fmora

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by fmora 16y ago
This my response to all the people that have disagreed with me and have asked me for proof. There have been studies like "The Bell Curve" book were they attempt to demonstrate how intelligence varies among people. You can read more about th
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by fmora 16y ago
>>Hey, why give up? Doesn't Hard Work Conquer All? very funny
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by fmora 16y ago
My experience has always been that people that do bad in school is because they simply don't work at it. Or that they've neglected years of school and suddenly studying really hard will not make up for all the years of neglect. Cramming at
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by fmora 16y ago
>>Not everyone is talented enough to be a professional >>athlete or a tenured physicist. Many of the people that think this way always think that it has to do with talent. The thing is that the road to get there is paved wit
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by fmora 16y ago
You said: -------> On the contrary, your thesis goes against our everyday experience, not only because we know people who are stupider than us, but also people who are much smarter than us. <------- This reminds me of how a couple o
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by fmora 16y ago
Read it, it doesn't state up to how many significant digits that percent is accurate so it doesn't prove I'm wrong. They may have just shorten it for brevity.
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by fmora 16y ago
I read a couple of paragraphs. Is one thing to do a study on rats then to do a study in humans. This doesn't disprove my claim. Edit: Also, it seems that you are implying that the differences are so huge that we should have a lot of retarde
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by fmora 16y ago
I would just add a couple of more nines to that 99.9%.
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by fmora 16y ago
I do agree that some people may have higher learning rates than others but the differences are too small to matter. I will even agree that there may be outliers, a super tiny amount of the population (although I've never met one, and some t
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by fmora 16y ago
You will never be a michael jordan but if you practice hard enough you will become close. That is my point. The differences that you are talking are superficial differences. And how can you compare beauty to potential to learn? Beauty is on
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by fmora 16y ago
I worded that wrong. I meant to ask whether there are elitist in Hacker News.
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by fmora 16y ago
This supports my thesis that all human population has the potential to be as smart as any phd graduate. All you need is to put the work required to get there. i.e. put thousands of hours into it and you will become a master of your field. F
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by fmora 16y ago
I think you and me are using different definitions of smart. You think a person is smart only if he goes to school. That is not what I mean by smart. So that you understand I'll use potential education ability as my definition for smart. A
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by fmora 16y ago
I stand corrected. You are assuming that a person with a phd is inherently smarter than a person running a hot dog stand. He is not. He has more accumulated knowledge but I don't think he is necessarily smarter. I bet that if the hot dog pe
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by fmora 16y ago
If people are poor then they won't be able to buy your stuff. On the other hand people with more money means that they'll have a stronger buying power. It benefits the rich that the average person is also well off. People will kill to own a
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by fmora 16y ago
The problem is that many of these libraries are underfunded. Not enough new books are being added. All the books that I have needed over the last couple of years I can never find them in a library. I've pretty much stopped relying on librar
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by fmora 16y ago
Lets assume that P==NP, why assume that we would be able to find algorithms to easily crack crypto? Let me put it another way, lets say that we finally discover that it is possible to time travel to the past. However, the energy needed to t
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by fmora 16y ago
True, some of those intellectuals must have poor eyesight due to a lifetime of reading.
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by fmora 16y ago
Just buy two extra battery packs or a portable power supply that you can fit in your backpack.
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by fmora 16y ago
I would never have burned down the library of Alexandrida. Not unless there were a backup for every book there. Then I would burn it down. :)
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by fmora 16y ago
That is great. Too bad there are none like that around where I live.
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by fmora 16y ago
I hope you are right. If libraries make this transition then they will get more customers and maybe even make some money to pay for expenses. I've also tried to replicate the atmosphere. Unfortunately, it seems that key ingredient is people
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by fmora 16y ago
It was also the reason for WW2. Germany put all those unemployed people to work on many national projects. Projects which were aimed at world domination.
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by fmora 16y ago
If they added coffee shops in libraries and made it a more social place I would be so there. I go to coffee shops or Barnes & Noble for the atmosphere. People humming around me, having their conversations, laughing with their friends, r
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by fmora 16y ago
I do this from time to time, i.e. camp out at a barnes & noble bookstore for more than 6 hours. Once I was even there around 9 hours. Don't really care for wifi but I do need the power plugs. However, if they were to remove that then I
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by fmora 16y ago
All humans have on average the same intelligence. Why do you assume that there will be a few who will be able to keep up with the pace of retraining oneself. In many poor countries the reason they stay poor has to do with cultural differenc
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by fmora 16y ago
Some of us are aware of this. But it becomes less important if you are stuck in your apartment for a weekend coding and not seeing anybody. You have to take a bath in the morning when going to the office. You will smell otherwise.
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by fmora 16y ago
You do know that coffee causes you to pee more often? Lookup it up in wikipedia. If you drink a lot of coffee those liquids are going to be sent straight to your blader. That is what causes dehydration. Same for caffeinated soda.
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by fmora 16y ago
As I started reading the first paragraphs the thing that kept popping in my mind was Java. It almost seemed like they were describing java. Specially the part about garbage collection, although they did not named it garbage collection. They
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by fmora 16y ago
True, your first job may cost you a bit more work to get. Once you get past that challenge it pretty much disappears forever.

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