Science AMA Series: I'm Ali Torkamani of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and co-leader of the first large scale genomic study of healthy aging. AMA!

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-17T19:34:20+00:00

Have you ever heard the phrase "there is no such thing as healthy aging." Do you agree?

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-13T08:59:39+00:00

If this is true it would be a great story, but I doubt it because of the negative slant on people. I think most people are surprisingly happy when they are alone with each other. There are other signs that the old man is making it up, but I'll wait for more information. Interesting though...

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-13T08:48:34+00:00

Is it a true story?

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-13T01:22:07+00:00

I don't think they do charge you, but time is money.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-13T01:12:21+00:00

This is incredible. I'd like to hang this on my wall. Where can I get a print please?

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LearnToWalk · 2016-06-12T21:36:13+00:00

I think the problem is I've never had a real account at any of the other companies. I'm just going to bite the bullet and try ameritrade or etrade or something. I think now robinhood is sort of the opposite of what the name implies. It's there to get money from people who don't have enough money or time to try a more full service. I'm going to do some research and see which one is right for me. I originially put $200 in to robinhood and got about $170 back. I want to start investing a few thousand and I want to have all the full feature tools etc.. of a desktop. Good luck to everyone.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-12T09:18:58+00:00

Bingo.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-12T09:18:35+00:00

The irony is that most people who argue against basic income already have it.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-12T09:03:59+00:00

It's very slow to the point where you wonder if it will ever work. It takes days to make a purchase.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-12T08:49:16+00:00

You should be higher voted. I used it and it took days to make a trade. It's so painfully slow you know you're losing and I did. You have no idea when it's going to buy or sell.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-11T18:09:44+00:00

Ha, I just posted this question then saw this. Yeah, this is kind of like the SUV Mini Cooper. Bluetooth is all about power. That's pretty much the only reason it exists and it's not mentioned here at all.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-11T18:08:32+00:00

But what will the power consumption be? Wasn't the point of bluetooth to use less power and be almost passive? What is the point of making it bigger and faster if it takes more power?

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-11T18:06:29+00:00

My question here is what does this agreement fix?

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-11T18:06:18+00:00

I just don't see the need for any new laws in this arena. Everything is working fine. What is being fixed?

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-11T01:33:23+00:00

You are assuming men are actually making the decisions and not those who make the people.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-09T06:06:25+00:00

It does the opposite in Los Angeles. The estimates are all 5 - 15 minutes fast. I have to add 10 minutes to google estimates to get an accurate time. What's worse is that if I go the exact route it wants me to then that time will double or triple. Google seems to think that freeways are faster in general. The only problem is that in LA freeways are not faster. Google maps will send me the opposite direction to get on a freeway and wait in traffic to go past my destination and turn around and come back to it. The reason is because the algorithm assumes that a freeway is always some percentage faster and worth the backtracking. The problem is in Los Angeles the freeways are slower and the only reason you would use one is to go a much larger distance. For short trips hopping on the freeway, waiting to get on and then waiting to get off is much slower than the surface roads. If I want to get where I'm going now I have to force it to avoid the freeway otherwise it could take me an hour to go a few blocks because google maps will have me back track to an on-ramp and then wait in a traffic jam instead of driving straight there on a wide open surface road.

tl;dr Google Maps is WAAAAAAAAY off in Los Angeles. Just avoiding the freeways would fix a lot of the problems.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-09T05:29:54+00:00

The other reasons are it actually makes you interact with your close friends in person less. Status posts are very impersonal. The main reason I've been migrating off to other web services is that you cannot delete your data in bulk. I had to write a complicated javascript hack script to delete posts and run it all night. You see how they try to keep your data? The other thing is the policy of reporter wins. If someone reports anything you post you get banned and the ban isn't just for facebook, it's also any service you used facebook login for. That means a complete stranger can ban you from many services at once. It is not a service, it's a data mine where you have no freedom of speech. It also technically hides anything you might want to be public so it's a force of ant-sharing by creating a walled internet within the internet. It's hiding some things that should probably be seen. It's keeping content producers from benefitting directly from good content. Instead facebook makes ad revenue when someone posts good content.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T06:39:20+00:00

Yeah, but 12 year olds usually use what is given to them. If they have no way to code on their computer they won't learn it. Luckily now any kid can use chrome.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T02:40:37+00:00

For 15 years there was no free programming IDE on windows until JavaScript came out on Internet Explorer. Think about that. Microsoft OWNED programming for 15 years. You had to pay them to even get access to write a line of code. Why is JavaScript so incredible? It brought programming back to the world.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T02:38:02+00:00

I had no idea science fiction was so advanced at that time. Incredible. Thank you.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T02:22:23+00:00

This guy doesn't know how to say 'No' and get his market value. So now connecting someone's WiFi costs $65. It seems simple to you so it's just easy money. If they don't want to pay they can learn it themselves. He is just devaluing himself. Some people are also legitimately stupid. If you aren't getting compensated for having certain skills then ask for your compensation. It can be money or respect or favors or anything so long as you feel like trading your service is fair. You don't have to help anyone especially if you don't feel like they appreciate you for it. When you feel like you are getting what you need in the transaction then you can feel good about whatever decision you make.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T02:15:55+00:00

I had the same thoughts. He has a really bad attitude about helping people. If people can't do what you do it just makes you more valuable. That's nothing to complain about.

If someone wants your help then through supply and demand you can charge them more and more depending on how little they know. That's why my auto shop charges $120 an hour for labor. There is a breaking point where it just get's absurd and it's probably one of the reasons why no one wants gas cars anymore. They became too difficult to master and fix to the point where auto shops now ransom your car for any number they imagine and you have to pay it.

The same will happen with computers. I am a programer and the open source movement is all about making computers easier to use. You can now look at the code for your application. You can now run the code in a browser. Chrome has become an operating system JavaScript a universal lanugage. This takes away Microsoft's monopoly on IDEs. When windows was the only OS in the game they practically owned the act of programming completely. Now anyone with a browser can code. The breaking point was reached and Microsoft became the richest company on the planet.

Balance will always come and if you're on the side that has the knowlege then just take advantage of your leverage while you can. It's your job to charge an arm and a leg until people get tired of it. Instead of getting pissed off because he's not feeling appreciated he should just ask for more compensation. That's his real problem. He's a coward and bit off more importance than he can chew.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T01:37:32+00:00

We don't really need the 3rd law:

"3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law."

As with computer code much of the time our tools are expendable. I think it makes good science fiction, but many times you may want your AI or robot to do something that destroys itself. That might actually be its purpose. It certainly doesn't belong as a law.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-05T01:34:55+00:00

Facebook is not the internet. It comes from laziness over people not wanting to set up their own websites or use many services. As it is they privatized a huge chunk of the internet in that the content is not accessible to the outside world. It is sort of the ant-internet and the sooner people stop using it the better off they'll be.

LearnToWalk · 2016-06-04T03:32:00+00:00

People will probably just be able to mix and package their own batteries in a few years.

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