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by temphn 13y ago
Places with good weather have huge visible homeless populations Singapore has great weather and no visible homeless population. The government there generally keeps mentally ill people off the streets.
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by temphn 13y ago
My basic gripe with Bell-curve arguments against female genius is that at the high end, in the exponential tail, fine-tuning is needed Well, actually no fine-tuning is needed. The Central Limit Theorem is most valid for a su
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by temphn 13y ago
Have you heard of stereotype threat enough to convince someone who believes in it? Well, stereotype threat has actually been debunked. I encourage you to read this full pdf, including Steele and Aronson's response and Sackett/Har
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by temphn 13y ago
You don't link to actual molecular genetic research on behavior and sex differences. I will. Let's do two quick examples. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/15/science/studying-recent-hu... Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, res
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by temphn 13y ago
This is utterly devastating and long overdue. Sandberg makes $845 million in a year (at a company she didn't found), lives a charmed life, and is promoted aggressively by men...yet has managed to convince herself that the world is/was biase
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by temphn 13y ago
No real revolution in 3D printing will come from the US government. It is busy trying to chase down CAD files for 3DP guns. It will likewise try to chase down CAD files for medical devices and pharmaceuticals. It will fail, but it will wast
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by temphn 13y ago
If your first priority is your kids, your first priority is not your work. That's fine, it's a choice, but there is a frequent claim that the massive incremental time demand of kids makes one so much more time efficient at work that it more
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by temphn 13y ago
Don't usually link to Reddit, but this is worthy of note. In a thread with 3600 comments and 3000+ upvotes was the following exchange: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1e0ybl/3d_gun_bl... I'm sorry, I seem to have stumbled
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by temphn 13y ago
cturner, you're actually right overall here. The DD team has succeeded in 3D printing a rifle barrel that works for 10 shots. See the Forbes article linked at the very top of the thread.
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Explain to me how talented coder 'x' (whoever, maybe will1000) will be able to live without any compensation whatsoever during 18 months. Savings? Perhaps if Bitcoin rises and deflation becomes the norm, it will become more co
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Here is the raw file itself: http://defcad.org/liberator http://defcad.org/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/downlo... The ATF has actually said in Forbes that it is legal in the US to download and 3D print this file for personal use.
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by temphn 13y ago
The thing about the basic guaranteed income is that it's not usually thought through beyond the first step. Let's extrapolate it out. Say you receive this income. What would you do? Perhaps you would go down to the store and purchase rice.
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by temphn 13y ago
Exactly. Moreover, the real underlying issue here is that many people think they could do the CEO job. What's so special about ordering around flunkies all day? They don't fully appreciate the idea that a CEO of a 1000 person business is th
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by temphn 13y ago
You really should go start a company already and show everyone how it's really done. Half of Hacker News and Google awaits it with bated breath. Michael O. Church, "1.8 level" god programmer who is the only smart one in a land of idiots! It
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by temphn 13y ago
How much money does the NRA have? How big is the gun industry? How much money does the mainstream media and the federal government have? Or OFA and Soros, for that matter? Worth a bit of Googling. Methinks you don't have a good order-of-mag
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Surprising to resist one kind of massive state power and then support another. If the US government really didn't want mentally ill people to get guns then the homeless would be off the streets and in prisons or asylums. Instead there was a
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by temphn 13y ago
Question: has Paul Krugman made a practice of releasing his raw data? Can anyone point me to the database of tab-delimited text files behind the econometric papers he's written, or to any systematic attempts to replicate them? If not, shoul
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by temphn 13y ago
Bingo. 250,000 paid back over a decade with interest is a sizeable chunk of lifetime earnings.
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by temphn 13y ago
Replaced with a short link. Thanks. Regarding gas prices, Bush's wars drove up the price of oil. And then just when our adventures in Iraq finally came to an end, the money printing began in earnest. Obama hasn't helped by keeping Keystone
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by temphn 13y ago
Sure, let's talk facts. 1) Fixed the link to include the four year gas chart. Up from $2.03 to $3.57 in four years. Doesn't bode well for your case. Short link due to ampersands: http://goo.gl/R4r0f 2) You seem to grant that inflation con
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by temphn 13y ago
First, take a gander at M0, to get a sense of how much money has been printed: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/BASE That shows you what actually happened to the money supply. In other words, the central factual claim made by
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by temphn 13y ago
This woman is just an extremely negative and hostile personality. She's technically competent, so she can justify her behavior in her own head, but she's basically a female bully who thinks people don't like her because she's female. No, th
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by temphn 14y ago
Computer scientists have proven themselves capable of going into completely unrelated areas (advertising, video, audio, hotels, taxis, airplanes, and most notably payments) and completely disrupting the status quo of the "experts". And thos
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by temphn 14y ago
I do have data to support my position. North Korea vs. South Korea, East Germany vs. West Germany, Maoist China vs. Taiwan/HK/Singapore. Leftism produces poverty, capitalism produces wealth. Communism doesn't work. That's a macro result you
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by temphn 14y ago
That's great about what Keynesian economics says to do. But there haven't been controlled experiments in which thousands of different countries ran economies with different characteristics and parameters. With virtual economies and digital
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Y2K: nothing bad happened after the intervention of computer scientists. 2008 banking crisis: terrible things happened even with (or because of) the intervention of economists.
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We're not getting a lot of economists writing on Bitcoin. What's the track record of economists vs. computer scientists over the past ten years (or twenty, or fifty)? You don't have liberal sorting algorithms and conservative ones,
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These are seller pages, not user pages. Sellers are web indexed by default. You could argue that Coinbase shouldn't index these pages and that they should only be accessible from seller websites, but sellers have already made them public on
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by temphn 14y ago
Let's focus on a single parallel: True or false: under Moore's law, your dollar can buy K transistors today and 2K transistors in 18 months (ignoring inflation for now). Nevertheless, people do buy and sell computers in immense volume. True
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Might men and women actually be neurologically different? Louann Brizendine and Doreen Kimura (neuroscientists both) sure think so, and present copious evidence to that effect: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0767920104 http://www.science.

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