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I hope you realize that the people that are feeling "stressed" are not just the ones making minimum wage but also those making considerably more yet, somehow not managing to make ends meet.

Is there a reason they can't use the internet that is available from their phone data plan?

So many, many HOAs and condo assocs. are poorly managed and have no capital plans (I even had a condo once where the agreement prohibited a capital fund!).

Two points - first to yours on it being more difficult to sell. In fact, it can be the opposite. To get a mortgage these days it often requires the hoa/condo to have at least 10% of the annual budget in reserves. While often not the case, buyers should also be comparing the relative reserve states too and realize low reserves means specials

The second point is that failure to reserve the majority of the cost of expected capital needs can result in a situation of liens and foreclosures (to get a paying owner in) and the HOA going cup in hand to a bank who may or may not loan the shortfall at a terrible interest rate. Or the project is put on hold and the cost may rise because of inflation or further deterioration of whatever was being renovated.

When homeowners gripe about the dues and 'look how much is in reserves' I always ask: so when the roof needs to be replaced, you'll be good to cut a $5 or 10K check within 30 days? No? That is why the HOA reserves the vast majority of the cost.

When I started as head of the HOA, I was out of work and not exactly cup runeth over with money myself as it was 2009 so please, take your snark elsewhere.

Home internet is a luxury if you already have a data plan on your phone to accomplish the necessities - that is for access to government and corporate web sites and educational (school related) needs. Social media, in its basic forms are text and photos which also should fit in most included MVNO data plans such as this one from US Mobile which is $22.50/mo or $228/yr (19/mo)

Unlimited High-Speed Data Unlimited Talk & Text 20 GB Hotspot Data

FYI - I live in a fairly rural area and have coverage. The standard home internet plan here runs about $90/mo after all taxes and tithes are paid.

That is not always an easy thing to do and every HOA will vary. In general it will usually require a very high number (like 80%) of owners to agree, there are often multi-year waiting periods and sometimes poison pills which offer common areas to the local municipality on dissolution.

Americans confuse need with 'nice to have' which leads to the "I don't have money for food/rent/hc" problem.

You do not need cable tv or home internet. You do not need an iPhone or top end Samsung. There are many mid-range Android phones much cheaper that can add a MVNO phone plan for around $20/mo that has more than enough data for necessary internet. Key word: necessary. OTA HDTV is available to many millions at the cost of an antenna (in window/attic/roof). Free books at the library. People give away old dvds and players for free. There is a thing called 'the outside'.

Look at the cars many of the people who complain about being squeezed are driving. Pickups for the sake of driving one. Lower/mid end BMW/Lexus/Mercedes. Giant SUVs when a smaller one will more than do. There are actually still relatively low priced vehicles available but they are plain jane and looked down upon.

I mention those things as I was head of an HOA for about 10 years and we regularly had owners who were in arrears or in and out of arrears. They would come before the board asking for waivers of late fees, interest and even the basic common charge. Yet they were aghast when the board suggested they drop their cable TV or swapped their expensive car lease for a beater. And heaven forbid you suggest they stop going to Starbucks as they sit in front of you asking forgiveness with a large latte in hand.

I'm not sure where the original guy got the idea that the bills are uniform in the interior. Seems just as likely that the visible faces of the cube are "display" with an interior backing cube (say out of thin plywood) inside which the balance of the funds are dumped, either in pretty stacks or just how they land.

Similar take. The UI and lift explanations are nice but the lift selections (when even available) are a bit dubious at best. In some cases, sub-optimal, in other cases out of left field.

My personal suggestion would be to populate the data base with all the standard primary/secondary lifts (bar, dumbell, machines) and let users build their own program. Maybe have an option to suggest alternatives for any given lift.

After that is done, then maybe work out routine creation, hopefully with some general input to the developer from actual trainers.

Also agree, keep the equipment simple/standard and avoid branded machines,etc.

Because if they do not care about the product or users their returns will be sub-optimal?

The title was very long - Here is the original title: Alzheimer Disease: The proposed role of tanycytes in the formation of tau tangles and amyloid beta plaques in human brain

That is production, not R&D. Basic research into, for instance, semiconductors may one day lead to the production of a new product. The R&D costs would be amortized, the eventual production costs would not.

Bloomstink has a short article on R&D expenses/tax credits as does Reuters on some of the back and current history.

