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by mmirate 9y ago
But do we know if, say, good intelligence alone (i.e. excluding physical strength/stamina/etc.), requires a sufficiently narrow genetic profile that anyone thusly engineered would be unusually susceptible to an epidemic? Otherwise
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by mmirate 9y ago
Possibly. But if someone is actually unfit enough to be "gravely" hurt, and multiple generations of their ancestors were all too unproductive to afford IVF and pre-selection even when not under full competitive pressure from
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by mmirate 9y ago
> Then there are concerns about the push to select for non-disease-related traits, such as intelligence or athletic ability. What the fuck? We finally have the capability to extract the best possible sample of a couple's genetics
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by mmirate 9y ago
> the problem we face is what to do when labor is no longer valued because machines do it all and half the population or more has no skills of value to the market Need anything be done? You said it yourself: that portion of the populat
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by mmirate 9y ago
> I very nearly stayed in my small rural town working retail and farming jobs but my education opened doors to new people and experiences. So, that still falls under career path and earnings.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Perhaps they are, perhaps they aren't; I'm not a Doctor of Education, so I can't and won't claim that I know the answer to that question. My question to you, is applicable regardless: As an industry-destined BSCS stude
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by mmirate 9y ago
Having been through the U.S. public school system (plus an IB diploma; too little, too late) ... your description of the Australian system makes me very much regret that I was not born+raised in Australia, as I am probably dumber for it.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> Parents don't send their kids to college to become better people, they do it to make sure they have a skill that can lead to a career so they can survive on their own. That's correct, yes, but it's not the whole story. (
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by mmirate 9y ago
Food is one resource. Energy and topsoil are others, needed for food production. Thanks to (U.S.) government subsidies for farming, farmers can purchase those resources unusually easily; some argue that this will lead to faster depletion of
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by mmirate 9y ago
> "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich Independent of the rest of your comment: the quoted concept is trivially false as long as resources are scarce. (i.e. the foreseeable future; barring severe, dr
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by mmirate 9y ago
As I understand, you're saying that empathy is vital for assessing requirements. That's precisely why I mentioned management and team-leads as being likely exceptions. (But each manager or lead usually has more than one report,
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by mmirate 9y ago
What is to ensure that a study which is being "pre-disclosed" has not, in fact, already had the data collected and simply being withheld for the same amount of time that it took to collect?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Sorry I was unclear. I mean the field of psychology in general (or whatever parts of it are useful for marketing), and the general identity of the target market.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> left side brain good, right side brain bad We're programmers/engineers, not painters/artists. Hence I don't see where that statement doesn't hold absolutely true for us. (Except perhaps for management, team lea
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by mmirate 9y ago
Independent of the other things wrong with your argument, I find it curious that you think that designers are among those who benefit from empathy. Given knowledge of aesthetics, psychology and the general identity of the target audienc
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by mmirate 9y ago
IIRC, flagging has a lower karma threshold than downvoting.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> it's not OK to force everyone else to defend your assets/property/lifestyle No need for such a thing; that is the job we expect of the police in exchange for paying our taxes, is it not?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Not doable whatsoever, as that would actually constitute mass murder rather than self-defense of each officer. Lawful and moral use of deadly force against any individual requires that that specific person first present deadly force themse
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by mmirate 9y ago
That speaks more to police being incompetent, understaffed and/or underfunded (and to civilian concealed-weapons-permit-holders being too few and too-far-between) than to anything else. (n.b. incarcerating a criminal costs tens of thou
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by mmirate 9y ago
> By the way, Harrison Bergeron was a critical satire of the position you're describing. Of equality-by-outcome? Yes, that was exactly why I cited it.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Ah, but this synonymy obscures the all-important difference between equality-of-opportunity and equality-of-outcome. The former is a noble goal; the latter will likely lead to tyranny if implemented fully - or require tyranny for full imple
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by mmirate 9y ago
> My personal research on this Freud and ... aliens . Yeah, right, sure.
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by mmirate 9y ago
> configuration management tools Which work well until your "entire environment" is some new-fangled ARM/SuperH/(etc.) board, and your configuration management tool is x86_64-only and/or not-in-the-repo of the on
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by mmirate 9y ago
Right; but implementing any sort of change to education in general, requires that specific curricula be changed.
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by mmirate 9y ago
Time limitations. With current US primary+secondary curricula, most non-remedial students still only get as far as differential calculus before graduating high school - electronics and discrete math are already missing from that, and "
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by mmirate 9y ago
You mean Piaget's ideas?
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by mmirate 9y ago
Hmm, what about wrapping everything in an Arc<RwLock<...>> and gradually removing the wrappers (and the extra method calls) from each variable, backtracking on compiler errors?
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by mmirate 9y ago
> their brain is ready Without abstraction/generalization capability, how are they able to learn the entirety of the concept rather than merely analyze your concrete examples?
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by mmirate 9y ago
> It still probably helped me understand intuitively how "dumb" computers are which can be pretty hard for beginner programmers to grasp for some reason Grasping the dumbness of computers can also be done via a bottom-up approa
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by mmirate 9y ago
Exactly! (Of course, being an undergraduate CS student, from my point of view the idea is better expressed as, "I would love to see more companies who value internship candidates with more familiarity with the basic concepts of computi

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