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Comment Re:The Pill's Cost is the Problem (Score 1) 94

Roasted peanuts are about 24% protein by weight. And if you are allergic you react to those 24%. Now based on studies, the starting dose for Allergen immunotherapy would be 1,5mg or 3mg.
"Couldn't i just buy a microgram weight, weigh out 4mg of peanut, take that?" you ask. Yes, you could. But reducing the peanut down to 1/100 or 1/200 for the 7 starting dose is a huge pain. And the 7 next doses are a pain to do as well. It only starts being manageable by week 3-4 and beyond.

Now, a bit of napkin math will tell you if the treatment costs $6000, you are looking at between 5-10$ per pill. So its not horridly expensive.

Comment Finland Daycare allergy study (Score 1) 94

Link back to a earlier slashdot article on a related part of the topic :https://science.slashdot.org/story/20/10/27/2320237/daycares-in-finland-built-a-forest-floor-and-it-changed-childrens-immune-systems
Finns live in completely different hygiene standards than people in Russian Karelia. In terms of genetics, adaption and environment there isn't a lot of differences. But the Karelian population is healthier, where Finish population is richer.

I hope the memetic of childhood sterility eventually dies a cold death, as all it do is result in more extreme rates of auto immune diseases and allergies.

Comment Re:freedom of speech? (Score 1) 89

Faktisk.no is a service/website was funded to find wacky positions on social media and debunk them.
Norway's media and state channel together funded a counter viral news publication in 2017, meaning its been running for half a decade by this point.

The core flaw is that it will take a popular topic shared across social media, find a angle a attack can be made via credible sources, and then make a statement. Sometimes that involves taking EU stats and stating that our position is in the correct tier, but factually there are some such ahead of Norway.
Sometimes it involves identifying and sourcing viral images. Sometimes it source surveys to the correct year vs current year.

Its not the worst thing to check once in a while on a slow day in the office, as it indirectly acts as a highlight reel to closed facebook/tiktok/instagram/whatsapp/forum groups, since a lot of fabricated using various forms of photoshop and sourced images, so its often fun to see the name of the corporation making the stock photo and the subjects name.
But it will also avoid speculation on why this exact viral memetic did grow organically, or why a stance on closed facebook groups is repeated. Disinformation do not spread inorganically, in high trust societies you won't see the same level of wacky shit as you would in somewhere like Brazil, but disinformation still attaches to opinions that can continue to exist due incompetence or corruption.
This being a expansion of the various Japanese state media, I don't expect it to get a fancy name, but I assume it will get the manpower to produce.

On a related note: We will eventually see if Japan got what it takes to clean up after the assassination of Shinzo Abe. It takes quite a bit of cult donations to even get to the point where you can get assassinated in a high trust nation, and not cleaning house will lead to disinformation blending with real information on real corruption, poisoning the waters in unintended ways.
Or maybe it will just turn into a wacky site you go to on a slow day in the office, where all they do is take 2chn memes and source them correctly. Time will tell.

Comment Re:Probably... (Score 1) 220

If you read carefully, he is talking about building. Not retrofitting due legality.
But agreement is to be made: US housing is less dense, not for market reasons, but rather because the lack of public utility. You are essentially forced to drive, for a lot of reasons. And that limits what can be built, since footprint vs commute distance is finite.

Comment Re:I don't understand the world anymore. (Score 2) 167

Its more of a gen YZ reaction to nepotism, email application leading to hundred if not thousands of applications, lower level positions being denied training, working for people who isn't willing to put in the legwork, being demanded a high GPA when the people hiring will have a lower GPA than you.
But its also a result that higher levels of education and certification isn't rare, especially combined with national email application forms, resulting in people getting hired to do a job below their skill level.
In the Anglosphere its a result from lacking a proper apprentice/vocation system for blue collar jobs, alongside poor workers rights resulting in excessive monitoring instead of proper training and procedures to ensure pace and quality.

But this is also related to where the youth are in the labor market, where quite a few will do entry level jobs, and where asking for more work will result in repeating a previous task before it needs to be done... all this while shared over social media, resulting in this odd knee jerk.
Dismissing the attitude is dangerous, because it will just make it worse.

Comment not going to work (Score 1) 19

If it walks like brain starvation, behaves like brain starvation, and speaks like brain starvation....
Its treated via a monoclonal antibody targettting a folded protein, thereby making it most likely not work? When said protein is more likely just poorly understood brain plaque that may or may not even be related to poorly understood biochemical processes, as digestion and nutrition alongside the brain's biochemistry keeps being treated like a black box as proper studies generally are limited without access to regular shorthand CT/MR scans....

Comment Cornering the market (Score 3, Insightful) 14

Meanwhile in Taiwan and South Korea it worked.
So your statement is false. What is true about your statement is a bit more subtle: India wants to toss money at a problem to solve it, but they don't want to deal with any of the supply side issues or the supply chain.

