That was largely the intended point of my last paragraph. If you enjoy analyzing your life and getting a thrill from making statistically verifiable improvements.. by all means go for it! Pushing it on others as something everyone should be doing however is a little silly I think.
Generally agree, but I'd throw out there that sometimes enjoyment turns into habit which turns into routine. I agree one shouldn't feel guilty about "wasting" a bunch of time on anything they enjoy.. but I do think it's a good idea to from time to time take a good look at what one spends their free time doing.
I know I've fallen into the whole daily routine hole.. and it's surprisingly hard to recognize / climb out of.
While not my cup of tea.. I'm of the attitude that one should do whatever makes them happy.
People get off on all kinds of weird stuff.
Look at collectors. I don't get that shit either. People will spend as much as I did on a used car to buy a lamp with the same functional value and in some cases asthetic appearance you'd get at walmart.. because it was made a long time ago and/or is rare. Oh but not everything rare/old is valuable! There isn't even a clear definition or reason why one old/rare thing is priceless, and another is literally priceless (as in, no one will buy it). And a lot of people buy this stuff at auctions so they can sell it to other people who sell it to other people.. with no one actually wanting the object! I think it might all be a sick inside joke.
In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV.
Minor nitpick/personal view.. but I have a very hard time absorbing stuff when dealing with large numbers (how man hours are in a year.. I really don't have a clue). Percentages are much more shocking. Percentage of free time would probably be much more scary.
Not generally driven by efficiency, but happiness.
I guess theoretically the data could be used to increase happiness, but I'd rather use my tried and true method of: - doing things that I know make me happy - investigating things I suspect will make me happy - avoiding things which will not make me happy - maintaining balance in the necessary evils and mitigating negative aspects (career properly balanced between enough money to be happy and job that while I don't dance out of bed in the morning, I generally enjoy).
That said, different things make people happy. Some people are efficiency junkies. Some people are financial junkies (everyone knows at least one obsessive day trader who doesn't make much money, and knows it, but still spends every free moment playing in the stock market).
lets assume these tests were actually effective (big assumption). So they do a great job selecting candidates that are best for the position. Work places become better, but job hunting becomes worse. Do people want to take the chance of being one of the poor guys that gets bounced out by these tests some day for the reward of working with better peers.
Personally I like the balance generally where it is. I'll accept that I sometimes have to work with people who arn't really the best at their job in exchange for their being some variability in my favor when I'm looking for work (assuming these tests would have rules against me.. which is anyones guess.. ).
I have to assume trafficking drugs across the border is part of that. Not saying that's what happened here (small amount one would assume for personal use) but I imagine the idea is to catch the guys with the fun packages hidden in their spare tire...
engineers and technical masterminds throughout the country would give their right arm for.
Not me.
I always questioned why the hell they hired him in the first place. I'm no fan of GeoHot.. but I recognize he has some serious skills. Why the hell would he want to crank out web apps for a living. He's an intelligent guy and all, but what the heck would he have done for them where his true skills would be of any real use (his actual code is pretty meh..).
As for the story itself.. my god.. who cares. It's what.. a misdemeanour offense? He probably pleads guilty, pays a fine and goes home. He might not even see a jail cell in between.
And what useful information out there was very hard to find for the average user! It's easy to forget that only recently has finding information on the net become trivial. It used to involve a fair amount of effort.
All the information is available through a search engine.
It's only within the last while (seriously, think back) that it's been easy for the average user to get good, mostly reliable information of the net. There was a time when doing so required a lot of voodo. Encarta provided a click n` drool tool that any kid could use to do his school research paper with. I definitely remember seeing it used as a selling point (you'd see a sales person demo a computer "used car" style to some family.. and encarta was on the show and tell list).
Funny thing is, without support for popular plugins, it's not even a good minecraft host!
Unless you are playing with a circle of 100% trusted friends (and even then, being able to do a rollback when someone makes a mistake is good).. this is going to be mostly useless (in addition to being an insane ripoff).
It is much closer to the models that were developed to study Oil.
Except that you can't really produce oil in your basement following info found on the internet.
I suspect this will at most create a supply void that will quickly be filled by existing suppliers upping their production, and new suppliers entering a previously (one would assume) saturated market.
I guess it depends too on how much current suppliers keep in stock. That is, does the shortage hit right away, or is there a fairly long grace period for production to pick up. If the later, there might not be any change at all.
