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by tchaffee 7y ago
My music school provides free theory classes if you take any weekly class to learn how to play an instrument. The professors teaching you an instrument know what theory you are learning - so they will then include that in the music you are
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by tchaffee 7y ago
That's still anecdote. You haven't even established which "side" is promoting this 100% nurture story. The vast majority of the progressives / socially liberal people I personally know think that both nature and nur
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by tchaffee 7y ago
> And the next step after finding a correlation with race No one is studying genetics and heritibility of traits using race. It's an outdated model that is broken. We look directly at genes now. > That's irrelevant. It'
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by tchaffee 7y ago
> A and C could procreate, and A and B could procreate, and D could procreate successfully with C but fail to procreate successfully with B. What are the species involved in this case? That's still rigorous and biologically based. W
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by tchaffee 7y ago
How much is lots? You gave one isolated example. That's anecdote. We are back to my original questions: do you have any data to back up your claim that one side is claiming it's 100% nurture? Or is it anecdotal? > countless new
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by tchaffee 7y ago
The nature argument doesn't say you can't change it. Just that the source of your inclination is built in genetically and from birth rather than being a result of nurture. Are boys more aggressive due to nature? Considering that w
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by tchaffee 7y ago
It's not effectively illegal. That's a mis-characterization of both current law and that lawsuit in particular. The court ruled that "the company's employment requirements did not pertain to applicants' ability to p
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by tchaffee 7y ago
> but it is not based on any formal, rigourous analytical division of intrinsic properties Actually it often is. For example one way to determine species is as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriat
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by tchaffee 7y ago
The factors I listed have nothing to do with a polished resume. It's comparing information with a strong signal. Stereotypes are actually an extremely poor quality signal when hiring. If you use them, you're doing more work than y
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by tchaffee 7y ago
> There are probably also innate differences between different races. That's highly unlikely aside from a few genes having to do with appearance. Race is determined by society, and is not a grouping of similar genetic populations. A
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by tchaffee 7y ago
> Since it's illegal to hire based on intelligence in the US Source? This article says it can be legal. https://www.hiresuccess.com/resources/guide-to-employment-te... > when you're evaluating hundreds,
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by tchaffee 7y ago
If you put it in historical context it's neither hypersensitive nor paranoid. People did and do hold beliefs as universally applicable to every member of a group. Women were not allowed to vote in the USA less than 100 years ago. Only
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Do you have any data to back up your claim that one side is claiming it's 100% nurture? Or is it anecdotal? If we are going with anecdotal data, then here's mine: I've almost never heard anyone say it's 100% nurture. I h
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by tchaffee 7y ago
This is HN, not Reddit. Take your politics and condescension elsewhere please.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Actually your argument is simply wrong. > you didn't qualify with "usually" or "often" You're being pedantic. It is called involuntary manslaughter. And it's most often called that. And sometimes it is
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by tchaffee 7y ago
It's only false if you are willing to be a victim of confirmation bias. "DUI manslaughter charges are more common than DUI murder charges. Simply put, an intoxicated driver is arrested after causing an accident that resulted in
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by tchaffee 7y ago
It's not impossible. Some of that border has steep mountains. Bombs don't always drop where you plan . Which is called an accident .
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by tchaffee 7y ago
The other possibility is one side of the border.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Great example. Killing someone while drunk is called involuntary manslaughter. Because it's an accident. It was not planned. It wasn't intentional. I never once claimed that accidents can't be horrible. Or that reckless behav
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by tchaffee 7y ago
like... wtf are you arguing for? You seem to be upset that negligence is a word that describes irresponsible behavior with unintentional results. It's still an accident. It wasn't planned. That is my initial and only point.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Please point out where I said you know the blast radius and which direction it heads. Not to mention it's an analogy and I'm not a bombing expert. You can probably figure out my point.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
The thread is not about whether or not whoever did it gets punished. The question is whether or not it was accidental or if damaging Merck was an intentional act. Based on the evidence so far, it sure seems like damaging Merck was a result
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by tchaffee 7y ago
To be more specific, involuntary manslaughter. Which is broadly speaking an accident that occurred while committing a crime. Or due to some other negligence. We are still firmly in the territory of accident, regardless of the legal conseq
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Not really per the article. The article says there are claims that it was an act of war against Ukraine. It does not provide proof that it was in fact an act of war.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Yes I am serious. Are you? How about we keep this respectful and do away with the condescending tone, which is not really welcome here on Hacker News? 9/11 was presumably intended to damage as much property and kill as many people as p
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Did that military agency plan for it to damage Merck? Or was that an accident?
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by tchaffee 7y ago
I've been coding for at least two decades, and possibly a lot longer if I want to stay vague about my age. It's definitely not getting worse imo. First, a CS education is nice to have but being a great engineer and having a degree
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Full stack dev here. Both the frontend and backend lists look reasonable and I know all the tools and the vast majority of the terms. I do agree with you that the lists look overwhelming. Some information hiding and ability to reveal would
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by tchaffee 7y ago
Seems flawed and easy to debunk. What you see can also deeply affect emotions. Sunny day versus cold cloudy day.
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by tchaffee 7y ago
It's a tool like any other and I reach for it when tests will help me write code faster and at a higher level of quality. Which is pretty often with new code. Also always before a refactor. Document all the existing states and input an

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