Abraham Maslow says the weekend goal should be "eudaimonic" happiness, which is a sense of well-being that arises from meaningful, challenging activities that cause you to grow as a person.
I would "grow as a person" if Mr Maslow would shut the fuck up and mind his own business.
I wouldn't say it was purely the Puritan work ethic, but something much simpler: nearly *everyone* (save the tiny % of native Americans and the small population of slaves) that came to the US chose to 'roll the dice' on their future, or is descended from such people. I think the outlook, even perhaps genetically, is for an inherently greater tolerance of risk for a potentially better outcome. Is a penchant for gambling an inheritable characteristic?
The result is that the even American families at the poverty line live better than the European average.
The US has an abundance of food, is responsible for most of the of the world's modern innovations and conveniences, and is generally wealthier.
I wouldn't disagree with you in your comparison of the US emotionally, developmentally as an adolescent or young adult, while the European states are far more like mature adults. Then again, most peoples' great accomplishments in invention, math, science, etc are in their 20s, not their 40s or 50s or later.
Which strategy is better - gain maximizing or loss minimizing? I don't believe there IS a 'better' - just different eventual outcomes.
The simple fact for most of the history of humanity is that having a baby in your early 20s meant the highest chance that the mother actually gets to LIVE through the experience.
In most people's calculus, that's slightly more important than being able to 'give them better guidance' because you waited longer to have them.
Actually, I did caveat that: "...according to the/general/ development of humans, not the last 70 years of extended fertility and 'modern' prioritization of career over family..."
Pre modern medicine (actually, frightfully recently in my view) the death rate for women in childbirth was atrocious generally. (http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/death_in_childbirth_doctors_increased_maternal_mortality_in_the_20th_century.html - note 'medical professionals' actually made it tick UP in the early 20thC)
However, it seems to be clear that maternal death rates from childbirth are high for early teens, drop for later teens, and drop to their lowest for women in early 20s before climbing again steadily.
One might almost infer that the EU is anti business, or...anti non-EU business, or...(if one really has the tinfoil hat) anti-US-business.
Trump's a buffoon for wanting to raise protectionist barriers, but the EU deep-pocket-fining US businesses mainly for being successful (particularly in fields where EU businesses are struggling or don't exist) is *just* as stupid.
Hey, I guess it's one way to raise the funds to bail out the monetary union, once the German taxpayers ever get tired of footing the bill for the whole damned thing, right?
Hint: turns out you can't simply bolt the Drachma (or the Lira, or the Peseta) to the Deutsche Mark and get... a Deutsche Mark. Funny, that.
We spend our school days trying to figure out where we are in the social structure of our world.
That effort, once we hit puberty, turns into the search for a suitable mate.
By 25 - according to the/general/ development of humans, not the last 70 years of extended fertility and 'modern' prioritization of career over family - you should typically be done seeking a mate, and into child raising.
Once you're done raising children, you're more or less reproductively superfluous and should die off all else being equal.
Plus, around your mid 20s-early 30s you start realizing that so very many of your so-called friends are really assholes you put up with, and choose to no longer do so.
By your mid-40s you're starting to suspect that MOST people are really assholes, and ultimately there are just a few people (optimally, your spouse) that you really enjoy spending time with, if anyone.
"Death threats" are not intrinsically harmful. Hell, most public figures get thousands, if not more. So they shouldn't be intrinsically illegal.
Again, you should be able to say anything you want. However, you should not be free from the CONSEQUENCES of that speech - ie if you issue a death threat to someone, it would be reasonable for the local police to say "I'm sorry, you're clearly a dangerous person whose behavior should be watched/constrained." Shout fire in a theater, not illegal. However, you should be held liable for injuries/deaths that would logically ensue.
Not sure if I'm making my point, as it's a pretty subtle distinction but I believe an important one.
Yes, ultimately, one has to work to survive and even then mostly due to luck, sometimes it's still not enough. This isn't just true of humans, it's true for/every single organism/ on the planet.
I'm not sure how all the empathy in the world changes that very basic fact.
