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by bugsy 15y ago
"girls don't find sitting in front of a computer alone all that interesting" To be honest, the nature of the work is that most time working is spent in solitude. It's the same if you write novels or compose operas. Do we also say that writi
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by bugsy 15y ago
Good comment. Great point about sabbaticals. It's a pity that when I read your good comments and the one above it, both had been downvoted into the grey. Many newcomers here at HN don't seem to understand that downvoting here is not meant t
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by bugsy 15y ago
That is a very interesting point you make about assumptions being applied to "both" genders. In particular, that advertising competition is considered to be a way to attract manly men to a tech startup. Is this really the best approach? Sur
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by bugsy 15y ago
That's all fine but doesn't go far enough, focusing only on contrast problems (related problems to contrast are using shadow engraving style on small fonts and clashing foreground/background color schemes). A really big problem on many site
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by bugsy 15y ago
Thanks for digging that up, that is a good source. Combined with spindrift's reference he dug up from 2010 ( http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/verbal-vs-mat... ), they show a much fuller and more accurate picture than I portray
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by bugsy 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, it's a reasonable concern. That is indeed the US Attorney's argument. Just to clarify, it is not necessary to be on a recognized archeological site to be illegal, intending to collect artifacts on federal land
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by bugsy 15y ago
Some random thoughts that come to mind. 1. Philosophy is worth studying for many different reasons. 2. It is known that Philosophy majors have higher IQs and SAT/ACT scores than students in any other specialty. 3. Philosophy graduates make
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by bugsy 15y ago
People love to bring up 4chan as an example to this discussion every time, and yet there is no one on 4chan who has not freely chosen to be there. All this "know who you are talking to in order to have a friendly community" stuff is nonsens
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by bugsy 15y ago
I hope you read more of the article than the first paragraph and realized they were not at an archeological site and did not steal any arrowheads, they were merely looking for them as a father and son hobby. No arrowheads were found, but th
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by bugsy 15y ago
In your drawing, I think it should be where the blue and green scatters are completely overlapping, that would be more like the actual data. They would be completely separate scatter plots if it was comparing something like humans to algae
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by bugsy 15y ago
I just try to read the papers with these articles. I'm not up to date with the racial arguments you mention. I know there was something of an obsession 50-100 years ago with trying to establish a scientific basis to justify racism, imperial
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by bugsy 15y ago
You are correct, I apologize for the mistake.
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by bugsy 15y ago
> "Neandertal chromosome segments found in all tested non-african populations, and some tested african populations"? Yes, your more accurate statement is correct. > "It seems the distinction might be no neandertal genes found in sub
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by bugsy 15y ago
The headline is not slightly off, it is completely inaccurate because the hack "journalist" at Discover didn't read the paper. It is not true at all that "All Non-Africans Part Neandertal". On average world wide, they found a Neandertal chr
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by bugsy 15y ago
That is not what "genetics confirm". I wish people at yellow journalism pseudoscience rag "Discover" would read the darn paper before spouting off on it. The actual study found that Neanderthal DNA is present in a small percentage (not all)
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by bugsy 15y ago
Matt, Lady Ada is not allowed to use the artistic pen name she goes by, but Lady Gaga is able to use her artistic pen name. I have a feeling the same will apply to Madonna. Clearly there are two standards in play. Certain people are "big" e
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by bugsy 15y ago
I agree and I don't limit it to online, but real life as well. The idea that a person's identity is something to be granted, approved of, regulated or controlled by corporations and governments is outrageous, offensive, and to be resisted w
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by bugsy 15y ago
This is not really a security issue, it's an anti-spam issue.
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by bugsy 15y ago
155.000 million Americans are on Facebook. 139.334 million Americans are employed (June 2011). http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm
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by bugsy 15y ago
The context suggests it is a copyright violation issue. Most of the excerpts were ones that were already plagiarized and reproducing them is fair use in the context. The only excerpt that wasn't was the student who lied about illness in his
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by bugsy 15y ago
It has been on the same disk since Tiger 10.4 was released on DVD. Your statement is true for the CD installer sets that came with 2002's release of Jaguar 10.2 and the CD version of Panther 10.3. Sounds like it may have been a while since
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by bugsy 15y ago
All of which were public domain court documents, it should be noted.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Absolutely. This is not the only situation where expert testimony comes from professional witnesses who make a living supporting various hypothesis using confidently proclaimed but deeply flawed tools and analysis methods that the "expert"
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by bugsy 15y ago
Many people still think she is guilty. It was a shared computer and her mother testified that she had done one search on chloroform. The prosecution countered that there were 84 searches, so the rest had to have been done by the daughter. B
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by bugsy 15y ago
This is the second coordinated propaganda article this week claiming that the economic collapse is to be blamed on software engineers and inventors. Don't be fooled. The lack of decent paying manufacturing jobs in the US is because of the l
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by bugsy 15y ago
OK, it says they filed a lawsuit against Google because they didn't want Google to LINK to their articles without paying a fee for linking. They won the lawsuit in court and so Google removed links to their articles from their search index,
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by bugsy 15y ago
The article's analysis is severely flawed, and I suspect intentionally so. It tries to lay the blame on inventors, innovation and technology workers for the unemployment of unskilled workers. We don't have enough manufacturing jobs in the c
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by bugsy 15y ago
Huh. This is a pretty incoherent design concept.
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by bugsy 15y ago
The basic problem here is that 250GB per person is not sustainable with the current networks, nor is it sustainable at rates people are willing to pay for access. Cloud and other services that depend on enormous bandwidth costs to be absorb
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by bugsy 15y ago
Got some error messages, then a stalled page. If this is the future of the web, we are doomed.

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