jononomo

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by jononomo 4y ago
It is true that some dogs are more intelligent than other dogs.
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by jononomo 4y ago
That's true -- there are tests of brute strength, for instance, and there are also vocabulary tests. But the kinds of tests life throws at you aren't often so narrow -- they're more general tests. Once in a while you'll
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by jononomo 4y ago
The inability of a cat to communicate with a human being is what makes cats unintelligent. People like to think that cats are above communicating with humans when the fact is that they're just too stupid. It's not like cats coul
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by jononomo 4y ago
"We have “intelligence tests” to measure intelligence–or do they just measure test-taking ability?" Life is just a series of different kinds of tests, one after the other, every single day.
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by jononomo 4y ago
"some research shows that elephants communicate with each other using low frequency rumbles that can be heard for miles (if you’re an elephant)." Apparently whales can hear each other over distances of several thousand miles -- en
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by jononomo 4y ago
"For example, we often say that dogs are intelligent. But what do we mean by that? Some dogs, like sheep dogs, are very good at performing certain tasks. Most dogs can be trained to sit, fetch, and do other things. And they can disobey
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by jononomo 4y ago
If you've ever met one of these super-smart engineer types you'll know that nothing shuts them up and gains their respect faster than having the right answer. It's not about "whoever is louder" it's about havi
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by jononomo 4y ago
You wouldn't have cut it working at Microsoft, but that's okay since there were many lesser companies around during that era, as well as opportunities in child care.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Sheesh, this seems like a major national security issue. I would expect more than one person to go to prison for a couple decades over this.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Does this mean that from now on every time I buy an item from Patagonia I am effectively donating to an environmental cause?
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by jononomo 4y ago
On Sam Harris's latest podcast he talks with Jonah Goldberg of The Dispatch and Jonah mentioned that The Dispatch is looking to hire a reporter who is focused on environmentalism but not climate change because not every environmental i
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by jononomo 4y ago
You yell back and explain why you're right. Or, if you're not right, you go fix the problem.
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by jononomo 4y ago
This is why I don't understand Gamer Gate -- the people affected by it just had the option of deleting their Twitter accounts and never missing it.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I got banned for life from Twitter for tweeting "sheesh, I'd kill myself if I was still programming in java after age 50" (or something like that -- I've since deleted the tweet and can't remember the wording, but t
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by jononomo 4y ago
Back in the 1980s in India if you scored 80% on a medical school entrance exam then you were suspected of having cheated because of how ridiculously high that score was. (Source: my parents who were professors at a medical school in India
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by jononomo 4y ago
What Bill Gates should have done is hired a diversity and equity consultant to make sure Excel centered underprivileged minorities.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I honestly miss the old days when smart people would just yell at you. It's frankly more efficient and the people who can't handle it just aren't smart themselves. I'm not talking about unwarranted abuse, but I did lik
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by jononomo 4y ago
I would guess that the vast, vast, vast majority of boys who have been educated in Catholic schools were not sexually abused. 1% would be an extraordinarily high estimate.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Here's an interesting quote from the article: "The cerebellum, for example, plays a role in “emotional, cognitive, and regulatory capacities,” according to Gokcen Akyurek, an expert on executive functioning at Hacettepe University
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by jononomo 4y ago
I haven't read the article, but you seem to have missed that they're making a distinction between boys and girls.
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by jononomo 4y ago
one bus means 30 fewer heavy vehicles on the road
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by jononomo 4y ago
I can count on one hand the time I have seen someone driving a pickup truck with something actually in the back of the truck -- and it doesn't even make sense to put anything in the back of the truck unless you bring a stepladder with
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by jononomo 4y ago
You are wrong to disagree with my second statement.
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by jononomo 4y ago
First, this guy was not a lower-income student -- he had attended a $50k/year private high school. Second, Oberlin did not believe that Gibson's racially profiled students. Third, the kids not only shoplifted, they then kicked an
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by jononomo 4y ago
I'm really glad that they got that platinum jubilee celebration in earlier this year.
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by jononomo 4y ago
support for democracy and the rule of law also comes to mind
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by jononomo 4y ago
Yes, there is a difference between the two parties and you know it.
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by jononomo 4y ago
He means that Great Britain already elects their government -- they are a democracy.
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by jononomo 4y ago
I honestly don't think anyone will care about the monarchy much after this. Charles just has zero charisma and William is pretty wooden as well. The queen had a vibe and presence that won't be repeated.
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by jononomo 4y ago
Wow, this got to 1,000 comments super fast. What is the record for the most comments on a Hacker News thread?

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