Of course, you omit the sullen "I hate my life" atmosphere from the cashdrone, or the outright resentful service.
If you're LUCKY, they're just idiots who only screw up 1/4 of your order. Oh, I forgot your fries. (That's assuming you can understand their heavily-accented mumbles.)
His claim is that every device will have cheap telemetry installed to report whatever the vendor wants to know. Which isn't unreasonable.
However, the avenue this telemetry uses is the question. "Such devices will not rely on home Wi-Fi systems, says Hypponen, rather undermining the principle behind the company's new Sense hardware." (They pretty much all use home wifi now.)
Until then, it's not a terribly difficult process to look at your wifi and disable connections from Mac addresses you don't know, or that identify as 'Toaster" or "Coffeemaker", is it? I mean, how insecure IS your wifi?
...you're saying that one of the oldest eukaryotes on the planet, one that has survived and flourished in much warmer and much colder earth climates, and which has likewise survived much more sudden ecological changes like massive globe-altering meteorites and sustained volcanism, maybe won't be as badly affected by a trivial warning as feared?
Seemingly for ONCE in the last 30-40 years (I'm 50) I see the forces of "it's not the job of the government to protect your hurt feelings" have won one.
...that's how capitalism works. Either a new supplier will enter the field because there's money to be made, or the current services will raise prices as needed and expand.
I'd expect the latter. It's just that this shit doesn't happen as instantly as analysts seem to think it "should"..
...and the supermarket business just shit themselves.
So which will blink first: - will the giant megacorp which seems to run magically profit-free manage to outcompete everyone in an industry where margins are already nearly zero? - or will the high-capital, high-labor, complex grocery business finally be the anchor that drags amazon to a stop? Certainly Amazon's approach has revolutionized the sale of general consumer products but entering the world of products whose value ticks away (quickly) with the clock is another kettle of fish.
Grocery chains have already seemingly wrung every penny of value out of their supply chains...what can Amazon really bring that's better aside from a marquee name and investors that are cheerfully willing to pour $ into a loser business as long as it's enormous?
I'd guess Whole Foods niche will be almost immediately supplanted by another competitor that is willing to serve the smarmy, snobby, boutique wealthy faux-'concerned' customer seeking their organic cruelty-free free-range quinoa for double the price.
The Apple case in Ireland and this case as well should indicate to any firm that dealing with the EU, they will be treated punitively in direct proportion to the size of their wallet.
You're a success? Clearly, you should be punished for that.
You made a deal with a nominally-sovereign EU government? Too bad! It's not the government's fault, it's yours - please pay us $13 billion.
Google: you've developed more or less an entire search/commerce ecosystem that none of the Euro-chauvinist competitors can beat? Certainly, you need to be punished: $1 billion.
Nike, Sanrio, and Universal Studios: you're next!
Frankly, it would be delightful if these firms decided that the EU was no longer a commercially viable market place. Let them search with Qwant, wear Adidas, and use Nokia phones.
It's amazing that this recognition of the widespread malignant threat posed by Russia only seems to have become evident in the last 8 months? I guess we should thank Trump's administration for highlighting this problem to which the previous administration seemed entirely oblivious at all levels?
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Abraham Maslow says the weekend goal should be "eudaimonic" happiness, which is a sense of well-being that arises from meaningful, challenging activities that cause you to grow as a person.
I would "grow as a person" if Mr Maslow would shut the fuck up and mind his own business.
I wouldn't say it was purely the Puritan work ethic, but something much simpler: nearly *everyone* (save the tiny % of native Americans and the small population of slaves) that came to the US chose to 'roll the dice' on their future, or is descended from such people. I think the outlook, even perhaps genetically, is for an inherently greater tolerance of risk for a potentially better outcome. Is a penchant for gambling an inheritable characteristic?
The result is that the even American families at the poverty line live better than the European average.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
The US has an abundance of food, is responsible for most of the of the world's modern innovations and conveniences, and is generally wealthier.
