I can't tell if this is humor, sarcasm, or trolling.
But since trees can and will both decay and burn, they are not a long-term solution. Plus it would take so many trees that you would have to destroy most natural ecosystems and farmland for us to plant our way out of the 2-degree rise by 2100 even with really productive plants like poplar trees and switchgrass.
Tree planting can help some though, particularly in equatorial regions. Like most things, rarely are the solutions simple to very complex problems. A multi-pronged attack with rapid reduction in fossil fuels, in combination with various CO2 sequestration efforts (like biomass) appears to be the quickest, most effective approach at the moment.
Which part of your comment is an observation and which part is your concept? Observation vs Concept @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1lM3PFS
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
Maybe the correct solution is to stop tilling up carbon and figure out food production based on perennials.
"Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1ck0tnM
...is a faith based proposition. Nature already has a way to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere for long term storage: trees. Start planting trees on the monocrop, annual farmlands.
Yeah, sure. You're an antelope and you're in a room full of lions, and tigers, and cheetahs, who are arguing over who gets to eat you. Do you really think they're going to unanimously agree to not eat you? At worst, they kill each other off until one is left, who then proceeds to eat you. At best, they agree to split the kill; then they all eat you, they just get a little less. In the latter scenario, they further agree to split all future antelope. Welcome to CAPITALISM.
I think you just described democracy:
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!”
Benjamin Franklin
CAPLAN: Yeah. What I usually tell people who say, “Look, give me a reason why school is great” is that there’s going to be something you learn there that’s going to be invaluable.
Say, “Look, I agree that it makes sense to expose people to a variety of subjects, but it seems like it makes a lot more sense to expose them to 10 or 20 subjects that they’re actually likely to use than 10 subjects that virtually no one on Earth uses.”
Rather than saying, “Let’s make sure everyone studies poetry and art history and a foreign language in America, and everyone learns a bunch of sports.” Instead, why not make sure everyone spends a few weeks learning some plumbing, a few weeks learning some electricity, a few weeks going into learning some customer service?
Yeah, you do want to have a diverse menu. You don’t want to lock a 12-year-old into a career when he’s 12. But it’s still far better to go expose him to a tasty menu of realistic options, rather than the tasty menu of pipe dreams, which is what seems to be education is mostly about.
TALEB: Then, the root of that, my feeling, in the Anglo-Saxon world is the desire—this is why they call it liberal arts education—to aristocratic ties to themselves.
Again, let’s talk about the Greco-Roman world. You had the trivium or quadrivium, absolutely nothing practical about them, the rhetoric, the grammar, some things. The liberal education was what people learned in order to become aristocrat and idle upper class.
Then you had the real professions of becoming a baker, how to do something with wood. And the English, the upper class—of course they didn’t want to be working class, so they sent their kids to learn that stuff. And this is what came to America.
Education is split in two. You have technical education like law—not technical, but professional education—law, medicine, what else? Engineering and all these things, and then you have mathematics. If you look at it historically, the engineers didn’t really connect to the other ones because the Roman engineers did not use Greek geometry.
We only started using Greek geometry late in life after the educational system started including mathematics for these people. Engineers built cathedrals without clear geometry. It was actually more robust.
Geometry will give you these ugly corners. Before, we didn’t even know what the right angle is. Before, it was more involved, it was rule of thumb, and it was different. They had the separation, segregation.
So what you want to do? Is this liberal education that’s contaminating the rest? Or is it the technical that’s contaminating the expectation of what education should be like?
You say, “OK, this is the kind of thing you do like piano lessons on the weekends.” You read Homer and stuff like that. It’s important, and you become civilized. Stuff you do to be civilized and be able to have dinner with the vice president of the World Bank, these are the things you do. And these are the things you do to get you ahead in life.
Your problem has been a known problem ever since you had Rome and Greece competing.
It's ironic that, for a while, the kids going to the votech classes were considered the "less intelligent" people. These days, with the rise of STEM programs and magnet schools, it's the smart kids that get training in high school on more practical or technical skills such as programming, electronics, etc.
