Corporations want infrastructure, rule of the law, and educated workforce that comes with doing business in US while paying third-world wages and hiding income in tax shelters. You can't have it both ways.
I also highly doubt that Canada, for example, going to look any more favorable on work visas. If they move to Canada, they will have to hire Canadians (or people eligible for NAFTA visas). That won't be 25K/year PhDs from India.
I have been playing since 1998, made to Diamond in Season 1 and 2 and still think that competitive SC2 game play is highly formalistic and largely a miss. As a result I did not purchase expansions.
Watching other play, I think SC2 is actually more fun at Silver-Bronze level, where there isn't skill level to instantly identify right strategy. Anything above that level becomes a repetitive exercise in doing one thing over and over and over again.
Star Craft 2, at competitive level was about executing a single optimal strategy with as much polish as you could. As such, entire gameplay devolved into timed pushes instead of actual strategy.
As to single player SC2, it was mildly entertaining with Blizzard Cinematics. Maybe they should turn into animation studio if their key (and arguably the only) strength is cut scenes.
Ultima Online is still around with people still paying subscriptions. It turns that prolonged death spiral with minimal investment is more profitable than trying to replicate poorly-understood success. It would have been highly ironic if Blizzard failed to clone WoW with Titan.
It turns out, even Blizzard doesn't understand its own success enough to replicate it.
Search engines are absolutely awful at finding reviews. Try goggling "reviews for X", absolutely zero useful content. Into this void Yelp and other smaller rent-seekers stepped in. With their racketeering they poisoned the system to the point of being useless.
If you are a boomer, then no, the blame is squarely on your shoulders. Your wars, your outsourcing, your deficit spending, your government pensions, your lack of infrastructure spending, your derivative shell games. It didn't happen on its own.
You must be another boomer in denial. Your generation are like locust, squandered wealth built by great generation, shipped manufacturing and job overseas, raked up debt and managed to saddle my generation with outrageous education loans and depressed salaries.
My lucrative career affords me more cars than anyone else in my group of early 30s friends. I also genuinely like cars. I have multiple roadsters, a sports coupe, a classic car, and so on. I frequently let people take them for a ride.
Not a single person out of "we don't care about cars" turned down an offer to take out Porsche 911 or Big-Block Corvette for a spin. This leads me to believe that such "don't care" responses are rationalizations. Thing is, our generation got shat on by baby boomers. As such, very few of us could afford anything but a boring appliance for a car. I too wouldn't care about used Corolla.
I don't agree with smart homes due to high potential for abuse of its monitoring features. With this said...
The problem is that we don't have a uniform way to identify people across multiple systems and interfaces. I have my house and car keys, I have my logins and PINs, I have my banking cards... There is absolutely no need for such redundancy. There is no good reason why a device that is my car key couldn't also unlock my house, office, or my workstation.
Please, we know that corporations cannot be trusted with our privacy. It is basic conflict of interest, and capitalism dictates that over long enough timescale they will do wrong thing every time.
You are basically asking them to lie to you in order to convince you of something that can't possibly be true.
Have you considered security implications of your remotely controllable thermostat? Even if we disregard vulnerabilities and flaws, the simple fact that you are establishing remote connection to your thermostat from far away could be a very good indicator for potential burglar.
I could understand (from radical fundamentalist point of view) other bans, but why math? Even Koran (I think?) has writings on commerce (math), tithe (math) and so on.
Increasingly intelligent? No, there are no selective pressures for this. As to families of simply intelligent people? That is rather easy, this is called upper-middle class and the lack of social mobility.
If you want to read up on this, start with studies on Ashkenazi Jews.
You are technically correct on one point, this study did not look into broad question of heritability of intelligence. They only looked into specific genes linked to specific traits associated with some aspects of intelligence. From the general body of knowledge we also know that these genes would be heritable.
Since we are nitpicking, you are also incorrect by stating that "the predictive utility of what they have discovered" - they have not performed exhaustive search for all genes that would positively and negatively impact memory and learning, as such it is still only a correlation.
I partially agree, they should have at least limited to degrees in hard science. If anything, there is a negative correlation with intelligence to getting a PhD in social sciences, like gender studies or communication.
You are moving the goalposts. This study didn't set out to completely explain intelligence on genetic level, they set out to find some evidence that some aspects of intelligence can be linked to specific genes and they found them. They also found a number of false positives, leading to your mistaken conclusion that they only found false positives.
