This reminds me of how Samsung got caught using AI to fake high quality pictures of the moon. Someone proved it by blurring an image of the moon, then taking a picture of the blurred image, and it came out with tons of detail.
This is an interesting example of how there is a difference betweena policy being a "heat pump" and a "resistive heater", and that both can occur simultaneously.
The problem with "heat pumps" is that they necessitate a "cold" side, from which they "pump the heat" to the "hot" side. Their goal isn't to increase the overall "heat" in the system, it's to move the "hot" all to one side.
A "resistive heater" can add "heat" to the system more evenly, but is less efficient and you won't see "temperatures" rise nearly as quickly.
I've heard of needing to stay for X years after Company pays for tuition.
I've heard of signing bonuses of $1-10k that only pay out if you stay for X years (dumb name, that's a "thank you for staying for 2 years" bonus, not a signing bonus).
I've heard of vesting schedules where the company helps you fund a 401k and annually increases the percentage you could take if you quit up to 100% after X years.
I have never heard of something as predatory as immediately approving your employees for a $100k loan at 0% APR that's only forgiven if they stay for 2 years.
I don't care how pretty the bow on the box is, it's still a box of poop.
I would argue that offering your employees a massive loan that you might forgive but it depends if they like you, is incredibly predatory. Terrifying in fact. I guess less bad that giving $100k in cash and asking for it back out of nowhere. But only because it's in the contract.
After skimming the article, it seems like they are suggesting a connection between some established/known trends that makes it easier for a person with ADHD to develop dementia.
Known:
- Dementia has many lifestyle risk factors (poor education, hypertension, obesity, hearing loss, depression, diabetes, physical inactivity, smoking, drinking, social isolation)
- ADHD can make it easy to have certain lifestyles (addictions to drugs or food, trouble maintaining relationships, emotional dysregulation, poor education, poor work performance, high risk behavior)
That actually makes a lot of sense to me. ADHD can be phrased as a regulation disorder. Emotions, executive function/ attention. If anything internal (literally any kind of pain) presents itself for my attention, it wins. No contest.
I have nasty seasonal allergies (at least one per season). Whenever it flares up, the is a marked increase in my needs and decrease in my productivity. I'm hoping to start immunotherapy for them soon. I get my ADHD and my allergies from my dad and immunotherapy has done him wonders.
Fearmongering clickbait title. Should be "positive correlation found between ADHD/ASD diagnoses and inhibited metabolism of BPA". The trick is that ADHD and ASD are already known to be genetic. So it's way more likely that the genetic variation that contributes to ADHD/ASD coincidentally also contributes to a reduction in our ability to metabolize BPA. Not that BPA causes ADHD/ASD.
They bring forward the idea that standard/pure/repeatable items aren't intrinsically "good" or "enjoyable". But that doesn't make them not useful or valuable in other contexts.
It also offers some food for thought when it comes to what metrics we decide to put value in. We may like the idea of a particular metric, or what we think it represents, but that doesn't make it worth optimizing for.
A metric without context is useless, and taking a holistic view of what makes something worth doing allows us to make more informed decisions.