I wouldn't disagree with you in your comparison of the US emotionally, developmentally as an adolescent or young adult, while the European states are far more like mature adults. Then again, most peoples' great accomplishments in invention, math, science, etc are in their 20s, not their 40s or 50s or later.
Which strategy is better - gain maximizing or loss minimizing? I don't believe there IS a 'better' - just different eventual outcomes.
The ERC should sue the entire world for not being hand-accessible!
I mean, it really isn't - mountains, rivers, beaches - all that crap should be mandated to be accessible.
It's almost like being handicapped sucks, and means you can't do most of the things un-handicapped people can do.
The simple fact for most of the history of humanity is that having a baby in your early 20s meant the highest chance that the mother actually gets to LIVE through the experience.
In most people's calculus, that's slightly more important than being able to 'give them better guidance' because you waited longer to have them.
Actually, I did caveat that: /general/ development of humans, not the last 70 years of extended fertility and 'modern' prioritization of career over family..."
"...according to the
Pre modern medicine (actually, frightfully recently in my view) the death rate for women in childbirth was atrocious generally.
(http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/death_in_childbirth_doctors_increased_maternal_mortality_in_the_20th_century.html - note 'medical professionals' actually made it tick UP in the early 20thC)
However, it seems to be clear that maternal death rates from childbirth are high for early teens, drop for later teens, and drop to their lowest for women in early 20s before climbing again steadily.
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth...
...how we ever managed to enjoy eclipses before cell phones and the internet?
It couldn't even have been possible, could it?
Are they really GRAPHICS cards then, or really "DIGITAL CURRENCY MINING" cards?
One might almost infer that the EU is anti business, or ...anti non-EU business, or...(if one really has the tinfoil hat) anti-US-business.
Trump's a buffoon for wanting to raise protectionist barriers, but the EU deep-pocket-fining US businesses mainly for being successful (particularly in fields where EU businesses are struggling or don't exist) is *just* as stupid.
Hey, I guess it's one way to raise the funds to bail out the monetary union, once the German taxpayers ever get tired of footing the bill for the whole damned thing, right?
Hint: turns out you can't simply bolt the Drachma (or the Lira, or the Peseta) to the Deutsche Mark and get ... a Deutsche Mark. Funny, that.
We spend our school days trying to figure out where we are in the social structure of our world.
That effort, once we hit puberty, turns into the search for a suitable mate.
By 25 - according to the /general/ development of humans, not the last 70 years of extended fertility and 'modern' prioritization of career over family - you should typically be done seeking a mate, and into child raising.
Once you're done raising children, you're more or less reproductively superfluous and should die off all else being equal.
Plus, around your mid 20s-early 30s you start realizing that so very many of your so-called friends are really assholes you put up with, and choose to no longer do so.
By your mid-40s you're starting to suspect that MOST people are really assholes, and ultimately there are just a few people (optimally, your spouse) that you really enjoy spending time with, if anyone.
I actually disagree.
"Death threats" are not intrinsically harmful. Hell, most public figures get thousands, if not more.
So they shouldn't be intrinsically illegal.
Again, you should be able to say anything you want. However, you should not be free from the CONSEQUENCES of that speech - ie if you issue a death threat to someone, it would be reasonable for the local police to say "I'm sorry, you're clearly a dangerous person whose behavior should be watched/constrained."
Shout fire in a theater, not illegal. However, you should be held liable for injuries/deaths that would logically ensue.
Not sure if I'm making my point, as it's a pretty subtle distinction but I believe an important one.
Yes, ultimately, one has to work to survive and even then mostly due to luck, sometimes it's still not enough. This isn't just true of humans, it's true for /every single organism/ on the planet.
I'm not sure how all the empathy in the world changes that very basic fact.
Of course, you omit the sullen "I hate my life" atmosphere from the cashdrone, or the outright resentful service.
If you're LUCKY, they're just idiots who only screw up 1/4 of your order. Oh, I forgot your fries. (That's assuming you can understand their heavily-accented mumbles.)
