Yeah, if you are a dictator, you should do everything to keep your folks dumb and information deficient. But India is a democracy (not yet a totally runaway one); so here if party1 doesn't give what people really want (like say free access to information), party2 is ready to open its wallet. Yes, in the long run it's good for the masses and that is the true intention of a democracy not polarization/concentration of power in a few hands.
Yes, the targeted ad arrives which my adblock keeps it off from my eyes. Even if the ad still makes through, I ignore it. Sure, it did take about 1millisec of my atttention. I think it's a ok price to pay to get all the convenience of great software to manage my photos. I still don't understand what you are really losing. See if someone with lot of power/money wants to know about you, they can do it today -- just hire a private detective and watch you for a month.
The crux of the issue is lot of human activities is doing totally irrelevant/unneeded things. Like counting number of sand grains or building 100m meter statues for some human
Or sitting around trying to look busy for 7 hours reading/. because you can get all your shit done in 1.
In that case, he should use the 7 hours to gain the knowledge to reach escape velocity (financial independence / retirement/ simple or frugal living). Then all waking hours are available to pursue passion/hobby (if already have one or the passion will find him) with full space/time freedom (not needed to be in that morning meeting)
Right mostly except that to stay relevant you don't have to contribute physical things. Just if you can keep your mind calm and happy, just your presence enriches the world. If you can get your mind to a celebratory mode. World and people already have plenty of "things" (how many billion hours of teaching/fun material in youtube today?). A rose plant is working to stay relevant; it just exists and enjoys the breeze going by. So can you be like a 3 year old.
Yes, you won't be idle. The right passion will spot you and catch you. You must of course stay with high awareness (not dumbing substances indulgence like drug/alcohol). You will be working/exploring that field (art/math/science/sport), even as a fan not necessarily as a performer.
Yes, we have a problem wherein too much wealth and power are concentrated among too few people.
And what is your solution to this problem? Should we just hope the wealthy have a change of heart? We tried labor unions and look what happened to those. You are standing in the way of progress. Be careful because it may run you over and drag you with it.
Those in power want to have power. It's basic human nature or rather power's nature to ensure power exists and not annihilate itself into thin air, just like in nature xyz wants to ensure the existence/survival/expansion of xyz (itself).
As long as a human enjoys pushing down another human, we will have the power pyramid. You can automate everything, still you will find a human doing power-play on another human (likely this game will go on eternally) like controlling the other on how the other spends his/her time/attention/energy.
The only way a slave becomes a non-slave is when this alone becomes his/her goal - n becomes the goal (ie becoming a non-slave; it's even ok to die free but not continue this being a slave)
You like having things, like clothing, food, electricity? Well, somebody has got to produce all of that for you. You think THEY want to work for free?.
humans not not produce those. Machines/automation can do it. Just like oxygen for human consumption is made by something (likely so) less intelligent living things called plants/trees.
The crux of the issue is lot of human activities is doing totally irrelevant/unneeded things. Like counting number of sand grains or building 100m meter statues for some human
Why use human's ugly greed/selfishness to describe evolution. Nature just plays; celebrates as one whole. I believe the human hemoglobin molecule structure is present likely even in a mosquito or any oxygen breathing living thing. The point is Nature like a mathematician explores the universe/nature/it-self. It doesn't think of species1 is exploiting species2.. in fact even a grass may be happier if it ends up in the stomach of a goat. The phrases like 'survival of the fittest' etc comes from a sick mind (mine bigger than yours mindset). Think of one global Oneness, expanding playing with itself. Even after E=mc^2 and how all are connected what is the this talk of xyz riding over abc bs.
The real reason they go for MAS (mood altering substances like drugs/alcohol) is they don't find normal life interesting. They don't hv a passion/hobby to direct their energy/waking-hours. The root for this there never experienced giving or receiving love/care to fellow humans. These humans first start from immediate family; later they look for such ppl in society. In a very materialistic/ego-centric society like western countries (US say) he/she instinctively realizes the pointlessness of most ppl's life and feels it's ok to do anything to get the fix (steal, rob, what not). Only if the society's collective awareness is high, will a person be able to try leading a life without MAS. I believe some eastern cultures provide a society which is little like that, say in tibet/nepal/india (spiritual places - more aligned with nature than say EPS or PE of a stock).
