You can have entirely seperate governing entities complete with their own taxes and elections. The most interesting part imho is that people not even bother voting if the entity does its job properly.
Yeah, it's difficult for someone else to be of interest to someone so wrapped up in their ego they answer thoughtful critiques with lazy insults. Fortunately I have another audience.
On the other hand, the most interesting discussions to be had are the ones where the opponent disagees with you.
As this is hard for many people i learn to completely ignore any part that is not of interest.
The funniest instance was an infuriated coworker calling me names, ready to fight me. He must have raged on fir 10 whole minutes while i calmly looked at him without expession. After his rage my conclusion was that he was right and calmly told him he was, next shift we will do it the way you've described. If he was wrong i would just say NO.
Not general curiosity -- but for healthier eating.
There's a theory that says you basically won't ever gain weight if you prevent your blood sugar from going above a certain level. So it's an objective way of knowing how much to eat and when.
Also, to warn when blood sugar is too low. Some people (myself included) often get so into work (or whatever) that we forget to eat, with adverse consequences. An alert is very helpful.
Usefull? It is if you use it. I do triathlons and knowing exactly where my blood-sugar level is at would allow me to focus better on the type of nutrition and the impact of it while working out.
It would also tell me if i was a bit down before a race, so i can take some food.
Basically: this is a game-changer for amateur athletes, which would create a tremendous market for it. People i know already use the patches to measure as well, or lactate measurements, ketone measurements, etc. and that's just at the casual amateur level.
Another application that springs to mind is knowing when to eat instead of just having lunch and sugar-crashing 2 hours later in the office.
That's what HelloLingo is selling. A wearable blood glucose monitor for 2 weeks, like diabetics wear, so non-diabetics can get a better feel for their blood sugar level and how what they do affects it. https://www.hellolingo.com
Would be a real game changer for endurance sports. There is "bonking" - depletion of muscle glycogen. When that happens your race is over. Sometimes it happens even to high level athletes what feels like out of the blue. If you knew ahead of time your blood sugar is getting low you could prevent it.
"If you knew ahead of time your blood sugar is getting low you could prevent it."
If I am connected to my body, I can also feel it by own biological sensors. But I do see the use case, to get another data input, for those cases where I am distracted and don't pay too much attention on myself.
Because it's built-in as an extra feature to a watch that you were already gonna buy. Garmin watches can measure blood oxygen, but not many people use the feature because it drains the battery quickly. Samsung watches can do a single lead EKGs. Does that sell you the watch? Probably not. Is it yet another thing a company can add to the spec sheet and use to justify a price increase? Yes.
I believe GP assumes the reader of their comment to understand that one of the types of diabetes is acquired during ones lifetime, by over-consumption of certain types of nutrition.
Preventing non-hereditary diabetes could be much cheaper from a societal perspective.
There is a whole spectrum from trying to reach ultimate form to trying not to die and everyone in between.
I measure my heart rate one time for fun. It was insanely high at rest. I felt perfect, full of energy but it was completely obvious i needed to introduce rest days. I conviscated the heart rate monitor and everything was back to normal 3 days later.
Twice i read something from someone monitoring and adjusting the indoor air that came to the (expensive) conclusion that nothing beats opening all the windows.
I would add that heated clothing is fantastic. You cant heat the house to 30C and if it gets to warm you cant easily lower the temperature.
You can be as dishonest or helpful as you want. Back when google did organic ranking a lot of communities thrived on forum signatures. If you have thousands of helpful posts others know your level of expertise.
Its to easy to join and to hard to have dialog or ban users on reddit. It has kind of one single standard while with forums it depends a lot what the topic is. If people are building something together you need to be a productive participant before you can make fart jokes or complaint about your hangover. Accademic forums often had zero tolerance for bullshiting in serious topics. If your reply gives away you didnt read the article you deserve a warning.
Its dead now but i one time (by hand) build an opml with feeds from pressreleases from the fortune 500. It seemed stupid but turns out no one is looking to crank out shitty pressreleases just for attention. Something has to be noteworthy to the company which turns out to be boring less than 90% of the time. At the very least 99% talks about something that was very expensive.
I also thought it was funny, because it is if you have enough self confidence.
I had an agenda with 2-3 weeks worth of planning to stay with friends and aquaintances. I would never stay at the same place for more than 1 night. The friends would tollerate it for 2 weeks or 2 months but if i limit the visit to 1 day per week, 2 weeks or a month their patience would never run out. The deal was this: you pay for shopping i clean the kitchen entirely, i Cook an elaborate meal, clean the kitchen again, sleep and leave at 8 am.
The funniest were the ones who chose to abuse the deal and turned their kitchen into a giant mess. They pretty much didnt do anything for 14 days. I vaguely knew them, we didnt get along so well but i was excited to see the mess. This looks very welcomming! I joked. Some also ordered elaborate fancy 3 course meals that took some doing. They would enjoy the elaborate candle light dinner together after a day of hard work while i slaved away in their kitchen. Fucking hilarious.
Which part? The hosts often got the better end of the deal.
Today i would much enjoy a monthly elaborate dinner with my girl in exchange for 1x using a bed in a spare room i never use. Renting it out for a day for $ to a stranger is not going to happen but if it did it wouldnt cover the cost for professional cleaning plus a private cook.
I also had friends who never cook and ones who barely clean. I did whole office buildings, vacuuming a livingroom is not going to impress me.
