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> The book The Bell Curve that you references doesn't make any definite inferences regarding IQ and race.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve
> Herrnstein and Murray report that Asian Americans have a higher mean IQ than white Americans, who in turn outscore black Americans. The book argues that the black-white gap is not due to test bias, noting that IQ tests do not tend to underpredict the school or job performance of black individuals and that the gap is larger on apparently culturally neutral test items than on more culturally loaded items. The authors also note that adjusting for socioeconomic status does not eliminate the black-white IQ gap. However, they argue that the gap is narrowing.

>I know your defense is that you are not "actually" claiming that blacks are inferior intellectually to whites, you are "merely" asking the questions.

I'm not "merely asking questions" I have a thesis. That is, races (defined as geographically based populations) are different from one another in more ways than just their skin color. Of course, there is lots of overlap because we are all human.

>If you think I'm being hostile, it is because your arguments are so incredibly lame. I'm not a geneticist, but even I can refute them

You honestly aren't doing a very good job.
Fatherhood has made me keenly aware that there isn't just one sort of undifferentiated pile of warm emotion that we can call "happiness."

I can feel exhausted and wrung out when my daughter responds to my attempts to make her life better and more comfortable by screaming at me and throwing things. I can feel angry when she does things that she knows are naughty and ignores our rules. And at the same time I can feel proud of her and connected to her and love her and be in awe of her learning and feel incredible when she tells me she loves me.

And I don't think it makes sense to sort of try to treat those like they are just positive and negative numbers and say what does it sum up to, positive or negative? They coexist, they don't cancel each other out. No matter how much I feel great when she tells me she loves me, that doesn't make it less exhausting to worry about the absurd hoops that I have to jump through for an education for her. And no matter how upsetting it is to have someone kick you when you try to help her feel safe after a nightmare, that doesn't make me feel any less deep satisfaction that someone that I help create and teach will (hopefully) survive me and always be part of my life.
Jeff Bezos donates $33M to scholarship fund for ‘dreamers’
The bar hasn't changed. "Quit the b/s will you" was obviously an uncivil slap. If you don't think it is, please adjust your standard to the one that applies here, when commenting here, if you want to keep commenting here.

It's easy to point out that a statement is wrong without being disrespectful, if you want to, and so neither damage the community nor discredit the truth with personal bad behavior. That way we all can learn something.

Perceptions of what's uncivil can vary for legitimate reasons, e.g. differing cultural standards—HN is a highly international community. But for that very reason, we need people to err on the side of being respectful. The alternative leads to wars and ultimately the death of the forum.
Actually, the apps are virtually identical, except for platform UI differences to cater to each group. The Android audience is just not as valuable, dollar-wise, as iOS regardless of market share. Our subscription numbers prove it.
It is backed by its own price in the market and ubiquity.

You completely ignore the service that crypto currencies can provide.

I don't want to have a bank account, or if i really have to, i want banking services to be fast, simple, automated, cheap and lean.
You didn't read the article obviously.
Good for you. Me, on the other hand, would like to see my genome multiply and spread on this planet.
IBM may be prepping for massive changes at Global Technology Services group
Ask HN: When to disclose shameful felony during interview process?
As someone with a very strong software background and a recent felony, I'm wondering what your advice is in securing a local tech job. When should I tell interviewers? Is it even possible to get a tech job ever again? The last person I interviewed with canceled my second interview because she found out about this through google, and suggested maybe I look into contracting, but that sounds just as unlikely because of how easy it is to google me. Should I tell interviewers during the first introductory 30 minute phone call? Would this kind of red flag completely stop you from hiring someone who otherwise seems very qualified? What would make you more likely to keep moving forward with them?
Here is a music video made by the group they talk about in TFA, so you guys can hear the language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmPYVbKWF70
That doesn't have their names on it. I found this with both Raymond and Angela's name on it, but seems mostly unrelated: https://www.google.com/patents/US20120306914
Seems to me like a wider trend of people, for some reason, starting to believe that life should be easy when in the past people believed that life explicitly shouldn't be easy. Guess which group was happier.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dogecoin/#markets
I read that as easily as "proper" Portuguese. Native Brazilian Portuguese speaker here.
Both my wife and I never wanted to have kids. In fact I tend to dislike most kids, especially babies. We accidentally got pregnant, but then lost the baby a few months in. After that my wife wanted to try again. I went along because I love her and a small part of me did want to have kids. He is now 7 months old and I love him to death. But holy fuck, what a pain in the ass this is. And he is a good baby! But he needs 100% attention (not just supervision, but engagement) or else he freaks out. I can’t imagine what a “bad” baby would be like.
I totally feel what the article is saying about feeling trapped. I feel like I do not exist anymore, but that everything I do is for him. There are risks I can’t take now. Ideas I can’t pursue. Hobbies I won’t have time again for years. Haven’t had sex in months.
I see all these dudes, who after having kids, love kids. I thought that might happen to me, but no, the thought of having another kid makes my skin crawl. I love my son more than I thought was possible, but my wife asked if I wanted to have another one and without hesitation said “no fucking way”. Time to get snipped.
So laws and regulations should only ever reinforce current 'cultural and market reality?'

