How do you know it's not the best system we have now? In the history of humanity, currently we are enjoying unbelievable comforts compared to any other previous times. So that can only mean the system is working [yes, we have issues like 1%/income inequality]. In hind-sight we can always feel there may be a better system -- it's like asking evolution why it didn't provide radio-waves receptors in humans since it will be much easier to communicate.
The point is as long as the society is harnessing nature thru' technology and making it available in a human consumable fashion, we are in good shape. That is a society which celebrates science and not some random beliefs/superstitions [likethe times of dark ages].
money is a tool which works on the basic human instincts of fear and greed. And fortunately in the hands of a capitalistic system, it has helped advance science and technology and has thus benefited the whole humanity. True, today a person's net-worth is just a number in some bank's hard drive -- in this sense, yes it's a fantasy. But this concept of money has provided the motivation for man to explore nature and reap the benefits thru' technological advancement.
Humans entered post-scarcity when agriculture was invented. The Egyptian built pyramids because they did not know what to do with the free time and abundant labor [Nile/sun was giving enormous wheat/food output]. The scarcity has always been man-made and the root cause is greed. It's a power-play -- a human/collection of humans dominating over another.
Oxygen is free today -- the only reason is man hasn't found a way to hoard it and charge a fee for it [I hear in Bolivia, the water resources were taken up by capitalistic powers before the revolution].
So as long as man have this need to suppress/control his fellow being, there will always be a token to denote this control [that token is called money].
Usually the police sees the other guy reach for something [into pocket say] which may be a gun. So here it's a question of kill or get-killed situation. In a split second the office has to decide if his life is more important or to use a non-lethal like taser and avoid a killing.
You can't solve this with non-lethal unless office knows for sure he can't be harmed (ie 100% sure.. just a bullet-proof vest won't cut it]. This can only happen if the officer is fully armoured or say sitting in a safe building and operating a robot like machine [like a remotely operated drone attack]
[Laws of physics (LoP) laughs; it's the LoP that created the human brain -- so it can make the human say whatever it wants it to say about LoP.. it's like what you tell your 4 year old.. it repeats back.. you do the programming].
Coming back..how do you define an alien? why can't they have a different set of laws of physics?
The fact that in almost all of these incidents the shooters had mental issues should give you morons some type of hint....now, are you going to take it?
All over the world some fraction of the population has mental issues; why don't we see such mass murders in other regions of the world?
If not guns, a person determined to harm a lot of people will find the weakest (say like children/school, elderly) group and attack them with other weapons (say knives). Why don't we see that in other regions of the world?
You feed a mind with artificial lab invented drugs which have deadly side effects. It happens because an industry makes money in the process.
Also a society which does not care for the weak and promotes the worst form of selfishness. Even the weak is only seen as a source of revenue for some industry [likely tap from govt aid]. No these practices do not happen in other regions of the world. Free market capitalism does have the ugly side.
Isn't it almost always the shooter is under some heavy cocktail of prescription drugs (usually mental/psychiatric related)?
Why not go after the industry (big pharma/ health care) which turned a normal human into a killing machine? We already have seen gun-control is not working.
jobs are vanishing. outsourcing is just one reason; the bigger reason is technological-unemployment.
humans should come to terms with the fact that only a small percentage (say top 5% or even 1% in any skill) of the population is needed to work [these too work out of the love/passion for the job]. The rest can just relax -- society should come up with some solution like basic-income.
So who brings about these so called great school programs? it's very likely a bunch of extroverts. So they think whatever activities helped them grow, will help everyone. And by definition an introvert is not going to be in such a decision making group/power.
So is it all bad? not really. A truly introvert will keep moving in the direction of his strength; that is he (or she) goes even more into himself and finds the gold. So it's just a darwinian selection of the stronger introvert to come out with success. I guess the game is to find the toughest independent of the cards one is dealt with.