At the end, it's a herculean task for anyone to escape the clutches of MAS unless he is some kinda chosen one. Surely the collective societal awareness plays a role.
It's not about lack of money to treat addiction; it's the lack of a family/social-circle/friends. Once a person realizes he has no one, he loses all motivation to even take care of his body. So even if you provide him with money like basic income, he will still choose to vegetate in some street corner. The deeper issue is he has lost all motivation to live and also lacks the courage or need to commit suicide.
So the question is how do you solve this issue? the only way is as a society it has to become more humane so he knows he is after all not alone. Or he has such high intelligence to know that there is something higher (treading on religions region here) that it's worth not spoiling his health and at least stay away from mood altering substances.
Unless you are kinda super intelligent, it only takes a little intelligence to see the pointlessness in most/all human endeavours. So why do it then.
What is spoken language? it's just describing the visual objects and how they move about. Once you have object recognition, you need a set of verbs (standalone objects can shrink/expand; 2 or more objects: coming close together, separating away) -- these verbs define what the laws of physics/motion allow. Once you abstract these motions and got your verb set, describing the visual objects and their motion becomes what is spoken language.
The voice conveys a lot about the state of the mind as it uses breathing/exhale breath. So hearing someone's voice you know if it's safe to talk or not. In fact a lack of small-talk may suggest the other is in a state of 'leave me alone'. And once you know the mind-state you can also know if the other is friend-or-foe (ffid friend foe identification).
In space craft, parachute is tied to a capsule/a hard shell. Inside the shell, likely men hv oxygen tanks or it's pressured.
Throwing out passengers from a 737/747/a380 with a parachute on their back from say 32k feet, they likely will die before parachute opens due to breathing issues.
where parachute may help is if the aircraft is cripp.ed but flyable (like say all engine failure and gliding); so it can coast say 1000 ft above land/water and passengers can jump off. Even here crashlanding and staying inside the metal enclosure likely saves more lives.
compression is good for various other reasons like storage; there is a trade off CPU versus network bandwidth between sender and receiver. It's related to trading code versus data (generator vs look-up table). If you can have a small algorithm to generate the nth prime number, you don't hv to carry around a huge table of primes.
For various applications the inter-node data traversal is the costly operation (fancy eg an intelligence in a far away star wants to send information, it's best it compresses it and may be send the decoding code/algorithm along).
One reason why platform like twitter survived is because it forced humans to compress our thoughts into a few lines instead of a whole page of prose like a blog/fb post.
Why wait for 5 attempts? just one failure and lock-out; even send some SoS for help.
You know there is no reason someone should be looking into your phone [may be provide a exception set like for family]
If you are legally required to provide evidence and you fail to, aren't you guilty?
Why we need to care if they ran the logs are not? that's in their domain. Out side our scope.
That may need a human to be sent out-doors to tap/fix the twisted-pair. Or may be easier to find some holes in the telephone service providers systems. Or may be directly in the so called bank's 1-800 system. Or the weakest link - human - bribe a human/supervisor in the 1-800 back office.
What exactly was wrong with a fast, fully featured, files on your drive executable I will never understand. Maybe in a decade or so a new generation will get tired of javascript black holes and unresponsive, lag ridden cloud-based "software" and actually think about going back to the idea of a PC as a fast, responsive, personal computer on which powerful software can actually be run.
1) Your files and data reside in cloud; so They can snoop on you and also hold you hostage as you won't easily leave their service (downloading multi GB of your data is not fun; so you end up paying the yearly subscription fee).
2) software upgrade; service can be changed instantly on the server side(say they want to introduce a new spyware feature; asking you to upgrade the app is not easy as you will ignore the 'helpful suggestion')
3) Since you have already submitted to their service and have data in their servers, they can do pricing changes at will
4) May be tie-ups with access providers like mobile broadband ISPs since you will consume more bandwidth; also since you need a network connection they may push new ads which may not possible on a offline PC with their software.
