ReverendBayes

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by ReverendBayes 11y ago
Really? You cannot imagine any scenario where employment approaches zero other than the robotic-utopia scenario? We have no historical example of employment approaching double digits without societal problems ensuing? The higher the un
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by ReverendBayes 13y ago
I almost choked on my lunch laughing after re-reading that. I remember reading the original thread and actually agreeing with him, without the slightest chuckle. Im amazed at how most people still find it hard to find pictures in their fi
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by ReverendBayes 13y ago
If we have fusion in 30 years instead of 60 years, we have colonization of the solar system happening in our lifetimes. We'd have the economic rationale for removing all military engagement in the middle east. We have 30*380 billion on
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by ReverendBayes 13y ago
Have you ever programmed anything substantial using java outside the enterprise/agile IT environment? Any type of project on your own time? Have you every built anything in Ruby, Python, or Go? I'm asking to try to discern what
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by ReverendBayes 14y ago
Wrong, by about a standard deviation. The mean iq of the Ashkenazi is about 113, the average for a very good nurse or less than average accountant. Of course, that mean deviation is still statistically significant enough to show a dispropor
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Was Bronx Science like this? It seems to me that the tech track magnets would be a little more enlightened, but I could be wrong.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
I'm with you. Just warm up the starcraft!
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
How many of those are getting warmer, gibsonf1? :), couldn't resist.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Uh, guess you didn't get it (no, not the book).
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
I wish people would lay off him. Look, for the last time, Bush is not President anymore. Next we'll be going over his alchoholism and business failings in his 30s. Leave him be, please.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Allowing that both are real is incorrect, even as they define themselves. Christianity and Judaism, by identity, allow only one of them to be real , if real is defined by correspondence with existence.
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Ask HN: What security software/configurations do you use?
3 points by ReverendBayes 18y ago|1 comments
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
I think the comment above calls into question the merit of your friends achievement, which will always be the result of affirmative action programs. How can you say that? Do you know her or what she is capable of? It seems pure idiocy to
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
If they pay for it within those fifteen minutes, that is all that matters.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
At some point, a man, regardless of his convictions, has to stop getting into arguments with reality. Bread and circuses it is, then.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Because there is no way a woman could be that smart, is there? Oh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_vos_Savant She must have the longest ring finger on the planet, yeah, that's it.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
I'll trade you some of my stock certificates for some of your green pieces of....
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Possibly the stupidest non sequitur I have read here in a while. You're joking, right?
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Not a web connection or mag subscription among the lot of them, eh? http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=a... http://www.forbes.com/2005/02/21/cz_0221oxan_default.html http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortun
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Google could end this now with a nationwide wimax buildout. Build a skype-like voice protocol on the android stack, open source a reference hardware design, and let programmers planetwide innovate on the platform. Would fell the iphone an
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
The cultural values of the respondents are measured by their responses to a question on the values parents would most like in their children. This is not controlling for values taken as a given, as it is worded as most like . E.g., if m
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
showed that only IQ had predictive value when pitted against values theories. How you control for values? If I value taking peoples money by force because I feel like it my intelligence will negate that values effect on my life outcome?
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Apple is evil and in severe need of competition in this space. May Android provide it.
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292142
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by ReverendBayes 18y ago
Ok, how about expounding this way: Unevidenced, unfalsifiable hypothesis presented as an explanation, with all the rigor of an armchair Olympics viewer armed with a 6 pack. Lame.