Ignorance is the one and only true enemy. Trying to convince the ignorant is a losing strategy, teaching the next generation is the only correct first step.
I know education is always thought of as the magic bullet to solve all societal problems but it is not.
The distinguishing factor between the rich and the poor is not their net worth at any point in time but their social and knowledge network. People who are broke at one time can easily gain the money back if they have a good network while people with moderate wealth cannot get anywhere if they lack the network.
When you say ignorance, it is not ignorance due to lack of formal education. You could be educated up to the wazoo and still be ignorant because you don't know what is really going on in the system.
For example, in a multiple hundred page bill that is passed, a single line has enormously more influence than any other part. An educated man can fully read the bill but cannot know how it is influencing the system. To do that, he will have to have access to loads of statistical data collected by government and commercial agencies that is impossible to achieve without a network that will give you access to such things.
If people don't have access to such information, then it is easy to distort via propaganda what is really going on. Issues can be made out of marginal non-issues that will consume people's time.
My point is that education isn't the only thing. You also need accurate information to make good decisions. Reminds me of a Chinese writer whose family died in "the great leap forward" era. At that time, information was so restricted and controlled that the writer was under the belief that it was his laziness that got his family killed. He honestly believed that he should have worked harder to provide food for his family and that is was his own fault that his family died of hunger. There was just no information out there to shed light on what was going on except for the propaganda to work harder to move the country forward.
It could very well be that education is a hindrance. By forcing young people to sit through topics that have long been outdated, we are not actually preparing them for anything but burning through their intellectual energy to keep everyone in line. We could very well be blaming lack of education when it is could that it is our education that is holding us back and what we call education is just a mostly a waste of energy.
I always thought the most unlikely technological development in my lifetime was the handheld GPS device. It would be "most unlikely" because it required tremendous, simultaneous, and largely unforeseen advances in several different technologies, each of which was hard to predict in 1981.
All of these are not necessary for GPS. Most people use GPS in their cars and low voltage, low power stuff doesn't matter there. Also, gigabytes of data also doesn't matter because you could have city-wide maps only that you could swap in and out. There have always been maps of every road and digitizing it isn't that big a deal.
Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model because the geocentric mathematical models got too complicated and the errors made the calendars slightly inaccurate.
I'm totally against making math more complicated than it needs to be.
these Chinese coming into America are not the typical hard working type, not those who can use their body as well as they use their mind.
My Chinese friend says that there is no other person a Chinese hates than another Chinese, especially in the older generation.
They have nurtured an unconscious belief that white people are better than Chinese people. So, when a Chinese person sees another Chinese person, it is like looking into the mirror.
None of that matters. If you redesign a part, the part number changes, an errata is filed, the BOM is updated with the new part, and life goes on.
The fact that they didn't change the part number screams to me cover up
If part number changes, how will the customer know there is now a new part? They will look at manuals that say get part x but then they can't find part x and they will go and pull it out of a junker.
What happened to supermarkets when people started being able to grow their own food?
The basic problem is that there isn't enough land for people to produce enough food to grow themselves.
However, a lot of people who cook regularly grow their own herbs. Lots of people also grow their own heirloom veggies and maintain fruit trees.
Supermarkets are not able to maintain the freshness and the diversity of produce and so, they sell a very limited number of items which they know the characteristics very well about.
However, currently growing food is a very time consuming task. When there are robots that can go weeding and periodic watering and fertilizer application, I'm sure a lot of suburbs will have nice backyard gardens.
So... let's say you're on a funding panel, with 120 grant proposals in front of you, and you have to recommend twenty of them as top priorities for funding. The rest of them are going to go without, because that's all the money you have to allocate. Thirty of those proposals are from established, productive researchers with track records of transformative discoveries. Another thirty are from promising young researchers with first-rate pedigrees looking for their first grants to launch careers that may span decades. Thirty are from mediocre old guys nearing retirement who have been in the funding pipeline forever, and have been getting grants mostly by inertia. Thirty are semi-coherent ravings from people who display very little comprehension of the existing literature or of the basic parameters of the field.
Now find the "mavericks". You have to have a ranked list by tomorrow afternoon.
What is on the actual grant paper is more of a formality. The grant receipts are already semi-consciously selected.
The categories that you are placing their proposals are essentially the researchers themselves and not the grant proposals.
The grants go to the people who act like they deserve the grant, whether they do or not is another story.