5) They get access to big data to mine and do things like ML/AI
Bottom line, cloud/SaaS makes more financial sense than doing stand-alone offline PC based.
The random order likely arose from the underlying data-structure (a hash or dictionary likely) holding the items. Just that the engineer didn't think a sort is necessary before presentation.
for item in foo_db: [instead of] for item in sorted(foo_db): [python snippet]
If you are smart enough to write a script to automate your task, aren't you smart enough to hide that from management? You should act like you are working while 90% of the time you are spending it on your own personal needs (hobby programming/learning/entertainment etc).
These days consumer electronics cost a fraction because of automation and economies of scale. Also the cheaper ones perform nearly as well as the most expensive ones. ie a $100 android smartphone does almost all of what a $1k iphone does. So why not just buy a cheap product and just replace it when something goes wrong? ie buy a newer another for another $100.
The phone was $100 because of automation and whatever helped in bringing the production cost down. Even the $1k one is not fault proof.. it is going to fail; so why invest that much?
The plan is just buy the cheapest one available in market that solves your current need (next 8 or 12 months) say and be prepared (do data backups etc) the thing will die; n don't bother about repair (takes too much human cognitive effort); just discard/e-waste it and buy a new one.
In the bell curve, you are likely to fall in the beyond 3rd std deviation range (99.7% r not like you); why would a company base its financial decisions on what is convenient to such a tiny fraction of its user-base?
And for homework assignment, track the user's eyeball movement with front camera and using the same AI/ML learning find the pattern (yeah ok to reduce search space from thousands into 12).
Also, someone claiming to be from 'Windows technical support' or anyone claiming to know shit about your computer, at all, preemptively. Just say no!
By doing that you have wasted your energy (to utter 'no'). Don't pick up the call or pick up and stay silent until you recognize the marketing call and disconnect.
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Yeah, if you are a dictator, you should do everything to keep your folks dumb and information deficient. But India is a democracy (not yet a totally runaway one); so here if party1 doesn't give what people really want (like say free access to information), party2 is ready to open its wallet. Yes, in the long run it's good for the masses and that is the true intention of a democracy not polarization/concentration of power in a few hands.
Yes, the targeted ad arrives which my adblock keeps it off from my eyes. Even if the ad still makes through, I ignore it. Sure, it did take about 1millisec of my atttention. I think it's a ok price to pay to get all the convenience of great software to manage my photos. I still don't understand what you are really losing. See if someone with lot of power/money wants to know about you, they can do it today -- just hire a private detective and watch you for a month.
The crux of the issue is lot of human activities is doing totally irrelevant/unneeded things. Like counting number of sand grains or building 100m meter statues for some human
Or sitting around trying to look busy for 7 hours reading /. because you can get all your shit done in 1.
In that case, he should use the 7 hours to gain the knowledge to reach escape velocity (financial independence / retirement/ simple or frugal living). Then all waking hours are available to pursue passion/hobby (if already have one or the passion will find him) with full space/time freedom (not needed to be in that morning meeting)
Right mostly except that to stay relevant you don't have to contribute physical things. Just if you can keep your mind calm and happy, just your presence enriches the world. If you can get your mind to a celebratory mode. World and people already have plenty of "things" (how many billion hours of teaching/fun material in youtube today?). A rose plant is working to stay relevant; it just exists and enjoys the breeze going by. So can you be like a 3 year old.
Yes, you won't be idle. The right passion will spot you and catch you. You must of course stay with high awareness (not dumbing substances indulgence like drug/alcohol). You will be working/exploring that field (art/math/science/sport), even as a fan not necessarily as a performer.
Yes, we have a problem wherein too much wealth and power are concentrated among too few people.
And what is your solution to this problem? Should we just hope the wealthy have a change of heart? We tried labor unions and look what happened to those. You are standing in the way of progress. Be careful because it may run you over and drag you with it.
