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by jlos 6y ago
Toy developers long ago found sharp angles and pointy extrusions appeal to a hunter instinct, in constrast to soft and round features which appeal to a nuturing instinct. On average, young boys prefer predatory traits and young girls prefer
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Ask HN: How to Predict Salary Growth as a Grad?
2 points by jlos 6y ago|0 comments
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by jlos 6y ago
>> I sincerely feel bad for people who have to stay in it This seems a really sheltered perspective without a real idea of the kinda struggles that exist for a lot of other careers. Not unlike some doctor/lawyer/scientist&#x
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by jlos 6y ago
This thread is exactly why it will never change - you'll never get consensus which time to choose. I don't care which we pick, I just don't want to flip my (and my kids) schedule every 6 months
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by jlos 6y ago
The historical averages for winters in my part of Canada has been rising for the past century, which I can only say I'm glad about. However, some provinces, like Alberta, have already had increased insurance prices due to the more dras
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by jlos 6y ago
Kapernick made a political statement as his place of work. He made a calculated risk to his career for the sake of his convictions. Choosing to take a stand strikes me as different than being pressured and judged for not taking one. As a no
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by jlos 6y ago
I think you just proved the parent post's point.
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by jlos 6y ago
>> It's basically a sign that you've retired/don't have anything that important left to contribute other than steady-state levels of productivity. That's a pretty blinkered perspective. For the large majority
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by jlos 7y ago
Just a conjecture, but I think the main drawback of Prolog is its hard to see it having popular support. Recursion, logic programming, and constraint satisfaction are challenging paradigms which doesn't lend well to doing something us
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by jlos 7y ago
Robert Altar's book "The Art of Biblical Poetry" is mandatory reading for understanding Old Testament poetry. Hebrew poetry is based primarily on parallelism, as opposed to meter or rhyming as in English. Wonderful part about
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by jlos 7y ago
There is a specific theological movement known as King James Onlyism. Its a minority position and not held among (theologically) liberal or conservative bible scholars. In fact, the KJV version most popular is actually the 1811 Authorized V
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by jlos 7y ago
I studied Greek, Hebrew, and Bible translation for an undergrad, so I'll toss my two cents in. Accuracy depends on what your aiming for. There are two schools of thought on modern english translations, dynamic equivalence and formal eq
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by jlos 7y ago
>> My friends didn't have such support and suffered from it Could the real difference maybe be the homelife? The act of supporting you in spite of bullying and school administrators in some sense communicates to you that you are
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by jlos 7y ago
I'd suggest both novels demonstrate the same basic concern: technology in extending our our ability to carry out our desires will actually invigorate our base passions for agression and pleasure, destroying our humanity in the process.
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by jlos 8y ago
I did this for a while and found it fine. I did keep 2 verions of all the necessary cords at each destination though. One benefit of the mac-mini is that monitors usually outlast hardware. Think of how many laptop/iMac screens still lo
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by jlos 8y ago
While pre-moderns lacked anonymity, they had a very real distinction between private and public. For example, John Owen, chaplain to Oliver Cromwell and one of the most influential Oxford academics of his day, lost 11 children some of whom
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by jlos 8y ago
Don't know about the U.S. but in Canada the Sears pensioners got a 30% reduction.[0] [0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/sears-canada-pension-retire...
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by jlos 8y ago
Quick summary of respondents reasons for low % of women in C.S. (In order given): 1. Lack of coding in K-12 means fewer women are exposed to coding and thus don't become interested in it during the career selection phase of life. 2. In
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by jlos 8y ago
They are absolutely amazing for the intuition but lack the mechanics, both of which are essential for linear algebra. The calculations are necessary, but without the intuition they will seem meaningless and the nuances will be difficult to
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by jlos 8y ago
>> open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, can be copied, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own t
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Terminal, a startup that helps U.S. tech firms access Canadian talent(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by jlos 8y ago|0 comments
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by jlos 9y ago
Not true in Canada. Law degree's first require an Undergraduate degree prior to entrance into the law faculty: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/admissions/youth-outreach/so-you...
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by jlos 9y ago
>>if , e.g. Apple or Google actually _were_evil Sean Parker on Facebook (and other Social Media giants) exploiting dopamine triggers and psychological drives for social validation: "[We're] exploiting a vulnerability in huma
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by jlos 9y ago
If the difference is of degree, could the degree be discrete rather than continuous? What I mean is that is that of the shared faculties between higher animals and humans, such as language, it does not appear as if increasing animal capacit
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Millennials Strike Back: An Esoteric Reading of the Last Jedi(firstthings.com)
108 points by jlos 9y ago|73 comments
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by jlos 9y ago
In Canada, where the title engineer is a restricted term and thus the universities have common requirements, all engineers are expected to take - Calculus 1-3 - Linear algebra 1-2 (though condensed into one course) - Statistics - Differenti
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by jlos 9y ago
The Tornado (3 missile) can take one out if the shots are well timed, i.e. waiting for other players to attack and it uses a number of deflects.
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by jlos 9y ago
Don't know how many people on HN have ever driven a school bus full of kids, but its a lot more than "Point A to Point B". Its fairly common for kids in K-6 to not know: - Home Address - Home/Parents Phone Number - Last
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by jlos 9y ago
>> From what I've studied of history, the climate today is similar-ish to 1920's Germany. In what respects? As far as I can recall, the US did not just move from a monarchy to a democratic republic 15 years ago as a result
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by jlos 9y ago
In Canada the engineering associations are self regulating bodies, that is, the associations serve a legal purpose because of the technical nature of engineering. The thinking is that Politicians don't have the technical background to

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