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I was smart enough not to be an actuary.
I was smart enough not to be an actuary.
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"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Isn't the world just awesome when you just randomly decide **** orthogonal to reality?
Oh? Which locks would the government be able to open with a skeleton key that it can't now?
I find it fascinating you continually try to slam me for saying I've got "focused study" in a narrow portion of software development. You're essentially calling me an idiot savant.
If "savant" means "can function at a normal professional level in exactly one field", then sure.Comment
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I'll give you credit for this--you were smart enough not to enter a field that you never could have succeeded in. Well done. I'm proud of you.Originally posted by Asher View PostIf there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I'm referring to your conclusions.Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
See? You're so narrowly learned that you don't even know the term idiot savant...I find it fascinating you continually try to slam me for saying I've got "focused study" in a narrow portion of software development. You're essentially calling me an idiot savant.
If "savant" means "can function at a normal professional level in exactly one field", then sure."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Why would anyone enter a field that crushes original thought, rewards obedience, has all of the general intellectual intensity of a Harlequin Romance novel and all of the excitement of a retirement home filled with deaf/blind mutes. Not to mention the limits to real upward mobility.Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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I'm referring to your conclusions.
The conclusion that this merely restores government search powers to pre-Internet levels, or the conclusion that the lack of internal safeguards and external accountability are far more serious than privacy concerns?
See? You're so narrowly learned that you don't even know the term idiot savant...
See, the problem is that you aren't even good enough at software development to count as one; you're no more talented than any of the other members of my graduating class, and you've never been able to apply your critical thinking skills to anything but software, while most of them demonstrated significant interdisciplinary abilities...Comment
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What do actuaries even do in 2010? Do you just build risk models and plug them into a computer?"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Mostly it involves constantly rewriting our projection software to accommodate frequent regulatory changes. Maybe things will settle down when Congress and the IRS get tired of rewriting the rules.Originally posted by Asher View PostComment
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You apparently can't even remember. Nevermind, then.Originally posted by Kuciwalker View Post
Have you even seen a line of my code? You've not seen any of the projects I've worked on, any of the solutions I've designed, or any of the critical thinking problems I've solved outside of software.See, the problem is that you aren't even good enough at software development to count as one; you're no more talented than any of the other members of my graduating class, and you've never been able to apply your critical thinking skills to anything but software, while most of them demonstrated significant interdisciplinary abilities...
You're just repeating things you say to yourself. I'm really good at what I do -- I know it, my employers know it. That's what matters.
If you can't recognize that, it's because you both haven't seen my solutions and you've no idea what separates your run-of-the-mill design-pattern-happy cookie-cutter developers and the really good ones."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Why a sudden interest in what actuaries do for a living? Considering switching fields?If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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There's also a surprising amount of room for error in programming and configuring those risk models to account for the details of any given plan. Intuition is generally needed to certify the answers as reasonable.Comment
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I just find it fascinating, as my father essentially did the same thing for multi-billion dollar energy projects. In addition to managing them.
I'm wondering why actuaries are all that needed, and if they'll be less in demand as risk models get better."The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Have you even seen a line of my code? You've not seen any of the projects I've worked on, any of the solutions I've designed, or any of the critical thinking problems I've solved outside of software.
This is fair; I'm only extrapolating from technical discussions you've been involved in, where you couldn't seem to understand theoretical issues over learned dogma...Comment
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See, you don't understand economics either. Productivity improvements in a given sector are just as likely to increase quantity consumed as decrease it...Originally posted by Asher View PostComment
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