I would say that there is indeed a problem with modern tech companies where things matter even less than they should. It's not a problem of being raised in a context where everything matters, but that many companies, especially tech are totally care free with their vc money, and we can see that changing in the last months of downturn.
Raising children to care is good and takes lots of effort.
Raising children to leave parents alone usually means the children end up not caring or worse.
I guess you mean efficient in that they produce a shorter (or even the shortest) sequence of moves to solve a given scramble. But if it takes 5 minutes of computation to produce the solve, then in practice they are not yet very efficient.
By computation in this case I mean evaluating the state of the cube after a series of moves. It’s extremely difficult for a human, but a computer can simulate millions of moves in a fraction of a second. So realistically, any modern computer can find a low rotation count solution to any scramble almost instantaneously.
it depends how much you value a move, vs a computer instruction.
Get a faster computer and a larger cube, the trade-off is likely worth it.
A rubik's cube isn't such an intractable problem, I doubt a computer can't solve it faster than a human: in the worst case, they can rely on the same algorithm. Then, they can try to find shortcuts or just shorter paths.
I always thought minimizing the number of moves was the goal, hence "more efficient" made sense to me too.
And the counterpoint is that most people aren't able to do that much exercise. Because it's A LOT. Basically full time athletes or highly physical workers. So that excludes all people with a sedentary or only partially physically demanding work.
Okay, but what if you don't know your password and your password manager is offline or you don't have access to it on your phone or the phone ran out of battery or... I assure you we can find a similar amount of cases where passwords would fail. It's mostly novelty phobia.
We're used to one way of working and have our setups for that. We don't want something different but not because it's worse. It's just different.
And even more, when you have a problem with your password, what do you have to do, yes, email for the most part.
I disagree with the cheap developers point. I've just hired a Pakistani designer/web developer team. They were committed, fast, cheap, wrote high quality code, and delivered more than what was agreed at the start.
It was a closed price project though, which I think is a better way in general to get a better deal for everyone involved.
It wasn't perfect. But I can fix the rest.
How cheap? $950 for a new logo and branding guide plus two responsive html pages with custom graphics.
You should consider this interaction as an opportunity to also revisit your ageism. I'm all for encouraging young people, and OP seems a really bright 13 years old person, for sure. But try to keep condescension out of the way. As anybody with children can tell you, we all learn from them all the time. It's not something surprising.
I find hard to interpret "A 40 yo learned something from a 13 yo" in a non ageist way. Seems that people disagree, but nobody has provided a counterpoint.
Actually, the comment in question would have been perfect encouragement in my view just by removing that phrase.
You don't need to compare with the past. Just compare with other countries, where you can pay 300 a month and have all your family fully covered privately. No copay. No public health. Although you can skip the payment and get public health. Or even have both and decide when to go private and when public. All in much less powerful economies.
I think OP was pointing to a potential starting point of the raise in prices and decoupling it from the actual services rendered. Something I think is very likely given that now there are a lot of examples where things are comparable quality with much lower prices. It might not be exactly WWII, but it certainly was caused by some factors not tied directly to the quality of the services.
Right, I never tried to say that there was only one cause for prices going up. However, note that technology has vastly decreased costs across all industries too. Faster communications, faster billing and payments, digital images instead of film that has to be developed, etc, etc. It’s not immediately obvious that the rising quality of healthcare would necessarily make it more expensive, given the vast cost reductions happening at the same time.
Technology has vastly decreased the cost of things that existed.
Technology also vastly increased the cost of things that didn't exist.
Prior to the invention of video games, nobody spent a dime on video games. People today spend a lot of money in air travel while before WWII very few people spent money on air travel. Etc
39 investors total (this is highlighted in the post I linked btw, with a bunch of other analysis you'll likely find interested). When we started, we planned to raise between $1m and $2m.
That feels off. It’s like me saying I don’t know English. I merely know the correct alghorithm to give the correct responses to things people give me as input.
There supposedly is a (semantic) process in your brain that makes you believe you understand the sentences you are reading and writing that is on top of the (symbolic) process that tells you what to say and how to say it. And that's the quid of the issue. Searle argues that symbolic computation cannot produce understanding at the semantic level.
Raising children to care is good and takes lots of effort.
Raising children to leave parents alone usually means the children end up not caring or worse.