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>Well, it sounds like you went from being an atheist to an agnostic. That certainly is a more rational and less dogmatic position to take, based on what we know. I'm not sure why t…

I hear this often enough, but I don't buy it. I think this mostly comes from being less than totally confident socially, or perhaps even having some social anxiety. To my knowledge…

I think you are seeing a more extreme position than they were taking. It's not that there isn't value in having friendly relationships with your colleagues no matter their gender. …

I don't think these statements are as absolute as you take them. I'm also not sure where you go if "almost certainly did(n't)" is no longer sufficient. At that point you basically …

Heh, the math will never even get brought up in the trial. They'll just talk about DNA matches and everybody on the jury will think this guy is scientifically proven to be guilty.

I'm sure you're right that there are a lot of overlooked subtleties. That said I'm not sure some of those problems you mentioned would exist, or at least I'm not sure they would be…

I think many of these issues can be addressed with mechanisms proposed by the author. Mainly, the more complex tags which can themselves refer to other tags. 1. This is probably th…

I believe the point the parent is trying to make is that when you spend the time to learn Visual Studio, vim, etc. you can transfer that knowledge to multiple languages. With Pharo…

Not saying I agree, but he leaves room open for other alternatives such as hitting a motorcycle while weaving within a lane. You won't hit a car that way, but you might take out a …

> The 100x time and cost is more in the sense of process changes when you're working on safety critical systems. How everything has to be traceable from requirement to test, how th…

I see this sentiment a lot. Intuitively it seems like it should be true, but I don't think the case is really quite so clear cut. The costs involve way more than just the initial d…

I don't think it's fair to say that development programs will just stop after a reasonable advancement on the last known state of the art. If you (a nation) are working on this, it…

I don't think we can confidently say that chemical and biological weapons have seen almost zero development in the last 100 years. We can say as far as we know that's the case, but…

That does not seem like much of a burden, at all. All of that information is required knowledge for the business to operate and production to continue. You can't make something if …