I built my own laptop that uses a framework 13 mainboard with dual 16” >4k 16:10 1000nit HDR panels. It is the ultimate portable battle station. It has a tripod mount that I use with a magic arm to hold it at eye height. I use dual trackpoint wireless keyboards for better ergonomics.
it'll be breach of contract. Musk is promising that he will pay every valid voter in the swing states $47 if they fill out his form and certify they will vote for in the interest of the first and second amendments, if a eligible voter fulfills their part of the bargain and says to send their check to CaH, it's their right to do so. Musk can't just decide he doesn't like what they're doing with (now) their money and not pay up on his end of the bargain.
Huh. If this is true, I'm surprised this "program" hasn't yet caught on as a Tiktok "here's how to get $50 for free if you live in one of these states" trick.
Musk is running a similar program for people in swing states, paying them $47 to refer potential Trump voters. If he doesn't pay, or pays selectively, he's violating various campaign finance laws.
He’s paying a person $47 for every registered swing state voter that that person refers to the SuperPAC and that follows through on signing a petition to support first and second amendment rights.
It appears to be lawyered loopholes around paying people to register to vote directly. Which is illegal as you mentioned.
Sure plenty of people will sign it for the money and then forget about it, but some sliver of people that sign will feel some sliver of obligation to vote for the candidate that the petition obviously wants them to vote for. A sliver here and there could be enough to turn this currently close election.
With the lax finance laws we have I’m guessing China could install a regime that would actively help them take Taiwan for less than ten billion, to give one example. It would be cheaper to buy the whole US military than build one aircraft carrier.
It’s why this or anything like it should be very illegal and why Citizens United is a threat to US national security.
See, that’s the thing. Neither naughty ol’ mr car, nor the card game, are paying people to vote. Not technically. US election law is… not great. Note the digs at Citizens United in the FAQ.
I am interested in math academy but want some kind of trial. Such a new way of learning demands a trial period so I can determine if it works for me and if I can stick with it.
Ive been using mathacademy for the last month and a half. so far I've been extremely satisfied. I've been progressing pretty rapidly and can feel my old university days coming back as I practice math. if anything, I'd say my base algebra skills have gotten stronger as it identified several weak areas that I never resolved when I was in a classroom.
Just try it. for what it offers, $50 is a steal. my only caveat would be to make sure you're dedicated enough to commit the time. I'm putting in around 1hr minimum a day at the moment with weekends plugging in an entire afternoon.
Agreed. 50 bucks is not expensive for what could be a valuable investment. It's on my TODO list. If it works well to teaching me mathematics, then I'll keep using it.
That said, I think it's also important to be able to learn from books, which is a useful skill in my opinion.
I can’t find information on what subjects they teach. I don’t really need to rehash basic calc and algebra but I’d be pretty interested to learn discrete math properly. I also never really grokked differential geometry, but I doubt they cover that.
We have a 30-day money back guarantee. I'll copy/paste from the bottom of mathacademy.com:
> 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. We're so confident that Math Academy will help you or your child master advanced math concepts faster than any other method on the planet that if you find it doesn't suit your needs within the first month, we will refund your payment. There are no long term contracts, no additional textbooks to buy, and you may cancel your membership at anytime in the future.
By the way, I know it sounds like a "new way of learning," but most of the learning-enhancing practice strategies that we use have been known for many decades – it's just that they're not widely known / circulated outside the niche fields of cognitive science & talent development.
You got it backwards. I'm exactly your customer type - I'm subscribing to Brilliant an several other services, both for myself and members of my family. However, I will not give my CC number to a random company without at least having some 5-minute taste of what it's like to use it. Don't take it personally - it's a general rule that served me well in the last years.
Yes, I know many companies operate in this way - and I perfectly understand their choice.
You might find a 30 day free trial has more sign-ups and conversions, but could entail more support costs ("I forgot to cancel") than the 30-day money back guarantee.
