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there is no dispute that Einstein "invented" General Relativity.
Just like there is no dispute Newton invented calculus, gutenburg invented the printing press or columbus discovered the americas...
Reportedly, a lot of people who choose to study psychology are motivated originally to figure out what's going on in their own heads
People who go into psychology are more interested in what's going on in other people's heads and more importantly manipulating other people. It's more about controlling others than controlling oneself. It's why psychology was founded in the first place.
people who lack a native impulse to be honest / ethical and are curious about people who do.
Ethics isn't about studying people. It's about studying principles. IE what does ethics mean. What makes an act ethical vs non-ethical. So on. You can delve into the ethics of gods, god, AI or even animals. Are ethical principles universal or not. So on and so forth.
Can you buy and sell shares tax-free if the cash > security > cash conversions all happen inside the IRA?
No taxes on Roth IRAs. Even on distributions/withdrawals at a certain age ( I think it's 58 or 60? ).
Roth IRAs are as good a retirement vehicle as you can have.
Greatness comes from character and character isn’t formed out of smart people—it’s formed out of people who suffered.
Or 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them' -- Shakespeare
There are many paths to greatness. The article mentions a lot of hurdles and racism that he had to overcome. But those are specific to him. I'm sure there are plenty 'great' people who haven't suffered.
One of my great advantages is that I have very low expectations.
I don't think people with low expectations start companies. Certainly those with low expectations don't rise and achieve greatness.
In essence, he is saying people should be resilient and try to persevere through hard times. The rest are just fluff to fill time.
But even with resilience and perseverance, you aren't guaranteed success. It also takes a bit of luck. Being at the right place at the right time. There isn't a magic formula to be successful. And there are only X number of billionaires the economy can suppport...
Introducing SIMA: the first generalist AI agent to follow natural-language instructions in a broad range of 3D virtual environments and video games.
If it can be done in 3D virtual environments and video games, it shouldn't be much of a leap to do it in the real world. After all we have cameras, voice recorders, sensors, etc that can map the real world into 3D virtual environments already. Have they tried linking this generalist AI to a robot to see how the robot does in the real world?
No issues. I didn't read it. It was a general remark about your 'idealized view of journalism' rather than about a specific article.
Not only that, don't insurers offer 'discounts' for installing tracking apps on your phones and devices?
Wow. That's a new low standard for journalism. Whatever happened to keeping opinions and news separate?
You seem to have some idealized view of journalism that has never existed. The fact that you linked to the nytimes...
And no, modern Congress is not more corrupt than historical standards
That's a straw man. He didn't say congress was 'more corrupt' than before. He just wrote 'grotesquely corrupt congress'. You surely can see the difference. If not, you'd make an excellent journalist.
Because no chance in hell is China selling this thing, and Trump is already talking about how much he loves TikTok now.
Which is insane because in 2020, Trump was the one trying to ban tiktok and Biden was defending it. Now the script flipped? In the meantime, all they've done in the past 5 years is give tiktok free advertisement.
Good point. I guess plane occupants it is.
He is widely believed to have memorized the entire international-English Scrabble lexicon, more than 280,000 words
Definitely helps.
Nigel extended ZAP to ZAPATEADOS
My problem is I try to extend the word rather than create new words. So I'd look for zapped, unzapped, zapping, etc. Actually, if I had 'ATEADOS', I would waste my time looking for a 7 letter word ending in S.
Nigel placed all of his letters between the P and TED, spelling out PERNOCTATED and turning NON into ANON. The play tallied 92 points.
Now that is genuinely impressive.
I wish scrabble had platforms as widely available and free as chess does.
Plane occupants? Don't we just call them passengers? Did AI write the article?
It doesn't feel like my Russian comprehension diminished, but speaking it is a struggle.
I didn't know you could 'lose' a native language that you grew up with til near adulthood. Maybe speaking has more to do with muscle memory and hence easier to lose than a somewhat passive skill like listening and comprehension. Makes me wonder how language is stored and processed in the brain. Are there two complete separate regions for speaking and listening? That feels a bit inefficient.
The NYPD actually has 'international offices':
I wonder whether the media is going to write hysterical propaganda pieces about this, like they did with chinese 'international offices'.
With the media, it's always accuse others of what you are doing.
Nope. Most of mexico, and latin america, is owned by europeans. Just tiny netherlands alone invests and owns more of latin america than china. Always wondered where the dutch get their money.
The myth about china's money is entirely that. Myth spread by propagandists. When you look at the numbers, europeans are buying up most of the world.
Look at brazil. The dutch pump more money into brazil than the US.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/749238/fdi-brazil-by-cou...
