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Comment Re:How stupid does one need to be? (Score 1) 96

What proportion of the population thinks they need to double-check *everything* an AI chatbot tells them? They're being sold "artificial intelligence" and receiving a reasonable looking product. If they had to verify every single detail what would be the point of using the service?

It ain't "stupid", it's "average human".

Comment Re:Everything has a dark side (Score 1) 159

I'm asserting that no researcher would undertake a study on so small a question as to document even a single "case of a person becoming sick or dying from microplastics from IV tubes".

Sure, sure--keep telling yourself there isn't a meaningful difference between, say, artheriosclerosis due to molecule-by-molecule deposition and an agglomeration of microplastics.

It's like saying there isn't a difference in your sewer pipes between decades of buildup from minerals and that event you're out finding the plunger for.

Comment Re:Everything has a dark side (Score 1) 159

"there hasn't been a single documented case of a person becoming sick or dying from microplastics from IV tubes"

Ha! No self-respecting researcher would ever attempt to document this, nor get funding to do so. It's like a drop in the bucket for exposures, and once the particle size is small enough they pass through cell membranes and (gasp!) into the bloodstream.

Otherwise, thanks for the muddled lesson in harm reduction.

Comment Re:U2 album fiasco all over again (Score 1) 78

Apple has ~$30 Billion USD in Cash. Operating Expenses of ~$15 Billion.

You should start hearing things more often. Apple is nearer to being net-cash neutral (i.e cash=debt) than debts>ability to pay debts. Where "nearer" is not even in the same novel, let alone the same sentence.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom...

Comment Re:Hmm, humans? (Score 1) 70

Try searching up:
ICNIRP GUIDELINES ON LIMITS OF EXPOSURE TO INCOHERENT VISIBLE AND INFRARED RADIATION

I believe that LIDAR wavelengths mean that the eyeball damage concerns are about thermal damage of the cornea and near-infrared thermal damage of the crystalline lens. Risk assessments are made and certifications are given.

Anyone know that process or considerations as applied to automobiles?

Eyeballs aren't camera sensors, but I also would not knowingly stare into a LIDAR unit in the dark, for a long time.

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