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by katz 18y ago
I know the suffering of dial-up (dirty phone lines in rural areas) or other means (e.g. GRPS) - it is awful. Isn't there an EDGE or 3G network available? Maybe something like CDMA2000?
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by katz 18y ago
> But when I read "people from Culture X tend to succeed; therefore we should give them a preference" what can I call that statement but racist? Firstly, culture is not equal to race - it has nothing to do with race. The criticism again
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by katz 18y ago
> Like the one that you appear to have just drawn. I'm getting kinda sick of all accusations of racism. It is like a proverbial universal stick with which you can hit everyone with (even with just an accusation). > B. Therefore, sma
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by katz 18y ago
Why? I think the "model minority" label fits. If a minority is fairly successful (low crime, high achievement, etc...) it makes sense to increase immigration from those countries. Also, once a minority is a "model minority" things such as a
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by katz 18y ago
> Too dangerous to protect African children from wasting death, Why? Do the mosquitoes only bite black people? Are they racist? > Too dangerous to protect African children from wasting death, but perfectly safe to prevent casual n
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by katz 18y ago
Yup - but humans changed its habitat. There are now more pools of still water (damns, etc...) because of human intervention than before.
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by katz 18y ago
> Now imagine two people, A and B, who earn $20,000/year and $80,000/year respectively. It's more unethical to take $200 from A than it is to take $800 from B. Why? Just taking money is wrong. The usual argument is that the government t
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by katz 18y ago
> I see no reason for secret banking other to subvert laws. Replace the word “secrecy” with “privacy”. I think there are a lot of good reasons to keep your personal banking details private. For example – in my country there is a law th
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by katz 18y ago
Most (good) lawyers will keep their mouth shut even if they knew the details of a crime that you committed. They will happily burn any documentation before they hand any over to the government. Every conversation between you and your lawyer
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by katz 18y ago
This is sad. One of the few places where banks still acted in their clients' interest rather than their own or the government's. All interaction between your lawyer and you or your doctor and you is private? Why not the same for you and you
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by katz 18y ago
> average better programmers than people who claim to be programmers who don't have those degrees. I doubt that. Further more a person with a degree has on the average a higher intelligence than a person without. Also, most degrees have
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by katz 18y ago
The list is interesting and mostly true (IMHO). There is just one point where I differ with you: "Formal Qualifications This is more a of non-indicator than a counter-indicator. The key point to outline here is that formal qualifications do
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by katz 18y ago
Looks awesome! Maybe try and mention your name on the front page of your website? The NYT article only mentions your name and jellyfish. Searching for "Alex Andon jellyfish" does not show your webpage in the first result - I think that the
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by katz 18y ago
Hmmm... This is also the name of a (fairly old) regional search engine - www.aardvark.co.za. Looks nice.
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by katz 18y ago
> A definitive reply to most of that outmoded thinking about g can be found in Nisbet's new book, If you feel that these views are outmoded – give me peer reviewed research articles (not books). I do not have immediate access to books a
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by katz 18y ago
I agree with you that my comparison of Flynn with Gould was not entirely fair. Flynn found the Flynn effect which is an important part. But a book by Flynn is not peer reviewed and may be influenced by his political views (he is author of
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by katz 18y ago
> are the most respectable critics of my position on the race-IQ issue? The race-IQ issue is separate from the issue of general intelligence and neuroscience of the brain. Even if he is a successful political scientist, it would not mak
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by katz 18y ago
That is the thing! My dad paid for college so I can't just tell him no, I will not help. My dad is a reader - if there is a problem he will read everything on the screen over the telephone - even if it takes an hour. It is absolute tortur
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by katz 18y ago
The worst thing is that everyone expects you to help them with their IT problems. Over the phone.
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by katz 18y ago
> I've attended a lecture by John Raven, the publisher of that test, and he doesn't make that claim. I never said that he made that claim. Several other people compared RAPM and other intelligence tests to determine the g-loading. It wa
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by katz 18y ago
> I would be more inclined to believe any differences in intelligence, if there really are any, are due to the environment in which the child was raised, rather than genetic advantages and disadvantages. Intelligence measured by the gen
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by katz 18y ago
This is a nice statistic - but you should rather use the number of economically active people rather than the whole population when you calculate the per person value. That is because only the economically active persons generate wealth (an
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by katz 18y ago
Higher percentages should count a lot more than lower percentages. It is more difficult to go from 94-98 than it is to go from 54 to 58.
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by katz 18y ago
Naive questions: How does your data center look like? What is your web crawler written in? I assume that your startup is fairly small - how difficult is/was it to get enough resources (funding) to scale up? (esp. datacenter wise) I see that
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by katz 18y ago
That is true. If I was a high earner I would rather work less days a year (or work in different countries). After you have a certain amount of money, the extra amount does not increase happiness significantly - so it is generally not worth
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by katz 18y ago
This entrepreneurship attitude differs from country to country. In many socialist countries people like jobs in the government - it is cushy, extremely stable and offers excellent benefits. In other societies risk taking are discouraged (th
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by katz 18y ago
"I just watched a presentation by Richard Baraniuk's, a professor at Rice University and founder of Connexions." haha.. I just used one of his papers in a completely unrelated thing. What are the odds?
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by katz 18y ago
> It's actually fairly commonplace for "the press" to be involved in public corruption. They'll even defend the corruption. Can you give some examples? > And how many press organizations will do that? Not all papers - but some do. I
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by katz 18y ago
I can think of a few corruption cases that the press uncovered (or shed significant light on) - it is country specific though (South Africa): - The arms deal (in which half of the ANC had a share). - Corruption by the National Police Commis
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by katz 18y ago
Philandering around the workplace is usually a big no-no but it is definitely not corruption by any stretch of the imagination. I did this to show you that journalists will easily turn on their own kind. As for the case of the government co

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