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Top Replicated Findings from Behavioral Genetics(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
All conventional imperative languages? Open your mind. Try Prolog. Try Clojure. Try Verilog.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> existing immigration laws are in effect equally racist Now it's racist for a country to provide services to its own citizens that it doesn't provide to the citizens of other countries?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
I get in trouble with HN by suggesting that general intelligence is both real and important in life outcome, but I really can't help point out how, when we require a four-year degree for an HR director candidate, we're not really
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
We already have programs for granting preferential immigration to high-skilled foreigners. Every advanced country does. Unrestrained immigration is incompatible with a welfare state. Which would you rather have?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
In what respects would it differ? On-campus residency is an optional feature, and MOOCs can help education scale better, but in the end, you need to somehow 1) compensate experts for the time they spend teaching material and evaluating stud
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
What do you have in mind then? The for-profit university experiment has largely been a scammy failure.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Equally credible alternatives to university education for professions You're talking about trade schools? Good. That's a step in the right direction. It doesn't go far enough though. One unfortunate reality of our exist
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Focusing on personality characteristics of great engineers is how lesser engineers try to maintain their position in the status hierarchy when they know they can't compete on technical merit. A healthy company recognizes this dynamic a
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
A lot of people suggest that 10x programmers aren't jerks because they reflexively disqualify jerks from the 10x category. That's wrong and reflects wishful thinking. Do they think Linus is a middling developer because he's a
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The article goes on to suggest that there are "1000x" engineers who can do things other engineers cannot do. The article intentionally obfuscates the point to try to disguise the idea that talent really does vary tremendously and
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Everything follows a normal distribution. Evidence suggests that technical talent is bimodal.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Companies die when they lose their competitive spirit, and start valuing internal considerations over technical effectiveness. One symptom of this inevitable disease is denying the reality of the 10x engineer, or start to think that being a
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Test
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Agreed
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
You should apply equal skepticism to everything you see in the news. These days, news outlets are all about pushing a particular narrative, not about impartially reporting the facts.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> [Using 64-bit registers in 32-bit mode] is not possible. If the system is in 32-bit mode, it will act as a 32-bit system, the extra 32-bits of the registers is completely invisible, just as it would be if the system was actually a &qu
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Don't you wish you hadn't surrendered software distribution authority to a single faceless corporate party? When nobody tried to demand bullshit crypto paperwork? Remember when you could distribute software yourself without gettin
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> Please stop using HN to beat the same ideological dead hobby-horses over and over again Which specific facts are inappropriate to mention on HN?
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
That's a nice fantasy --- oh, everyone's smart, just as different things. It just ain't true. Science tells us that IQ is a general mental cognitive factor; tasks can be more or less heavily g-weighted, but intelligence is st
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Sure. What really bothers me is equating pre-redistribution income differences with unfairness, -isms, discrimation, and so on. I resent being called a terrible person when all I've done is do my best work. Post-redistribution income i
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The need to capture increased productivity as increased leisure time is the reason I support a basic income --- or a "technological divided", to put it differently. But we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that everyone
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Never talk to HR.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
What happens after we guarantee all access to learning resources and inequality persists? At what point will you accept the science that tells us how intelligence is mostly hereditary, immutable, and important? The dream of stamping out ine
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
The laws of game theory, which underlie economics, are just as real as calculus.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Thanks for posting this article. It further diminishes my already-dismal view of the social sciences. The article highlights how strictly dogmatic the social sciences have become and how vicious and petty any attack on orthodoxy has become.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Citation needed. The behavior you describe is much more prevalent in today's left-authoritarian communities than it is among cultural libertarian ones (of which one example is GamerGate). The anti-SJW side has never gotten a CEO of a t
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
Diagnosing your opponents with mental disorders is precisely what Stalin did.
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
This thread is the most depressing thing I've read on Hacker News in months. I completely agree with you, dogma1138. You and I appear to be only ones who don't view the world through justice-colored glasses and who understand that
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by rewqfdsa 11y ago
> That's just Google PR talking. Let me make this short and hopefully clear: Google copied part of an Oracle/OSS API and broke compatibility in order to make a profit. They didn't try to build an interoperable alternative

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