...Eventually, people will need to become responsible for themselves again and own their own fate.
Despite what Fox News says, the vast majority of the poor are working poor, and most of them grab every job they can to make ends meet. Many of the ones Fox News points at are poor people with illnesses and mental illness, who are hard put to hold a job. The viewpoint you wink at is a wildly inaccurate stereotype.
NEWS FLASH: People have never stopped being responsible for their own fate.
I have a few of those, people who churn out endless near identical posts, and I've unfriended them or unfollowed them. But what my concern is, is that FB reposts what everyone "likes" as if it were a new post, anytime their algorithms determine that I might spend too little time on FB. The same happens with friends' comments; those comments are heisted and turned into more "content", obscuring the actual posts my friends make. All I want to read are those original postings, but FB won't be happy til we are glued to our "feed" 24/7.
I'd be a lot less bothered were FB to have an opt out for all that crap. They don't. The result is that my friends' real postings get buried in an avalanche of FB made up junk.
As they've become more aggressive about locking one in and monetizing it, I've found it less pleasant and less useful. Log in too often and they fill your "feed" with more and more crap. Frequently I want to get back to a friend's earlier post, but it has become so buried under a mountain of faux posts of others' likes and others' comments that I can't get back to posts I want to refer to. It irks me no end that FB keeps trying to stuff new faux content into my "feed" (I hate that word) to glue me endlessly to FB. The paradoxical result is that I use FB less and less and am on the verge of killing my account.
True. Any time one has such advisers, one's bullshit detector should be set on full power. They can be very good and guide and educate, or they can be thieves or anything in between.
I have no idea how well or badly the low end investor will be robo-advised ar RBS, but I'm pretty sure that a few pieces of financial advice, that could practically be dispensed on one side of a small piece of paper, would be the core of excellent advice for 99.9% of everyone.
Set aside a little to invest on a regular schedule.
Don't sell on market panic. Instead, consider purchases.
Stick with simple, low cost diversified instruments.
And so on.
A robot could do the majority. My concern is the folks with unusual circumstances who need differing advise, or more handholding.
This will be one more poorly thought out wild faddish lurch in educational policy, to the detriment of kid's education. I don't mean that PL is bad or wrong, but that this, like most changes in education will be introduced in a way that will tend toward failure. There's a long list of essentially good ideas that have been horribly botched by taking them to Broadway before the bumps and wrinkles in the script have been ironed out.
The smart way to eventually get to an eventual large scale educational change is to start small with testing in very small pilot projects, iterating them independently until one or several paths to good outcomes, and just as importantly, paths to avoid, are identified. And then, scale up to bigger pilot projects. New issues will probably pop up at a new scale, and then after really seeing how it works, and IF it works, really scale up. But that requires long term, realistic planning and leadership that can look out to the horizon. A scarce resource.
In the meantime, most investment should remain in iterative improvements in the mainstream - getting and creating more qualified teachers - through better training and for the most difficult disciplines, math, physics science, extending the budget to get people who really know, love and can teach hard to teach subjects.
People love to flog "the new math" and Common Core, but if you look at content and intent, they are excellent ideas, but both needed radically different introduction, and needed a lot of the wrinkles sorted out. I was one of the few lucky kids who truly benefited from "the new math". I had good teachers who "got it", who had a fair grasp on sets and modular math and and.... at an elementary level. When I hit those topics later, I wasn't lost. It all made sense.
Besides, the Chinese can lose 5000 men in one day without batting one eyelid. Can the US withstand such losses the same way? One supercarrier sunk with all hands and it's over.
The Chinese could lose 100 times that in an exchange, and still be a force to be reckoned with.
We are concerned when we lose a few people at an embassy. That arguably is a morally worthy level of concern, but it reminds potential adversaries that all they have to do is kill a few Americans in a particularly visible way, and our backbone softens. Our humanity is tactically a weakness.
Maybe a pro should always be on top of how updated their machine is. Maybe. But the average person should not need to be watching for that. It is a stupid pain in the backside to find, just as one needs to shut down, that there are an hour and a half of updates, and one is told not to power off. A genius piece of customer relations, that.
Windows 10 shows up as installed on just under 13% of desktops - on a quick search. Even considering the wobbliness of such numbers, anything remotely like that number means you better not be thinking it's beta stuff if you are Microsoft and you want to retain customers.
True. But lately they give the appearance they have no QA. That's why I wonder if the sheer complexity of Windows isn't beginning to bite them. I mean they must be trying hard not to push out crap. I'm no big friend of Windows, but I can't imagine they are unaware that appearances matter very much now.
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No they can't.
Avoid. Forever.
