najirama

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by najirama 17y ago
I have thoroughly enjoyed your point-by-point rebuttals regarding the historical facts and their many interpretations, etc. However, the crux of your argument is essentially, "Well, you guys (Brits, Americans, et al) admire bad people too a
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by najirama 17y ago
I'm sorry, but this post is utterly pedantic. The proof by Daniel Levine is absolutely "logically sound." The idea that what was shown was the conditional, "if y=y then x 0=0" and not "x 0=0 is true" simply ignores the fact that the first
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by najirama 17y ago
This is 'Hacker' News, not 'Cracker' News..though I must admit it was a provocative read.
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by najirama 17y ago
I enjoyed the video, but this isn't really "experimentally confirming" anything. It is just a tasty morsel of pop science, well executed.
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by najirama 17y ago
Though it is tangential at best to this discussion, let me say that I find it absolutely hilarious that in this thread and the one above it, I have written provably true statements and have been down-modded, whereas the people who I have be
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by najirama 17y ago
[Edit: 'its' changed to 'opposite' for clarity, 'there' to 'their'] 1. "I have said several times that I'm not talking about discrete classes, yet you insist on arguing that point." Regardless of whether or not you meant to be "talking ab
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by najirama 17y ago
[Edit: spelling mistakes] Based on your response, you do not even understand the terms I've been using. 'Set of classes,' means everything per this discussion - as the discussion has been premised on the statement you made (that skin colo
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by najirama 17y ago
[Edit: Moved up a node to reflect the actual reply] 1. Socio-econonic classes are artificial constructs - so what? The point is that race is demonstrably unable to map the set of 'people' to the set of 'classes.' 2. If you are not able to a
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by najirama 17y ago
Both of those links engender the proposition that fingernail length is indeed NOT a good indicator of class. The class status of women as a whole rose significantly in the 80's as women's pay relative to men's rose from 1980 to 1990 (fr
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by najirama 17y ago
You continue to shift terms, so it makes it more difficult to pin you down. My math is pretty solid - socio-economic classes are defined by values in intervals . So guessing the average income for each race would be guessing what interval?
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by najirama 17y ago
Even if I were to allow that the discussion be gender-biased, I'm afraid this wouldn't be accurate... The very poor tend to have poor grooming habits, both in frequency and quality. As such, access to nail clippers is extremely limited... F
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by najirama 17y ago
A "good" predictor must be useful, correct? Well, then how can it be useful if it is wrong more than it is right....? Simply stated, being right more than one is wrong is the same thing as being more accurate than a random assignment (as we
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by najirama 17y ago
Skin color isn't any more an indicator of class than shoe size or fingernail length. To show this, one need only think about the consequences of skin color actually being an indicator of class. Given a random sampling among a race, if ski
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by najirama 19y ago
Ok - I guess then the question is HOW do I publish the darn thing? A radical example for clarification: Say you discover a method by which the HIV virus can be detected one day after transmission with 99% confidence...and you live in a home
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by najirama 19y ago
Im interested as to where the question contradicts itself(?) In any case, the "perceived noise" question 1 alludes to is precisely the noise coming from the internet; that is, the internet makes it much easier for dabblers from all over to
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by najirama 19y ago
That is all well and good, but it doesn't answer either question given the suppositions.
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You've changed the world - now what next?
4 points by najirama 19y ago|14 comments
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Ask YC: Using Plesk to manage your VPS
1 points by najirama 19y ago|0 comments