In my view, burnout occurs due to the reason that people do not have a well-conceived goals. Understand that, and work for it - you wont have burnout at all. People with real well-conceived goals, work for 100 hr weeks and they are the happiest there could be (cant say the same for the family though )
But, if you are working for the sake of working - or to just to feed yourselves and family, they you are a prime candidate for burnout.
I have come pretty close to burnouts - and it is not during the time when I worked 85 Hrs/week; it was when I was doing stuff for which I had no interest at all. Even though I knew it all along, I understood that money was not my goal in my life pretty much late in my life. Once I understood that, everyday of work was a horror. I was working maybe 5/6 hours a week - and still I was close to burnout.
Not quite true. Many a time, long lasting civilizations actively support pornography - they tend to understand that it is a basic need for humans, and is not a taboo. Erotic art was there in manytemples and caves in India, Japan and other civilizations. But with the advent of Christianity with its much more constricted views of right and wrong, other civilizations changed. Ironic that what west sees as backwardness in other cultures is actually introduced by west itself.
Also, every RFID tag is supposed to have a kill code associated with it. You sent in the kill signal, and the RFID will be disabled permanently. Now, my guess is that the shops will all have these m/cs which will sent in the kill signal if the person buys the clothes. This is going to impact only the shoplifters - or the forgetful ones. So, I do not get what the big deal here is about.
It did extend the life by 12-20%, but what will happen in case there is an infection? Wouldnt this force us to have relatively poor immunity to diseases ? In the end, would this even out?
I was of your view until I read one another way of looking at it Human beings have a very small gene base. We all were created from the small base of around 10,000 people (i guess), who survived the Toba volcano eruption. Such being the case, it is very important for us to have the biggest gene variation as possible, lest some really bad happens to us (say a really bad virus or something).
In my view, it is very important to keep all the gene variations alive rather than killing off the the unsavory ones. I would even go to the extend of saying that keeping these people with genetic variations alive are more important, than the other 6 billion people, for our future, since we do not know what is going to hit us.
I agree. But, wouldn't most of the people be interested in what is going on around the world, and go through most of the pages? I know, I would. I regularly read wiki (for 1-2 hrs per day at the least) on most of the areas which I am remotely interested in.
And higher security clearance means that person is able - and able people do try to get in more information that others.
Not that these spies wont have such information otherwise, but this makes it much easier. Also, the spy, who would have just contributed only in his milieu, could now contribute in much vaster areas than earlier.
In my view, these are some areas which can provide a security nightmare. Think of spies - One spy gets into a high security clearance position, he has a complete list of all information, for which he might had to work for (or ask sub-ordinates) to obtain, in his fingertips.
I know they would have thought about it and provided adequate security for the same, but even then this is a little worrying developement.
I'm not all that comforatble with how 'stable' those 2 nations are.
I cant comment about Pakistan, but why would you even suggest that India is un-stable? India has a _VERY_ stable democracy, has a strong and essentially unsurpassable chain of command, has a no-first-use policy as far as nuclear weapons are concerned and does not have major controlling/territorial ambitions. I should consider that India seems to be very stable indeed.
Regarding Pakistan, even though they dont have such innate stability resulting from the afore-mentioned points, I would guess they are also just sabre-rattling, just to avoid any confrontations with more powerful neighbors. Esp. with the country, small as it is, they do not have the lee-way to attack anyone with nuclear weapons. Also, I cant think of them having any major territorial ambitions, other than the dispute with India regarding Kashmir.
They look quite stable indeed. Nobody wants to destroy the other knowing well that it means the end to them too.
Because, unlike other products, it is of no cost to mass produce in case of software. It is quite easy to bring the product to fore, in case of software.
Why should the EVMs be that complex? As complexity increases, chances of bugs/corruption etc increases. Make it similar to the ones used in India/Brazil wherein it did its work without any hassles.
In my viewpoint- The only issue with an EVM is the un-availability of a paper trail. That can be easily taken care of. Once the person presses the vote button, let it print out a reciept (which the voter can look and make sure), which the person then deposit in a ballot box. If issues of corruption occurs, we just have to count the reciepts. The reciept can be made in sucha a way that it is machine countable too. Thus, the hassles of big ballots and manual counting can be taken out, and still we have the paper trail to use.
IANAP, so just wondering; Why should we consider that all the gas should be hot? My question is such - Suppose the galaxy contains the remnants of lot of white dwarfs etc, wherein most of the elemental hydrogen has been converted to iron. Now, there is no more fusion possible, and because of which the gas, even though grouped together - stays as that - just a group of iron particles grouped by gravity, which is not hot enough to emit radiations. Since there is no fusion, it wouldnt emit any rays, and if it is big enough, would provide adequate gravitational lensing too.
