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There have been many attempts for interventions that increase IQ with little to no evidence that it's at all possible.

You really don't. That doesn't mean that it doesn't exist or that it should be ignored

In general, you can't take a strictly advisory referendum with a win margin of a couple % to dictate your international policy for decades.

More specifically, when the winning side has committed campaign violations and the UK's own National Crime Agency has found illegal foreign interference, maybe you should investigate further instead of driving head on. If you ask me, this was the "assault on democracy", not the "do-over" approach as you wrote.

On do-overs - the Prime Minister is pushing to have a third vote on the exact same deal with the EU, after her proposal was rejected twice by the members in the course of a couple of weeks. So it's especially concerning when do-overs in parliament can happen until the government gets the desired result, while at the same time the people aren't given a chance to vote again and the outcome of the referendum is considered final.

Their incentives with regards to data are aligned differently - Apple make most of their revenue from selling hardware to their users, Google make most of their revenue from selling ads to someone different from their users.

What do I see differently - just about anything.

What would I tell myself? I wouldn't bother at all. Any advice that I can tell to my younger self was probably also available at the time. And I was really bad at listening to it. Sometimes you have to earn your own experience - other people's advice only goes so far.

Personal machine - Apple Mail - it's simple and it looks good, I don't need anything else.

At work - Outlook - also used by everyone else at the company for email + sharing calendars and scheduling meetings.

I never use the web UIs.

Personally, I don't care for luxury items or brands.

But your argument here is a mess - you despise people with passion because of their consumer choices... and you're mixing up consumerism, environment, politics and income inequality into something completely incoherent.

Different opinion - I have some interest in the topics he covers but I cannot listen to someone speak with such indifference in their voice for long periods of time. I've tried to listen to his podcast a few times and have never been able to get past the monotone delivery.

Rebranding according to what's in demand is all fine, but if you choose data science please make sure that you actually have a solid understanding of statistics and software development. Because ultimately that's what data science is.

"Hugely credible" and actual experience in data analysis/statistics are completely different things. And if you don't have the statistics/math background, you'll find out that now instead of just programming, you need to learn programming and statistics. Which might be too much for someone who doesn't know where to start.

Why would it be private?

At this point this isn't just a cynical position, it has to be your default if you've watched the privacy problems that every single facebook product has had in the past and is still having at the moment. Why would a company that is still breaking a number of ethical and legal norms suddenly decide to abide by any reasonable principles of decency? If information about your device and actions on a social platform is worth billions, what's the worth of full access to people's sensory information and behaviour?

Math is huge so how you approach this will depend a lot on your starting point and your goal.

Which branch of math are you interested in?

Do you need it for something specific to your career or is it just a hobby?

What's you current level - are you comfortable with high-school level algebra, trigonometry, calculus?

In any case, I second the recommendation for Khan Academy as a good starting point - not only for the range of content and Sal's silky voice, but also for their approach to learning: you get to practice topics until you "master" them instead of just watching/reading, maybe taking a test and then moving on to the next topic.

When I saw the headline, at first I thought it was an old article that you can read in a different light and have a laugh.

Writing it now is just obnoxious. A lot of text with no meaningful content, mentioning a bunch of problems without offering solutions and without taking any responsibility.

Don't talk about "people prefer", "people expect", "working towards" and "we as a society" - you created this. With all of its problems, and all of the ethical and legal violations. You did things this way because it was extremely profitable and you are still doing it.

How does anyone take him seriously at this point?