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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Few people are turned on by low intelligence. What the construction worker has on the programmer is masculinity; it's perceived as a more "manly" line of work. However, both men and women tend to be more androgynous as intelligence increase
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Vacation policies, de facto , are a way of punishing "job hoppers": at most companies, you only get a decent allotment (4+ weeks) if you've been there forever. However, it's a reality of the modern economy that people change jobs more freq
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Intercourse and Intelligence(gnxp.com)
52 points by pwnstigator 17y ago|73 comments
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/04/intercourse-and-intelligenc... Depending on the specific age and gender, an adolescent with an IQ of 100 was 1.5 to 5 times more likely to have had intercourse than a teen with a score of 120 or 130. Each
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The problem with the estate tax is that it was passed in the name of getting back at plutocrats but has worked over the years mostly to make it difficult to keep family businesses intact when the founder dies. From the article itself: "Cu
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
One wealthy, terminally ill real-estate entrepreneur has told his doctors he is determined to live until the law changes. "Whenever he wakes up," says his lawyer, "He says: 'What day is it? Is it Jan. 1 yet?'"... I've never felt so comfor
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Fair enough. I was expressing teenage angst, in part, because I knew things were going wrong. The angst might have been there even if society had been in a better state. It certainly was better than it is now.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Really? I hope you're right. It's hard as hell for a guy to find a marriageable woman in New York right now. I'd love to see this improve in the next 10 years.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
By "questionable" I mean "can be questioned". I'm not using the euphemistic definition, whereby "questionable" means the question is already answered. Dr. House behaves in a way that would generally be considered ethical, but that is at odd
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
In 1999, I was 16 and thought the world was run mostly by idiots, scumbags, and criminals, and that it was going to fall to pieces within a few years. Everyone thought I was just expressing "teenage angst" and that I'd be proven wrong by ma
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
If you ask Bush, Iran is responsible for Katrina. They've found hurricane factories 40 km west of Tehran.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think corporatism (the same corporatism as was the precursor to Italian fascism) is the most likely threat. Most Americans want affordable, high-quality healthcare, but they're unlikely to get it in this political environment, since most
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
For example, the whole retreat to an infantile world bit. The examples are cherry-picked. In television, the most acclaimed and talked about shows have characters far more ambiguous than decades past. We're exiting postmodernism in favor
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Any time we do quality work we are deeply satisfied with it. Whether it is writing code, fixing a car or cooking, when done well it makes us happy. Good, quality work is always unmistakable. Most people don't even get to do that. They're
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I doubt it. Few people are going to mention the sodas during exit interviews. In fact, I think very few people are even aware that the sodas might be a trigger for their decision, since it's not about the sodas, but the show of loyalty.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
The CFO failed to anticipate that humans are irrational, and that people will read all sorts of things into the loss of free sodas. It's not just an economic transaction. I thought the sales point of "business" types was that they were good
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Soda is a simple theatrical stunt for making the CFO look good. It's a good show. Nailed it.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
I think it comes down more to tone of voice than the words themselves. Most people (including myself, often) have a strong verbal sense of politeness but are piss-poor when it comes to keeping the right tone of voice. Thus, "excuse me" gets
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
However, experts believe that "petrichor" will not replace "October rain" as a term of endearment.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
What do the brightest and poshest students at Oxford and Harvard want to study? Business. Brightest? Math, computer science, the natural sciences, and the humanities. Poshest? Philosophy, classics. Neither has much interest in an undergr
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Cutthroat Caverns is also a good RPG spoof.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Puerto Rico's biggest flaw, in my mind, is the poor scaling. It plays extremely well with exactly 4 players. With 3 players, there's too little competition for scarce resources (esp. buildings, market access) and it can feel like multiplaye
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Yes. Board game design has come a long way in the past 15 years-- sort of a silent Renaissance. I'd also recommend Tigris and Euphrates, Ra, Puerto Rico, and a host of other "German-style" games.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Most corporate managers are fighting the last generation's war, operating under a mentality that is outdated, but pervasive at all levels of corporate America. If you're running a plantation or a coal mine, the work is physically difficult
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
For any company larger than 20 people, it matters more what group you are in than what company you enter. I've met miserable and extremely happy people from/at Google. If you end up as Peter Norvig's protege, I imagine it's pretty awesome.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Of course. What's obnoxious about "completed an exit" is that talented people can fail to meet this for reasons that aren't their fault. Possibly the VC wanted to aim for an IPO, they failed because of the downturn, and now they haven't "co
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
"Are you interested enough in a startup to be willing to work for X months for mostly equity, knowing full well that the project has a risk of failure?" There's your filter.
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Note: insisting that your co-founders have "completed an exit" is not going to make you any friends here, because you're suggesting that you're better than others less experienced or less fortunate who have not. Success is obviously prefera
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Humans have been eating fruit forever, while HCFS is a relatively modern invention. While a small amount of it isn't poisonous, the amounts of it that someone ingests in drinking a soda are unnatural. The body seems to handle cane sugar bet
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by pwnstigator 17y ago
Countries with first-world (i.e. universal) healthcare systems tend to be a lot more proactive in regulating their food supply and environment than we are, because they view health problems as a common cost, whereas we view them as an indiv

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