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by ckuehne 13y ago
Well, I was going to add "EDIT: Or are you just being sarcastic?". Twice. But I didn't. After all, it's Hacker News.
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by ckuehne 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum
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by ckuehne 13y ago
What exactly do you think "makes no sense"? That two groups could evolve different traits over time? If so, how would you explain differences in skin color between West Africans and Northern Europeans? Or differences in lactose to
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by ckuehne 13y ago
"This is perhaps more easily understood when you know that the Jewish culture places enormous focus on educating the next generation and on critical thinking" Or maybe it is even better understood in terms of genetic differences:
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by ckuehne 13y ago
None of the results in this article warrants the conclusion in the title. The fact that "children from affluent families were starting to speak after implant surgery, those from low-income families lagged behind." can simply be ex
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by ckuehne 13y ago
"In medieval Europe, an oath of fealty (German: Lehnseid) was a fundamental element of the feudal system in the Holy Roman Empire. It was sworn between two people, the obliged person (vassal) and a person of rank (liege lord)." h
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Filling a Search Engine Blind Spot(technologyreview.com)
1 points by ckuehne 13y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 13y ago
Not that I am aware of. But it is safe to assume that no one doubts the effectiveness of emergency care or most basic procedures in general. However, everything beyond that is likely on average not helpful and might be even harmful.
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by ckuehne 13y ago
The overall result, namely, that at the margin medicine has net-negative effects (i.e., after a certain point more medicine equals worse health) has been replicated many times. See for example this meta-study from 2008 about what happens wh
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You Can't Teach Speed: Falsifying the Deliberate Practice Model of Expertise(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by ckuehne 13y ago|1 comments
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by ckuehne 13y ago
"Flights are much safer due to the amount of research done in air-travel safety, in general, and also after every accident." Yes, of course. But why? Why is the amount of safety research so much higher after a plane crashes compar
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by ckuehne 13y ago
I think you are confused what skin in the game means. Pilotes and startup founders are among the professions with most skin in the game. If they crash their plane/company they die/go brankrupt (or at least lose time and money) wit
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Mammogram’s Role as Savior Is Tested(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by ckuehne 13y ago|0 comments
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5 habits of highly motivated novelists (Rescuetime experiment)(blog.rescuetime.com)
2 points by ckuehne 14y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 14y ago
Arguing over sentences with the qualifier 'not mere' seems pointless [1]. Lets just say instead that I addressed the "hidden" implication of the statement. The quote continues: "The limits within which the preservation and self-expansion of
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by ckuehne 14y ago
Since the standard of living for the 'society of producers' has risen by a good measure since the time 'someone' said that, I guess 'someone' has been proven wrong by a good measure.
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by ckuehne 14y ago
Is there a way to read up on the things taught in the workshop in particular on the more applied/practical material?
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Patents on Software: A Nobel Laureate’s View(nytimes.com)
109 points by ckuehne 14y ago|52 comments
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Work Less to Work Better: Experiments with Shutdown Routines(calnewport.com)
4 points by ckuehne 14y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 14y ago
"It would be great if someone who is a researcher in this field could give us some more recent results and data." There you go: Reef winners and losers in a warmer world: http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/news/JCU_099903
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Reef winners and losers in a warmer world(www-public.jcu.edu.au)
1 points by ckuehne 14y ago|0 comments
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The Samwer Brothers Find Global Internet Success(spiegel.de)
2 points by ckuehne 14y ago|0 comments
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A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity(nytimes.com)
101 points by ckuehne 14y ago|92 comments
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by ckuehne 14y ago
Thinking about it, it comes down to the level of analysis you choose. If you assume constant space per integer, then it is indeed solvable with O(1) additional space. For example, this is usually assumed when analyzing sorting algorithms an
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by ckuehne 14y ago
I very much doubt that the OP can solve either problem 1 or problem 2 with constant space. Hint: even storing an additional integer N requires \Omega(log(N)) space. Edit: For the down voter: I searched around and found a discussion of the p
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by ckuehne 15y ago
An opinion by Nassim Taleb on the subject (posted on his facebook page): "I have been told by conference organizers and other rationalistic, empirically challenged fellows that one needs to be clear, deliver a crisp message, maybe even danc
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by ckuehne 15y ago
"there are already names for people who do that." Honest question: What name is that? (English is not my first language.) And since I cannot quite interpret the tone of your comment I have to ask bluntly: Do you find it okay what the Samwer
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John Nash's Letter to the NSA(agtb.wordpress.com)
296 points by ckuehne 15y ago|28 comments
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Why so Much (Management) Consulting?(overcomingbias.com)
4 points by ckuehne 15y ago|0 comments
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by ckuehne 15y ago
Tichy is right. Devaluation - if at all - works only in the short run [1]. http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2012/01/should-greece-deva...

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