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Comment Re:Existing equiment? (Score 1) 8

What about existing equipment?

You'd think Broadcom et al. would pitch a fit given the billions they've spent developing Wi-Fi standards that include 6 GHz, developing 6 GHz devices, etc. It's not just owners of existing equipment. It's an entire industry that has been investing in 6 GHz Wi-Fi for years now.

Comment Re:Raise your hand if you're surprised (Score 1) 168

Between all the permafrost melting across Russia to methane to massive fossil fuel use, how can anybody be surprised? I have long viewed the worst possibilities as the most likely. The most likely predictions always seemed pretty damn optimistic. We fucked.

I'm surprised, and you should be too, if your view is evidence-based, because this is a new effect that was not predicted by any of the previous models, which already consider the melting permafrost, methane emissions and fossil fuel use.

Comment Re:Meaningless metric (Score 1) 54

I'm saying make sure we get it right

I am saying I have no patience for the drearily predictable "quality" and "safety" FUD. There are severe problems in healthcare. Bad enough to risk neglecting our worship of medical authority. Bad enough to risk suffering possible unknown failures as an alternative to our chronic known failures.

Comment Re:Meaningless metric (Score 4, Insightful) 54

Quality

This presumes we have quality. Do you believe that, without doubt? I don't. I have a lifetime of anecdotal evidence of failures by doctors, personally and among family, friends and others. Without (hopefully) inviting a deluge of corroboration, I can assure you the people reading this now can bury us in such stories.

Beyond that, we are in desperate need of lower cost solutions for medicine. You're free to attribute the extreme costs we see however you wish, but finger pointing won't fix it: the powers and interests involved aren't listening. What is needed is a disruption, and this looks like a real possibility. I, at least, don't immediately dismiss it with AMA FUD.

Comment Re:Best option ? (Score 1) 46

Heroin? Last I heard heroin was meant to feel good.

It's more like that asshole friend you keep hanging out with who is a massive dick but always and I mean always up for a point or 5 but you don't want to drink alone and you've got all this history and you feel it'll be effort to get other friends for a drink (they're further away and/or have kids and got boring) and you can just about stomach his company after the second beer hits.

But you never really exactly enjoy hanging out.

Comment Re:Makes sense. (Score 1) 34

Yeah, I once looked into them and got sticker shock :P That said, the prices are coming down. The research seems to continue to show that they're safe for humans (although from the data I've seen I doubt they're safe for houseplants; their cuticle is much thinner than our skin). But for us... it can't penetrate dead skin, and while the outer layers of our eyes are alive, the cells there are constantly being shed and replaced.

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