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a) irrelevant with respect to what? The point of this is that it contrasts with the case for memes. Memes are directed towards the different groups much more strongly, and so by that force you'd assume that they're more likely divergent.

I don't think anyone suggested that "dominant, decisive, intelligent, women" are any less likely to start startups than "dominant, decisive, intelligent" men.

That is in fact more along the lines of what i'm suggesting. I think that conditioned on the same startup traits, women are actually less likely to start startups due to cultural factors, of which one of the strongest is the cultural disincentive to risk. My specific claim is that the cultural disincentive strongly outweighs the innate tendency.

I'd define the characteristics that drive one to start up differently

I too, but these were the traits on topic.

b) Perhaps you have cause and effect backwards.

My central hypothesis was that women, currently, face more resistance than men in spreading any memes that create high 'provider status'. And that under the model postulated, you'd expect the evolution of memes to dominate genes.

And Hillary Clinton is getting a lot of the treatment she is now because her refusal to concede for a long time when it was clear that Obama would be the nominee has been potentially very destructive to her party.

Her maltreatment long preceded that moment -- the media has consistently typecast her as 'icequeen' or 'man', and I have heard that sentiment abundantly reflected.
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My theory is that there are two types of fundamental 'evolutionary units' that are important when discussing humans. Memes, and genes. I agree that, when memes were unimportant, the genetic influence, for females, of an outstanding capability to provide, would be largely wasted.

However, massive wealth only became possible once human culture grew, and then, for reasons I outlined below, memes became far more sticky, more influential, and more important, by comparison. In this, women have a greater evolutionary incentive to gain wealth or prestige or spread memes, but not a greater genetic incentive.
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Existing cultural bias might just be a carry over from prehistoric times, entirely irrelevant to whether or not there are now meaningful differences in aptitude, in this, the present.

This is easy to show: superstitions and religions. Then, reverence of those closer to gods. Religion is almost completely cognitive, and so only humans are able to develop, propagate, and perpetuate it. It is also cognitive in the sense that children are not developed enough to invent it themselves. This fits the "entirely irrelevant" category.

But for other things that can be explained loosely by behavioral drift, the chicken and egg problem remains. Perhaps a small, innate difference was exacerbated by culture, creating a sustained, artificial specialization; this is also the byproduct of the human tendency to generalize. Not saying it's the most efficient, but in most cases I would say there is nontrivial relevance.

I never claimed equality ... a difference many dozens of times that.

This I agree with. The examples of risky behavior like dating strange men and running away though, I'm not so sure if they make good comparison; it is possible to look at these behaviors from another angle (behavioral/biological), but that's not to devalue the point you made.

About sperm of high status males. High status males produce more offspring, several of which can be females, who inherit the status. Upon rereading I realize I'm confused about this point. How are males's status not also spread through memes (disregarding relative degree)? I suppose you'd say they are, then what's the crux of saying that high status females produce less?

Another clarification, what kind of mathematics is that used by the evolutionary biologists?

Above questions are for my own interest and I won't follow up on them. I mostly agree with you, but I'm fairly sure "completely dominates" is an overstatement, and I went about throwing pebbles because you asked.
I expect it's mainly in response to the argument that without religion you cannot have morality which lots of religious types seem to believe.

The hijacking of morality by religious people can be pretty irritating.
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America is way too religious. It's seriously scary that a developed country is still deeply religious.
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Hm, but they don't get it right all the time, and the article was old. Maybe back then the options weren't as good.
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I don't feel competent to judge them

- I guess it's a testament to your self awareness, but why let others choose what's good to you? Your experience is just as valid as anyone else's.
Wow, what ignorance. The course of civilization has been profoundly influenced by the Abrahamic traditions, and within the Abrahamic holy books lay the recounting of the tribes' histories and developments.
I think you are conflating dogma with religion, which is a common error for both the faithful and the godless.
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"When I do this, some people think that it's because I want my ego to be fed, right? Of course, I'm not asking you to call it "Stallmanix"!"

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I agree.

In my country there is no real equivalent of Fanie Mae/Fredie Mac, so in order to get a mortgage you must have proven income, stable job, and at least %30 down payment.

It makes it harder to buy a house, but deliquinces are low, and prices are not heated up.

If banks had to bear the risk of issuing the mortgages, you would see lending standards tightenning up overnight, and most of the risky borrowrers wont be able to get any mortgages, which actually is a good thing.