Good to know that bans on slavery, child labor, and littering were illegitimate.
Plus, your internet packets get de-prioritized behind phone and TV on the consumer internet plans. During peak usage hours, you won't even reach those high download speeds.

I recently got a 75/15 package with Comcast Business for $150 monthly. The guaranteed bandwidth seems to be worth it.
Observations on remote work
Let's draft a whitepaper and szart the ICO tomorrow! We could collect pre launch eth already here.
In modern usage you're right, 茶 is used as 'beverage'.

When the character was created (appears in Erya under 'plants', so a very early character), it referred to one of a number of 'bitter herbs,' and linguists think it might have sounded like 'rlya'.

The character is composed of the top part, 艹 (classically written as 艸), meaning 'herbaceous plant' and the bottom part, 余, which supplied the pronunciation 'lya'.

There are two modern characters that come out of this, 茶 (cha) and 荼 (tu); the first one is used for tea/beverage, the second one has been borrowed a lot for its sound but at least one of its meanings is still 'bitter plant'.
Services that rely on post-industrial infrastructure don't work without post-industrial infrastructure.
If someone literally steals your BTC, you have the same recourse as if someone stole your golf clubs. The mechanism of law enforcement and the justice system will try to get your BTC or golf clubs back, and this has happened numerous times already. If they take my golf clubs or BTC or USD through fraud then the rules are slightly different, but all of them will be treated the same way by the justice system.

Now it is backed in the sense that if I say that I will not accept USD in payment of a debt, then I am pretty much out of luck. If someone borrows my car and destroys it, and they offer to make restitution in fair value in USD, I cannot say no to that (except to complain about how fair the value is), or demand that they give me a new car in exchange if they are not willing.

There are more subtle differences; if someone takes my USD then they can return the same number of USD, any old bills will do; whereas for golf clubs or BTC the situation may or may not be different.

All of this is just the justice system, though. I fail to see how the military figures into it, except that if another country decides to start printing dollar bills, then our military will get involved, and the cost of maintaining that threat is part of the cost of maintaining the currency. Fortunately, that's a moot issue with cryptocurrency, which has much better anti-forgery systems that do not require the use of guns.

The whole notion of any currency being "backed" by anything dried up a long time ago -- the closest we have now is casino chips, which are backed by the relevant currency and the faith and credit of casinos.
I have no idea what you're talking about your honor. What's a bitcoin? I never saw any bits of any coins and the safe has a combination lock, not a key, how could I take the key?

My original post wasn't being serious (hence the /s), but if there's no proof of you taking them and no activity on the blockchain for the wallet, there's not much that can be done.
https://bitinfocharts.com/top-100-richest-dogecoin-addresses...
Pretend alice bought bitcoin for $10. Alice sells to bob when it reaches $1,000. The price is currently $13,500. Alice gained $990. Who lost $990?
My assumptions about being bailed out are that it comes down to CB's inflating the currency supply to aquire assets that burden some privileged actors balance sheets.

And what it means to not be bailed out means to pay more on ones mortgage than market value of such asset.
I hope new technology continues to provide new options and services for consumers.
https://latechnews.org/eliminate-dropped-calls/
Read about ABWN and their new tech to eliminate dropped calls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._Gox#Bankruptcy;_stolen_bit...
'community-owned broadband networks provide consumers with significantly lower rates than their private-sector counterparts'
I have just realized that I have never heard anything remotely close to "dim sum" when talking about dim sum, in both Mandarin and Cantonese. I've only heard "ying cha" or "yum cha." In fact I had to search up why it's "dim sum" in English just now. It literally means "snack"
I think being inclusive of viewpoints is incredibly important, even if they contain something factually incorrect, so I am not advocating some sort of thought police.

There will always be some fringe elements, everyone has a crazy uncle/aunt, but I do not believe for a second that anything close to the majority is crazy so the desired way to advocate an action is through agreement in the democratic process. If you can't convince and compromise maybe your opinion is not the right on balance for society.

