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by averagewall 9y ago
Most(all?) types of intelligence are positively correlated. So if you have a natural ability at one of those things, then you're more likely to be high in the others too. Even something as simple as reaction time is correlated with IQ.
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by averagewall 9y ago
But we know it's either on the bottom or the surface right? It needs to use power to balance in the middle somewhere.
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by averagewall 9y ago
Not false - we have limited capacity to care about people so we have to make tradeoffs. If anything, just because of the time it takes up. More people die each day than we could even name if that was our full time job. That's not even
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by averagewall 9y ago
The example he chose to show how bad they were makes them look fairly reasonable. So perhaps his judgment was clouded. That example was that Muslims who follow the koran are terrorists. The koran does actually advise people to kill quite a
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by averagewall 9y ago
Democrats use drones to kill innocent or presumed-guilty people in other countries. Are you sure their lives don't matter compared to net neutrality? They're also responsible for harsh sentences for drug offences which is a major
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by averagewall 9y ago
For those of you who feel sad for strangers that you never knew existed until now, why not direct your feelings to something productive like looking through local obituaries and contacting their survivors to show some support and kindness?
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by averagewall 9y ago
That's a meaningless statistic on its own. Does it shorten 5.4% of people's lives by 5 minutes each? or does it kill 5.4% of people while they're children? The reality will be somewhere between those extremes but the number a
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by averagewall 9y ago
Did you really mean that? Do you think people who are susceptible to manipulation need to be protected by Google, not for their own good but because they can be manipulated to have political opinions that you personally disagree with? That
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by averagewall 9y ago
Replace "Russian government" with the name of any news organization and your claim is (still) true. So your conclusion is based on the presupposition that the Russian government has such incredibly bad things to say that all the w
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by averagewall 9y ago
Why do most/all electric and hybrid cars have regenerative braking while ICE cars don't? It's because, as the GP said, the battery would be quickly topped up and extra energy wasted. Only electric vehicles doing frequent stop
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by averagewall 9y ago
How would you make the decision that right now is the time to kill yourself? If future you can't wait one more day, then why didn't he do it yesterday? I think there would be a general decline in life quality but with ups and down
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by averagewall 9y ago
No-one seems to be accusing him of an actual crime. It sounds like his victims/partners willingly carried him on their backs or did workouts together or took their shirts off. It sounds very similar to what many pairs opposite sex peop
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by averagewall 9y ago
Sutter says "part of a routine destruction of old paper records" If that's true, they can be required to show evidence of the rest of this routine and how it was possible for the mistake to happen. Apparently they havn't
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by averagewall 9y ago
I've tried smashing a windscreen with a hammer. The first few blows didn't do anything at all. All windscreens are very strong.
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by averagewall 9y ago
This alleged photo shows no cover over the wheels. You can probably just not use it if you don't like it. http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a12771645/t...
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by averagewall 9y ago
Oh no, they're doing what all the other carmakers do and reuse the same name for completely different cars whose only thing in common is to target the same market segment. We'll have to call this the 2020 Roadster.
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by averagewall 9y ago
Per GDP dollar? That scales with population so you're basically saying bigger countries emit more CO2. You cherry picked a way of measuring it that makes it look bad but hides the underlying cause that's not bad - lots of people.
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by averagewall 9y ago
If you want to exclude racism from private groups of friends, then you'd better exclude gossip too. It's also harmful in much the same way - reinforcing people's negative views of others so they'll subconsciously or del
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by averagewall 9y ago
Importantly, in China, the biggest Android market, none of the phones access the Play store, so that entire country will be omitted from the data. I'll bet they're not getting updates either.
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by averagewall 9y ago
You're implying that people are too stupid to know what they want so we have to prevent politicians from advertising to them because they'll be fooled. That's very arrogant. The idea of democracy is people get whatever they w
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by averagewall 9y ago
The conclusion that energy is more fundamental or easier to have an intuition for has been the case since, what 100 years ago? It certainly was when I studied physics 20 years ago. But he doesn't need to go into quarks for that. Simply
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by averagewall 9y ago
Also the reason for eV and mole units, and Fortran. Not to mention the whole imperial unit system. Adults can't be bothered changing their ways and since they have the power, they make the next generation do the hard work of keeping up
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by averagewall 9y ago
In China, your signature usually has to be legible. I've got funny looks in the bank for apparently scribbling all over the signature field.
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by averagewall 9y ago
It's depressing that popular sentiment on HN is generally in agreement with "X should be banned in case it corrupts the minds of gullible people". Whether X is fake news, political speech they don't agree with, computer
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by averagewall 9y ago
Already addressed in this other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=turc1656 It seems like HN comment pages might have a critical mass beyond which it's impractical to see if somebody's already said w
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by averagewall 9y ago
That's still ambiguous. Safest to use ISO format 2017-10-04. Nobody will be confused and it's the national standard for some countries. I never realised how obscure the US date format is [1]. Nobody should be using that on the int
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by averagewall 9y ago
Parked cars are susceptible to the same type of accident, so if we worry about that, we're setting too high a standard for the driverless car
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by averagewall 9y ago
Perhaps it can't scale up enough to make automation economical because the customers have to be located nearby. You might make enough of a particular dish to satisfy the whole neighborhood in your delivery radius but still be too small
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by averagewall 9y ago
> as long as he can save enough to pay for his kids' education That sounds like a good thing but there's another story on HN where commenters are complaining that it's bad! Rich bankers paying for their kids' educatio
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by averagewall 9y ago
I think it's a bit like being an artist or athlete. The pool of people who enjoy it is enormous compared to the demand. I personally know many people who enjoy cooking, playing music, and playing sport but nobody who would pay those pe

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