jahooma

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by jahooma 10y ago
Actually income inequality was highest in agricultural times (higher than today), and hit its bottom in 60s or 70s for the US/UK, well after industrialization. Life expectancy and health inequality is near all-time lows right now. Info
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by jahooma 12y ago
August 17, assuming Bernard would have said something different if he knew Albert's first comment was impossible.
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by jahooma 12y ago
Notice how the lone medical expert represented was skeptical of the findings. That's because among serious psychologists and those who study genetics, the view advocated here is pretty much exactly wrong : your childhood experiences h
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by jahooma 12y ago
Careful. It's dangerous to dismiss ideas based on intuitive feelings rather than evidence-based analysis. Consider nuclear power. If we had scrapped developing it because it sounded dangerous with the argument: "What. Could. Possi
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by jahooma 12y ago
Well, there's only one truth. It's perfectly plausible that one set of ideas (conservative ideas) could be less scientific than another set (liberal ideas). However, ideology can influence us, since we are not perfect at science.
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by jahooma 12y ago
Interesting idea, but I doubt it can work. There's no incentive to bid after $20, once the novelty has worn off.
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by jahooma 12y ago
The common sentiment has been that self-driving cars are just around the corner. The reality is quite different. The remaining problems to solve such as navigating the elements or obeying construction signs or interacting properly with pede
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by jahooma 12y ago
Interesting. Solar-powered roads is an appealing concept. However, one has to wonder whether it is efficient enough to be worth doing. Are roads really the best place to collect sunlight at scale? Current solar farms are set up in specific
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by jahooma 13y ago
But how could it be any other way? Isn't it an inherent gamble to develop drugs since most of the drug-creation attempts are bound to fail? You could just pay researchers to "try" to come up with drugs, regardless of whether
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by jahooma 13y ago
Hmm, that was pretty one-sided. The author fails to acknowledge any of the good consequences of typescript. Adding static typing, classes, modules, enums, shorter anonymous method syntax, default arguments, etc. etc. make a world of differe