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Workers say they're more productive away from office(techflash.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Recycling is bullshit even if you do try to reduce waste as much as possible. (In fact, there's a TV show called Bullshit that did an episode on recycling.) Not all of it, but enough of it to be pretty heartbreaking. Recycling metals ma
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You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game (wired.com)
6 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Synchronicity(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Should governments vaccinate computers the same way they vaccinate children?(newscientist.com)
7 points by araneae 17y ago|13 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
Web log, March 10th. Today I have become 29kyu. I still lose to my sensei with 13 handicap stones, despite the fact that these are tutoring games. May God have mercy on my soul.
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by araneae 17y ago
Not to freak you out or anything, but that may not work out as planned. I have a good friend who had an Associate's in CS from a community college, and got into the Cornell School of Engineering. He flunked out, applied to get back in, fl
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Why Computer Engineer Barbie Is Good for Women in Tech(mashable.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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Low Tolerance for Pain May Be Genetic(wired.com)
1 points by araneae 17y ago|0 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
So you're saying that László and Klara were poor genetic material? This kind of anecdotal evidence means nothing. Undoubtedly these girls had great genes, in addition to being trained quite well. If both G and E are high, the product of t
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by araneae 17y ago
Agreed. GxE is certainly better then G+E, but that doesn't mean there's a genius in all of us. I see this kind of response to progress in science all the time. If you change the way you conceive of a problem, like genes and environment, p
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by araneae 17y ago
I personally like the grumpy naysayers of HN. For instance, I like myself. And it's nice that you care, but dude, it's text on a page stored on a server somewhere. It's not like I punched your mother.
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by araneae 17y ago
The point of my comment, which was perhaps too subtle, is that I don't see how meaningless trite words like these could have any effect on an intelligent person. Does this disqualify me for human-hood? At no point did I imply that I can ta
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Federal pay ahead of private industry(usatoday.com)
8 points by araneae 17y ago|2 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
I must be a robot then. -_-
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by araneae 17y ago
I'm really tired of seeing this stuff. Now granted, this one is from a 12 year old, so it's no surprise that it's just a bunch of trite self-help nonsense. But I've been seeing a lot of this "believe in yourself!" "work hard and you'll be s
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by araneae 17y ago
Like most posts, the commentary reflects the content and tone of the article itself. He starts off by saying the reason he doesn't like Japan is he doesn't like anime. How high brow did you think the responses would be? Many of his complai
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by araneae 17y ago
You missed the point. The grandmother hypothesis doesn't contradict what I said at all. If you wanted to model evolutionary processes, you only stick in the reproductives, because they're the ones that will be producing more copies of thei
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by araneae 17y ago
First of all, honey bees are an exception to Fisher's principle. Secondly, your reasoning is more generally completely irrelevant. What you said was analogous to this: Children can kill their mothers in childbirth, so obviously kids before
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by araneae 17y ago
Ask girls about their experiences in all girls schools and ask them if they'd like to experience that for the rest of their lives. It's unlikely that killing off all men and then cloning the remaining females is a viable solution to world
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by araneae 17y ago
Exactly. The only individuals relevant to evolutionary processes are those that reach reproductive age.
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by araneae 17y ago
If we wait long enough, this problem will fix itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_principle Too bad evolution is so slow.
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by araneae 17y ago
There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in your post. It's obvious that you think that the reason that men have been the head of wars is innate, biological determinism. Yet men have also been the ones who developed science and technology.
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by araneae 17y ago
If he's trying to sell his start-up, then maybe he should pick a different name (and even then, it really wouldn't bother me) But he hasn't got a link in his profile, nor is he self-posting, so why should he care what message he's sending?
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The Black Damsel In Dating Distress: A Response to OkCupid's Conclusions(theatlantic.com)
102 points by araneae 17y ago|123 comments
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by araneae 17y ago
A major problem with this graph is that it mixes data from substance-deficient groups with data from normal groups, despite claiming that it shows benefits when taken by "an adult with a healthy diet." For instance, the data on creatine fou
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by araneae 17y ago
If you prefer to see the chart with that already on there, use this version: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/snake-o...
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by araneae 17y ago
Only got as far as rule number 1, remembered that I'm a masochist, and ctrl w.
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by araneae 17y ago
If you don't give two hoots, why are are so defensive? Calm down, woman.
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by araneae 17y ago
I ctrl+ my browser to reduce eyestrain, and I have an x61 which has a 12.1" screen. But that's no reason to be snarky.

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