I wouldn't say hardly noticeable especially for experienced lifters. After training for a few years those extra reps and slightly more weight have compounding effects over time.
Creatine is one of the most studied supplements over the last 30+ years. First, it is proven to work for athletic performance and second, it's relatively safe. The AI overview of your Google link even says no evidence of serious harm. If people have underlying health issues and/or they take way more than recommended there can be side effects - just like anything else we put in our bodies.
Creatine isn't water soluble. I just take a 5g scoop daily and wash it down with water. I could do 6 scoops in a row without problem, but not sure what the point would be. The latest research fits with the 5g/day no need to load.
When I first started taking creatine in the late 90s (it had already been heavily studied then as one of the only supplements that improved athletic performance), I would mix it with juice. There were some studies that sugar would help the uptake.
Thank you for saying this. Continuing to point at SVB as a bailout is annoying. They were not bailed out. Anyone with deposits in an accredited bank should be made whole - always. Without trusted banking we have no economy.
> Anyone with deposits in an accredited bank should be made whole - always
Sure, but is that the case now? Is everyone made whole when a bank fails and they have more deposits than the insurance limits? Or only when it's the well-connected / too-big-to-fail?
So I don't think it's unreasonable to describe SVB as a bailout. Not for the investors, but for the depositors. Has anything changed to reduce the moral hazard / make it less likely to recur?
So we all now know that a bailout DID occur with the SVB depositors who had all their money in the bank and most deposits were over the FDIC insurance limit. The FDIC insurance rules somehow didn't apply here because there was too much money at risk. (And too big to fail).
But if there was a bank failure at a regionally smaller bank with a regular customer or startup depositing the same amount of money over the insurance limit, their money is gone.
Just like Intel got a "bailout" from investment as chosen by the US government, AI will eventually have a very similar story.
In early 2023, within the span of two months, the United States
experienced three out of the four largest commercial bank failures in
U.S. history, as Signature Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, and First Republic
Bank all toppled.1 Yet, despite these banks having roughly $300 billion in
uninsured deposits at the time of their failures2 and despite the failures
costing the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC) an estimated $38 billion, uninsured
depositors took no losses in any of the failures.3 While these results were
striking, they were far from unusual. Since 2008, uninsured depositors
have experienced losses in only 6% of total U.S. bank failures.
...
Formally,
the United States caps deposit insurance at $250,000 per account,6 but,
in reality, the post-2008 financial system comes close to providing de
facto total deposit insurance covering all amounts in all accounts.
> My worst interview was at Uber (their security team).
Worst? It sounds like a great interview where you set a boundary before going into a situation you would not have liked. People forget that part of the interview process is also for the candidate to decide if they want to work for the company.
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