Alara Imaging | Senior Front-end Developer for Medical Imaging / Analytics | Remote (US)
Alara Imaging is looking for a Senior Front-end developer to help build our data display and visualization applications. Our team has many decades of medical imaging data tech stacks and clinical experience.
We aim to bring medical imaging analytics that power clinical, operational and financial insights using multiple data feeds and innovative edge-to-cloud medical data ingestion and processing. Our platform is fully SOC2 and HIPAA compliant.
Our tech stack is React/Next.js on AWS, and we prefer cloud native and open source technologies. Experience with advanced frontend data grid components (eg. AG-Grid) strongly preferred.
Interesting paper, but it seems to suggest that all the Native American Y-DNA on Rapa Nui is explainable by the 19th century Peruvian slave trade, not contact between Polynesians and South Americans centuries earlier.
We would be ok with granting amnesty to lower level FARC scientists, but the Hitlers, Eichmanns, Goebbelses, Goerings, Heydrichs, Himmlers, Hoesses and Mengeles of the FARC must see some jail time.
This is just another version of the white savior complex. Developed countries support 'peace' processes that make them feel good about themselves, with little regard for the root causes of the conflict to begin with. Apparently they think us colombians are too backwards to deserve first-world justice, so they applaud compromises that they would NEVER accept themselves.
Except they had. First world countries had the worst war on history and they rebuilt their societies making big concessions. Europe and Japan know a lot about accepting had agreements exactly as our peace process suggests. This is a great way of supporting the work a great president truly committed to changing our country because he was born rich and it's extremely obvious that the peace agreement with FARC and possibly ELN it his way to transcend. I applaud this price and the support of developed countries to the process.
Name ONE developed country that would accept zero jail time and political eligibility for someone convicted of multiple war crimes, with hundreds of years in cumulative prison sentences.
That is precisely my point. You are just one of many colombians who can't seem to make the connection between repeatedly helping criminals dodge justice and Colombia's current situation.
Not directly comparable for two important reasons:
The Good Friday Agreement was signed before the Rome Statutes on War Crimes came into effect (in no small part as a response to similar "blank-slate" deals in the 80's and early 90's). That means that signatory countries are bound by international law to prosecute and punish war crimes and crimes against humanity committed after their signing, proportionally to the severity of the crime.
That's what I mean by first-world justice. Even in Ireland, no crimes under the Rome statute after 2002 can be met with the level of impunity the FARC-Santos deal guarantees.
And with respect to McGuinness, even if the Rome statute had been in effect during his participation in the IRA, he was never charged with anything resembling a war crime, even after the Saville Inquiry. He would be more akin to a member of the shady, FARC-friendly political party "Marcha Patriotica". The crimes of the FARC leadership, on the other hand, are fully documented, and sentenced in-absentia. Most of them have over 400 years of cumulative sentences, including murder, extortion, torture, kidnapping, child recruitment etc. All constituting war crimes and crimes against humanity.
You asked for an example and I gave it to you a valid one.
McGuinness was an IRA leader and IRA committed many kind of crimes; there are more ex-IRA leaders that are now in the civil life.
If I give you another example you will discard it for some random reason, so this discussion makes no sense.
On the other hand, if you see the signed peace treaties in the region, and in the world, you'll notice that these have generally gone well.
Really? which convicted war criminal holds office? If you say 'Bush' you didn't really read my comment. I fully support him being investigated for war crimes. But until he is convicted, that is a non-sequitur.
You should evaluate it on its own terms unencumbered. Is it worth it, is it not worth it (to you or to your country). Encumbering it with what other people or other societies is interesting but not useful to you.
If I were you, I'd take the deal. But that's me. After half a century or more of guerilla warfare, I'd think it was enough, even if some bad Marxist guys and gals get away with atrocities as well as extrajudicial government action also goes unpunished.
You risk more death, destruction, poverty, stunting of progress and having all your bright minds and entrepreneurs leave for more stable places exacerbating the issue further by ensuring prosperity is stunted and grievances unresolved.
Guerrillas were created because justice was not applied when crimes were committed against their founders. Paramilitaries were created because the state did not apply justice or provide security to victims of guerilla crimes. Most of the problems colombia has faced during the past 50 years are not due to guerrillas or paramilitaries, but because we as a society apparently find justice to be an 'obstacle' to other ends, large and small.
Can you contrast this with ceronman's comment below (or maybe above) that the areas most likely to vote for the compromise were the people most affected by the guerilla violence?
