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Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by aston on Sunday March 30, 2008 @11:49PM (#150712)
"I've thought about this for a bit and realized that both camps ... are wrong, at least when stated so simply."

Applies to basically every pair of controversial and/or reasonably substantial claims on the web. Obviously the right answer is always "it depends." But I already knew that, having read two opposing viewpoints and synthesized their conclusions.

In summary: C'mon, pick a side!

Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by mixmax on Monday March 31, 2008 @12:12AM (#150730)
Sometimes one side is just plainly wrong.

The debate about evolution versus Intelligent design is an example.

Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by dbreunig on Monday March 31, 2008 @12:58AM (#150769)
Natural selection is a great example for more than one reason: Darwin wasn't the very first to think it, but Origin of the Species is perhaps the most beautiful science ever written.
Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by mixmax on Monday March 31, 2008 @03:39AM (#150850)
Darwin actually held back Origin species for more than ten years because it clashed with his religious beliefs. He only released it when Alfred Russell Wallace sent him a letter asking him to look through a new theory on evolution, which of course was the exact same one that Darwin had come up with many years before.

And yes I agree with you - the implications of this theory are so broad that with a bit of stretching it can probably explain the whole field of psychology. An amazing insight.

Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by gruseom on Monday March 31, 2008 @10:42AM (#151087)
Colbert: Does Jon Stewart orally pleasure teamsters for pocket change?

Jon: Uhhh, no.

Colbert: Well, you are certainly entitled to that opinion, but I can assemble an impressive panel who say you do. I guess the truth lies somewhere in between.