The magic ingredient is time. This is the result of billions of years of iteration, trying quadrillions of quadrillions of different approaches, parallelised across a whole planet, with every generation being built only from a successful previous generation. The result is amazing, but the scale of all this compounding is also amazing.
"If we went to Mars and found there a computer, we wouldn't ever say that it popped up by accident. There had to be some creator of it. On the other hand, we have brains, which are much more complex than computers and we deny the existence of some creator."
I heard this anecdote during homily in church and honestly it perfectly describes how I think about God.
Again, that's not the valid answer. Who created God then?
Stop using God as a placeholder and be more humble.
The correct answer is "we don't know", but for sure today
God is not a valid theory. No more than Spiderman, Batman or
cosmic magical people from Andromeda.
That's right. And that is the moment when science has to give place to beliefs. Everyone can have different. Some poeple none at all. For a person who wants to find a bridge between science and religion, this model may be good.
Yeah, if everyone did that, we could be trying to fly the Ocean by praying. Or trying to cure plagues in the Middle Ages too, with the same bullshitery.
Hint: in didn't work. Once we threw that crap away, and began to properly was the hands, or develop the steam machine in the 1800s, with no "magic" in between, the progress and science development skyrocketed.
I didn't find any links to the original page on HN. And second: may be the timezone accounting would be great. There is friday morning at may location now, but I still see only thursday.
Migrated from Dropbox when I noticed that their client uses about 300 Mb of memory on Windows and my old laptop with HDD was terribly slow just right after booting. WTF? Is it really necessary 300Mb of memory to just sync my files to the cloud?
I've been on macOS for years now, but was installing Dropbox on a Windows machine. It kept downloading that client instead of the folder sync app.
Took me a while to figure out why.. the Windows Install / Store interstitial is doing them no favors, and their documentation barely even addresses the "Install anyway" link you need to click on.