But just as an accounting note: R&D expense has nothing to do with the company having revenues for an existing product, which already is allowed to deduct cost of goods sold, selling and admin expense. It is a cost related to future business and in that regard, it is not crazy to say it should be amortized. That in the past this did not happen, or that accelerated depreciation for other assets is in the IRS code is a function of the government wanting to effectively subsidize business investment.

https://pro.bloombergtax.com/insights/federal-tax/rd-tax-cre...

https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/the-future-of-rd-expensi...

Didn't see any mention of the Yanoff list!

I've taken photos on and off for decades. Too many here seem to be, much like everything else these days, all or nothing. With just a little bit of common sense/discipline it is pretty easy to balance the taking of photos with the "being there" experience. This especially applies to cell phone snapshots. You don't need to be taking tens or hundreds of shots to document an experience. A handful or less will do.

Late comment on this: saw a short talk by Dr. Eisele at a regional APS conference a few weeks ago on some research aimed at a future non-silicon based solar panels that are easy and cheap to manufacture but also do not lose efficiency at higher temps (as is common with current panels)* Her group apparently is at patent stage on some newer, follow-on research.

ref: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-020-00563-4

*that's all from memory, hopefully didn't misrepresent anything

A lot of the "elite" compsci students at my college in the early-ish 80s were still using TECO on our DECSYSTEM 2060 but some of the cool-kids were trying that new Emacs thing ;)

Me, being just a lowly compsci minor, prefered the full screen editor called FOXE. Was very simply to use and did the job fine for writing/editing programs of the length typical of homework assignments. Don't recall all the particulars to comment on search, replace, etc.

Unfortunately, there is like zero internet info on it beyond: "Little (if any) information is available for this visual editor available for TOPS-20 in the early 1980's. It was similar in appearance to the then new EMACS but had a far simpler command structure."

minor: Vax 11/780 was a minicomputer, though DEC itself refered to it as a 'supermini"

Don't take it on an empty stomach. Don't do the overload the first 10 days, instead stick to just 5g daily. It will take a little longer to get the full effect of the loading stage but with far less risk of stomach upset.

A few things -

1/ on this RPE stuff, it sounds like they are trying to keep two reps in the tank which is fine but..when? the first set? The last set?

2/ perhaps I'm misreading the supplemental data but the error bars are pretty huge when it comes to changes in LBM, not sure how any conclusions can be drawn

3/ 12 weeks is a short program and it sounds like they chose people who were generally not in shape/beginners. Anyone who has lifted in their life can tell you initial gains are almost always mostly in strength, not mass.

4/ Their choice of lifts for this population also looks unusual.

I'm sure they have the data but I could not find any evaluation of relative strength gains between the two groups. Even if their hypothesis that the LBM gain is identical, strength gains may not be.

Totally agree. Unless the use of the computer is integral to the material at hand (learning to program, learning to solve problems numerically, modeling) it is superfluous. Tons of dough spent on making it "modern" just for the sake of it.

What is really needed is parents that teach their kids impulse control and how to prioritize, to know what is extracurricular and what is not. You can play video games, smoke weed, do whatever on your phone once your work is done, not before or during.

Congrats but was that on a curve? Do you think your A+ today would have been an A+ 20, 30, 50 years ago? Considering that you've just stated that your MEDIAN grade was an A+, I suspect not.

I'm sure the average college student will know when the helpful LLM is hallucinating, misrepresenting or stating outdated material as factually accurate today, right?

Totally disagree. Lecture is an opportunity to directly ask your professor to clarify the material or perhaps extend to an adjacent area. It is also an opportunity to learn from your classmates who may pose insightful questions or comments.

TFA omits this trend (seemingly since wide spread availability of the internet) to being solitary - the view that nothing of value can come from interactions with peers or superiors other than wasted time. [this is different from missing classes because of laziness which is implied].

Funny, I watched Dr. Strangelove two weeks ago. POE!

This is just the beginning - and it need not be nation states. Imagine instead of Russian disinfo, it is oil companies doing the same thing with positive takes on oil, climate change is a hoax, etc. Or <insert religion> pushing a narrative against a group they are against.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/27/russian-propaganda-ne...

>Anything of significance should be written down in an official way, even if it originated over messaging.

So in the group chat discussing code word material, who was responsible for making the written record? Perhaps that should have been one of the questions today?

Likewise, if it is true that they are using it on a regular basis at CIA HQ I can pretty much guaranty you that it is being used in a manner that is a substitute for email which would be required to be saved in entirety.

At this point it is probably easier to poison web pages for AI crawlers in a way that does not taint the human experience.

Isn't this similar to why most people turn off UPnP on their routers and other similar devices, for security reasons?