Considering the product is made by some of the best brains and from a great company and used by billions of folks, how come this bug managed to hide so long? and how it got introduced in the first place? Reading that it's the presence of a NUL char, it seems two different software modules used different abstraction of a string -- may be one using a traditional NUL terminated string [C definition] and another module could be using a String class [where length is explicitly stored along with an array of chars]. I'm just guessing here -- so a string which breaks this assumption and passed across these modules triggered the crash path.
So moral of the story.. when you use apples, use only apples; don't mix apples with oranges [In this case, the apple and orange where assumed to be identical..when they are not]
why humans need to work? I don't see butterflies working or fishes working...
The point is once you have abundant energy source (read nuclear, solar what-not) and the technology [machines/ deep-learning like AI software], you just set up the system to produce the human's food/shelter needs.
I heard in Calcutta [India], the sewage system is fed into fish ponds and the fish is harvested for human consumption -- so you see the only worker here is the sun, microbes, nature; you just bask and have your food [your byproduct/waste gets turned into food automagically]
Yes, all these are good. I would suggest sticking with an index fund (like 70% stock, 30% bond -- use a good low cost institute like Vanguard (VTSAX for stocks say).
Surely you need to read up and gain your personal financial knowledge. I don't suggest going to an advisor -- no one works for your interest in the matter of money; you have to do it for yourself.
And learn to do your own taxes - it's not about saving a CPA's fee; but in the process of doing taxes you will learn about investment tools [like 401k, keeping interest bearing bonds inside 401k/Roth-IRA].
The bottom line is knowlege -- radio programs can help too (bobbrinker.com)
Of course nothing can beat spending less.
Recent advances in computer vision (using deep learning) has enabled s/w to outperform human in imagenet test. Hopefully in the near future, the x-ray peering humans are mostly replaced/augmented by AI.
Save more on 401k, Roth-IRA; leads to tax reduction. Also live frugal. You never know when your job will vanish -- so the quicker you get a nest-egg, better. And for any tax deferred savings time is your friend; so earlier you start is better. And set your goal to be financial independence.
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How do you know it's not the best system we have now? In the history of humanity, currently we are enjoying unbelievable comforts compared to any other previous times. So that can only mean the system is working [yes, we have issues like 1%/income inequality]. In hind-sight we can always feel there may be a better system -- it's like asking evolution why it didn't provide radio-waves receptors in humans since it will be much easier to communicate.
The point is as long as the society is harnessing nature thru' technology and making it available in a human consumable fashion, we are in good shape. That is a society which celebrates science and not some random beliefs/superstitions [likethe times of dark ages].
money is a tool which works on the basic human instincts of fear and greed. And fortunately in the hands of a capitalistic system, it has helped advance science and technology and has thus benefited the whole humanity. True, today a person's net-worth is just a number in some bank's hard drive -- in this sense, yes it's a fantasy. But this concept of money has provided the motivation for man to explore nature and reap the benefits thru' technological advancement.
Humans entered post-scarcity when agriculture was invented. The Egyptian built pyramids because they did not know what to do with the free time and abundant labor [Nile/sun was giving enormous wheat/food output]. The scarcity has always been man-made and the root cause is greed. It's a power-play -- a human/collection of humans dominating over another.
Oxygen is free today -- the only reason is man hasn't found a way to hoard it and charge a fee for it [I hear in Bolivia, the water resources were taken up by capitalistic powers before the revolution].
So as long as man have this need to suppress/control his fellow being, there will always be a token to denote this control [that token is called money].
Usually the police sees the other guy reach for something [into pocket say] which may be a gun. So here it's a question of kill or get-killed situation. In a split second the office has to decide if his life is more important or to use a non-lethal like taser and avoid a killing.
You can't solve this with non-lethal unless office knows for sure he can't be harmed (ie 100% sure.. just a bullet-proof vest won't cut it]. This can only happen if the officer is fully armoured or say sitting in a safe building and operating a robot like machine [like a remotely operated drone attack]
Q: Are the laws of physics the same everywhere?
human: Yes
[Laws of physics (LoP) laughs; it's the LoP that created the human brain -- so it can make the human say whatever it wants it to say about LoP .. it's like what you tell your 4 year old.. it repeats back .. you do the programming].
