Generalist (webapps and data science) looking to go from data to big data. Extensive physics and biology (computational modeling) background. Interested in the problem rather than the process person.
I don't see it as preying on the poor. I see it as a hobby / investment of the poor due to thousands of other factors that already prey on the poor.
Imagine you have 0 chance of having any savings and barely staying ahead on your mortgage. The breakdown is this:
upper class: easy access to what you want and need
middle class: easy access to what you need
lower class: difficult access to what you need
If you are never going to have disposable income and forever be barely a paycheck ahead, what investments are available to you? You raise your child as well as you can for the school district and streets you live on, at best they go to a low-tier state school -> more debt. You can't retrain for a job because you are half a paycheck away from needing to take a second job.
In this situation, the outcomes are this:
don't play lottery -> 100% stay poor
play lottery -> 99.99999% stay poor
tDCS was what was used, which is simply a low current meant to modulate firing rates at the cortical layer. There is NO interpretation of thought patterns and conversion into some modulatory electric field.
I do agree there are a lot of issues with clinical based trials especially ones with less concrete physiological measures, but the evidence for tDCS is certainly slowly stacking on.
I did read the posted press article and know what transcranial direct current stimulation is.
I think you may not have an objection to what I wrote if I remove the words "thought patterns" and replace them with "brain activity" as used in the press release.
Nonetheless, even this I find implausible. Why should I use the "brain activity" of a commercial pilot and not a meditating monk? Surely any actual information about flying a plane is totally absent from any such transfer. I see no plausible mechanism here.
I'm not sure why the press release says that, but that is not t"DC"S is, and you're right there would be no reason to do that for any transcranial electrical stimulation protocol.
But in the paper, it is pretty clear they do hd-tDCS. Spatially there may be an attempt to target more specifically areas that are activated during normal flight activity, but there is no attempt to "transfer activity" which has a huge temporal and amplitude implication.
Eddystone has a couple different modes. One of them is to transmit a URL, but beacons can also be configured to transmit a UID. Not all Eddystone beacons will be transmitting a URL.
That said, I believe Physical Web does use the Eddystone-URL mode.
Segregation is often self-imposed. As an Asian-American, I often can't relate with white people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (what is allowance? what is getting grounded? hobbies?) and although I have many close white friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups. The only way this segregation has to do with race is that stereotypes are exactly that, true for a distribution. Another way to say this is that people I end up relating well with tend to come from the same experiences (namely that of growing up Asian-American).
In addition, I'm often super surprised at these comments. The US is many orders of magnitude less accepting of racism than Europe. Europeans on the whole speak freely of their negative opinions of Muslims and gypsies. In the US, any comment mentioning race carries immediately with it a negative connotation. This is exactly why it is the breadstuff of comedians. There is no humor in something that is simply accepted as "truth" as much of European racism is.
I hate speaking anecdotally, but just as a credit to my experience with racism in Europe as an Asian-American, my time there was filled with experiences ranging from ignorance to aggressive defensiveness. Most of this can be explained away as just inexperience due to Europe's immense racial homogeneity. Often they would treat me as a fob which was an acceptable assumption. But this just goes to show how behind Europe is in the racial conversation (they don't even have racial experiences!)
It's strange. I'd echo the sentiments expressed in the parent about the UK when it comes to Australia, too. Seems like people identify with their race before their nationality in the US. We don't have "African-Australians" or "Asian-Australians" here. Everyone is just Australian.
>I often can't relate with white people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (what is allowance? what is getting grounded? hobbies?) and although I have many close white friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups.
Interesting. Do you personally think that if a white person were to express similar sentiments, he would be guilty of racism?
I'm trying to construct the similar sentiments you are asking me to. Let me know if this is correct.
> I often can't relate with asian people. What they worry about and enjoy do nothing for me. This started from a young age (why is there chinese school on saturday? what is discipline by disappointment? no privacy?) and although I have many close asian friends, on a whole they are the minority in my friend groups.
Well educated white people tend to be more sensitive to things seeming racist, because they really don't want to seem racist. Hence the idea of political correctness (PC). I get the impression that Asians in Asia don't care as much about being PC as white people in America.
But that difference - like the differences you mention - isn't racial, it's cultural. The culture just happens to correlate with the race.
> why is there chinese school on saturday?
There are plenty of white minorities that would identify with this. E.g. Jews have Hebrew school, Greeks have Greek school. Have you seen the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
> But that difference - like the differences you mention - isn't racial, it's cultural. The culture just happens to correlate with the race.
That was exactly my point. But because they correlate with race, they get imposed upon you and associated with you even beyond what culture brings.
> There are plenty of white minorities that would identify with this.
Part of this must take into account how Jews and Greeks were not considered 'white' for centuries. Furthermore, it also speaks to how I don't even know exactly why the average white person implicitly doesn't understand me.
Those strike me as understandable sentiments, but I do think they are racist. Are they bigoted? No. Racist? Yes.
Such sentiments try to extrapolate information on a group of people based off of a non-random sampling. There's bias introduced by the geography of one's life, if nothing else.
Amazing! The important thing to have a breakdown for is dietary carbs though. Most vegetables work for keto diets due to the carbs being mostly dietary. From this that isn't completely clear however.
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Generalist (webapps and data science) looking to go from data to big data. Extensive physics and biology (computational modeling) background. Interested in the problem rather than the process person.