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> What kind of reporting is this? Anything less than 100% is not "as potent as when manufactured" Relax, this is the real world, not a computer based series of
by Florin_Andrei 9y ago
> What kind of reporting is this? Anything less than 100% is not "as potent as when manufactured"
Relax, this is the real world, not a computer based series of 0s and 1s. Any such compound begins drifting off from the original specs as soon as it leaves the factory - and in a very real sense it's not exactly at 100% at any time post the moment of manufacture. The question is what kind of deviation can be tolerated.
- TuringNYC 9y agoWell said. Another aspect: Having the option of a 90% effective drug vs a 100% effective drug you DONT have because you cannot afford. There was a time in my life where our family lived dollar to dollar and skipped medical care due to cost. We would easily settle for 90% efficacy.
- AstralStorm 9y agoIt is not even 90% effective. You could adjust the dosage in many cases.
- r00fus 9y agoOfftopic, but even the world of 1's and 0's is subject to real-world constraints - learned in my 90s computer hardware class as I spent weeks in summer after semester debugging why my "basic 8-bit processor" kept crashing after only a few hours of uptime: faulty silicon that periodically read median-voltage differentials cascaded eventually into bad instructions. The world of logic is built on the shifting ground of reality. Only redundancy and checksums keep it from crashing down in compounded errors.