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What drives suicidal mass killers(nytimes.com)
3 points by zootar 14y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 14y ago
You seem to be mocking a claim that no one is making, namely, that it's reasonable to expect salary increases throughout one's career while relying exclusively on some limited initial training. The claim actually being made is that in an
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We’re mortgaging the future of the younger generation (Niall Ferguson)(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by zootar 14y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 14y ago
No, it doesn't boil down to that. They agree on what information can be encoded genetically. They disagree on a detail of the mechanism of evolution: To what extent does selection occur at various "levels" (gene, individual, kin-group, sp
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by zootar 14y ago
Are you claiming that Wilson would in fact say something like that about squirrels? If so, why? If not, then what scientist agrees with you if neither Dawkins nor his rival Wilson? More to the point, that quote doesn't refer to the info
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by zootar 14y ago
Is it your understanding that Dawkins and Wilson (or any other reputable scientist) disagree about the information content of genes? If so, can you provide a source for that?
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by zootar 14y ago
> Organisms do not exist in a vacuum, they interact with other organisms in their environment in myriad cooperative and competitive ways, and that affects which organisms survive and reproduce and which do not What's your point? In wha
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by zootar 14y ago
If anyone is reading this comment without having read the article, note that he didn't do this inadvertently: "If it was authority that got the paper published, there is poetic justice in deploying authority in reply."
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How to build an economic model in your spare time(people.ischool.berkeley.edu)
1 points by zootar 14y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 14y ago
They do show some businesses that failed. In these cases, the implication is that the sharks' decision not to invest is vindicated.
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by zootar 14y ago
I just installed the iOS app. It's totally locked up on the "are you sure you want to invite without a quick video" dialog. None of the buttons do anything (including "Cancel").
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Undermining the welfare state by denying benefits to the rich(bmj.com)
1 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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Wronger than wrong(scientificamerican.com)
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by zootar 15y ago
Today's business environment does not exert any evolutionary pressure on the human species.
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by zootar 15y ago
Why do you think selection favors "those who are able to work well with others of all races"?
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How economic inequality harms societies (video)(youtube.com)
1 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 15y ago
Are there any known instances of a lecture recording being used against an instructor unfairly? I doubt doing things that could be construed as "out of line, incorrect, inappropriate, whatever" really improve your lectures in a significant
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by zootar 15y ago
The comparison isn't necessarily between remote operation of a drone and flying a plane. As I recall from On Killing [1], air crews have lower rates of PTSD than infantry. I would expect killing someone through a drone's video feed and fr
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Ron Rivest's ThreeBallot voting system(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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What if you built a machine to predict hit movies?(newyorker.com)
1 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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Parnas on basic science for software developers(cas.mcmaster.ca)
17 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 15y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165372
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The EFF Tor Challenge(eff.org)
6 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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by zootar 15y ago
Even your present reply makes me glad that the Sonne article was submitted to HN. To you, the Sonne story is important. To me, it seems important, but I can't be sure what the article's biases might be. I suspect there are some, since I
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by zootar 15y ago
Your comment on yesterday's submission "Byron Sonne's G20 Focus Cost Him Dearly" indicates that your politics detector is over-sensitive. The article (and the HN discussion) isn't political in any meaningful way. It's about the law and th
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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima' (2010)(independent.co.uk)
6 points by zootar 15y ago|0 comments
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The Tyranny of the Extroverts(allendowney.com)
219 points by zootar 16y ago|87 comments
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Khan of Khan Academy at TED (video)(youtube.com)
492 points by zootar 16y ago|97 comments
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by zootar 16y ago
Tom Clancy plot generator http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=five_shitty_... (see #4)
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by zootar 16y ago
I, too, am irritated by people who advocate raising taxes for (or greater charity in) every bracket above their own. But Harris isn't doing that. He's asking the two former richest people in the world to tell him how to spend the fruits o

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