It is not technically a television, but a good short throw projector has suited my household's needs perfectly; i.e. gaming and streaming from devices
Readit NewsIf "superintelligence" is such a big deal, how is it that e.g. MENSA members haven't taken over the world yet? Is there evidence of the assumed "superintelligence/dominance" equivalence in existing human population data?
xkcd-sucks commented on Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study hms.harvard.edu/news/coul... · Posted by u/highfrequency
Could you share some sources that show this to be true?
It's like kind of challenging to prove this kind of negative, and the supposed proof here comprises no more than pedigreed words on a page, but here consider the section "What constitutes a good model for AD?": https://sci-hub.se/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-01...
Has it been worth it in a while? This is a legitimate question as I am on the east coast and wonder if it differs from the west coast environment.
At least in my anecdotal experience, everytime I’ve entertained a startups offer in the past decade it’s been either something like engineer #1, 3% equity and no you cannot see the cap table or other agreements with investors, or something like 10k units at 25 a share when we’re on series z, and you lose them if you leave, and you can’t sell for 6 months if you leave, and the investors have priority on payment if we sell for less than our valuation and yadda yadda yadda.
I mentally just valued the equity as 0 in the compensation with all those limitations on liquidating them and never understood why anyone joined a startup
Oh also there is the trick where the startup gets sold a little under its strike price and the execs each get signing bonuses > book value of company as sold
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xkcd-sucks commented on Nightmares Linked to Faster Ageing and Premature Mortality emjreviews.com/neurology/... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Interesting how I was reading an article yesterday talking about how cheese/dairy might give people nightmares, linked to GI distress and lactose intolerance.
It could be a factor that GI distress and food intolerances contribute to nightmares due to additional stress and inflammation within the body, causing premature mortality over the course of someone's life.
All of whom want to trade on expectations of future labor cost reductions which haven't actually happened yet, so take with a grain of salt
So why do researchers is still hell bent on believing the beta amaloyd theory? I get voted down every time I ask this
There's a lot of researchers in a lot of roles and it turns out finding targets is just one of those roles, the rest focus on optimizing therapies against those targets and they like having well defined targets to work on.
xkcd-sucks commented on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/... · Posted by u/blenderob
Can you give an example of a restaurant you have in mind? I thought I lived in a HCOL area, but your number seems off by nearly a factor of 2 to me. Plus, considering how infrequently many people eat out at all, I'm not so convinced that this specific argument is a good one.
I'm thinking sit down waited upon dinner for two, "second/third tier cities" in Northeast USA mostly - In 2025 you might see $30/head "restaurant week prix fixe" but those places are usually closer to $50/head if there's anything additional to an entree
And yes, we have kind of a restaurant death spiral because it is expensive to eat out.
From general systems biology perspective everything that moves body metabolism away from it's normal state for short time seems to give benefits, exercise, cold, heat, hunger, ... allostatic load that is not chronic is generally good.