[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

idk if i want agent orange to get a stroke because on one hand might just die but on the other hand the nonsense he speaks could just get more powerful

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds like that material would be more useful in high performance radars, not as flash memory

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

These are fast reactors and operate on different principles. The coolant there is sodium and while hard to design and run, it's doable. French had similar reactor but only one and it was shut down. Nice thing about fast reactors is that these can burn even-numbered isotopes of plutonium, useless in water moderated reactor, and give fresh mostly 239Pu plutonium of good quality. weapons grade even, and IAEA doesn't like it. But who cares since nonproliferation is dead anyway?

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago

yes, these are not onions either

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 2 weeks ago

im pretty sure that fracking was invented by white people

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

claude has something like 1/30 of chatgpt userbase, it's not relevant and anthropic can't pick up opeai users when (not if) it collapses. also somehow they are even faster at burning their money

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 3 weeks ago

these are called bribes

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Who does this appeal to? It's nonsense.

the fake nerds of silicon valley of course

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

on reddit, the website plays you

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

I'm with the old man on this one. Antibodies can clear out amyloid and still it has no effect on progression of disease, amyloid secretion can be blocked upstream (like with small molecule protease inhibitors) and it still has no effect. Maybe this one hits something off-target, or maybe that effect is not even real, or maybe it's some sort of statistical artifact. You'd stumble upon some false positive after trying so many times.

Aducanumab is dead in the water, trials shown no effect and it was abandoned by Biogen. This one is about lecanemab. Both have massive problems with brain edema and microhemorrages, which probably means these are not suitable for actual use. But don't worry, they already have received their reward - FDA wanted to have something, anything to show up for Alzheimer and Biogen cashed in when stock price went up

think cold fusion, or EmDrive, or string theory

That's a weird set - cold fusion or EmDrive can be tested and their physical principles are falsifiable - and they were - but string theory is different, because it's not falsifiable.

If it’s marginally but truly effective,

That if makes some mighty heavy lifting here. I think that amyloid hypothesis is closer to cold fusion than to string theory in that it had already a couple of fatal experimental refutations thrown at it, but people still shove effort this way because there's nothing else/copium/sunk cost combination

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

that's just internet dementia

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