Because young earthers are generally not Catholic.
Indeed. The fundamentalist protestants that believe in the Young Earth, and build replicas of Noah's ark, also believe that the pope is the antichrist. They are two completely different groups.
But to answer the original question: God put the fossils and other evidence for evolution on earth to test our faith. It is a trick to separate the true believers from the doubters that will be consumed in the Lake of Fire when the moment of Rapture arrives.
At least this is why my fundamentalist brother-in-law tells me.
The Catholics accept that nearly every falsifiable statement in the Bible is wrong, but still demand that you accept the other stuff on faith. How is that not retarded?
Like the derivatives market this is pure fantasy. It's a real bubblegum blowing contest. Who will be the champ?
If you are so much smarter than the market, then you should be able to get rich by shorting Apple's stock. After you cash in and buy your yacht, you can come back here and post a picture of it.
Building web servers, compute engines, and datacenter servers to run VMs, are all commodity businesses with lots of competition and low margins. They are so profitable precisely because they don't waste their resources on things like that.
Sure, there is a 0.0001% chance that 10000 years from now a handful of people might be harmed. If we evaluate all technology by the same standard, we would never do anything. The harm caused by global warming is far greater, far more imminent, and much more certain.
Yet older people are more likely to see Snowden as a criminal, and less likely to believe that it is wrong for the NSA to monitor our email and phone calls.
Really? A hopeless life? Being forced into a miserable reservation? Stripped of human dignity?
They are not "forced" to live on the reservation. They are US citizens and can live anywhere in the country. Those that leave the reservation tend to do far better than those who stay. One of my co-workers in San Jose is a Crow Indian. She abstains from drinking alcohol, and she tries to avoid sugar and starch as much as possible. She has relatives living on the Crow Reservation in Montana, and they have the same problems as Pine Ridge with alcoholism and diabetes, despite the Sioux and Crow having a very different historical relationship with the American government: the Crow were allies of the US in the wars against the Sioux and Cheyenne.
I.E. theoretically it could be (but isn't) that genetically the natives are subject to major diseases that reduce life expectancy.
Why do you dismiss this? This is exactly why Oglala Lakota Sioux are at the absolute bottom in life expectancy. About 75% of adults on the Pine Ridge Reservation are alcoholic, and 25% of children are born with fetal alcohol syndrome. More than half the people are diabetic. What could possibly explain that other than genetics? Europeans have been eating starchy grains for 10,000 years, and drinking booze for almost as long. The Sioux have only been exposed to these for about two centuries, which is not enough time for their genes to adapt.
Even having a "programming language" would be stupid. An infinitely fast computer could just run a NN that was infinitely wide and infinitely deep and it would already know exactly what you want before you even ask for it.
Meantime, the stuff you really need like housing (whether you own or rent), food, and drugs are dramatically costlier than they were in the old days.
Wrong. Housing costs have barely changed when measured by the square foot and adjusted for inflation. Food is far cheaper today than it was 40 years ago. Drugs are also cheaper today if you buy the same drugs.
I don't buy the argument that a lot of socialism is bad
Maybe you should go visit Cuba. The healthcare is good, but the grocery stores are bare. Socialism can help in some areas, which are either natural monopolies (roads, sewers) or where transparency and price comparison is difficult (healthcare). Everything else should be open to free market competition.
but just enough (which happens to always be more than the current amount) is just right.
The best performing economies tend to have government spending of around 30-40% of GDP. Much below that and poor infrastructure is an impediment. Much above that, and innovation and incentive is stifled.
The difference is, back then one earner could provide a middle-class life for a family. Nowdays, two earners barely provide a working class life
The average new house today is twice the size of a house in 1973. Cars are better, TVs are better, etc. So people aren't working more to "scrape by", they are working more for a much better quality of life.
If you want to live like a one-earner household lived in 1973, you can still still easily do that on one income.
I have personally seen a manager or owner stress to the point of depression when facing the task of laying off an employee.
Sounds like he wasn't the right person for the job. Not everyone should be a manager.
Contrary to what people think, most managers are good people and have the back of their employees.
"Good people" sometimes make the worst managers. You have to be prepared to make hard decisions. I worked for a boss that dithered in making layoffs, while the company lost money and ended up laying off even more than originally needed.
If ever a profession was ripe for automation it was "Primary Care Doctor."
In many countries this has already happened. When you "see the doctor" you are actually seeing a nurse with a flowchart. You only see a real doctor if your case is non-routine.
Studies have shown that a nurse with a flowchart or checklist is actually less likely to make a misdiagnosis than a doctor not using one. So the result is better healthcare at lower cost.
