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by chesser 16y ago
> Here's the original article. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1007137 Not available without subscription. Even so, the media described in the abstract makes no mention of body composition; without that, there is no way
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by chesser 16y ago
> Unfortunately, it only takes a few extremely chauvinistic individuals to sour an entire field towards women. They are simply reflecting the social mores of their day. IBM had the socks and garter police -- for men ! In addition,
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by chesser 16y ago
Since they only had two groups, one of them HAD to come out ahead. I also noted it listed MEAN score instead of MEDIAN. This would allow for a small number of people to spike the score. For example, a group of friends, or a study group. I
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by chesser 16y ago
In my above comment I worked out that there MUST be genetic differences. Even if you start from a point of complete genetic equality in aptitude, all it takes is any kind of cultural or social bias to create a selection pressure which will
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by chesser 16y ago
It's very plausible that older generations are much more sexist in certain ways. For example, Feynman getting the nearest "girl" to fetch his soup. http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-mac... There is also the issue
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by chesser 16y ago
These studies are nutty. You can't separate diet from activity; you can't treat wide categories of food so indiscriminately; you can't use BMI or weight instead of body composition, and get definitive results. Just for example, raw foodist
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by chesser 16y ago
I don't think an AI Justin Bieber is that far off. AIs can create pop music in your virtual world if you like that sort of thing. All the other AIs will be talking about it, so you won't need some central source of anything in order to h
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by chesser 16y ago
"Aspiring female scientists and mathematicians still have to contend with the inaccurate stereotype that men are innately better at them in their chosen fields." I wasn't aware that this had been definitively established as a myth. Last I
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by chesser 16y ago
Identity theft is a much broader issue than just credit reports. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft Essentially it's a way to accrue benefits while pushing any negative consequences on someone else. Those negative consequences c
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by chesser 16y ago
Eventually, copyright will die off completely. It's just a matter of when. When we have sci-fi nanoreplicators that can copy luxury (flying) cars, food, etc., all scarcity will be artificial. Alternatively, when we have very convincing V
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by chesser 16y ago
It's one thing to nuke links, but this apparently went beyond that. From the TC comments: "Wow, you can't type ANY form of lamebook.com, lamebook DOT com, lame+book DOT com...NOTHING! How can I trust Facebook as a messaging system if it's
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by chesser 16y ago
Copyright law was originally instituted to cover written works. There is a ton of case law. It would not have been kind to them. Nobody "forced" them out of business, they voluntarily quit when they realized their sham was exposed. In ag
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by chesser 16y ago
2) I'm not criticizing the idea of funding, I'm saying the amount is small. Google got either $100k total or $100k each from David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim, depending on which article you read. Presumably they had their living arran
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by chesser 16y ago
> I got an email from Paul Graham saying basically that being a single founder put me at a disadvantage, because two founders can talk each other out of bad ideas, but I appeared too stubborn. This applies equally for being talked out
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by chesser 16y ago
We could start a betting pool on the number of years until the government makes it compulsory.
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by chesser 16y ago
As someone who remembers BBSes and Usenet flamewars, I can't emphasize enough how bad an idea it is to have your real identity linked to everything you do. It also makes it very difficult if you ever need to go on the lam, because they'll k
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by chesser 16y ago
> Sure, but thousands of people phoning in to say “you’re an utter asshole” — leading to the site’s closure That isn't why they closed. Think what would have happened to them if they stayed open, from the ACTUAL non-mob-justice legal
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by chesser 16y ago
Actually the so-called "mob justice" was a HUGE FAVOR. I'll explain. How would you feel if your start-up was ripped off? Would you want HN people to rally around you, or would that be "mob justice"? And what if it turned out the same peop
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by chesser 16y ago
They take a long time if you have to rebuild the indexes, which is what you have to do if you only have a text dump. For MySQL, using the standard format (MyISAM), you can just do a file copy if you bothered to do a proper backup of the bin
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by chesser 16y ago
Fortunately, there is this thing called "science" which means we can understand things about the world regardless of where we live. As Dawkins would say, there is no such thing as "Chinese Science" or "French Science", just science. Simil
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by chesser 16y ago
Boxers punching with no tape is a good way to get broken wrists.
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by chesser 16y ago
You never "win". Having been in a hospital due to an accident, I would never want to put anyone else in there. And if I was put there by someone else, I would probably have been obsessed with getting back at them. So to "win" actually just
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by chesser 16y ago
"a pejorative modifier to refer to a person who experiences something vicariously rather than first-hand, or to a casual critic who lacks practical experience " Ironically the most fitting application would be to say that they're armchair
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by chesser 16y ago
Your post is a good illustration of the type of attitude we want to scrupulously avoid when appointing someone to be in charge of a database.
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by chesser 16y ago
> The half a million users validates their techniques, Let me introduce you to my friend, GeoCities. Funny thing about free hosting. > no matter how much armchair quarterbacking. Transactions aren't armchair quarterbacking. Bin
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by chesser 16y ago
> This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard. Well, I'm just going by TFA, which stated: "Newly created users and repositories are being restored, but pull request state changes and similar might be gone." Repos were affe
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by chesser 16y ago
GP: > > The more depressing observation is that 33.5ECUs are equivalent to 8 cores @ 2.93GHz You said: > I don't know where you got 700 MHz from, because by my math, it'd be equivalent to a 1.43 GHz Nehalem core (33.5 / 8 *
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by chesser 16y ago
> I think the fact that they have been able to recover all critical data soon and will even update the event table over the next few days clearly displays their competence. Taking a few days to restore a table indicates they only had
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by chesser 16y ago
They may not be rookies as Ruby hackers, but the evidence clearly points to them being rookies from the standpoint of data robustness. That's embarrassing enough when it's not your core business offering. They even brag about it on the
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by chesser 16y ago
> If github spent their time so that their site raised absolutely no basic questions, then they'd still be in beta by now. Beta is the stage you reach AFTER you flip on transactions, institute and test quick restores, and separate

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