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by omonra 12y ago
I'm not sure you're supposed to downvote comments you disagree with, do you? I thought it was to enforce a civil debate.
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by omonra 12y ago
Thank you
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by omonra 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand how it works - are the 40 designs they talk about all 'themes' than can be swapped? Ie the watch has a digital screen that displays the dial, etc?
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by omonra 12y ago
I agree. I had no interest in the iWatch - but this might be interesting (once the battery life is worked out).
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by omonra 12y ago
That's a logical fallacy. Failure to demonstrate X does not necessarily imply that -X is true :) I just hate BS - and this chart is mostly BS (ie Jobs is as much of a 2nd generation immigrant as Obama :)
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by omonra 12y ago
I'm an immigrant - but this is nonsense. Out of the top 10, only Google (1 out 2 confounders) and Qualcom (1 of 7 cofounders) I'd count as companies that were built by real immigrants. Incidentally both are Jews whose families lef
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by omonra 12y ago
That's exactly what I mean - words that we otherwise know are used with completely different meaning, which renders the text unintelligible. I disagree with you completely that 'most educated native speakers' can understand t
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by omonra 12y ago
Honestly - I don't understand anything. Imagine you had an English text with half the words substituted with Dutch ones (that look similar but make no sense). So you might think you understand 2-3 words in a row only to come across the
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by omonra 12y ago
You're talking about something else - individual words (at least in this passage) are certainly known to everybody. But what % of English speakers do you think can understand the passage?
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by omonra 12y ago
Seriously? What % of the English do you think will understand this (random start of first Shakespeare play that popped into my head): If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, a
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by omonra 12y ago
Wouldn't analysis of top 3 contemporary newspapers / magazines in each language yield a more accurate result? Ie if Dickens or Melville used certain words in their writing - if modern speakers don't know them, we can't r
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by omonra 12y ago
Because 'researchers' and 'russian spy agency' sounds very different. Former are motivated by desire to shed light on questionable behavior, the latter to inflict damage on their adversary (while engaging in worse pract
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by omonra 12y ago
Too bad the article doesn't mention that Kaspersky actually is very closely tied with the FSB (ie KGB) - most likely he works for them. That doesn't mean the original article is untrue - just that the 'research' really c
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by omonra 12y ago
It seems to be that it's not about racism but rather probability. This concept is described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity
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by omonra 12y ago
Yes. You have to appreciate the difference between actionable speech and expressing an opinion.
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by omonra 12y ago
What was the ethnic group he said he wouldn't pick up?
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by omonra 12y ago
I imagine it says that he is a consumer?
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by omonra 12y ago
I'm with you. I think it's probably one of the 'things that could work better' but unlikely something the company makes much money from.
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by omonra 12y ago
23% (576k out of total 2515). http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/282929.php#top_10_l... The rate of 169 per 100k is confirmed in this story as well.
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by omonra 12y ago
Why do you think that any cause of death had to go up? Overall US death rate went down from 8.5 to 8.0 between 1991 and 2011 (ie 6%). So every cause of death might have gone down (although I couldn't find the stats). http://
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by omonra 12y ago
Precisely how I felt. I was reading and hoping to come across a quote from Nolan or Lucas saying how they were influenced by Hinduism and were bringing it to their movies. Instead I got 'Hindus believed in something like this for thous
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by omonra 12y ago
Super, thank you for the heads up
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by omonra 12y ago
1st sentence - "have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life". How narrative gets created before your eyes. His death being an unfortunate accident, how does racial profiling explain it?
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by omonra 12y ago
I thought exactly the same thing. Their complaints fall into two: 1) People questioned why they brought up being female 2) Trolls asked stupid/offensive questions We can all quickly agree on #2. It's 100% unacceptable but simply r
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by omonra 12y ago
1. I know it's HN and all - but not everything has a business model . Ie I'd say most important things in life are not cash-flow positive. That's why developed (ie they're actually more developed - not just called that)
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by omonra 12y ago
Curious what prompted Chris Rock to change his view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8 . Does he think that things have got worse for US blacks vis-a-vis police interaction in the last 10 years? Or is it something
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by omonra 12y ago
This is an echo chamber for people who all agree with each other. I wouldn't waste your time taking the opposite view.
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by omonra 12y ago
Thank you, but I don't think you actually explained why Harvard fails to be a 501(c)(3)?
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by omonra 12y ago
"There's no real evidence that (1) is false" Since there is ample difference in results, you actually have to demonstrate that natural talent is evenly spread throughout the population, as opposed to waving the magic wand &#x
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by omonra 12y ago
Unless one assumes that industry staffing should closely correlate with overall country demographics, I don't see its relevance. Ie that's like starting a scientific paper that aims to demonstrate that g=5 (and not 9.81) with the

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