AI is going to get rid of lawyers? I suddenly feel far more welcoming and accepting of this AI takeover.
Be careful what you wish for. The tech will make lawsuits cheaper to file, and may result in a lot more frivolous legal actions. The system will be even more distorted toward big corps which will have access to legal automation, and against small firms and individuals. This will make it more difficult than ever to try to use the courts pro per, without paying a law firm.
There isn't any difference. The socialized medicine in Sweden is not any different in principle from the socialized medicine in Cuba.
Cubans have a higher life expectancy than Americans, and a lower infant mortality rate. They accomplish this at FAR lower cost. Healthcare is one of the few things (very few) that Communism actually got right.
All countries have economies that are a mixture of socialism and free enterprise. Nearly all countries socialize the roads and sewers. Most socialize basic education. Yet even in North Korea, there is some free enterprise: people can grow vegetables and sell them in village markets.
The problem in America is that we socialize the wrong things. We have private healthcare that is far more expensive, and produces worse outcomes, than any other first world country. Meanwhile we have half a million government employees in the package delivery business. Those should be swapped.
The problem with this conspiracy theory is that if the billionaires got to pick the president, it would have been Jeb Bush, not Donald Trump. Do you think that "the elite" wanted TPP cancelled, NAFTA re-negotiated, and subsidized pensions/healthcare for coal miners? Most billionaires would have picked Hillary over Donald. She was the "status quo" candidate, and the status quo is working pretty well for them.
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Because young earthers are generally not Catholic.
Indeed. The fundamentalist protestants that believe in the Young Earth, and build replicas of Noah's ark, also believe that the pope is the antichrist. They are two completely different groups.
But to answer the original question: God put the fossils and other evidence for evolution on earth to test our faith. It is a trick to separate the true believers from the doubters that will be consumed in the Lake of Fire when the moment of Rapture arrives.
At least this is why my fundamentalist brother-in-law tells me.
The Catholics accept that nearly every falsifiable statement in the Bible is wrong, but still demand that you accept the other stuff on faith. How is that not retarded?
US companies have already broken the $trillion mark
Nope. Microsoft peaked at $619B on Dec 27th, 1999. Even when adjusted for inflation, it is below $1T, although it is higher than where Apple is now.
Like the derivatives market this is pure fantasy. It's a real bubblegum blowing contest. Who will be the champ?
If you are so much smarter than the market, then you should be able to get rich by shorting Apple's stock. After you cash in and buy your yacht, you can come back here and post a picture of it.
Building web servers, compute engines, and datacenter servers to run VMs, are all commodity businesses with lots of competition and low margins. They are so profitable precisely because they don't waste their resources on things like that.
... which isn't enough to outweigh the benefits of micro USB.
What are the benefits of Micro-USB?
Arizona laws are based on the presumption that if you make the poor miserable enough, they will move somewhere else.
Now think what happens in 12.000 AD
Sure, there is a 0.0001% chance that 10000 years from now a handful of people might be harmed. If we evaluate all technology by the same standard, we would never do anything. The harm caused by global warming is far greater, far more imminent, and much more certain.
How about we don't try to produce energy with the most toxic and deadly materials mankind has ever discovered?
The waste at Hanford is from producing weapons, not energy. This has nothing to do with nuclear power.
Survey after survey after survey shows that older generations care more about their privacy.
Yet older people are more likely to see Snowden as a criminal, and less likely to believe that it is wrong for the NSA to monitor our email and phone calls.
Really? A hopeless life? Being forced into a miserable reservation? Stripped of human dignity?
They are not "forced" to live on the reservation. They are US citizens and can live anywhere in the country. Those that leave the reservation tend to do far better than those who stay. One of my co-workers in San Jose is a Crow Indian. She abstains from drinking alcohol, and she tries to avoid sugar and starch as much as possible. She has relatives living on the Crow Reservation in Montana, and they have the same problems as Pine Ridge with alcoholism and diabetes, despite the Sioux and Crow having a very different historical relationship with the American government: the Crow were allies of the US in the wars against the Sioux and Cheyenne.
I.E. theoretically it could be (but isn't) that genetically the natives are subject to major diseases that reduce life expectancy.
Why do you dismiss this? This is exactly why Oglala Lakota Sioux are at the absolute bottom in life expectancy. About 75% of adults on the Pine Ridge Reservation are alcoholic, and 25% of children are born with fetal alcohol syndrome. More than half the people are diabetic. What could possibly explain that other than genetics? Europeans have been eating starchy grains for 10,000 years, and drinking booze for almost as long. The Sioux have only been exposed to these for about two centuries, which is not enough time for their genes to adapt.