Next they're going to tell us that automakers somehow game the emissions tests. Yeah, like THAT'S possible.
...someone at Microsoft's marketing department saw an opportunity here?
The guy undercuts his own point.
His claim is that every device will have cheap telemetry installed to report whatever the vendor wants to know. Which isn't unreasonable.
However, the avenue this telemetry uses is the question. "Such devices will not rely on home Wi-Fi systems, says Hypponen, rather undermining the principle behind the company's new Sense hardware." (They pretty much all use home wifi now.)
Until then, it's not a terribly difficult process to look at your wifi and disable connections from Mac addresses you don't know, or that identify as 'Toaster" or "Coffeemaker", is it? I mean, how insecure IS your wifi?
Don't ruin the narrative.
The story is "the sky is FALLING".
If you dispute that, clearly you are in the pay of "big oil".
...so I guess we're all dead then?
Oh wait, humans are the most adaptable creatures to have ever existed (as far as we know) on this planet.
Perhaps the snowflakes will melt.
...you're saying that one of the oldest eukaryotes on the planet, one that has survived and flourished in much warmer and much colder earth climates, and which has likewise survived much more sudden ecological changes like massive globe-altering meteorites and sustained volcanism, maybe won't be as badly affected by a trivial warning as feared?
Do tell.
The study itself says "In fact, coffee farming could increase four fold if plantations are moved uphill, "
FOUR FOLD.
Yet, the headline is about how some coffee fields will be too hot.
Perhaps a more fair headline would be "Climate change displacing Ethiopian Coffee farmers, but will increase their productivity fourfold."?
Same here.
Seemingly for ONCE in the last 30-40 years (I'm 50) I see the forces of "it's not the job of the government to protect your hurt feelings" have won one.
My goodness that's refreshing.
...that's how capitalism works.
Either a new supplier will enter the field because there's money to be made, or the current services will raise prices as needed and expand.
I'd expect the latter. It's just that this shit doesn't happen as instantly as analysts seem to think it "should"..
...and the supermarket business just shit themselves.
So which will blink first:
- will the giant megacorp which seems to run magically profit-free manage to outcompete everyone in an industry where margins are already nearly zero?
- or will the high-capital, high-labor, complex grocery business finally be the anchor that drags amazon to a stop? Certainly Amazon's approach has revolutionized the sale of general consumer products but entering the world of products whose value ticks away (quickly) with the clock is another kettle of fish.
Grocery chains have already seemingly wrung every penny of value out of their supply chains...what can Amazon really bring that's better aside from a marquee name and investors that are cheerfully willing to pour $ into a loser business as long as it's enormous?
I'd guess Whole Foods niche will be almost immediately supplanted by another competitor that is willing to serve the smarmy, snobby, boutique wealthy faux-'concerned' customer seeking their organic cruelty-free free-range quinoa for double the price.
The Apple case in Ireland and this case as well should indicate to any firm that dealing with the EU, they will be treated punitively in direct proportion to the size of their wallet.
You're a success? Clearly, you should be punished for that.
You made a deal with a nominally-sovereign EU government? Too bad! It's not the government's fault, it's yours - please pay us $13 billion.
Google: you've developed more or less an entire search/commerce ecosystem that none of the Euro-chauvinist competitors can beat? Certainly, you need to be punished: $1 billion.
Nike, Sanrio, and Universal Studios: you're next!
Frankly, it would be delightful if these firms decided that the EU was no longer a commercially viable market place. Let them search with Qwant, wear Adidas, and use Nokia phones.
As a taxpayer, I'd be fine with killing ALL subsidies (to renewables, as well as to coal, etc).
Note, however, that renewables are getting something like 30x-40x the subsidy per mW/h generated.
If all subsidies were equally eliminated, renewables would go back to powering the land of unicorns and imagination.
It's amazing that this recognition of the widespread malignant threat posed by Russia only seems to have become evident in the last 8 months? I guess we should thank Trump's administration for highlighting this problem to which the previous administration seemed entirely oblivious at all levels?
http://thefederalist.com/2016/...