Those in power want to have power. It's basic human nature or rather power's nature to ensure power exists and not annihilate itself into thin air, just like in nature xyz wants to ensure the existence/survival/expansion of xyz (itself).
As long as a human enjoys pushing down another human, we will have the power pyramid. You can automate everything, still you will find a human doing power-play on another human (likely this game will go on eternally) like controlling the other on how the other spends his/her time/attention/energy.
The only way a slave becomes a non-slave is when this alone becomes his/her goal - n becomes the goal (ie becoming a non-slave; it's even ok to die free but not continue this being a slave)
You like having things, like clothing, food, electricity? Well, somebody has got to produce all of that for you. You think THEY want to work for free? .
humans not not produce those. Machines/automation can do it. Just like oxygen for human consumption is made by something (likely so) less intelligent living things called plants/trees.
The crux of the issue is lot of human activities is doing totally irrelevant/unneeded things. Like counting number of sand grains or building 100m meter statues for some human
Why use human's ugly greed/selfishness to describe evolution. Nature just plays; celebrates as one whole. I believe the human hemoglobin molecule structure is present likely even in a mosquito or any oxygen breathing living thing. The point is Nature like a mathematician explores the universe/nature/it-self. It doesn't think of species1 is exploiting species2.. in fact even a grass may be happier if it ends up in the stomach of a goat. The phrases like 'survival of the fittest' etc comes from a sick mind (mine bigger than yours mindset). Think of one global Oneness, expanding playing with itself. Even after E=mc^2 and how all are connected what is the this talk of xyz riding over abc bs.
The real reason they go for MAS (mood altering substances like drugs/alcohol) is they don't find normal life interesting. They don't hv a passion/hobby to direct their energy/waking-hours. The root for this there never experienced giving or receiving love/care to fellow humans. These humans first start from immediate family; later they look for such ppl in society. In a very materialistic/ego-centric society like western countries (US say) he/she instinctively realizes the pointlessness of most ppl's life and feels it's ok to do anything to get the fix (steal, rob, what not). Only if the society's collective awareness is high, will a person be able to try leading a life without MAS. I believe some eastern cultures provide a society which is little like that, say in tibet/nepal/india (spiritual places - more aligned with nature than say EPS or PE of a stock).
At the end, it's a herculean task for anyone to escape the clutches of MAS unless he is some kinda chosen one. Surely the collective societal awareness plays a role.
It's not about lack of money to treat addiction; it's the lack of a family/social-circle/friends. Once a person realizes he has no one, he loses all motivation to even take care of his body. So even if you provide him with money like basic income, he will still choose to vegetate in some street corner. The deeper issue is he has lost all motivation to live and also lacks the courage or need to commit suicide.
So the question is how do you solve this issue? the only way is as a society it has to become more humane so he knows he is after all not alone. Or he has such high intelligence to know that there is something higher (treading on religions region here) that it's worth not spoiling his health and at least stay away from mood altering substances.
Unless you are kinda super intelligent, it only takes a little intelligence to see the pointlessness in most/all human endeavours. So why do it then.
What is spoken language? it's just describing the visual objects and how they move about. Once you have object recognition, you need a set of verbs (standalone objects can shrink/expand; 2 or more objects: coming close together, separating away) -- these verbs define what the laws of physics/motion allow. Once you abstract these motions and got your verb set, describing the visual objects and their motion becomes what is spoken language.
The voice conveys a lot about the state of the mind as it uses breathing/exhale breath. So hearing someone's voice you know if it's safe to talk or not. In fact a lack of small-talk may suggest the other is in a state of 'leave me alone'. And once you know the mind-state you can also know if the other is friend-or-foe (ffid friend foe identification).
In space craft, parachute is tied to a capsule/a hard shell. Inside the shell, likely men hv oxygen tanks or it's pressured. Throwing out passengers from a 737/747/a380 with a parachute on their back from say 32k feet, they likely will die before parachute opens due to breathing issues.
where parachute may help is if the aircraft is cripp.ed but flyable (like say all engine failure and gliding); so it can coast say 1000 ft above land/water and passengers can jump off. Even here crashlanding and staying inside the metal enclosure likely saves more lives.
compression is good for various other reasons like storage; there is a trade off CPU versus network bandwidth between sender and receiver. It's related to trading code versus data (generator vs look-up table). If you can have a small algorithm to generate the nth prime number, you don't hv to carry around a huge table of primes.