What I am suggesting is an effort to protect the democratic process and that we do not let any group use extrajudicial measures to enforce an action. Anyone that treats it as war needs to see that this has consequences and should not be celebrated.
On the surface that can be a beneficial exercise. 400+ years of financial dogma and cruft has accumulated in the world's financial system(s). If the sole eventuality of this period of cryptocurrency development is that some of the "sacred cows" stood up in the four centuries since are torn down, and outdated models are discovered and updated to better serve people of today, I consider it worthwhile progress.
What if someone comes to your house and steals your gold bars in a vault?

That's the same thing as stealing your Bitcoin.

If my private keys are in cold storage in a vault, it isnt any easier to steal that, than if my Bitcoin was instead gold bars.
What3words works offline in a free (as in beer) app. They want to monetise by charging the courier companies who save money in this precise case.
You're just picking and choosing to get the comparison you want.

My intention was to exclude her earnings from TV. She was successful at that, but a TV host is not a business person.. and the claim was that she was "wildly successful" at business. TV success != business success.. and Oprah has had a difficult time developing business outside of her TV success.

She's no more a great business person than Bieber or Taylor Swift. If Taylor Swift took her money and put it in an index fund that returned what Oprah and Trump have earned, she would be worth $3B when she's 60. Does this make Swift a great business person worthy of being president?

In conclusion: Trump is a shitty businessman, which was really my only point.

No disagreement on that.

Trump went from something like $500 million -> billionare

You're just picking $500m randomly. The highest number for his inheritance was thrown out by Rubio during a debate of $200m. Which is the number I used to calculate the 8%.

This is weird valley-think.

First, I don't live in the valley. Second, both Oprah and Trump have subpar growth. If you turn off your TV, you'll find the average business grows faster than these two. No need to go to SF, better business people are literally all over the country.
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https://latechnews.org/
This is an old article.
I believe bitcoin forks have the right to use the word bitcoin. In fact, I think it's a good practice.
Well, actually... There are.

LHR-LAX-AKL requires all passengers to get off but those not terminating in LAX stay in a transit area (although there's still an immigration check).

And IAH supports international transit for bags, but you as a person still need to immigrate the normal way.
Yeah, but you are so special, so unique: humanity desperately needs your genome. :P
Oort cloud
They actually refunded everyone who bought a "one word", and are focusing on the (free to use) 3 word addresses. And it works offline too (always has).

What3words is a deterministic hash of the gps coords.
Real-time (compared to equities) pricing as you know it does not exist in mortgages and would not be enabled by what you're describing. Transparency in something like this also does not help in the case of massive gaps downward in price which happened with a lot of these instruments and in fact would probably accelerate sell-offs. Transparency of the underlying was not the issue. Anyone investing in this stuff could have figured it out if they wanted to.
That makes me think of a line from Sir Clarke in his retirement years, about how he did have access to and used email but didn't care much for the web. For him the latter seemed like trying to drink from a firehose at full blast.

If anything, Twitch chat is the firehose hooked right up to back end of someone having explosive diarrhea.
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I think it's definitely common knowledge to Europeans who would have direct cultural awareness of this due to the impact of WWII, however this is mindblowing to a North American.
What adtac said. If I let someone have physical access to any computer I own I fully expect to be compromised.

And here the issue is, as I understand it, I would have had to have left that AMT part in place with a default password. I get that it is geeky and maybe there should be a process where when you buy a new laptop they set the password to some unique thing and give you a sticky note with the password on it. I get that a lot of people won't know to change the management password, but that's an educational issue, just like people had to be taught to not use "1234" or "admin" as their login password.

Still seems like an over hyped issue but I guess that is part of the educational process.

I don't feel like this rises to the level of Meltdown or Spectre.
You might have missed the part where the widow and the children couldn't agree on who gets what at any point in the last 10 years. They sued each other and sued the bank instead of splitting the estate.

As always, the sharks are in the family. Your descendant would rather have the whole fortune dilapidated than miss a dollar of it.
Visa Eliminates Requirement for Chip-Card Signatures
Hear hear.

It blows my mind that an open source community has argued for two years about one single line of code, and shows no sign of stopping.
Heh. Yeah in New England (and I assume a lot of the rest of the US), counties are pretty vestigial. I think Massachusetts still has limited county governments in some cases but mostly they're just a legacy organizational scheme. On the other hand, when I lived in Louisiana, the parishes were an important level of government.
Of the few regrets I have in my life, not getting a vasectomy in my 20s is probably the biggest. All the financial mistakes I've made (the jobs I didn't get/take, the investments I should have made, etc) are nothing compared to the regret I feel about becoming a father. I love my kid but the only reason I have one is because my wife wanted one and I want her. I absolutely get why people would want kids (watching a child progress is beyond interesting and the reactions are often priceless) but the loss of self and freedom isn't worth it to me. I told myself I'd never have kids but I lost a lot of backbone when I got married because I love her more than I could ever love anything or anyone.

