ReverendBayes
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Comment · 11 years ago
Really? You cannot imagine any scenario where employment approaches zero other than the robotic-utopia scenario? We have no historical example of employment approaching double digits without societal problems ensuing? The higher the unemployment, the closer to robo-utopia, in a smooth, monotonic fashion, right?
Comment · 13 years ago
I almost choked on my lunch laughing after re-reading that. I remember reading the original thread and actually agreeing with him, without the slightest chuckle. Im amazed at how most people still find it hard to find pictures in their filesystems on their pcs. But think about it, how many people carry .jpg, .jpeg, .png etc file associations in their heads? Hilarious.
Comment · 13 years ago
If we have fusion in 30 years instead of 60 years, we have colonization of the solar system happening in our lifetimes. We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military engagement in the middle east. We have 30*380 billion on petro cost savings here in the U.S: http://www.fuelfreedom.org/the-real-foreign-oil-problem/oil-... God knows how much CO2 we remove from the atmosphere. 100 billion sounds cheap to me.
Comment · 13 years ago
Have you ever programmed anything substantial using java outside the enterprise/agile IT environment? Any type of project on your own time? Have you every built anything in Ruby, Python, or Go? I'm asking to try to discern what you mean by "more viable".
Comment · 13 years ago
Wrong, by about a standard deviation. The mean iq of the Ashkenazi is about 113, the average for a very good nurse or less than average accountant. Of course, that mean deviation is still statistically significant enough to show a disproportion of outliers of extrema of a normal distribution. Just get your numbers straight before making statements about the matter.
Comment · 17 years ago
Was Bronx Science like this? It seems to me that the tech track magnets would be a little more enlightened, but I could be wrong.
Comment · 17 years ago
I'm with you. Just warm up the starcraft!
Comment · 17 years ago
How many of those are getting warmer, gibsonf1? :), couldn't resist.
Comment · 18 years ago
Uh, guess you didn't get it (no, not the book).
Comment · 18 years ago
I wish people would lay off him. Look, for the last time, Bush is not President anymore. Next we'll be going over his alchoholism and business failings in his 30s.
Leave him be, please.
Comment · 18 years ago
Allowing that both are real is incorrect, even as they define themselves. Christianity and Judaism, by identity, allow only one of them to be real, if real is defined by correspondence with existence.
Comment · 18 years ago
I think the comment above calls into question the merit of your friends achievement, which will always be the result of affirmative action programs.
How can you say that? Do you know her or what she is capable of? It seems pure idiocy to me to suggest that every woman graduating from a premier science program is never achieving it through merit.
As far as bell curves and distributions, who the hell knows? People tried to predict housing prices and stock portfolios on gaussians, and they seem to work until they don't. You cannot project your platonic ideal of how you think the world works because it seems to and then handwave on outliers.
Comment · 18 years ago
If they pay for it within those fifteen minutes, that is all that matters.
Comment · 18 years ago
At some point, a man, regardless of his convictions, has to stop getting into arguments with reality.
Bread and circuses it is, then.