Am i the only one that often presses the dot key by mistake when going for the space? Would it be possible to add an option to make the space key a bit smaller on the right side so there's more space between the two keys and prevent this?
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The reason we feel creeped out is because at an instinctual level we know people (and now things) with no empathy and inauthentic are dangerous. They don't really care or feel, just pretend to.
I don't see a disagreement. I'll say it again: It's not talked about enough.
No. They are better, not necessarily more valuable.
Simple example:
Today you can get a phone with a chip more powerful than the best supercomputers 50 years ago. Is today's chip more valuable (ie. price-value) than that supercomputer? No. An equivalent supercomputer back then would cost WAY more. You're bringing other variables into play and confusing things. Technology has improved, manufacturing costs have gone WAY down for higher quality products. The fact that we can get higher quality things nowadays has little to do with purchasing power and everything to do with science and technology. The fact we can afford a better quality house nowadays, is also much more related to material improvements, manufacturing, logistics, overall system efficiency (transportation, company competition,...) improvements than purchasing power.
What we can compare is what other poster's are doing: time vs functions. For example, working time needed to have an average place to live in by the time's standards. And if you do that, you'll see today it requires A LOT more working time.
Your risk of bad relationships, emotional dysregulation, physical ailments and diseases, stress, life unsatisfaction, (...) all increase as your ACE score increases.
I keep repeating myself at this point, but trauma is the biggest epidemic with the most negative consequences that isn't being talked about enough.
Yet. This is the worst it will ever be. Enjoy.
Bringing photos, saved stuff to computer all takes an extra step. For most of the time I need a digital device, the phone is good enough, and most importantly - it's with me. Not just when i get home.
When high productivity is needed, then yes, laptop is king. But if somehow we could have the same productivity on a device, 10x smaller that I can carry with me, why wouldn't I start doing everything on that device? That's why smartphone is king.
Taken from someone else:
"Men are the biggest abusers."
No. In fact, women initiate domestic violence more than men.[1]
“Analyzing data gathered from 11,370 respondents, researchers found that “half of [violent relationships] were reciprocally violent. In non-reciprocally violent relationships, women were the perpetrators in more that 70% of the cases.” Out of all the respondents, a quarter of the women admitted to perpetrating the domestic violence and, when the violence was reciprocal, women were often the ones to have been the first to strike.
Reciprocal violence was more dangerous for the victim, both men and women, than was nonreciprocal violence. In fact, men in relationships with reciprocal violence were reportedly injured more often (25.2%) than were women in relationships with nonreciprocal violence (20.0%); this is important as violence perpetrated by women is often seen as not serious.[2]
Reciprocal partner violence does not appear to be only comprised of self-defensive acts of violence. Several studies have found that [in cases of reciprocal violence] men and women initiate violence against an intimate partner at approximately the same rate.
Women are at least as likely as men to kill their children—more so if one counts killings of newborns—and account for more than half of child maltreatment perpetrators.[3][4]
But, whatever explains the higher levels of male violence—biology, culture or both—the indisputable fact is that it’s directed primarily at other males: in 2010, men were the victims in almost four out of five homicides [6] and almost two-thirds of robberies and non-domestic aggravated assaults [7]. Family and intimate relationships—the one area feminists often identify as a key battleground in the war on women—are also an area in which women are most likely to be violent [8], and not just in response to male aggression but toward children, elders, female relatives or partners, and non-violent men, according to a study published in the Journal of Family Violence.
For the most part, feminists’ reactions to reports of female violence toward men have ranged from dismissal to outright hostility. Straus [9] chronicles a troubling history of attempts to suppress research on the subject, including intimidation of heretical scholars of both sexes and tendentious interpretation of the data to portray women’s violence as defensive. In the early 1990s, when laws mandating arrest in domestic violence resulted in a spike of dual arrests and arrests of women, battered women’s advocates complained that the laws were “backfiring on victims,” claiming that women were being punished for lashing back at their abusers.
Feel free to copy paste it whenever someone like the above poster posit that men are the biggest abusers.
[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2005...
[2] https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
[3] http://www.jaapl.org/content/35/1/74.full.pdf
[4] http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files /cb/cm2012.pdf#page=76
[5] http://users.soc.umn.edu/%7Euggen/Lauritsen_CRIM_09.pdf
[6] http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/c...
[7] http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv10.pdf
[8] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/226871004_The_two_fa...
[9] https://web.archive.org/web/20140708085504/https://www.socio...