I do understand that all these would be considered even before they start thinking about dark matter, but I just wanted some info on this.
The savings is manifold, I guess - 1. Reuse of EVMs across elections. - Dont need to print ballots and have the associated security apparatus in place every election.
Also, this is used in all elections - from small district level elections to nationwide one. 2. Result obtained in 3-4 hours per booth - Dont have to keep the security system in operation for the entire 30-40 hours (the average time taken for counting of ballots in pre-EVM days) 30-40 hours ~= 4-5 days. 3. Results obtained in a day - The whole commerical activities of the country grinds to a standstill during the days of counting. So savings happen implicitly if the results are obtained in 3-4 hours. 4. Payment of the people to count the votes (maynot be explicitly there, but does happen in round about terms of govt work getting stopped due to election work etc).
Maybe more ways are there, but I can think of only this much.
Thanks for the sarcasm. Note that the earlier comment wasnt about only the savings. Anyways, since the question is about savings, let me try to elaborate (just on the savings aspect of it).
In this case, I was talking about India, where money *do* matter. The election in India puts a huge burden on the exchequer, around 1000 Cr Rupees, which is a huge amount. With that savings, the election commision actually had a lot more police posted for previous election, and that election was considered amongst the best run by a huge margin.
In developing countries, these sort of money does matter. It allows for a better run election and a better run economy.
Not always. In India, the introduction of EVMs reduced the election expences by a magnitude of 10. Also, since there is a huge potential number of votes (upto 500 Million), it can reduce the time taken for the counting by a huge amount. Another point to be taken to consideration is that there was a lot of invalid votes (when people unknowingly pressed the marker between two candidates in the ballot) esp in places where illetracy is abound. In some places, the invalid votes was more than the difference of votes beween the winning and second candidates. The EVMs meant that invalid votes are no longer an issue. Also, there was an issue wherein a group of people will barge in a polling booth, and stuff some hundreds or thousands of ballots to the ballot box and run out. This invariably caused either (a) wrong counts or (b) re-voting in that booth. Now this is no longer an issue since there is a time limit between votes and if too many votes come in, it goes in to lock mode(i dont know whether the second option is used now, but the first one is still there - time limit is around 20 seconds or so).
Working out the protein's task won't be simple. With mice, researchers simply knock out genes to determine what they do. This cannot be done with primates.
I do not understand. Even though the issue is with the multiple copies of the same gene, can't the researchers just knock off this single gene in mice and get the basic idea of what this protien is all about?
After that they can go ahead and insert multiple copies to gather more info. But just because the protien is in the brain (and there are multiple copies in primates) doesnt alone to suggest that it is the one behind reasoning abilities of humans.
One interesting fact is that it looks as if higher up the intelligence scale of primates, the higher the count seems to be. But is that enough? Cant it be something that can be related to any of the other defining characteristics of humans ? Say, opposible thumbs or bipedal motion or something? These also do have relation to brain, doesnt it?
Anyways, it looks like there is much more to this than the article suggests, so I should keep mum, methinks
Kerala is quite a unique state. It has the highest human development index and a very high standard of living, while it's economic development is sub par. It has the highest literacy rate in India which reaches 91%. This is much more than the avg literacy rate of India. They have a very strong socialistic tendencies and is against any sort of monopoly which can affect the people adversely. One of the prime examples of fusion of captilastic and democratic socialistic views.
People there have very strong views about politics, every single one of them!!! They actively discuss politics and are acutely aware of the problems and advantages of different political and economic systems. They do tend to lean towards socialism a little more, though.
RMS has chosen wisely. If this has to have a chance of working anywhere, it would be in Kerala, I guess. .
The blog & the site is quite informative indeed. From the blog
The gravitational field, as reconstructed from lensing observations, is not pointing toward the ordinary matter. That's exactly what you'd expect if you believed in dark matter, but makes no sense from the perspective of modified gravity.
This is indeed a very strong evidence towards dark matter. But isn't it a little early to say that this cannot be explained using any sort of modified gravity theories? 1. The proof itself is hinged on gravitational lensing. Isn't there a possibility that some modified gravity theory (not MOND, something else), that along with the modification of gravity, it might modify the concept of gravitational lensing too? 2. It is known now that gravity is indeed associated with matter. Supposing later on some theory proposes that the function of gravity, or maybe gravitons, has some vector properties which makes it move away from the matter in some specific circumstances.
I know that occams razor doesnt point to any of these ideas being true. But I was just hypothesizing that many theories can occur later which could explain this even using modified gravity theories.
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In my view, burnout occurs due to the reason that people do not have a well-conceived goals.
