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Re:Teens who refuse to use social media by js8 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @04:49AM (#17866770)
Actually, you should relearn everything. That doesn't mean that you need to put everything into production. But re-learning everything is, IMHO, the only way to adapt.

I think there is a sort of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%E2%80%93variance_tradeoff

If you are conservative, you reduce variance (by sticking to your experience), and if you are progressive, you reduce bias (by learning new things).

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Re:Teens who refuse to use social media by Memosyne on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:01AM (#17866817)
> Actually, you should relearn everything. That doesn't mean that you need to put everything into production. But re-learning everything is, IMHO, the only way to adapt.

I actually agree with this! But wouldn't you say that using social media is "putting it into production"?

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Re:Teens who refuse to use social media by js8 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @05:21AM (#17866881)
No, using social media is like discussing it in a meeting (it doesn't really harm anything, just wastes time). Putting it into production means to actually change the society (the laws, customs, etc.) in that way.
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