Cannot see any fault in this argument.
And no, the end result is not the same if in reality one is more productive then the other.
Let's see: If you were paid regardless of going to work or working or not, would you still keep going there and doing your job?
And about your comment:
SW aren't well paid because of how much money they generate or how hard they are to replace.
1- I'm not sure why you say this but SW are not that difficult to replace. There's plenty of SW around for everyone.
2- What actually determines the fact that SW are so well paid is just luck and time. What do I mean by this?
2.1 The profit margins in software services are the biggest. An easy example is Amazon. Initially a simple bookstore. Then a e-commerce shop. This is what Amazon is. And yet their margins for this is about 1% and for their cloud services is about 40%. Amazon CAN afford to pay SW well not because it generates more money, but because it has huge profit margins. And why is that?
2.2 Because it just so happens tech is VERY NEW and has changed everything far too fast for the market to adapt. Consumer physical products have been manufactured and sold for decades. Agriculture is a much more essential service than SW and it's some of the worst paid industry. Their profit margins are close to zero. All the money that could be extract has been, capitalism has done a good job of making it cheap for consumers. But tech? The world of mega corporations, monopolies and duopolies, there is often no such thing.
It's not about value to the world SW provide, money SW generate or hard to replace. If you really want to talk about value to the world there are many other careers that do. SW isn't one of them. SW are just well paid, due to luck, timing of being born right now, and the fact market is very new and hasn't adapted yet, that's it. Enjoy.
It is a fact people's view's are becoming more polarized. Some google searches will get you there. This is due to people now more than ever always having access to others who agree with their views, and ignore people who don't. This is the age of tinder swiping and (un)following (un)subsribing. People have become more replaceable. Agree with this person? This forum? Be there. Disagree? Leave. Like this person? Keep them. Dislike? Ghost them. We meet more people now than we ever meet in humanity's history. The need to learn how to deal with different views is going away, when you can always hide from them and go for places that have supporting views. The need for respectful disagreement is getting lower.
In the past there wasn't as much this choice. In the extreme, nomadic times, you had the same people all your life. Now we are at the other extreme. I'm not surprised that people's relationships are getting more and more superficial, and more temporary. There's always a "us" vs "them" to be had somewhere. With so many people, what used to be sporadic outliers, are now in massive numbers. Even if they still belong to the extremes of the natural distribution.
As we know, these people also tend to be more vocal, "the vocal minority" as it is usually referred, very opinionated, who defend their views to the end.
Then you could also add the fact the emotional trauma is spreading, although this one will make many people scratch their heads. Emotional trauma increases what we refer in psychology as negative affectivity "(...)a broad personality trait that refers to the stable tendency to experience negative emotion". Disagreeableness being one of the most typical ways in which this manifests itself.
Add to this the easyness of being anonymous, being rude without consequences and you get a perfect recipe for at any point you have a conversation online, getting obnoxious, opinionated, rude and disagreeable replies. The step from online conversation to IRL isn't that much of a step at this point, and it still makes sense the same is happening.
This is not a deduction, but a inference. But it fits everything i've just said: it's becoming more difficult to have an opinion, and not be attacked, shamed, mocked or invalidated by it.
It's becoming increasingly rare to hear "I see your point. What I in my view makes more sense is..." and instead "You're wrong, you have no clue what you're talking about and you should go hide yourself."
I got the Google pixel 4a 5g and tbh couldn't be happier. Still, if the S7 was faster I would keep using it.
I love the W11 design, best looking one so far. Usability is not bad. W7's was better in some regards, worse in others. I hated W10 design. Usability was poor. W7 design was nice. Usability was good. Windows XP design was ugly. Usability was nice. Windows 98 was ugly. Usability was ok for the time.
The others in between are not worth mentioning.
Discussing about the semantics of what "livable" means and whether the title is (in)correct while it doesn't change the grave reality of the situation at all. Unbelievable.
We have to think broader and get out of the confines of how things work now and just think that technology only makes what we have now better. Some technology just completely changes the landscape.
LLMs will make education as we know it obsolete. There won't be need for tutoring if LLM is good enough to do anything. Anyone can ask anything on the fly. There won't be need to study anything except for fun.
Is gold more useful now than 20 years ago? More desirable? Has gold as a material been improved?
Most of the increase in "value" is something artificial like inflation / scarcity due to increase in population. But that's not value, that is only indeed economic forces only mildly related to gold itself.