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He didn't 'drop out', he was incentivized to the tune of $100 a month for life to quit.
Reference on that?
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He didn't 'drop out', he was incentivized to the tune of $100 a month for life to quit.
And that was when $100 was an equivalent of 3 ounces of gold which is about $4k today. Barrel of oil and S&P500 had roughly the same price in gold then as they do today.
This website suggests $656 as a more realistic figure. Enough to survive on while working furiously on your writing.
As a twenty-eighteen year old, this article made my Sunday.
As a 27 year old, I can't help but wonder how much of the article was written to be aimed at the older millennial/Reddit crowd's insecurity of aging. But I welcome the prognosis and look forward to my days as a 37 year old still pwning young noobs in Dota2/League/CoD/2K.
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Could you elaborate a little on why is (or might be in the future) the EPR paradox as important as Relativity?
I can give it a shot... So Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen were sitting around (presumably) looking over the mathematical foundations of Quantum Mechanics, when they noticed something. In certain situations, you could end up with one wave function describing two physically separated particles in a mutual superposition of states. The consequence is that altering the state of one particle would instantaneously cause the…
* General relativity did not come from "grasping the mathematics" of special relativity. SR can be completely understood by an undergraduate and is an internally consistent description of mechanics and electromagnetic phenomena. Like Newtonian mechanics before it, it doesn't need anything more to be consistent.
* Local hidden variables are not "likely wrong", they are provably impossible. It is impossible to have hidden variables without breaking the principle of causality.
* Entanglement does not break the principle of causality. "Spooky action at a distance" is not an "effect" in a well-defined physical sense. It cannot be used to send information or cause things to happen.
* All of this could be--and was--understood without the EPR paper. Relativity was the most important thing since Newton. EPR was minor in comparison.
* I have no idea what connection you're trying to draw between sentient life and QM.
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He didn't 'drop out', he was incentivized to the tune of $100 a month for life to quit.
And that was when $100 was an equivalent of 3 ounces of gold which is about $4k today. Barrel of oil and S&P500 had roughly the same price in gold then as they do today.
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
Not sure if that calls into question your statement, or suggests that the CPI is drastically understating inflation.
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>According to Born into This, a documentary on Bukowski's life, Martin, offered Bukowski 100 dollars per month for life on condition that Bukowski would quit working for the post office and write full-time. He agreed and Post Office was written within a month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_%28publisher%29
This also somewhat calls into question what's required for genius to foster. Seems that some people are simply driven to create, and any environment in which they're free to focus on their creative efforts, and have financial concerns taken off the table (I've seen similar arguments made for tech hires: pay me enough money to not have to worry about it) is sufficient.
There's also Daniel Pink's work in Drive.
My early thirties were filled with great ideas for startups. My early fourties are filled with depression that I'm past my prime, don't have the energy, risk tolerance, or money to do a startup, and don't have money to go back to school, so it really doesn't matter what my passion is. Somehow I still need to find a passion and change, though, because my death is impending. Maybe my fifties will be the realization that I am who I am and I'm fine just being bad at everything.