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“Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in any case, those are mistakes. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. Or a herd of cows. The universe is not there to overwhelm us; it is our home, and our resource. The bigger the better.” David Deutsch

There is no "nation from which the items were taken".

This conclusion does not follow from the article.

> We're already inundated with mediocre programmers, many of whom have CS degrees, which is precisely why the industry looks at job experience more than credentials

How does looking at job experience help to distinguish good from bad developers?

Of course it is. That is why, had the pilot survived, he/she would have faced criminal charges.

So, how much percent in pension payments for teachers would the German taxpayer save if the state required, say, one year less teacher education?

I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper: "We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that solve application-specific problems, which have been written, until recently, by development teams with little background in DBMSs. As such, they have tended to reinvent the wheel. I am especially amused by Google’s adoption and then rejection of MapReduce and eventual consistency."

This sounds a lot like the "We do everything with XML now"-phase that the Java world has gone through.

Note also that the blueberry test group (WBB) had a higher score in the practice test already (cf. Table 1). In other words: they were probably better before the consumption of the blueberry juice and stayed better afterwards.

Note that the chart in the linked comic begins in the middle of the last ice age. It ends one or two degree celsius above the mean temperature of the previous 500 years (or so). The big hockey stick at the end is a prediction! At the point in the chart at about 16000 BCE it states that the short warming or cooling spikes have probably been smoothed out (after all, those ancient temperatures are only available by proxy).