Gladly. That is one of the favorite simplistic spins of the supporters of the FARC-Santos deal, when in reality it has little to do with the victims and a lot to do with internal colombian political structures. Most maps you will see supporting this idea mix together 'victims of conflict' without separating them between paramilitary/FARC or drug trafficking victims, so it would be inaccurate to conclude that the most areas affected by FARC violence were in favor of the deal. Add to that the states where Santos mobilized his political machinery to buy votes, which coincides more precisely with the states supporting the deal (http://www.elpais.com.co/elpais/colombia/proceso-paz/noticia...). For example, the state with most victims (Antioquia) voted overwhelmingly against (62.00%). To say that Antioquia, Santander, Norte de Santander, Risaralda, Caldas, Quindío, Tolima, Cundinamarca, Huila, Caquetá, Meta, Casanare and Arauca states saw little violence is just a lie and affront to their victims.
Read the final agreement (if you dare and don't vomit easily):
- Those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity will NOT go to jail, in a blatant violation of the Rome statute.
- Despite earning BILLIONS from drug trafficking, they will not issue any reparations to the victims, instead, ordinary colombians will be taxed for that purpose.
- They will be GIVEN between 10-30% of control of the senate. No election necessary.
- They will be GIVEN 26 regions where there will be no state presence. Coincidentally in every strategic drug corridor.
- They will not return the recruited minors.
- They will participate in the creation of a "super-tribunal" with absolute legal powers, even over cases that have been sentenced and closed.
This is not an agreement, it is the surrender of a state and should be an international disgrace. In a real country this would constitute high treason.
I see that they're guaranteed 5 (out of 100) senate seats, which by my math is definitely not 10-30%. I doubt most normal folks will vote for them, especially in the countryside where people have been the most affected by the conflict.
Yes, those responsible for war crimes - on all sides - (police, soliders, paramilitary, as well as the rebels) have the opportunity to confess before a tribunal and avoid jail time. It will be up to judges, but they will receive up to 8 years of restricted movement and community service (whatever that may be.) This is definitely the most controversial part of the agreement, as 95% of the country feels these folks are crooks and should be punished.
I could go on - I'm an American and have lived in Colombia for about 6 years now, and see an entire country that has been held back due to this stupid war - the agreement isn't perfect, but this needs to be put to bed, so the country can move forward. After having just seen the whole "brexit" fiasco, I'm a little worried about how this is being put to a referendum and seeing so much disinformation being spread. Even on an English speaking tech news site.
Yes I read it. Word by word. I am born and raised colombian, and for over 40 years have seen the result of sacrificing justice for short term gains or individual vanity.
It's not 5 seats. It's 5 in the senate, 5 in congress, and 16 in special circumscription where only FARC friendly candidates can participate.
They have massive amounts of money stashed for the upcoming campaigns, and by now you should be aware that money buys regional candidates in Colombia. Add to that fear of FARC retaliation in areas where the government now will have NO presence during elections or afterwards. (they have strategically left Frente Primero out of the accord, to handle the residual drug operation and armed coercion).
"Confessing" to war crimes and crimes against humanity does not constitute appropriate punishment under any international standard. The International Criminal Court and Human Rights Watch have both been quite clear that no jail time would be unacceptable.
You have lived here barely enough to have only seen Santos as president, who has done absolutely NOTHING except push his narcissistic agenda forward, at the expense of justice, economy and the independence of the branches of power. I am old enough to know colombia's problem is not 17,000 asshole terrorists in the jungle, it is LACK OF JUSTICE at every level, with politicians, guerrillas, paramilitaries etc. Sacrificing justice to appease one criminal entity is exactly why my country cannot 'move forward'.
I think this is the pragmatic approach vs an ideological approach. What would the cost be if the peace were not agreed upon? More kidnappings, more drugs, more innocent deaths, etc. Or you could try and continue the stalemate for another 30 years and vindicate justice.
At some point you have to cut your losses and consider sunken costs. It's not easy. Lots of people will be displeased, but in the end it might be the best outcome for their society.
There was no 'stalemate'. FARC in 2010 were 5000 strong, taking heavy losses and on the run. Then came Santos, who obsessed over winning international recognition that has eluded him at home, legitimized FARC, gave them an international stage and set in motion a 6 year 'peace process' that has left FARC in congress and senate, with all their crimes whitewashed, and with our already weak justice system mortally wounded.
>I think this is the pragmatic approach vs an ideological approach
I'm all for pragmatism, but I believe in long term pragmatism, not short term pragmatism.
Rewarding terrorists gets them to stop killing you, which is pragmatic, except in the long run it encourages other terrorist groups to start killing you, which is unpragmatic.
> Those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity will NOT go to jail
I dislike the injustice, but I've come around to the view that agreements like this are often consequentially appealing. If the end to a conflict leads to one's imprisonment or execution, the incentive might be to keep fighting even with unfavorable odds. I don't know the particulars of this case, but it's possible that a peace agreement could only be reached if it includes this provision, and so it might be worth it.