If you want grants, you don't work on writing a kickass grant proposal. You work on building your contacts, being publicly viewable in conferences and activities and generally making an impression. Then, the grants come rolling in. You can ask for anything and they'll grant it.
Oh goodness, another person who thinks they have found the cure to the American obesity epidemic.
There are so many factors that go into what works and what works for one person maybe disastrous to another.
Anyways, the real challenge isn't losing the weight, it is keeping it off. Will the pounds come screaming back when you focus on something else in your life? That is going to be the real test.
Whatever the fate of this particular company, it's pretty clear to me that most (or all?) farming jobs can be automated with a combination of current machinery, sensors and some reliable software.
Then, in that same vein, so can cooking jobs.
Robots measure and mix ingredients and move them into ovens and heat etc.
Also cashiers, taxi and truck drivers, medical technicians and so on and on. Many of the medical work can be automated - physical checkups, testings, some forms of surgery. Large swathes of office and factory jobs can be eliminated as well.
There are many people who say that we should let endangered species die out because they are unfit in the current environment and it is just natural for them to die off.
This proves that some species could hold an amazing adaptation that could completely change how we live.
The world is much more terrifying than you realize. The men and women at NSA, CIA, and DOD are protecting you against monsters. You sleep at night, content and happy, because good people are protecting you. This isn't a fascist plot - I've stood literally a meter a way from a man who would have no compunction murdering your entire family. And we actually did shoot him. This is life, this is the world. And please don't delude yourselves.
You Americans - you sit in safety without understanding what's happening around you. The world is full of horror, and there are people who are trying to protect you, and they do care about the Constitution. The darkness is around you, and you're oblivious to it. This is history. You have no fucking idea what the world is actually like. This is not a game. So please try to understand what the NSA is doing for you.
No, the world is not terrifying. It is a beautiful place. It is people like you who make it terrifying by trying to gain from it being more terrifying.
...you missed the point about the snow making machinery, about how it's not really a place where they didn't have any winter sports experience?
anyhow, only people happy with the games arrangements are.. Russians.
for some weird fucking it's not a problem for them - and the russian media is spinning all the discrediting about half built hotels, double decker toilets and undrinkable tap water as "the west being afraid" and SOMEHOW the fucking massive waste of money is a "Show of power"?? you know where Puting got that money from? well fuck he printed some rubles so it's out of every russians pocket - and now 70% of it is in pocket of whoever was ready to play the dirtiest to get the contracts. that is also why the economy in Russia is SO FUCKING FUCKED UP because it's so hard to do honest business with them, since you need to not only know the law(actually you don't even need to know the law) but what you really have to know is who the fuck happens to run some region and who's pockets you should line so that your investment doesn't magically turn into somebody else's investment.
and oh yeah Putin is so fucking gay it's ridiculous, wrestles with young boys all day long.
It sounds very much like Stalin-style mass industrialism where massive resources are thrown at something to accomplish it. Usually it's done regardless of cost and almost seems to be done to demonstrate ability and capability more than the intrinsic value of what's being done.
These games are also a show of the absolutely incredible depth of corruption in Russia. The initial budget of $12 billion has ballooned to over four times to some $50 billion – the most expensive winter or summer Olympics in the history. The 45-kilometre road from Sochi to the outdoor venues alone cost $8 billion, enough to pave the finished road with 5-millimetre thick gold. It was a common arrangement in the Olympic construction projects to use the money as follows: 30% for the actual construction work, 35% to the officials and 35% to the "oligarchs" who oversaw the project. And let's not forget how the Sochi locals who happened to live near the coming Olympic venues have been brutally forced on the streets without any compensation for their expropriated property, thanks to a special law that Putin had passed in Duma. You should see the documentary Putin's Games for some background on the mind-boggling amounts of corruption in these games.
Where does corruption end and government spending begin?
What is this silliness, that "humans" in the broad, blanket sense could not digest starch? Feh.
We already know from analysis of Neanderthal remains that they could digest starch, and did in fact eat things like starchy tubers and grains. By 8000 years ago, it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals were no more, at least as a distinct population, and that any remaining Neanderthal-specific genes had been absorbed by the wider Cro Magnon population. (Interestingly, it sounds like the Neanderthal genes might give their descendants, i.e. non-sub-Saharan-Africa humans, extra resistance to viral infection.)
This study, where evidence from one individual is extrapolated to the entire human population, sounds silly in the extreme. "One Size Fits All!" never really does.
