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by ellyagg 15y ago
Turkheimer by no means represents a consensus view in genetic research. Moreover, I find some of his positions to be quite at odds with my view of what scientific philosophy should be. For example, he believes that the study of race and IQ
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Every time this study or one like it is trotted out, it drives me nuts. What a society should be looking for is freedom of mobility, not arbitrary mobility. According to an article on NPR that was linked but then deleted here a minute ago
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's a little hilarious to want to make sure an article about TC and Arrington isn't biased. If what he says here is true--and I'm certainly inclined to believe it given the flagrantly enjoyed conflicts of interest, lawsuits borne from shad
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Yes. The sections I feel expert on or had direct experience with beforehand were well done. For example, in the chapter on gaining muscle, I was thinking, "I bet he doesn't know about the GOMAD diet." On my hard-gainer frame and with my har
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by ellyagg 15y ago
The Aka represent sex roles that have underlying characteristics familiar to all cultures. Some culture in the world must have the most objectively nurturing fathers, and the Aka happen to be it. But, it's the poorer in their society that a
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Whenever I read one of these TC articles claiming that apparent conflicts of interest are laughable, I'm amazed, mainly because I accept the claim for a couple of paragraphs before I blink several times and wonder, what on earth am I think
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Reread the comment you responded to: It was not suggesting this is the new official Linux repo, as that was already addressed in grandparent's comment. The question under discussion was what linus would do with a pull request on github, so
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I'm atheist, but I always find this claim silly and self-serving to judgmental atheists/anti-religion folks. The religious mumbo jumbo is a rationalization. This man is sick and broken. People aren't made perfect and occasionally some of us
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by ellyagg 15y ago
The debate over whether your complaint is valid could seriously span volumes. Frankly, if you truly respected Steve Job's contributions and simultaneously found his personal life of zero interest, I would find that extremely odd. Most, prob
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I try not to pay attention to articles about Apple here, because it really does bring out some strong emotions. Logic goes out the window and everything reads like a love sonnet written by a retarded monkey. It's stressful and unfun. Love
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Apple's going to be fine. One half of Apple is execution. I believe that Jobs has infused the company with a culture based on his favored principles, and it's reasonable to think this culture is sticky. The other half of Apple is big stra
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Since Jobs returned to Apple, he's directed a sharp and rapid rise in the value of the company, including launches of several separate high visibility and impact product lines. But you already know this. Your claim is a lot like saying Mich
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's simple if you think about it. Making rectangles with rounded corners takes work. You have to go out of your way. That so many craftsman, engineers, etc. did so is suggestive. Moreover, looking at a lot of rounded rectangles will have t
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's sad that this sour grapes is the highest voted comment on the story. Just to reduce the sentiment to its most absurd, should Obama stay inside the White House for his whole term? Would it ever be appropriate for him to fly to another c
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Well, then you object to more than just the section head, right? Because he didn't suggest anywhere that he approved of short, focused, tiny meetings. As far as I can tell, he meant precisely what he said in the title.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I can assure you there are correlation/causation issues with those stats. I come from a demographic and gene pool of people likely to hold degrees--aside from me everyone in my 6 person family has at least a bachelors and my girlfriend has
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by ellyagg 15y ago
As you know, it's easy to get backslapped on pro-Google hn by dissing Gruber, but why not just respond to his analysis instead. Gruber seems to be right an awful lot for someone so casually vilified. For example, he took a lot of flack here
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by ellyagg 15y ago
If you read the story carefully and completely, you'll note that he agrees that this very well may have been the right move, but right relative to the weak position that he has been arguing Google was in. He's by no means being inconsistent
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Undeserved traction? Isn't Apple performing outrageously well with consumers and as a company? Were they not the largest capitalized company in the world at one point recently? If Apple were not being reported on here heavily (and positivel
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Yep. It's the story of the teacher who divided his class into two groups: One would be graded on how many pots they crafted and the other on the quality of a single pot over the course. The students from the first group also had the finest
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Actually, statistical significance has a definition. Not to be snide, but you should look it up before commenting.
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I'm pretty sure MrHobbes was just waiting to jump on someone for that. Although Apple doesn't have $76 billion in "cash and cash equivalents", it's not as if those extra assets are suddenly rendered valueless because they're harder to conve
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I, too, thought that the job losses were permanent. Until there was an article posted here the other week with quotes in news outlets from several different eras since the industrial revolution claiming the same thing. Plenty of reasonable
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by ellyagg 15y ago
I've never encountered a community as poor at cost/benefits analysis as computer security. You see it every time when some new "irresponsible" loophole is gleefully broadcast by some smug cracker. There are far, FAR more economical and effi
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by ellyagg 15y ago
President John Tyler has a living grandson: http://www.who2.com/blog/2009/03/wait-john-tylers-grandson-i...
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by ellyagg 15y ago
The criticisms leveled here against this article are a bit more conservative than the ones you seemed to be hinting at and which were made in comments you supported in the other thread. The author having more details than seems plausible is
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by ellyagg 15y ago
It's funny that your parent is downvoted below zero when he's absolutely right. I don't use IRC very much, but the last time I did, I wanted to use the name I'd registered with previously. Unfortunately, Pidgin kept telling me my name was a
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by ellyagg 15y ago
While I greatly sympathized with her plight originally, I do note that she is somewhat disingenuous in her post today. For example, she quotes AirBnB as saying someone is in custody and then says local officials have not contacted her sayin
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by ellyagg 15y ago
> I am very amazed, but in many ways not surprised, at just how different the reaction has been in Norway as compared to 9/11 in the US and 7/7 in the UK. I'm sorry, what? Given the context of your statement, this sounds awfully like a
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by ellyagg 15y ago
Of course, if it were really about their problems with "racist" immigration laws, many countries in Europe have stronger and more strictly enforced immigration policies.

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