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by kolpa 9y ago
It's elimination communication, not elimination training :) The concept, as you explain, is that the caregiver is alert to cues that a poop is coming, and moves the child to the potty.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Ask your friends and neighbors. Did they also potty train at 18months?
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by kolpa 9y ago
Ethnic ghettos are as much or more imposed by external oppressors than internal separatism. The USA is full of Chinese, Italian, Irish etc descendants, most of whom do NOT live in those ghettos. After a generation to learn the local languag
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by kolpa 9y ago
Orthodoxy is only one small part of Judaism and Jews. > If you want to convert it's a big deal with study, testing, and culminating with a literal certificate of conversion - that can be revoked. https://judaism.stackexch
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by kolpa 9y ago
And a lot of people (people who think they are Jews and also people who think they are non-Jews) are genetically mixed Ashkenazi with non-Ashkenazi. And Ashkenazi happens one of the "tightest" ethnicities in the connected part of
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by kolpa 9y ago
It's not. It's maybe even worse than racist, because most of Disraeli's ancestors probably weren't even members Solomon's kingdom, they likely were mostly Europeans who converted and then adopted the ancestry.
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by kolpa 9y ago
> It's just too shallow to dismiss it as superstitious ancestors who werent as smart as us. This is commonly misunderstand point, as you hint at. Our ancestors were about as smart as we are -- some smarter, some not, but on average
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by kolpa 9y ago
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora
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by kolpa 9y ago
That leaves 500 years unaccounted for.
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by kolpa 9y ago
It's not circumventing law, it's carefully sculpting it. In general, those hacker loopholes come from (1) over-broad policies made by ancestor rabbis to "build a wall around the Law", and (2) a desire to shrink the walle
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by kolpa 9y ago
"White" was invented (by "White" people) to mean "everyone who isn't systematically oppressed under under local law and cultural practice". That's the only unifying thread. Irish, German, Jewish, Gre
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by kolpa 9y ago
> Making weak, clearly disingenuous (or worse, technically clueless if they really believe 90% is the same as 100%) arguments do not help the EFF. Sadly, this has been the EFF's Mo in recent years. They have an ongoing series of blo
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by kolpa 9y ago
Symbolic AI is 20th Century AI.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Google is worth $700B and Jeff Dean was employee ~20, a senior engineer and manager/VP. >0.1% equity for someone of that stature is not unlikely -- mid-level engineers at early-stage startups get about 0.1% equity.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Levandowski got $120m in pay from Google. His acquistion was when Uber acquired Otto
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by kolpa 9y ago
AI and genetic engineering also might end the world as we know it.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Jeff Dean is Google's AGI
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by kolpa 9y ago
In part, at least subconsciously and since Jeff Dean is a more soundbyte-friendly name than Sanjay Ghemawat (Although "Ghemawat" is an awesome term for a unit of brainpower, akin to the "Wolfram" unit of ego.) Also, Ghem
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by kolpa 9y ago
Jeff Dean was at MySimon for 6 months: https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jeff-dean-2#section-jobs Looks as though he got curious about the startup world after DEC, and MySimon had nothing to suit his ambitions.
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by kolpa 9y ago
To be fair, it's unclear whether Linnarsson was saying that brain uploading would never be possible (which is a step too far), or that this company would never people to revive people who paid today using brain-uploading techniques ava
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by kolpa 9y ago
> Sam Altman, a 32-year-old investor who is one of the creators of the Y Combinator program. Sam Altman co-created Y Combinator when he was 20?
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by kolpa 9y ago
You shouldn't "sell" on this or any news, you should lower your buy/sell price, which you should always have pending.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Landlords also no that empty units are worthless and good tenants are hard to find, so usually they offer good rates to long-time tenants, unless they are sold out of inventory in a tight market.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Yes, but it's a deadweight loss, waste that provides no value to anyone. It's a breakdown of trust leading to market failure. It would be better if the waste was converted to economic profit and the difference split between vendor
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by kolpa 9y ago
Why is it untenable to want to quit a job? If you want to quit a job (or make any other life choice), and you can afford it, go for it.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Many a gravestone bears the epitaph "but I was right ." Of course criminals are wrong, to blame, and should be punished. Still, people are responsible for securing their own safety for as long as criminals exist.
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by kolpa 9y ago
Why didn't you return to your previous employer after sabbatical?
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by kolpa 9y ago
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1253492 example of superb play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBqEUvvDi0
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by kolpa 9y ago
NES tetris is not best Nintendo tetris
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by kolpa 9y ago
black-hat SEO and anti-black-hat-SEO goes back way before 2016

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