The world will seek out software optimization only after hardware reaches its physical limits.
We're still in Startup Land, where it's more important to be first than it is to be good. From that point onward, you have to make a HUGE leap and your first-to-market competitor needs to make some horrendous screwups in order to overtake them.
The other problem is that some people still believe that the masses will pay more for quality. Sometimes, good enough is good enough. Tidal didn't replace iTunes or Spotify, and Pono didn't exactly crack the market for iPods.
Yup. He said that in the Bible. But he also fed people on the Sabbath because there were people needing to be fed, not because the recognition of the Sabbath day was abolished, but because the ridiculous legalistically dogmatic adherence to the Law was harming people. Just like today, where we've got ICE agents rushing parents and leaving their children alone in the backs of their vehicles. Also, his fulfillment was about being the sacrifice that sinners couldn't make for themselves, not about ignoring Old Testament laws.
My nephew hates math. So he's not going to college right now. Instead he's going to vo-tech school. Where he takes math.
Anyway, he seemed very interested in being a part of the FBLA and went to the various functions and conventions that the organization had. I encouraged him to keep in the back of his mind that one day he's not going to be young anymore, he's going to be tired of someone else's shit, every person in their mid 50s and over he knows who is in a trade has needed multiple surgeries just to function on a daily basis, and he's going to be frustrated that his boss is buying a motorcoach to drive to his vacation home while he's struggling to pay the note on his truck. Learn a trade. And then learn to run a business. So that you can run a business while working your trade.
Jesus never said he was superseding a single thing. His entire ministry was about railing against the legalistic structure of the Pharisees, who were more interested in following "the Law" than having common sense or taking care of people. His ministry was about Jews, for Jews, and had nothing to do with gentiles at all. The grifter Paul is the one who opened up their cult to gentiles.
The hell it doesn't. They didn't accommodate his new disability. The foreman on the crew had to make the same climb in the same gear, they just weren't doing the cleaning. This is a guy who tore and broke every joint and bone in both legs and had two separate locations where they had to fuse his spine.
They wanted to offer him the job so they could fire him for not performing because they didn't want their premium to increase.
In Omaha, there's a bar that records the number of jello shots purchased by the fans of each team every College World Series. When LSU was in the CWS, they bought a record amount of jello shots, obliterating the old record. That's because McKernan and Todd Graves (of Raising Canes fame) were taking turns buying thousands of them and giving them away to the LSU faithful.
I sat in a jury for a civil lawsuit between an employee, a company, and the insurer for the company. Guy was driving a company vehicle for work and got T-boned on a rural highway by some kids riding through cane fields. His line of work was cleaning those giant shipping vessels, which requires you to climb about 60 feet vertically. Well, the company didn't want to pay more for insurance, so they tried to get the guy to take a foreman gig so they could skimp on his payout.
Long story short, the counsel for the plaintiff was VERY good, made the insurance company's people look like amateurs, and was successful in pleading his case and getting everything he asked for. Very nice fellow, and I didn't notice until driving over a shipping canal that his face was plastered on a giant billboard for maritime injury cases, lol.
And then when the hormones are also gone, you won't be you. You won't even be a copy. You'll be a husk pretending to be a person long after the actual person is long gone. You'll be a talking wikipedia article with no ability to anything but regurgitate some of what you already knew, and the vast majority of these things will be of no consequence or use to anyone. We will never need immortality badly enough to spend the kind of resources to come close to achieving it.
Never going to happen. We don't have the technology, we're not going to get the technology, and nobody benefits by having wealthy people around forever. Your body parts will eventually wear out regardless of what you try to do to mitigate the situation, and everybody will get terminal cancer sooner or later regardless of anything else. And even if THAT doesn't get you, an accident eventually will. Doesn't matter if it's a car wreck, a plane crash, someone coughing on you at the wrong moment, or you sneezing and bursting a blood vessel in your head.
If that immigrant is there, then they're going to have to show up to the court proceedings. The time to intercept said person is directly after the hearing takes place, but these morons have no problem interrupting a hearing to take someone into custody. This is about the executive trying to walk all over the judicial branch.
