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Comment · 17 days ago
In Europe all those things are done by dentists too
Comment · 24 days ago
Sorry, but that is nonsense. Compared to opus haiku doesn't cut it most of the time.
Comment · 1 month ago
There is not really much funding in Europe. At least not for start-ups. There is simply not enough compute in Europe.
Comment · 2 months ago
Given proper oversight yes.

Otherwise companies can absolutely get a monopoly and cement it. Buy up competition, pressure adversaries, hog resources and so on.

Comment · 4 months ago
If past predicts the future people will drop it once it is in Musks hands. And as a token reseller that revenue is not that impressive.
Comment · 4 months ago
But revenue is not really the informative quantity. If you sell gold you will have a huge revenue, but very little profit. I can be a trillion dollar company too if we exchange dollar bills for face value.
Comment · 5 months ago
Because since then Russia has threatened nuclear war a dozen times. Russias threats are worth almost nothing.
Comment · 5 months ago
Yes and no, there is no easy binary answer here.

At altitude most AA is radar based, thus a lower RCS will help directly in not being seen. So you can get closer to the enemy you still can see because of the higher RCS. For BVR fights this is essential.

Those machines shouldn't be low level though. IR missles don't care about RCS. It is not their natural territory either.

Third that Cessna is not hidden either. From above (i.e. an AWACS) it can be seen very good. From the ground it can hide low and slow. But so can dedicated planes too, which is practised regularly.

Comment · 1 year ago
Aren't they all on AWS?
Comment · 1 year ago
Lithium is far from the drug with the highest amount of side effects among psych meds. Take the first generation antipsychotics for example. They are nasty.

As a matter of fact, lithium patients aren't much worse off when it comes to kidney function. Especially with modern levels of around 0.6 to 0.8 mmols.

Lithium has many modes of action, ion channels like you said, but also GSK3 function, BDNF changes and many more. It even changes the DNA methylation.

Comment · 1 year ago
Lithium cures Bipolar the same way all the other psych meds do. They don't. They just manage symptoms. Like insulin does, or antihistamines, etc. A propper cure is rare in medicine.
Comment · 1 year ago
There are so many misconceptions about lithium wrt to the human body.

I don't know why so many people differentiate between lithium orotate and the lithium carbonate in psychiatry. Although they differ in absorption the active component is the lithium ion in both cases. Dosage is done according to lithium content, there are tables for converting from orotate to carbonate and back.

Then the effects of lithium orotate and carbonate can't be that different. And thus, above a particular dose blood monitoring is mandatory.

There are benefits of low dose lithium for sure. And the dosages in psychiatry have been on a steady decline. With lower doses come less side effects. It is definitly not the hammer of psychiatry that turns people into zombies or messes. It feels quite natural.

In addition the reduction of Alzheimers cases is not unique to lithium. Many meds cause Alzheimers rates in mentally ill people to decline to general population levels.

Comment · 1 year ago
Well, I thought of adding high volatile insecticides to the bags.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm surprised that they use such a tame method for eradication. I expected the use of huge loads of insecticides.

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