Unfortunately, the guy in the story is one injury away from being a greeter at a box store, while his friends who are still in college will have office jobs where any injury would likely be a papercut, but even if serious, would be easily accommodated.
Sounds like something someone with soft hands living in parents basement would say...
That's funny. When my older brother went to high school in the late 1970's, he took vocational courses in automotive and became a auto body specialist after graduating. When I got into high school in the early 1980's, vocational courses were gone. No automotive, no construction, no farming. It was college prep for all the kids, dumb and smart. A one size fits all education. Now we got a shortage of skilled trade workers because everyone wants a high-paying desk job that requires a minimal amount of physical labor.
One size fits none education. My high school had a vo-tech in the 90s. I think there are still some vocational high schools still around.
That is, machine learning doesn't have to match experts or decades of experience or judgement. We’re not automating experts. Rather, we’re asking ‘listen to all the phone calls and find the angry ones’. ‘Read all the emails and find the anxious ones’. ‘Look at a hundred thousand photos and find the cool (or at least weird) people’.
In a sense, this is what automation always does; Excel didn't give us artificial accountants, Photoshop and Indesign didn’t give us artificial graphic designers and indeed steam engines didn’t give us artificial horses. (In an earlier wave of ‘AI’, chess computers didn’t give us a grumpy middle-aged Russian in a box.) Rather, we automated one discrete task, at massive scale.
RFC1918 and port address translation effectively dealt with the IP address problem without the additional complexity of IPv6. IPv6 isn't just "IPv4 with more IP addresses."
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I can't tell if this is humor, sarcasm, or trolling.
But since trees can and will both decay and burn, they are not a long-term solution. Plus it would take so many trees that you would have to destroy most natural ecosystems and farmland for us to plant our way out of the 2-degree rise by 2100 even with really productive plants like poplar trees and switchgrass.
Tree planting can help some though, particularly in equatorial regions. Like most things, rarely are the solutions simple to very complex problems. A multi-pronged attack with rapid reduction in fossil fuels, in combination with various CO2 sequestration efforts (like biomass) appears to be the quickest, most effective approach at the moment.
Which part of your comment is an observation and which part is your concept? Observation vs Concept @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1lM3PFS
The trouble is that trees store carbon far, far slower than we dig it up. You cannot stabilize CO2 levels on human-relevant timescales with trees alone, artificial CO2 sequestration is absolutely necessary.
Maybe the correct solution is to stop tilling up carbon and figure out food production based on perennials. "Every culture that has depended on annual plants for their staple food crops has collapsed." @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1ck0tnM
...is a faith based proposition. Nature already has a way to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere for long term storage: trees. Start planting trees on the monocrop, annual farmlands.
"A 1.6 Billion-Year-Old Accident Waiting to Happen" http://bit.ly/18a3ul5
Yeah, sure. You're an antelope and you're in a room full of lions, and tigers, and cheetahs, who are arguing over who gets to eat you. Do you really think they're going to unanimously agree to not eat you? At worst, they kill each other off until one is left, who then proceeds to eat you. At best, they agree to split the kill; then they all eat you, they just get a little less. In the latter scenario, they further agree to split all future antelope. Welcome to CAPITALISM.
I think you just described democracy:
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” Benjamin Franklin
The solution to net neutrality is more ISP competition.
CAPLAN: Yeah. What I usually tell people who say, “Look, give me a reason why school is great” is that there’s going to be something you learn there that’s going to be invaluable.
Say, “Look, I agree that it makes sense to expose people to a variety of subjects, but it seems like it makes a lot more sense to expose them to 10 or 20 subjects that they’re actually likely to use than 10 subjects that virtually no one on Earth uses.”
Rather than saying, “Let’s make sure everyone studies poetry and art history and a foreign language in America, and everyone learns a bunch of sports.” Instead, why not make sure everyone spends a few weeks learning some plumbing, a few weeks learning some electricity, a few weeks going into learning some customer service?
Yeah, you do want to have a diverse menu. You don’t want to lock a 12-year-old into a career when he’s 12. But it’s still far better to go expose him to a tasty menu of realistic options, rather than the tasty menu of pipe dreams, which is what seems to be education is mostly about.