For various applications the inter-node data traversal is the costly operation (fancy eg an intelligence in a far away star wants to send information, it's best it compresses it and may be send the decoding code/algorithm along).
One reason why platform like twitter survived is because it forced humans to compress our thoughts into a few lines instead of a whole page of prose like a blog/fb post.
Why wait for 5 attempts? just one failure and lock-out; even send some SoS for help. You know there is no reason someone should be looking into your phone [may be provide a exception set like for family]
If you are legally required to provide evidence and you fail to, aren't you guilty? Why we need to care if they ran the logs are not? that's in their domain. Out side our scope.
That may need a human to be sent out-doors to tap/fix the twisted-pair. Or may be easier to find some holes in the telephone service providers systems. Or may be directly in the so called bank's 1-800 system. Or the weakest link - human - bribe a human/supervisor in the 1-800 back office.
So todo: install malware in the target's phone so when the said number is called, it gets routed to our systems.
What exactly was wrong with a fast, fully featured, files on your drive executable I will never understand. Maybe in a decade or so a new generation will get tired of javascript black holes and unresponsive, lag ridden cloud-based "software" and actually think about going back to the idea of a PC as a fast, responsive, personal computer on which powerful software can actually be run.
1) Your files and data reside in cloud; so They can snoop on you and also hold you hostage as you won't easily leave their service (downloading multi GB of your data is not fun; so you end up paying the yearly subscription fee). /SaaS makes more financial sense than doing stand-alone offline PC based.
2) software upgrade; service can be changed instantly on the server side(say they want to introduce a new spyware feature; asking you to upgrade the app is not easy as you will ignore the 'helpful suggestion')
3) Since you have already submitted to their service and have data in their servers, they can do pricing changes at will
4) May be tie-ups with access providers like mobile broadband ISPs since you will consume more bandwidth; also since you need a network connection they may push new ads which may not possible on a offline PC with their software.
5) They get access to big data to mine and do things like ML/AI
Bottom line, cloud
The random order likely arose from the underlying data-structure (a hash or dictionary likely) holding the items. Just that the engineer didn't think a sort is necessary before presentation.
for item in foo_db: [instead of] for item in sorted(foo_db): [python snippet]
If you are smart enough to write a script to automate your task, aren't you smart enough to hide that from management? You should act like you are working while 90% of the time you are spending it on your own personal needs (hobby programming/learning/entertainment etc).
These days consumer electronics cost a fraction because of automation and economies of scale. Also the cheaper ones perform nearly as well as the most expensive ones. ie a $100 android smartphone does almost all of what a $1k iphone does. So why not just buy a cheap product and just replace it when something goes wrong? ie buy a newer another for another $100.
The phone was $100 because of automation and whatever helped in bringing the production cost down. Even the $1k one is not fault proof.. it is going to fail; so why invest that much?
The plan is just buy the cheapest one available in market that solves your current need (next 8 or 12 months) say and be prepared (do data backups etc) the thing will die; n don't bother about repair (takes too much human cognitive effort); just discard/e-waste it and buy a new one.
In the bell curve, you are likely to fall in the beyond 3rd std deviation range (99.7% r not like you); why would a company base its financial decisions on what is convenient to such a tiny fraction of its user-base?
This is WHY they are poor. Retail is unproductive and an economic dead end. .
This is BECAUSE they are poor.
And for homework assignment, track the user's eyeball movement with front camera and using the same AI/ML learning find the pattern (yeah ok to reduce search space from thousands into 12).
Also, someone claiming to be from 'Windows technical support' or anyone claiming to know shit about your computer, at all, preemptively. Just say no!
By doing that you have wasted your energy (to utter 'no'). Don't pick up the call or pick up and stay silent until you recognize the marketing call and disconnect.