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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Interesting you should mention people talking about stuff they know nothing about. You are one of them.
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
You think technologists have the market cornered in Entrepreneurship? Last time I checked the Dutch East India Company existed before you were learning front end development. No tech company in history would be able to go public without an
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Do you have anything to suggest it is not? Numerous agree natural talent is a myth http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid... http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/1974-06238-001 ht
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
It's not common at all. 99.99999% of humans possess no physical "gifts" at all. Anyone can train to become world class at almost any sport barring those we have placed arbitrary systems in place. The same is true for maths,
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Not quite. You are focussing on 1 in 6 Billion type athletes and discounting the 99.9999%. The Olympics is not full of Usain Bolts. It is professional athletes AND Usain Bolt. Unless you think none of the other 100metre runners are profe
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
You think being a child or Growing old is the same as genetic advantage? Why would industry experience of IT automatically result in monetary reward? Your argument is straying way way beyond anything to do with the original comment. Focuss
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
You sound like a teenage girl throwing a tantrum. Am I supposed to care you "done" with me?
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
...is your theory that only non-anonymous persons are allowed to disagree? I am not anonymous - you never asked me my name.
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Why not? Human beings can be taught to think mathematically through practice. Language learning is practice.
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Over a suitably finite series a person with more practice will beat someone with less practice. In actual fact, studies have been done whereby sports athletes with greater levels of practice were asked to play less accomplished opponents wh
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
I imagine statements like yours are why Google has the user base it does. [Sscene. PM_Tech has phoned his truck driver father] "*Yes Dad; just build a simple installer to get an email address. An email address...it's like a phon
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
You are appealing to emotion. Elite athletes are already outliers within the human race however within athletics there are extreme outliers like Bolt and Phelps who have astronomically rare genetic advantages. To be representative they nee
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Excuse my ignorance - how is your email not going through a third party system the minute you email someone? Are you emailing yourself on a self hosted, air-gapped system? If you email me for instance, Google has your email shrug .
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Again, you are misunderstanding - encapsulated with the statement you wrote; " In a highly competitive sport, you need both talent... " There is no such thing as talent. This is where our arguments are diverging. Disproving talen
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
You need to read the book, you disagreeing with the hypothesis with nothing to back up your assertions other than your opinion. Do you think human beings with super quick reflexes exist? That does not stand up to scientific scrutiny. I f
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
That is a poor example for you to choose. Stephen Fry is completely and utterly right. The Supreme Court also think so [1] as does the Rational Wiki [2] and Salman Rushdie [3]. Fry has expressed a sentiment that a great deal of thinkers
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
I am not disagreeing - in every sport there is going to be an outlier. We are referring to the majority. Although to be fair, the stories of Rupeni Caucau are anecdotal. Contrast with the weightlifter and actor Carl Weathers who maintaine
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
That is a silly example to the point that it is hard to relate to my original comment. 100metres has a bias towards fast people? What does that mean? I wager if two males born on the same day on opposite ends of the earth trained 8 hours p
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Don't try and bring reason to the Gladwell-bashing. Great post though.
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
It's not challenged by reality at all, you are just misunderstanding it (probably because you have not read the book and probably because of my terrible simplification). You keep referring to talent. Which does not exist, has never be
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
...how does that change the OP's position?
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Exactly this. Basketball sits in a quasi-unique category because it rewards height immediately with very few ways to neutralise that. The point that Syed is making is not Play A of X height and Player B of Y height are equal. He reports
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Why does the precursor "as a rule..." change anything? I have not increased the drama at all. Someone posted a totally hyperbolic statement. I called them on it. It was upvoted numerous times I suspect because a consensus agr
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Why would they adopt a US-centric practice? In all likelihood it would be more suitable for the USA to adopt FIFA conventions. FIFA tournaments are astronomically more popular worldwide than any US sports. Even the USA-Portugal game had h
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
It appears that the hostility stems from a deep misunderstanding of football, the current UX and why it evolved the way it has. You can hardly blame the community for reacting harshly when presented with a product they never asked for claim
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
Why is it ridiculous to take your statements as you say them? I am at a loss. Your hyperbole continues with " He draws conclusions and makes cases from these things, in a way that is, frankly, not justified. " So nothing that Gl
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
That's strange considered he published a semi-famous essay taking grammar and language pedants to task. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/11/04/dont-mind-your-language... How does your link make Fry out to
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
...this seems like a needlessly low attack on the man. Why do you perceive him to be as dumb as a bag of hammers? A respected actor, comedian and presenter he has also authored a number of novels and several non-fiction works and graduated
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
I am wary of anyone who makes blanket statements like " anything Malcolm Gladwell says is bullshit. " You simulataneously discount his entire canon of work and also every single underlying scientific paper he has quoted, cited or
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by PM_Tech 12y ago
It's hardly Gladwell's rule. He just happened to be a writer who popularised it.

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