In the article it says how Fanie Mae started this huge campain so the congress would loosen up the credit requirement in the name of "house affordability" for the poor etc... when it was actually self-centered policy, by the top executives so Fanie Mae could keep its profits rising, and their bonuses flowing. Of course, this would backfire at some point, but who cares, they made their money in the bank, who cares on what happens 10 years down the road, the goverment will bail them out, right...?

I really hope the goverment doesn't, and just let them go down. It would be fun. Actually houses will end up being affordable for those people that live honestly within their means, have good credit, stable jobs, and a good amount of savings, while the irresponsible wont be able to even get a mortagage anymore, (or one with reasonable rates).
Using words "faithful" and "godless" is sort of irritating to me. It's a little one sided.
I guess I'm using 'entirely' and 'completely irrelevant' as literary flourishes, hoping that the qualifiers elsewhere modulate the meaning properly. But I guess that's a little confusing...

what's the crux of saying that high status females produce less?

My point is that, the same behaviors that men can use to achieve high status, if women use they're frowned upon. Even if they succeed in using said behaviors to achieve a higher status, cultural resistance applied a force restricting the spread of those memes to other women. (For example, talking behind someone's back about 'whipping' employees or coworkers, or ad-homeniem/targeted/unfairly focussed attacks, such as on Martha Stewart or Hillary Clinton or Kathy Sierra http://headrush.typepad.com/)

what kind of mathematics is that used by the evolutionary biologists?

Some do a lot of analysis, or combinatorics. I'm actually more interested in a complexity approach, in the manner of stephen wolfram, because there's a lot of complexity which I think can't be easily engineered out -- it's better simulated.
Gene expression is a good point. It was in the back of my mind (and I glossed over it completely), but you've succinctly explained why it's actually an important issue.

Do you have a notion as to the relative time for gene promoters to hook to a gene with sex dependent fitness? I imagine that the mathematics of evolution would depend to a large degree on gene <-> selector or gene <-> meme coupling.
Emerson is talking about people that are consistent for fear of admitting they were wrong. I don't think Stallman's consistency is that kind...
The problem in your case is hardware, not software. If you had hardware specifically designed to work perfectly with Linux, it would work perfectly with Linux. Instead you have whatever you found at Best Buy.

Anyway, all phones designed to run Linux run Linux just fine. They... were designed to.
Really? I don't expect to die.
>> If a particular institution is getting too big, shouldn't the other
>> players want to hedge against its failure to protect themselves
>> against the low-probability but high-cost situation in which a
>> really big bank fails?

Evidence seems to suggest the market does not work this way. Sometimes, it appears not to work at all.
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Why is it sexist to say we show up more frequently in science departments because we have also been designed by evolution to be better at math?

Because compared with bench-pressing, claims of mathematically ability being better in men (and partially ordered, to boot) is seriously jumping the gun.

We know what's involved in a bench press. We understand how testosterone stimulates the production of muscle. We are nowhere close with mathematical ability. We have no theory of mathematically ability -- we really don't know what it means, or if the simplest metrics are even useful for higher level math. We have no experimental results, because we have no controlled variables. We have few pieces of data, none of which are conclusively disentangled from cultural and historical influence.

In the past two decades, the number of women scoring highly on the IMO, the IOI, the Putnam, and SMPY has gone up by roughly a factor of six. Doubtful that the number of girls with 'math talent genes' have sextupled that quickly. Isn't this evidence that we should hold off on our conclusions?
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:-) It's curious that nobody seems to remember that "that someone" ported GCC to x86.
I wonder if the problem is that just saying people can do whatever they want with code seems to him too unrestrictive.

I doubt it. Both the MIT and BSD licenses are listed as 'free software' licenses on the FSF website: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/
Well, exactly. For example, I am English. This means that I am a shareholder in a bank. How does this follow? Because the UK govt spent 50 billion pounds (about a hundred billion dollars) of taxpayer's money bailing out a subprime mortgage lender called Northern Rock. 50 billion pounds is an awful lot of money - it's about double the annual defence budget. Now, I'm not even a Northern Rock customer, I'd be happy if they'd gone bust because that, while a bitter pill for some, would have brought some sanity back to the housing market (yes I am a homeowner). Instead, we have this huge debt on our collective hands.
Creating a competitive market would be the worst thing he could have done for himself and his shareholders (though probably a good thing for the world).

