Valmar

The media loves their stupid clickbait. -.-

So... you flagged me because you think I'm making some supposed statement of superiority?

Also, what "purpose" narrative?

Is contradicting the Neo-Darwinist model of life somehow not allowed?

Does contradicting it make me a closet Christian, in your eyes?

Because I don't see an answer in Neo-Darwinism or any religion.

I'm happy not knowing, just as I'm happy to criticize people who claim to know.

I dislike parties. Too much noise. Plus, I get bored easy. :P

Sure, I guess.

But we've been down this road of chemical soups before ~ and gotten nothing out of it.

I'm just frustrated that they seem to keep chasing the same failed ideas.

It's time to look for other explanations... not a religious one, at that.

Some biologists look towards a meteoric explanation of life, but punting it off-planet isn't an explanation, either...

Time cannot logically explain it.

Given such complex lifeforms, even a billion years wouldn't suffice to explain going from a RNA bases to a modern day human.

And no, I don't buy the Christian fairytale, either.

It's fine for me to accept that we humans have no answer as to life's origins.

For all of these lab soups, it means basically nothing.

None of this has advanced any understanding of the Neo-Darwinian origin of life model.

There's still no working theory of how one gets from basic building blocks to a fully-functioning working cell, nevermind the rest.

These threads raise awareness for more people.

Especially people who may not otherwise have known.

Silencing, censoring, the discussion only allows it to keep getting worse, instead of potentially less worse.

You made a stupid comment. Own it. Don't play the victim.

People aren't attacking you personally.

Rather, people are criticizing your argument.

That's not the point of their question...

Go also has many disadvantages, compared to plain C.

I would suggest that it's not "single threaded", either.

Comparing consciousness to how a CPU processes instructions is very poor analogy, because to this day, because the nature of consciousness is still a complete mystery to science.

I mean, we can think about stuff, but we don't think about them one after the other. We're thinking all of the time, but we tend to focus on what's immediately interesting to us. Consciousness is a pretty complex thing to unravel...

Because he was on suicide watch, until conveniently taken off of it a few hours before he died.

His cell's camera also "mysteriously" stopped working.

Somehow, he hung himself, which should have been impossible at the facility he was in.

The odds make it extremely probably that he was "suicided", that is, murdered, and then have his death announced by a corrupt coroner as "suicide".

As it is, it seems like he was probably murdered by strangulation.

Every third-part antivirus company is just as incompetent.

I dare suggest that even Microsoft isn't that much better.

Thanks. AMP is stupid bullshit that needs to die, or at least be entirely restricted to mobile users only.

Hilarious.

Just more political warfare bullshit.

I'm impressed the Kaspersky is going to these lengths to remove the means for the US government to baselessly criticize simply because they originate from a country that the US loathes.

Furthermore, the fact that the Russian government is seemingly okay with this simply adds to everything the Russian government is doing to nullify any of the attempts the US is making to accuse them with unproven lies.

One of these days, I hope that the US government loses it's grip on the planet, so that they have to play fair, instead of simply doing whatever they want because they're the de facto singular superpower in terms of military power and intelligence capabilities.

I wonder how often this happens in Psychology studies.

Psychology, currently, isn't in a good position regarding repeatability for most of its studies.

Because it's just too convenient.

He was murdered, far more logically.

We certainly need to keep our birth rates stable, though, to make up for those that die for whatever unfortunate reasons.

However, you claim that it originated as a "slur", without any evidence to support that.

If you care so much about etymology, at least refer to a resource that isn't biased:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/gimp

"GIMP" is merely an unfortunate consequence of the editor being named "GNU Image Manipulation Editor". GIMP is the obvious acronym.

I mean, the name is a meme in the Linux community.

Because of the correlation of "gimp" to "crippled".

The idea that people might be led to believe that it's a shitty editor.

The UX is shit, but for those who've masochistically gotten used to it, GIMP isn't half-bad.

And they'll be outdated compared to their 64-bit counterparts.

Some classic Whataboutism right here. Smells like a desperate attempt at deflection to me.

"FBI? But - but - Russia!"

Yep, this is what greedy corporations are willing to do to protect their profit margins.

Online ads are a very invasive business model that only penalizes the end-user, and rarely benefits them.

Especially when ads are often nasty vectors for malware.

So... a Vegan diet?

No thanks.

Probably because in tech, merit is what matters quite a bit.

Merit is... what skills can you personally bring to the table that can help? In a meritocracy, no-one cares about your race, gender, or sexual orientation.

Diversity of skillsets matter more than diversity of <biological attribute>. The former is useful, the latter is basically meaningless.

> Cyber-espionage is a valid role

Agreed, but the NSA doesn't seem to act like they care about defense, but wielding it only as a weapon.

If they care about defense, I'd be interested to see any meaningful examples.

The thing that worries me the most about these technologies is when we make changes with them, those changes seem fine in the lab, and then when those changes spread in an ecosystem for long enough, suddenly, problems start popping up due to those changes.

By then, it's far too late to undo those changes. The genetic pollution remains forever.

It is therefore far better to have never done any genetic modification at all, because we simply don't understand how one change interacts with everything else.

Nature has done so much better than we have ~ therefore, because we don't understand nature's decision-making process, and never have, and most probably never will, we should never interfere with tinkering with something extremely and profoundly complicated like DNA.

Selective breeding is superior to humans tinkering with the genome directly.

Who knows whether they'll see much use, due to C++ needing to keep backwards compatibility for older projects that demand older versions of C++.

It probably partially depends on whether old-style headers can be used simultaneously with new-style modules.