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I'm assuming drug rings and other miscreants who are really motivated will always find a way to acquire guns like they do in every country with gun laws.

In general open world games are ones to avoid. They contain the most bloat. My Friend Pedro, Ori, and other 2D games are actually more fun than 3D games.

A job can be fun and fulfilling and better paying.

Most former FAANG employees do seem to like working in up and coming startups better with more control over the company vision.

For every handwritten thing. Use the Note S-pen when on the go.

I can't keep the variables, constraints, and edge cases in my mind. I use diagrams and crude flowcharts so paper/S-pen on Note/Tab is a must for me. Staring at the screen or typing it out doesn't do much for me.

Hence the weekly assessment. Tests or assignments every week will keep them on a sort of schedule. The most you can postpone is 7 days. It's not a perfect approach but I'd say it's a lot better than live virtual classes.

Not arguing for "do homework whenever" weekly pop quiz/assignments to keep them on track instead. I understand that you had a great experience with online learning but not all schools have teachers who can take effective classes online.

The problem is with the way schools are doing it. I don't see the point of teaching kids on live video. It's better to give recorded lectures with one doubt clearing session/pop quiz every week.

Live video is frustrating and the ridiculous attempts at interactivity don't help. That schools are still bothered about attendance tells you everything.

Kids can watch recorded lectures any time their parents are able to supervise them. And the lectures don't have to be long because they are interruption free.

This review is trash. Calling a style guide for programming bad because it is opinionated is like calling sugar bad because it is sweet.

The whole review just drones on and on about why the book should not be opinionated about coding practices not realising that the books of this genre are useless without strong opinions.

Because she messed with the financial life and physical life of people. Also she used the enthusiasm shared by people who like to advance technology to manipulate people which is a grave sin for the kind of audience you'll find here.

Stealing here would be robbing a person with the aid of violence or threat of violence. It's not really the same thing.

It depends on the content. Generally I'd say the one idea per paragraph and topic sentence followed by arguments approach is the best because it's the most common way of argument construction.

Personally I love it when jargon is clearly defined in context and the arguments are constructed as if-then-else statements.

Facebook is only going up with its advantage in VR platforms.

Netflix, on the other hand, has no real competitive advantage at this point except being the oldest streaming service with a good brand.

Google is too big and too diverse to fail.

Amazon's Cloud computing is going strong, still the dominant eBook platform and now dominant audiobook platform, plus retail.

Apple's margins are always good. They don't need to do anything different.

When Microsoft and IBM didn't fall after a decade of bad decision making I've lost faith in "no one is too big to fail".

Except every UX decision in every big social media app is research backed attention harvesting.

Interactivity changes the equation. Limitless options change the equation.

Radio and TV couldn't tailor themselves to an audience of one, your ML powered social media feed can.

Bitcoin and Data centers are two major global warming behemoths no one talks about. It's about time it became an issue.

Application developers not system engineers. People who work on high performance servers will always look to reduce overhead as much as possible.

Everything in depression ultimately is a self sustaining loop. That's why outside intervention is often needed.

I wouldn't leave my bed to get food when I was depressed. No showering. No work. Stayed in bed all day. Got dinner then repeat.

Anyone can tell you why that's a bad idea and how it feeds the depression but that's the nature of the beast.

Spot on. Just talking to the page refreshes the mind.

I'm joking. Buddhism involves the ever moving mind so any game that forces you to stop in the moment is against the philosophy.

It's the case that when asked what is buddhism one must raise his fist; when asked what is the meaning of life one must say a cherry tree; the response isn't important but that there be no stopping of the mind is of the essence.

Like where should I put my mind? Nowhere. That kind of thing.

I'm tempted to think that Buddha made some rules just to challenge his disciples and see if they actually understood the message. Like the Zen monks who love messing with their students. Except some knobhead took it seriously and remembered it and his disciples then codified it.

That people are becoming less and less informed. They're reading less and this is the golden age for propaganda because people think they're smart when they watch documentaries.

Lack of nuance in discussion and simple video explanations about complex issues will lead us down a dark path unless the trajectory changes soon.

Then either the scholars become disproportionately more powerful or are stoned for not having simplistic views.

Let's say you do not practice any religion but believe in a higher power.

What is the goal of spirituality? Self knowledge. And self knowledge is also the knowledge about how you are related to said higher power and the people around you.

If you believe in spirituality but not religion it can be almost impossible to know what your relationship with the higher power is and how you stand in the community. Yes you can have your assumptions but they are unverified.

Religion gives you a framework where spirituality exists. Without that framework the idea of spirituality enters a domain where it has an extremely vague definition which, from a utilitarian perspective, is not useful.

So if the idea of spirituality loses its specificity to the point where it doesn't signify any particular idea which is grounded in some manner it creates a dissonance. You end up believing, say, the idea of crops without roots.

It's okay to revise particular beliefs with the times, but the central philosophies and practices of any religion (Eg. Fasting for a set number of days/abstaining from certain foods or activities for a set number of days) are essential.

That is true. Windows in the end will always be a mom and pop OS. But with increasing computer literacy I expect Microsoft's market share to dwindle. Btw what about your secondary memory is it SSD or traditional HDD?

I practice my religion, believe in god, and pray for some minutes during the evening.

Believing in spirituality without religion leads to a cognitive dissonance.

My philosophy is that there are too many things that we simply cannot observe due to the limitations of our senses and thought/imagination, so to dismiss god is not truly rational.

Spirituality is removed from any material success, so to go into any spiritual practice for an "edge" is not right.

If you want an edge in the material world then persuasion psychology and probability theory are your friends.

Also we tend to forget that science is a philosophy that does not say this is how the world is, but says this is how we understand the world. It's important to keep that distinction in mind.

You don't notice the lag unless you've used a MacBook or Linux. If you ever upgrade to an i7 you will see a performance boost and your current system will feel slow. So running Linux on the same specs as Windows you'll see that Windows is slower and after a while as the bloat happens the slowness will become even more apparent.

Running Windows 10 on anything other than an i7 and SSD setup is a nightmare.

The personal Quantum computers of energy tech.

I don't know if that's a great use case. My experience with old people says that they (mostly) hate tech and cannot operate it without someone else.

Also with old people you'd want the tech to be familiar to them so that you don't have to video call them to show them how to reset the WiFi.

And if you're talking about old people who cannot even walk without stumbling their memory would be so far gone that they'd forget how to operate half the devices half the time.

Maybe it would be more helpful to future old people such as ourselves, but I think simpler, robust, and familiar tech is better for old people.

Just another perspective.

But the whole point of curiosity is to find out more about something in order to form a judgement. We just need to be willing to change judgements when shown the constraints. In a way, asking people to be non judgemental kills curiosity.

I'd quote Marc Andreessen: "Strong opinions; weakly held."

You can read politics into anything with people in it.