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by thras 18y ago
Starting with your first point, 1) except among the upper classes, Mexicans are not generally Spaniards. They are of mixed Native American, Spaniard, and to some small degree African descent. The upper class Mexicans tend not to be the ones
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by thras 18y ago
The immigration comment is moronic. The reason that our borders aren't wider open to the world's "best and brightest" is 2-fold. 1) Current American immigration is saturated by the world's worst and dumbest. Low-IQ immigrants contribute mar
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by thras 18y ago
The Devil speaking in the 1967 film Bedazzled: "There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas... I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising."
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by thras 18y ago
It is an article of faith for the Democrats to think that. And the Administration may tell the car manufacturers to produce fewer SUVs as a condition of their bailout. But as another poster has already pointed out, the average American want
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by thras 18y ago
No. You are simply wrong. Here is a chart of the ancestry of European-American individuals across 587 SNP markers: http://dienekes.50webs.com/arp/articles/greekadna/price.jpg The appropriate approach to that chart is to believe our lying
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by thras 18y ago
Yes, I willingly ignored your armchair reasoning. You are saying crazy things directly contradicted by the science and citing no sources. What do you expect me to do?
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by thras 18y ago
But your agreement or non-agreement doesn't matter, since it's based on armchair reasoning. There is real research on this subject, and numbers trump whatever you'd like to be true.
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by thras 18y ago
But that piece is completely wrong. Asimov claims that the talented craftsmen that he's known throughout his life would have scored poorly on IQ tests. His evidence is entirely anecdotal. In fact, when people have studied this, they've foun
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by thras 18y ago
I was under the impression that software, on the whole, has gotten better since the waterfall model was 'kicked to the curb' as the author puts it.
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by thras 18y ago
No. The first thing that I noticed about him was that he had bad grammar, even for Slashdot . The poster responded to a questioner and blamed it on learning disabilities. Chances are, if this guy is unable to present himself in an articula
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by thras 18y ago
The hormone that matters most for fat is insulin. And yes, that puts things smack dab at the door of the pancreas. An insulin shot will tend to make you gain weight (like it does to type 1 diabetics). Don't know what Jobs' doctors are telli
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by thras 18y ago
I think that there is no way to explain this fully without invoking "the Cult of Mac." A lot of people see Steve Jobs as a visionary and important to the development of a number of products that they care deeply about. Very deeply. I don't
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by thras 18y ago
No. That's incorrect. That would cause the year to go up on Dec. 31st (day 366), turning it into day 0. In fact, what you want is to change the while to an if statement. If it really does need to run as a while statement (to add more than o
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by thras 18y ago
If stories are true, Microsoft has some the most code-reviewed software in the world. The levels of bureaucracy they have got to go through are tremendous. First-generation Zune software was so bad that it made iTunes look good. On the othe
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by thras 18y ago
Exactly correct. Your comment should be at the top of this discussion. It took me forever to figure the above out when I first ran into this puzzle in 7th grade. And although this problem is often used to show that humans are bad at doing p
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by thras 18y ago
I'm not too impressed by this. You don't program C++ like you would C. Use vectors. Use RAII instead of new and delete. Use the STL. Of course, most people that 'know' C++ learned it in college, which tends to be a lousy place to learn anyt
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Population growth speeds up Evolution(infoproc.blogspot.com)
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by thras 18y ago
Scroll down to nostrademons' comment. I think that it answers your point.
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by thras 18y ago
Quite right about doctors and lawyers. In fact I was going to mention their professional organizations as an example. Requiring certifications, all for the public good of course, is one of the best ways to inflate wages.
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by thras 18y ago
The author doesn't get it. It's not about measuring results. Great programmers don't get compensated in proportion to their contributions for the same reason that mediocre CEOs are far over-compensated for theirs. Programmers have no power
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by thras 18y ago
As a system administrator, it has often been very useful to me to be able to turn on extra logging when I need to. When something is going wrong, there is sometimes no way to tell what information is important and what is not. A lot of the
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by thras 18y ago
That's a terrible start. I don't think that "William J. Matthews, Ph.D." got beyond the introduction. The statement that "Herrnstein and Murray's assessment of race and class differences...rest on 4 very questionable premises which they sim
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by thras 18y ago
Actually, her mother was the one who raised him. Barack's mother ditched him with her parents so that she could live with her husband and daughter in Indonesia.
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by thras 18y ago
Students do have to work for aid. It's called work-study. This just means that instead of useful jobs at the college where the student may gain experience, they'll be doing stupid Community Service type stuff (like the courts force criminal
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by thras 18y ago
I never found classes valuable myself. You'd be surprised how amazing the ability to read is. Apart from anything else, the spoken word is very slow.
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by thras 18y ago
When you look at the numbers, math scores in the U.S. are much more influenced by demographics than by teaching styles.
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by thras 18y ago
Maybe Google should outsource their customer support. The Vatican has a billion customers and answers everyone who calls them up without the use of any machines (even the guy who calls in every day claiming to be _Saint_ John the Baptist):
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by thras 18y ago
They've genuinely cared so much that their brains have fallen out. I will continue mock them mercilessly. Mock Mock.
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by thras 18y ago
Good god, I can't wait for election season to be over. People buy into the stupid election propaganda more and more every 4 years.
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by thras 18y ago
This is really, really, important. Imagine, 2-3 years from now, when you have access to just about any book ever written through your web browser. If it's out of print, you get it right away for free. If it's being sold somewhere, you pay s

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