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by SiVal 13y ago
And yet there is a high and repeatable correlation among all those tests indicating that they are all proxies for some real "thing". Call it by whatever name you like--g, intelligence, IQ, whatever--but there is a real "thing
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by SiVal 13y ago
The Stanford and Berkeley admissions offices have basic lists of races and seem to think that they can determine the race of their applicants well enough that there is some justification for their race-based admissions policy. Are you claim
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by SiVal 13y ago
So any justification for race-based admissions and government minority preferences programs is coming to an end, you'd say?
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by SiVal 13y ago
"Outside the ability of science to test"? Nothing has been so thoroughly tested throughout the the world as IQ, and the measurements of climate data don't come close to IQ differences in terms of predictability. Whatever fuzz
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by SiVal 13y ago
Ask any admissions officer at any elite university for the list he uses when defending the need for race-based admissions policy. Ask him what racial categories his major, world-class scientific research institution has chosen to put on the
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by SiVal 13y ago
Currently popular ideas are not the result of a historical meme ratchet, whereby ideas have only been replaced by better ideas. A cursory knowledge of history provides ample evidence that bad ideas have often reemerged and become the orthod
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by SiVal 13y ago
The older I get, the more interested I am in the thoughts of people from another time. I discovered long ago that there is far less continuity of wisdom than young people realize. There is a common assumption among young people that the bes
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by SiVal 13y ago
If you find someone who has built a bipedal war machine, you should ask them. In the meantime, these machines were designed for disaster recovery. The author of the article is imagining what an army of them would look like on a battlefield
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by SiVal 13y ago
Many years ago, before the creation of the Web, a small group of us used to meet at a little wooden church just off the Stanford campus to discuss a little-known idea called nanotechnology. Eric Drexler, Ralph Merkle, a couple of Stanford p
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by SiVal 13y ago
At the time this talk was given, I was reading Neuromancer as an ebook. I never read it on paper, only as a commercial ebook. It was implemented as a HyperCard stack on a 3.5" floppy published by Voyager. It was packaged in a glossy ca
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, see my comment elsewhere on this page. I've done it more than once, and it always worked like a charm. Desperate people will try to get on top of you if you are floating; they'll drop you if you are dragging them under. I&#x2
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by SiVal 13y ago
I used to teach scuba, and people would occasionally freak out and grab me as if they were trying to drown me. I wasn't too concerned about my own safety in those cases, because years of play in the ocean had taught me not to panic whe
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by SiVal 13y ago
In high school, a friend of mine decided to kill himself. He wanted a painless, certain, instant death, so he drove down the freeway at 80mph, aimed his car at a giant (utterly immovable) concrete overpass piling and prepared to die. As soo
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by SiVal 13y ago
I wish you the best, too, along with Aaron. I've occasionally asked other people what they thought the worst problem in the world was. Nobody has ever answered with my answer: that all of our loved ones are going to die. The utter inev
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by SiVal 13y ago
Is the TrackPoint (eraserhead) pointer well supported by Linux? I hope the answer is yes. If so, which flavor of Linux?
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by SiVal 13y ago
Read Jobs's biography (or talk to any of us who worked with him) and decide for yourself 1) whose personal decisions were behind the actions of Apple down to a "micromanaged" level of detail, and 2) whether that guy was bette
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by SiVal 13y ago
Obama's administration had just begun officially condemning China for their relentless cyberattacks in statements made by senior officials. Obama himself was a few days away from a meeting with the Chinese premier in which he was signa
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by SiVal 13y ago
If you are amused at what autocorrect does for writing, imagine the hilarity of economic decisions based on "smart" spreadsheets.
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by SiVal 13y ago
I appreciate your making the effort to help. Unfortunately, as you suspected, it's not an option on OSX.
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by SiVal 13y ago
Yes, I'm quite sure. On OS X, I can get real full screen with Chrome, and I can get it with Firefox if the website itself initiates it. But the "full screen" in the View menu removes half of the chrome and leaves the other half. Useless. It
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by SiVal 13y ago
The fullscreen API works fine. A website can display itself without any other clutter on the screen (with user permission). Unfortunately, it is no longer possible for a user on Mac OS X to cause the switch to fullscreen. The view menu (F
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'd like Firefox to give me back the ability to choose "full screen" and have it make the web page itself fill the screen from corner to corner, with no "chrome" (no title bar, no tabs, no menu bar, no URL bar, etc.) It used to be possible
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by SiVal 13y ago
I'm willing to give the HN commenter above the benefit of the doubt that he/she might just be parroting something picked up on campus, but I agree with you that this claim has been part of leftist propaganda for decades.
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by SiVal 13y ago
Here's the opinion of the leader of the US military at the time Yes, later Leahy apparently said, "It is my opinion," not, "At the time we all believed" ["that the Japanese were defeated and ready to surrender...."] I'm willing to believe
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by SiVal 13y ago
I use a Firefox extension called "NoSquint" on my Retina MacBook Pro and set the default page size to 140%, saving me the trouble of hitting cmd-+ a couple of times each time I go to a new website. That seems to result in a roughly balanced
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by SiVal 13y ago
No, you were clear, and I seem to be thinking the same way your are. Mine was a more general comment on the common observation that Go is pulling more people away from Python than away from C. App developers who don't need the bit-by-bit cu
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by SiVal 13y ago
After living outside the US for many years, I now play the "invisible man game" even in the US. I've taught it to my kids, too. The rules are: you imagine that you are literally invisible and find a way to cross the road that doesn't rely o
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by SiVal 13y ago
When app(lication)s meant desktop apps, most of us used C as an app dev language. Over the years, the platform changed and most app developers switched to Java and C# and, more recently, to Python and Ruby. Those who still use C these days
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by SiVal 13y ago
Is there an estimated time of arrival for 4.8.2 yet?
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by SiVal 13y ago
Imagine you have a population that is NOT normally distributed. Take a large sample of it, and calculate the mean of your sample. Then take another large sample of that population and calculate its mean. Keep doing this. Think of each sampl

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