kingkongrevenge

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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> score the same on standardized tests Statistically that's not true. I don't understand what you're trying to say.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The typical black American is 85%+ genetically "African". A tiny slice of people misreporting race wouldn't impact things much. And I don't follow your premise that inherent differences wouldn't be quantitatively consistent. That's how it
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I've seen the claim that black academic test scores are consistently one standard deviation below the norm regardless of the test: sat, gre, lsat, mcat, erb, afqt, whatever. Always one standard deviation. Unfortunately, that lends weight
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Are you people freakishly proportioned? Affordable well cut brands abound. I think you're really just justifying your foppish clothing budgets.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The problem with fit is only that mass market clothing is cut for fat asses, as the mass market is now obese. But it's not like you have to go for some high-end brand to get properly sized clothing not cut for fat asses. I mean, LL Bean s
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Pink dress shirts have been "in" for 30 years. 100 years for all I know. It's not exactly a fashion statement.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Marathons ARE damaging. Often permanently to some degree. Very long distance running is fairly stupid from a health perspective. Top ten reasons not to run marathons: http://www.arthurdevany.com/2005/08/top_ten_reasons.html
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> that doesn't mean you pass on traits like demographic fertility, or intelligence. IQ is well known to be highly heritable. I would be very surprised if proper research came up with a null result on fertility heritability.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
This appears applicable to whites in the west and Asians in east Asia. I'm not so sure this is universally true. You see big differences in fertility rates in different ethnic groups in the US. And it may not even generally be true. It m
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
They're also highly dependent on imports of US produced food, and so probably not a great example of something to emulate.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The estimate is nonsense. Africa's population has trebled (or whatever) yet the green revolution never happened in Africa. The continent is overwhelmingly fed on pre-green revolution crops grown in pre-green revolution ways with low fossi
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> Jen says researchers suspect that treadmill running is more intense and leads to improvements in muscle aerobic capacity, and this increased aerobic capacity, in turn, affects the brain more than the wheel jogging. So the subjects did
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
> the perfect way of representing the syntax trees Humans don't think in syntax trees.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Perl 5.10 and up has a pluggable regex engine interface.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
This just isn't a substantial cost any more. With the latest kernels, thread per connection servers are competitive with event driven servers. This was not true a few years ago.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I think Harry Browne's "permanent portfolio" deserves a lot more popular attention than it gets. In Fail-Safe Investing Harry said to allocate your wealth equally between: stocks (broad market index), bonds, gold, and cash (CDs, money marke
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
It's kinda ridiculous to try and extract personal investing lessons from Buffett. He cultivates this image of some grandpa who is just good at picking stocks, but it's baloney. He has always operated with an edge. Information advantages
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
I don't think threads are slower or less scalable anymore. The OS threading systems have improved a lot over the last four years.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The roads are certainly built and maintained with capital diverted from more productive uses. Even if the postal service didn't lose money hand over fist I'd still call it subsidized, as it wouldn't exist without its legal monopoly. One ca
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Google "street car conspiracy". The evidence is that car ownership rates had pretty much leveled off. Everyone who wanted a car had one. Most people were pretty happy with street cars. There was an active campaign from moneyed interests
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Every day car accidents kill a jet liner worth of Americans, and maim many more. Driving is arguably more dangerous than moderate smoking. Yet unlike smoking driving is subsidized and encouraged.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
The orange line train he's talking about runs down the middle of I-66, a major highway. There are dense, high price walkable areas all along the orange line corridor. They sprang up out of car dealerships and strip malls in the 25 years s
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Cars were widespread and affordable in the 20s and 30s. Car dependent suburbs without street cars didn't happen until the 40s and 50s. It's not as simple as just cars. It was the confluence of Eisenhower's interstate program and white fl
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Hadoop is not "for CPU bound problems." It's for huge data. There are much better frameworks for the problem of splitting a parallelizable computation across machines. Nobody would use Hadoop just for that. Why would Java be the fastest
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Hadoop is a platform for traversing very large data sets. It is not really for "number crunching." One can use any language for the map/reduce pieces of Hadoop.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
You have a simulation that will take either four days to run or five. That's not tiny. And that's not so rare a problem. Not everyone is doing web apps. I remain skeptical of these micro benchmarks. Almost every time I've messed around
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
It certainly does. Anal sex is far more dangerous.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Joe doing it up the butt created the AIDS epidemic. Seems publicly relevant to me. Not that I personally care much about Joe doing it up the butt, but once you think government has a role in sculpting society there is no distinction betwe
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Procreation and norms of marriage and family have enormous social ramifications. There is no distinction.
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by kingkongrevenge 17y ago
Perl has all these same libraries and more. We were talking about code in the actual language.

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