But you won't see that in the news. If you do it won't be portrayed in a threatening manner. It's always the chinese or the japanese or the arabs buying up everything. When the numbers tell you otherwise.
Younger people are talking about the pro-palestine / anti-zionist views promoted in the app as a reason that lawmakers are so motivated this time.
There are a lot of pro-zionists views promoted on the app as well. But in tiktok's defense, zuckerburg's properties, alphabet properties, reddit, etc lean heavily in favor of pro-zionist content because those companies are officially in bed with public and private zionist organizations.
Wild speculation, of course.
Think it has more to do with anti-china views more than anything. But zionist influence definitely plays some role here.
The Mongols undoubtedly wiped out entire ethnic groups during their conquests.
They didn't. I checked. The fact that you write 'undoubtedly wiped out' without being able to name a single ethnic group, language, religion, culture that got wiped out says something. No?
They killed millions of people.
They did kill people and were destructive as all empires are. But they weren't genocidal. And most of the 'brutality' is exaggerated for the benefit of oddly enough the conquering mongols and subjugated peoples.
But to speak of the Mongols as "preservers of knowledge and culture" is silly.
They preserved it because they merged into local populations. Hence mughal persia, mughal india and the various khanates throughout central asia and china. As I said, they were multicultural and multiracial empire. They didn't force their language, customs, religions, etc on the conquered people. They did the oppposite. They adopted the local language, religions, customs. All the way from eastern europe to china to persia and the middle east. Now juxtapose that with what happened to european imperialism?
but it hardly seems like something they deserve credit for.
It isn't a coincidence that marco polo went to china during the rule of the mongols. The mongols deserve credit for much of the modern world. Starting with the italian renaissance ( it isn't a coincidence that the italian renaissance, medicis, etc ) occurred during the mongol empire, to the rise of russian empire, the rise of china, the rise of the ottomans, etc.
It's remarkable how the mongols were so bloodthirsty and genocidal but the peoples they conquered are the most numerous in the world?
Now compare the mongols to the european imperialists who wiped out an entire hemisphere and more.
Here is a list of regions the mongols and their descendents conquered - china, india, persia, middle east, eastern europe, russia, central asia, etc. Tell me which of these people were wiped out. I'll wait.
The Romans, Mongols and Aztecs voraciously conquered new lands in search of power and wealth - not of knowledge.
The romans conquered greece and nearly adopted ancient greek knowledge and culture wholesale. The mongols were reknown for invading china, persia, etc and taking their best scholars with them. The mongol empire is responsible for much of the cross-eurasian transfer of knowledge. Along with the preservation of much knowledge and culture as they were multireligious and multiculturalists. It's why people in china still speak chinese and arabs still worship as they do. The mongols didn't wipe out entire cultures like 'european imperialists'.
In contrast, European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories."
So wiping out entire continents of people ( their histories, language, culture, knowledge ) was in hopes of obtaining new knowledge. We can't even ascertain the etymology of many of the names of towns, cities, lakes, etc because we killed off entire native language families.
But it wasn't the case that thousands maybe millions of people could be compromised (or spied on by governments) in one go.
And? Besides you being hysterical. What happens?
The trend towards online everything, is equivalent to putting all your eggs in one (huge) basket.
And? What happens if the internet disappears today? Life goes on.
but if it is the case that there are no alternative viable options but to accept a compromised state of privacy
For most of humanity, people lived without any right to privacy. You want old-fashioned right?
I absolutely get why governments and corporations are fine with eroding personal privacy for their benefit.
Governments and corporations are run by people too.
that there is eventually some consideration given to privacy and its loss.
There is more consideration for privacy today, especially in the online world, than in the real old-fashoined world.
How about you set the example and go offline for a bit? Get some air.
That's fine and all, but I don't think the ancient greeks knew about DNA, alcohol processing, etc? I always assumed it was the liver because the liver physically grows back. But that is also modern medical knowledge. I'm just saying that prometheus legend reads differently when viewed from the ancient greek context. There is a richer, deeper layer that is missing without this context. As is the case with most literature.
However its worth pointing out that the 40h work week was considered hugely radical and was “cutting the nose” off of the Ford motor company business when it was introduced.
Not only that, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, etc were created because there was an oversupply of labor due to massive immigration from europe in the 19th century. These legal and cultural shifts occurred to open up more jobs to the unemployed. Else society would break down.
Germany had an influx of millions of immigrants the past few years. How could they possibly have a labor shortage? And how would a 4 day work week solve a labor shortage? It makes no sense. You force people to work less to open up more jobs. The work needed stays the same. If a worker works less, then another worker needs to make up the rest.
"Hepatocentrism was a medical doctrine that considered the liver the center of the whole human being."