You still have to write the correct logic.
No you don't. An infinitely fast computer can instantly try all possible permutations of logic, and output the simplest program that meets the spec.
Also stupid is getting rid of garbage collection.
Even having a "programming language" would be stupid. An infinitely fast computer could just run a NN that was infinitely wide and infinitely deep and it would already know exactly what you want before you even ask for it.
Elections have consequences. In this case, America spoke with a single unified voice
Is that intended to be ironic?
No, it is intended to be sarcastic, or maybe just trolling and testing the limits of Poe's Law, but definitely not irony.
Meantime, the stuff you really need like housing (whether you own or rent), food, and drugs are dramatically costlier than they were in the old days.
Wrong. Housing costs have barely changed when measured by the square foot and adjusted for inflation. Food is far cheaper today than it was 40 years ago. Drugs are also cheaper today if you buy the same drugs.
I don't buy the argument that a lot of socialism is bad
Maybe you should go visit Cuba.
The healthcare is good, but the grocery stores are bare.
Socialism can help in some areas, which are either natural monopolies (roads, sewers) or where transparency and price comparison is difficult (healthcare).
Everything else should be open to free market competition.
but just enough (which happens to always be more than the current amount) is just right.
The best performing economies tend to have government spending of around 30-40% of GDP. Much below that and poor infrastructure is an impediment. Much above that, and innovation and incentive is stifled.
The difference is, back then one earner could provide a middle-class life for a family. Nowdays, two earners barely provide a working class life
The average new house today is twice the size of a house in 1973. Cars are better, TVs are better, etc. So people aren't working more to "scrape by", they are working more for a much better quality of life.
If you want to live like a one-earner household lived in 1973, you can still still easily do that on one income.
I never had trouble finding a job as a programmer until I started looking for remote work.
When you work on site, you are competing with your neighbor.
When you work remote, you are competing with the guy in Mumbai.
If by "dealing" you mean "taking out your stress on your underlings"
Managers that get angry and lash out at subordinates are those that handle stress poorly. Anger does not relieve stress.
"shifting your responsibilities, and hence your stress, to other people, including your underlings".
That is what underlings are for. Good managers delegate (shift responsibilities), poor managers micromanage. Which would you rather work for?
I have personally seen a manager or owner stress to the point of depression when facing the task of laying off an employee.
Sounds like he wasn't the right person for the job. Not everyone should be a manager.
Contrary to what people think, most managers are good people and have the back of their employees.
"Good people" sometimes make the worst managers. You have to be prepared to make hard decisions. I worked for a boss that dithered in making layoffs, while the company lost money and ended up laying off even more than originally needed.
If ever a profession was ripe for automation it was "Primary Care Doctor."
In many countries this has already happened. When you "see the doctor" you are actually seeing a nurse with a flowchart. You only see a real doctor if your case is non-routine.
Studies have shown that a nurse with a flowchart or checklist is actually less likely to make a misdiagnosis than a doctor not using one. So the result is better healthcare at lower cost.
AI is going to get rid of lawyers? I suddenly feel far more welcoming and accepting of this AI takeover.
Be careful what you wish for. The tech will make lawsuits cheaper to file, and may result in a lot more frivolous legal actions. The system will be even more distorted toward big corps which will have access to legal automation, and against small firms and individuals. This will make it more difficult than ever to try to use the courts pro per, without paying a law firm.
What is the difference?
There isn't any difference. The socialized medicine in Sweden is not any different in principle from the socialized medicine in Cuba.
Cubans have a higher life expectancy than Americans, and a lower infant mortality rate. They accomplish this at FAR lower cost. Healthcare is one of the few things (very few) that Communism actually got right.
All countries have economies that are a mixture of socialism and free enterprise. Nearly all countries socialize the roads and sewers. Most socialize basic education. Yet even in North Korea, there is some free enterprise: people can grow vegetables and sell them in village markets.
The problem in America is that we socialize the wrong things. We have private healthcare that is far more expensive, and produces worse outcomes, than any other first world country. Meanwhile we have half a million government employees in the package delivery business. Those should be swapped.
The problem with this conspiracy theory is that if the billionaires got to pick the president, it would have been Jeb Bush, not Donald Trump. Do you think that "the elite" wanted TPP cancelled, NAFTA re-negotiated, and subsidized pensions/healthcare for coal miners? Most billionaires would have picked Hillary over Donald. She was the "status quo" candidate, and the status quo is working pretty well for them.