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by zasz 18y ago
I flagged a ton of them too, so it's not just you.
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by zasz 18y ago
The SkylerNovak and Robert something accounts have been created only a couple hours ago. They're just trolling. I think you're being perfectly courteous and upmodded you accordingly.
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by zasz 18y ago
Maybe not absolutely "anybody," but it allows a lot of people with no sense of aesthetics to make decent-looking documents, which is still pretty successful. If you don't need to do any mathematical notation, TeX is not difficult to use, es
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by zasz 18y ago
Goddamn it, why do we still feel the need to emphasize "the most powerful FEMALE" executive bit? Isn't it enough to recognize that she's damn powerful without taking her out of the general pool of executives and thereby not comparing her to
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by zasz 18y ago
It's nice, but I find it unintuitive that the left/right arrows take you to the top of the next column instead of to the poster immediately to the left or right.
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by zasz 18y ago
The problem with those studies is that they analyzed successful experts. I want to see a study where they have everyone putting in thousands of hours of work. How many kids get into Juilliard every year, and how many achieve the same level
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by zasz 18y ago
Just because you're deaf, doesn't mean you can't have mechanical aptitude. And what if your limitation is that you have Down's Syndrome? Clearly, some parts of human ability are genetic, and some of the variance in human ability is innate.
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by zasz 18y ago
It makes more sense to say that talent is necessary but not sufficient. I'd like the writer to provide examples of people who had no apparent talent at all, even lacking whatever talents are necessary to get into a good college, and show me
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by zasz 18y ago
I'm all for such groups targeted exclusively for minorities, even if there were no longer any discrimination. Suppose you're a member of minority M, looking to get into group G, which is dominated by members of group D, who are all signific
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by zasz 18y ago
RTFA. The difference in pay was much greater than 1.5%. Men who became women took a 32% pay cut, while women who became men got a 1.5% pay raise. Assuming two trangsender people were earning the exact same amount beforehand, then the new wo
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by zasz 18y ago
You sound like Henry Ford's customers, who thought they would be happy with a faster horse.
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by zasz 18y ago
Which of Google's billion dollar resources did Sergey use? It's a fucking blog post. He can write pro-gay blog posts and still donate to AIDS orphans at the same time.
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Who Needs Harvard?(brookings.edu)
1 points by zasz 18y ago|1 comments
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by zasz 18y ago
They've actually done a study on the effect of colleges on success here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7322 . They looked at students who got into Princeton about 30 years ago, and compared the success of those who went to Princeton versus t
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Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN?
31 points by zasz 18y ago|38 comments
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by zasz 18y ago
Oh. Oops.
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by zasz 18y ago
I'm sorry, but...WHY do you keep referring to Sarah Lacy as "he"?
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by zasz 18y ago
They are equiprobable. When the coin is flipped, it is 50% likely that it will be heads or tails. When it's tails, Beauty must be interviewed again. Therefore, the number of times she's in the state Monday+tails is equal to the number of ti
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by zasz 18y ago
Seconded about the support, but you must pay a year in advance. Their 30 day back guarantee is very nice, though.
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by zasz 18y ago
Well, explaining why you thought a point was wrong is a little different than trying to hide dislike or indifference towards a person. The former isn't personal.
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by zasz 18y ago
I do agree a lack of evidence does not make a thesis wrong. Everyone thought the discoverer of plate tectonics was wrong because he was unable to provide a precise mechanism for how the continents might move, despite an impressive array of
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by zasz 18y ago
Thanks a lot. I'll definitely keep this in mind if I do any freelancing of any kind in the future.
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by zasz 18y ago
Thanks for the eloquent post. I'm going to cool off a bit longer, ask for the original amount, and then walk away if they decline.
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by zasz 18y ago
By "easy to work with" I mean qualities such as being amiable, outgoing, funny, or good-looking. Those are valuable traits, but pointing out who's the nicest guy in the room's not the problem here, and it's not even a difficult problem to s
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, no. I suppose I could have emailed the code to them, but as non-technical people, they wouldn't be able to do much with it beyond passing it on to someone else. Anyway, thanks for the hosting suggestions; I'll definitely check them o
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, of course I did. They're also not physically present and not technical at all. Just emailing them the code wasn't an option. Is $300 really such a bad deal for a whole year in advance, by the way? It works out to about $20 a month.
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by zasz 18y ago
I think his second assumption that people know who the high performers are is wrong. Often, recognizing competence requires a great deal of competence. Also, I think d0mine's right that kinder people who are easy to work with but not necess
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by zasz 18y ago
It's a Rails app at hostingrails.com. Great customer service and nice options, but they forced me to pay a year in advance. Hence the ludicrous cost. Also, a friend who's made some nice apps with Rails recommended them to me. Anyway, I can
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by zasz 18y ago
Yes, the hosting expense was approved. After the client (fellow college student) saw the site, they submitted a checklist of things they wanted to change. Aside from adding search functionality, it was very minor stuff like adding a link ba
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by zasz 18y ago
Hm, so adding you into the total, half are for just eating the cost, and half are for going after the original fee. Aah! Thanks a lot for responding though.

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