tman

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by tman 16y ago
Other than blaming illegal immigrants (a dubious politically motivated response) Reference? I'd like to see what percentage of California's population is the result of post-1960's immigration, the total tax input from this segment and the
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by tman 16y ago
I have the feeling you're not a programmer. An algorithm that generates the optimal solution for a given configuration is trivial. Do a breadth-first search of the results of each move until you get to a solved cube. Ta da, you're done! Now
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by tman 16y ago
a1 = 10^10 a2 = a1^a1 ... a_n = a_(n-1)^a_(n-1) My number is a_(a_(10^10))
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by tman 16y ago
Did you Google for the DOJ stats I mentioned? Regardless, here's what we know: 1) Blacks commit on the order of 10x the violent crime of non-Hispanic whites and Asians in the US. This is well documented. 2) Africa has tremendous murder rate
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by tman 16y ago
Case of exaggeration for comedic effect.
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by tman 16y ago
Sure, in America there are at least three independent lines of evidence for the 10x figures. DOJ arrest rates, DOJ violent crime victim surveys, and simply by looking at the race of murder victims (50% are black -- most murder in the US see
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by tman 16y ago
The blog post gives the example of how more distractable old people can outperform less distractable young people on a specially contrived mental test. Similarly, if you put a bunch of junk for someone to trip over on the way to the bathroo
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by tman 16y ago
Other than linking to culture and cognition... Maybe I am still misreading, what did you mean by "The answer to that one is pretty straightforward, well known, and easy to understand. And it has little to nothing to do with race. America is
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by tman 16y ago
You've obviously thought very hard about all this. But you do know that blacks commit a lot more crime (~ 10x) everywhere, not just America? The answer has everything to do with race. Most people on HN belong to another ~ 10x crime group. W
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by tman 16y ago
There's a little bit of that on HN. Not more than other places. HN is certainly not "Digg." On the other hand, if you attack the big SWPL shibboleths (human neurological uniformity, homosexuality as mirror-heterosexuality), you tend to get
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by tman 16y ago
FUD FUD FUD. What an awful summary. There is an efuse and they refer to it in the statement: "the technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from functioning, but rather ensuring for the user that the device
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by tman 16y ago
That sounds like a recipe for population replacement. Historically a wonderfully bad idea. Why are Canadians (like whites everywhere) not having children? It strikes me that we should answer that question before replacing them by population
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by tman 16y ago
The importance of APM always struck me as evidence of misguided design in Starcraft/Starcraft II. It takes emphasis off the parts I find fun (the strategy), and puts it on the parts of the game that aren't interesting at all: micromanagemen
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by tman 16y ago
Xz appears to use the same algorithm as 7zip. Here are some comparisons between the big 3 compression algorithms (taken from http://blogs.reucon.com/srt/tags/compression/ -- he used a 163 MB Mysql dump file for the tests): Compressor
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by tman 16y ago
Oh really? I don't think you know what you mean. In point of fact, I just sent myself a very important password in clear text. Hack me.
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by tman 16y ago
The perfect is the enemy of the good. There is a trade-off here between security and usability. 99% security is good enough for a lot of purposes and has its place.
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by tman 16y ago
Posterous really does fail here. I can see why they would want to tolerate a little of this to preserve ease of use for their users (just like Amazon with their Kindle email address). However, there are a number of steps that Posterous can
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by tman 16y ago
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/cxx0x_status.html : "Status of Experimental C++0x Support in GCC 4.5" Last month's release of 4.5.0 is stable, but the C++0x support is experimental.
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by tman 16y ago
Where functional programming in C++ falls apart is this step: bind(std::plus<int>(), _1, bind(&Die::faceValue, _2)) When I first learned the STL, I worked pretty hard to figure out bind, etc., and get rid of all my for lo
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by tman 16y ago
Absolutely right. That's actually what I was thinking. It should be built into the OS. Same for adblock in IE (too late for that, maybe). And there needs to be serious backup software built into every version of Windows (not just the premiu
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by tman 16y ago
Microsoft Security Essentials is free now, works at least as well as the other anti-virus programs, and doesn't get in your face about it. If Microsoft had released it in 1999 instead of 2009, they wouldn't have Apple and Google nipping at
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by tman 16y ago
"Second, it may provide a credential that employers want, not because it represents actual skills, but because it's a weeding tool that doesn't produce civil-rights suits as, say, IQ tests might." 4 years out of a young person's life when a
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by tman 16y ago
1. Open -- We're the freetards now. Booyah. 2. Full Web -- You don't really want Flash. 3. R,S,P -- Flash is some buggy shit. 4. Battery -- Forcing you not to use Flash saves your batteries! Aren't we nice? 5. Touch -- Multi-touch fail. We
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by tman 16y ago
What? I think you meant to reply to someone else. Re-read my posts and find any statement where I suggested any behavioral differences and backed it up by anecdotal evidence.
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by tman 16y ago
I've never seen someone straightforward enough to say that they'd rather be polite than logical. I think that sufficiently sharpens the contradictions.
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by tman 16y ago
I don't think that convicted felons, baristi, or garbage men are great choices for adoption either. The first, obviously, the second two because we can afford to have high standards. We can afford to insist on college degrees and middle-cla
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by tman 16y ago
Before I reply, I'd like to find out what you mean by that statement. Do you mean, "Let us be willfully blind and refuse to engage our senses, not recognizing any differences between homosexuals and heterosexuals despite large behavioral di
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by tman 16y ago
While mirror image thinking about gays is fun (they're just heterosexuals with a bit flip), it's not all that realist . Before we get to adoption, lets analyze an easier statement: Gays shouldn't be allowed to become Catholic priests. What
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by tman 16y ago
Very few films are "art". Who's the video game equivalent of Kubrick or Kurosawa or Bergman? Penny Arcade's comment on this is wonderfully wrong: "If a hundred artists create art for five years, how could the result not be art?" Interesting
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by tman 16y ago
Unfortunate that this is one part of the C++0x g++ project that has yet to get serious. (At least the last time I checked out the g++ experimental code a few months ago.) C++0x lambdas are the one thing that I've been wanting to try out for

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