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·il y a 7 ans·discuss
Nah, I'd rather use high-power laser to slice off heads of people who are so full of themselves that they think they have a moral right to force others to live their idea of ideal society. This kind of sanctimonious idiocy is quite addictive and way more deadly than all addictive substances together - as evident from 200 or so millions murdered in 20th century by the warriors for the Progress.
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·il y a 7 ans·discuss
"People are influenced by advertising."

OK, let's ban Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Because people are influenced by advertising, and advertising is all about goading people into buying stuff they otherwise wouldn't.
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·il y a 7 ans·discuss
The reason why most coders (who came to an interview) cannot code is simple: a decent coder gets a job after a few tries. A pretender (in my experience, a degree from IITs or some other degree mills from the same part of the world strongly correlates with that) would go to hundreds of interviews only to be rejected util he hits an equally incompetent interviewers. The pretenders are way over-represented in the pool, and simple programming tasks do an admirable job of filtering them out without much loss of time.
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·il y a 7 ans·discuss
As somebody who wrote all of the above (and a lot more) I call B.S. on this one.

The amount of unique stuff in each subfield is not that great, and if you have a wide and solid base in different subfields, picking up the unique ideas and techniques isn't that hard or time consuming.

But after a generalist has it, he is a lot more productive and creative because he often applies stuff from other subfields to come up with better/novel solution to the problem at hand - something a specialist cannot do.