Cheers,
Or they could have been using something starchy as a toothbrush.
It means not being too choosy what you om-nom-nom on when the going is lean. Which likely means eating things which may have various parasites, mold spore, other fungi, even partially decomposed. "What luck! A partially decomposed squirrel with red rashes all over its body! Num!" That which didn't kill them, indeed make them stronger (those which survived, that is.)
In today's scrubby, scrub scrubbed world of clean, inspected and otherwise near perfect world of meat, dairy and produce, we're not challenging our bodies very much. Further, we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food, which means we say "Ewww!" when presented with ethnic foods we haven't seen before, which include the globby or wiggly bits of animals we don't see in the meat case at the market (which traditionally were the best parts, unlike the muscle which was often left behind.)
Somewhat disconcerting how we haven't turned into beings which are entirely fed by capsule, a la the Jetsons "Oh, dear, I've overcooked the steak and potatoes pill."
Fortunately, infants keep picking up dead bugs off the carpet and chewing on them, which gives them some bit of a test in developing their immune systems.
Nobody knows what was going on then. Everyone (the Paleo community included) stop saying how you know humans lived so and so many years ago.
For all we know, they had an organic food paradise. Fresh fruits and vegetables right off the plants and fresh just-slaughtered grass fed meat to eat.
the customs duty China uses to protect its own auto industry
But remember, we have free trade!
No really, all you have to do is define it such that "free trade" means the US has to bend over, while China, etc. get to do whatever they want to protect their industries.
Are you joking? We don't allow China to get our technology. The US government blocks Chinese buyouts of American companies.
It's definitely not one sided as you perceive it to be. They protect their domestic market. We protect our technology.
They are highly trained. They know how to push buttons, muddy matters to confuse you to get you to do what they want you to do. They will keep fishing until they find something that bothers you.
It is not easy as just saying lawyer and warrant.
I would suggest practicing the scenario. Just thinking you can say lawyer and warrant etc is completely different than when you are in the situation.
For example, technically the police cannot search your car or belongings. However, they can search for weapons or they can search if there is some suspicion etc etc. There are many clauses. The police will start working you towards something that will enable them to search you. You have to practice otherwise you will be an amateur trying to battle professionals.
I can't help but wonder how many people with plenty of "curiosity, passion, hard work, and persistence bordering on obsession" we've never heard of. In other words, we don't actually know--and likely can't know--how likely people with these traits are to be remembered by the world as geniuses, and how many will be regarded by their families and friends as obsessive workaholics with lousy personal lives and utterly forgotten outside those circles.
Reminds me of the string theory physicists that I read in some book.
Before string theory was established, there were two thoughts in physics, both equally challenging and one was string theory and the other quite similar. Both scientists worked in the two thoughts, had offices next to each other and created a lot of ideas and work from that.
However, string theory took off the guy who created it got lots of attention. His colleague who worked equally hard failed because he was unlucky to have the opposing theory.
We define genius by their impact on society and not by their inherent capability.
However, all geniuses are obsessively hard workers are a little vague. I remember Nash (game theory) only worked like that for a short period of time. By luck his work became very successful but he didn't have a lifetime of drive and passion because he was battling psychological illness.
Even the great genius Einstein had great four years and nothing else. Before those four years, he was a failure. After the four years, he never created anything and couldn't appreciate the modern advances in the field that he had created (god does not play dice).
Invariably, we also see throughout history that these laser focused artists and creators are preyed upon by the vultures. The swarming businessmen, promotors, managers, who give their charges "the best they can" (i.e. a fraction of their actual value) whilst proclaiming to the world that they themselves are the true producers and behind closed doors they opine how if only they could get that last fraction of a few pennies from "those leeches, those damned artists."
Those "vultures" are as important to success as anything. Have you ever tried promoting something? It is a very complicated system and very hard to do. I know many good bands have shriveled and died because they couldn't find the right manager or promoter. Many good writers give up because they never get a chance to write the things they want.
Geniuses are not a product of solitary endeavors. They require support from hundreds of people.
Actually reminds of the old TV series called "The Fall Guy" about a stuntman. Had some funny quotes:
"'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star."
"But the hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leadin' ladies
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee.
While we call actors geniuses, we completely forget the thousands of support staff that allows him or her to get such attention for such a skill.
You can also argue that all those geniuses in the time of Newton etc had to be aristocrats otherwise it was a lifetime of manual labor in the fields. But, the manual laborers were part of a society that enabled him to spend all his time on physics and become a genius.
