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UmDieWelt

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    Comment #12633424

    People were thinking about the difference between life and non-life way before robots. Philosophers/biologists needed to come up with a definition that could get just the right sub…

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    Comment #10766425

    Pretty easy to have a strong risk tolerance when you come from a wealthy background and have an elite degree on your resume. Also, there's very little risk to starting a company th…

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    Comment #10566943

    New frontier? They've been popular for over 20 years.

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    Comment #10436713

    It's no match for my 12 week PhD bootcamp.

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    Comment #10288858

    Electric wiring is a vocation that is far more important than coding and yet society isn't constantly encouraging everyone to be an electrician.

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    Comment #10246115

    It's already common knowledge, which is why the amount of people majoring in CS is skyrocketing.

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    Comment #10150982

    Forecasted ROIs are meaningless considering major is more important for ROI than where you went to school. Harvey Mudd isn't a better university than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton ju…

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    Comment #10106303

    The point is that the words don't really have a useful meaning anymore. It is especially important in technical topics to have terms with some specific meaning.

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    Comment #9949509

    If your goal is to get a PhD you should probably focus on finding some way to do research style work. Research is a lot different than taking online courses.

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    Comment #9913676

    You realize people take jobs at companies they don't want to work for all the time, right? So your statement is the one that doesn't make any sense.

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    Comment #9525242

    I guess CS students can't be bothered to know anything about companies, because there's no rational way to rank companies the way you described.

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    Comment #9502024

    How many of the greatest films of all time was he supposed to make to be considered a genius? Also, he was pretty accomplished in radio and theatre in addition to film.

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    Comment #9412234

    I know you're trying to be edgy, but it's actually objective fact that 14th century music still being enjoyed by millions in the 21st century is among the least ephemeral music. ht…

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    Comment #9397285

    Also, a lot more data to train on.

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    Comment #9249467

    You are right that the current state won't last long. Computer science enrollments are skyrocketing, and businesses and government alike are pushing hard for even more people to fl…

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    Comment #9182276

    For some reason every generation seems to rediscover the same things and think they've invented something new

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    Comment #9162303

    Except people who aren't the best aren't idiotic rubes who can't spot talent. I'm terrible at basketball but I can see that Lebron James is good.

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    Comment #9162043

    First-rate people hire people that went to the same group of first-rate schools they did. Also, why wouldn't second-rate people hire second-raters? According to that quote, no one …

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    Comment #9078180

    I don't see it as something morally wrong. I think the point is more that you're less likely to succeed if you're just doing it because you see other start-ups getting rich. So you…