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by rlanday 12y ago
Why are you complaining on an American internet community about our choice of unit system and the terminology we use for naming different sports? The United States has distinct cultural features just like every other country. I waste a fair
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by rlanday 13y ago
This is not true: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/history_15
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by rlanday 13y ago
Doesn’t FAT do that? Although maybe a Linux user choosing to use FAT for some other reason isn’t that plausible in itself…
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by rlanday 13y ago
I think the most common type of fraud that occurs is voting by people who are not eligible to do so (e.g., because they’re not US citizens). I don’t know on what scale this occurs, but I believe there have been documented instances. A lot o
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by rlanday 13y ago
Isn’t that less than the new campus is expected to cost?
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by rlanday 13y ago
What about the huge time cost of replacing everything that was in the wallet, if replaceable, and the intangible emotional feelings of insecurity that result from letting wallet-stealers run free stealing wallets? Probably doesn’t exceed $1
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by rlanday 13y ago
If you lock up a repeat offender, you can at least prevent that person from committing more crimes.
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by rlanday 13y ago
Is this common, that an automatic transmission won’t immediately shift to neutral? I thought that automatic transmissions usually let you shift to neutral without pushing the shifter button in to let you shift to neutral without blowing thr
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by rlanday 13y ago
It is not true that doctors cannot write prescriptions for people they know.
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by rlanday 13y ago
Doesn’t sensible policy have to be symmetric, like “slightly socialize the gains, slightly socialize the losses”?
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by rlanday 13y ago
“This is why I wonder, to this day, why a coalition of entrepreneurs do not support a basic income. It is the ultimate hedge against failure in a capitalistic society, and would severely curtail the risks of failed ventures for every indivi
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by rlanday 13y ago
Well, even if the employer pays the cost on paper, because the supply of labor is relatively inelastic, realistically, employees, at least in a competitive labor market, eat that cost through lower wages. I’m convinced it’s a way for the go
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by rlanday 13y ago
Citation needed on both points. Most evidence points to IQ scores being valid measures of intelligence, in that they have some predictive power, especially for average life outcomes for groups of people, and are mostly stable throughout lif
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by rlanday 13y ago
Not everyone has the aptitude to do certain jobs. I‘m never going to be a professional basketball player, and most people are never going to be professional software engineers. I think some of the best and brightest students who previously
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by rlanday 13y ago
I think even people with insurance pay $2,000 or somewhere in that ballpark to have their wisdom teeth removed. Dental insurance operates differently from health insurance in that there’s usually a fairly low yearly cap, so it’s not really
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by rlanday 13y ago
I think there are a lot of people who claim to not be influenced by advertising but actually are. Just because you’re not clicking on ads doesn’t mean they’re not succeeding at influencing your behavior: http://www.nielsen.com&#x
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by rlanday 13y ago
Are people saying this because the Xbox actually makes money, or just because it’s popular and seems successful? The most recent overall look at profits I’m aware of is this one: http://www.neowin.net/news/report-micros
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by rlanday 13y ago
I think a big part of the reason is that they don’t want random people posting on the internet about all the bugs they encountered with prerelease software and how much it sucks, because it can taint people’s opinions of the final product.
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by rlanday 13y ago
“information that is independently developed by You without the use of any Apple Confidential Information ” I imagine there has to be some provision for being allowed to tell other developers about bugs in their apps (does it have to be on
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It’s not clear that that would necessarily lead to better allocation of resources; I’m sure there are some degrees that give people skills to create a lot of value, but right now people can already borrow money to get a degree if they think
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by rlanday 13y ago
I hadn’t thought of this effect, but it’s kind of an ingenious way to market test prep. I think at some point, students’ scores stop improving, from a combination of having been exposed to all the background material necessary for the test
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by rlanday 13y ago
“Such tests are blind to a student’s high school record—instead, they are intended as an independent, objective measure of college “readiness”.” Claiming that the SAT measures “college readiness” is complete and utter bullshit. The SAT mea
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by rlanday 13y ago
Savings, right, since we want rich people to spend money instead of hoarding it to drive the economy? Or value creation, since it causes economic inequalities? Or maybe even consumption, I guess, if you hate America and don't believe t
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by rlanday 13y ago
Do you think racism harms crack users more than their crack use?
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by rlanday 13y ago
I would like to see that study if you can find it. IQ is generally believed to become more genetic (that is, environmental effects start to wear off) as people get older.
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What the hell!? One in five teenagers has witnessed someone being shot? I must live a sheltered life…
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by rlanday 13y ago
I’m reading it now; it is fascinating, because the idea that it’s possible to measure intelligence and used it to predict probabilities for individual and group outcomes is one of the most useful, strongest-supported ideas in all of the soc
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I think your explanations are largely incorrect. I’m currently partway through reading The Bell Curve; it investigates a number of things people often attribute to socioeconomic status and tries to compare the effects of socioeconomic statu
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If you’re an Internet company trying to pull advertising dollars away from TV, one of your arguments is that you can do much better tracking. When you run a TV ad, everyone watching the show gets the same ad, and people watching different s
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by rlanday 13y ago
The sorting continues in college; SAT scores are most predictive for the first year, before less-capable students switch out of the hard majors. My guess is that nearly all of the engineers Google hires score very highly, and in that sense

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