Wasn't it someone's theory (or experiments) that luck was the largest factor in a genius?
I remember Gladwell's book starts off with the Canadian hockey team and the birthday paradox. The birthdays of the players in the Canadian hockey team fall primarily on the beginning of the year, primarily the first few months of the year. There wasn't anyone born on the second half of the year.
The theory was that this is because of the age cutoff of Jan 1st. When they select the junior teams, the age cutoff is Jan 1st. So, someone born on January has almost a year head start over the person born on December. That little difference between individuals turns into who gets coaching or not, who gets selected for teams and ultimately who makes the national sides.
Yes, some people are geniuses because they have drive and passion and are workaholics but not because they are born that way but because each little bit of effort they put in gets rewarded very heavily (and that situation comes by from luck).
Why do geniuses come in clusters? Why were there so many Greek geniuses? Why hasn't Greece produced another set of geniuses like them after that?
The other argument was that geniuses were able to feed off the society. If we as a society value something very highly, then we reward the person good in it with money and admiration. That again creates a lot of drive and passion for the work they do and they strive to obsessively improve on it.
It has been disproved that geniuses have high IQ. There are a lot of geniuses with normal IQ.
So, technically, anyone with at least normal IQ can be a genius. You have to be born in the right society and pursue something that the society deems very valuable. Then, you have to have luck that will get you funding, audience etc for you work that will fuel your passion and drive.
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Ignorance is the one and only true enemy. Trying to convince the ignorant is a losing strategy, teaching the next generation is the only correct first step.
I know education is always thought of as the magic bullet to solve all societal problems but it is not.
The distinguishing factor between the rich and the poor is not their net worth at any point in time but their social and knowledge network. People who are broke at one time can easily gain the money back if they have a good network while people with moderate wealth cannot get anywhere if they lack the network.
When you say ignorance, it is not ignorance due to lack of formal education. You could be educated up to the wazoo and still be ignorant because you don't know what is really going on in the system.
For example, in a multiple hundred page bill that is passed, a single line has enormously more influence than any other part. An educated man can fully read the bill but cannot know how it is influencing the system. To do that, he will have to have access to loads of statistical data collected by government and commercial agencies that is impossible to achieve without a network that will give you access to such things.
If people don't have access to such information, then it is easy to distort via propaganda what is really going on. Issues can be made out of marginal non-issues that will consume people's time.
My point is that education isn't the only thing. You also need accurate information to make good decisions. Reminds me of a Chinese writer whose family died in "the great leap forward" era. At that time, information was so restricted and controlled that the writer was under the belief that it was his laziness that got his family killed. He honestly believed that he should have worked harder to provide food for his family and that is was his own fault that his family died of hunger. There was just no information out there to shed light on what was going on except for the propaganda to work harder to move the country forward.
It could very well be that education is a hindrance. By forcing young people to sit through topics that have long been outdated, we are not actually preparing them for anything but burning through their intellectual energy to keep everyone in line. We could very well be blaming lack of education when it is could that it is our education that is holding us back and what we call education is just a mostly a waste of energy.
I always thought the most unlikely technological development in my lifetime was the handheld GPS device. It would be "most unlikely" because it required tremendous, simultaneous, and largely unforeseen advances in several different technologies, each of which was hard to predict in 1981.
All of these are not necessary for GPS. Most people use GPS in their cars and low voltage, low power stuff doesn't matter there. Also, gigabytes of data also doesn't matter because you could have city-wide maps only that you could swap in and out. There have always been maps of every road and digitizing it isn't that big a deal.
Copernicus formulated the heliocentric model because the geocentric mathematical models got too complicated and the errors made the calendars slightly inaccurate.
I'm totally against making math more complicated than it needs to be.
My Chinese friend says that there is no other person a Chinese hates than another Chinese, especially in the older generation.
They have nurtured an unconscious belief that white people are better than Chinese people. So, when a Chinese person sees another Chinese person, it is like looking into the mirror.
None of that matters. If you redesign a part, the part number changes, an errata is filed, the BOM is updated with the new part, and life goes on. The fact that they didn't change the part number screams to me cover up
If part number changes, how will the customer know there is now a new part? They will look at manuals that say get part x but then they can't find part x and they will go and pull it out of a junker.
What happened to supermarkets when people started being able to grow their own food?