Coming back ..how do you define an alien? why can't they have a different set of laws of physics?
The fact that in almost all of these incidents the shooters had mental issues should give you morons some type of hint....now, are you going to take it?
All over the world some fraction of the population has mental issues; why don't we see such mass murders in other regions of the world? If not guns, a person determined to harm a lot of people will find the weakest (say like children/school, elderly) group and attack them with other weapons (say knives). Why don't we see that in other regions of the world?
You feed a mind with artificial lab invented drugs which have deadly side effects. It happens because an industry makes money in the process. Also a society which does not care for the weak and promotes the worst form of selfishness. Even the weak is only seen as a source of revenue for some industry [likely tap from govt aid]. No these practices do not happen in other regions of the world. Free market capitalism does have the ugly side.
Isn't it almost always the shooter is under some heavy cocktail of prescription drugs (usually mental/psychiatric related)? Why not go after the industry (big pharma/ health care) which turned a normal human into a killing machine? We already have seen gun-control is not working.
jobs are vanishing. outsourcing is just one reason; the bigger reason is technological-unemployment. humans should come to terms with the fact that only a small percentage (say top 5% or even 1% in any skill) of the population is needed to work [these too work out of the love/passion for the job]. The rest can just relax -- society should come up with some solution like basic-income.
So who brings about these so called great school programs? it's very likely a bunch of extroverts. So they think whatever activities helped them grow, will help everyone. And by definition an introvert is not going to be in such a decision making group/power. So is it all bad? not really. A truly introvert will keep moving in the direction of his strength; that is he (or she) goes even more into himself and finds the gold. So it's just a darwinian selection of the stronger introvert to come out with success. I guess the game is to find the toughest independent of the cards one is dealt with.
Considering the product is made by some of the best brains and from a great company and used by billions of folks, how come this bug managed to hide so long? and how it got introduced in the first place? Reading that it's the presence of a NUL char, it seems two different software modules used different abstraction of a string -- may be one using a traditional NUL terminated string [C definition] and another module could be using a String class [where length is explicitly stored along with an array of chars]. I'm just guessing here -- so a string which breaks this assumption and passed across these modules triggered the crash path. So moral of the story.. when you use apples, use only apples; don't mix apples with oranges [In this case, the apple and orange where assumed to be identical..when they are not]
why humans need to work? I don't see butterflies working or fishes working... The point is once you have abundant energy source (read nuclear, solar what-not) and the technology [machines/ deep-learning like AI software], you just set up the system to produce the human's food/shelter needs. I heard in Calcutta [India], the sewage system is fed into fish ponds and the fish is harvested for human consumption -- so you see the only worker here is the sun, microbes, nature; you just bask and have your food [your byproduct/waste gets turned into food automagically]
Yes, all these are good. I would suggest sticking with an index fund (like 70% stock, 30% bond -- use a good low cost institute like Vanguard (VTSAX for stocks say). Surely you need to read up and gain your personal financial knowledge. I don't suggest going to an advisor -- no one works for your interest in the matter of money; you have to do it for yourself. And learn to do your own taxes - it's not about saving a CPA's fee; but in the process of doing taxes you will learn about investment tools [like 401k, keeping interest bearing bonds inside 401k/Roth-IRA]. The bottom line is knowlege -- radio programs can help too (bobbrinker.com) Of course nothing can beat spending less.
Recent advances in computer vision (using deep learning) has enabled s/w to outperform human in imagenet test. Hopefully in the near future, the x-ray peering humans are mostly replaced/augmented by AI.
Save more on 401k, Roth-IRA; leads to tax reduction. Also live frugal. You never know when your job will vanish -- so the quicker you get a nest-egg, better. And for any tax deferred savings time is your friend; so earlier you start is better. And set your goal to be financial independence.