"liberal arts" means that you had to take English and other things unrelated to your science degree.
Everybody who got a science degree at a real University has a "liberal arts degree."
The alternative is to go to a trade school, where you don't have those extra requirements.
https://medium.com/conversatio...
TALEB: Then, the root of that, my feeling, in the Anglo-Saxon world is the desire—this is why they call it liberal arts education—to aristocratic ties to themselves.
Again, let’s talk about the Greco-Roman world. You had the trivium or quadrivium, absolutely nothing practical about them, the rhetoric, the grammar, some things. The liberal education was what people learned in order to become aristocrat and idle upper class.
Then you had the real professions of becoming a baker, how to do something with wood. And the English, the upper class—of course they didn’t want to be working class, so they sent their kids to learn that stuff. And this is what came to America.
Education is split in two. You have technical education like law—not technical, but professional education—law, medicine, what else? Engineering and all these things, and then you have mathematics. If you look at it historically, the engineers didn’t really connect to the other ones because the Roman engineers did not use Greek geometry.
We only started using Greek geometry late in life after the educational system started including mathematics for these people. Engineers built cathedrals without clear geometry. It was actually more robust.
Geometry will give you these ugly corners. Before, we didn’t even know what the right angle is. Before, it was more involved, it was rule of thumb, and it was different. They had the separation, segregation.
So what you want to do? Is this liberal education that’s contaminating the rest? Or is it the technical that’s contaminating the expectation of what education should be like?
You say, “OK, this is the kind of thing you do like piano lessons on the weekends.” You read Homer and stuff like that. It’s important, and you become civilized. Stuff you do to be civilized and be able to have dinner with the vice president of the World Bank, these are the things you do. And these are the things you do to get you ahead in life.
Your problem has been a known problem ever since you had Rome and Greece competing.
Bryan Caplan and Nassim Nicholas Taleb on What’s Missing in Education (Bonus-Live at Mercatus) https://medium.com/conversatio...
It's ironic that, for a while, the kids going to the votech classes were considered the "less intelligent" people. These days, with the rise of STEM programs and magnet schools, it's the smart kids that get training in high school on more practical or technical skills such as programming, electronics, etc.
“...I’d rather be antifragile than smart.”—@nntaleb https://medium.com/conversatio...
It's called foresight. Even the blue-collar folks have it, which is why disability insurance is a thing.
Where's the foresight in taking on 6-figures in debt for a liberal arts degree? Debt is disability by a hundred thousand paper cuts.
Unfortunately, the guy in the story is one injury away from being a greeter at a box store, while his friends who are still in college will have office jobs where any injury would likely be a papercut, but even if serious, would be easily accommodated.
Sounds like something someone with soft hands living in parents basement would say...
That's funny. When my older brother went to high school in the late 1970's, he took vocational courses in automotive and became a auto body specialist after graduating. When I got into high school in the early 1980's, vocational courses were gone. No automotive, no construction, no farming. It was college prep for all the kids, dumb and smart. A one size fits all education. Now we got a shortage of skilled trade workers because everyone wants a high-paying desk job that requires a minimal amount of physical labor.
One size fits none education. My high school had a vo-tech in the 90s. I think there are still some vocational high schools still around.
High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University https://www.npr.org/sections/e...
Social media is real-time entertainment; not to be taken seriously.
All media is entertainment. You want real news, go to your barbershop.
New Oxford Report must be part of the old media.
Techno salvation is a faith based proposition.
How do you like them fascism?!
polluted waters... Fertilizer & pesticide run off @RestorationAgD http://bit.ly/1nCBv9S
Have you tried eating only meat? http://meatheals.com/category/... Other, lower tech approaches: The Core Strategy | Crohn's Dad http://bit.ly/15S3dWL
Most orgs are barely keeping the lights on as it is and simply do not have enough horses to pull those wagons.
What's the appropriate rate?
RFC1918 and port address translation effectively dealt with the IP address problem without the additional complexity of IPv6. IPv6 isn't just "IPv4 with more IP addresses."