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By: TheophileEscargot

I think this is a poor article on an interesting subject. I started out with a Physics B.Sc. and a Masters in Computer Science, but in recent years I've become more interested in economics, history,...

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By: Apocryphon

In fact, a large proportion of the communist party leaders are engineers. That's just because it's the closest modern equivalent to the scholar-gentry.

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By: IAmBroom

namewithoutwords: Say what? Spock isn't even the central figure of the Star Trek imagination, much less that of Science Fiction as a whole... Speak for yourself, non-nerd.

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By: disconnect

The whole essay: not even wrong.

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By: Artw

Damn you engineers for doing those "easy" things instead of engaging in what's the grown up equivalent Of a really pissy Wikipedia fight. You could be making the world so much better if you changed...

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By: deo rei

It's also why they are actually competent at their job. Why yes, if you limit your job to the easy bits - the bits that can be solved - it's hard not to succeed.

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By: jet_silver

Riffing on Hayek is no way to go through life, son.

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By: leotrotsky

What's a lawyer's job? To win an argument. Sometimes even if they disagree with what they're arguing for; it's just about the winning. Talk about your oversimplifications. You have no idea what real...

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By: polymodus

Again the broader issue is that our world increasingly finds itself dominated by technology, while there is comparatively limited education or deep thinking going on about the ethics or philosophy of...

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By: Zalzidrax

It's also why they are actually competent at their job.

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By: deo rei

What's an engineer's job? To solve a problem given constraints, and develop an optimum solution that works in as many cases as possible. Well, that's an engineer's answer. Another answer might be that...

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By: Argyle

Condescending self-righteousness in 5 poorly written paragraphs.

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By: polymodus

The article comes across as really unintellectual, and yet I must agree with him despite his blatant incorrectness. He is basically railing against scientism or technocracy (in their modern...

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By: atrazine

But on economic grounds, her government only supported replacing CFCs after after what was then the UK's biggest company, ICI, came up with a more profitable alternative. Pretty much why the US,...

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By: Kadin2048

gibson != stephenson Whoops, you're right, although in my defense he also talks about Stephenson in the same breath.

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By: biffa

Margaret Thatcher was an early backer of the regulatory process that led to the Montreal Protocol for phasing out ozone layer damaging chemicals and an early believer in the global warming effects of...

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By: leo_r

I suppose it's also probably worth mentioning that very, very few of the engineers I know (mechanical engineering) have even the remotest interest in scifi. In my experience (obviously completely...

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By: scruss

I love the fact that we engineers have made the world so perfectly that other people think they are in charge.

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By: 445supermag

SKINNER: "Oh excellent, not only are the trains now running on time, they're running on metric time."

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By: cardboard

If engineering was all about "hard science and precise measurements", we'd have already replaced ourselves with robots. This guy sounds like he's confusing engineers with engineering students--callow...

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