It includes everything that you mention. I know people who constantly read books about finances, health, relationships, ... . They are broke, health is terrible, depressions, ... . If they would just apply what they read, it would be fine. But they don't.
And then there are the 'sales type'-guys if you know what I mean. They just talk and do: have their finances more or less straight, have a family, lots of social connections, ... .
I agree that both thinking and doing is best (as hopefully most here are doing). But if I have to choose, I would choose doing over thinking.
I normally don't post here but i just wanted to say that i've noticed the same thing around me and have also felt the crushing depression that comes with the realisation that everyone is addicted to something that's destroying the very fabric of our society.
And your point about fixing loneliness through a painful but personal journey is spot on. If it doesn't hurt, you're not really doing it properly.
Go out and meet new people, talk about new ideas and remember that all storms will pass.
I'm like 99% certain that phrase has been said in one form or another throughout every single generation.
Wasn't there an article about how magazines were deemed bad when they first made an appearance and people would bury their heads in them?
Honestly, I just think for the most part people are afraid of change and would rather things continue the way they have. I try to remind myself of this every once in a while, and it helps me stay optimistic.
As with most things, humans are generally predictable. People in every generation will feel like their own society threatened in one form or another.
I'm not afraid of change - i grew up around technology during the 90s where we played outside every day and consider myself "up to date" wrt the current zeitgeist. I firmly believe technology (especially space tech) is the way forward but i still have reservations about the current sate of social media due to the effects on the psyche i see in people in my life. But that's just my experience.
I'm not sure how many they've actually sold but i do know that they have a loan/test program where you can pay a relatively small amount (around $2000 or less) to get set up with a MinION kit. The main recurring cost is the flow cell. I'm currently trying to figure out how to join together short multiplexed samples (150bp - 200bp) and get it sequenced on the MinION. Current short-read sequencers from Illumina or ThermoFisher cost orders of magnitude more than Oxford Nanopore's offering. Hopefully someone else is trying to use the platform for short reads.
There are too many, rarely understood processes involved in fertilisation and subsequent embryogenesis. I don't think we can fully create a human (or even other complex life forms) fully synthetically. Rather, i think scientists would just exploit tried and tested natural mechanisms such as embedding half of the synthetic genome into the spermatazoon with the other half residing in the oocyte and letting "nature" take its course.
There's just too much knowledge we're missing right now (even the calcium signalling cascade initiated by the sperm fusing with the egg isn't fully understood). Of course, who knows where we'd be in 10, 20, 50 or 100 years?
Depends on the publisher. Both ACM and IEEE allow publishing a copy on your website, don't know about Springer or Elsevier. Most authors in CS that I know publish copies as soon as they are accepted for publication.
It really depends on your field; as far as I am aware (I am a PhD student in theoretical CS) even Elsevier and Springer do not go against preprints on arXiv.
Am i correct in assuming that getting peer reviewed binds you to their terms, one of which must be to disallow other means of distribution?
I know at uni, our tutors told us to politely email researchers for a copy in case our subscription didn't cover their research. I didn't bother with this as booksc (libgen) and sci-hub are faster.
personally I took it as an opportunity to finally try out VT-d gaming... so Linux on the bare metal, and Windows tightly locked down in a VM (on a separate vlan).
MS are free to spy on me playing X-COM, but they won't be getting anything else...
I've had two problems: crackling audio and NVIDIA's driver coming up with strange errors.
the former was fixed by buying a cheap PCI-E soundcard and passing it through (line-in'ed to the primary soundcard), and the latter by twiddling some QEMU flags, as NVIDIA want you to buy the $4000 quadro... my next card will be AMD, who don't do this sort of BS.
now it's all sorted it works like a dream, you wouldn't know it's in a VM.
1) wine is quite good these days. It has played far more than Source Engine games for like 5+ years. Ever since steam went to Linux and the Unity engine became popular, compatibility problems became much less common even on new games.
2) If you are always going to rank playing games as more important than spyware, then you're an easy mark. If you aren't willing to make a few sacrifices to invest in your future, then you're made your decision. Why do you care about spyware if games are more important?
The costs of leaving are only going to get worse with time. I recommend paying these costs now instead of waiting for the problem to get worse.
Linux gaming is getting better and better. Yes, we have a few sacrifices to make in the form of not getting to play every mainstream title, but many of the ones worth your time have great Linux versions, and if not, they might run well in Wine.
I wiped Windows nine months ago and installed Arch. The only things I missed were Dark Souls and Insurgency.
I found out a week ago that Dark Souls runs like butter in Wine, and Insurgency just got native Linux support the other day. I am a happy Linux gamer.
As for the titles that choose to avoid supporting my operating system, well I guess I won't be supporting them with my dollars.
The problem with wine in this case is that it currently can't work with anything using DX11/12, many (if not most) of the big name titles coming out on PC these days are unusable on wine because of that.
2 is actually a decent reason to try to change, given that Valve is trying to get more venders to SteamOS it might just be start to make a difference.
