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EtienneDeLyon

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EtienneDeLyon··on I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)
Was this AI comment necessary?

If you'd like to learn more about the module:

https://www.ti.com/tool/IWRL6432BOOST

Edit: maybe I am seeing AI everywhere! False positive. :-)

EtienneDeLyon··on Health insurance claim denial rates range from 13% to 35% by insurer
Did you try looking for a less-expensive ENT?
EtienneDeLyon··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
>AIPAC's entire lobbying stance is that its positions are mutually beneficial to both the US and Israel

I don't think AIPAC is making that ridiculous claim!

The point of the lobbying is make the people American serve the interests of Israel.

There is a book written about this:

https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/03...

EtienneDeLyon··on Judge Learns Both Sides Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
This is why we have to ban use of legal AI by non-lawyers!
EtienneDeLyon··on Ex-girlfriend of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt ordered to pay him $10M
Women falsely accuse men of rape and other serious crimes all the time.

Isn't it better that he choose a judicial (or quasi-judicial) method to discourage this behavior rather than extrajudicial?

EtienneDeLyon··on [dead]
Israeli is a democracy so we know these allegations will be investigated fairly and impartially.
EtienneDeLyon··on Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
I wonder how I would feel about that, if I was alone at home, and lonely.

Would it cheer me that people were reaching out and ringing my doorbell?

Or would it make me sad because I would be reminded that there was not a friend ringing at the door?

EtienneDeLyon··on Do teachers need advanced degrees?
That means overpayment is wrong and underpayment is wrong.

Teachers should be paid the correct amount, no more and no less.

EtienneDeLyon··on Do teachers need advanced degrees?
Did you grow up wealthy? If yes, it was probably that and not the teachers.
EtienneDeLyon··on Do teachers need advanced degrees?
If you are paying top dollar for top talent, then you are not overpaying anyone.

If you can read, thank a teacher!

EtienneDeLyon··on Court bans Kars4Kids ads in California for violating false advertising law
There are no "beneficiaries" it's a grift!
EtienneDeLyon··on Do teachers need advanced degrees?
When you overpay teachers, people who hate teaching, and hate being teachers, will become teachers for the money.

Is a good idea to select the people who hate teaching to become teachers?

EtienneDeLyon··on Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs
This is not by accident!

There are a lot of smart and talented people working hard to embed Hasbara into LLMs.

EtienneDeLyon··on Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days
As a RF expert, I can assure you that is not possible. And basic common sense should tell you why.

It's AM radio that gets interfered with.

EtienneDeLyon··on AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying
Isn't it a more reasonable explanation that the IDF deliberately had this school bombed because those schoolgirls were the children of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers?

The intentional murder of enemy children is a tactic of the IDF. They've done it for decades.

EtienneDeLyon··on US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike
While some naysayers might claim the US has entered the FO stage after the commencement of FA, I have full faith in the ability of great minds like Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth to navigate the sea of uncertainty and achieve strategic victory!
EtienneDeLyon··on Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day
Two more kills and that pilot will be an ace!
EtienneDeLyon··on Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule
He's doing what's called "Hasbara". Regular people call it "lying".
EtienneDeLyon··on Everyone Is Stealing TV
In some areas, you can 'pirate' live TV directly from the sky!

You need this thing called an 'antenna' which captures invisible radio waves and decodes them into a picture with audio. You can't pause or rewind, and you have to be in front of the TV at specific times, so it is not precis the same, but you can access TV this way.

EtienneDeLyon··on On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]
Nope!

https://archive.is/tH0il

EtienneDeLyon··on Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley
That doesn't make sense. Zionism depends on antisemitism, so true antisemites are by definition pro-Zionist.
EtienneDeLyon··on Jury trials scrapped for crimes with sentences of less than three years
lickspittle...a person who behaves obsequiously to those in power.

Today I learn a new word!

EtienneDeLyon··on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air
That's a little racist.
EtienneDeLyon··on Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts
A seven-year old child is being given a brain-altering drug? I am very happy such drugs did not exist when I was seven years old.
EtienneDeLyon··on Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication
Yes, Almost. As long as you don't scroll down too far.