Yes, that's why I said "needs trials and replication". That small clinical study is useless for insurance companies and standard medical practice today. But it is very useful to point the way toward promising areas of further research, and for any pioneering risk-takers who might be willing to try.
That is, after all, how we learned that stomach ulcers are not psychosomatic (caused by "stress"), but rather by the bacterium H. Pylori. A doctor infected himself, got ulcers, and cured himself with antibiotics!
For anyone generally curious about the ME/CFS patient experience and state of medicine, there are a couple good articles in The Atlantic[0][1].
For those interested in latest research, Dr. Bhupesh Prusty presented[2] a very plausible hypothesis with detailed evidence[3] of virus-triggered autoimmunity causing mitochondrial dysfunction in endothelial cells (vascular system).
And there's a promising treatment for Long COVID with a study[4] claiming improvement in many symptoms, and describing the targeted mechanism of disease pathology (also vascular system). Needs trials and replication, or until then doctors willing to risk off-label treatment.
Excellent article - still I can't resist a rather large quibble.
The commonly stated assertion that spectrum is a limited resource is not quite accurate.
Spectrum is technically defined as a range of frequencies. That's all. In business parlance spectrum is also attached to large areas of land - this spatial dimension is more important than most people realize.
Radio signals themselves exist in space and time, not just in a range of frequencies. More radio signals - and data bandwidth - can be packed into a given space by shrinking the volume a given signal "occupies".
We can do this by reducing signal power and increasing cell density, in addition to other techniques described in the article. More cells, smaller cells. This is a big part of how 5G expands cell network capacity. But the telecoms have downplayed the effect of this relative to the the claim that spectrum is limited.
The mobile carriers have financial incentives to do this. These incentives are lower costs and monopoly control.
Fewer bigger cells at higher power are cheaper than many smaller cells at lower power. The monopoly part is exclusive use of spectrum on a given piece of land.
The problem is, the legal attachment of spectrum works with very large areas of land (where km^2 is a smallish unit) and large periods of time (years), relative to radio signals. Both attachments are grossly inefficient.
By shrinking cell size (power) and increasing cell density, several orders of magnitude more network bandwidth is possible, plenty even to share (modulo cost of physical infrastructure).
Spectrum scarcity is a myth. The current legal regime enriches monopolists and is otherwise a tremendous waste of potential. We pay higher prices for unnecessarily limited bandwidth.
There's no straightforward fix because this behavior is something that emerges from mass psychology, like war. In a sense this is war, with new platforms to amplify and direct weaponized ideas.
If war is politics by other means (Clausewitz), we can turn that around and say that politics is war by other means. See: the Russian concept of hybrid warfare.
What ends war is when enough people in a society are convinced it's not worth it. And that happens when enough people are exposed to the horrors of war, when they see what it does to their own lives and to the lives of people they care about.
Now we're in a period when most people haven't been exposed to that level, so this is unfortunately an upswing.
The way through is for some number of us to keep our humanity toward others (in the positive sense), to act accordingly, to carry that through until conflict blows over, and to rebuild society afterwards.
Disclosure: I'm an engineer with the Advanced Protection Program.
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Advanced Protection has improved a lot since early days. For example it works with Apple's native Mail, Contacts and Calendar apps on iOS.
Advanced Protection doesn't require any specific model of security key. The blue YubiKeys work just fine and even Touch ID is supported (as a U2F key).
Multiple backup keys are supported. And the same key can be used on multiple accounts.
Breaking or losing a key doesn't cause an immediate lockout. A key is required at first sign in on a new device or browser session but not thereafter. I don't even carry a key most of the time.
I'm sure there's more we could do to build great account security for campaigns. Please keep the feedback coming!
That is, after all, how we learned that stomach ulcers are not psychosomatic (caused by "stress"), but rather by the bacterium H. Pylori. A doctor infected himself, got ulcers, and cured himself with antibiotics!