Fetus, not baby. Historically, the idea of confusing the two is a very, very recent development.

LMAO. Trends come and go in all religions. The Islamic Golden Age was a time of amazing scientific and philosophical progress, but they gave it up. Catholics rejected science, then eventually came to embrace it. Protestants loved science, then modern evangelical sects came to despise it.

I was raised Southern Baptist, but wholly abandoned it because of their insane insistence that reality was wrong. When a man tells you the sky is green and Jesus rode a dinosaur, it's awfully hard not to laugh at his opinions on anything else. Whatever else I might think about their organization, the Catholic church seems to be pretty good about science these days. I don't hear anything bad about the scientific beliefs of mainstream protestant groups (that is, ones that aren't American extremists). That said, Hindu and Taoist countries are doing lots of amazing science, and the OECD says that lots of barely religious countries are beating the US in science education.

Maybe that's the workaround: describe everything like "bases its recommendations on science, not that faith-based bullshit, in consideration with scientific community standards".

Quick, give me a single context in which it makes sense for CDC to avoid the words "science-based" or "evidence-based".

Time's up. I know that wasn't long, but I thought I'd save you the wasted effort of spending more than 2 seconds looking for something that doesn't exist. If the CD-freaking-C writes "For science-based work" in the memo field of your paycheck, it's appropriate because that's the whole reason they exist.

Any restrictions on this are nothing but political posturing. That Slashdot, WaPo, NYT, or any other group would be calling it out doesn't mean they're wrong.

Absolutely. I have a standing order to buy $50 of BTC each week, because it's fun. If it goes to $1 next week, I'll be slightly bummed but not hurt in the slightest (but I'd also be scooping them up in case their price ever recovers). I play with BTC exactly the same way I'd play with a weekend in Vegas or betting on sports with my friends: it's fun to participate in a wild ride, but only to the level where you're willing and able to lose everything and still be OK with it.

Here, let me help:

A workstation is a special computer designed for technical or scientific applications.

It's fun to call our Chromebooks a "workstation", but traditionally that's not remotely what it means.

If a workstation costs less than $250, it ain’t a workstation in the computing sense.

...but called Scala. I don't see a lot of bare Java in the big data stores I'm around.

...which had its first public release 26 years ago. Python can rent cars and it would buy a house if it wasn't a millennial. Its kid sister, Java, just turned 22.

But yeah, I see way more Python than (again, plain ol') Java in big data. JVM languages other than Java are pretty popular, and Spark/Hadoop are often coordinating efforts behind the scenes, but the software running on the cluster is probably going to be Python/NumPy/SciPy/scikit-learn or Scala.

Admittedly, the datasets I work on aren't bigger than a small number of petabytes, so maybe we're not big data by some standards.

Read the charts again that show how much they send to the government for each dollar they get back. Blue states overwhelmingly donate a lot more to red states. The numbers are right there in the links I gave you.

Oh, that's adorable - you watch Fox News! I know this because reality doesn't actually reflect the nonsense you're asserting as fact, and Fox & Friends are the main outlets for that particular fiction.

First, I agree that Calexit is nuts. I don't support it at all. That said, back in reality land, California and other blue states prop up the rest of the country financially. CA could afford to maintain the military bases it already has if we weren't saddled with supporting broke-ass red states like Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Montana, Kentucky, and Missouri.

I like the cut of your jib.

Same with Apple TV. Amazon mewls that Apple won't license it favorably, but never mind that they already have an app for iPhone and iPad and they're presumably OK with that (identical) licensing.

I think I would have legally changed my name to "Engineer Smith" just to be a pain in their ass.

I'm finding this to be very much the case.

I lost my sister in much the same way (but due to lupus, not cancer). At one point the doctor asked those of us gathered around - me, sis's husband, my mom, and my other sister - how we'd like to proceed. It got quiet. I asked, "doc, if she were to wake up right now, what would her prognosis be?"

He thought for a moment, then replied: "she is gone. Her body is here, but the person you knew left before the ambulance arrived. She was a nurse, so I'm certain you had the 'oh God please don't leave me lingering as a vegetable' conversation at least once. This... today... is the situation she didn't want." That's when we made the final decision to end her suffering much as you and your wife had chosen.

Bless you and your family, friend.

Does it get better?