Comment Re:Cue slippery slope arguments now... (Score 1) 366
How? What's the rate of geniuses among children who need public assistance?
I suspect you'd get a much bigger bang for your buck by focusing on the embryos.
How? What's the rate of geniuses among children who need public assistance?
I suspect you'd get a much bigger bang for your buck by focusing on the embryos.
Humanity is nothing but genes. Some tens of thousands of them, but yeah, compared to the scale of the universe, that is a few.
What you're actually sad about is that you can't comprehend how that figuratively infinite variability translates into the things your feeble brain finds comforting.
Gattaca was paranoid luddite whining that rationalizes lying and cheating when you can't adequately compete against people who are better at things than you.
If you stuck me in front of a computer to mimic code someone showed me at 7, I'd have thought "okay, great, when is recess?"
Wait, computer time wasn't recess?
I actually think the ubiquity of computers is the reason CS graduation rates have declined since before the dot com bubble. For the millennials, the magic never wears off because computers were never magical to begin with. And kids don't program for fun as much these days because the distance between what they can write and what they see in AAA video games is astronomical.
When I started programming I thought I was the shit when I made a 3d cube rotate on a TRS-80. Sure, it was simple, but it wasn't like I was used to seeing 3d computer graphics on a home computer. Graphics like that in The Last Starfighter blew my fucking mind.
"Eat shit and live, motherfucker!"
"Well, doctor, if you insist..."
Did you bother to read the article, or did you expect someone to read it for you?
Dude. Not cool. You need to check your literacy privilege.
Your problem isn't that it's a gross oversimplification of conservatism, but that it isn't narrow enough?
Funny how the conservative's first defense is "we're not all like that!"
There is no natural law
Yes, that is correct.
$389 monthly payment
lol, that is a poor person's car.
It's funny to watch right wingers shit on people only slightly poorer than themselves to pretend they're not the same as the "47%".
I can't wait to kill commies with a rave gun!
Wait, are you implying the current crop of new MMOs are what the market wants? lol.
They more likely canned it because it too closely resembled one of the stinkers you mentioned.
Who is giving away their time to code review the work of thousands of neophyte programmers?
Sounds to me more like the blind leading the blind.
I'm like this guy, wanted to be an astronomer but went into CS because it was the lazy easy thing.
Now I'm probably going to retire in a few years and would like to do something that matters before I'm too dumb and slow. I doubt I'll ever learn enough physics to advance the science, but I've seen what passes for software in academic settings, and I could certainly make the software suck less.
So what kind of software does astronomy need?
Don't compare floating point numbers solely for equality.