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by moosey 7y ago
I am 40 and I do not currently plan on retiring. I still put money into retirement for my spouse, but as for me, I think that when I lose the ability or simply the willpower for continued productivity that there is simply no point anymore.
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by moosey 7y ago
I wonder if social media is a level one or a level two chaotic system, ideas that are separated based on how the system responds to prediction. Level two means that the system responds, but level one, the weather as an example, doesn'
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by moosey 7y ago
I think that the main problem of a customized and changing over time curriculum is that it's hard to maintain connections to information in long term memory over time. Ever since I started using a spaced repetition/interleaving p
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by moosey 7y ago
Having children should impact men as much as women, professionally and academically. The fact that it doesn't is a cultural decision, not a biological one. Why aren't men with children staying home with the kids and having the sa
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by moosey 7y ago
This will go beyond that by including information typically because of the event of the ledger. Currently, I give my children cash. What happens when that's a ledger entry as well?
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by moosey 7y ago
If this succeeds, it will be a data collection tool the likes of which the world has never seen, which is why so many companies are willing to put their name on it. The data, along with ML/AI, and our contemporary understanding of the
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by moosey 7y ago
Yes. It's typically then used to attack "your credibility".
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by moosey 7y ago
I mean, it's not 100% true but the actions of Russia during WW2 make this pretty true, and the fact that it seems the US intentionally stayed out of the way to inflict as much damage on Soviet Russia as it could before we got involved.
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by moosey 7y ago
Eye witness testimony is crap too. Even if you could answer pointed questions about your whereabouts in any given evening using Google maps, human recollection of events and their details is not great. There are questions I am capable of a
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by moosey 7y ago
> I'm painting with a broad brush here, but a lot of government employees do as little as possible. Welcome to humanity. How many people actually devote their lives to the improvement of the human condition, or have a devotion to e
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by moosey 7y ago
Based on my understanding of the learning process, typically you can tell when a refactor is occurring if you go through "Foundational Collapse," meaning that you've learned something that makes almost your entire understandi
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by moosey 7y ago
Under the current regime (post-Reagan is what I mean), there are government bodies that still receive lots of money, and those, as you say, that are getting hollowed. The main thing that I can point to that says that it is corrupt is the f
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by moosey 7y ago
The regulatory systems in the US since Reagan have been anemic, and if we believe in effective business competition there are probably very few industries that would have a good time if a new regulatory environment were put in place that is
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by moosey 7y ago
But facebook can shrink, and dramatically so. The main asset that facebook has is data. I've been reading "21 Lessons for the 21st Century", and I agree with Dr. Harari's argument that we need a regulatory environment f
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by moosey 7y ago
On the other hand, I think that Zuck is demonstrating that he doesn't understand what the near future holds, based on the geopolitical upheavals we are seeing today. Facebook is going to need to change in order to grow, and Zuck has a
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by moosey 7y ago
In this time where it appears that the vast majority of civilization is paying almost no attention to climate change, one of the best tools that a person has in their arsenal is to reduce their own pollution, because it aids in building the
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by moosey 7y ago
_All_ US products and licensing are impacted by this incredibly brittle international spat, driven by understandable but sadly misguided sentiments. Each time we do this it strengthens the positions of those whom the current leadership bel
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by moosey 7y ago
> This has gotten me wondering: how many people might be sick as a consequence of their poor diet? It's probably a good idea to carefully scrutinize your diet as a potential influencing factor if you have a medical condition. If we
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by moosey 7y ago
I would go as far as to say that the nature of most software development is similar to the state of physical infrastructure in the United States: failing because of lack of maintenance and poor practice. I strongly believe that these probl
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by moosey 7y ago
This is aligned with everything I learned in Dr.'s Oakley and Sejnowski class entitled "Learning How to Learn" on Coursera. Conceptually, the class is ridiculously simple,but with some of the most powerful mental tools avail
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by moosey 7y ago
> When we did confront Sam—say, if we caught a glimpse of a vile meme on his phone—he assured us that it was meant to be funny and that we didn’t get it. It was either “post-ironic” or referenced multiple other events that created a maze
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by moosey 7y ago
We need to pay them not to destroy it, and build them infrastructure, for free. There were a multitude of opportunities for the nations of South America, in particular, to flourish, and we have stolen them, either with military action, or v
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by moosey 7y ago
If learning is part of a well-rounded set of activities that you are doing in your life, then it will lead to several positive effects. One, learning new things, by itself, with nothing else, reduces cognitive decline and increase brain he
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by moosey 7y ago
I surmise that effective fusion power would completely alter the space race forever, even before we figure out propulsion from this energy source. The scientific benefits from a potential large scale space platform with that kind of energy
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by moosey 7y ago
Outside of the recommendations that I see, all of which I agree are excellent, I would say "The Broken Earth Trilogy" by N.K. Jemesin.
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by moosey 7y ago
> they knew it was wrong I know which book series this was part of, and this action was the correct one to take. I feel as if the entire point of the book is that at some point, we need to make collective decisions, and when we do so, w
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by moosey 7y ago
> MORE THAN half of American millennials, the generation of people born between 1981 and 1996, believe that they will one day be millionaires; one in five think they will get there by the age of 40. I'm 40, I have a good job, and I
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by moosey 7y ago
I post unpopular opinions from my account all the time. I'm fine with people downvoting it, as the current state of our society is an overton window that I know I simply, at times, fall outside of. That being said, I've seen some
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by moosey 7y ago
I would propose a corollary in regards to toxic positivity: Even if you are a happy, positive person, just in general, try to be available for people that having issues like the author of the article. I disagree with the writer of the artic
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by moosey 7y ago
I would say because it will backfire. Huge swaths of humanity using google maps to track their daily lives is beyond valuable. I would argue that maps is probably already monetized, as it probably improves ad targeting in all of their othe

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