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They're booming because they're benefiting from our work. Copy + paste only works for some time until you start needing to create your own original things. But without copyright what's the point? Someone else will quickly take your investment of time and effort, and make profit that you can't (because you need to price what you developed higher than the competition, who is using your work, to recoup that investment).

Copyright is useful, just not in its current state where it's being abused.

1. The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk);

2. CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Peter Walker);

3. Whole Again (Jackson McKenzie);

4. The Complete Robot (Isaac Asimov);

5. Outliers: The Science of Success (Malcolm Gladwell);

6. The Compound Effect (Darren Hardy).

Because as far as self-help books go, the vast majority, that one included (sorry), don't even register as anything close to worthy. Here's 3 that are actually worth your time:

1. The Body Keeps the Score;

2. CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving;

3. Whole Again.

Let me turn that around to answer your question: Why isn't the technology behind SMS used for internet?

I read these rationalizations a lot.

"What college degrees teach you mostly is how to think." "We miss the actual point which was learning to memorize." "Playing chess teaches you how to plan and think."

Well no. These were never mentioned as the goal. If the goal is to learn how to study, how to memorize, how to learn, then present it a so, focus on it.

The goal of memorizing the opening of Canterbury Tales in Old English, definitely wasn't to learn how to memorize. Maybe that was a secondary or tertiary goal. It definitely would never be mentioned as a goal in itself.

It seems like now that we had to invest our time in close to useless things, we try to find reasons why it wasn't so useless. School is extremely inefficient. I studied way, but WAY more things I'll never use, or want to use in my life again than the opposite. Education nowadays is like using a shotgun to kill an insect. One thing that's good in software engineering, as opposed to other engineering fields is that it's maybe more focused and applied. But in Mechanical, I studied so much stuff, and now I use less than 5% of it. And the argument that I hear from my colleagues "Oh but you learned how to do complicated math, how to study hard, and understand difficult concepts" just doesn't stick. It's been shown that this kind of training helps you at that task, and little else.

From a 2016 review by Simons et al:

“We find extensive evidence that brain-training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance.”

See https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2022/09/13/brain-training-d...

As a previous new hire who got into a new job during full blown Covid, I had no problem whatsoever building a good relationship with my colleagues. Regular routines were setup, the team communicated frequently. Frequent calls. Eventually mMemes started to be shared, and we built a good work/personal friendship exclusively online.

I didn't miss face-to-face in the slightest, nor did i feel like i didn't belong, or that I was lacking support. We have plenty of online trainings as well.

Face to face being needed for new hires is another myth that needs to go.

They can, but then change the name and any implication that it is somehow more of what we got before (Lord of the Rings). Or clearly state it is only based on it, but has actually nothing to do with the original work, only draws inspiration from it.

This is not the case.

Here the directors / whoever just think they can do better than Tolkien (and that's fine) but then they appropriate themselves with everything he did, including claiming it's his work, but that they "improved" or "modernized".

Too bad for people "all over the world that want to live in it" when said country has sovereignty and can vote to prevent locals to be displaced by them. People of each country decide what is fair or not, not people outside of it.

Is it fair that someone, by sheer accident, was born in SF, is SWE and now wants to take advantage of that stupidly high income and dislodge people who have lived their whole lives in a certain place? Probably worked much harder and for longer? Where all their family and friends live and always lived for more than a century? Their culture and life? You seem to forget Portugal is not the US. They have more than 3 times your history and with it each place has a markedly different personality and much deeper roots not only culturally but also relationally.

Maybe you're used to a capitalistic emotionless everything-is-replaceable view and that in life all is fair and square, the ends justify the means, but perhaps you should rethink it.

Yep. Gotta love even more cars and people / m2, as if traffic wasn't bad enough as it is. Some people really just think the solution is to cram more people into an already overflowing place. And please don't compare with SF or NY. Those are definitely not models. Everyone knows how shit the traffic is there. A good urban planning will limit population density by, among others, limiting height of buildings.

How can you seriously think it's OK to push the native population out of their own countries' most desirable cities... The place most of them were born, that their parents fought for (politically/through work), and worked to make a good place. Then here come people with absolutely no regards for tradition, or any sort of emotional connection to said place, no interest in said country in particular besides being "insanely cheap, safe and sunny". Portugal is not the US, cities are markedly different from each other, and have a deeply rooted history, that goes back centuries. You cant dispassionately just move from one city to another like you replace your iphones.

Unbelievable the amount of money people in IT make.

This is what a revolution looks like when it is happening.

Did you learn about the "Industrial revolution" or the "agricultural revolution" in class? That didn't take a week, or a year, or a decade to happen. Even the Internet revolution took more than a decade.

This is a revolution. And you're seeing it happen in real time.

Or like Honda Jazz/Fit 2000-2006. They achieved perfection for a A to B car there.

Corruption is a human ingrained need for trickery to gain advantage of potential gene competition. It is ubiquitous for humans and increases with perceived genetic difference, up to a maximum.

We need to change human genes. That's the best long term way out of this. Corruption is just gene trickery. "Best for me, not for thee". Unless "thee" is genetically related.

Unbelieavable wealth and seeking power is gene survival. More wealth more survival resources. More power more survival and reproductive resources.

