>> I love sharing disagreements in a reasonable conversation!
Glad you are loving it.
>> But as long as the wishes and morals of the other parties involved are taken into account (and respected) what is the harm?
Let's suppose a core life goal to graduate college (we could as easily consider the goal of avoiding it) and you orient all your choices around that. Then suppose someone comes and says, "Here, you can have this if you just drop your goal. No one notices, and no one cares if you take it." Suppose the thing they are offering you is scratching an itch so to speak. If you cave -whether you believe God is or not- you become separated from yourself and your life becomes un-recognizable to you. At that point it doesn't matter what other parties approve, your identity has evaporated. You have put yourself in an existential jail. Most people stew in this like a heavy, distant thing is weighing on them and they try to ignore it. People deal with it in other ways too.
So on that level it doesn't matter whether everyone else approves.
"Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves."
Romans 14:22
>> my issue is with people blindly using their religious teachings as their moral compass.
Given that people like feeling "informed" and in the know about things... I am not sure what really grounds any given belief other than depth and genuineness. Any commitment is going to have a "blindness" aspect to it.
>> Someone who has no fear of retribution from a real and provable threat aren't likely to be influenced by one that may or may not exist.
I'm an "N of 1", of course, but I would have slept around in college and later if I didn't feel like it would put me on bad terms with my God. So I didn't. Take it as you will.
Sounds like you're saying life teaches you that evil people suffer without supernatural intervention.
I agree with that.
What I don't understand is how fearing getting punched back is okay and fearing getting punished by God is not okay.
It sounds like you're saying the later isn't necessary, but sometimes people do seem to throw punches and people wonder if they're going to get away with it. I'm not sure necessity is a good thing anyway.
I've been married for 15 years and never divorced. This is actually very common among people who are very active in their faith. There's a major numerical difference between those who say they are religious and those that live differently.
Nobody seems to know if there is sex in heaven. A famous preacher back in the 30's said, "If there's not there's something greater." I think you might find your interest in sex diminishes over time. A lot of young people think it can make their life worth living, but in truth meaning is chosen or it is an illusion.
I wouldn't be a rapist or a child molester if I wasn't led by the Bible, but I can think of a lot of other sexual misdeeds I would have probably embroiled myself in otherwise. Not sure where you were going with that question.
If there are more jobs, doesn't that mean more people are paying taxes?
If more people are paying income taxes... doesn't that mean the government has more money (to create transit systems or whatever)?
In the US retailers generally let people pay small sums on credit cards because they are encouraging more people to come to their store. This seems to be working. Couldn't government get some mileage out of the same strategy? Deferred collection, etc?
I'm not sure what is replacing Java, or if anything is.
For every 100 Java jobs in my area (RTP) there is 1 Kotlin job. So that's buzz jerky.
C# is my personal favorite language, but TIOBE says it's be trending down since 2012, although PyPL shows it doing somewhat better.
Node seems to get all the startup love, but I can't see large enterprises committing to it. Especially since TypeScript is such a food fight among developers.
Boeing used to count degrees as a certain number of years of experience.
I realize there's a difference between theory and experience (esp with breadth vs depth), but as a bottom line approximation it might surpass alternatives.
Ideally, of course, hiring/declining would be viewed as the highest company priority (cf. Eric Schmidt said it should be) and the effort would be made to assess to a certain confidence threshold.
It's traveling at 94,000 km/h. The fastest spacecraft we've ever had goes 222,000 km/h. So I guess it would be possible to catch up... but they'd have to launch it soon since it is leaving the solar system. It is too small to get much detail from our space based telescopes.
Slashdot Mirror
To be taken seriously you have to tell your competitors how they can rip off your discovery?
Selling the stuff will get him taken seriously real fast.
Was this the movie where the main actress said she doesn't care what white people and men think about her movies?
Maybe ordinary people decided they don't care about her movie.
>> I love sharing disagreements in a reasonable conversation!
Glad you are loving it.
>> But as long as the wishes and morals of the other parties involved are taken into account (and respected) what is the harm?
Let's suppose a core life goal to graduate college (we could as easily consider the goal of avoiding it) and you orient all your choices around that. Then suppose someone comes and says, "Here, you can have this if you just drop your goal. No one notices, and no one cares if you take it." Suppose the thing they are offering you is scratching an itch so to speak. If you cave -whether you believe God is or not- you become separated from yourself and your life becomes un-recognizable to you. At that point it doesn't matter what other parties approve, your identity has evaporated. You have put yourself in an existential jail. Most people stew in this like a heavy, distant thing is weighing on them and they try to ignore it. People deal with it in other ways too.
So on that level it doesn't matter whether everyone else approves.
"Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves."
