Yeah, and the concern in the summary is just silly. What makes Xesdeeni think that Intuit's desktop software doesn't upload everything to the cloud anyway? For the last several years TurboTax has created cloud backups of your local files by default... and IIRC there doesn't even seem to be a way to tell it not to. As I recall you have a choice of protecting it with a password or not, but I don't think you can tell it not to upload... and even if you can, how would know know if the software is honoring your request?

In general "I don't trust company X with my data, but I use their software" makes no sense, unless you only use their software on an airgapped computer.

No, I don't recall any other discussions about SMRs. It's not something I've ever paid much attention to. If you don't want to explain, don't explain, no need to be touchy about it.

"Look, we know you spend a lot of time connecting to Western sites, but ya'll have been getting a bit uppity again. Don't ever forget who's boss here".

One man plus a few million jackbooted thugs.

I've been busily installing Debian on our Windows 10 machines. A few little hiccups here and there, but all in all, it's working like a dream.

What are they?

There may BE HEPA filters that go down to the micrometer range, but that sure wasn't true of the ones I bought. It needs to be a stronger standard.

ChatGPT has over 400 million active users. If you have 400 million active users, it's not a bubble.

Eventually it will enter the monetization/enshittification stage, and they will monetize those users.

Yes, now you got it.

They are looking at a short term trend. There is nothing wrong with that. It's helpful to try to understand short term trends.

It's not *just* bullshit. They really should test to see how much effect they have. (I was surprised hat HEPA filters let so much through. IMNSHO it's not a strong enough standard. Of course, I'm more worried about pollen, I doubt that an air filter could reasonably be fine enough to remove viruses. That's more a job for UV. [Look up the origin of the term "filterable virus".])

Masimo's ITC judgement wasn't for blood oximetry. It cited two specific claims. One was for bevelled corners. I don't remember what the other was, but it was similar.

I know there’s a reason we measure blood O2.

Well, if you knew what those reasons were it would probably answer your question. Blood oxygenation is pretty stable for healthy people but that's not necessarily the case for people with things like heart and lung conditions. It's also useful for detecting sleep apnea and estimating how severe it is.

Nah.

Iâ(TM)m 51. Iâ(TM)ve had health insurance continuously for 35 years and have used it exactly ZERO TIMES.

I am self pay. For everything but true life threatening emergencies, which Iâ(TM)ve had zero.

Even the ER is cheaper when negotiated self pay.

My urologist is stunned that I pay $85 for his visits. Self pay. Including labs. My colleague goes to the same urologist and his insurance pays $550 for the same visit and naturally it comes out of his deductible lol.

Insurance is a scam. All insurance is legal gambling and gamblers never win.