As many of you know, you can do amazing things with Raspberry Pi and can completely waste performance of Xeon E5. Intelligence is not interchangeable with success or productivity.
The summary is incorrect, please read the abstract to form your own opinion. Specifically:
"Convergent evidence from a set of bioinformatics analyses implicates four specific genes (KNCMA1, NRXN1, POU2F3, and SCRT). All of these genes are associated with a particular neurotransmitter pathway involved in synaptic plasticity, the main cellular mechanism for learning and memory. "
Intelligence is highly heritable, but there is no single 'genius' gene and often there are multiple genetic markers that have similar positive or negative effects. This study looked for common genetic variants that correlated with memory and learning and found them!
We understand entropy, but have we considered that a symmetrical and opposite phenomena could exist and be primarily responsible for creation of life? That is, some property of information to self-organize that leads to creation of life, and later to creation of intelligence?
While I hate people that drive and text, I don't see the solution proposed by the article as effective. Phones are cheap enough and portable enough that there is no way to enforce such "interlock" if the user does not want to comply.
Fundamentally, text and driving is an interface design problem. Instant messaging interfaces are designed to almost fully occupy your attention while information conveyed is nearly trivial to cognitively process. As such, removing the need to type with your thumbs on a tiny screen to text would be my recommended solution.
You can make similar argument for any life-saving treatment, for example cardiac-health related. Any serious heart-related issue used to be terminal, but we largely addressed this and in process greatly increased average lifespan. Now, if you get to a hospital in time you likely to survive.
Technically, your conclusion is invalid due to hidden premise tied to your Premise 1. What you are trying to implicate with your hidden premise is that life-extending treatment will be forever unaffordable to masses. While possible, this clearly goes against all historical precedent. The likely outcome that at first it will be expensive and unaffordable, then eventually due to economies of scale nearly everyone will have access to it. This "eventually" is short enough that it won't create H. G. Wells' morlocks out of treated population.
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Corporations want infrastructure, rule of the law, and educated workforce that comes with doing business in US while paying third-world wages and hiding income in tax shelters. You can't have it both ways.
I also highly doubt that Canada, for example, going to look any more favorable on work visas. If they move to Canada, they will have to hire Canadians (or people eligible for NAFTA visas). That won't be 25K/year PhDs from India.
I have been playing since 1998, made to Diamond in Season 1 and 2 and still think that competitive SC2 game play is highly formalistic and largely a miss. As a result I did not purchase expansions.
Watching other play, I think SC2 is actually more fun at Silver-Bronze level, where there isn't skill level to instantly identify right strategy. Anything above that level becomes a repetitive exercise in doing one thing over and over and over again.
No, you can thank Robert "the packaged goods" Kotick that sacrificed fun at the altar of profit.
Star Craft 2, at competitive level was about executing a single optimal strategy with as much polish as you could. As such, entire gameplay devolved into timed pushes instead of actual strategy.
As to single player SC2, it was mildly entertaining with Blizzard Cinematics. Maybe they should turn into animation studio if their key (and arguably the only) strength is cut scenes.
Ultima Online is still around with people still paying subscriptions. It turns that prolonged death spiral with minimal investment is more profitable than trying to replicate poorly-understood success. It would have been highly ironic if Blizzard failed to clone WoW with Titan.
It turns out, even Blizzard doesn't understand its own success enough to replicate it.
Search engines are absolutely awful at finding reviews. Try goggling "reviews for X", absolutely zero useful content. Into this void Yelp and other smaller rent-seekers stepped in. With their racketeering they poisoned the system to the point of being useless.
Absolutely perfect if you enjoy pain. Safe word "banana".
Clearly, anonymous reader is a masochist.
To increase your pleasure, I suggest Damn Vulnerable Linux.
If you are a boomer, then no, the blame is squarely on your shoulders. Your wars, your outsourcing, your deficit spending, your government pensions, your lack of infrastructure spending, your derivative shell games. It didn't happen on its own.
You must be another boomer in denial. Your generation are like locust, squandered wealth built by great generation, shipped manufacturing and job overseas, raked up debt and managed to saddle my generation with outrageous education loans and depressed salaries.
Hurry up and die off already.
I disagree.
My lucrative career affords me more cars than anyone else in my group of early 30s friends. I also genuinely like cars. I have multiple roadsters, a sports coupe, a classic car, and so on. I frequently let people take them for a ride.
