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by rory 6y ago
That's interesting. Similar to how many people rely on university networks to segregate their dating pool roughly by IQ (although more informally). Is the gender ratio reasonable for straight couples? My imagined version of Mensa is a
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by rory 6y ago
Very-low-intelligence people also have high rates of psychological disorder as well though. Perhaps brains that are atypical in their intelligence also tend to be atypical in other ways.
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by rory 6y ago
That is odd. If the tests were simply dumbed down, wouldn't Mensa just raise the required score? The implication is that these tests have become less IQ-correlated. I'd be interested to see a comparison in the type of questions fr
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by rory 6y ago
> It’s also possible that people who join Mensa differ from other people in ways other than just IQ. For example, people preoccupied with intellectual pursuits may spend less time than the average person on physical exercise and social
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by rory 6y ago
Perl is far less exotic than COBOL when compared to modern languages that are still in heavy use. It looks kinda like C or PHP and feels kinda like Python or Ruby. I've never written COBOL but it looks almost as foreign to me as a punc
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by rory 6y ago
You said: Being unaware of something is orthogonal to being affected by it. You truly believe that being aware of something and being affected my that same thing are independent and uncorrelated ? So if a bomb goes off, my awarene
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by rory 6y ago
Right, but the context here is not the guy seeking help. It's him explaining why he thinks it's okay for his girlfriend (now wife) to work with vulnerable children while he actively produces content fantasizing about raping childr
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by rory 6y ago
I don't think that's correct. Certainly you're less likely to be aware of something if you aren't affected by it. I think maybe we programmers just overuse the word orthogonal. But regardless, as concerning as these poli
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by rory 6y ago
I think it's less about policing and more about the size/content of the subreddit. I check a few sports subreddits and some about fantasy books. I would never notice all this drama if it weren't on HN, because those subreddit
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by rory 6y ago
This is definitely an issue with microservices, but how do frameworks contribute? I've moved more toward monolithic frameworks over the last year (Next.js and Phoenix specifically), and it feels to me like local setup is easier and bui
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by rory 6y ago
Remember when censorship was supposedly about protecting the children? This woman had publicly shown herself to be more accepting of pedophilia and child rape than 99.99% of the population, and Reddit hired her as a censor. It really makes
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by rory 6y ago
Are you saying that you think the people who pushed this law had no opinion whatsoever on the activity itself, but just wanted black and latino people to suffer through an arbitrary ban? It seems much more reasonable to guess that neighbors
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by rory 6y ago
In the linked study, 75% of the fatalities happen at night. 32% of pedestrians struck are drunk, and 13% of striking drivers are drunk. There is mention of drug treatment as a prevention method, but no specific statistics for non-alcohol in
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by rory 6y ago
Fantasy sports are a great way to foster/maintain adult long-distance friendships too. I find standard fantasy pretty boring, but it can become a very interesting strategy game with a two tweaks: 1. Teams carry a significant number of
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by rory 6y ago
I attended a reading from A Beautiful Question when it came out and Frank's love for his work was incredibly palpable. I gave my signed copy of the book to an ex in an attempt to seem smart and cultured. I wish I'd kept it.
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by rory 6y ago
Right, but in the case we're talking about (baseball cards), the counterfeit is worth WAY less. I'd guess it's worth about as much as a JPEG of it sized to be a phone wallpaper. Maybe a dollar.
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by rory 6y ago
I guess, but if the point is interacting with the physical card, why are "counterfeit" cards worthless? Can't you interact with them in the exact same way as the "real" baseball card the counterfeit is copying? It s
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by rory 6y ago
Sure, there is still innovation coming out of Detroit and Cleveland, but I still think if SF/SV became like one of those cities that would qualify as "dying" to a lot of people who currently live there.
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by rory 6y ago
It does seem really stupid, but I don't see how it's substantively different than (also stupid-seeming) physical collectibles like baseball cards or Bearbricks. The supply of the "special" versions of those two collectib
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by rory 6y ago
I have a couple friends that went this path and one reason for the absurd hours seems to be that their work needs to be done in between the times the boss is working. A more senior analyst will hand off analysis to be done overnight or on a
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by rory 6y ago
Hey I actually like that dark, spiced chocolate! I'm also skeptical it's any more expensive than the Swiss chocolate sold in gaudy mall stores like Lindt and Teuscher. There's obviously a market for these sort of "non-Eu
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by rory 6y ago
Maybe the government is trying to pressure Swiss companies up the value chain to move processing operations to Ghana? That seems like a reasonable way to increase income to Ghanaians and build local human capital, without having to start in
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by rory 6y ago
This is, at the very least, an interesting though experiment. We often suppose: (we can't find intelligent extraterrestrials)⊃(there is a great filter ahead of us) But what if: (we have passed a great filter)⊃(there aren&#x2
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by rory 6y ago
Because elephants and rhinos are cool and interesting, and their existence doesn't cause substantial harm to us or the planet. Do we really need another reason?
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by rory 6y ago
What if the problems aren't clear until the child is born? Or a toddler, or a teen? There's still a lot we don't understand about prenatal environment and how it contributes to the attributes someone has as an adult.
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by rory 6y ago
To give a personal example-- the public school I graduated from has a racial busing program from a school district that spends $24k per student to a school district that spends $15k per student. Many US cities have tried to throw money
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by rory 6y ago
You're right that we should probably ignore San Francisco and a few others to portray the typical American experience. But it's still not obvious why for example Atlanta (22.6x) has almost double the price-to-rent ratio of Milwauk
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by rory 6y ago
> Usually, if housing prices rise, so do rents, pretty much in accord While this would theoretically make sense, it's not actually very true in the United States. There's a significant speculative aspect to housing in some mark
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by rory 6y ago
Not the parent, but the answer here comes down to two simple things: 1. Home prices are not captured in CPI, only rents. 2. The headline CPI is a national number. Home price inflation has actually been somewhat tame overall in recent histor
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by rory 6y ago
It says in the article that humans got just 55% (so 10% better than random chance) on the same test.

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