Luckily there is a whole process between arrest and prison with lawyers and gavels and stuff to sort that out. The system does kinda work sometimes.
As a side effect, that ipad is probably going to be evidence and the origional owner will probably not see it again till some time later on in the decade. That's one Apple product off the street.. and that's how these things are done.. one battle at a time!
There must be some very interesting psychology happening there, because you hear about this all the time. Granted not when $35M of drugs are involved, but you do hear about people consenting to completely voluntary searches, even when the police clearly explain they don’t have to consent and it is voluntary.. only to have drugs / weapons / stolen property found.
Then again, stupid criminals get caught more often... so maybe there is some selection bias happening.
I'm no law technician, but sitcom knowledge tells me it'll probably now be evidence in an extremely lengthly legal case, and will be returned to the original owner later in the decade.
Yup! I'm a box set junkie.. and some shows are definitely worse than others.
You also start picking up painfully repetitive elements that you'd otherwise miss / let slide. ST:TNG is horrible for this. Not just on major plot elements, but on minor character interation. Example:
When refering to the past (i.e. human achievement, historical events), it's almost always two people/events from real life, followed by one fictional.
The first 3 or 4 seasons of SG1 have to be the worst though. I mean I know they set a lot of the cliches we complain about now.. but good grief! They use some stuff so many times ("go on without me/we don't leave anyone behind" had to happen at least every 3'rd episode early on) it became cliche within it's own series!
Throw in a few inappopriate remarks similar to the already used "they need that energy for other things, like crying".. maybe some moment about 3/4 through where House is shocked into a weird sense of guilt after witnessing some selfless act or something.
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That was largely the intended point of my last paragraph. If you enjoy analyzing your life and getting a thrill from making statistically verifiable improvements .. by all means go for it! Pushing it on others as something everyone should be doing however is a little silly I think.
Personally I just eat the cost.
I pay the going rate when my tank runs out. I buy a car based largely on how it feels from the driver seat.
Sure I'm missing out on some money savings, but I get to use that time/chunk of my brain for other things I enjoy
Generally agree, but I'd throw out there that sometimes enjoyment turns into habit which turns into routine. I agree one shouldn't feel guilty about "wasting" a bunch of time on anything they enjoy.. but I do think it's a good idea to from time to time take a good look at what one spends their free time doing.
I know I've fallen into the whole daily routine hole .. and it's surprisingly hard to recognize / climb out of.
While not my cup of tea.. I'm of the attitude that one should do whatever makes them happy.
People get off on all kinds of weird stuff.
Look at collectors. I don't get that shit either. People will spend as much as I did on a used car to buy a lamp with the same functional value and in some cases asthetic appearance you'd get at walmart .. because it was made a long time ago and/or is rare. Oh but not everything rare/old is valuable! There isn't even a clear definition or reason why one old/rare thing is priceless, and another is literally priceless (as in, no one will buy it). And a lot of people buy this stuff at auctions so they can sell it to other people who sell it to other people.. with no one actually wanting the object! I think it might all be a sick inside joke.
That's it!
And it was xkcd too! I'm so damn embarrased right now .. :(
In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV.
Minor nitpick/personal view .. but I have a very hard time absorbing stuff when dealing with large numbers (how man hours are in a year.. I really don't have a clue). Percentages are much more shocking. Percentage of free time would probably be much more scary.
There was a good comic about people that run "efficiency blogs" that was along this same line.. but can't find it!
.. and I guess I enjoy abruptly ending posts mid paragraph with no final conclusion!
Not generally driven by efficiency, but happiness.
I guess theoretically the data could be used to increase happiness, but I'd rather use my tried and true method of:
- doing things that I know make me happy
- investigating things I suspect will make me happy
- avoiding things which will not make me happy
- maintaining balance in the necessary evils and mitigating negative aspects (career properly balanced between enough money to be happy and job that while I don't dance out of bed in the morning, I generally enjoy).
That said, different things make people happy. Some people are efficiency junkies. Some people are financial junkies (everyone knows at least one obsessive day trader who doesn't make much money, and knows it, but still spends every free moment playing in the stock market).
It's kind of an interesting thing to think about.
lets assume these tests were actually effective (big assumption). So they do a great job selecting candidates that are best for the position. Work places become better, but job hunting becomes worse. Do people want to take the chance of being one of the poor guys that gets bounced out by these tests some day for the reward of working with better peers.
