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by schoper 13y ago
If we lived in a world where journalists knew the slightest bit about critical thinking: Hmm, I wonder if the cardboard box cuts Finland's infant mortality. Maybe I should look up infant mortality for Norway and Sweden? Oh, it's exactly the
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by schoper 13y ago
She's popular because she's so popular? Sounds like Google should hire Angelina Jolie as CEO to compete.
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by schoper 13y ago
Where does all the bizarre over-the-top Marisa-love on HN come from? Yahoo couldn't actually be wasting money on paying for this PR could it? I'm beginning to think that there is some bizarre Natalie Portman nerd obsession phenomenon going
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by schoper 13y ago
Biology. Icelanders in the U.S. don't murder people very often either. Nordics make good neighbors. Then again, if you've read the Icelandic Sagas, you'll find that they used to be bloodthirsty enough in pre-modernity. Culture matters too.
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by schoper 13y ago
@pg -- You're still listed as a fwd.us supporter. Care to explain yourself? http://www.fwd.us/our_supporters
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by schoper 13y ago
Whatever drives violent crime in the U.S. does not seem to be the presence or absence of guns. The white murder rate in America is about the same as it is in Europe/Canada, etc. The black murder rate is about the same as it is in parts of A
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by schoper 13y ago
They finally fix: func hello() int { if true { return 0 } else { return 1 } } >go run func.go ./func.go:3: function ends without a return statement
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by schoper 13y ago
Even if it were true that "the economy of this country would not stand as strong without the constant influx of immigrants" -- and it's not true, it's foolish -- you would still want to consider before selling your birthright for the bowl o
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by schoper 13y ago
To clear up any misunderstanding: Is it ever acceptable to have feelings of anger and hatred? Yes, surely. There are situations in life that demand that response. Are whites the only acceptable target? Surely not.
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by schoper 13y ago
Using "white" as a casual negative adjective is weak. I can respect non-whites using it as a term of anger or hatred. We're all big boys. But seeing it used as a term of self-hatred leaves me feeling more than a little disgusted.
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by schoper 13y ago
What is the non-Asian minority percentage of the area where you live and raise your family? If you live in a city with a high non-Asian minority population (ie., lots of blacks and Hispanics), then I respect your opinion (though I disagree)
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by schoper 14y ago
If you decide to abstain from the normal generic pronoun "because women feel that you aren't referring to them when you use he," then that very logic means that you aren't referring to men when you use "she" to talk about stupid individuals
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Yanis Varoufakis Explains How (Well) Zero Hierarchy Works at Valve(econtalk.org)
1 points by schoper 14y ago|0 comments
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by schoper 14y ago
That's pretty sexist! There's no reason to think that women are worse than men at evaluating market opportunities.
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by schoper 14y ago
She was sidelined at Google for years and basically forced out. Despite that, and despite her pregnancy, Yahoo still hired her. Every indication is that she is at Yahoo as an Image CEO. Further, the only thing that makes my claim "extraordi
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by schoper 14y ago
Mayer is not there to clock hours or save Yahoo with her brilliant ideas. You don't hire a pregnant CEO to get things done. Yahoo has to take a number of unpopular actions in order to get back into the game. Remote workers tend to be medioc
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by schoper 14y ago
He addresses it (barely), but not in regards to brain versus tissue regulation, which is the context where I brought it up. What he says (the injection site issue is "argument #4" in his article): "cases where insulin levels and/or insulin
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by schoper 14y ago
I'm not too impressed by Stephan Guyenet's article. He is wrong about one of his main points that fat is completely regulated by the brain and that insulin does not cause fat gain. You can Google for photographs of people who have done insu
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A Week With Nothing but the Surface Pro(wired.com)
1 points by schoper 14y ago|0 comments
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Sorry Left AND Right, No Job Requires A College Degree(forbes.com)
2 points by schoper 14y ago|2 comments
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by schoper 14y ago
He mentions that his bowel movements have stopped on the "Soylent." I'd watch out for gall bladder disease if I were him.
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by schoper 14y ago
I noticed problems with Google Reader last night. Not present in Firefox and they went away when I restarted Chrome.
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by schoper 14y ago
In a world of perfect information, that would work. In a Bayesian world (ours), it doesn't work. Say that you have two types of widgets, widget A and widget B. Both have tolerances that fall along the same normal distribution but with diffe
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by schoper 14y ago
"Unsupported gender stereotypes." Stated also as "opinions based on experience." Possibly also "opinions based on experience that contradict one's equality indoctrination in kindergarten and therefore deserve loud public indignation."
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by schoper 14y ago
Nope, that's not actually how science works. Rather, that is "formally" how science work. Actual practice is far more messy. Personalities matter, personal bureaucratic clout matters. And happily, informal communication and message boards m
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by schoper 14y ago
The collected historical temperature data series are messy. You plot them and it looks like noise. A simple average will tell you nothing. The regression analysis that goes on in these reconstructions tends to follow something like this alg
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by schoper 14y ago
Actually no. The non-homogeneous states in America with lots of Nordic peoples tend to be the best governed as well. Think Minnesota ("think Minnesota" is the answer to every statistic comparing Europe to the States, crime, gun control, hea
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by schoper 14y ago
What do you propose we do about a man who kills his wife (or some other enemy) over a long held grudge and poses exactly zero threat to anyone else?
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by schoper 14y ago
Moldbug is Jewish. You can't say it, but he can.
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by schoper 14y ago
I didn't say anything about crime. There are all sorts of things that make your life far worse without causing crime: fast food, credit card debt, laziness. Unsurprisingly, many of them are sexual; promiscuous sex and adultery can ruin your

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