lolb

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by lolb 18y ago
Are there any studies showing that basketball performance, French fluency, bin packing, and physics knowledge, all taken together, will produce a meaningfully large general factor? Intuitively it seems unlikely, and it doesn't jibe with wha
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by lolb 18y ago
Dunno, throwing a hissy and saying "FUCK THA [CUSTOMERS WHO DISAGREE WITH OUR POLICIES]" like they did makes them seem like babies who couldn't be trusted with a toy ball, let alone a social networking service.
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by lolb 18y ago
"When I use a word, it means exactly what I mean it to mean, no more and no less." -- Humpty Dumpty "Intelligence is what intelligence tests measure." -- Edward Boring I'm actually surprised by how few comments have been made regarding th
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by lolb 18y ago
But it's still censorship?
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by lolb 18y ago
I find telling you to SHUT THE FUCK UP a lot of fun.
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by lolb 18y ago
For real. If software is supposed to operate within a set of hard limits, and its trivial to detected the attempted breaching of those limits, it's stupid as all hell not to have the software account for that without gratuitously throwing a
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by lolb 18y ago
Instead of writing Python 3000, they shoulda written another Haskell!!
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by lolb 18y ago
Thank you, Paul Graham, for elaborating God's own -- er, your own -- Hierarchy Of Argumentation. Without it I would otherwise have passed this life unaware of the fact that "you are an ass hat" is a poorer argument than explicitly refuting
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by lolb 18y ago
"Such" language? How do you mean? Is the particular F U C K constellation of letters somehow objectively worse than, say, F U D G E or F R E A K? He made a "wrong choice"? You understood his point, yes? He got it across efficiently, yes? Se
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by lolb 18y ago
If I ever meet you I will KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!!
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by lolb 18y ago
Good.
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by lolb 18y ago
We think you Boomers are stupid too.
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by lolb 18y ago
Why, I do believe I've spotted the logo on that bus somewhere else before: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Bri...
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by lolb 18y ago
Check out the sidebar of this guy's blog. Wonder what his agenda is. Wonder what he could mean by presenting this data, ripped out of context in this way?
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by lolb 18y ago
I didn't know Linda Gottfredson posted here. IQ is a useful (if not especially real) measure, but less so than other measures, it is culture-specific, and it is hardly "highly heritable"; Devlin et al. showed a while back that its narrow-se
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by lolb 18y ago
I'm agnostic when it comes to the moon landings.
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by lolb 18y ago
baaawwwwwwwwww
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by lolb 18y ago
My lolbertarian sense is tingling.