Personally I like the balance generally where it is. I'll accept that I sometimes have to work with people who arn't really the best at their job in exchange for their being some variability in my favor when I'm looking for work (assuming these tests would have rules against me.. which is anyones guess.. ).
I imagine all the stuff that would come up for him on google is going to trump a minor possession charge.
Anyone hiring him is probably hiring him specifically because of his legal history.
He hasn't gotten into too much trouble for any of his other jailbreaks.
Interestingly, prison escape isn't always illegal depending on where you live (assuming no other crimes are committed in the process).
unrelated to border enforcement
I have to assume trafficking drugs across the border is part of that. Not saying that's what happened here (small amount one would assume for personal use) but I imagine the idea is to catch the guys with the fun packages hidden in their spare tire...
Pretty lame for a frame. He's gonna get what.. a small fine?
If gonna go to all that trouble.. may as well throw a brick of cocaine or something in there.
engineers and technical masterminds throughout the country would give their right arm for.
Not me.
I always questioned why the hell they hired him in the first place. I'm no fan of GeoHot .. but I recognize he has some serious skills. Why the hell would he want to crank out web apps for a living. He's an intelligent guy and all, but what the heck would he have done for them where his true skills would be of any real use (his actual code is pretty meh..).
As for the story itself.. my god.. who cares. It's what.. a misdemeanour offense? He probably pleads guilty, pays a fine and goes home. He might not even see a jail cell in between.
And what useful information out there was very hard to find for the average user! It's easy to forget that only recently has finding information on the net become trivial. It used to involve a fair amount of effort.
All the information is available through a search engine.
It's only within the last while (seriously, think back) that it's been easy for the average user to get good, mostly reliable information of the net. There was a time when doing so required a lot of voodo. Encarta provided a click n` drool tool that any kid could use to do his school research paper with. I definitely remember seeing it used as a selling point (you'd see a sales person demo a computer "used car" style to some family.. and encarta was on the show and tell list).
Funny thing is, without support for popular plugins, it's not even a good minecraft host!
Unless you are playing with a circle of 100% trusted friends (and even then, being able to do a rollback when someone makes a mistake is good) .. this is going to be mostly useless (in addition to being an insane ripoff).
It is much closer to the models that were developed to study Oil.
Except that you can't really produce oil in your basement following info found on the internet.
I suspect this will at most create a supply void that will quickly be filled by existing suppliers upping their production, and new suppliers entering a previously (one would assume) saturated market.
I guess it depends too on how much current suppliers keep in stock. That is, does the shortage hit right away, or is there a fairly long grace period for production to pick up. If the later, there might not be any change at all.
Luckily there is a whole process between arrest and prison with lawyers and gavels and stuff to sort that out. The system does kinda work sometimes.
As a side effect, that ipad is probably going to be evidence and the origional owner will probably not see it again till some time later on in the decade. That's one Apple product off the street.. and that's how these things are done.. one battle at a time!
There must be some very interesting psychology happening there, because you hear about this all the time. Granted not when $35M of drugs are involved, but you do hear about people consenting to completely voluntary searches, even when the police clearly explain they don’t have to consent and it is voluntary .. only to have drugs / weapons / stolen property found.
Then again, stupid criminals get caught more often ... so maybe there is some selection bias happening.
I'm no law technician, but sitcom knowledge tells me it'll probably now be evidence in an extremely lengthly legal case, and will be returned to the original owner later in the decade.
It actually took me a while to notice the video.
I was like half way through writing a similar post when I noticed it :)
Yup! I'm a box set junkie .. and some shows are definitely worse than others.
You also start picking up painfully repetitive elements that you'd otherwise miss / let slide. ST:TNG is horrible for this. Not just on major plot elements, but on minor character interation. Example:
When refering to the past (i.e. human achievement, historical events), it's almost always two people/events from real life, followed by one fictional.
The first 3 or 4 seasons of SG1 have to be the worst though. I mean I know they set a lot of the cliches we complain about now.. but good grief! They use some stuff so many times ("go on without me/we don't leave anyone behind" had to happen at least every 3'rd episode early on) it became cliche within it's own series!
Yup, I can actually see that.
Throw in a few inappopriate remarks similar to the already used "they need that energy for other things, like crying" .. maybe some moment about 3/4 through where House is shocked into a weird sense of guilt after witnessing some selfless act or something.