Stacking chips is not the same as a monolithic chip with multiple active layers. When chips are stacked, each chip can be tested before stacking, and the final yield becomes a question of successful interconnect and not damaging chips during assembly. With multilayer chups each layer must be perfect for the device to work.

I'd guess that they're not using a process with the smallest geometry. That way they can have a process that is basically very high yield for each layer; the resulting die will have acceptable yield.

An advantage of monolithic multilayer over stacking is that there's no risk that the thermal flow will have gaps.

The Rastafarians have the distinct disadvantage of being recent, being well studied historically, and having been denounced by the person they consider their figurehead.

America was founded mostly by religious fanatics escaping countries that were either less fanatical or that pushed different fanatical beliefs. The result was a higher per capita fanaticism than Europe during that time period. From a higher starting point it takes longer to get to any particular lower point.

There are probably other reasons, perhaps in the US there's less punishment for believing silly things.

The Gospels are deliberately constructed fairy tales formulated to fit into cultural religious beliefs popular then.

There is no evidence for resurrection, all that exists now are writings (which are not evidence) and proven frauds like the Shroud of Turin.

Richard Carrier has published what is currently the best summary and evaluation of Christian claims. In short, the odds of Biblical Jesus ever existing are at best 1 in 3.4; the chance of resurrection being true is 0. (approximations based on my watching Carrier's youtube videos)

You might find Answer by Fredric Brown entertaining. It's only a page long; well worth the time.

How has porn corrupted open heart surgery?

Ignoring the religious aspect, America has twice the per GDP generosity of the 2nd most generous country, New Zealand.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Another reference puts the US at number 6, behind a very peculiar list of countries.
https://worldpopulationreview....

It's a lot easier to be charitable when you're rich, and the US is rich.

If I'm a perfect teacher, teaching 17th century French literature to one human and 9 golden retrievers, they should all get A grades?

Alas, some of the elites go into politics and are rewarded for their corruption and dishonesty, like a certain now deceased Massachusetts Senator.

Among other things grades serve as a signal to the students as to whether they're doing well. Surprisingly, they don't always know.

Some scholarships require a student to exceed a certain GPA or lose the scholarship.

At Harvard, the IQ distribution will not be Gaussian, because the selection of students cuts out almost all but the top of the curve. Furthermore, in IQ, the tails tend to be extended.

In 4 years of college a student might take 32 to 40 classes. Even absolute ranking with 60% getting A's in each class will not have 60% getting A's in all classes. Relative ranking still appears in the GPA. Furthermore, students can distinguish themselves by taking more courses or more difficult courses, or by engaging in extracurricular activities (particularly as a leader.) At MIT undergrads can take graduate level courses if they have the prerequisites; I assume the same is true at Harvard. Ambitious students can engage in a research project with a famous professor, even at the undergrad level. Push this sort of information in a resume and at least some recruiters will take notice.

Relative ranking in individual classes is not rational, useful, or fair. With relative ranking, an average student in a class full of driven geniuses might get a D, but in a class of lazy below-average students get an A, all while deserving a B-. Not fair. Not rational. Not useful.

Harvard can be very picky about the quality of its students, and a brief internet search gives Harvard students an average IQ of 142. 140 is considered by some to be the borderline of genius. A particularly challenging class might attract only the brightest students, so a class of 20 geniuses is more likely that it appears at first glance.

Production of goods and energy causes pollution regardless of the economic system in which the production takes place. There's more pollution (other things being equal, which they're not) because capitalism allows more production. The alternative is less production, which means less wealth, which means more poverty.