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So the selection process for becoming a programmer is not one that confers prestige.

Marriage confers very special rights, such as permanent residency or social security inheritance, that you cannot obtain through private contracts.

My understanding is that the 6-deck shoe confers a mathematical advantage, not simply a card-counting advantage, over an 8-deck shoe.

Being able to lie successfully also confers an evolutionary advantage and there are almost no outward indicators most people are lying.

How does wine end up being so impenetrable that connoisseurship confers such inconsistent evaluations?

Being a better and more desired programmer than a Stanford CS graduate confers no prestige whatsoever except in the eyes of other programmers.

Its approved for a variety of conditions in 44 countries, and confers an objective improvement in the capabilities of Parkinson's patients for example.

I certainly don't care what it's called, as long as there's something that confers those rights.

And yet a lot of people prefer working as contractors, as it confers tax advantages, control over hours and a higher salary(If your good).

I do not believe paying taxes confers ownership/access/etc over products produced with said tax dollars.

By way of example, the protein Bt confers resistance to insect predation,it is originally derived from a bacterium that killed insects in a parasitic cycle [1].

(A snarky way of saying, training and the benefits and value it confers is a function over time.

For starters: nature "invented" intelligence hundreds of millions of years ago with the evolution of neural nets, and it's a powerful adaptation that confers significant advantage.

(Note that "storing credit card details" immediately confers the whole responsibility of PCI compliance on you.

This confers further social advantages, but only could have evolved to fixation if the sexual-selection advantage of applying a "proximity during estrus" filter was completely outmoded/obviated by miscarriage.

I'm not a big believer in "intellectual property", but if the act of invention is sacred, and confers property rights on the inventor, then spy agencies need to respect that.