50K IU of Vitamin D per week would push many people into overdose range after a few months. Anyone taking high doses like this needs to also get blood tests to make sure they're not accumulating too much. Remember that it stays in the body a long time and therefore overdose can take many months or over a year to finally show up.
Vitamin D only really has dramatic effects in people who are severely deficient. Despite all of the influencers and podcasts claiming it's a miracle supplement and that we're all deficient, actual Vitamin D studies don't show much or any benefit outside of people who are significantly deficient.
But yes, if your Vitamin D is actually low then getting it into the normal range could have some dramatic effects.
Some doctors will prescribe short courses of Vitamin D as an almost-placebo when they can't find anything else wrong. It works quite well as a placebo for many people because podcast health influencers have been talking about it so much lately.
I wish this was true but I and other family members had rock bottom low vitamin D levels in lab tests. We supplemented until it rose to normal levels. None of us noticed any perceptible difference. Suppodedly this will prevent problems but it doesn't feel like anything has been fixed. I wonder how much is placebo.
One should get regular blood tests if possible for a lot of reasons... but supplementing with 50k IU Vit D per week is safe for almost everyone. Should take K1/K2 as well.
Not going to go into detail but there are several recent studies showing that daily intake of up to 50k IU is safe. The concerns over hypercalcemia, etc. were tied to much larger doses per day.
Tacking on for anyone alarmed or curious: The main distinction is fat-soluble versus water-soluble.
Fat-soluble vitamins (A/D/E/K) can accumulate in your tissues over time if you keep taking too much.
Water-soluble vitamins (such as C) are much easier for your body to filter and flush via urine. You could still overdose in the short-term, but a chronic accumulation is unlikely.
Yeah I should try pumping up my D levels. I take 2,000 IU/day plus mid-day sun exposure but it doesn't hurt to try it. From what I've read, short term Vit D doses can be pretty high without causing an issue.
>I'm surprised they release unpaid updates as opposed to paid DLCs
From what I hear, from someone who knows someone who works at Hello Games, is that they've hired people to work on "the next game project", but NMS keeps selling, so they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game.
they keep putting out big updates, because every time they do that, more people buy the game.
Your friend of a friend must be mistaken.
We've been assured hundreds of times over by experts on HN that putting out quality software will lead to bankruptcy.
The only correct way to success is to build a low-grade MVP, then charge a monthly subscription, then sell the user's personal data and "telemetry." Surely, there can't be another way?
Same as everyone else’s now long defunct app was marketed in the midst of a hype bubble. Marketers gonna market.
Difference is the NMS team appears to have an offering people wanted versus Bear Clone #875 and web UI POC skewed to highlight some banal metric for $99/mo per team member #1,773,958
Great news for the dozens of Mac gamers. If Apple's headset is a success(?) and games want to support their headset, adding Mac support will be very easy to justify.
It would also not be surprising if this was another "Tomb Raider" moment, though. Bringing No Man's Sky to Mac required a Metal rewrite, and Hello Games had probably already finished porting to ARM for the Switch version of the game. It's still a hard sell unless you're a studio with nothing to lose like Sean's team or Capcom.
I'm not sure about the last sentence. India had a literacy rate of 16% when the British left and education was monopolized by non-Dalits/SC/STs AFAIK. Do you have numbers?
Violence against the dalits is much worst than when the British was running the show. At least during the Raj times, a dalit can reasonably count on the British to deliver justice when the higher caste rape or kill their family members. Nowadays if a dalit dare to speak up or go to a police more violence will descend upon them. Passing a law here or there for show or having a tribal as president is nothing when the culture is caste ridden. You can't legislate morality is what I am saying.
I avoid speaking here since this is an American website and I don't expect them to be educated about non American things. But you are just making shit up and I would like to know your motives behind it.
The leaps and bounds of improvement in lives of lower caste people is one of the primary reason why casteism is not going away. Unlike racism, anyone can claim to be of any caste and there is literal riots happening to be classified as lower caste so that people can claim the benefit. As I said, I don't plan to start an argument here but you are lying and you should tell us why.
India's HDI (Human Development Index) is worse than half of sub-Sahara African countries. Who bear the brunt of this dire statistics? The higher caste or the dalits and the adivasis? India should spend money on this vulnerable people but the Modi government is talking of spending money to dress up the capital or other vanity projects. When confront Indian will readily cite they have a dalit president or this or that to address Western sensibilities but the ground reality is that Indian's caste culture hasn't changed. And that is the problem.
The author is saying that we had the tools and the plans, but the system de-incentivizes the ideal response, for a number of reasons the author claims throughout.
People in "power that the author approves of" seems like subtext that one would have to see on their own reading of the article. To me it seems like the author was arguing against some aspects of capitalism and how incentives for profit can misalign with benefits for society.
Good people may. But if you work at FB or Google, and you realize that you're less talented than many of the others there, but they're willing to keep paying you FB or Google salaries... you probably don't leave.
Interesting to note that Cloudflare went a few steps further and not only tried to invalidate the patent but also took the troll to the state bar association for disciplinary action. I'm not sure there is an outcome on that yet, but I think the strategy to do everything you can to destroy the trolling entity that sued you is a great one in this case. Might even consider filing several lawsuits and complaints to overwhelm a small scale troll.
Or if you're the size of Cloudflare, bully them in other ways. In this example it's an operation setup by just two lawyers, easy to make them regret going after you if you make their work impossible. You could for example hire away their legal staff, delay things for ages, screw with the personal life of the two founders. They can't keep a small business afloat for very long if you dedicate some resources to screwing with their operations.
Might even just sue their clients for something else (one of your patents for example). In this case the client is a small firm in Germany, they would be in a very bad place if they got sued in the US home district of Cloudflare and had to defend. High probability that they would put pressure on the lawyers to drop the troll suit.
