Kaveren

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by Kaveren 7y ago
why do you think MENSA members are representative of people with high IQs in general? obviously you cannot extrapolate from them. there's a reason that accomplished people who would obviously get a high IQ score don't join, becaus
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by Kaveren 7y ago
IQ isn't BS as much as you may wish it to be. I don't know why people feel the need to deny science just so everyone can be on a more level playing field. it's comforting rhetoric but not supported by the evidence.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
funny you say that because growth mindset seems to be one of the clearest examples of modern feel-good science. invariably when a topic about intelligence gets posted we need someone to come around with an IQ around the 140 mark (I have no
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Criticism is fine, nobody has to be happy with the decisions Facebook makes, and are welcome to loudly and aggressively voice their opinions. Suggesting legal measures against Facebook, "perhaps we need not only a separation of church
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by Kaveren 7y ago
I don't know why that expression is being taken literally. Obviously if you make terroristic threats to the US government you're going to be in trouble no matter where you post. Obviously the context is given by the original submi
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by Kaveren 7y ago
if you want a social network where you can say whatever you want without interference go use gab or 4chan. it's facebook's choice whether or not they want to do this. edit: "whatever you want" supposed to be figure of sp
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by Kaveren 7y ago
It's such a sheltered attitude I see on HN where people talk about just ignoring the news, when you know that you don't have to worry about anything bad happening to you. It's a civic responsibility in a democracy to be infor
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by Kaveren 7y ago
It's a bit of a black box, but how do you get around this? Is it a matter of domain age? IP trustworthiness? Or do a lot of people have to categorize it as "Not spam" first?
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Are you using IPv6 or IPv4 to send the emails? DigitalOcean apparently blocks port 25 outbound IPv6 access because whole ranges are getting blocked.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
They will not literally die but they will not be healthy at all, many of them will likely live less than non-vegans. It is a dangerous lifestyle motivated by poor reasoning.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
I can't understand how people enjoy this fake food. It just can't match the original taste. This sort of food is extremely unhealthy, and vegans will never be able to get the protein they need to survive. We should not encourage t
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by Kaveren 7y ago
no, though that may constitute fraud depending on the jurisdiction. this is why some VPNs are based in certain countries, such as ProtonVPN in Switzerland. obviously they have to comply with a valid legal request, but depending on the data
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Maybe gets doesn't need to be banned because it got removed in C11 and at least gcc issues a warning on use.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Cars don't change how humans run. Computer chess does change how humans play. While yes, the interesting part is watching humans play humans, the concern is that computers will influence players, be it in chess or competitive videogame
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by Kaveren 7y ago
A new study of 5,000 students shows no material impact from growth mindset. [0] It's just feel good science. [0] https://www.tes.com/news/exclusive-growth-mindset-lessons-ha...
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by Kaveren 7y ago
I don't expect attempts at solutions like these to be brought up, and I don't think a session like this is necessary to bring forward an attempt like that. What can the owner of 8chan provide as useful information about this? The
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by Kaveren 7y ago
> "The bill could create a bipartisan commission of experts tasked with drawing up recommendations to deal with the "intersection of homeland security and social media," a committee spokesperson told The Hill." This i
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by Kaveren 7y ago
And yet there are so many more people who came from as fortunate or more fortunate means, including those who went into mathematics, but are not as talented as them. Michael Phelps is not just a product of luck, either. You could train your
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by Kaveren 7y ago
I don't know how you can possibly believe this. Do you really believe that Terry Tao got lucky, and just worked way harder than everyone else? Same can be applied to business executives.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
It is completely possible to be worth 1,000x more than the average worker in your company. Just because many (if not most) CEOs don't deserve this doesn't at all, does not mean that you can definitively say that nobody does. Reall
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by Kaveren 7y ago
when I say that it should be taken to mean "you don't (and are not entitled to)". there are a few bad actors who are persistent and tools like shadow banning are very helpful with that, saying that socialism is awful isn&#x27
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by Kaveren 7y ago
you don't have a right not to be shadow banned. it's the best solution to many problems with trolls who will keep coming back on new accounts, with new IP addresses and so on. it's really hard to get shadow banned most places
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Political discussion happens all the time on Hacker News, but you don't see many mass shooters from HN. Culture of the online communities matters a lot (and moderation). I don't think chans create gunmen per se, but they assist to
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by Kaveren 7y ago
Political *chan culture drives mass shootings in the first place by radicalizing antisocial people more. You'd likely have fewer mass shootings you'd need early warning about in the first place.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
The source of the mental health issues caused by social media is toxicity, competition for status, and false perceptions of how good other people's lives are. I don't believe stopping people from seeing more by clicking a continue
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by Kaveren 7y ago
This is from the same man who blames human trafficking on the sexual revolution. [0] Conservatives hate Big Tech because of liberal bias (real or perceived). It's simply another unnecessary authoritarian measure. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by Kaveren 7y ago
A lot of that can likely be attributed to increased public awareness of the dangers of smoking.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
And this will solve it how? All it does is create the awful user experience of having to manually tap continue. If, instead, the law prevented scrolling past a certain limit (which would be very stupid indeed, but this is just a hypothetica
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by Kaveren 7y ago
That's not because of infinite scrolling and autoplay.
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by Kaveren 7y ago
I dislike when people use adages like these (___'s law). They rarely add anything to the conversation and I think a lot of confirmation bias is involved. Moore's Law is an exception to this because it's actually falsifiable a

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