30 November 2012
11 September 2012
grey power
An ageing population will become more conservative in the next 5 to 10 years now that the younger generation has wielded their power.
With less revenue from land sale, higher demand for welfare and health care for the elderly in particular, the younger generation will pay higher tax and bear the brunt, while the grey power rules in election.
What a spectacle!
20 July 2012
14 July 2012
01 July 2012
exist
I facebook, therefore I exist.
I think, therefore I exist.
I think you don't think, therefore I think you don't exist.
I believe, therefore I exist, and I believe you also exist. Don't you think (so)?
31 March 2012
12 March 2012
18 February 2012
J Lin
America is such a great country with lots of great men and women. It just needs spiritual awakening thru humble souls like you JLin.
28 January 2012
Fortune tellers and Fung Shui masters
Fortune tellers and Fung Shui masters tell us that their trade is based on thousands of years of statistics, but they never share the statistics with us. I suspect that much of it is self fulfilling prophecy. And while their statistics (if any) is a thousand years old, they never update it according to the latest demographics and facts (with control experiment too). In short, their statistics, if any, is outdated.
One story goes: 200 people die in a plane crash, ending up in the same destiny. Will fortune tellers dig out their history and birth details etc and arrive at the same conclusion, before or after the incident?
One story goes: 200 people die in a plane crash, ending up in the same destiny. Will fortune tellers dig out their history and birth details etc and arrive at the same conclusion, before or after the incident?
Chinese medicine
Compared to Western medicine, Chinese medicine is definitely a cheaper option for an aging population in Hong Kong. Conspiracy theory? I sometimes wonder how Chinese medicine can prove its efficacy in prolonging one's life. I even suspect that people who rely too much on Chinese medicine are taking in a lot of "poison". Likewise, Western medicine. Perhaps having better nutrients and regular sleep and exercise is the best option after all.
27 January 2012
21 January 2012
01 October 2011
24 September 2011
Dialogue with a good friend
I always take things with a grain of salt. Perhaps I am too "scientific". My favourite book is "What is this thing called Science?" (year 1 text book in philosophy back in Sydney Uni). Ever since I started googling things on the internet, I always played the devil by googling the "opposite views". For example, if one theory is supported by 1 million articles, and if one keeps googling, all the articles will repeat themselves. In fact, many are just quotes on quotes. And then if I search the "opposite views", most likely I will find another 1 million articles that say otherwise. In short, the truth is out there. Only logic prevails. Research is hard work. And ever since Socrates gave his first lectures on philosophy, the world almost never agreed on anything. That is how free societies progressed, riding on disagreements as well as agreements. That's how we now have modern medicine, fridges, TVs, telephones, computers, rockets etc, thanks to this thing called science. Of course, we also bear its side-effects as manifest in many ways.
The morning news is instructive : They found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. That's sixty billionth of a second, a time no human brain could register.
Einstein's theory of relativity may be toppled by this new finding (subject to more experiments). That is what I meant by "falsification". According to the above book I quoted, science opens new realms by way of falsification. If a statement can be falsified, then new knowledge emerges, and human progress. Until then, it remains on our school books as is. If something cannot be falsified, it falls outside the realm of science (according to that book). Of course, this is also debatable. For example, is Freudian stuff part of science? This can be an emotional question.
Not that your views are wrong. I remain open. What I mean is that the subject itself is a bit unconventional, and is subject to debate and further research in the academic world. The standing of a theory can "normally" be measured by the standing of the journals in which it is published. Sometimes personal experience counts too, but whether personal experience can be totally shared is another question, e.g. different health conditions and life habits.
The morning news is instructive : They found it traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than light. That's sixty billionth of a second, a time no human brain could register.
Einstein's theory of relativity may be toppled by this new finding (subject to more experiments). That is what I meant by "falsification". According to the above book I quoted, science opens new realms by way of falsification. If a statement can be falsified, then new knowledge emerges, and human progress. Until then, it remains on our school books as is. If something cannot be falsified, it falls outside the realm of science (according to that book). Of course, this is also debatable. For example, is Freudian stuff part of science? This can be an emotional question.
Not that your views are wrong. I remain open. What I mean is that the subject itself is a bit unconventional, and is subject to debate and further research in the academic world. The standing of a theory can "normally" be measured by the standing of the journals in which it is published. Sometimes personal experience counts too, but whether personal experience can be totally shared is another question, e.g. different health conditions and life habits.
21 August 2011
港元會否人民幣化
「如果香港不負所望，成功落實李副總理的挺港措施，其投資收益，小則利港利民，大則興邦强國，甚至改變整個世界的金融秩序 ...」 (K.C. Au / I-Money 20.8.2011)
港元與人民幣掛勾指日可待？
還是港元會逐漸人民幣化？
港元與人民幣掛勾指日可待？
還是港元會逐漸人民幣化？
13 August 2011
10 August 2011
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