ellyagg

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by ellyagg 17y ago
Uh, what? Your parent essentially complained that US immigration, institutionally, favors low quality immigrants over high quality. It's hard to fathom how you don't consider this an example of that.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Nevertheless. One issue is that the US probably has a much higher segment of the population that's at least a standard deviation below average in IQ than European nations do. I'd love to see Finland work with our IQ distribution. Low IQ dem
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Riiight. You were in such danger of being voted down when you came out against software patents on Hacker News. I don't like software patents or RMS; can't there be a sane middle ground?
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Why is adding a property to a function "pollution"? Functions are objects and the sooner you learn it, the better. My objects have properties for whatever I need them to. I don't feel bad that I can define objects without tons of boilerplat
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by ellyagg 17y ago
This just in! 1935 twitter didn't work out.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Awesome. Another challenger in a market that doesn't exist.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
I don't trust a scientist who's "usually fuming inside". People who fume inside are people who are already pretty sure they're right about everything, which is not an appropriate disposition for a scholar.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
You sound critical. Is black culture in America a success? The basic approach to reverse a bad culture is to take its saplings and replant them. Academics don't like this for one reason or another, maybe it seems too easy, but hey, crazy th
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Texas has fewer students than California, but spends the same absolute amount, so your argument doesn't apply.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
The most unintentionally (?) funny thing I've read in awhile: "...The call center rep had ordered the flowers without checking with a supervisor and billed them to the company. 'At the funeral, the widow told her friends and family about th
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Speaking only for myself as a US citizen, I'm proud of the fact that the US has led the world in per capita income the last few decades. For a country our size to consistently be number 1 or near the top (depending on who's doing the analys
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Your tone almost makes it sound like you disagree with me, even though my comment agrees with yours. I'm well aware of the research that shows that people who believe effort is more important than talent are more successful than those who t
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Yep, and my point stands. No amount of effort allows you to start, say, github.com if you don't also have skill. Now, you can say that you can acquire skill from effort, and that's certainly true, but someone else who puts in the same effor
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Right. A weak team that presses a strong team in college will lose by a devastating amount.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
It's best to tell yourself that the precious resource is effort, but in truth, you need skill and effort.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
While that obviously happens, I personally very much doubt that explains the difference. Evolutionary rationales are far more compelling to me. Even childhood conditioning/environment is more compelling. To the extent it is true, or at leas
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by ellyagg 17y ago
There is absolutely scads of research showing that boys and girls are different from day 1. Boy and girl infants react differently to the same stimuli in controlled experiments. I'm not doing your research for you, though; look it up.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Haha. You must be missing a ton of cool extensions. My startup time is like 10 seconds. I could certainly work hard to bring it down, but who cares? I never turn off emacs or my computer.
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by ellyagg 17y ago
> This is what Thanissaro Bhikkhu, a renowned Buddhist meditation teacher, calls "getting the body into position." "In order to do a sit-up, lie flat on your back with your knees at a 45 degree angle. This is what Jane Fonda calls 'gett
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Actually, it's not really the specific enhancement that makes it a good example of the power of open source, but the fact that this is possible at all. It's not as if there aren't plenty of other features that could be added using this same
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by ellyagg 17y ago
Folks around here are always on alert for abuses of all stripes, real and imagined. It's part of the charm.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
The corruptive power of accusing those with whom you disagree about public policy of being intellectually dishonest should not be underestimated.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Considering it's the basis behind science and pretty much all analytical thought, can we please stop pretending making generalizations (yes, even big ones) is a bad thing? This generalization was interesting and contains a large degree of
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by ellyagg 18y ago
I'm always on the lookout for that sort of thing too, but I don't think you're right here. I get annoyed when people say "ellyagg likes to program" because it's dismissive, like I'm some strange creature who finds the task of putting vario
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Well, you listed several prominent sociologists and stuff they claimed. That doesn't in any way, shape, or form prove that their claims are true or even based on falsifiable hypotheses and experimentation like the sciences we trust, i.e., p
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Yes, government was much smaller at the time of the Industrial Revolution, at least in the US. The federal budget, as a share of the GDP, was 3% right before FDR. Now it's some giant, horrible amount I don't even want to say out loud. Given
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by ellyagg 18y ago
But, see, you claim it would harm a great many other people. We claim, on balance, it will help many more people than it hurts. Down with guilds!
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Then it sounds like he's not following the rules very well.
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by ellyagg 18y ago
If you're a startup, be careful not to accept the sneaky certitude of randfish's opening paragraph uncritically. #9: I've installed Google sitemaps on many, many client sites and have never gained anything as a result. I believe Google site
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by ellyagg 18y ago
Yes, this happens in many industries, but what he's saying is that Google probably doesn't take the same precautions that other industries do/are forced to.

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