The basic problem is that there isn't enough land for people to produce enough food to grow themselves.
However, a lot of people who cook regularly grow their own herbs. Lots of people also grow their own heirloom veggies and maintain fruit trees.
Supermarkets are not able to maintain the freshness and the diversity of produce and so, they sell a very limited number of items which they know the characteristics very well about.
However, currently growing food is a very time consuming task. When there are robots that can go weeding and periodic watering and fertilizer application, I'm sure a lot of suburbs will have nice backyard gardens.
So ... let's say you're on a funding panel, with 120 grant proposals in front of you, and you have to recommend twenty of them as top priorities for funding. The rest of them are going to go without, because that's all the money you have to allocate. Thirty of those proposals are from established, productive researchers with track records of transformative discoveries. Another thirty are from promising young researchers with first-rate pedigrees looking for their first grants to launch careers that may span decades. Thirty are from mediocre old guys nearing retirement who have been in the funding pipeline forever, and have been getting grants mostly by inertia. Thirty are semi-coherent ravings from people who display very little comprehension of the existing literature or of the basic parameters of the field.
Now find the "mavericks". You have to have a ranked list by tomorrow afternoon.
What is on the actual grant paper is more of a formality. The grant receipts are already semi-consciously selected.
The categories that you are placing their proposals are essentially the researchers themselves and not the grant proposals.
The grants go to the people who act like they deserve the grant, whether they do or not is another story.
If you want grants, you don't work on writing a kickass grant proposal. You work on building your contacts, being publicly viewable in conferences and activities and generally making an impression. Then, the grants come rolling in. You can ask for anything and they'll grant it.
What is the newest up-and-coming technology that programmers have to deal with?
All the new technology is just an API library.
Programming languages have remained the same for the last 20 years.
Missing from the vegetarian fear fest is that meat has ten times the caloric value of vegetables.
Came here to say this.
Another lopsided comparison would be 1lb of meat with 1lb of cashew butter. Which one takes more water to produce?
Why do people think you can eat broccoli instead of meat? They have completely different nutrition profiles.
Yeah. It does work,
Oh goodness, another person who thinks they have found the cure to the American obesity epidemic.
There are so many factors that go into what works and what works for one person maybe disastrous to another.
Anyways, the real challenge isn't losing the weight, it is keeping it off. Will the pounds come screaming back when you focus on something else in your life? That is going to be the real test.
Whatever the fate of this particular company, it's pretty clear to me that most (or all?) farming jobs can be automated with a combination of current machinery, sensors and some reliable software.
Then, in that same vein, so can cooking jobs.
Robots measure and mix ingredients and move them into ovens and heat etc.
Also cashiers, taxi and truck drivers, medical technicians and so on and on. Many of the medical work can be automated - physical checkups, testings, some forms of surgery. Large swathes of office and factory jobs can be eliminated as well.
There are many people who say that we should let endangered species die out because they are unfit in the current environment and it is just natural for them to die off.
This proves that some species could hold an amazing adaptation that could completely change how we live.
The world is much more terrifying than you realize. The men and women at NSA, CIA, and DOD are protecting you against monsters. You sleep at night, content and happy, because good people are protecting you. This isn't a fascist plot - I've stood literally a meter a way from a man who would have no compunction murdering your entire family. And we actually did shoot him. This is life, this is the world. And please don't delude yourselves.
You Americans - you sit in safety without understanding what's happening around you. The world is full of horror, and there are people who are trying to protect you, and they do care about the Constitution. The darkness is around you, and you're oblivious to it. This is history. You have no fucking idea what the world is actually like. This is not a game. So please try to understand what the NSA is doing for you.
No, the world is not terrifying. It is a beautiful place. It is people like you who make it terrifying by trying to gain from it being more terrifying.
...you missed the point about the snow making machinery, about how it's not really a place where they didn't have any winter sports experience?
anyhow, only people happy with the games arrangements are.. Russians.
for some weird fucking it's not a problem for them - and the russian media is spinning all the discrediting about half built hotels, double decker toilets and undrinkable tap water as "the west being afraid" and SOMEHOW the fucking massive waste of money is a "Show of power"?? you know where Puting got that money from? well fuck he printed some rubles so it's out of every russians pocket - and now 70% of it is in pocket of whoever was ready to play the dirtiest to get the contracts. that is also why the economy in Russia is SO FUCKING FUCKED UP because it's so hard to do honest business with them, since you need to not only know the law(actually you don't even need to know the law) but what you really have to know is who the fuck happens to run some region and who's pockets you should line so that your investment doesn't magically turn into somebody else's investment.
and oh yeah Putin is so fucking gay it's ridiculous, wrestles with young boys all day long.
