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Comment Re:Very specific denial (Score 1) 36

And what jurisdiction? If they are using European's emails to train AI models, it's going to be the mother of all GDPR fines.

I think that alone is probably a good enough reason for them not to do it world-wide, because even Americans get emails from Europeans, and the possibility of some of that information getting into their AI models and appearing in the output is a huge legal risk.

Comment Re:Ah, well. (Score 1) 39

It's been the case for many years that few people bothered with official Arduino hardware, because other manufacturers offered better options at lower cost. There is a whole ecosystem around it, mostly from Chinese companies but also from people like Adafruit.

I doubt Qualcomm could kill it if they wanted to.

Comment Re:Hack in better ventilation. (Score 1) 23

Ventilation and filtration really help. UV light is effective too, but can be dangerous for humans. It gives your retina sunburn if you aren't careful. Either place it high up shining sideways, or use 222nm lamps that are safe for humans.

It's weird that we just accept seasonal viruses as something we can't do much about, when clearly we can. Offices with all the windows shut and poor ventilation - are those companies just trying to waste money by making their employees sick? And then they only want to give them a day or two off, so they can come back to the office and infect everyone else.

Comment Re:CO2 is a virus? (Score 1) 23

CO2 levels are a good proxy for how much fresh airflow there is. If there is a lot of CO2, it's because people are exhaling it and the air in the room isn't being replaced with fresh air from outside.

It's why you often feel sleepy when you board a plane - the ventilation system used air bled off from the engines, so until they start the CO2 in the confined space of the cabin with hundreds of people in it builds up fast.

Stale air is known to put you at much greater risk from airborne viruses. That's why during COVID people were advised to open windows and keep air moving. So CO2 levels are a good proxy for risk of airborne viral infection too.

Comment Just because he claims it, doesn’t make it r (Score 1) 65

In fact, the opposite is more likely to be the case. The man bullshits all the time about what’s happening. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the US government will be investing on the same scale as it did for the Manhattan project: 500k people over the years, 30bn in today’s money, 0.3% of GDP, etc. I am sure he’ll waste some government money on this thing, but it won’t be on anything like that scale. Most likely just a rebadge of current private sector spending to claim any inputs/outputs as his own success.

Comment Re:overpriced vomit generator (Score 1) 19

I’d be cautious about over-interpretation of that statistic. 6% of people on placebo reported vomiting too, which is very high. It’s because any single one instance of vomiting during the entire 68 week trial — ie more than a year — counts as a vomiting incident. What actually happens with Wegovy is that people may experience one or two episodes of transient (ie single bout) vomiting in the early stages, often at a dose increase. Only happens for a small fraction of patients.

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