banned_man

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by banned_man 17y ago
In general, I agree with that principle. However, egregiously stupid downmodding is damaging to the discussion. I wouldn't have started this thread over a post that clearly deserved to be downmodded; I'd just be embarrassing myself by drawi
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by banned_man 17y ago
Given the downvote mobbage that has just occurred over an appropriate post, it seems as if HN is turning into Reddit.
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by banned_man 17y ago
It's celebratory, which is relevant to the context of falling rents/property prices.
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by banned_man 17y ago
Why was this voted down?
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by banned_man 17y ago
A person's reproductive goal, both in evolutionary times as well as by modern standards, is to raise successful offspring. Parental investment is a strong predictor of this. Thus, a woman benefits by selecting a loyal man rather than a prom
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by banned_man 17y ago
Ok, but: 1. More women should be thinking for themselves and making their own decisions. Are they that unsure of their own judgment that they need to evaluate a man based on the imputed opinions of people they've never met, many of whom are
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by banned_man 17y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGgkA91hOb8
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by banned_man 17y ago
I think resilience is the most important trait; a resilient introvert can do fine. A high-IQ person is going to have difficult socialization early in life, and be behind the curve on a lot of social milestones. However, this becomes less im
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by banned_man 17y ago
This sort of "freedom" has more to do with upbringing than IQ. A 115 IQ is more than enough brainpower to become a doctor or attorney and a person born in that range in a family with high expectations will be expected to perform at that lev
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by banned_man 17y ago
The housing bubble would have crashed regardless of oil prices and availability. The severity of the crash might have been less if oil were abundant.
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by banned_man 17y ago
This is a great point. Given how I tend to get annoyed when people reflexively associate static typing with Java, I shouldn't be so quick to make the leap from OOP to mutable state. Many OOP concents (e.g. inheritance) are mutability-agnost
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by banned_man 17y ago
-1 for making me lose the game.
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by banned_man 17y ago
The answer to this question depends on how you define OOP and FP. I think the answer is "sort of". The problem with OOP is that it encourages the proliferation of mutable state. If each object has mutable state, then a large object-oriented
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by banned_man 17y ago
I've always thought it to be the exact opposite. Experience for a child is intermingled because children can often only perceive one plot-line. I remember that, when I was 5, I would watch reruns of various TV shows and think that prior epi
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by banned_man 17y ago
The issue with Wall Street overcompensation has more to do with what has happened to nearly every other profession in the past 3 decades: utter fucking meltdown. Academia: the job market for PhDs is so terrible as to constitute a glaring an
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by banned_man 17y ago
I'm obviously joking, but those kinds of "offers" have been given (and presumably accepted) in the writing world. A common scenario is an offer (usually given by scummy, second-rate magazines) where the writer is required to use a pseudonym
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by banned_man 17y ago
I have an idea for a novel that is truly earth-shattering. It might be described as "fucking brilliant". I'm very busy and therefore don't have time to write it myself, and I obviously can't discuss the concept here; I have to safeguard thi
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by banned_man 17y ago
Wouldn't this depend on vesting?
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by banned_man 17y ago
A grant of equity or control, however, is irreversible.
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by banned_man 17y ago
Mark Zuckerberg is great for media PR, because he reminds the old guard of the '90s, when a talented but generally unimpressive 2x-year-old could sell a money-losing company for billions. He's a massive liability for recruiting PR, though,
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by banned_man 17y ago
Simpsons did it. (* Well, Mr. Burns didn't technically buy it; he merely blocked it out.)
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by banned_man 17y ago
Founding a company would be the wrong way to go about exploiting this time hack. Too much relies on execution, so the possibility for failure is substantial. There is a much easier way to make money if you can time-travel. What I'd do: ask
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by banned_man 17y ago
So your argument is that women don't have shitty, infantile tastes so much as shitty, infantile priorities, then?
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by banned_man 17y ago
The people who think this way are the ones that the rest of us are hoping the recession will push out of New York.
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by banned_man 17y ago
This has more to do with misinvestment of resources than any fundamental ceiling to demand for better technology. Scaling up existing capabilities to be slightly better reaches a limit at some point; increasing capabilities does not. Consid
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by banned_man 17y ago
How to read code, use version control, write code in a professional environment, find libraries that can help you, and keep abreast of current technology. I think that CS grads should be expected to be contributing to open source projects b
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by banned_man 17y ago
1-2 have no relevance to CS. 3 is important.
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by banned_man 17y ago
Asking "aren't women allowed to prefer an alpha male without being accused of wanting to be degraded?" is like "aren't red octagons allowed to have 'STOP' written on them without being accused of being stop signs?" No one is accusing anyt
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by banned_man 17y ago
It's obviously not. It seems to be more common in American culture, but I don't have enough experience to evaluate the accuracy of this perception.
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by banned_man 17y ago
The concept of "alpha" is highly variable among species and therefore doesn't generalize easily. In humans, it describes the type of man who would have a large number of wives in a pre-monogamous society-- narcissistic, brutal, detached, an

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