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Musing Posts
This post hosts all the questions and answers posted in Musing.io
This post hosts all the questions and answers posted in Musing.io
Is money the real problem why some relationship ends?
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In a perfect world, it shouldn't. Be that as it may, much of the time it does.
In case you're the two individuals who comprehend that a relationship is autonomous of material components like cash, a house, an auto and other pointless endowments, at that point how much cash both of you makes wouldn't make any difference.
Be that as it may, the issue is considerably greater. When somebody doesn't profit, he/she begins to consider less himself/herself. This causes confidence issues which can show itself in various ways-like outrage, frailty, pessimism, alchoholism and so forth. This damages the accomplice obviously.
On the other side, when a man profits than his/her accomplice, he/she may look downward on him/her. That likewise does not look good for the accomplice.
Along these lines, in the event that you look carefully, you will see that it's not the cash making but rather the state of mind to cash making that influences connections.
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Yes, because for many it's difficult to earn enough. Simply, that isn't sustainable to maintain a partnership because we have to survive.
If one side of the boat has a hole in it, and the other is strong as ever, will the boat sink? No, if the other side helps patch it, but yes if they can't.
Sure, I guess it can be the real problem for some couples. I would assume that it's not for most couples though.
Will robots and Artificial Intelligence replace humans?
Certainly robots beyond any doubt can replace humans and as of now are :
In all manual occupations.
Driverless autos are as of now supplanting drivers.
Secretary are now confronting computerization
Most likely in years to come specialists may be supplanted by some Bot which can complete comparable errands adequately
In any case, until further notice robots can't supplant employments like:
Information researchers.
Programming engineers
Digital security specialists
Electrical designers
What's more, most likely any occupation that includes ability
However, there no telling what's on the horizon envisioning a future where a product can do precisely or more than what a human can do is quite hard.
Be that as it may, presumably simply like different occasions "like the mechanical upset more occupations would be made.
In my opinion, there are two possibilities in the future
1. AI will replace humans
There will be times when AI will be sentient or have the awareness and ability to think like living things. Some films like Terminator, show that an AI can fight its own creator.
If human awareness can be incorporated into a computer, human intelligence that is assisted by various computer elements directly can produce extraordinary things. However, this can make the human consciousness put into the computer become rash and try to control everything because it has a much greater power. Even without direct destructive Al, there is a possibility that human beings no longer need their bodies so they move their consciousness into a computer.
2. Humans will live side by side with AI
Usually AI events are against the creator and the human race due to the lack of regulations that bind AI. Fundamental Regulations such as Asimov's Laws of Robotics, should be implemented into AIs made.
- A Robot is not allowed to harm humans either directly or indirectly.
- A Robot must obey human commands unless the order violates the first law.
- A Robot must protect itself as long as the protection itself violates the first and second laws.
In making laws for Al itself is not easy because an Al who has the ability to think faster and accurately than humans can find a gap through these laws. By applying the law to AI, AI will function as expected and not endanger humanity.
No, robots and AI will not replace humans.
While robots and AI are very capable (because we created them so), the prerequisite for them to function well is a controlled environment. But this word that we live, this world that we inhabit, has so many infinite variables. For a lack of a better word, it is chaos (though I believe beneath the apparent chaos is order).
In such an uncontrolled environment with many changing variables, robots and AI will falter.
The human mind is still vastly superior, beyond any comparison!
If I start to think about the topic I could say that anything is possible, but I don't think it will ever happen. There are enough conspiracy theories claiming such a doom situation, but I don't believe it.
I think that the planet Earth was created for humans to live on it and that's what it is. It might happen for us to live among such AI robots and work with them, but I don't see them replacing us and transforming our planet into a robots one.
Life ever prevails and robots are not alive. I don't have any argument to clearly state my case on why it's impossible for robots to replace us, as I don't know exactly how the tech will evolve, but I doubt it will happen.
I do expect to live among them in a few decades...
During the industrial revolution, humans were also afraid that machines will take over the world. It turned out that not only they didn't, they actually helped humans become more efficient and we can focused on more intellectual work due to machinery.
Forwarding time by 250 years, we are once again witnessing a revolutionary technology being born. Will robots and AI replace humans? My short answer is no. I think that robots and AI will replace some jobs that humans are currently still doing. Especially those that require repetitive manual effort. I am not just referring to menial work at shipyards or factories, I am also talking about jobs like legal proofreading, financial auditing and security events correlation. The list is endless but the sky is not going to collapse overnight. So if you are working in those areas, do not panic... yet.
With humans freed up from manual repetitive work, we won't lose productivity as a whole. Instead, I think we will be even more productive, creative and inventive. The key difference between an AI/Robot and human is that human can create something from nothing, while AI/Robot cannot. That is because AI/Robots cannot recognize problems and opportunities when there are.