The advice I give anyone who asks me and is on the fence is this: "Unless both people actively _want_ kids, don't do it. Wait until you're both in violent agreement or it's a bad decision."

I'd never walk out on either my kid or my wife but were I a weaker person, I might have and my wife can see it in my face. It's a hard place to be.
Strep throat is caused by bacteria. Vaccines are for viral infections. Viruses are very simple. They consist of a protein casing with a RNA inside. Your body fights viruses by producing specialized cells that match to the protein casing of viruses in your body. Each virus has a unique casing and your body must produce unique antibodies for each one. Every virus you've ever had is still part of your body. This is why you only get chickenpox once but can get shingles later on if your body becomes stressed. They're caused by the same virus. It never leaves you. You're body is just typically able to keep it from causing damage unless it becomes weak. Viruses also mutate quickly meaning your body needs to produce new antibodies to fight it. Vaccines work by supplying your body with inactive viral cells that your body uses to develop antibodies. This is why they produce new flu vaccines each year. Each strain of the flu is a different virus and the flu virus mutates particularly quickly. AIDs and HIV vaccines don't work because those viruses attack your immune system directly destroying the cells that produce antibodies. This is why you typically don't die from AIDS itself but one of the many diseases you can get after your immune system is compromised.
There are already way too many languages on this planet being kept alive by all those pathetic governments limiting their citizens to their own (little) country. English should already long be the World's 1st language for every human being IMAO. I'm Dutch and it took me ages of struggling to get to my current level of English and I'm still learning..

So, this feels like a huge step back and a great way for Filipino developers and companies to completely limit and restrict their selves.

It's a fun coding experiment, but my negative response is because you shouldn't want something like this to become popular.
And? The wealth created by the tech boom was immense and we have Google, Facebook and Amazon as some of the largest companies ever. You made my point.
When asked, I always give a honest and unbiased response. I tell my friends and family the truth: it's hard work, you won't get much sleep in the 6 months and the nonstop crying is a huge huge source of pain. but, I talk about the good stuff too. Kids says the cutest things. And, in my opinion, parenthood gets easier every year because the child's behavior improves every year.
Our ability to read "sex" into anything is astounding...
Really? In this comment page alone we have shit like:

"Final point, and one that I am cautious to make for not wanting to offend anyone needlessly: I know plenty of singles and couples who are childless, and several that are childless by choice. Suffice it to say that my anecdotal view is that sadness, eccentricity, and empty hedonism seem to develop over time in these couples, especially in the women."

"Spot on with the final point. I have 3, now aged 22, 19 & 16. I like to joke that I have parentdar: it's like gaydar, I just know if someone is a parent or not without them telling me. There's a selfcentredness about the childless that gives itself away in a thousand minor tells. It's more pronounced in women than men."
I don't see how the comment about Plato and Aristotle implies anything about their attitudes towards physical fitness. It seems like he's just using it to contrast people striving for a good life with people cannot satisfied without the "perfect" life.
PDF of the book: http://worrydream.com/refs/Hamming-TheArtOfDoingScienceAndEn...
Brain Cells Share Information Using a Gene That Came from Viruses
The story said the wife sued the children and the children sued back the wife. The members of the family have been at war since the beginning.
Similar is happening to many chinese cities. 20 years ago cantonese were wildly spoken in shenzhen. Now, with so many mandarin speakers rushing into the rapidly developing city, cantonese seems a minority. I doubt if shanghai, or maybe sichuan is the same.
GPS History: The Evolution of Global Positioning
Gold bars in a vault are at least something of value, and not just bits on a drive. The physical gold can be used to make things. What can you do with the bits on a drive?
Notes and Mental Models from Books, So You Don't Have To
Apple gives US and EU iCloud accounts to Chinese Gov owned data management firm
Should Canada, Australia, or the many other countries who have their own Dollar currencies all rename their money?
> Essentially, Apple needs to change "MacBook Pro" to "MacBook On-The-Go" and just admit they don't have a Professional device.

The Verge's review[0] was not far off: it is a MacBook Air replacement... except the Air had insane battery life and that one definitely falls short.

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13490774/apple-macbook-pr...
Well, I do pay for Evernote but for the most part I'm happy with it. It occasionally does have syncing / merging issues but to an extent that's to be expected if you edit documents on multiple devices.