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by araneae 16y ago
Ironically, I find myself self-censoring with a fake identity in HN more than in real life. A few comments ago, I posted something (which netted me total, about -40 points) that I wouldn't have hesitated to say IRL. And I also posted it un
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by araneae 16y ago
Speaking of webforms, how would you treat a webform that has a variable number of fields? The non-js way I've seen this treated is to have like 5 fields and then reload the page if they want more (i.e. multiple files uploads), but it seems
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by araneae 16y ago
If I were going to go through all that effort, I would just contact the person who I was actually interested in. Instead of passively looking at their profile and hoping they would notice and contact me.
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by araneae 16y ago
Meh, the design is fine to me. But then, I am also design-challenged. So far... I love it! This might actually tempt me to try to write a book.
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by araneae 16y ago
This is also an opt-in feature of OKCupid. I personally opted out, because people's whose profile I viewed but didn't contact are exactly the people I don't want contacting me- which they could do if they saw my profile name/info. Namely,
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by araneae 16y ago
Really? Are we arguing about this? The males in all mammal species are better at physical tasks. It's called testosterone. It allows you to build more muscle mass. If women take it, they also build more muscle mass. So do female bunny r
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by araneae 16y ago
Tangent: I always thought state sanctioned lotteries were highly immoral. Sure, they want the tax revenue, but poor people are disproportionately the victims of what feels like fraud. The people believe that have a chance at winning what
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by araneae 16y ago
Anecdotal evidence. You are simply on the low end of the bell curve for men. Endurance is simply how long you can use your muscles before they give out; it's not independent of how much muscle you have. If you are very weak, you will have
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by araneae 16y ago
Sure, selection bias matters. I never said OKcupid was statistically valid. In fact, in my second comment I disparaged it.
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by araneae 16y ago
Right, but there's still a sex difference. So you're saying women lack attention to detail?
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by araneae 16y ago
Yes, but if you couldn't become erect from thinking about any women ever, or seeing a picture of any women ever naked, you could be unlikely to ever try having sex with one in the absence of social pressure. It's a negative filter, not a p
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by araneae 16y ago
It's an individual fact, certainly, but it has greater implications for a person's understanding of the world. A professor I knew in college taught a non-majors general biology class, and every semester he put this question on- order accor
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by araneae 16y ago
>Why is it important to you whether or not women are dumber than men? Wouldn't you want to know if you carry within you an inherent deficit or advantage? I do. That's why I got my genome sequenced. Now I know my risk of colorectal ca
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by araneae 16y ago
...and that's the fastest I've ever accumulated downvotes. Come on guys, I didn't say that women are dumber than men. I just said that this is the single most convincing piece evidence for that. Doesn't say much for the existing evidence
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by araneae 16y ago
Or that attraction is more straight-forward with men. I.e. step a, look down: Is your penis erect? Women might be more likely to experiment because they don't have that instant visual cue.
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by araneae 16y ago
Wow, lesbians are more everything ... except into sports. Huh.
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by araneae 16y ago
If there was ever a convincing argument that women are dumber than men, this is it.
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by araneae 16y ago
Yeah, I learned my lesson from randomly putting high numbers in there :(
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Does Google see the driverless car as a lucrative "fourth screen"?(newscientist.com)
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by araneae 16y ago
Ha! I didn't get my degree in engineering, but most of my friends did and this describes many classes they took in their field. Especially applied engineering physics. I had two friends in AEP that were problem set partners, and they sp
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not that self-learning can't be good. It's just that it has no intrinsic trial-by-fire, so there's no way to tell the good from the bad, outright. If you took a class, then you got a grade. If you were in a job, then you had the pote
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by araneae 16y ago
It's not exactly surprising. I remember a similar study done on men and women IT employees, and they were also similar; similarly disinterested in social interaction (the one trait I remember distinctly.) The women who end up being entrepr
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by araneae 16y ago
Cool! I remember building one of these in school, except we used Matlab and an infrared emitting led and an infrared detector.
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by araneae 16y ago
It's true that richer countries tend to have less pollution, but it's false to say it's the result of the free market. The U.S. has strict government-mandated emission controls. I know that in car emissions the U.S. was actually the leade
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by araneae 16y ago
Personally the global warming thing kind of fries my brain. I'm an ecologist by training, but there are so many papers there that it's impossible for me to make a good decision about it. On a scientific level, I find myself screwed. I'm in
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by araneae 16y ago
Agreed. If you have a husband with a job, you don't have to starve to death. Starting a start-up is safer . Theoretically if you're a man with a wife with a job, you can do the same thing... except there are a lot fewer wives that are wi
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by araneae 16y ago
Oh, whatever. a) He didn't use the funding for this study. b) Science papers aren't opinion articles. Nowhere in the study did he say that the virus and the fungus are exclusively the cause of the epidemic. If you got that impression, tha
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by araneae 16y ago
Well, if it hadn't been for this app, I would have never learned about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Kretschmar whose name was only released in 2007. I wouldn't have known his name, or that he died at 6 months. Or that his own par
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by araneae 16y ago
Yeah, but it's kind of cheating because it goes through "louse" which is the singular of lice.
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by araneae 16y ago
Over-react much? Also, what is the point of this statement: "I put in Dalai Lama and there's a separation of 3." Are you complaining that it's a short connection? I mean, obviously, this is simply demonstrating the small world effect, whi

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