AI can learn based on what they are programmed to learn. You can program an AI to identify faces better and faster with each iteration. But in the first place, they would never have the idea that facial identity is important. You can get them to learn what are fake news and what are not. But they will not know that fake news is a problem in the first place.
You see, the value of humans is that we are able to keep thinking out of the box and improve our productivity along the way. We are also creative in the field of arts and music. These are things that I think AI are not capable of. I view AI/Robots as useful tools. Imagine if AI/Robots are able to help us with very rapid prototyping. Our jobs will literally be just dreaming. As we think of an idea, a prototype is already being built and we can immediately see if it works or not. So much time and effort would have been saved!
Personally, I am looking forward to the day which I can just lounge around and dream of ideas while I let AI take care of the menial task of prototyping/testing them. :)
Does a college diploma still have that much of a value as it had twenty years ago? Why?
I would say that a college diploma carries less value now than it did 20 years ago. Here are my main reasons why:
First, we have to understand what a diploma means with respect to the real world. A university that issues a diploma to one of their graduating students is claiming that the student has completed a course of study, and that the university is satisfied with the student's competence in a certain field. Unfortunately, that competence is largely rooted in knowledge, and the diploma says nothing about the graduate's ability to think creatively or critically, or even if they could function in a real-world working environment.
Second, the cost of higher education has risen significantly (at least in America) since the 1980s, and student debt has ballooned to alarming levels. At the same time, the wage advantage that college graduates are expected to enjoy over non-graduates, has failed to keep pace. Add in the fact that employers have placed more emphasis on skills and relevant experience within this time frame, and it becomes more and more difficult to justify the financial costs of attending college and getting a degree, especially if that degree takes longer than the traditionally expected 4 years to complete. The increasing number of stories of college graduates who could only find menial jobs doesn't help the diploma's image either.
Third, advances in technology (and in particular the Internet) have brought about alternative (and in many cases, cheaper) means for people to acquire/learn relevant skills that are valued by employers in the modern-day workplace. Online classes, Youtube tutorials, and other Internet-based instructional materials are for many people, far more accessible than having to physically show up to a college campus for the purpose of learning and gaining knowledge.
Because of all this, I maintain that a college diploma is worth less now than 20 years ago. I will even go one step further and say that if colleges don't revolutionize by finding ways to cut tuition rates (simply freezing rates will not be sufficient) and be more accessible to the general public, then I believe there will come a point within this century, when diplomas become completely worthless.
I'd say yes, it does.
Although more and more people these days have a college diploma, the actual value (usefulness) of the diploma didn't decrease, but instead the amount of competition on the same playing field have increased. This of course means that you can't rely solely on a diploma to get the job like before, but now you should also have other skills that set you apart (often personality based or experience).
Thus, if you do not have the diploma, you would most likely not even be considered. The bar has been raised and companies these days get to pick individuals with the skill set they require and more.
Yes, I believe so. I think it's more important than ever to get an education if you want to get a good job.
I think it's worth it in some ways if it guides you somewhat on the things your interested to in knowing more about. There are some courses that is really difficult to learn by ourselves if we were to learn it by yourself. By studying a diploma course, we can get a head start. But of course we have to take note that by the time, we finish studying a course, it may be somewhat outdated, so it is good to learn more. It is good however that we get to meet people who have the same interest. It is not useful if we did not have that cash to study a course and then we borrowed a loan from the bank to study. It is good to gain some experience too.
Do you think good questions are more important than the good answers to make musing.io the top Q&A platform?
No, I don't think one is more important than the other. In fact, in order for Musing.io to be the top Q&A platform it must provide both: good questions and good answers. Otherwise, it could potentially alienate one half of its potential user base.
In order for Musing.io to be the top Q&A platform, there are two things that it must be able to do equally well: provide quality answers to the people who need them, and to ask intelligent questions that it's users will need to provide quality answer. Prioritizing one (either questions or answers) will just prioritize one group, while alienating the other.
Let's consider Quora, for example. I discovered that platform years ago, not because I was looking for good questions, but because I already had a question in mind that needed an answer. So, I did a Google search and one of the results was a Quora page. I clicked the link, which was a good thing because it actually had a very good answer in it. After that, I have been using Quora's search function to look for answers to my questions. You see, I don't answer questions in Quora. I'm simply a reader, so, for me, it was the answer that mattered.
However, consider the flipside, the person who wrote the answer that I found. He or she wouldn't have been able to write that answer, if the question wasn't asked, in the first place. So, for him or her, it was the question that was more important.
