Even for a computer?

Who am I to decide? I'm a human with a functioning brain. Quit bitching about me using it and learn to use yours.

He's doing them a disservice by fixing their problems. In the old days you bought a computer and there was no software for it, so you got a magazine with a program and you copied it in. You had no clue how the jumble of characters made it work, but it did ... until it didn't. If you dive in to fix the problem or to make it do something new on your own, you end up learning something about the system, about why things are the way they are.

GP needs to stop playing daddy and let the newbs grow by fixing the problems themselves.

Modded down for telling the truth. These guys are wasting a small town's worth of power to do worthless calculations.

"So let's *not* talk race. Let's talk education and economic opportunity. If people have a way up, see that way, and believe they can do it, they will rise."

Maybe, but you take a white kid who sees a path up through education takes it, graduates, applies for job, and his competition is a black guy who did the same thing, more likely than not, it's the white guy who gets a job.

Something I found out only yesterday. After the 2008 crash, unemployment for black college grads jumped to 8%, but for white college grads it only went to 4%.

I interviewed someone who had a four year degree in EE, had five years of work experience, and didn't know what a diode did. We hired him. He's white.

There must be competition to see who can write the most inscrutable math article that's gotten way out of hand.

I get the attitude, but the nuclear engineers I work with were sure the thing was going to explode.

Stanislaw Lem thought that P. K. Dick was the only S. F. writer whose work had any literary merit.

Maybe by successful they mean "relatable" or "comprehensible" or something.

Most people don't know the real quote: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it for the next few decades. After that it's all new shit."

It's not revisionist. The Axis actually won.

The earth quake was a millennial quake, so they figured they only had a five percent chance of seeing one in the life span of the plants. In other words, they cut corners. They also cut corners on personnel. Competent management could have prevented the meltdown even post tsunami. For instance, they could have vented the Hydrogen gas, and they should have moved mountains to get the generators running (or get new generators flown in) and keep them fueled.

Yes, men are killers, that's the point. Look at the way men interact which other. It's all about signaling that they aren't trying to kill each other while staying on guard and looking aggressive. You shake hands or bow, you smile, and praise each other, but you stand up straight, face them directly, look them in the eye, don't show weakness.

There's going to be a lot of posts from people who don't believe in processes that take longer than their lifetimes. Congratulations on being one of them.