Hey people under 30 or so, do you even know who MacGyver is? :)
The birth of that show was surprising : http://macgyverglobal.com/2012/11/05/macgyver-the-real-origi...
Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions
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#52My vote goes to menstruation.
It's an extremely wasteful exercise.
Most mammals do not need to do it, so there's an existing model for how reproduction can work without the need for ~monthly blood and tissue loss.
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#53What do these 'hacks' indicate about the Intelligent Designer(s) in charge of human creation? That is, can we, as believers in Intelligent Design, discern anything about the Deity(ies) who did the design? The obvious question is: "how many deities did the design? One or more?" After that, you'd move on to gender, and other indicators. Ultimately, one would hope to be able to have Scientific Proof of the truth of one…
> What do these 'hacks' indicate about the Intelligent Designer(s) in charge of human creation?
That they likely don't exist.
Re: Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions
#54Hey people under 30 or so, do you even know who MacGyver is? :)
The birth of that show was surprising : http://macgyverglobal.com/2012/11/05/macgyver-the-real-origi...
part 2: http://macgyverglobal.com/2012/12/11/macgyver-the-real-origi... (3 and 4: just click "next" after 2 and 3)
part 5: http://macgyverglobal.com/2013/03/20/macgyver-the-real-origi...
Re: Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions
#55There is also the mitochondrial DNA which is probably placed in the most unsafe environment inside the cell.
Re: Top Design Flaws in the Human Body: Our bodies are full of hack solutions
#56Mother Nature is not, and has never been an engineer. Evolution is trial and error. DNA is spaghetti code of the highest order.
Erm... "software engineers" are not, and have never been engineers. Programming is trail and error. Computer code is spaghetti code of the highest order.
The article is kinda... I dunno. Its solution to the spine problems allegedly caused by walking on two legs is ultimately to go back to walking on four legs. This however... urm... presents its own problems, the solution to which is left as an exercise to the reader.
Build a better human first, then criticize the one that already works...
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's 7.5° high and 5.5° wide. If you don't consider that huge, then that's up to you. But for me, that counts as huge, especially since it's fairly near the middle of vision. That's over half the width of my hand at arms length.
So... this makes a difference in your daily life as a nomad hunter or software engineer how? None at all. You just don't perceive it unless you go out of your way to.
The way you're carrying on it's almost like you were the project manager who delivered the blind spot. It's a feature, not a bug. ;)
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just to play devil's advocate... It almost certainly is intelligent design, because it's intelligent given certain constraints (the existing gene pool in a given generation, and the fact that something working is better than something theoretically better but doesn't actually exist). God iterates using an Agile process.
Backlog: Epic - Improve test coverage
Yes, one gigantic integration test (Live/Die) is unhelpful and makes it very difficult to pinpoint problems. Looking for something beyond "it compiles".
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#59So, this is the so-called "intelligent design"? I think not.
I don't know that you can even call this a counter argument to all intelligent design schemes: Christians believe that Adam and Eve live in the garden and were cursed for eating the forbidden fruit. That would make the poor parts the result of transgression and not design (most likely). So they might view it as "corrupted intelligent design"? Unclear. I'm not too up on all the arguments surrounding intelligent design…
The major argument of intelligent design is that everything's so perfectly designed it couldn't have happened by chance. Permitting corruption of that design pretty much eviscerates that primary argument.
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#60Mother Nature is not, and has never been an engineer. Evolution is trial and error. DNA is spaghetti code of the highest order.
Erm... "software engineers" are not, and have never been engineers. Programming is trail and error. Computer code is spaghetti code of the highest order. The article is kinda... I dunno. Its solution to the spine problems allegedly caused by walking on two legs is ultimately to go back to walking on four legs. This however... urm... presents its own problems, the solution to which is left as an exercise to the reader…
I suspect the whole article is a joke.
It had brain as hack at #10.