In this sense, saying one is more important than the other will just alienate either the people who are looking for good answers or those who need good questions they can answer.
So, for Musing.io to be the top Q&A platform, it cannot consider one more important the other. Instead, good answers and good questions must be seen as two sides of the same coin, which Musing.io need to be on top.
Absolutely, without good questions we cant get good answers! I think good answers are based on research and personal experience and opinion and answers which cant simply be given by cutting and pasting from wikipedia!
To get these good answers though, we need to have good questions. Questions like 'what is steem' are simply invites to give the factual response However, if people were to ask, 'how do allow yourself to grieve after a bereavement' for example, then we can learn a lot from the response which would be more personal and combined with common knowledge.
This way we can share and learn together in cooperation with each of us helping the others and this in turn in a small way makes the world a slightly more peaceful place!
Good question by the way lol ;-)
Good questions with good answers is what makes this
platform wonderful so both good questions and answers are reallt necessary if we really want this
platform to grow,if there are no good questions then
there will be no good answers so that is why questions and answers on this platform needs to be meaningul ao
that it will make this platform to be a very great platform...
Partly true!
Anyone can ask questions but answering with one’s thinking is more valuable and different views gives more value
Of course! You can't give an eye-catching or useful reply to a silly or irrelevant question.
I don't want to pay for votes, but, if I want to get my articles resteemed so more people see them, what are different methods you have used to achieve this?
See what I'm getting at? I don't want a bunch of fake bot accounts voting me up, I just want to get my articles in front of more eyes so I can get more legit upvotes from people that actually take the time to read my articles.
The best way to get your article in front of real people who can give you legitimate upvotes is to promote it organically.
What do I mean by promoting it organically? This means getting real users to resteem your article, not because they will get something out of it like a payment or a prize, but because they see the value that your article can give them and their followers. That's why paying for bots and resteems don't work.
So, how can you promote your article organically? Here are a few suggestions.
First, joining a community. One of the best ways to get your article resteemed and read by real people is by being active in a community. When I was just new in Steemit, I have been fortunate to find the Freewrite Community, where members write a short post based on the day's writing prompt. Because it was such a giving and active community, it's members really read each other's freewrite posts, made comments, and upvoted the ones they like. Some even actively resteemed each other's posts if they are impressed by it and there was a community effort to create a digest that featured the favorites of the week. The result is I found real people who engaged and interacted with me. Every upvote I got from its members were genuine, which helped boost my confidence and helped my writing.
There are several communities like this, which you could join in Steemit. It's just a matter of finding one and actively engaging it's members. Of course, you have to be genuine when you join a community, too. If you're not really interested in being a part of that community and just want to get upvotes, then this might not be the best way for you.
Second, you can try promoting your post in the many Discord Channels in Steemit. Almost every Discord Channel here in Steemit has a post promotion channel. So, look for an active Discord Channel and promote your post there. Just remember to read the posting guidelines and other rules to make sure you're not violating them, because that could get you kicked out.
Third, is to get your content noticed by curators. There are a lot of curators and curation initiatives in Steemit like Curie, to Asapers, and the LoveBug. If you could get your content in front of the people curating for them, you could be considered for an upvote or feature. I don't know how to do this with Curie, but Asapers has a post promotion channel in their Discord, which they use to look for posts to feature.
Of course, it's important to remember that all your promotion will not matter if you don't have quality content. So, assuming you write quality content, a little promotion should help you get the upvotes you've been looking for.
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The best way to achieve this by doing some contests and putting a condition to resteem your post. I have done this earlier by starting the Caption contest here, which got very popular and ran for almost six months.
You can just have some good prizes, and I am sure, that will drive your posts crazy resteemed.
The best way to get more eyeballs on your articles is to comment on other articles.
There are a few ways to do this successfully, but one of the best ways (through my experience) is to search for fresh posts and be among the first to comment on them.
Make a friendly comment on these new posts, and other readers as well as the author itself will sometimes click your name and go read and vote on your post.
Worked for me, and I made 3300 SP organically in less than one year, so I guess that proves it.
Cheers
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Is quantum computing a real threat to cryptocurrency?
Can the current encryption algorithms be broken with quantum computers? Will this be a danger to cryptocurrency?
The answer irrelevant of how long it might take is yes. One key reasoning is from Forbes who says; “At a major crypto event at University of California Santa Barbara this week, Martinis talked about why it could take a decade or more to build a quantum computer. “This is really, really hard, way harder than building a classical computer,” he said.
He went on to explain to the packed room at Crypto 2017, a four-day conference sponsored by the International Association for Cryptographic Research, that the main reason building a quantum computer is so tough is because qubits (quantum bits), the counterpart of bits in classical computers, are unstable. And that creates extra work for physicists trying to solve the problem.”
