Comments can't save unclear code. If you can't understand what the code does just by looking at it, comments aren't going to help you - either you don't understand the language well enough to maintain this code, or the code is too unclear to be maintained by anyone and it should be re-written.

Using very large sample sizes can make it seem something does matter, while it is actually not a real issue, thus misleading people.

I don't think that's right. Statistical significance isn't about whether the difference "matters" - the casual meaning of "significance" - it's about the confidence you can have that the difference in outcomes between the control and experiment group isn't within the normal variation between groups that comes from…

I don't agree with your well-worded explanations regarding human behavior and morality.

You can't "disagree" with the facts. People kill themselves to advance principles that you consider evil and they consider good. That happens - and it proves that they're not just being perverse.

That would only work if we assumed that their were no Christian people living in the places where those stories where to presumed to be happening

There was indeed strong advocates for and against slavery in the populace, but governments are always motivated by finance in the end.

I actually don't like a whole lot of Ehrman's scholarship, inasmuch as he does "scholarship" at all anymore, but I thought that book did a good job laying out what evidence there actually is and how it's relevant.

But what does that mean to you when you say, "act like it's true?"

What position is it of yours to "challenge" me?

That's great for you. Like I said, though, you might want to alter your language - where I'm from, talk like "lack of a moral compass" and "not thinking about the consequences to society" is what people say when they're against equal treatment for gay men and women.

That's not you? Good to hear it. But that's the…

Come on, really? You think the "Middle East" is all one place? Get serious. We're talking about a time and place when people lived their entire lives inside of a ten-mile radius. When I said "somewhere else" I didn't mean "Outer Mongolia" - a location as far as a week's travel from the place where you're telling the…

Just as an aside - I suspect what you find most convincing about "Did Jesus Exist" is not its arguments, but its biography, right? The fact that Ehrman is an atheist.

Bart Ehrman's scholarship has a lot of holes, which he's never been able to properly address. His is certainly the best case for the historicity of Jesus but a lot of it is fabricated or misrepresented and the rest is not convincing.

Few tailors - at the professional level or even at the level of your local tailor shop - sew except to make quick alterations or tack during fittings. Tailors primarily design; the actual sewing is usually done by seamstresses. (In other words, the same unfair gender breakdown you see when traditionally female-encoded…

Listen, I worked a couple of months as a costumer and I'm from a whole family of formally-trained costumers, and there was just not ever any dispute by anyone I ever worked with (female, every single one of them, except my dad) that the act of sewing a garment is feminine-coded. Those male cosplayers are already…

I think your biggest problem is that you can't understand the concept of there being a culture to religions that can be passed down without the faith.

It's not appropriation - I'm just ethnofluid!

I didn't choose them to offend you. I chose them to challenge you, and to challenge your implicit position that you can enjoy all the benefits of Catholicism without grappling with the legitimacy of Catholic creed, the cruelty of Catholic history, and your own moral culpability that results. To challenge your position…

Yeah... I just don't know what you're talking about. My suspicion is that you have "consequences" a little mixed up, particularly about who is responsible for what.