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Comment Re:Useless (Score 1) 60

"you understand that we're still going to need doctors in the future, right?"

And that is exactly why "equal" is the road to hell. You will do nothing for the average and lower performers and you will demotivate and lose the (far too few) ones with better mental potential. A sure way to ruin any society. The way to go is "equal opportunity" at some point pretty early on and then it must depend on what you actually bring to the table personally.

Comment Re:History repeats itself (Score 1) 60

Yep. Too many big-ego idiots around that like to think they can do anything they set their minds to. What they actually do is oversimplify things and then try simpler-than-possible approaches. That always fails, but if enough idiots go along with a hype, that failure can be delayed for years and become much more severe in its impact on society.

Comment Re:32 bits 64 bits big-endian little-endian (Score 1) 23

Linux is NOT getting rid of 32-bit on amd64 userspace support, so your program will run just fine in 32-bit mode.

It would be pretty insane to stop supporting 32 bit altogether. Especially as there is a ton of 32 bit systems out there in the embedded space. But even in regular computing, 32 bit is fine for a lot of things and these then just run slower and need more memory when forced to go to 64 bit.

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