That would be a great argument for legally enforcing (certain) software be F/OSS...
I would if the 2D art was nice enough, e.g. http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/online/images.html?cat=4
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But we kind of have that with mac os x... For the drivers and different hardware configurations (admittedly a big part of what can cause problems) not really unless you count os x86. Bue when it comes to software, between input managers, unsanity's extensions and the unix foundation of mac os x letting us play around... we have more than enough things that could potentially spoil the user experience but it still works rather well...

That's why I don't really buy the argument that applications on the iphone need to be controlled centrally for stability sake...
amen to lossless support on the iphone, I'm tired of reencoding my flac files
Dude, how do you measure history? Check out the history of the Indians and Asia. While the Abrahamic(s) were a bunch of smelly tribes in the desert, the Asians were already charting the stars.
That credit is probably due to William Schelter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schelter
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Much of South America looks promising. I'd probably avoid Brazil and head to Argentina though, the world's spanish speaking market is huge.
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I doubt anyone would live for an eternity. Even if we had the techology to live for a million years, everyone would have some sort of accident before then. Perhaps you will die in a super nova accident, while visiting another galaxy in 10.000 years?
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You have a distinct advantage over a 3D world if you don't need a special plugin (other than a bog standard Flash player) and it works in the most common browsers (Firefox, IE6, IE 7, Safari). Cater to what people would have installed at work, in net cafes and assume that they only have what Windows Update provides at home. That maximises your user base.

There's no shortage of 2D games at the moment - think of the success of the Nintendo DS. Your VW competitors aren't WoW or LotR Online, they're Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin.
Strange coding style, indeed.
actually it's 0.13%
And how many of your friends have an iPhone? I believe it's more than 0.13%.

Facebook Messenger indeed has the potential to kill SMS. And the iPhone won't be the only platform facebook will support. Now with an iPhone that has an incredible UI and easily available thirdparty apps I'm sure motorola, nokia and samsung can't just continue to ship their rather limited OS.
However drafting up a set for presentation to a laywer for checking and advice can be good (provided you have the right lawyer).

The trade off is that you are presenting a solution not a problem. That is fine if you know what you want and how it should be achieved (which sometimes you do). It's like presenting a programmer with a version 1 instead of a spec.
The head-on collision and near death probably did a lot more than reading the Bible. This guy becoming a Christian was more a part of the process than the triggering factor.

Near-death experiences often have a profound effect on people's lives.
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Families with nine or ten children weren't all that uncommon in my grandparents' generation here in Taiwan.

Even today, there are ten different countries in which the fertility rate is currently above 6 and a couple above 7. I don't think 10 children would be unreasonable as an upper bound for the exceptionally successful.

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you are being very optimistic. You forget that even if iPhone sells 10 million iPhones in a global market it will be only the 0.3% of the whole phone market.

Actually I don't know anyone who owns an iPhone. Like you said other companies will make similar UIs before iPhone dominates.

I am sure SMS wont die at least in the next 5 or 10 years.
SMS is a huge market/profit for telecom companies and a standard one and I am certain they wont let it die before they promote their are own free chat.

What's wrong with MSN and the user base is 10 times larger? It's enough to replace SMS but it never did.

I dont see anytime soon all these teens getting used to the iPhone virtual keyboard. They type with eyes closed in their classrooms, while driving the car with one hand...
I always send out my resume in whatever format is asked for, however I make sure that the cover letter, email and resume include links to other formats for convenience.

I assumed that there was therefore no way that I would meet someone who hadn't been able to read it. Even after it had gone through a recruiter and HR to get to an enginering manager they would still be able to grab a PDF/HTML version if they wanted to.

Turns out that this was over optimistic. A recruiter modified my CV before sending it on, stripping out the links at the same time. So I turned up for an interview where the first questions was:

"Oh, yeah, it was a pain reading your CV, this is a UNIX shop. Are you ok with that or do you only do Windows? We really weren't sure if we should get you in at all."

