Perhaps his greatest contribution to humanity was the invention of the JelloShot. Like all great inventions, it was inspired by necessity. In this case it was while working at the NSA during a period when a policy banning open bottles was introduced to discourage drinking on the job.

Mostly because Eugenics doesn't understand genetics or breeding and has little appreciation for the broad horizons and deep histories of our DNA. Replacing these little topics and their boring scientific rigor with hubris certainly won't end well.

Unless you are from some remote village in Finland or Tennessee, it's unlikely you have a suitable percentage of inbreeding to have a genetic concentration that would reliably produce equal or better offspring. Instead, each breeding will be mutts diluting any potential benefit of lineage further.

But crossbreeding can also have advantages that can revitalise stale line breedings as seen in the hybrid vigor found in crossing two lines such as the Labradoodle.
Hybrid vigor is magical and can produce offspring better than both parents. Sometimes. So too can the mutt strategy. Sometimes.

However, if you don't understand the concept of hybrid vigor being a terminal breeding, you will be quite frustrated in attempting to extend your line when you discover there is no line. Even if you put out the dough to send your kids to vaccine free Waldorf schools, you will not erase the likely reality that you are a lucky mutt, not even a hybrid, simply a product of random breeding. As a result, you are a terminal breeding yourself.

If you really want intelligent children, you would be miles ahead to buy them from a reputable breeder with a track record of proven test breedings; making a family isn't a DIY weekend project - it takes centuries.

Indeed. Quite curious that despite all the bravado Musk is yet to go to space. I miss the old Silicon Valley mantra about eating one's own dog food.

It's funny how software engineers espousing this mantra get very emotional and defensive when tester engineers do the same thing despite the fact it's basically their job description for all testers.

Yes, they can only say Americans are obese because they spend too much time on the sofa; they can't say that sofa is installed in an automobile.

True. I think also it will play into the debate as to whether it is safe to blow ones nose at all; something my ENT tells me divides the profession.

Yet another bubble. Just like the dot com, it will shake out the coders from the gold diggers. Fair play.

It's a game that moves as you play and most programs in the US are light on the basics in order to meet market demand. That's really what needs to change. If I had a nickel for every software engineer who couldn't explain Big O or various sorting algorithms... It's like focusing on the needs of Big Lit using shortcuts to matriculating classes of English majors who couldn't tell you what a gerund is. Annoying.

ThIng is, writing AI applications requires a lot more maths and a totally different toolset than writing a J2EE portal so most coders will need to either retool or change their line of work. I've been building AI tools for two decades and I am back in school to level up. It's not a whole new world, just an ever raising bar.

The ship was originally named Salute which is also the name of a ship that sunk in the Pacific during WW 2. Any seadog worth his salt will tell you it's considered bad mojo to name a ship after one that sunk -- it can really mess up Posedian's invoicing system.

If a rechristening wasn't performed, or performed improperly, one can understand why Posedian took swift action. Basically an accounting error. No two ways about it.

Tis a darn shame.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Which underscores the level of their motivation and the lengths they will go to rid the sea of humans and their garbage.

Real journalism is appreciated more than ever. https://www.irishtimes.com/bus...

Are you familiar with Angola prison in Louisiana? It's a cotton plantation where inmates are forced to work without pay for the first two years of their sentence. Afterwards, they get 2 an hour for the remainder of what will basically be a life sentence.

https://www.mennoniteusa.org/m...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

Or maybe look up 'Angola'.

Instead of Enter, use the html for two br's in order to create spaces between paragraphs.

As for the trans hysteria, it's just a politically correct way to gay bash and slag women with the purpose of rolling back gay and women's rights. And it's working.

I think it depends on what you are reading. I shudder at the thought of relying on social media for information. Remember, Reagan and Clinton didn't deregulate the planet's media, merely America's which was mostly bought up by an Australian. Do you think Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk or even Murdoch have much sway over people.cn or the press in advanced and educated democracies like Ireland, Sweden, or Belgium? Definitely nothing like they do over new media or what passes for journalism in America.

I read "legacy media" and was well aware of the tariffs and recession Trump and Musk had planned. They were quite clear in warning there would be pain.

For that matter, I remember reading interviews with Trump over a decade ago when he was just another racist vanity candidate millionaire with a bus driving across Iowa deadset on not just beating Obama, but establishing an American monarchy.

It was all out there. Just not much of it was covered by the American press. How can you expect it to be? There is some great American journalism, but it's important to seek out and understand opposing views if you want to make any sense of it all. Reading is more than understanding the words, it requires an understanding of context and point of view and the ability to triangulate from this input; something really not possible in the robotic echo chambers in the walled gardens of American social media or Gannett and Murdoch, Inc. .