I don't know enough about the issue to say they are "too high" or "too low." Buy Side is really about helping consumers make financial decisions in their own lives. So we would pay close attention to which credit card is good for you, without necessarily focusing on what may or may not happen in Washington.

That said, I have heard arguments that the fees hurt small business and also that they disadvantage lower-income consumers by raising prices across the board for retail staples. I think these are plausible arguments, but I am just not enough of an expert in this area to understand all the alternatives.

As to possible legislation, our colleagues in the WSJ newsroom have written about a recent bill to address these fees. -- Ian Salisbury, Buy Side from WSJ's money editor

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What's your stand of nature vs nurture? Meaning, I hear all sorts of anecdotal cases about couples who struggle because they're busy working and thus appear completely infertile, change their lifestyle and boom, she's pregnant.

Of course, I know you work on evidence, but to what extent does having an excessively busy life affect your fertility? And do you ever advise clients to take a step back, before going for fertility treatments?

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It's all about the quality of your eggs. Women's egg quality and availability diminishes with age. There are tests your OB-Gyn can run to check those levels to look at your egg reserves. Some wonen experience early menopause. There's no good "one size fits all" number when it comes to what age that hapoens. For some women it may be 25, for others it may be 40. You can always do egg freezing now, to retrieve your eggs and save them for later. Even if you waited to use them for 10 or 15 years, the eggs will be frozen in time and not age. Women can have healthy, successful pregnancies into their mid to late 40s, (I've even seen some women become pregnant at 52!) but your eggs won't stay good that long. Here's a medically reviewed article you may find helpful. https://www.fertilitywise.com/research/egg-freezing

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Awesome, thanks for the reply!

I see, sure best to focus on one group at a time.

Similarly, has been a challenging experience being a victim and advocating situational awareness of systems many deny exist... yet in the U.S. our own government has confirmed "non-lethal" weapons that are wireless and can be lethal if used outside of design non-lethal thresholds. Very politically challenging due to the not well disclosed uses of such devices for more than intelligence gathering. However, I've been trying to get the topic and situation more main stream, slowly but surely again as seems like there had been a hiatus on reporting about since the 80-90's.

Yeah, not sure how is in Norway, though in the U.S. we have systems like Epic EMR systems and others that are great relational database systems where is very helpful the dimensions of information that can be linked together along with potential tools to mine or process the data. Sad though how some of the basic information records systems get bogged down and bloated with GUI aesthetic... my guess hardware resource demanding for more sales aspects.

Thanks for sharing

cool been!

Very early iteration from back in 2019. https://youtu.be/RG2JmztWGhY

Sadly I am unable to show newer things due to patient confidentiality and some other things. But it gives an idea of the graphics level and scenery at least.

Interesting! I'd love to see video. It's probably somewhere else in the thread but i'm too neurotic to ever go look for it

That's very interesting. I am not aware of this, but - one of the things we wanted to "modernize" was mirror training with boxes for mobility/eye-hand- coordination.

Sounds like something worth exploring.

Are you aware of anybody working towards using VR/AR for children with Cerebral Palsy? Old school tricks like mirrors on top of a less connected limb help in many cases as for the first 2 years kids are experimenting a lot with their bodies. Audio and visual stimuli during the first few years when children experiment is proven to be extraordinarily effective.

Getting into contact with interest groups, find a problem that you want to solve and start working on a solution for it.

I was inspired by my friend who had a stroke, and that lead me to contact with the largest interest group in Norway - which in turn applied with me to a Foundation that offers funding to medical projects.

ETH? :)

Game design is somewhat difficult to get into - Less than 2-3% of games industry jobs are in this category.

"There are many ways to Rome" but, if I started anew, I would do something like this:

Build your portfolio, attend game jams, create your games - build systems that people notice, solve problems that people haven't found good solutions to. Specialize in a field (accessibility? :)). Building an understanding of other disciplines and tying them together.

Game development is rather hard and involves a lot of risk. I think that it is very important to have fun while working in the industry. If you stop having fun, that can be scary.

I would try going directly to interest orgs that focuses on this and talk to them. They probably know where to look, or whom to contact.

If funding was found - creating a more universal rehab platform would be awesome. These things are incredibly costly though. Millions.

But I think it is possible, and beneficial to mankind. Not least because of the option to bring it with you home after rehab - instead of being stuck doing nothing - you can keep on progressing.

I feel pretty confident in that it could be used in training relation skills. I don't see it much different than roleplaying in that sense.

I also think that VR experiences can be bonding experiences for people that are lonely - either through shared simultaneous experience, but also as a topic of conversations (i.e., home for elderly)

Will keep that in mind, feel free to add me on LinkedIn as well: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezha/

We are currently working on a slightly different project that focuses on energy and efficiency, benchmarking. But nothing is set in stone. :)

Hah.

We've used a mixture of Blueprint and C++, now we mainly use C++ in our new projects.

Seems reasonable. No such thing as the perfect code. Everything is spaghetti but if the code runs and you can read it. It's good enough. Formatting and organization are always helpful but end of the day you have to make it work more than make it pretty. Have a feeling others would fight me on that.