Puts a different light on prometheus's punishment. His liver devoured by eagle and then grown back to be devoured again. It's like his soul/essence is reborn or reincarnated daily to be destroyed again.
None. That's my point.
I have to wonder whether there is ever a point that can be reached where people in general realise that any stuff one does online is at risk.
Anything you do offline is at risk too.
Private info, finance, cash, sharing of personal information, health info, etc is all better done the old fashioned way - in person.
Finance is better done the old fashioned way? You think trading stocks where you send a check and then your broker sends you back a stock certificate is better? You think communication by smoke signal is better?
Anyway, I really think 'real life' needs a revival, but this isn't in corporate interests.
What does it matter to 'corporate interests' when 'real life' is dominated by corporate interests as well?
You must think we should go back to batch programming with punch cards? Lets get rid of hospitals and go back to blood letting. Old fashioned medicine. It seems like you are saying something but you really are saying nothing.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States.
No. SEC keeps tabs on publicly traded companies, large institutional investors and the like. Hence the 'securities' and 'exchange'. Most companies in the US are private and not publicly traded. And most companies are not asset managers.
and valuable analysis is often hidden behind a paywall.
Sure, but that's because analysis is valuable.
I made this project to better democratize SEC filings
The SEC already makes the information publicly available via their edgar system.
In the comments, I'd appreciate any and all advice, as well as feedback on how to improve the site.
I'm not sure who your target audience is. Finance companies already have internal teams pulling this kind data for them or they buy it from finance data providers. As for the general public, what need do they have for top 'filers'? As for me, I'd rather dump the data into a database or excel and query it rather than looking at a static page.
At the very least, don't make the site static. Try to add a spreadsheet. Or at the very least a sorting option. Also, vanguard, blackrock, etc aren't top filers. They are the largest or top asset managers. Maybe tie news stories to each asset manager? And more data? But as I said, not sure what the value here is for the end user. Why would I or anyone else ever use your site? Or better yet, what do you use the site for?
Human rights. Particularly freedom of speech.
Neither human rights and especially freedom of speech was a product of 'liberal freedom loving democracies'.
That torch passed to the USA in the last century.
America is a european nation. Founded by europeans and populated by europeans.
But to confuse that with the defeat of Nazism and Fascism in a world war in which 80-100 million people died shows an astonishingly poor grasp of history and politics.
You forget most americans didn't want to defeat 'the nazis' or 'fascism'. Like every war we got involved in, it was against the will of the people. Besides, nazism and fascism was defeated by bigger nazis and bigger fascists. No serious person thinks the US, british empire or soviet union were any better than germany, italy and japan.
Now fear of fear of regret will influence our decisions.
We may criticise our society in this forum and not be arrested by thugs.
In the US because we have constitutional freedom of speech. But plenty of people in 'freedom-loving liberal democracies' are arrested for criticizing their societies. Unless you think the UK and Germany are authoritarian?
Besides, there are things we cannot even criticize in this forum.
That should be evidence enough that for 80 years since the last world war we've maintained an alliance of ideals that were worth fighting for.
What alliance of ideals? What are the ideals? Other than maintaining the european domination of the world?
80 years ago people chose to make the "ultimate sacrifice" by giving their lives.
What? You sound like the morons that think we invade iraq to bring freedom and democracy.
Has India almost went to war with the US in the last 5 years? No.
No. The US threatened nuclear war with india in the last 30 years though.
https://thediplomat.com/2018/05/looking-back-the-1998-nuclea...
That's why.
If that was the case, then india would have stopped trade with china. China is still one of india's top trading partners. And one of its biggest investors.
they got kicked out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_trading_partne...
Why?
Why ban tiktok? It's a national security issue. And india has the talent, population and resources to do so.
How many global software giants can you name from Israel, Japan, or South Korea (let alone the entire EU)?
Surely you are smart enough to see the difference between israel, japan or south korea and india? I'm also a big proponent of the EU banning american tech and building up their own tech. The EU built up airbus, why can't they do the same for facebook, microsoft, etc?
The biggest reason that countries like Israel were able to rapidly develop was because of the soft power of being so integrated in the American tech industry.
What does israel have to do with india? Are you saying india should be a vassal to the US like israel, japan and south korea are? You surely must be joking. India should be a regional power like china, russia and hopefully the EU. It shouldn't be anything like israel, korea or japan. Given its size and history, don't you think india should set its sights a little bit higher?
I think that really depends on what theory of copyright you have operating in your society, many European societies have a theory of copyright that is about respecting artist's moral rights to own what they have created.
If that was the case, nobody in europe would be reading much of franz kafka's works nor anne frank's diary.