin and or back end web server stuff. Very specialized.

I was surprised to see Pascal, one of the first languages I learned. Actually it was the first not including a little fortran (with punched cards) back in an earlier lifetime.

The items at the top of that list are the lowest paying jobs.

Tenpoundbass says

The items at the top of that list are the lowest paying jobs.

Lol, top paying is obviously what I meant. Wtf ?

Pascal is on the list and Java is not? WTF?

FuckCCP89 says

Pascal is on the list and Java is not? WTF?

Anyone that works in this field and has fielded jobs in the 5 years, knows this list is as big of a pile of bullshit, those Maximum and Bender lists were.

From the article:

HackerRank, a tech company that focuses on competitive programming challenges for both programmers and recruiters, surveyed over 116,000 software developers and students to figure out what coding languages were associated with the highest pay worldwide.

Programming is cool. I was hooked when I first used BASIC to print my name ten thousand times in green text on the first MS/IBM PC back in the early eighties. I went on to get a CS degree from a CSU Sacramento. Over my career I have used a couple dozen languages.

Programming is not about the code words and syntax of a particular language, it's about logic and algorithms to solve problems. My favorite language is pseudo-code. Once I have figured out how to solve the problem at hand I can translate it into any language that might be used. Granted some languages are better for doing some things and knowledge and experience in that language is valued (often overvalued) in the market.

Software engineering is both a science and an art. Who can say the Boyer-Moore algorithm is not elegant? Too many hackers don't understand the science and depend on their artistic talent. I have seen too many software initiatives that spent too much time and money to fuck up a successful businesses process.

Don't get me started on "database managers" that don't understand normalization.

Edit and repaste the link

Torture the statistics hard enough and they will tell you anything!

Onvacation says

Programming is not about the code words and syntax of a particular language, it's about logic and algorithms to solve problems. My favorite language is pseudo-code. Once I have figured out how to solve the problem at hand I can translate it into any language that might be used. Granted some languages are better for doing some things and knowledge and experience in that language is valued (often overvalued) in the market.

Pseudo Code is nonsense if you don't already have a language, process and platform already in mind.
10 lines of pseudo code may be represented with one lambda expression, there's so much looping and temporary heaps you can avoid by using LINQ.

Those if's, loops and recursive method calls, could never be realized in the code.
The single most important starting place is the Data model, all failed software projects, treated the Data model as an after fact to prove the concept of bad coding practices.
Where if you start with a great model, then all of the data challenges will be solved before the first line of code is created. Really after that all you need is MVC CRUD Pages and bare minimum Structure coding. Where you put the Business rules should then be considered second. The rest is easy.

Onvacation says

From the article:

HackerRank, a tech company that focuses on competitive programming challenges for both programmers and recruiters, surveyed over 116,000 software developers and
students to figure out what coding languages were associated with the highest pay worldwide.

So they surveyed out of work people for the highet paying jobs?

Please don't ever question my Spidey Triggers again!

FuckCCP89 says

Pascal is on the list and Java is not? WTF?

I was wondering when someone was going to mention the obvious.

APOCALYPSEFUCKisShostakovitch says

Someone saw Floyd eat a Twinkee!

It was suicide by transfats!

Case closed!

The three cops kneeling on him were trying to revive him with a brisk knee massage!

Don't lie, we all know he died of COVID-19, everyone in last year in fact only died from COVID-19, even those people who muslims beheaded. They were in fact already dead from COVID-19 by the time muslims got them. FACTS!

Online meetings are better because I can actually work during the portions where I'm not immediately involved. Go to any corporate office and look in the meeting rooms. Two or three people talking and the rest on their laptops. Webex and Skype also solve the problem of roaming the aisles to get to someone's cube that isn't there, anyway. I've even had IMs with people directly across the aisle from me. It's more efficient and leaves a paper trail in case I need to refer back.

Face-to-Face can be beneficial, but I'm willing to drive or fly in to the office a few times a year to get that time in. In the modern office, face-to-face isn't always the most efficient option.

I have Gorilla Glue on my laptop Camera lens, just a beige haze is all anyone sees.

I dial in, and then mute my phone, they can't tell you're muted.

Then I just do bong hits, and play my guitar. I love the Zoom meetings it gives me an hour of peace every other day, without constant emails and calls interrupting me.

Tenpoundbass says

The single most important starting place is the Data model, all failed software projects, treated the Data model as an after fact to prove the concept of bad coding practices.

Agreed!

Tenpoundbass says

Pseudo Code is nonsense if you don't already have a language, process and platform already in mind.

"You start programming and I'll go figure out the requirements." Old programmers joke.

The point I was making is that understanding logic and algorithms is more important for a software engineer than any specific language. Just my educated opinion.

Onvacation says

The point I was making is that understanding logic and algorithms is more important for a software engineer than any specific language. Just my educated opinion.

True, but try to convince any potential future employer of this.

zzyzzx says

True, but try to convince any potential future employer of this.

Ya gotta have skills and experience too!