It got worse from there - the second question was about a non-existant qualification (in a totally different field!) that the recruiter had added in.
There might be a market for selling vitual worlds to VCs. And the best bit about that business plan is that you don't need to stress over dilution :)
Can anyone answer for me how Stallman has influenced the Cambridge tech community? What was interesting, as the author envisons "Mt. Hackmore", is that Stallman is the only East Coaster in that circle. Makes me think that in combining his personality and ethos with the venture community in Boston you could perhaps explain the very conservative investment environment.
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A new company has been spun out of MIT, with the goal of commercializing the Cilk technology.

multicore programming blog: http://www.cilk.com/multicore-blog/
we think the key to successful adoption of a multicore programming paradigm is the ability to maintain the serial semantics of the original app, rather than having to restructure code.

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While I agree the conclusion isn't true, I have yet to see any modern, public atheists write anything one quarter decent about morality. I have seen some very bad writing about morality, such as in The God Delusion, which can't be helping matters.

If you disagree, post a source.
The no 401K is a fairly big deal.

Here in the UK, for high rate tax payers, a matching pension is worth a bit more than 140% of the stated value. So for an $80k job a 5% matching pension is worth nearly $6k a year.

That's equal to a 0.1% stake in a $60m company, with better certainty of growth. So over five years it might match half a percent stake depending on your appetite for risk.
While it's true that a Cilk++ app will run within a shared memory node, you can certainly run multiple Cilk++ apps on a cluster of nodes, if the goal is to increase app throughput.
This was predicted by Nicholas Nassim Taleb in the Black Swan.

We're reducing the small bank losses in search for "stabilities" that group up all the losses in on fell swoop.

Everything fails over time. Eliminating the small failures by making things too big to fail only creates the chance for things to fail in a biggest possible way.

This isn't going to stop anytime soon.
Well, the bible is a great literary work and there is no doubting that. Many writers have borrowed from its themes, styles, and prose throughout history (Shakespeare a prominent example).

The reason I say my comment (and my view of the bible) is non-religious is that when one begins to study the bible in detail, he realizes that it is critical of all organized religion, even nominal Christianity.

I don't blame rw for lumping me in with the majority, but he did lump me in, which is generalizing.
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In this case as the author explains the reason they were able to grow so big is because of government involvement which through implicit and explicit measures made the risk appear artificially low.
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Probably because GNU Linux without slash would mean there may be another Linux also that's not GNU.

And yes, GNU/Linux reads like a path: here is the GNU world and here's Linux subworld.
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damn. for a moment i thought it was Sallie Mae melting down and i wouldn't have to pay my college debt any more T_T
When I was learning complex numbers, the teacher didn't want us to assume sqrt(-1) = i, we had to go like this:

sqrt(-1) = sqrt(e^Pi) = e^(Pi/2) = i

So the new concept was really a 2D plane for numbers, not a new definition for sqrt of negative integers.
So is assuming that religion and development ought to be antithetical.
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I think we all kind of missed the boat by focusing on the one comment about Christianity.

This man went from doing heroin to running a multimillion dollar software business. Perhaps there are more important distinguishing factors than the religion he happens to share with 2.1 billion people, the majority of which do not start successful software companies.
I recall a study where they said nobody would live beyond a certain age due to the probability of accidents occuring (the age was something like 200-300 years old).
Or find an AI problem that interests you and that can interest a customer base, solve it, and bootstrap a business.

Make your own path.
What is your business goal for the app? If its customer adoption, what customers do you want to start with and which do you want to attract? I'll probably start on Facebook as it is most used by my existing and target users
Man, BSD conquers the desktop and it still can't get no respect.

(Of course, its non-free "Mac OS X" disguise does fool a lot of people.)

What I'm trying to say, of course, is that there's no reason why multiple takes on the Unix kernel can't live happily next to each other in the marketplace. Also, you can't just blame Linux for stealing potential mindshare from the HURD... it was a group effort. There was also FreeBSD, as well as non-free but well-respected options like Solaris.
Sorry, the emphasis was on the word "use", not "phone".

I just want to _use_ my smart phone.
YES.

the 3D worlds are just a fancy gimmick -- come on, you all recall criticisms of 3D games these days not having the gameplay ingenuity and values of the older 2D games which, while having less eye candy, were at their core just plain better. It's possible that a 2D world can be more popular...

Look at Habbo. It seems extremely successful an was built on shockwave in 2D.

Ask yourself: is there really a critical function in virtual worlds that an extra dimension buys you?
Actually, semen quality starts to decline while men are still in their 20s. See - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/02/030210080435.ht...
Holy shit that's what Grad was on all my old calculators.