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   by motoko 19y ago

   "And for reasons that no one understands, African Americans' IQ scores have tended to cluster about a standard deviation below the average--evidence for some that the tests themselves are biased." sniff sniff Like evidence "for some" that
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   by motoko 19y ago

   Maybe, but teach what? Also, director means choosing curriculum and teacher selection. And I'm not trying to derail the conversation, I'm suggesting anecdotal evidence about educational priorities (or lack of them) in public schools.
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   by motoko 19y ago

   1) Singularity is interesting because it changes what it means to be human. The idea of "machines enslaving us" suggests that people are thinking like movie plots: machines become "human-like" amid confused humans doomed as common everymen.
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   by motoko 19y ago

   My mother is the director of gifted education in a major midwestern city's public school district. She doesn't believe in evolution. There are quotas for minorities. Many otherwise qualified students are denied acceptance because their plac
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   by motoko 19y ago

   What's the expression? The politics are so bad because the stakes are so low?
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   by motoko 19y ago

   Wow, and suddenly I realized how much it must suck to be an editor...
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   by motoko 19y ago

   Programming in Ten Years? see How to Create a Startup in 10.5 Hours. I guess it's where you start measuring from...
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   by motoko 19y ago

   I would, but it grows deep underground...
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   by motoko 19y ago

   Even though I think that astrology is scientifically a blatantly idiotic field of study, I think that it's effect on human psychology can't be ignored. Same for religion (I mean whatever religion you're not, of course). There's something ab
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    by motoko 19y ago

    how i make furry secks?
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Make 5, 10, 20 year plans anyways.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    peace is war. love is hate. freedom is slavery. profits are losses.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    It's a joke. Come on: War Nerd? It's his writing character. But that doesn't change the substance of the essay.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    The most interesting lesson of this story is the purpose of reserves. I feel like ---especially here at YC news--- the attitude is always "charge full strength ahead! Work 80 hours a week and just release something as soon as possible!" The
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    The Fall of Pancho Villa (a metaphoric warning for cowboy hackers...)(exile.ru)

    2 points by motoko 19y ago|3 comments
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    by motoko 19y ago

    http://valleywag.com/tech/separated-at-birth/oomas-arrested-...
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Ever see the movie "Eraser?"
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    by motoko 19y ago

    get a gmail account
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    by motoko 19y ago

    I claim that food shouldn't have to be "extremely" inexpensive, merely reasonable. Eating a poor diet may save you $100 per month, but you risk getting sick and decreased productivity. That's like saving a minute while driving to not put on
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    by motoko 19y ago

    How about if Yahoo stopped trying to compete with the likes of USA Today and the Kansas City Star? Here's the most important item on Yahoo's front page as of this comment: "Can he talk to the geese? The "Goose Whisperer" clears parks of the
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Uh... I think that if you need to optimize "food expenses" to this extreme, you have much more serious problems than software. Penny-wise, pound-foolish... wow
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Speaking of "Hungry": > If you must live on a diet of Lean Cuisine, try the Swedish meatballs. I don't understand this part. Eating healthy isn't much more expensive than eating poorly. Why sacrifice your health and risk your mental abi
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    by motoko 19y ago

    I like how the "voice of truth" also claims to be a pirate and have balls the size of beanbags. No sarcasm about the voice of truth, though: only Maddox writes obnoxiously enough to be heard over every other idiot nerd fanboy blog.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Any war stories? I mean, with due respect to veterans and causalities, of course... Also, what would you recommend instead?
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    by motoko 19y ago

    It was a RANT on a personal blog. It's there to vent his frustration, not make a vapid Digg-bait tidbit. And FogBugz does suck.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    I smell bullshit. Note from the article: > Companies are having a hard time recruiting and retaining young talent, and as a result are accommodating what would have once been considered extreme demands. ....so many younger workers have
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    by motoko 19y ago

    You're right. "The #1 company-killer is lack of market." is a euphemism for "when nobody buys what sells, you go out of business." What else does the "The only thing that matters is getting to product/market fit" mean much more beyond "The
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    by motoko 19y ago

    No, it's because if Javascript is both the language you write client code AND server code, it could be huge.
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    by motoko 19y ago

    http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html He didn't use Python because Javascript is the native scripting language for the "next platform," that is, the browser. Also, he doesn't think that Python is superficially clo
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    by motoko 19y ago

    Maybe self-ref posts could submit a text description that always stays at the top?