By that logic there should be no plea bargains or criminal surrenders. You negotiate not only to be released with no consequence. You also negotiate to lessen your punishment. The AUC paramilitary leaders did this and are now paying reduced sentences (8 years) in the USA, which if you ask me is shameful considering their crimes. FARC leaders, for the same crimes will not see one day in jail.
This all started when the right wing murdered Gaitán in 1948. Then the US began coming into Colombia heavily into the 1980s.
The left wanted to end the violence so founded UP in the 1980s and ceased violence. The landowners, AUC, CIA etc. murdered candidates, shot campaign workers, made it impossible to win electorally. They forced FARC back to the gun, they didn't want the left in elections.
For a long time FARC had nothing to do with cocaine, so who was sending it to the US in the 1970s? The AUC and right wing. Once the US began pouring billions into Colombia, the FARC could no longer prevent campesinos from growing coca in its areas.
It's funny too, as the US produces the deadly tobacco drug and distributes it to Colombians, but that is not a "drug" because the US doesn't want it to be. Yet Colombian campesinos who grew coca for centuries send coca to the US - then that is a drug and they are drug dealers. The AUC and Uribe and his father send coca north but the US government gives them a free pass.
Yes, we are all aware that your ideological allies are saints, forced to do the wrong things by fate and circumstances. While your ideological enemies murder babies for fun.
FARC apologists will always find a way to make everything about Uribe. All manners of crime are justified because 'Uribe did it first'. Colombian leftists are nothing if not hypocritical.
I'm Colombian, and they want more than victory, they want more violence, that's why the propaganda against the agreement is lead by the infamous paramilitary-involved ex-president Alvaro Uribe.
Violence is the only thing that will continue to go on if we keep asking for justice, so our children and grandchildren will die fighting wars we could have stop just because we hold that word in such high stem.
And the worse is it all is that _their_ children will continue to kill ours for reasons they think justifiable, and despite being truth or not it will cost them all their lives.
Not equal parties. A legitimately constituted state with 50 million people vs. 17,000 guerillas. All countries have terrorism and 'coexist' with it. In the meantime their citizens can go about their business. That was the state of things when Santos took office and revived the FARC guerilla.
If only the ones who are alive today thanks to the reduction of violence had a HN account, but they are the poor in the rural areas, not the computer scientists of La Javeriana.
If you stop your constitutional obligation to combat crime, OBVIOUSLY there will be fewer deaths in combat. That does not make it right.
And of course, in typical izquierdista fashion, you justify your arguments by turning it into a class warfare statement, even grouping me with computer scientists (I am not) from La Javeriana (fine private university, but I'm also not from there).
This is a pretty mystifying set of complaints. When the South lost the US civil war, how much of the senate did they get? How much territory was ceded to them?
The Union and Confederate armies both had around 200,000 soldiers each in 1861. That is a war on equal terms. FARC guerillas are about 17,000 now (about 5000 in 2010, before this 'peace process'). The colombian army is 500,000 plus 40 million regular citizens who despise FARC. The situation is quite different from US post-civil war reconstruction efforts.
This is the first time I've heard about ASMR, thank you for the link, not sure if it's placebo, but watching this video was... interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erTe2wkxc-g
Yes, I was more impressed by his narrative capabilities than the 3d fractal rendering. Sometimes he was a little too whispery but most of the time he managed to convey information at a near perfect pace and pitch.
Radiologist/Biomedical Engineer here. I once did a review of the physiological effects of magnetic fields as was our current understanding in the last decade. in general, things that get altered with sufficiently large magnetic fields:
- Cardiac electrical conductivity
- Muscular electrical conductivity
- Fibrin (protein necessary for clotting blood) meshes get distorted
- There is DNA genotoxicity, and mutations start to appear
- Diamagnetic effects start taking over (Most extreme demonstration I've seen so far is the levitating frogs and grasshoppers, which seem quite content afterwards, so no ill effects apparent)
Bottom line is that pretty much everything in our bodies that contains water can be affected by a sufficiently large static magnetic field. Some critical physiological processes may get disrupted way earlier than the atomic distortions cited in the article, so I believe much less than 100k Tesla would be needed to kill a person.
I don't have to imagine it, It's called Colombia, where the Police is at best ineffective, and it's fxxxxing anarchy.
So let's imagine instead if the liberal media in the USA had global context instead of complaining because you have a functional police force with a few problems that need correcting.
Alara Imaging is looking for a Senior Front-end developer to help build our data display and visualization applications. Our team has many decades of medical imaging data tech stacks and clinical experience.
We aim to bring medical imaging analytics that power clinical, operational and financial insights using multiple data feeds and innovative edge-to-cloud medical data ingestion and processing. Our platform is fully SOC2 and HIPAA compliant.
Our tech stack is React/Next.js on AWS, and we prefer cloud native and open source technologies. Experience with advanced frontend data grid components (eg. AG-Grid) strongly preferred.
To apply, visit: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3119110611