Billionaires are almost always created by starting with substantial familial wealth, taking large financial risks, and getting lucky. They then generally misattribute this luck to personal excellence, causing them to underestimate future risks.
On the other hand, they also induce institutions to change in ways that really do insulate them as a class from the consequences of risk. Both of these factors would tend to reduce their fear of losing their wealth and status.
Who do you think he is, Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
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This isn’t great, but it’s what I ended up resorting to for my mom who refused to use any service, browser setting, or saved file:
Make a “master” password with upper-case characters and digits (e.g., M45T3R). Memorize it or write it down.
Interleave the characters with those of the domain the password is for (e.g., for google.com: gMo4o5gTl3eR). She can type the master password first, then put the cursor at the start and type each letter of the domain name hitting the right arrow after each letter.
As long as she remembered the master password, she could reconstruct the others on the fly. A human could still look at the result and figure out the pattern, but at least it protected her from automated tools.
OP says part of their problem is that their mom wants to access the passwords from her phone.
Well obviously that just shows that you’ve successfully sublimated those urges. /s
Is this question an example of the halting problem?
Sliced bell peppers.
Ossetian.
Capellini.
Spaghetti (or even linguini) is the minimum thickness for being able to cook with a soft outer layer to pick up sauce while still keeping some toothiness inside.
Between the various cortical layers and white matter, what part of the brain’s structure do these implants typically target? Do they sit on top of the outermost layer of some specific region of the cortex (effectively creating a new layer), or do they make long-distance connections to other brain structures?
Along the same lines, do deaf people compose poems in ASL? What aspect of that language plays the part of rhyme?
Scharffen Berger, before it got bought by Hershey.
Let’s suppose a time travel event occurs in which an agent with free will travels to their own causal past, and let’s suppose this creates a parallel timeline which can differ from the first (leading to a new version of the agent which creates a third timeline, and so on).
We can consider this time-travel event as a function in which one timeline maps to a successor timeline — or in general, the event is an iterative map from the space of possible timelines to itself. If this map meets a few general criteria, we can apply the fixed point theorem and conclude that, after enough iterations, the process will converge to some fixed point that maps to itself (that is, the agent causes the past of their own timeline, even though they have free will). This timeline maps to itself—but it is also mapped to by an infinite succession of timelines in which the agent is free to alter their successor timeline, converging on one in which their choices cause no further alteration.
At that point, we can dispense with the assumption that time travel creates parallel timelines, and assume instead that the fixed-point, self-causing timeline is the only real one.
You’re assuming that time travel is equivalent to “rewinding” the intervening time span as if it had never occurred—in which case, yes, nondeterministic events are likely to happen differently.
But that’s not the case if time travel is a closed time-like loop (which is implicit in the “immutable-past” of OP’s second scenario). In that case everything happens only once, so it makes no difference whether or not the universe is strictly deterministic.
I spent eight years as an undergrad in the 90s taking courses in everything, because I was addicted to interdisciplinary learning independent of any career goal. Then the dot-com boom convinced me that online learning could replace universities, so I picked a major that would benefit from having access to a university library (History), got a baccalaureate, and ended my formal education there.
It took a decade or so before the online availability of open-access papers caught up with my expectations, and I realize in retrospect that I underrated the value of postgraduate study—but given the expense and the necessity of specializing it would have entailed, I don’t regret not pursuing higher degrees.
I thought diarrhea was (at least sometimes) caused by too many of your gut bacteria getting killed by fever so they can’t digest solids enough to extract the water.
My city is full of shops and restaurants run by people who worked corporate jobs for decades while saving up to open their dream shop. The commercial landlords have realized this, and raised rents to the point where profitable businesses are a financial impossibility—they just aim to drain their tenants’ life savings as quickly as possible while they line up the next hopefuls. The city is full of amazing shops and restaurants, but they have a turnover time in months.
Goat herding, on the other hand, is much less susceptible to commercial rent inflation.
The day the Chicxulub asteroid hit.
Whichever day of the week it was, the subsequent 3.4 billion weeks have not yet balanced out the score.