God couldnt use the Big Bang to create the universe?
Quite a lot of Catholics and pretty much all Jesuits take a lot of the bible as metaphor. The big bang or evolution isnt incompatible to the faith for these people.
The trouble is that once you start to say that parts A and B of the Bible are metaphors it becomes unconvincing to say that parts C and D are divinely revealed truth.
If you're going to be Christian and don't want to be a retard, Catholicism is where it's at.
But if you accept the Big Bang Theory and Evolution, you presumably have to accept that the first few books of the Bible aren't literally true, which means that the whole Christian belief system is built on sand.
It assumes most people will find meaninful work, when the reality is, most people won't, especial when taxes start to creep over 50% (feudal tax rate).
If you have a UBI of (say) $1000 a month, then earning $5000 a month will be worth it even if you are taxed at 50%. You'll still get an extra $2500 to spend on non-essentials like mobile phones, new trainers, eating out or whatever.
UBI is going to pay for basic accommodation, food and other necessities. It isn't going to fund some sort of playboy lifestyle or pay for your kids' holidays or a new car.
The working citizen in those countries is the equivalent of a modern slave, enjoying 50%+ income tax, excessive sales tax/VAT and countless other artificial taxes, keeping them from any sense of achievement or happiness.
The vast majority of people do not derive their sense of achievement or happiness purely from the percentage of cash they take home each month relative to their gross salary.
It's just a matter of semantics. He thinks AI means "indistinguishable from human intelligence" when it clearly does not (dictionary definition says "mimics human intelligence", which is much more vague).
Unless AI means (more or less) indistinguishable from human intelligence, it is basically meaningless, as you can say that something like ELIZA in many ways mimics human intelligence. As does a room thermostat.
You know what every single person with a text-message-capable smartphone also has? A fucking phone! One that he can make a phone call with, and have a conversation with the interviewer using his voice! It's shocking, I know, but it's true!
But from an HR/interviewer's point of view it's far quicker and easier to get an unpaid intern send out a bunch of "soz u r not hrd" texts, rather than having a well paid professional spend all day on the phone listening to sob stories about how people were depending on the job to feed their bed-ridden mother, etc.
The level of subsidies for solar or wind are not even in the same league as the subsidies for nuclear power.
Personally, I think that all energy production here in the UK should be nationalised anyway, so I don't find subsidies an issue in themselves, but regardless of your ideological view on this, it is simply absurd to pretend that nuclear power is some sort of magically efficient pure free market solution.
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My doctor said in no uncertain terms that I am not allowed to drink fruit juice, because the sugar content is way to high, I can have two pieces of fruit a day. But a glass of fruit juice is like having 6 pieces of fruit in one glass.
Bingo! You've exceeded your five a day at breakfast time, and can concentrate on burgers and pizza for the rest of the day.
Sorry Bozo, it was always true that salt increases blood pressure in a minority of patients with a particular genetic predisposition to that response. The average patient with hypertension has a very very minimal increase in blood pressure from dietary salt intake, and reducing it in those patients does not improve any of their hypertension-related outcomes. The reason that diuretics lower blood pressure is primarily because they alter the level of salt that your body maintains. Most people's bodies are well able to maintain a fairly steady body fluid salt level regardless of dietary intake.
Letters masquerading as subscription renewals for things you haven't actually subscribed to. They're hoping someone in accounting doesn't know you haven't actually subscribed to it, assume it's a renewal so they won't investigate it to see if it's legit, and just pay it./quote
Back in the day "International Fax Directories" were always a popular one. If the scammer had enough chutzpah, they would almost immediately follow up with a "legal letter" demanding payment, on the basis that they hadn't received a cancellation notice. This can be surprisingly effective if you direct it at law-abiding businesses who are paranoid about getting on some sort of credit blacklist.
All programming languages are tedious as fuck to use. In fact, work itself is tedious as fuck when the alternative is beer, sex and video games. Yet people still go to work because they get paid money for it.
Some Bay Area tech companies are real meat grinders. I've definitely been so stressed out and overworked that it affected me emotionally. But that's a long way from suicide. I can't imagine what Uber could do to an employee that is different than some of the worst companies I've worked at. I suspect that some people are more sensitive to on the job pressure, or other psychological conditions may be at play here. And I would have hoped someone in that situation seek counseling or quit their jobs before getting to the point of suicide.
You are approaching this from a rational viewpoint. Pretty much by definition, someone who commits suicide isn't doing the same (outside of people in constant untreatable pain and so on).
Peter suggests that "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties"and that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
The solution is, of course, to have a planned economy which works on the principle of "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" without depending on self-promotion in search of money or power.
So of course it's not going to happen, because Communism.
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God couldnt use the Big Bang to create the universe?
Quite a lot of Catholics and pretty much all Jesuits take a lot of the bible as metaphor. The big bang or evolution isnt incompatible to the faith for these people.
The trouble is that once you start to say that parts A and B of the Bible are metaphors it becomes unconvincing to say that parts C and D are divinely revealed truth.
The Bible is a catalog of archetypes and has no interest in knowledge of the objective universe for its own sake.
But I imagine most Christians would be offended if you described the Bible as purely a work of fiction like Ovid's Metamorphoses or Aesop's Fables..
If you're going to be Christian and don't want to be a retard, Catholicism is where it's at.
But if you accept the Big Bang Theory and Evolution, you presumably have to accept that the first few books of the Bible aren't literally true, which means that the whole Christian belief system is built on sand.
I'm not even going to begin to point out the errors this time
Why not?
