hugh3

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1. 3811.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   Are you still complaining that you don't know why you're getting downmodded?
2. 3812.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   What we have is a situation where both parties behaved imperfectly. Since it was the outside guy who made the whiny woe-is-me-I'm-a-victim blog post about it, it's everybody's instinct to point out what he did to deserve it. On the other
3. 3813.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   Unless it's actually, say, rape. In which case by all means bypass HR and go to the police. Though you should probably report it to HR as well.
4. 3814.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   What does that have to do with the intelligence/nocturnality link mentioned, though?
5. 3815.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   I'm not sure the grandparent ever claimed there was an evolutionary advantage to religion. Humans do many things "naturally" which were never really selected for. Stubbing our toes, becoming alcoholic, dying during childbirth... these are t
6. 3816.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   e.g. between children with well-educated and less-educated parents Well surely we should expect a genuine difference in intelligence between children of well-educated and less-educated parents? At least under the assumptions: a) Intellige
7. 3817.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   I'm not sure I buy your distinction between "natural superstitions" and "religion". Can you go into more detail about why, for instance, the quite elaborate mythologies of the various Australian Aboriginal tribes don't count as religions?
8. 3818.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   In the current study, Kanazawa argues that humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends, and being liberal, caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers they ne
9. 3819.▲
   by hugh3 16y ago

   If there are that many people working late how can there not be a silent peer pressure to do so?
10. 3820.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    I think many of these arguments are just about the confusion between an in-the-system and out-of-the-system perspective. Suppose I say "Joe Bloggs shouldn't be President". You could reply "Who are you to say that? We have a democratic syste
11. 3821.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    VIII? That's not a word, it's a number. Or, more accurately, it's a representation of a number using characters which happen to be letters of the alphabet.
12. 3822.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    And my comment was related to earl's 2nd sentence. The one right before my reply. And Earl's second sentence, read properly, also points out that paedophilia is orthogonal to homosexuality. He was proving that A is not a proper subset o
13. 3823.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    I'm not surprised. I can imagine that many of those engineers cooped up in the googleplex for the vast majority of their waking hours, not leaving for lunch, not leaving for dinner, might kinda start to forget how to interact with women alt
14. 3824.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    I don't think being a fan of the iPhone doesn't mean you can't also be a fan of Android; they're not mutually exclusive (I have an Xbox and a Wii). Well heck, so do I, but I wouldn't call myself a "fan" of either. Actually I try not to be
15. 3825.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Does it matter if it was an acquisition? I assume they acquired most of the engineers with it, so it's a partial answer to "what the hell are all those engineers doing?"
16. 3826.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Okay, but apart from Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, AJAX, Google Earth, YouTube, Google Scholar, Google Calculator, Google Apps, Blogger, Google App Engine, Google Voice, Google Code, AdWords, Google.org, Google Video, Froogle, iGoogl
17. 3827.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    In which case, let he who has never said he'll do something by a certain date and then forgotten to do it cast the first stone. It ain't me.
18. 3828.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    If you’re not logged in for a few hours and stuff passes through the pipes then it’s gone. This is why I only follow enough people to fill up my the front page of my feed once every day or so. I understand that some people use twitter in
19. 3829.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Even so, what did he expect was going to happen by CCing Steve Jobs? Did he think Steve was going to come thundering down to the engineer's office wanting to know why he hadn't replied to that guy's previous email? Realistically, I'd say th
20. 3830.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    If anything, I got the impression that the Apple Manager was stalling (or maybe he really was ill and it really took him 10 days - from May 4 to May 14 - to "get back on his feet") Or else he's just a busy guy with a lot on his plate apar
21. 3831.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Then they keep going right back to develop and improve apple products. Why keep going back? Sunk cost? By the time you've mastered the intricacies of Objective C and a gazillion NextStep toolbox calls (or whatever they're called nowadays)
22. 3832.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    It would have been better if they'd let him know when they'd decided not to, though. It seems like they kept him hanging for a couple of weeks after saying "Sure, we'll send you a login so you can access our full database".
23. 3833.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Uhh, no it isn't?
24. 3834.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    shrug I'll take that bet too!
25. 3835.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Americans sometimes insensitively change foreign terms (e.g., "Beijing" becomes "Peking"; "Torino" becomes "Turin"). For what it's worth, Peking and Turin were both fixed in the English language long before there was an America. And if th
26. 3836.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    For what it's worth, I saw an Australian stand-up comic once making fun of American English in which all insects are referred to as "bugs". (Australian English tends to reserve the word "bug" for beetles.) It was funnier in context, trust m
27. 3837.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Perhaps, but then again so is "Become an Eagle Scout" vs "be a loser your whole life".
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    by hugh3 16y ago

    What if your strategy in life is to pursue whatever arbitrary goal is placed in front of you by some authority figure despite the complete lack of tangible rewards for doing so? This sounds less like a recipe for producing a successful and
29. 3839.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Personally, I'm willing to bet anyone a billion dollars that we won't have hyperinflation in the next ten years.
30. 3840.▲
    by hugh3 16y ago

    Flagged since fake == complete waste of time in this particular case.