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Comment Re:Precautionary Principle Applies (Score 2) 88

It still would have made a lot of sense to recommend that users wear a face mask. I worked in the coatings industry for decades. Face masks are required when handling any and all pigments. Breathing a solid material in is not good practice. Workers got fired for not following the rules. Why was this common sense practice not presented to mothers and fathers. The bigger problem is protecting the baby from breathing in the dust. It can cause asthma.

Comment A good result for everyone. (Score 1) 5

Jeff "Dr, Evil" Bezos may have gamed the system to get the original award. There is nothing wrong with AWS, if they always play fair. But, lately Bezos acts like the world owes him hundreds of billions of more dollars, even when he (Blue Origin) clearly lost the NASA award to SpaceX. Bezos needs to retrench and do some soul searching, if he still has one. I used to like the guy.

Comment Re:Questions... (Score 1) 168

The depth of political discussions in the early Dune books was stunning. I once calculated eight different meanings to one statement given to eight other people, each with their own agendas that interpreted the comment using their own filtered experience. The depth is masterful. There is no way that layered thinking can be properly placed in a short movie.

Comment How many non-lethal doses? (Score 1) 30

It's a bit annoying that fentanyl is mostly reported as how many lethal doses it was. How many actual cut doses that only get people high, would this bust have been? I'm far more interested in what the end goal of the criminals was and not the scare figures released, which mean nothing on their own. Hell, I was given fentanyl for a procedure in the hospital. It's not just a deadly substance, but is commonly used in medicine as a pain reliever and knock out drug, when used in the right hands of course.

Comment Re:I don't like where this is going (Score 1, Offtopic) 63

I think the issue is that no one really asked how vaccines worked, until the mRNA ones came out. The mRNA vaccines are more effective than traditional egg-based vaccines because they are quite specific in targeted penetration of cell walls, not a cell nucleus. The cells mechanisms do the work. It's completely safe. Some people just want to believe Russian BS intended to make the West stupid.

Comment Re:He's not wrong. (Score 2) 57

Intel also never did any rethinking on their fab facilities. There was an arrogance that they could simply make smaller multi-layer chips by doing more of the same. That gravy train ended with 14-nm, where they stayed stuck for six years. Even when their new Arizona facility comes online, it will take many months to learn how to optimize the newer more advance fab machines. For thirty years all Intel chip manufacturing plants were clones of each other. That has finally ended, as it should have many years ago.

Comment Re:Let the MARKET decide how it does business (Score 1) 38

That is quite the over simplification. A retail, or wholesale, business exists to make a profit by selling a product or service that customers need and to price such accordingly so that customers will come back for more. It ain't just about money, but how they make the money in a sustainable way. Amazon lying about their business is a big no-no, and needs to be severely dealt with.

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