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Yes the prior decade, starting in 1998 when Bill Clinton signed legislation that opened the financial doors which allowed the housing crisis to start. Bush didn't close that door and so it built momentum but it would not have been possible if Bill had not signed that legislation in the first place.

I wasn't saying that I literally or intentionally post garbage comments. That was rhetoric, to prove a point. I'd assumed HN readers and moderators would understand that.

Could you explain Obamacare? That would be cool. Thanks.

> The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority

High brow smack (condescension) like that and "basket of deplorables" are what America revolted against.

If the liberal left was truly smart, why did they allow the president to run up more national debt than all presidents prior...combined?

It was, they called it IRC.

> Computers have less than a century of history so far

That's actually the point.

Would you play Russian Roulette with those odds? I wonder if an artificial intelligence would.

If only the LISP syntax looked like a programming language and made logical sense.

ERD's and Sequence Diagrams are helpful on occasion, that's it though. And those can be done in any drawing tool.

The FP crowd is so vocal. Reformed math geeks who are trying to evangelize the world of programming to do things one way; their way.

AGI sounds like fuzzy logic. We know how far that got. It will make some companies money though, it's snake oil. Computers even thousands of years from now will never be able to do what a programmer with 1 year of experience can do today, it's the advantage of being human.

> There is a reason why digital circuit design has shifted to use of HDLs.

Yours is so far the most insightful comment I've read on the page. Have an up vote.

> handling edge cases in a way consistent with the original intent, etc.

That's where we spend the majority of our time and always where things go horribly wrong in SciFi movies.