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by thras 17y ago
Legal obligations are only a small fraction of the real obligations of men.
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by thras 17y ago
Is it an obligation to tell your boss about a health problem that could keep you from finishing an important task? Of course. Steve Jobs' boss is his stockholders.
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by thras 17y ago
The number of failed credit card authorizations each month sounds like a useful economic indicator. There might be quants on Wall Street that could do something interesting with that sort of data.
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by thras 17y ago
Yes, I've noticed him coming up on my RSS feed ever since the liver transplant news.
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by thras 17y ago
Indeed. It's quite non-intuitive, but the naive assumption that the last digits are randomly distributed is simply wrong. Here is a V.I. Arnold essay about Benford's Law: http://www.math.ru.nl/~mueger/arnold.pdf
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by thras 17y ago
I know. My self-appraisal of my own human worth just went down the toilet.
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by thras 17y ago
Personally, I always downvote based upon human worth. Upvotes? Only if I think you're hot.
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by thras 17y ago
Most of that I am pretty automatic on. But one thing that I notice when I'm coding is that I don't really know many commands to make it easier to handle everything in between two brackets or parenthesis or what have you. Sure, there is the
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by thras 17y ago
That's funny, because I always had the impression that on a personal scale he was an asshole to his friends and strangers. But yeah, I like my iPhone.
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by thras 17y ago
Come on. Playing card companies don't spend money and time to restrict the "playing card platform." Alarm clocks don't even have firmware to restrict and alarm clock companies don't care one way or another if their users take them apart and
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by thras 17y ago
The mnemonic method being referred to is aimed as specifically learning written Japanese. It is not about learning words. It's about learning kanji . The problem is that Japanese has the most complicated written language in the world. It h
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by thras 17y ago
One means that you've got a President and the other means you have a Queen.
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by thras 17y ago
What step gave you trouble? Other than the typo in the first equation (F_n should be F_(i-1)).
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by thras 17y ago
This is price-fixing in the labor market. Collusion to keep tech wages low by artificially limiting competition. Of course, white male tech workers are are the beaten wife of industry. They take what they're given and shut up about it. I ex
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by thras 17y ago
I just did a quick order of magnitude calculation to see how many times that exact comment has been written in response to a story on the internet containing the word "decimate," and I came up with 10^7.
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by thras 17y ago
I get 6 points because at least 6 other people here found it insightful. Now, whatever the "goal" of feminism is doesn't matter. Just like the "goal" of communism never mattered. Results are what matter. And the results of feminism have bee
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by thras 17y ago
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics has a good description of this starting on page 572. Basically the proof goes like this: Define a random variable that can only take on integer values. Show that the expected value is less than one. Th
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by thras 17y ago
Have you ever known a characteristically "feminist" woman whom you'd describe as "pleasant"? Feminism does not lead to fulfilling life-choices. Computer science, for example, is not the most emotionally fulfilling career around for women, e
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by thras 17y ago
I was just discussing this exact topic with a geneticist friend of mine about 15 minutes ago. Small world. One thing it does prove is that the problem of cancer suppression has been solved before. By evolution. That should give researchers
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by thras 17y ago
It's a hash container, right? I do have a use for it, but it took some serious investigation to find out anything about it. The poster you replied to was spot on.
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by thras 17y ago
Yes. There is no pure objective measurement, but...You still need to hire some people and not hire others. Value judgments are not randomly distributed. Science is a built upon forging objective consensus out of individual opinion. It even
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by thras 17y ago
Unfortunately, both systems are too easy to game by those who happen to be more unprofessional than average. In the end, these sorts of systems are foisted on us by the paid bureaucrat-class that pays itself quite well for doing all that re
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by thras 17y ago
Oh, god, not Shalizi. Back when I was a younger fellow, still willing to devote long chunks of my time in pointless internet debates, I thought of writing up a long critique of Shalizi. He's wrong, and purposefully so. He invokes straw man
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by thras 17y ago
I hadn't come across the APA link you provided before, but I had read the Bowles study. He's absolutely right if you assume that inherited wealth, race, and schooling are all independent of IQ. But there's plenty of evidence to show they ar
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by thras 17y ago
You're right. I didn't say which caused what. I can if you'd like though: Sibling and SES-normed adoption studies tend to show that intelligence is the cause and not the result.
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by thras 17y ago
Christopher Alexander (the original design pattern guy) has a somewhat similar view. Except that he took four books to say it. The books are quite beautiful though.
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by thras 17y ago
I implied nothing. I said what I said. Your solution, however, leaves much to be desired. Affirmative action for the unintelligent is unlikely to lead to wonderful economic success on any scale.
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by thras 17y ago
The poor tend to be the stupid (plenty of studies to back this up), and hence the poverty. Since they are more stupid, they fall for stupid payday loan schemes, credit card idiocy, etc., at rates greater than the rich do. Please do not repl
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by thras 17y ago
I agree that the original author's argument was no good. However, you're wrong about the $9.99 price. The price should be set by supply and demand to maximize revenue. Selling three ebooks for $9.99 is better than selling one ebook for $26.
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by thras 17y ago
That's the most poignant argument for WA that I've seen yet.

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