mitochondrion

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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Out of curiosity, whose online math have you done?
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
From my experience, there's probably much less calculus-taking going on in American high schools than you think. Of that, even less is anything resembling calculus.
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Is this really HN-worthy? I'd expect to find this on reddit.
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
I'd just like to throw it out there that perhaps your problem solving ability developed in lockstep with your tinkering.
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
What's preventing all of those electronics from becoming dumb terminals and abstracting everything away to the central processing unit?
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Yes, but no. Yes, there's a ton of raw resource extraction, processing, and transport. But no, because a Nissan Altima or Apple Macbook (or Moto X!) are not commodities in the same way that gold or lumber or silicon are. There's a
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Straight shooters are great, but you will NEVER have a positive reaction when you talk with people about your IQ. Especially when 145 is so much higher than most. If you have a 145 IQ and you mention it to 1,000 people, you've just pis
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
I agree that his comment seemed haughty, but I'd like to mention that yours does as well. I disagree that "only people who are overly concerned with and take advantage of mentioning their IQ". More likely, it's just that
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
What is "knowing better"? How can there be any intrinsic moral compunction to eat or to not eat the gazelle?
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Do you have any idea if there's any way for someone to find and take that test?
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Barring total catastrophe, I simply don't see how a relatively stable population with incredibly advanced automating technology and biotechnology would be incapable of "fixing" the world.
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
To be fair, Google's stance was "Get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.", not "Do no evil."
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
The intrinsic value in Bitcoin is whatever someone is willing to do for it. Just like with beads, USD, or gold, it has intrinsic value if someone is willing to trade their possessions or labor in exchange for it.
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by mitochondrion 13y ago
Well...actually, a fiat currency is one declared and issued by the state as legal tender. It's typically not redeemable for anything else, as a gold-backed one (USD from 1944 to Nixon) is. And really, a currency like gold is valuable b