[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 21 points 4 weeks ago

it gives enlightened centrist vibe, maybe that's why

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 23 points 2 months ago

no, but they will also kill you (but not by magic)

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 19 points 4 months ago

jesse, what the fuck are you talking about. you can't make efficient antenna for UHF using power transformer toroid

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 20 points 4 months ago

I think it would be comparable to situation where all mRNA is suddenly unusable, ie protein synthesis can't run at all. This would be something like ricin or diphteria toxin poisoning, but instead of being limited to gastrointestinal lining it's spread all over. I'd guess hours to days before anything visible starts happening (symptoms only start to appear when deficit in new protein synthesis becomes noticeable; all protein already made continues to work for sone time)

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

it's not listed because this is not what is happening

italy for example put bridge construction in that military budget (as critical infrastructure)

also the subtext was "spend that defense budget in america" and this is not happening either for variety of reasons, so it's partial failure already for them

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 19 points 6 months ago

is the evil funding man going to eat the gimp pepper

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

long lost distant cousin of jd vance

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 19 points 7 months ago

only residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 21 points 8 months ago

firefox at minimum clears the very low bar of not exposing casual user to crypto

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

no, all people here are 30-40 years old communist programmers from california

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems 18 points 9 months ago

Derek Lowe has seen it coming years ago https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/lecanemab-and-alzheimer-s-more-data

But let’s stipulate that the result is real, for the sake of argument. That takes us into the very contentious question of real-world utility. As the NEJM paper says, “A definition of clinically meaningful effects in the primary end point of the CDR-SB score has not been established”. Clinicians are already disagreeing over whether the difference between lecanemab and placebo is something that would even be noticeable. That last link features a quote of Madhav Thambisetty, a neurologist at the National Institute on Aging: “From the perspective of a physician caring for Alzheimer’s patients, the difference between lecanemab and placebo is well below what is considered to be a clinically meaningful treatment effect”. This is not an uncommon take.

And that leads to question 3. A constant problem with these anti-amyloid antibody ideas is the complication of brain edema, an inflammation response that can be serious trouble. The term of the art is “amyloid-related imaging abnormalities with edema or effusions”, ARIA-E. This latest trial kept a constant watch for this, as well it should have, and any such trial also has to keep in mind the possibility of “functional unblinding” as any incidents develop. ARIA-E was noted in 0.8% of the treatment group (and in none of the placebo patients, naturally). Overall, adverse events that were enough to lead to patient discontinuation in the trial occurred in 6.9% of the treatment group and 2.9% of the placebo group. Most seriously, two patients in the treatment group have died from what could well be treatment-related vascular issues

There was also earlier anti-amyloid antibody that got approved despite showing no benefit at all https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/they-don-t-know

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