As someone with several years of experience with both RDBs and mongodb, I totally agree with everything you said.
Also, you got downvoted by the same people that upvoted the stackoverflow post on the problems of downvoting on technical problems on the internet.
People might not like or know the technology and are guided by older tech gurus from the previous generation such as Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd, although he was a genius, now the market is much larger and there's a lot more use cases.
Additionally, most people know RDBs such as mysql and that's what they are comfortable with, i.e. can't get out of their comfort zone and give an honest and good try to something else or don't even have time.
Also it's what's taught in courses as superior to non relational databases.
I would not change our MongoDB clusters for Postgres/MySQL/etc even if I could do it with a single command. In this case it's not relational data though, for a large business relational model I would stick with RDBs.
Singapore is first in the world and it's right in the equator, while Hong Kong, the other one at the top has a humid subtropical climate. Are you perhaps from a cold area? That would easily explain your bias.
Was anyone IQ testing their populations for academic research before AC existed, though?
I'm skeptical of the IQ heat idea - it'd be readily demonstrable if it existed - but the numbers available, particularly outside the US/Europe, are largely current/recent, not from pre-1950s.
1. I don't believe the heat idea. Nor the superior genes one.
2. That doesn't make "these cities existed without air conditioning" a good argument in this thread. Yes, they did. No, that doesn't debunk the heat/IQ linkage idea.
The fact that inside the USA, northern states have on average a higher IQ than southern ones, is that a racist fact too related to European heritage?
> A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of the 48 contiguous United States, those with cooler average temperatures tend to have populations with higher IQs.
Nice one with that article from 2010, I remember when that study came out and it's obviously flawed and one of the reasons why so many people ITT have agreed with this "heat-iq correlation".
As everyone knows, the world is big, only ~4.3% of people live in the US. Unfortunately for you, the US it's not the center of the world. By the way, I couldn't care less about a study correlating the whitest and darkest states in the US, a country that shines in racism, academics in there probably go out of their way to make brown people look bad, like that pseudo scientist James Watson.
Quoted from your article:
> the ancestors of Swedes and Norwegians who were clever and resourceful enough to survive in that harsh climate passed down those heightened mental abilities to their descendants.
That's really funny, since the smartest people in the world are Asians and Italians. What northern Europeans are superior though, in the US mostly, is assuming they are better. Going out of their way with mental models to consider themselves superior.
Also, you got downvoted by the same people that upvoted the stackoverflow post on the problems of downvoting on technical problems on the internet.
People might not like or know the technology and are guided by older tech gurus from the previous generation such as Edgar Frank "Ted" Codd, although he was a genius, now the market is much larger and there's a lot more use cases.
Additionally, most people know RDBs such as mysql and that's what they are comfortable with, i.e. can't get out of their comfort zone and give an honest and good try to something else or don't even have time.
Also it's what's taught in courses as superior to non relational databases.
I would not change our MongoDB clusters for Postgres/MySQL/etc even if I could do it with a single command. In this case it's not relational data though, for a large business relational model I would stick with RDBs.