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by alach11 7y ago
> [IQ] rigorously shows how well you will do on IQ tests. That's a real useful metric, now isn't it? Surely IQ is measuring something useful if it correlates so well with things like job performance, school performance, income,
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by alach11 7y ago
Normally this happens in the opposite direction. Complex hydrocarbons are broken down by heat and time into lighter and gassier hydrocarbons.
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by alach11 7y ago
Here's an interesting medical case where an unconscious man was admitted to the ER with a tattoo reading "Do Not Resuscitate" and the hospital staff was faced with the decision of whether to honor it. https://www.h
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by alach11 7y ago
> Previous studies demonstrating high heritability of IQ did not discriminate between genetic inheritance and social/cultural/environmental inheritance. This simply isn't true. Studies of twins not raised together provide
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by alach11 7y ago
> The insurance company has already done the sums. It is a bad deal for you. This is true if you are an average person. If you know yourself to be a higher-risk, it could be a good deal.
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by alach11 7y ago
Humans still reign supreme (for now) at games which emphasize a heavy strategic component with a very large search space. For example, the OpenAI Five can only beat humans at DOTA with a very restricted scope (restricted champions and items
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by alach11 7y ago
It may be common for workers in some businesses to be exposed to smoke machines on a daily basis.
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by alach11 7y ago
Those pictures are heavily edited. When I visited Papakōlea several years ago, the sand had a green tint but looked more like this picture: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/natural-w...
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by alach11 7y ago
To me it sounded like olooney was arguing a third option: 3. Google will fail to achieve cold fusion but possibly get some patents which will make them money, but do little to advance overall scientific progress towards economic fusion.
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I would guess Working As Intended.
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by alach11 8y ago
It would be challenging for the developers to make sure 3rd party skins were balanced for competitive play.
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by alach11 8y ago
>In practice, my stance is becoming increasingly moot, as more of my official solutions get uploaded to places like CourseHero and Koofers and their many foreign-language equivalents. I've found that whether or not a professor rele
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by alach11 8y ago
Good journalism costs money.
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by alach11 8y ago
I'm a petroleum engineer and I think this is a really interesting idea. What effect do you think this might have on the O&G industry? I'm guessing it would force companies to raise wages to attract employees, hurting their bot
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by alach11 8y ago
I work in the O&G industry and I think this is backwards. You're far more likely to see conventional wells be choked back or shut-in during price drops. That is what we saw in the recent oil price drop. With unconventional wells (h
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by alach11 8y ago
In the short term a carbon tax would do the trick. In the long term technological breakthroughs in renewable technology will hopefully bring the cost down.
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by alach11 8y ago
Things aren't so bleak as you think. I work in O&G and there are huge amounts of "swing production" in the form of new wells which may be drilled or not drilled, depending on the price of oil and gas. If the price for ene
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by alach11 8y ago
My 27 year-old girlfriend just took a swim class at the YMCA. In her class of 7, one other person was older than her while the rest were in their teens. She's way more comfortable in the water now and can swim the length of the pool an
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by alach11 8y ago
Popular games like Dota 2, Fortnite, and League of Legends are free to play but charge for in-game cosmetic changes.
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by alach11 8y ago
I can't comment on Japanese, but broken Spanish can be confusing (to me) due to verb conjugations. Conjugations are also a major sticking point for new learners of the language since they have a big impact on meaning but can be hard to
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by alach11 8y ago
For reasons I don't understand, they didn't test the driver.
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As a point of reference, I drive a 2009 Kia Optima and average $1800 per year all-in expenses. This is with no car payment (it's paid off), only liability insurance, normal maintenance (including occasional large expenses), and ~10,000
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by alach11 9y ago
"passwords are now conveniently save in google servers in plain text" Do you have a citation for this?