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by safek 9y ago
Since it's certainly possible that blacks have genetically higher IQs than whites but are environmentally made to underperform, isn't that all the more egregious? Wouldn't that be an important, uplifting thing to know? Why no
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by safek 9y ago
The canonical reply here is that while it's true IQ tests a narrow range of abilities, (a) it's highly predictive of various facets of success in life, and (b) "specialists" are relatively rare, in that intelligence tend
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by safek 9y ago
They concede that IQ (a) exists, (b) predicts many life outcomes, (c) differs between groups, and (d) is partly heritable. If an alien at this point were presented with these premises, does anyone suppose its natural conclusion would be, &q
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by safek 9y ago
Fair enough.
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by safek 9y ago
You are possibly right to be frustrated about gender problems, but your suggestion — that in the fight for gender equality it's ok to construct a double standard for men and women — is mistaken. If you want to fix gender inequality, fi
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by safek 9y ago
The assumption that a woman is not capable of holding that opinion is sexist.
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by safek 9y ago
The strange thing is that the same comment has been used in support of gender equality. In Iceland, where every board must have at least 40% representation for each gender, they interviewed some female CEOs, who said something like, &quot
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by safek 9y ago
Sorry. I wrote it impulsively and thoughtlessly.
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by safek 9y ago
Have you considered using a Chromebook? It costs $150 and runs Ubuntu.
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by safek 9y ago
Holy shit are you the dude who was on Shark Tank? That episode was hilarious hahahaha
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by safek 9y ago
Link is down.
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by safek 9y ago
> Do not ever even attempt a big-bang rewrite Really? Are there no circumstances under which this would be appropriate? It seems to me this makes assumptions about the baseline quality of the existing codebase. Surely sometimes buying a
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Ask HN: Can we display comment scores after threads are closed for posting?
9 points by safek 9y ago|0 comments
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Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences [pdf](ucl.ac.uk)
3 points by safek 9y ago|0 comments
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by safek 9y ago
That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language.
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by safek 9y ago
On the other hand, how many languages do you know where arrays are passed by value?
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The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct: A Sokal-Style Hoax on Gender Studies(skeptic.com)
13 points by safek 9y ago|3 comments
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Generating video of talking face using still image of face and audio(arxiv.org)
1 points by safek 9y ago|0 comments
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by safek 9y ago
That's the fallacy GP is anticipating and parodying.
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by safek 9y ago
I wish people would drop the theatrics when writing these. Here's the same article rewritten without loss of substance: --- I looked into blockchain technologies carefully and I’ve ended up thinking it’s an overpromoted niche
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by safek 9y ago
Yeah, on a personal note, I do actually wish I had more time for my own stuff. And I'm not so sure I could get up to 90 again these days :) But the point is, even if working 90 hour weeks was a stupid thing to do, for better or worse i
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by safek 9y ago
I can't get into too much detail, but I didn't rewrite it just because I was a stubborn stickler. At one point it became impossible to read our code and explain the logic of our asynchronous workflow, which was spread out over and
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by safek 9y ago
What if I secretly kept coding at home?
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by safek 9y ago
That's funny, but the pay gap is about how much people receive in compensation, not the net amount that goes into sustaining their existence.
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by safek 9y ago
Wait, but it wasn't like they forced me. In fact the founder openly talked about the importance of work-life balance. Believe it or not, I actually wanted to do it. (As for why I'd be so masochistic, I'm weird in that I actua
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by safek 9y ago
This actually borders on being a rather comical point. People in prison have an income of zero. So if we're going to arrive at 0.77 by dividing one average by another, I for one would like to know, is the prison population being includ
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by safek 9y ago
So, people sometimes suggest deemphasizing long hours as a solution to the wage gap. I once worked at a startup where we'd established product-market fit, and all our problems boiled down to tech debt. The codebase simply needed to be
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by safek 9y ago
Hm, yeah, good point. I'm not sure how much we know. Maybe you're right and we really don't know enough to make those distinctions.
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by safek 9y ago
I'm guessing that where I'm maybe communicating this badly is in the word "real." I don't mean to suggest that people whose problems don't meet some arbitrary criteria shouldn't be taken seriously. And I c
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by safek 9y ago
Fair enough on the first two points. That makes sense. > How so? Far more often, people tell others that their problems are non-problems in an attempt to shut them up, not to help them. What actual value comes from attempting to precise

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