So you don't believe in trickle down ...
It sounds very much like Stalin-style mass industrialism where massive resources are thrown at something to accomplish it. Usually it's done regardless of cost and almost seems to be done to demonstrate ability and capability more than the intrinsic value of what's being done.
You mean sounds like the space program?
These games are also a show of the absolutely incredible depth of corruption in Russia. The initial budget of $12 billion has ballooned to over four times to some $50 billion – the most expensive winter or summer Olympics in the history. The 45-kilometre road from Sochi to the outdoor venues alone cost $8 billion, enough to pave the finished road with 5-millimetre thick gold. It was a common arrangement in the Olympic construction projects to use the money as follows: 30% for the actual construction work, 35% to the officials and 35% to the "oligarchs" who oversaw the project. And let's not forget how the Sochi locals who happened to live near the coming Olympic venues have been brutally forced on the streets without any compensation for their expropriated property, thanks to a special law that Putin had passed in Duma. You should see the documentary Putin's Games for some background on the mind-boggling amounts of corruption in these games.
Where does corruption end and government spending begin?
...so we need to fund education for students who won't hit the job market until several years later?
Give me a break.
And trust the free market for once. If there's a worker shortage, then wages will rise until demand and supply equalize and there is no more shortage.
All the whining about a shortage of engineers is simply a trick by employers to increase supply and decrease the wages they have to pay.
And this is how you lose an industry.
Meanwhile while we are waiting for the free market to "equalize", Indian, Chinese and other foreign companies will be growing and expanding.
Did it occur to you that "equalization" and "no more shortage" could mean that there will be no more companies left at all to offer jobs?
What is this silliness, that "humans" in the broad, blanket sense could not digest starch? Feh.
We already know from analysis of Neanderthal remains that they could digest starch, and did in fact eat things like starchy tubers and grains. By 8000 years ago, it's generally accepted that the Neanderthals were no more, at least as a distinct population, and that any remaining Neanderthal-specific genes had been absorbed by the wider Cro Magnon population. (Interestingly, it sounds like the Neanderthal genes might give their descendants, i.e. non-sub-Saharan-Africa humans, extra resistance to viral infection.)
This study, where evidence from one individual is extrapolated to the entire human population, sounds silly in the extreme. "One Size Fits All!" never really does.
Cheers,
Or they could have been using something starchy as a toothbrush.
It means not being too choosy what you om-nom-nom on when the going is lean. Which likely means eating things which may have various parasites, mold spore, other fungi, even partially decomposed. "What luck! A partially decomposed squirrel with red rashes all over its body! Num!" That which didn't kill them, indeed make them stronger (those which survived, that is.)
In today's scrubby, scrub scrubbed world of clean, inspected and otherwise near perfect world of meat, dairy and produce, we're not challenging our bodies very much. Further, we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food, which means we say "Ewww!" when presented with ethnic foods we haven't seen before, which include the globby or wiggly bits of animals we don't see in the meat case at the market (which traditionally were the best parts, unlike the muscle which was often left behind.)
Somewhat disconcerting how we haven't turned into beings which are entirely fed by capsule, a la the Jetsons "Oh, dear, I've overcooked the steak and potatoes pill."
Fortunately, infants keep picking up dead bugs off the carpet and chewing on them, which gives them some bit of a test in developing their immune systems.
Nobody knows what was going on then. Everyone (the Paleo community included) stop saying how you know humans lived so and so many years ago.
For all we know, they had an organic food paradise. Fresh fruits and vegetables right off the plants and fresh just-slaughtered grass fed meat to eat.
the customs duty China uses to protect its own auto industry
But remember, we have free trade!
No really, all you have to do is define it such that "free trade" means the US has to bend over, while China, etc. get to do whatever they want to protect their industries.
Are you joking? We don't allow China to get our technology. The US government blocks Chinese buyouts of American companies.
It's definitely not one sided as you perceive it to be. They protect their domestic market. We protect our technology.
1. Lawyer 2. Warrant
Or maybe three words: Just Shut Up.
Police will continue to bully people and overstep their authority as long as we let them. http://www.popehat.com/tag/shu...
I faced a similar situation.
