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Can you explain why archaeologists, astronomers and professors have the highest life expectancy and athletes and body builders have that among the lowest?
Maybe if you amputate your legs or catch AIDS or syphilis in the process. Otherwise, I can't see how losing 50 pounds will leave you less healthier than before.
I didn't ask this guy to create the software and I am not asking him to maintain it either. If he abandons it, I will have to reevaluate by business but that is the risk I am willing to take.
So how and where did I exploit anyone? Had I chosen to hire a developer to re-write the same functionality provided by that software and pushed the cost to customers, would that be better? For whom? How? Would it be any different if we were a huge company? Why?
Food supply is already under private control. If GMO takes off, it will actually be under government control... which is what you should fear.
Staying in EU is a horrible idea as far as Britian is concerned. If they don't have to pay to corrupt government officials of poorer countries in the EU, it is already a win (for citizens of those countries and for Britain)... but I can see why the corrupt unelected EU officials don't want them (or anyone else for that matter) to leave.
Not to me, but let's see.
>2 degrees carbon budget limit
Woo... 2 degrees. We can totally consider establishing settlement in Mars but God forbid there is 2 degree change in climate on earth. It will be uninhabitable. NOT.
>Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in the United States.
Oh yeah, because we were otherwise going to drink the river... or maybe it disappears when it is used in agriculture. Except it doesn't. Water is the most recyclable resource there is.
>carbon output from food production has increased by 47 percent from 2000 to 2012 — that’s an increase of 150 million tons of carbon dioxide
Except carbon that is emitted to the atmosphere doesn't stay there. It's called carbon cycle. If we are producing more meat, we will also have to produce more food for the animals... which comes from plants... which take CO2 from the atmosphere to grow.
You're fooling nobody. Don't get into our kitchen.
What if they strongly supported something illegal? Like illegal immigration?
I have listened to several hours of him speaking and I have no idea what you are talking about.
>I've never met someone who would tolerate a child who throws tantrums the way he does.
Specific examples?
I have a question for you which may or may not be related. Do you get your "news" from professional clowns?
Except they are not representative of the truth. The elites are on damage control when they found out that their brainwashing didn't work. Share indexes are going up and will continue to rise for the UK and continue to fall for the rest of Europe. You did well. Don't let them tell you otherwise.
How is he behaving that is unacceptable and to whom is it unacceptable?
It's not a crisis. They didn't want to be a part of bureaucratic corrupt system which never gets anything done for them, takes from the poor of the rich countries and gives it to the rich of the poor countries. They became independent of it now. It's best for everyone, except for the very few who are leeching off of it.
>every child must code
Yes, it's in their interests to have more coders in the market so that they can pay them less... and also in the interest of the government if they don't have to depend on foreign manpower. You don't need to fall for it.
>they hire a small percentage of job applicants for their companies
Why should they hire anyone who is not the best? Specially when hiring the best is not a lot more expensive than hiring an average developer? Let's say you set out to make a new product. Why would you not hire anyone who is the best among the people who are willing to work for you? Also, the world doesn't need everyone to be developers. At some point market will be saturated enough to not be able to pay even the good developers... which is exactly what the tech industry wants and for good reason.
>seem to be making real-world software development more inaccessible to non-experts
No, we don't do that. It is more accessible than ever to non-experts... be it with PaaS or plethora of tools and tutorials and books and other resources available.
>we deride RAD tools and "drag and drop" development
We definitely don't do that without a reason. They have been tried and tested and have failed to deliver in the long term. Changes are difficult to track and building on top of someone else's work is painful.
>ever-more abstract modes of thinking like Functional Programming that a small percentage of working developers, let alone the general public, will grasp
To a non-programmer, Functional Programming makes WAY MORE sense than assignments and looping. Also, we didn't decide to use Functional Programming to exclude out people who have been trained otherwise. We did it because it makes code easier to reason about and scale.
>Is it a labor lottery so that the small percentage of kids who are turn out to be good at coding will become professional programmers?
Yes. A small percent of children who turn out to be good at science class will become professional mathematicians. A small percent of children who turn out to be good at sports will become professional sportsmen. A small percent of children who are good at cooking turn out to become professional chefs. Same with everything. Why should it be different when it comes to programming?
The ONLY thing you need to do is make yourself valuable for someone else so that they are willing to share a part of their income with you. If everyone did the same for themselves, everyone would create value for each other. Unfortunately, people are so much focused on fixing others that they end up harming everyone's lives.
Even the original title reads "From Berlin to Barcelona; will Airbnb ruin our most loved cities?". If anything, you should ban the article.
Suggesting that hotels were keeping the prices artificially high to limit tourists and hence conserve the cities?
Try harder next time.
That's why you should use Lastpass.
Also, if my neighbor saw a bunch of strangers in my house when I was away, I would want them to call the police. The problem in that particular case is not that they called the police but that the neighbours were not notified about unexpected strangers staying in the neighborhood.
If someone doesn't want me (a brown male) to stay in their house, I would absolutely like to know and would prefer to have a filter to easily find only the places that accept someone like me. The problem is not discrimination. The problem is anti-discrimination bullshit the company has to go through if they provided such a filter to make lives easy for everyone.
Terrible example for whatever point you wanted to make. Here is the original quote:
>When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.
So, what kind of mental gymnastics do you have to perform to conclude that he meant "undocumented immigrants are rapists and murderers"?
Then fuck off! I am not asking for one.
>Who calls McD unhealthy or bland must be "fucking brainless"
Yes because it is healthier than most other "foods" that are available and tastier than most other foods in the world. The existence of healthier or tastier food proves nothing. Is spending the time and money to eat those food instead worth it? NOPE! You know how I know? Because if there was, McDonalds would make it and sell it... or their competitors would and McDonalds would go out of business.
>McD food were as cheap as it is, because it's of the worst quality, that would totally make sense
Yep, if there was excess of it and nobody wanted it, it would be cheap... which is not the case. It's cheap because they have optimized the processes in several ways and sell enough to justify doing it at scale.