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But this does not predestine them. You, with your brain, can choose your path.

It's predestined to end up whichever way it ends up and we're just cogs in the machine.

That's going to be fun, he's predestined for a job where he can bullshit as much as possible.

"If we are, in fact, predestined, assuming I have free will doesn't hurt or matter." Not to mention you were predestined to assume so.

His death was predestined by circumstances and certainly not the Dude's fault. Also, I think it would be best if no one tells the EFF how DNS works.

Ask your friends who are into astrology, I bet not all use it as a tool to dismiss actions or predestine things.

I think the lie told is not one of predestined love, but of perfect love. That you'll find the person of your dreams, they will sweep you off your feet, and you'll never have a negative feeling about them.

To add a bit to this, the Puritans believed that earthly success was a sign of one being predestined to eternal salvation. So they worked hard for success.

It's not "predestined love" alone - it's also willingness to actually work on that relationship. I've got 23 years so far, and it's been awesome.

Believing something is predestined is bullshit. Genetics might give you a better memory, but it doesn't make you a hard worker.

My 25+ year marriage is actually the product of "predestined love" and I think most people could end up with a love like that. The reality is that you have to keep your eyes open if you want to notice the person that's right for you ...

Thus it's somehow predestined for prototyping. I'm not sure if Octave can compete, considering the GUI features.

So no, it doesn't predestine you down a particular career path where any deviation will leave you miserable. Your passions can apply very broadly.

But back to the dichotomy: I have no reason to believe Fujimoto was predestined for sushi. On the other hand, I would be shocked to know that the rich kid, though he couldn't have known at the time, held direct power over Fujimoto's future.

To some degree, the elite universities are selling success to those already predestined for it. This is an end game state for any popular institution that accepts a subset from a pool of applicants.

To me, the whole article seems to be the author trying to shoehorn history into his idea that the events of the year 1866 would somehow predestine the next half century. He brings up some interesting observations, but his main thesis doesn't hold water.

Unfortunately I'm predestined to incorrectly ignore your arguments, maintaining my misplaced belief in free will.

Is creating a child ethical at all because its suffering and eventual premature death seems predestined anyway? I'd argue that life - even at our current, very limited tech level - is indeed worth living and all things considered a positive thing.

Now for a thought experiment why a complex society like ours isn't predestined to be the state of humanity. Imagine that tomorrow some scientist somewhere finds out you can create a small stable anti-matter bomb by shaking a tomato on a stick at the sky during a storm.

You need to be an attractive person before you expect someone to want to be with you, and you have complete control over that; it has nothing to do with your looks and predestined characteristics, and everything to do with your attitude and personality. That may sound hokey, but it's entirely true.

Just because something is an ominous sign doesn't mean anything is predestined. One thing that I do think is quite important is that the company culture in a small business tends to be the way it is because the management structure is pretty flat, everyone has a set of shared goals and cooperation is easy.

Just because there is some market demand for an app like Yo, doesn't mean that we are predestined to make building it our life's mission. Some of us, if we slow down and reflect, might opt to be remembered for doing something other than: "Invented an app that no consumer was willing to pay for, and which solved no meaningful problems for anyone, but which some investment bankers managed to persuade some big company had strategory value.