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by hodwik2 10y ago
Thomas, I would love to get some insight on OS choice from someone so well respected in the security community, and maybe a short mention of why OpenBSD's security laurels may not be well deserved.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
How does that sentence acknowledge income inequality as a problem? It just acknowledges it exists, it doesn't make any claim about whether or not it is a problem.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
No, this work was done by the London based CEPR -- which is a bipartisan bank-funded research group for economists, not the leftist CEPR out of Washington, DC. They are completely unrelated. And the research drew this back to Government hea
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I've worked with a lot of linux distros. I'm a Fedora person myself, but enjoyed Debian and Gentoo also. For Slackware heads, why should I look at Slackware?
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by hodwik2 10y ago
If you're going to learn another language, learn something from a different programming paradigm, or one which is lower level. Learning Ruby would be an absolute waste of time. This isn't a hip or cool answer, but I'd suggest
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by hodwik2 10y ago
If you had spent a small amount of time and energy propping up the general sentiment that your rock collection was the next big thing, yet had bountiful positive results in the the rock hype cycle, and the rock hype cycle regularly paid out
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I believe they did indeed sell at a huge discount. Valuing all of Urbit at only 12m seems like a low ball.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Granted, I may not understand it at all, I only really started reading about it a few hours ago, but here it goes: It's a decentralized internet, where your computer is the server, and it communicates directly with other computers by c
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Yours is fun, in that it's more free-form, but HIBP seems to cover more ground.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Monarchism is a sort of leftism. It's still about having the state own and manage industry, rather than spreading its ownership out among many people. In the end, leftism always ends up looking like Monarchism anyway, to go to your &#
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by hodwik2 10y ago
It's unclear how reminding us that Socialist Fascists locked up Socialist Democrats is proof that Nazis were somehow secretly Libertarians. The Nazis nationalized industry. They're Socialists, on the left.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
It's really heartbreaking. As a person who was raised very leftist, and only became a conservative (to the consternation of all friends and family) in my 20's, I really don't know how to talk someone out of the left's bu
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by hodwik2 10y ago
>" there are plenty of people too busy trying to get the next meal than to do anything else." Incredible that they have on average 6 hours per day to watch television, given how busy you say they are.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
There are arguments that you'd need to create a computer capable of doing "infinite" precision real computation to recreate this effect.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Strange, when I hit that link before there was a paywall. Must've hit it indirectly or something.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Agreed. I wish I better understood how a PR firm manages to place an article that is so clearly an advertisement, like this, with such a major news outlet, without it setting off the editor's spidey-sense.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Yes, there are correlations between genetics and IQ. There are undoubtedly hereditary factors which will effect nurture, which will subsequently effect IQ. That is not synonymous with IQ being hereditary. For example, there are hereditary f
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I would argue that it is dangerous to hold an idea just because it 'feels' right. I'm on the not heritable side because I think that's what the science will show, given my understanding of how complex systems work. It wo
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Why would we assume the software is identical across humans? My point is that the software is NOT identical. It's where intelligence comes from, as opposed to the hardware.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
>"Intelligence is produced by the brain" Depends what you mean by produced. If you mean it happens in the brain, then the following would also be true: - I prefer Strawberry ice cream. Preferences happen in the brain, which i
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I was inspired heavily by some chapters in the book "Intellectuals and Race" by Libertarian theorist Thomas Sowell. You can hear him talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ImP-gJvas
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by hodwik2 10y ago
A few things on torsio dystonia. One, Torsion Dystonia could just as easily be effecting something else which effects IQ. Two, the studies on Torsion Dystonia decided to only study people who were not showing symptoms. This means they were
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by hodwik2 10y ago
>"But not IQ? What's the exception?" I don't think intelligence, outside of unusual situations, is a physical characteristic. So I'm not sure how to answer your question.
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by hodwik2 10y ago
The change in the brains from early protohumans to homo was a change of kind not quantity . We evolved new mental apparatuses. On the other hand, from homo habilis/erectus to human, I do not believe there was a drastic change in kin
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by hodwik2 10y ago
>"Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies." No, correlations between traits can be measured in twin studies, but they do not prove a causal link. In the realm of intelligence, it could be (and I would argue) that
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I do not believe IQ is heritable -- racially, or otherwise . Full stop. Intelligence is, by my estimation, entirely a function of nurture, not nature. Those exceptions are in situations where it is lacking due to handicap. Which is to sa
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by hodwik2 10y ago
Of course. It's something like 3% of Syrian refuges, for example. No population is uniform. But if we were talking casually about, say, Hong Kong, and I said the Hong Kong-ese speak Cantonese, would you complain because some percentage
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I've not made any arguments that we are pre-disposed, as a race, to these traits. I made no mention of the heritability of these traits. Describing my comment as racism is a complete nonsequitor. My comment was on the state of the pred
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by hodwik2 10y ago
There is something to be said for having been born (and as a result, raised) in a post-Enlightenment society. Migrants from pre-Englightenment societies almost always raise the general crime levels, take value that they didn't earn, an
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by hodwik2 10y ago
It, in no unclear terms, says that you can limit free exercise, so long as you live up to two pretty low standards: -------- "b. Government may substantially burden a person's exercise of religion only if it demonstrates that ap

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