It's patently anti-American to deny people due process. Refusing to give information to fascists who believe they have no restraint of jurisdiction is the lesser of two evils here.
The entire AI debacle is just a gold rush, but instead of poor people rushing to California to put their lives at risk, this one is gated by the amount of money and influence one needs to have before even attempting to compete in the space. Nobody is going to "win," ultimately, except the heads of these companies who will sock enough cash away to add to their generational wealth before they inevitably fall flat on their faces and scale back their plans.
Remember 3 years ago when everything is gonna become an NFT and the people who didn't accept that Web 3 was an inevitability were dinosaurs? Same shit, different bucket.
The people who are focused on solving the small sorts of problems that AI is decent at solving will be the ones who actually make a sustainable business out of it. This general purpose AI crap is just a glorified search engine that makes bad decisions as it yaps at you.
Honestly, if you're going to be a member of a church and you fully believe that the dude is holding the seat of the founder of the faith, the least you could do is actually have enough of an attention span to fully hear him out. It isn't his fault that people decided to do what people do. He explained himself and people chose not to listen.
Christ welcomed the poor, prostitutes, lepers, and thieves into his fold. Many Catholics are like a lot of Evangelicals in that they're Christian in name only. Their political beliefs ARE their faith and their religious beliefs are just a convenient shield for their politics. They like to associate with the man, but have taken zero time to understand him. The only time Jesus was openly hostile in the entirety of the Bible was when there were people trying to make a profit in the Temple. Contrast that to people who will attend a megachurch but hate gay folks. Francis did not condone gay marriage. He simply said that if a gay couple comes to you for pastoral advice, that you love them and attempt to give them the help they need. But you'd think the dude was prancing around in rainbow underwear on camera with the way people reacted to his love and grace.
Imagine going to church every Saturday or Sunday and sitting through a 1 hour service that you don't understand. The conservative side of the church has decided that it hates change, and since the Latin services were mostly cast aside, that's a bad thing to them.
They're bending the knee. The CEO class loves their own freedom to move about at will but hates the idea that workers have the right to just NOT be in the office. Trump, Musk, and Ramiswamy were all ultra-gung ho about ensuring that as many people with federal jobs were as miserable as possible.
I disagree, and I've been watching basketball for 40 years. Basketball with positions was more fun to watch and objectively more popular amongst the viewing audience than this current dreck with positionless basketball and basically no travelling rules. Defenders are afraid to play defense and offensive players can just step back without a dribble to create separation. It's a terrible, boring product to watch because it's reduced the best athletes on the planet to standing around waiting for an open look at a 3. They don't need to get rid of 3s, but they need to modify what they are for. They're supposed to be a bonus shot, not the fundamental aspect of offenses. Eliminating the mid range is bad for the sport.
The fuck does the Abrahamic God have to do with what I consider to be evil? There's (a) no practical aspect to it, (b) no benefit to it, and (c) it involves a creator torturing his creations. Good and evil were identified long before anyone ever invented El or Elyon, my guy. Read a book.
Yes, it's evil. I don't need some imaginary third party to make up magical rules for me.
Yes, makes perfect sense. I know when I want my horse to go faster, I don't entice it with more carrots, I just try to find better sticks to beat it with.
The problem isn't with the scriptures, it's with Christian interpretation of the scriptures. Anyone with any sort of knowledge of the Bible and the history of the people of the region knows that the god of the Bible was (a) part of a pantheon, (b) that was inherited from other cultures, and (c) evolved as time went on. That's not really up for debate with any serious students of history and religion.
The old testament biblical "God" at the time that Genesis was written was NOT perfect, and nobody believed him to be that way. That came later.
The Adam and Eve story just looked to tell a creation myth, and Genesis itself was cobbled together from multiple storytellers. It didn't say a single thing about damnation, which wouldn't even become a thing until Judea's hellenistic period.
So, nah. You seriously are out of your element here with all the blinders you've put up for yourself.