Despite what Fox News says, the vast majority of the poor are working poor, and most of them grab every job they can to make ends meet. Many of the ones Fox News points at are poor people with illnesses and mental illness, who are hard put to hold a job. The viewpoint you wink at is a wildly inaccurate stereotype.
NEWS FLASH: People have never stopped being responsible for their own fate.
I think it means one more insecure way to buy stuff. Not sure I want to trust FB with any more of my life.
Wisdom of the masses.
Efficient markets.
Social science.
They seem to, but I'm always baffled when no one laughs.
Wow John. Great help! Thank you! I never knew either of those things. I had no idea there was any way to influence the algorithm.
I'd be a lot less bothered were FB to have an opt out for all that crap. They don't. The result is that my friends' real postings get buried in an avalanche of FB made up junk.
As they've become more aggressive about locking one in and monetizing it, I've found it less pleasant and less useful. Log in too often and they fill your "feed" with more and more crap. Frequently I want to get back to a friend's earlier post, but it has become so buried under a mountain of faux posts of others' likes and others' comments that I can't get back to posts I want to refer to. It irks me no end that FB keeps trying to stuff new faux content into my "feed" (I hate that word) to glue me endlessly to FB. The paradoxical result is that I use FB less and less and am on the verge of killing my account.
True. Any time one has such advisers, one's bullshit detector should be set on full power. They can be very good and guide and educate, or they can be thieves or anything in between.
Set aside a little to invest on a regular schedule.
Don't sell on market panic. Instead, consider purchases.
Stick with simple, low cost diversified instruments.
And so on.
A robot could do the majority. My concern is the folks with unusual circumstances who need differing advise, or more handholding.
Didn't think this could get much stupider. But...
Darn it - keep forgetting I have to format paragraphing.... My apologies.
This will be one more poorly thought out wild faddish lurch in educational policy, to the detriment of kid's education. I don't mean that PL is bad or wrong, but that this, like most changes in education will be introduced in a way that will tend toward failure. There's a long list of essentially good ideas that have been horribly botched by taking them to Broadway before the bumps and wrinkles in the script have been ironed out. The smart way to eventually get to an eventual large scale educational change is to start small with testing in very small pilot projects, iterating them independently until one or several paths to good outcomes, and just as importantly, paths to avoid, are identified. And then, scale up to bigger pilot projects. New issues will probably pop up at a new scale, and then after really seeing how it works, and IF it works, really scale up. But that requires long term, realistic planning and leadership that can look out to the horizon. A scarce resource. In the meantime, most investment should remain in iterative improvements in the mainstream - getting and creating more qualified teachers - through better training and for the most difficult disciplines, math, physics science, extending the budget to get people who really know, love and can teach hard to teach subjects. People love to flog "the new math" and Common Core, but if you look at content and intent, they are excellent ideas, but both needed radically different introduction, and needed a lot of the wrinkles sorted out. I was one of the few lucky kids who truly benefited from "the new math". I had good teachers who "got it", who had a fair grasp on sets and modular math and and .... at an elementary level. When I hit those topics later, I wasn't lost. It all made sense.
Besides, the Chinese can lose 5000 men in one day without batting one eyelid. Can the US withstand such losses the same way? One supercarrier sunk with all hands and it's over.
The Chinese could lose 100 times that in an exchange, and still be a force to be reckoned with.
We are concerned when we lose a few people at an embassy. That arguably is a morally worthy level of concern, but it reminds potential adversaries that all they have to do is kill a few Americans in a particularly visible way, and our backbone softens. Our humanity is tactically a weakness.
Watch Dr Strangelove.
Worth looking back to how Hitler crossed a lot of lines...
A glaring deficiency.
I wondered about Blend-Tec, but then...
Changes in glaciers.
The Impact on vulnerable people and places.
The smaller role of women in science and technology.
Hit the blend switch.
Some stuff doesn't blend all that well.
Don't give up. Don't ask.
That's kind of what I've been wondering...has it all simply got away from them? Is it now to complex to manage?
Maybe a pro should always be on top of how updated their machine is. Maybe. But the average person should not need to be watching for that. It is a stupid pain in the backside to find, just as one needs to shut down, that there are an hour and a half of updates, and one is told not to power off. A genius piece of customer relations, that.
Windows 10 shows up as installed on just under 13% of desktops - on a quick search. Even considering the wobbliness of such numbers, anything remotely like that number means you better not be thinking it's beta stuff if you are Microsoft and you want to retain customers.
True. But lately they give the appearance they have no QA. That's why I wonder if the sheer complexity of Windows isn't beginning to bite them. I mean they must be trying hard not to push out crap. I'm no big friend of Windows, but I can't imagine they are unaware that appearances matter very much now.