Genes drive everything that is "wrong" with the way things are.

And then you have Midjourney which would most likely be the best one at doing that specific request. The most crazily creative artistic of the 3.

"The West".

As if we're all one block, a single minded hive. Corrupted, degraded by a heavy capitalistic and egotistical mindset. It's fascinating to see and talk about our shortcomings isn't it? We are so inferior. The fact you wrote "The West" signifies you're one of "The Others". Someone possibly from Russia. Then you compliment Russia and degrade "The West" adding further strength to this hypothesis.

Using "The West", a simple minded sound byte that's been used in propaganda for centuries, a way of appealing to our ape-instincts to protect our tribe against others. "Us" vs "The Others".

You should make a little effort in seeing how ridiculous, infantile, and brainwashed it is to refer to countries that are not Asia or Russia as "The West".

Why do you need security updates so often and so bad? I dont know what websites or apps you install, but normally there shouldn't be any problems with normal use even without security updates. And even then, you can always install a custom rom instead of having to buy another one.

I find that a bit weird tbh. I mean, if we look at human tribes throughout the world/history, and even what is the most common nowadays in african tribes which maintain their dressing habits, they usually cover their genitals. It indicates to me it is human nature to do that. It seems to me, in some countries for several reasons, they are going against the grain, purely out of culture.

But there's something weird about it. Just like when you look at previous periods in time and now they look weird, often just reactions to previous epochs or other cultures (like the neoclacissim came as an opposition to rococo and baroque).

This feels like it. It doesn't feel natural. It feels like it is purely out of a contrarian way of thinking, about how forward thinking they are, "look how superior we are that we are completely void of instinct to cover ourselves". and perhaps somewhat of a sexual counter balance to the strictness of the rest of their culture. I'm not sure i'm explaining this in the best way. I think there is a natural middle ground, the one that we have seen throughout hunter gathere human history, and Nordic countries are just being culturally weird by going to one extreme.

I agree with your points, just not with the racism. The color of people's skin, age and sexuality has nothing to do the problem, even if they correlate. Please stop the hate on a specific subgroup based on things they didn't choose or have control over. Seems like nowadays the anti-racism went overboard on the other direction and now it's cool to be racist against white old men (the previous most racist group).

Just because he said it in this way doesn't mean you can't think for yourself and realize that it also has a philosophical basis. You are a human. You are capable of your own independent thoughts and conclusions which are as valid as other people's. If you can yourself find ethical reasons to give humans a place to live by default, and I'm sure you can, (because suffering = bad, no home = suffering, true for every human) you just created a philosophical reason for why it might be valid to consider it a human right.

What's working is that they have basically monopolies. Hard not to make money when there's no competition.

They choose who to accept based on their shared accounts (linkedin, instagram, etc).

Prompt "engineering" will last a couple of years, until the UI improves to the point any dummy can do it, just like with instagram filters.

There should be sociopathy/narcissim/lack of empathy screenings early in life, and people scored based on it. Based on that jobs would be limited/encouraged. Put sociopaths in jobs where impact is limited.

Then maybe a range could be a good idea? "Publication date: Likely sometime between 1597-1609."

There's one cause that is really hard to detect (unless you're informed about it) and that I suspect is behind a lot of people with depression. In fact it took me decades, and only by chance did I realise what it was:

Emotional abuse / neglect, especially the one that occurs in childhood.

* You feel something in life is lacking but dont know what, or blame yourself for it, or look for it in in thrill seeking activities, or through buying stuff to fulffill this emptiness, or you escape from this ever present painful feeling with addiction (hint of what that thing is: being really loved, not romantically loved, but actual unconditional love, the one that only healthy parents can give and which you feel in some way when you have a community behind you. Partial love given by a lot of people ends up almost feeling like parental unconditional love.)

* Can't seem to make friends, or make friends but don't seem to connect at a deep level and end up feeling lonely anyway.

* Also the cause of social anxiety.

* Burnouts due to lack of boundaries (which also come from abuse). Feeling like you put others first all the time, and end up feeling somewhat fake.

* (...)

All of these can lead to depression. And they all have the same root-cause. And barely anybody talks about this (unless you go really looking for these communities, but unfortunately they're not really mainstream).

And you forgot maybe the most important, common and often overlooked one: ADHD that is emotional trauma-induced.

Did the ADHD cause CPTSD or the CPTSD that you might already have from childhood neglect/trauma that you're not aware of/dismiss/paint as "not too bad" manifests itself as ADHD?

Distraction from pain is one of the most common ways we deal with pain when it's not possible to escape it (which is the case for children that suffer emotional abuse/neglect).

I can take an online course and start a job in SE in 6 months. Good luck doing that for another engineering field.

Cmon... it is definitely easier. It's easier to start, it's easier to develop. With many other engineering courses you need a HUGE base of knowledge to even start being useful. With SE you can start being useful almost from the get go in comparison.

Not saying it's not hard to master, because i believe it is. But comparatively, it is definitely easier. But tbh who cares? I've been doing mechanical engineering for years, and it's hard as hell, and what do I get from that difficulty? A pat on the back to feel good about how smart i am? Getting home tired because my brain is fried of thinking about complex stuff? At this point i'd rather have gone the easy way and take SE. We only have one life. Easy = Good.