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Free market is a good thing.
by the_axiom 6mo ago
Free market is a good thing.
- Permik 6mo agoIt's good until some unregulated electronic device creates interference that makes some poor guys pacemaker act up and kills them.
- EtienneDeLyon 6mo agoAs 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.
- kube-system 6mo agoIt's not likely, but if you're an expert I'm sure you could think of a few ways it would be possible. The reason we give people with pacemakers a list of machines to avoid is definitely not to waste their time because there is no possible way any of those things could be dangerous to them.
- chromacity 6mo agoI mean, more or less, we do. The NIH list includes cell phones, e-cigarettes, and headphones.
- kayson 6mo agoAs an RF expert I can assure you that I could create a device to wirelessly interfere with a pacemaker. A pathological one, maybe, but the point remains: regulation is needed.
- fluoridation 6mo agoThe question is whether such interference could be created by a device as a by-product of its normal operation, not by a weapon that's intended to cause harm.
- croes 6mo agoEvery freedom has limits
- jdiff 6mo agoBlind dogma is rarely a good thing. A free market is not a virtue or end goal in itself, but a means to other ends.