Saying "you're always wrong about everything" isn't a terribly convincing argument.
Yes folks, it's the "it was just harmless banter" argument writ large.
It assumes most people will find meaninful work, when the reality is, most people won't, especial when taxes start to creep over 50% (feudal tax rate).
If you have a UBI of (say) $1000 a month, then earning $5000 a month will be worth it even if you are taxed at 50%. You'll still get an extra $2500 to spend on non-essentials like mobile phones, new trainers, eating out or whatever.
UBI is going to pay for basic accommodation, food and other necessities. It isn't going to fund some sort of playboy lifestyle or pay for your kids' holidays or a new car.
The working citizen in those countries is the equivalent of a modern slave, enjoying 50%+ income tax, excessive sales tax/VAT and countless other artificial taxes, keeping them from any sense of achievement or happiness.
The vast majority of people do not derive their sense of achievement or happiness purely from the percentage of cash they take home each month relative to their gross salary.
It's just a matter of semantics. He thinks AI means "indistinguishable from human intelligence" when it clearly does not (dictionary definition says "mimics human intelligence", which is much more vague).
Unless AI means (more or less) indistinguishable from human intelligence, it is basically meaningless, as you can say that something like ELIZA in many ways mimics human intelligence. As does a room thermostat.
a week long anything goes pass at the best nunnery in town
Either this is a piece of slang I've never heard before, the company was run by perverts, or you are a fucking idiot. Tough call.
You know what every single person with a text-message-capable smartphone also has? A fucking phone! One that he can make a phone call with, and have a conversation with the interviewer using his voice! It's shocking, I know, but it's true!
But from an HR/interviewer's point of view it's far quicker and easier to get an unpaid intern send out a bunch of "soz u r not hrd" texts, rather than having a well paid professional spend all day on the phone listening to sob stories about how people were depending on the job to feed their bed-ridden mother, etc.
This is about companies saving money.
its 35 degree heat wave in Siberia right now
I assume you mean it's 35 degrees Fahrenheit, and therefore relatively hot compared with 0 Fahrenheit?
Coverup for government bio-weapons testing on the public.
something something chemtrails something something
Personally, I think that all energy production here in the UK should be nationalised anyway, so I don't find subsidies an issue in themselves, but regardless of your ideological view on this, it is simply absurd to pretend that nuclear power is some sort of magically efficient pure free market solution. .
My doctor said in no uncertain terms that I am not allowed to drink fruit juice, because the sugar content is way to high, I can have two pieces of fruit a day. But a glass of fruit juice is like having 6 pieces of fruit in one glass.
Bingo! You've exceeded your five a day at breakfast time, and can concentrate on burgers and pizza for the rest of the day.
The current claim being "sugar is bad".
I remember 20 years ago, nutritionists proclaiming "fat is bad", so everyone switched to sugar. I'm glad I didn't climb on that bandwagon.
I've never heard anyone say "eat more sugar to be healthy" in my life.
Sorry Bozo, it was always true that salt increases blood pressure in a minority of patients with a particular genetic predisposition to that response. The average patient with hypertension has a very very minimal increase in blood pressure from dietary salt intake, and reducing it in those patients does not improve any of their hypertension-related outcomes. The reason that diuretics lower blood pressure is primarily because they alter the level of salt that your body maintains. Most people's bodies are well able to maintain a fairly steady body fluid salt level regardless of dietary intake.
Says the shill for Big Salt!
Letters masquerading as subscription renewals for things you haven't actually subscribed to. They're hoping someone in accounting doesn't know you haven't actually subscribed to it, assume it's a renewal so they won't investigate it to see if it's legit, and just pay it. /quote
Back in the day "International Fax Directories" were always a popular one. If the scammer had enough chutzpah, they would almost immediately follow up with a "legal letter" demanding payment, on the basis that they hadn't received a cancellation notice. This can be surprisingly effective if you direct it at law-abiding businesses who are paranoid about getting on some sort of credit blacklist.
The problem is the business logic
I think most of the superstar programmers here consider that sort of thing beneath them.
All programming languages are tedious as fuck to use. In fact, work itself is tedious as fuck when the alternative is beer, sex and video games. Yet people still go to work because they get paid money for it.
That is not how Millenials think.
I think that, whatever your answer, it proves that there is a good reason for them.
As a person of leiesure (sp?)
If you have so much free time, what's the problem with buying a dictionary or spending 5 seconds googling it?
Some Bay Area tech companies are real meat grinders. I've definitely been so stressed out and overworked that it affected me emotionally. But that's a long way from suicide. I can't imagine what Uber could do to an employee that is different than some of the worst companies I've worked at. I suspect that some people are more sensitive to on the job pressure, or other psychological conditions may be at play here. And I would have hoped someone in that situation seek counseling or quit their jobs before getting to the point of suicide.
You are approaching this from a rational viewpoint. Pretty much by definition, someone who commits suicide isn't doing the same (outside of people in constant untreatable pain and so on).
If he didn't like the culture why didn't he just get another job?
TFS says he "was excited about the chance to profit from stock options when it went public".
This should be a warning never to place financial gain above your own health.
Peter suggests that "In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties"and that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence."
The solution is, of course, to have a planned economy which works on the principle of "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" without depending on self-promotion in search of money or power.
So of course it's not going to happen, because Communism.
Start with promoting trade schools that teach people to do jobs that are actually needed, rather than the "Snowflake Crybaby" degree from university.
But it is the trade/manual labour jobs that will be automated first, whereas it will probably be a while before robots are replacing art critics.