What state organized employment discrimination is there against Scientology in Germany?

I looked into Scientology a few years back. It has weird mythology, which I can deal with, but I was struck by the lack of any real, non-trivial falsifiable predictions.

I'm not. If a different person is fixing it, then the second paragraph applies.

If they are lucky, within five years they will have the algorithms necessary to self-drive a car. From there, expect another 5-10 debugging the software and making it safe enough for the public.

Go look up how long it takes to build flight-safe airplane software, and then realize that car software is much more complicated.

More pictorially, colonizing the ocean will be easier by an order of magnitude than colonizing Mars (side note: 'order of magnitude' when used with no units means nothing more than "a lot")

Yeah, but according to the summary:

That is very optimistic. There are a lot of problems more difficult to solve than the problem of isolation. As mentioned, it's similar to the problem of a long-term sea voyage.........

Because if you did it wrong the first time, there's no chance that you're going to do it better the second time. You'll end up leaving out crucial functionality or something.

If you don't know how to clean up a codebase in-place by rewriting a little at a time, then you aren't skilled enough to do a rewrite from scratch.

I could be wrong about this, but I feel like Chinese immigrants contribute paradoxically to their own feeling of outsiderness by calling everyone else an outsider when they speak their own language (wai-guo-ren - the best I can do on Slashdot). It seems like that only reinforces the 'otherness,' and others would actually be more accepting of them.

Everyone builds things in layers. At a minimum, you have the layer between the CPU and assembly language, between the kernel and userland, and between storage and the 'file' abstraction. There are plenty of other layers because they are helpful.

If the layers get in the way instead of helping, it means that the layers were designed poorly.

Anyone who reasonably calls themselves a programmer.

It's not very good logic.

The importance of food is not measurable through GDP. Your attempts to do so are moronic.

Are you kidding? You need to read The Idea Factory and get a clearer view of the issue. You're getting outraged over something you don't even understand.

Though come to think of it, most of the time people get outraged it's over things they don't understand.

Yeah, I think most politicians have a good side. Gingrich was good at thinking on his feet in that interview. Bush was a decent guy except his weird obsession with invading countries.

I see. By your logic, we should just get rid of farmers altogether, since they are such an insignificant part of GDP.

Yeap. File that under 'weird bureaucracy.' 3d printers are also 1-time costs.

A lot of school districts in California either bought iPads or Chrome Books for every student. It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of weird priorities (and weird bureaucracy).

Now the school districts that got Chromebooks are upset because they got the cheap devices, and the ones that got iPads are upset because they keep breaking. It's like a disfunctional family.