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Comment Bullshit (Score 0) 59

Software "flaw" my ass. I'm sure the logic requesting extra voltage had nothing to do with Intel trying to eek out every inch of performance in the highly competitive market against AMD. They probably hoped running hot wouldn't destroy the chips, at least in the short half life modern CPU's have in an upgrade-crazed market. Now that the chips are dying let's call that reach for performance a software "flaw". Let's see what the performance looks like after they fix the glitch.

Comment Re: Cherry Picking (Score 1) 276

Except the Lightning network doesn't actually use Bitcoin for more than just the funding and withdrawal from the Lightning channel. All the Lightning transactions in between those one-time Bitcoin transactions don't benefit from Bitcoin's touted features, so Lightning users are no more using Bitcoin than someone who funds their PayPal account with Bitcoin and then uses standard currencies/transactions after that funding.

Comment Re:25% lower progression but 17% get brain bleeds (Score 4, Informative) 48

The 17% figure is meaningless without comparing it to the fraction of the control group that also had brain bleeding (and that's assuming the two groups were surveilled equally for it). Whereas the 25% is a comparison between the two groups.

Excellent point, thanks for that. I went searching for the comparison data and found it in a NYT article:

"Nearly 13 percent of patients receiving lecanemab experienced brain swelling, which was mild or moderate in most cases, while less than 2 percent of patients receiving the placebo experienced such swelling, the study reported. Most brain swelling did not cause any symptoms and generally resolved within a few months. About 17 percent of lecanemab patients experienced brain bleeding, compared with 9 percent of patients receiving the placebo. The most common symptom from brain bleeds was dizziness, the study said.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/1...

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