Article link: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/08/25/why-quantum-computings-threat-to-bitcoin-and-blockchain-is-a-long-way-off/amp/
# Big picture
No matter what he said on the time needed to build these computers, one thing is clear. After the 10 years or so it will take to build, it can be destructive to a crypto currency. Remember that having 51% of the network hash, means that you are in control on the network. With these computers, the network can be overrun for malicious attempt, and once reaching 51% can be exposed badly. So no matter if it’s in a year, a decade or a century, there will be a time in the future when quantum computing can overrun crypto currencies.
I don't mean doing a 51% attack with a quantum computer rather use it to hack the encryption algorithm.
Well, actually your questions are being broken down into several somewhat relevant but not really wholly-related questions.
For the first question, no, quantum computing is not a real threat to cryptocurrency for the simple fact of the electricity cost.
Currently, in order be a real threat to cryptocurrency, one would need to accomplish the attack known as '51% attack'. Literally, from the coined term, we could know that the attacker need to control the simple majority (>50%) in order to launch an effective attack with interfere with the underlying blockchain. They can theoretically monopolize the creation of new blocks, which allow them to exploit the vulnerability of double-spending. But fortunately, this would need a large amount of computing power as well as electricity.
While quantum computer could possibly attain high computing power, and hence pose threats towards cryptocurrency. Let's not forget that quantum computer is made from specialized design consisting of superconductors (They need to be cooled to a outrageous level of -273°C, to function properly!). This would use a lot of electricity, hence render this threat currently impossible, at least from a technical perspective.
For the rest of the questions, they are more about the computational ability of the quantum computers, which the answer would be simply yes! But still, we still got a long way to go, and currently the biggest threat for cryptocurrency would be scalability. This deserves more attention, IMO.
I don't mean doing a 51% attack with a quantum computer rather use it to hack the encryption algorithm.
Yes, Quantum Computing might be a real threat to Blockchain as well as to Cryptocurrencies, according to MIT Technology. They said : "....this kind of computing can hack the cryptography hash that universally secures the Blockchain...."
Who is worse? The mastermind of money game, ponzi or scam or the followers who recruit other people?
My opinion is that the people who are aware that it's a scam/ponzi and still tricking other people into joining, are the worst. The people who are just naïve and believe that they will make money are not really bad people per se, they just lack the experience or insight to realize that they are being fooled. The people who organize this stuff is by far worse people.
Trevon James is one of those guys. And he has gotten a lot of money using Steem.
What would you do if you are approached by your friend to invest in scam, ponzi and illegal MLM?
If the person is truly a friend, I would give my advice about the investment and simply decline the request. A friend would understand
Yeah... they should know it.
Call the police
Get them thrown into jail
Laugh at the mugshots 😾
Hahaha... I wish I can!!! Sometimes, they are just too annoying!!
These sort of things to me are pretty much friendship breakers in the person keeps pushing them, I would just gently say no and ask him to stop but if he keeps on going and escalating, I would give a warning to never bring up the topic again because it could damage our friendship and if he tries again, he clearly cares more about earning profits from his scam than your friendship so its pretty obvious what that next step would be!
That’s true... I had a few friends and relatives that I kept a distance from them now.
Sadly enough I had also a few encounters with friends approaching me with MLM. They are trying to convince you with a short coffee or something just to present their concept and their beliefs. I think you have to have a strong mind and personality to just say no. Personally I wouldn't want to have to get involved into a discussion. Just be friendly and polite - do not try to change them, because you will only run on ice with this.
Yeah... that’s true. Strong mind is important.
Do you also consider Dogecoin a joke coin or has the Doge earned your respect as a worthy to invest cryptocurrency? Why?
It s not a joke coin ! I often used it for transaction insead of Bitcoin because its very fast and has a low transaction fee. It s accepted by a lot of exchanges and services.
In my opinion Dogecoin is undervalued.
I still consider it a joke coin. I just don't see the benefit of it compared to some of the other coins out there.
How does CPU work in EOS network?
CPU and Bandwidth on the EOS blockchain is a bit complicated, but I'll do my best to explain it. Basically each transaction needs to use resources to process, and these resources are CPU measured in microseconds, RAM measured in bytes, and bandwidth that is also measured in bytes.
By staking your EOS into either CPU or Bandwidth, you get your share of these resources, which can then be used to make transactions. Each transaction will cost you a little bit of CPU and Bandwidth, but they both regenerate over a period, so most users that just sends a few transactions most likely won't need to worry too much about them at all.
So to summarize; CPU is a resource that is used to send transactions, and you pay a little bit each time.