FYI to your racist rant, actually it's just African Americans that are athletically superior, not blacks. African Americans are genetically superior athletically due to selective breeding due to slavery and therefore physical work. This does actually confront the "baseball" comparison of the 1950's which does not relate to 2014 Facebook racial makeup.

Comparatively, horses are incredibly larger, stronger, faster, etc., than they were just a mere 2000 years ago due to the military importance of them and therefore the immense selective breeding that came of it. The reasons a few certain countries in Africa such as Kenya always win marathons is due to genetic makeups, but it's not a "black" thing it's a gene pool thing.

"Asians" in your view are actually American Asians. The Asians who come to America are financially superior than their counterparts who could not come.

However, humans are 99.9% genetically similar. There is no plausibility that any human by race could not become equal to another by another race within a few generations of genetic swapping.

WTF? No, he or she doesn't! Name 1 game that actually requires a programmer to learn C or C++, and I can name 100 or even 200 that don't. ESPECIALLY on a smartphone.

Java is, by all benchmarks that I can find, the fastest non-native language that exists. Java was known as slow in 1996. It's been intensely optimized since. I'm sure there are some programs that are sometimes faster due to very circumstantial situations. Here's one example, there are countless others: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.d...

I also think my given citation or the many others I can find just isn't enough to make any declaration about which is "fastest" - it would be safe to say they are fairly equivalent, and this whole argument about their comparative speeds is stupid. Average CPU abilities, amount of memory accessible, and what not change so consistently that anything you write now which is a little bit too slow will be fast enough in a year.

Totally incorrect. Anything that needs fancy graphics just require an SDK with access to a fancy graphics processing engine. I've written games in Java that use OpenGL on the backend. You don't need the language to be C or C++ to access OpenGL. As far as fast processing requirements, I guarantee you most games don't actually need processing that would not be fast enough in bytecode but would be fast enough in native code.

You can also use a progressive tax system to achieve some of the same goals. In fact, we already have a progressive tax system! You just want to ramp it up a bit. I disagree with a maximum wage, and I think you are probably exaggerating anyways, but a progressive tax system is a good thing.

The most verified? The most discussed, sure. I doubt the most verified. There are thousands of data points about the existence of Julius Caesar. How many exist for said Jesus character?

What exactly are you talking about? It is not ambiguous or confusing to be opposed to the death penalty in addition to being opposed to unjust convictions.

That's complete bullshit. Just because the end result is the same doesn't mean the process is the same.

But yes I do agree with the last, all methods of killing humans are inhumane.

I don't agree that it's drinking the Kool-aid. It's definitely better than the situation in 1944. Less wars and deaths is good.

Huh? You were just saying that compilers optimize better than humans, then say that Java cannot beat any human? I'm sick of all these Java haters... :/

Can you explain that to the unenlightened? I don't follow.

I doubt it was a guess. They would have had hundreds of years of knowledge in oral-tradition form, and many examples. The majority of the population would have:

* Eaten extremely well (as in, same simple things over and over and not overeaten)
* Would not have been exposed to many poisons like modern humanity is
* Exercised all day 6 days a week with some sort of manual labor.

With such a sample set, you'd probably get way more people living to their maximum age than you would today, even if it isn't as observable as it is with modern technology.

What if the telomere depletion rate is how your body knows when puberty begins? If we start with a newborn, you may see people who don't start puberty until they're 20 years old! Ha!

Why don't you think it's OK to allow people who join a company after day 0 to get stock options? I just joined a new company and received some stock options. Granted, it probably won't be millions, but why do you think I shouldn't be allowed that form of payment? I plan on working hard and contributing to the value of the company as well or even better as the people who started before me.

Your response is patently false.