The article do put it nicely:
"At the moment many parts, including batteries, motors and flight controllers are imported." which is a roundabout way of saying that India won't attempt to corner the market for small formfactor batteries, small DC engines, or the electronics.
If India want to corner the drone market, they will need to figure out a way to corner the supply side. Last time I checked most of India's attempts end up with tossing money, educate a few people, set up some facilities and production, and you get slave labor and poor quality craftmanship as a result.

Comment Translation effort (Score 1) 23

>That decision appears to have been fueled by Argo's inability to attract new investors.
Read: Argo burned trough its investment capital, somehow
>Farley also insinuated that Ford would be able to buy AV tech down the line, instead of developing it in house.
Read: Based on market research and QA, the tech won't arrive this decade. If it do arrive, we will be caught with our pants down
>development and customer enthusiasm for benefits of L2+ and L3 ADAS warrant dialing up the company's near-term aspirations and commitment in those areas
Read: We either did not offer or advertise the features that did arrive for the market, or did not offer retrofits.
>its parts being absorbed into its two main backers: Ford and VW, according to people familiar with the matter.
Read: Ford will sit on the patents/trade secrets it gets via this, but won't do anything with them

This might however be the right decision, if all Aigo was involved in was merely tossing money at the problem.

Comment Re:Study seems flawed (Score 1) 53

I would assume the study is largely meaningless unless you find a way to strap down people at home with some measurement device: to study sleep apnea, brain activity, nutrition, and how the brains dumping of used chemical cocktails, and how entering the sleep phase works, alongside things like using body temperature to gauge the circadian rhythm/jetlag and how synced it is to actual sleep.

To the best of my knowledge the only useful source in how to treat sleep disorders on the Internet is a a manifesto written by a neuroscientist working in the field, treating his own NON24 disorder.
https://circadiaware.github.io...
But as the manifesto describes the fight jetlag, body temperature adjustment, how to take melatonin for best effects and sleep mechanics via light...I haven't found anything comparable. The information is very useful even if all you are suffering from is insomnia, and want to start treating it or get further help.

Comment Re:Bottle bills and state lines (Score 1) 51

A deposit/reverse collateral in the 5-10% range for bottles, glass and other temporary drinking vessels is a tried and proven method once paired with reverse vending machines. And state to state in the USA is significantly easier than country to country in the EU, but in both cases there are competing solutions with various success.
Electronics are a bit messier, but there are a lot of places where retailers are mandates by law to accept returns of what is essentially ewaste.

Comment Re:Ironically (Score 1) 41

Works if you know what the article is named. Then its just a matter of wading trough the headlines until you find the correct one, since Slashdot at the least has the sanity to sort them chronologically instead of by relevancy aka the one you want is never in the first few pages.
But if you don't know, or can't remember the exact keyword, then yeah... good luck

Comment Re:This is going to change things for bloggers (Score 2) 41

This is not about end users trying to make passive income. Its about those huge bot farms that pop up if you wanted to search for a topic like sleep hygiene, bicycle repairs, exercise, and more.
As a consequence, sourcing proper information has become more valuable, because you often need to go trough a mountain of crap to find the source, as the bot generated pages will SEO higher than the source that might not even be in the first 5-10 pages of google. Often made worse by somebody retelling the same story refusing to cite or mention their source.

We shall see.
Current iteration of Google have major problems with SEO leading to 0 answer bot generated content hogging the upper part of the search result. Search result giving out the source that it is copied from would be a big improvement, but only a start.
It also has large problems with weighting, where it can't tell what you are search for, so it will think you are search for something that it thinks is similar based on keywords.
It also has severe problems if you search for a product that is not available in your local market via a larger online retailer, and you are trying to find a reseller that won't involve a month of shipping time as the parcel crosses multiple borders.

But, we live in the age of plenty.
Google is still a step above Yandex, Baidu and Bing. And its still preferable to search via site:forum.xyz than even touching the internal search tools for forums and a lot of other sites, unless goggle eats your keyword and think it means something else.

Comment Re:Unfortunately, no useful competition (Score 1) 75

The problem with Yandex, Biadu is that outsize of niche cases like image searches for Yandex... Is that it won't return better search results. And that is on top of the political angle.
Despite Google returning more and more aggregate sites each passing day, its still the king of searches by a rather wide margin.

Google despite being somewhat awful, will still return some search result when you try to figure out what a thing is called. It will still have the correct large forums in the first 2-3 pages of the search results.
But its also extremely awful since just like bing, yandex and Baidou it lacks a method to search for what it is given instead of what popular aggregate topic that has similar key words. If somebody manages to make a search engine that can do just that, and don't limit it to weird national bubbles, it will be immensely popular.
But to make such a thing, you need enough manpower and infrastructure to do a global web scrape. And that is currently something that is hideously expensive, and won't become cheaper as time goes on.

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