Not a single person out of "we don't care about cars" turned down an offer to take out Porsche 911 or Big-Block Corvette for a spin. This leads me to believe that such "don't care" responses are rationalizations. Thing is, our generation got shat on by baby boomers. As such, very few of us could afford anything but a boring appliance for a car. I too wouldn't care about used Corolla.
I don't agree with smart homes due to high potential for abuse of its monitoring features. With this said...
The problem is that we don't have a uniform way to identify people across multiple systems and interfaces. I have my house and car keys, I have my logins and PINs, I have my banking cards... There is absolutely no need for such redundancy. There is no good reason why a device that is my car key couldn't also unlock my house, office, or my workstation.
Please, we know that corporations cannot be trusted with our privacy. It is basic conflict of interest, and capitalism dictates that over long enough timescale they will do wrong thing every time.
You are basically asking them to lie to you in order to convince you of something that can't possibly be true.
Have you considered security implications of your remotely controllable thermostat? Even if we disregard vulnerabilities and flaws, the simple fact that you are establishing remote connection to your thermostat from far away could be a very good indicator for potential burglar.
Exactly. Opposing scientific principle and results, be it climate science, evolution, or math are all different degrees of the same folly.
I could understand (from radical fundamentalist point of view) other bans, but why math? Even Koran (I think?) has writings on commerce (math), tithe (math) and so on.
Increasingly intelligent? No, there are no selective pressures for this. As to families of simply intelligent people? That is rather easy, this is called upper-middle class and the lack of social mobility.
If you want to read up on this, start with studies on Ashkenazi Jews.
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You are technically correct on one point, this study did not look into broad question of heritability of intelligence. They only looked into specific genes linked to specific traits associated with some aspects of intelligence. From the general body of knowledge we also know that these genes would be heritable.
Since we are nitpicking, you are also incorrect by stating that "the predictive utility of what they have discovered" - they have not performed exhaustive search for all genes that would positively and negatively impact memory and learning, as such it is still only a correlation.
I partially agree, they should have at least limited to degrees in hard science. If anything, there is a negative correlation with intelligence to getting a PhD in social sciences, like gender studies or communication.
You are moving the goalposts. This study didn't set out to completely explain intelligence on genetic level, they set out to find some evidence that some aspects of intelligence can be linked to specific genes and they found them. They also found a number of false positives, leading to your mistaken conclusion that they only found false positives.
As many of you know, you can do amazing things with Raspberry Pi and can completely waste performance of Xeon E5. Intelligence is not interchangeable with success or productivity.
The summary is incorrect, please read the abstract to form your own opinion. Specifically:
"Convergent evidence from a set of bioinformatics analyses implicates four specific genes (KNCMA1, NRXN1, POU2F3, and SCRT). All of these genes are associated with a particular neurotransmitter pathway involved in synaptic plasticity, the main cellular mechanism for learning and memory. "
Intelligence is highly heritable, but there is no single 'genius' gene and often there are multiple genetic markers that have similar positive or negative effects. This study looked for common genetic variants that correlated with memory and learning and found them!
We understand entropy, but have we considered that a symmetrical and opposite phenomena could exist and be primarily responsible for creation of life? That is, some property of information to self-organize that leads to creation of life, and later to creation of intelligence?
While I hate people that drive and text, I don't see the solution proposed by the article as effective. Phones are cheap enough and portable enough that there is no way to enforce such "interlock" if the user does not want to comply.
Fundamentally, text and driving is an interface design problem. Instant messaging interfaces are designed to almost fully occupy your attention while information conveyed is nearly trivial to cognitively process. As such, removing the need to type with your thumbs on a tiny screen to text would be my recommended solution.
You can make similar argument for any life-saving treatment, for example cardiac-health related. Any serious heart-related issue used to be terminal, but we largely addressed this and in process greatly increased average lifespan. Now, if you get to a hospital in time you likely to survive.
Technically, your conclusion is invalid due to hidden premise tied to your Premise 1. What you are trying to implicate with your hidden premise is that life-extending treatment will be forever unaffordable to masses. While possible, this clearly goes against all historical precedent. The likely outcome that at first it will be expensive and unaffordable, then eventually due to economies of scale nearly everyone will have access to it. This "eventually" is short enough that it won't create H. G. Wells' morlocks out of treated population.