They are highly trained. They know how to push buttons, muddy matters to confuse you to get you to do what they want you to do. They will keep fishing until they find something that bothers you.
It is not easy as just saying lawyer and warrant.
I would suggest practicing the scenario. Just thinking you can say lawyer and warrant etc is completely different than when you are in the situation.
For example, technically the police cannot search your car or belongings. However, they can search for weapons or they can search if there is some suspicion etc etc. There are many clauses. The police will start working you towards something that will enable them to search you. You have to practice otherwise you will be an amateur trying to battle professionals.
Wii U is too expensive. It just seems to be jam packed with stupid shit.
Everyone just wanted an Wii HD but instead we got an overpriced box with all sorts of unnecessary fluff.
I can't help but wonder how many people with plenty of "curiosity, passion, hard work, and persistence bordering on obsession" we've never heard of. In other words, we don't actually know--and likely can't know--how likely people with these traits are to be remembered by the world as geniuses, and how many will be regarded by their families and friends as obsessive workaholics with lousy personal lives and utterly forgotten outside those circles.
Reminds me of the string theory physicists that I read in some book.
Before string theory was established, there were two thoughts in physics, both equally challenging and one was string theory and the other quite similar. Both scientists worked in the two thoughts, had offices next to each other and created a lot of ideas and work from that.
However, string theory took off the guy who created it got lots of attention. His colleague who worked equally hard failed because he was unlucky to have the opposing theory.
We define genius by their impact on society and not by their inherent capability.
However, all geniuses are obsessively hard workers are a little vague. I remember Nash (game theory) only worked like that for a short period of time. By luck his work became very successful but he didn't have a lifetime of drive and passion because he was battling psychological illness.
Even the great genius Einstein had great four years and nothing else. Before those four years, he was a failure. After the four years, he never created anything and couldn't appreciate the modern advances in the field that he had created (god does not play dice).
Invariably, we also see throughout history that these laser focused artists and creators are preyed upon by the vultures. The swarming businessmen, promotors, managers, who give their charges "the best they can" (i.e. a fraction of their actual value) whilst proclaiming to the world that they themselves are the true producers and behind closed doors they opine how if only they could get that last fraction of a few pennies from "those leeches, those damned artists."
Those "vultures" are as important to success as anything. Have you ever tried promoting something? It is a very complicated system and very hard to do. I know many good bands have shriveled and died because they couldn't find the right manager or promoter. Many good writers give up because they never get a chance to write the things they want.
Geniuses are not a product of solitary endeavors. They require support from hundreds of people.
Actually reminds of the old TV series called "The Fall Guy" about a stuntman. Had some funny quotes:
"'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star."
"But the hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leadin' ladies
Kiss some other guy while I'm bandagin' my knee.
While we call actors geniuses, we completely forget the thousands of support staff that allows him or her to get such attention for such a skill.
You can also argue that all those geniuses in the time of Newton etc had to be aristocrats otherwise it was a lifetime of manual labor in the fields. But, the manual laborers were part of a society that enabled him to spend all his time on physics and become a genius.
Wasn't it someone's theory (or experiments) that luck was the largest factor in a genius?
I remember Gladwell's book starts off with the Canadian hockey team and the birthday paradox. The birthdays of the players in the Canadian hockey team fall primarily on the beginning of the year, primarily the first few months of the year. There wasn't anyone born on the second half of the year.
The theory was that this is because of the age cutoff of Jan 1st. When they select the junior teams, the age cutoff is Jan 1st. So, someone born on January has almost a year head start over the person born on December. That little difference between individuals turns into who gets coaching or not, who gets selected for teams and ultimately who makes the national sides.
Yes, some people are geniuses because they have drive and passion and are workaholics but not because they are born that way but because each little bit of effort they put in gets rewarded very heavily (and that situation comes by from luck).
Why do geniuses come in clusters? Why were there so many Greek geniuses? Why hasn't Greece produced another set of geniuses like them after that?
The other argument was that geniuses were able to feed off the society. If we as a society value something very highly, then we reward the person good in it with money and admiration. That again creates a lot of drive and passion for the work they do and they strive to obsessively improve on it.
It has been disproved that geniuses have high IQ. There are a lot of geniuses with normal IQ.
So, technically, anyone with at least normal IQ can be a genius. You have to be born in the right society and pursue something that the society deems very valuable. Then, you have to have luck that will get you funding, audience etc for you work that will fuel your passion and drive.