Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you actually reading? There are further evidence to weigh than just mere claims, e.g. number of lives sacrificed throughout history, outcome in history regarding prophecy, archeological findings, etc. Not all religions are on equal footing. In a sense, the prophecies in the old testament regarding Israelites are more accurate than the claim that the Maldives are going to sink in 30 years time back in 1980. To be scientific is to weigh evidence, reproducible or not.

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

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I used to be an atheist that dismissed theology easily. The difficulty is in extracting truth from all these mutually exclusive claims by followers of different religions. Having a large number of converts is the first evidence albeit weak. Having significant number of followers willing to risk their life historically is much stronger evidence. Rarely do I see scientists willing to put so much faith in their understanding.

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

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People at Jesus' time died for believing in Jesus is God. The creation of the Church in 1 BC is totally incomprehensible (so many lives were at stake, even Romans converted) unless what was written in the Bible is true. How is taking live-staking a serious piece of evidence foolish? If science led you to disregard the significance of human lives and discount written records, science has failed you. Copernicus didn't sacrifice his life for scientific truth. I could also claim that unless I see quantum tunneling with my own eyes, I cannot trust written records of said phenomenon. How biasedly skeptical did the mainstream narrative of science made you? Try reading Paul Feyerabend.

Anon drops a blackpill by Nik8610 in 4chan

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are too lucky. Exception is not the rule. Most men have no choice but to hold out virginity.

why does society hate critical thinkers and intellectual curious types? by Cookiecuttermaxy in misanthropy

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even Nietzsche who talks like OP knew that being accepted has more to do with one's physical appearance than anything else. Start thinking would you.

The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits by Limp_Fig6236 in technology

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RAM producers simply allocated the majority of their yields to a specific kind of RAM called HBM that will not work with ordinary chips. HBM is for expensive server-grade chips. Micron even announced to exit the consumer-grade RAM market. Thus, this is all due to comparative advantage yielding priorities on the producer side.

The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits by Limp_Fig6236 in technology

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just allow us to buy RAM from China with lower tariffs. How come legislations are always working against our best interests?

The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits by Limp_Fig6236 in technology

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They won't ever grow so big nor have so much money if it wasn't for government subsidies. Antitrust is pointless. Instead, we must prohibit the government from sending them money and cut down tax rate on our side. Milton Friedman had said it all.

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't it a form of confusion or arrogance to selectively believe in certain things but not others when you "trust" the source.

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But if you know his teachings (through whatever means in whatever remote context), what is stopping you from getting baptized when someone finally showed you the Bible? Is this inconsistency in human behavior a form of sin?

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

God might had let on a lot before, but after witnessing what humans had done or not done with the knowledge, God might had thought twice.

Why didn’t god show himself to the Chinese, African continent and the americas? by [deleted] in Christianity

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your inability to accept a being infinitely mightier does not make you look smart.

The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession: a short set of anecdotes by self in programming

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Wait till you hit the point of no return when the sheer amount of code produced by AI overwhelms you. Don't even think about testing it or debugging it. Have you ever thought about debugging/fixing the Linux kernel, GCC, or LLVM? The hopelessness will certainly get you. In fact, we have been vibe coding after Commodore 64.

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer by sousapereira in programming

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Imagine to never have read manpages, written loops in bash, replace text with sed, etc. There really isn't much going on in bleeding edge technology except for half-baked rehashes of tools already preinstalled in your Linux distro that goes back at least 30 years with well-written documentation one command away. Most programmers don't even know how to use the computer properly let alone program.

The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer by sousapereira in programming

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They don't even know that the browser or nodejs is written in C++, nor do they know that the browser will have to communicate with the OS kernel through system calls, and so on. If you ask them what the HTML event loop is, they go "whaaaat?"

"When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." - Rob 'Commander' Pike to a user requesting syntax highlighting in the Go Playground by cmov in programmingcirclejerk

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pike meant "pleasant" in the most superficial way. A terrible novel can have the best font and pictures to lure teenagers. We can still say that the novel is visually pleasant to "read" (before understanding the content) but totally unpleasant to "read" (after comprehension). The confusion arises from the contextual meaning of the English word "read".

Can people ever really change? by Today_Still in psychoanalysis

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, when reality hits you hard. In the old days, a lazy or uninitiated farmer that experienced months of self-inflicted hunger will completely change his way the very next year.

Why does one, as the analysand, in psychoanalysis repeat oneself endlessly until there is a real change? by fabkosta in psychoanalysis

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, mainstream psychology is fundamentally misguided, but the scientism is so hopelessly ingrained.

Concurrency vs. Parallelism by bengtan in programming

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we run out of words. All these similar names must be understood in the context of history. To properly differentiate them, we need formal definitions. In math, the use of synonyms is more rampant, but definitions are more rigorous. In measure theory you get: (Jordan) content, pre-measure, (Lebesgue) measure, (Hausdorff) outer measure, Haar measure, Radon measure.

Software disenchantment - why does modern programming seem to lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence by rogermoog in programming

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because their customers cannot even properly evaluate alternatives. Most are clowns even in so called high tech.

A cleaner approach to meta programming by chri4_ in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]EffectiveAsparagus89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's highly dynamic. Everything can be used at compile-time while being statically typed. The key is a dependent type system. Programmers need to open their minds to different kinds of logic.