Many companies use snow white patterns for this. Email one week before: attention, your trial will end soon. Same 3 days before. An SMS message a day before. All with precise instructions and links to one-click unsubscribe/cancel pages.
I admire these companies. They know they have excellent products and the user can get back to them anytime they want. I support them and give them positive reviews. But they are rare - most use the old bag of trick to "increase conversions" whereas they just cause a lot of frustration (and increased support cost).
Yeah, support is a big source of friction for us right now. The money-back guarantee serves as a filtering mechanism so that we focus on people who evidence some degree of seriousness.
But you're right that a free trial would produce more sign-ups and conversions, potentially enough to offset the additional support costs once we're in a better position to handle them (or once the product is better at preventing the need for them). Definitely something to think about in the future.
I’m building my own dual screen laptop based on the framework 13. It has the 16” 4k+ 16:10 1000nit micro led panel from the razer blade 16. Just tested out the panel for the first time last night and it is the best I have ever seen.
I just made a thing for my thinkpad that slides up from the back with two 2k ipad screens so I can have the same ergonomic benefits this provides with the screen up high.
I’m a doctor and familiar with the mechanism of both ozempic, to the extent it is known, and fat metabolism generally.
I can’t see any connection between ozempic and myelin damage except you now know fat metabolism is involved. Is there something I am missing?
No worries. Myelin sheath is never catabolized for energy. It is far more valuable and protected behind solid mechanisms. The heart will stop long before. The only non-inflammatory cause of myeline damage is due to acute serum sodium changes, totally unrelated to fat metabolism. So Ozempic is pretty safe in that regard
Hmm, valid concern but GLP1-RAs reduce fat (primarily) by better glycemic control and satiation.
Unless if you're on Ozempic until you literally dry out every single fat reserve in your body and your brain has to resort to breaking down the myelin sheaths (something that can happen in ultra long distance running, hence why hallucinations sometimes happen on 100+ mile runes), then the GLP1-RAs wouldn't be able to force the body to break down the fat in the brain.
To the best of my knowledge, GLP-1's have 0 direct impact on brain fat metabolism or myelin sheath breakdown.
Side note, GLP1 based therapies are being investigated for improving brain health and potentially helping prevent the development of neurodegenerative illnesses, potentially because of an anti inflammatory feedback mechanism it activates when its able to reach tissues outside the gut. (natural GLP1 is usually broken down ~5 min in the body after release)
> Side note, GLP1 based therapies are being investigated for improving brain health and potentially helping prevent the development of neurodegenerative illnesses, potentially because of an anti inflammatory feedback mechanism it activates when its able to reach tissues outside the gut. (natural GLP1 is usually broken down ~5 min in the body after release)
Just to zoom in on this -- the understanding of how GLP1 based therapies work seems to also be evolving to have the benefits primarily be brain-focused. While of course GLP1 interacts in lots of ways with your other organs, but the effects on appetite suppression (and suppression of other urges) seems to be majorly brain based.
In fact I wonder if the negative effects of GLP1 drugs (gastroparesis, GI issues) might be completely gone if we can target the agonists towards the brain only somehow.
>dry out every single fat reserve in your body and your brain has to resort to breaking down the myelin sheaths (something that can happen in ultra long distance running, hence why hallucinations sometimes happen on 100+ mile runes)
I've never heard of this before today, but if it's true then that's terrifying.
I suspect you might have misunderstood how fat storage and metabolism works.
When your pancreas releases glucagon, adipose tissue (compromised mostly of adipocytes - "fat cells") respond with lipolysis, converting their stores of triglyceride ("stored fat") into glycerol and free fatty acids, releasing this into the bloodstream. Various tissues use the free fatty acids directly, while others (like the brain) rely on gluconeogenesis to create a source of glucose.
Tissues that store glycogen (muscles and liver primarily) also respond by breaking this down into glucose, but this has quite low energy density of hydrated glycogen compared to fatty tissues, and an adult only stores in the ballpark of half a kilogram. This is sometimes referred to as "water weight".