Understand that, and work for it - you wont have burnout at all. People with real well-conceived goals, work for 100 hr weeks and they are the happiest there could be (cant say the same for the family though )
But, if you are working for the sake of working - or to just to feed yourselves and family, they you are a prime candidate for burnout.
I have come pretty close to burnouts - and it is not during the time when I worked 85 Hrs/week; it was when I was doing stuff for which I had no interest at all. Even though I knew it all along, I understood that money was not my goal in my life pretty much late in my life. Once I understood that, everyday of work was a horror. I was working maybe 5/6 hours a week - and still I was close to burnout.
I am pretty new to this field.
But how can an OCR handle images that are less than 300dpi?
Are they able to decode the text in that case?
Not quite true.
Many a time, long lasting civilizations actively support pornography - they tend to understand that it is a basic need for humans, and is not a taboo.
Erotic art was there in many temples and caves in India, Japan and other civilizations.
But with the advent of Christianity with its much more constricted views of right and wrong, other civilizations changed.
Ironic that what west sees as backwardness in other cultures is actually introduced by west itself.
Probably because they might be hoping to reach temp required for B11 fusion sometime.
oops -
I should have read the article, I guess.
Sorry about that.
Each camera has a 45* viewing angle only?
I find that a little odd.
I would have expected 2 or max 3 cameras, but 8 is a little too much.
Also, every RFID tag is supposed to have a kill code associated with it.
You sent in the kill signal, and the RFID will be disabled permanently.
Now, my guess is that the shops will all have these m/cs which will sent in the kill signal if the person buys the clothes.
This is going to impact only the shoplifters - or the forgetful ones.
So, I do not get what the big deal here is about.
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Neednt be.
Mars has a weak magnetic field. But its core is considered to be molten iron.
It did extend the life by 12-20%, but what will happen in case there is an infection?
Wouldnt this force us to have relatively poor immunity to diseases ?
In the end, would this even out?
I was of your view until I read one another way of looking at it
Human beings have a very small gene base.
We all were created from the small base of around 10,000 people (i guess), who survived the Toba volcano eruption.
Such being the case, it is very important for us to have the biggest gene variation as possible, lest some really bad happens to us (say a really bad virus or something).
In my view, it is very important to keep all the gene variations alive rather than killing off the the unsavory ones.
I would even go to the extend of saying that keeping these people with genetic variations alive are more important, than the other 6 billion people, for our future, since we do not know what is going to hit us.
I agree.
But, wouldn't most of the people be interested in what is going on around the world, and go through most of the pages?
I know, I would. I regularly read wiki (for 1-2 hrs per day at the least) on most of the areas which I am remotely interested in.
And higher security clearance means that person is able - and able people do try to get in more information that others.
Not that these spies wont have such information otherwise, but this makes it much easier.
Also, the spy, who would have just contributed only in his milieu, could now contribute in much vaster areas than earlier.
In my view, these are some areas which can provide a security nightmare.
Think of spies - One spy gets into a high security clearance position, he has a complete list of all information, for which he might had to work for (or ask sub-ordinates) to obtain, in his fingertips.
I know they would have thought about it and provided adequate security for the same, but even then this is a little worrying developement.
I guess a lowly fluorescent marker will also do the job as well.
Actually his name was Emanuel Kant.
Later he changed it to Immanuel.
I cant comment about Pakistan, but why would you even suggest that India is un-stable?
India has a _VERY_ stable democracy, has a strong and essentially unsurpassable chain of command, has a no-first-use policy as far as nuclear weapons are concerned and does not have major controlling/territorial ambitions.
I should consider that India seems to be very stable indeed.
Regarding Pakistan, even though they dont have such innate stability resulting from the afore-mentioned points, I would guess they are also just sabre-rattling, just to avoid any confrontations with more powerful neighbors. Esp. with the country, small as it is, they do not have the lee-way to attack anyone with nuclear weapons. Also, I cant think of them having any major territorial ambitions, other than the dispute with India regarding Kashmir.
They look quite stable indeed. Nobody wants to destroy the other knowing well that it means the end to them too.
Because, unlike other products, it is of no cost to mass produce in case of software.
It is quite easy to bring the product to fore, in case of software.
Why should the EVMs be that complex?
As complexity increases, chances of bugs/corruption etc increases.
Make it similar to the ones used in India/Brazil wherein it did its work without any hassles.
In my viewpoint-
The only issue with an EVM is the un-availability of a paper trail.
That can be easily taken care of. Once the person presses the vote button, let it print out a reciept (which the voter can look and make sure), which the person then deposit in a ballot box.
If issues of corruption occurs, we just have to count the reciepts. The reciept can be made in sucha a way that it is machine countable too.
Thus, the hassles of big ballots and manual counting can be taken out, and still we have the paper trail to use.
