>It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.
One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy".
Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?
over the air updates, like most things in marketing is a sign of incompetence, even they are marketed as a positive.
In reality it means that they the company is OK to ship broken/half baked stuff (owning to some kind of market pressure), because they can always fix it over the air.
>Parents can be rather selfish too, most can't wait until their kids turn 18 and leave the house. The want to live alone too.
This is the worst aspect of it. The hypocrisy! When I was young and naive, I believed parents loved to have the kids around. Oh boy. Don't they right? The only problem is that they want us still to be kids, and won't leave the household to you and let you live a full adult life there. If you are going to live with them, they want you to depend on them, and they want you to let them be the one who runs the house. All the sob stories you hear, when you are growing up, about kids leaving their parents won't tell you that side of the story.
So if you are a kid in the same situation, and have philosophical/ideological difference about how to life a human adult life, DO NOT PLAN ON living with your parents if objectively they don't need it. Don't do it becuase of some romantic notion of the "right thing" that the mainstream narrative has fed you. *ITS FUCKING BULLSHIT!"...
What a crappy article and an equally crappy title.
> Some days I would go to bed 3am, others I would sleep until 2pm.
There is your problem. Don't blame it on being remote. If you don't have the discipline, you will find that you ll hard time making a lot of things in life work..
> nature of reality remains constant regardless of the data amassed.
It does not remain constant. But it remains indeterminable. Ie we can say we know something about the universe. But we cannot say we know x % of the universe simply because we have no way of knowing what 100% is...
>That is because we could "see" it. Imagine if we were not able to see. Could we have known the existence of EM?
Probably, it has a number of physical effects, like heating up the areas that it hits, there is probably quite a lot we could have deduced about light with no eyesight, as long as we lived somewhere EM existed had a noticeable effect, which is just about everywhere.
> Or think if we were not able to hear. Could we have imagined the sensation of sound, or the concept of music?
Of course not, but that wouldn't prevent us from understanding the concept of pressure waves.
> Human beings are so pathetically stupid that they think that their intelligence and sensory capability are at the limits of what is possible.
What? We know our sensory understanding has sever limits, no one that graduated the third grade thinks our sensory capability are at the limit's of what's possible. Everyone that has ever seen an x-ray knows this. To quote Brother Cavil:
I don't want to be human! I want to see gamma rays! I want to hear X-rays! And I want to - I want to smell dark matter! Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can't even express these things properly because I have to - I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid limiting spoken language! But I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws! And feel the wind of a supernova flowing over me!
> as long as we lived somewhere EM existed had a noticeable effect, which is just about everywhere.
You should have understood that I meant otherwise. Of course, if we could notice the effect of EM, that could trigger an investigation eventually leading to the discovery.
>we know our sensory understanding has sever limits...
Did you really think I implied that no one knows the limits of our built in senses? When I said sensory capabilities I meant the stuff we can sense, directly or indirectly (By indirectly, I mean by the help of another device, to make it very clear).
> You should have understood that I meant otherwise. Of course, if we could notice the effect of EM, that could trigger an investigation eventually leading to the discovery.
Can you suggest an environment conducive to life that isn't exposed to EM radiation? Life itself creates EM radiation.
> When I meant sensory capabilities I meant the stuff we can sense, directly or indirectly (By indirectly, I mean by the help of another device, to make it very clear).
I can't prove God doesn't exist either, but that doesn't make it logical to conclude that we will one day be able to harness the power of God for FTL communications, but this is what you're expecting. If there are fundamental forces left to be discovered then they are not having any observable effect on the world, making them unlike all other fundamental forces. This makes them unlikely to ever be discovered.
>Can you suggest an environment conducive to life that isn't exposed to EM radiation? Life itself creates EM radiation.
There is nothing in the definition of "life" that warrants an ability to observe EM radiation or create it for that matter..By the way, what is the definition of "life" that you are using here?
>there are fundamental forces left to be discovered then they are not having any observable effect on the world..
So just because we haven't discovered something, does it mean that that thing is not observable at all? We are still discovering "things" in our own body, let alone in the entire world. The fallacy that human beings are capable of detecting every observable (by observable, I did not mean observable with our current tech) phenomena in this world is exactly what I was indicating before.
> By the way, what is the definition of "life" that you are using here?
An incredible loose one. Basically any process remotely complicated enough to call life would be producing infra red radiation at least. From there the evolutionary pressure to be able to sense it is huge. Eyesight on our own planet could have evolved to see heat long before sunlight.
>Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers?
Yes it does. The normal Gmail interface I get now has a forgot password link which is by default activated after I enter the username. I have to explicitly jump over that to continue entering the actual password and thus to my mail box.
My decade+ old Hotmail account, plus two more newer ones, began prompting me for a # "for security" back around 2014. After a couple weeks of "not right now" all three of them locked me out simultaneously. Yahoo still asks for a # to this day(AFAIK... stopped using it after Oauth prompts appeared). Security IS one benefit, but it does not seem to be the most heavily weighted reason. Most don't change phone #s often, if ever. Seems like a super data tracking metric.
>If he had disclosed all his conflicts, the same research would have been published in the same places with the same people. Nothing would have changed.
Speculation.
> Nobody really cares or pays much attention.
Maybe they should.
>When it comes to clinical trials, there are many checks and balances that prevent a 'rogue' conflicted investigator from influencing the results.
And you think these checks and balances work good enough, most of the time?
He has to declare his conflicts annually to his institution, and has to provide updates with any new conflicts within 90 days. They would almost certainly have a conflict management plan in place for this situation
One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy".
Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?