Romans 14:22
>> my issue is with people blindly using their religious teachings as their moral compass.
... I am not sure what really grounds any given belief other than depth and genuineness. Any commitment is going to have a "blindness" aspect to it.
Given that people like feeling "informed" and in the know about things
>> Someone who has no fear of retribution from a real and provable threat aren't likely to be influenced by one that may or may not exist.
I'm an "N of 1", of course, but I would have slept around in college and later if I didn't feel like it would put me on bad terms with my God. So I didn't. Take it as you will.
No ... I'm in favor of being a decent human being, but it doesn't pay the bills.
I don't understand why it is okay for people to want money but not companies.
Sounds like you're saying life teaches you that evil people suffer without supernatural intervention.
I agree with that.
What I don't understand is how fearing getting punched back is okay and fearing getting punished by God is not okay.
It sounds like you're saying the later isn't necessary, but sometimes people do seem to throw punches and people wonder if they're going to get away with it. I'm not sure necessity is a good thing anyway.
HR understands this technical stuff is worthless, nerd talk.
In their lofty awareness, they would like you to transcend hiring laws and just ask this single, simple question:
Are you 40 or older?
Elegant, free from leadership reproach, and so helpful.
CS students please don't let this deter you from pursing this career path because their job is already so very hard.
Next, HR would like to tell you about how force.com can make your job a lot easier.
... just set up some deep learning tools in that new language that are:
(1) feature rich
(2) have good mechanisms for separating and visualizing data and
(3) have been well vetted by industry.
I'll hold your beer.
Again, do you work for free?
I've been married for 15 years and never divorced. This is actually very common among people who are very active in their faith. There's a major numerical difference between those who say they are religious and those that live differently.
Nobody seems to know if there is sex in heaven. A famous preacher back in the 30's said, "If there's not there's something greater." I think you might find your interest in sex diminishes over time. A lot of young people think it can make their life worth living, but in truth meaning is chosen or it is an illusion.
I wouldn't be a rapist or a child molester if I wasn't led by the Bible, but I can think of a lot of other sexual misdeeds I would have probably embroiled myself in otherwise. Not sure where you were going with that question.
I don't see what's bad about working for money. Do you work for free?
I can't afford to do that.
You say, "... then you're probably doing it wrong".
What convinces of you this? How did you find yourself seeing it that way?
There's too many people going for C/C++ jobs. And they pay jack. I got out after 7 years. C# is waay easy to get hired in.
What's so bad about wanting a reward? Do you work for free?
Jesus promised rewards to his followers. He did this a lot.
You're just as important as anyone else, and you are the only one you have any control over.
Does anyone know why they aren't building a mass driver or something like that to do this?
Fuel is the biggest cost prohibition and humans won't mind the 110 g's or whatever because its just got robots.
The federal government is the worst at invading privacy ... and these people are going after FB for it?
Why did they want to get out of California and into ... NY?
There's just as many business obstacles in NY.
If there are more jobs, doesn't that mean more people are paying taxes?
... doesn't that mean the government has more money (to create transit systems or whatever)?
If more people are paying income taxes
In the US retailers generally let people pay small sums on credit cards because they are encouraging more people to come to their store. This seems to be working. Couldn't government get some mileage out of the same strategy? Deferred collection, etc?
I'm not sure what is replacing Java, or if anything is.
For every 100 Java jobs in my area (RTP) there is 1 Kotlin job. So that's buzz jerky.
C# is my personal favorite language, but TIOBE says it's be trending down since 2012, although PyPL shows it doing somewhat better.
Node seems to get all the startup love, but I can't see large enterprises committing to it. Especially since TypeScript is such a food fight among developers.
SalesForce ?
HR will swat you away like a fly (or an applicant over 40)
The vast majority of sports pros become financially insolvent within a year of retiring.
A certification from MongoU can show you know how to get work done.
But it's not going to give you the same mileage as a degree.
FWIW: I have both.
Boeing used to count degrees as a certain number of years of experience.
I realize there's a difference between theory and experience (esp with breadth vs depth), but as a bottom line approximation it might surpass alternatives.
Ideally, of course, hiring/declining would be viewed as the highest company priority (cf. Eric Schmidt said it should be) and the effort would be made to assess to a certain confidence threshold.
It's traveling at 94,000 km/h. The fastest spacecraft we've ever had goes 222,000 km/h. So I guess it would be possible to catch up ... but they'd have to launch it soon since it is leaving the solar system. It is too small to get much detail from our space based telescopes.
Are they growing this thing in the dark? Is this a separate landfall on the moon? Did they land on one side and travel to the other?
These finance outfits are leaking weak security details so their adversaries never suspect their real security measures.