Or am I missing something?
Thank You.
IANAP, so just wondering;
Why should we consider that all the gas should be hot?
My question is such - Suppose the galaxy contains the remnants of lot of white dwarfs etc, wherein most of the elemental hydrogen has been converted to iron. Now, there is no more fusion possible, and because of which the gas, even though grouped together - stays as that - just a group of iron particles grouped by gravity, which is not hot enough to emit radiations.
Since there is no fusion, it wouldnt emit any rays, and if it is big enough, would provide adequate gravitational lensing too.
I do understand that all these would be considered even before they start thinking about dark matter, but I just wanted some info on this.
The savings is manifold, I guess -
1. Reuse of EVMs across elections. - Dont need to print ballots and have the associated security apparatus in place every election.
Also, this is used in all elections - from small district level elections to nationwide one.
2. Result obtained in 3-4 hours per booth - Dont have to keep the security system in operation for the entire 30-40 hours (the average time taken for counting of ballots in pre-EVM days) 30-40 hours ~= 4-5 days.
3. Results obtained in a day - The whole commerical activities of the country grinds to a standstill during the days of counting. So savings happen implicitly if the results are obtained in 3-4 hours.
4. Payment of the people to count the votes (maynot be explicitly there, but does happen in round about terms of govt work getting stopped due to election work etc).
Maybe more ways are there, but I can think of only this much.
Thanks for the sarcasm.
Note that the earlier comment wasnt about only the savings.
Anyways, since the question is about savings, let me try to elaborate (just on the savings aspect of it).
In this case, I was talking about India, where money *do* matter.
The election in India puts a huge burden on the exchequer, around 1000 Cr Rupees, which is a huge amount.
With that savings, the election commision actually had a lot more police posted for previous election, and that election was considered amongst the best run by a huge margin.
In developing countries, these sort of money does matter.
It allows for a better run election and a better run economy.
Not always.
In India, the introduction of EVMs reduced the election expences by a magnitude of 10.
Also, since there is a huge potential number of votes (upto 500 Million), it can reduce the time taken for the counting by a huge amount.
Another point to be taken to consideration is that there was a lot of invalid votes (when people unknowingly pressed the marker between two candidates in the ballot) esp in places where illetracy is abound. In some places, the invalid votes was more than the difference of votes beween the winning and second candidates. The EVMs meant that invalid votes are no longer an issue.
Also, there was an issue wherein a group of people will barge in a polling booth, and stuff some hundreds or thousands of ballots to the ballot box and run out. This invariably caused either
(a) wrong counts or
(b) re-voting in that booth.
Now this is no longer an issue since there is a time limit between votes and if too many votes come in, it goes in to lock mode(i dont know whether the second option is used now, but the first one is still there - time limit is around 20 seconds or so).
So I guess, it is needed, in many enviornments.
I do not understand. Even though the issue is with the multiple copies of the same gene, can't the researchers just knock off this single gene in mice and get the basic idea of what this protien is all about?
After that they can go ahead and insert multiple copies to gather more info. But just because the protien is in the brain (and there are multiple copies in primates) doesnt alone to suggest that it is the one behind reasoning abilities of humans.
One interesting fact is that it looks as if higher up the intelligence scale of primates, the higher the count seems to be.
But is that enough? Cant it be something that can be related to any of the other defining characteristics of humans ?
Say, opposible thumbs or bipedal motion or something? These also do have relation to brain, doesnt it?
Anyways, it looks like there is much more to this than the article suggests, so I should keep mum, methinks
Kerala is quite a unique state.
It has the highest human development index and a very high standard of living, while it's economic development is sub par.
It has the highest literacy rate in India which reaches 91%. This is much more than the avg literacy rate of India.
They have a very strong socialistic tendencies and is against any sort of monopoly which can affect the people adversely.
One of the prime examples of fusion of captilastic and democratic socialistic views.
People there have very strong views about politics, every single one of them!!! They actively discuss politics and are acutely aware of the problems and advantages of different political and economic systems. They do tend to lean towards socialism a little more, though.
RMS has chosen wisely. If this has to have a chance of working anywhere, it would be in Kerala, I guess.
.
1. The proof itself is hinged on gravitational lensing. Isn't there a possibility that some modified gravity theory (not MOND, something else), that along with the modification of gravity, it might modify the concept of gravitational lensing too?
2. It is known now that gravity is indeed associated with matter. Supposing later on some theory proposes that the function of gravity, or maybe gravitons, has some vector properties which makes it move away from the matter in some specific circumstances.
I know that occams razor doesnt point to any of these ideas being true. But I was just hypothesizing that many theories can occur later which could explain this even using modified gravity theories.