Another response is proteolysis in the muscles, where muscle proteins are broken down ("muscle wasting") in order to feed energy demands.
Point being, the body does not randomly look for fatty acids in the body to tear down - the process of weight loss is a strictly controlled and centrally coordinated mechanism to maintain a steady energy level in your bloodstream. Your cell membranes are also made of fatty acids so all hell would break lose long before it got to myelin if it just started randomly picking things apart!
No, it is the opposite. Ketone bodies are an emergency pathway of sorts.
When in a high-glucagon and low-insulin state (that is, there is a demand for more fuel in the bloodstream than is present), after the liver has used up its glycogen stores for fast and easy glucose production, liver cells redirect most or all of its oxaloacetate supply to the process of gluconeogenesis to produce more glucose for the bloodstream from free fatty acids and glycerol released from fat tissue, as well as some other non-carbohydrate sources.
In this state, the liver's own cells lack the key incredient to finish metabolism of free fatty acids, where acetyl-CoA is combined with oxaloacetate to form citric acid for the Kreebs/citric acid cycle. Instead, the cells start converting acetyl-CoA into ketone bodies and releasing these into the bloodstream to further increase fuel availability.
Cells with mitochondria can metabolize various things including free fatty acids directly, but free fatty acids cannot pass the blood-brain barrier. Ketone bodies can, and while they have to be converted back into acetyl-CoA to be used, the liver does this to keep the central nervous system alive in a situation where glucose production might not cut it.
You only have high levels of ketone in your body after long periods of fasting/starvation (e.g., 24 hours or more), prolonged exercise or if on a diet that forces the pathway with insufficient carbohydrate.
Bonus fun fact: People in ketosis tend to have a breath with a hint of nail polish remover.
This is because one of the ketone bodies is acetone, a result of spontaneous breakdown of one of the other ketone bodies. Only the liver can break down the acetone, and as it floats around the blood some of it ends up exhaled.
(At very high levels of ketone bodies you end up in something called ketoacidosis. In this state your blood turns acidic, which can quickly develop into a medical emergency. This mainly happens to those with health issues like type 1 diabetes.)
Yeah this article is so full of weird issues I have never had. The whole bit about full self driving makes no sense to me. You are using the keycard instead of the phone key which misses the point completely. Its not as if other cars don’t have plenty of issues at any price point.
I genuinely don’t understand why this is a problem for some people. It charges in under 15 minutes while I shower each morning. When I’m traveling I do always forget the charger however.
Robot vacuums on the other hand are awful for me. I always leave small cables and things on the floor like a jacket on the back of a chair. Also it does a poor job of transitioning from a hardwood surface to a thick rug. It frequently fails to charge even sitting on the dock. Also it is louder than even my shop vac.
Which robot vacuum do you have? I have Roborock from like 2019 or so and it still works amazing.
To me it's a real life saver and a pleasure to use.
I do quickly scan the rooms and clean up stuff that I think it might otherwise get stuck at, but it doesn't take more than a minute. Considering the savings overall what it would otherwise take to use vacuum yourself it's crazy good. And I'm definitely a lazy person in terms of putting stuff away or leaving them unnecessarily on the floor.
I have special plastic boxes without lids I can quickly throw things like cables that I left on the floor before enabling the vacuum.
Some people just are forgetful. It doesn't matter how quickly it charges if you simply can't remember to do it frequently enough. That's one of the reasons I decided against a fancy smartwatch myself and focused on Pebble-style monochrome watches with longer battery life.
I just used this to practice my Japanese and it was really helpful having a judgement free correction of my grammar. It definitely takes longer than English because it’s using more tokens but the feedback is very thorough. I wish I could make the pause before sending automatically a bit longer. (I know I can hold to do it manually but the automated send is nice.)
I tried telling it to speak slowly but it just kept rattling off at full speed while saying things like "I understand. I'll slow down. How is this for you?" Etc
An unfortunately absent bit of accessibility that would really help second language learners
