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Comment Re:Better solutions exist (Score 1) 93

Your solution would effectively ban non competes, since basically no company would consider the price worth it.

Is this bad? Non-competes truly make sense only for high-value positions, like CTOs and VPs. And in this case you absolutely can afford to pay them during the non-compete period.

Comment Re: do not want (Score 1) 201

I have just bought a new set of EV tires (with sound-deadening foam) for my Model 3. They came up to $310 per tire with installation. A slightly cheaper set was $260 per tire.

So you're looking at maaaybe paying $400 extra per the set of tires, and you need a new tire set every 30000-40000 miles. I think that's pretty much negligible.

Comment Re:Just the latest "Invest in me!" scam (Score 1) 51

First there were driverless cars, which are the kind of technology that's easy to get to 90%, damn hard to get to 95%, and impossible to get to 100%, but we all saw the predictions that driverless cars were only 5 years away... what... 10 years ago?

They actually were pretty on-point, with the first driverless taxies being launched in Arizona around 2019. And now you can get fully driverless Waymo taxies in SF.

Comment Re:I'm thankful for the ivermectin thing (Score 1) 350

It depends on why it works on parasites. A lot of these idiots think it works on covid due to the mechanism behind ivermectin being a proteinase (enzyme) inhibitor

Ivermectin is NOT a protease inhibitor. It's a neurotoxic poison that interferes with GABA signaling in parasites. At higher concentrations it first starts to interfere with human GABA receptors, and if you keep cranking it up, it eventually starts binding with nuclear proteins. At this stage, it also affects the COVID virus.

Comment Re:FDA was wrong on this (Score 1) 350

However, looking at the pubmed NIH site for papers on ivermectin, there's a lot of research using treating it for a lot of things.

That's because researchers routinely test already approved drugs (there are around 20000 of them) as experimental treatments for different diseases. That's exactly what happened with ivermectin - it has shown activity against COVID viruses in a Petri dish. However, that was at concentrations that also would kill the patient.

Researchers then tried lower concentrations of ivermectin, and they found zero effect on COVID.

Comment Re:Of course they're dying (Score 2) 142

Fiber can't transmit power.

I have a residential elevator that needs a phone inside for emergencies. I switched from a landline to a cell-based station, it has a backup battery that can last for 4 days on standby and something like 6 hours of talking. The device was like $50.

Fiber optic terminals typically have similar features, a small backup battery can last them for a day or so for the phone line emulation.

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