Maybe people trained for something other than "what they love" because they knew right off the top that "what they love" wasn't a practical career choice. Lots of people would "love" to be professional musicians or athletes, but that's only a realistic possibility for a very select few.
I wonder how people hiring for software jobs will view Microsoft experience on someone's resume. Undoubtedly, Microsoft once held an enormous pool of very high talent, but their products seemed to have reached local maxima, where new versions are merely different, not better, and sometimes worse.
Would you hire someone who was used to making software knowing their customers hated what they did to it?
We can't think of a female role model, so we'll take a male role model and switch the gender, because the only way we can conceive of a woman being the equal of a man is if she was actually a man all along. And no-one will notice!
Forget the gender equality stuff, that level of laziness in story-telling is beyond contempt. Why not discover Thor had a long-lost twin sister, equal in every way? That at least involves a bare minimum of creativity, and keeps all the options open for sequels and cross-overs.
They're still working, and likely just as hard as before, so it's really not what you would call retirement. I suspect the writer has a prejudice that research in Africa is a vacation compared to 'real' research in places like Europe, North America, or Japan.
Then again, continuing to work is what retirement is starting to look like for a lot of people.
Why does the rubber band carry the ant forward? Isn't it equally plausible that the rubber band moves underneath the ant's feet while her speed remains constant, decreasing her speed relative to the rubber band?
The "countries with which the United States has a non-espionage pact" don't spy on the US. It's a one-side agreement, like most treaties with the US are in practice.
And if it's declared intelligent, and then someone figures out how to explain how it came up with whatever the original content is, then does it just become less intelligent?
Hasn't anyone considered that the Superman logo didn't belong on a memorial in the first place? It's supposed to be about a particular child, not a fictional character.
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"A but B" includes "B". They didn't hide the "this is a little weird" part in any way.
Maybe people trained for something other than "what they love" because they knew right off the top that "what they love" wasn't a practical career choice. Lots of people would "love" to be professional musicians or athletes, but that's only a realistic possibility for a very select few.
As in, you need some cooling to get the condensation happening.
Still, pretty neat to get electricity from it.
Maybe you vaporise it at night when the ground is cold?
I wonder how people hiring for software jobs will view Microsoft experience on someone's resume. Undoubtedly, Microsoft once held an enormous pool of very high talent, but their products seemed to have reached local maxima, where new versions are merely different, not better, and sometimes worse.
Would you hire someone who was used to making software knowing their customers hated what they did to it?
Well, not *normal* buoyancy, but Brazil nut is certainly a specialized (I would say obscure) metaphor to choose.
We can't think of a female role model, so we'll take a male role model and switch the gender, because the only way we can conceive of a woman being the equal of a man is if she was actually a man all along. And no-one will notice!
Forget the gender equality stuff, that level of laziness in story-telling is beyond contempt. Why not discover Thor had a long-lost twin sister, equal in every way? That at least involves a bare minimum of creativity, and keeps all the options open for sequels and cross-overs.
They're still working, and likely just as hard as before, so it's really not what you would call retirement. I suspect the writer has a prejudice that research in Africa is a vacation compared to 'real' research in places like Europe, North America, or Japan.
Then again, continuing to work is what retirement is starting to look like for a lot of people.
You're restating the question, not answering it.
That's called the luminiferous aether hypothesis.
Suddenly? She was born that way, with the W chromosome and all.
Why does the rubber band carry the ant forward? Isn't it equally plausible that the rubber band moves underneath the ant's feet while her speed remains constant, decreasing her speed relative to the rubber band?
I've never heard the explanation as to why that makes light seem to go faster rather than seem to go slower.
In one version of reality, this is a first post!
Is this really about education or is it just self-selection based on wealth? People have noticed the latter for thousands of years.
If you had property in Hawaii a kilometre from shore and it was devastated by such a tsunami, you probably wouldn't call it hyperbole.
What? The software is not non-denominational?
The only defense is to give them just barely enough resources to do their job, with no excess or space for overreach.
Everyone agrees with that part. The problem is no-one agrees how much is 'just barely enough'.
The "countries with which the United States has a non-espionage pact" don't spy on the US. It's a one-side agreement, like most treaties with the US are in practice.
And if it's declared intelligent, and then someone figures out how to explain how it came up with whatever the original content is, then does it just become less intelligent?
But notice the huge area of the Venn diagram labelled "false positives"...
Hasn't anyone considered that the Superman logo didn't belong on a memorial in the first place? It's supposed to be about a particular child, not a fictional character.
Creativity is not related to intelligence.
But you probably do need above average creativity to make a living from it, so that still leaves half the planet without career options.
The soul is information. It doesn't have a physical location.
Forget implant devices. With enough mental training, Vulcans can stimulate this part of the humanoid brain just by pinching someone on the neck.
(Luckily, humanoids have very similar physiology in their nervous systems.)