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> God continues to act in this world by truthfully instructing His followers. Now, if one person who I trust is His follower says "God told me X", and then X is wrong, the theory would be disproved

That would disprove if that particular person received words from God. It would not disprove if God talks to his followers.

> Amusingly, your counter-explanation of ghosts and white noise is not falsifiable

That's what it was: an example of a falsifiable theory. You told me that I couldn't say that someone's experience isn't falsifiable, I came back saying that their nutty explanation isn't falsifiable.

> God is more interested in advancing His goals than impressing people.

He sure has a lot of big homes and statues for someone who doesn't want to impress people. Isn't it an even bigger ego trip to make people believe based on his word alone than to provide some sort of proof?

> That all there is to it. Your assertion that they are unclear simply demonstrates that you're unfamiliar with the material you're trying to criticize.

So tell me then, who is authorized to practice it? Do you believe that Pastor Popoff, or anyone else on this planet are able to perform this feat? If you do they could get an easy million dollars from those suckers over at JREF. I say that they are unclear because there is such a great amount of disagreement over the things I listed.

> Living a life that hasn't been transformed by Christ disqualifies a person from being Christian.

I would argue that the lives of the members of the WBC have indeed been perverted by Christ although not with the attributes you have listed. While that tale of human sacrifice always makes me scratch my head, I understand that you believe this process results in the followers living better lives. I have also heard it put that the act of killing Jesus resulted in us being forgiven for our sins rather than unshackled from our innately sinful nature. Anyway following the core of Christianity, even if all Christians did believe in the same core beliefs, doesn't mean that you agree on what parts of scripture trumps other parts of scripture.
That was a hilarious twist in the end. I'm just like you except for the last paragraph... maybe i'll start listening to people's ideas again :)
I'm sure someone at Toshiba thought it was a good idea to forgo the anti-reflective screen coating in favor of a few more LEDs.

I don't think it's missing anti-reflectivity. My Toshiba seems to have an extra-reflective screen. Something about making contrast better for watching movies on it in the dark. shrug
I think his point is that most smart people throughout schooling have not encountered true ignorance, so it feels like stupidity.
So, now I fail to understand what people are after. You praise someone for something, it becomes a problem. You don't then its a different problem. You criticize, you get noted for being rude and discouraging.

The key here is to take what is good and beneficial out of a talk and just move on.

Else each social persuasion and thought can ruin your life everytime one hears some one speaking.
There is a confirmation step mentioned, you could choose an alternate identity then or generate a random one just for this site.
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything.

Appearance is almost always the first thing you notice about someone. I'm not sure pretending otherwise is especially practical or will really help much in the long run.
Yes, you're dead right there... I guess we are all lying to each other.
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This does happen, but I think it's more likely with our mind scanning our vision feed 24/7 for eye contact, the whole of it, unfocused areas. Determining if "someone is looking at me" was rather important for survival.

I'd love more information on that myself.
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What exactly is he talking about? I've read it, but got confused...

I've been console game developer for quite some time, and async stuff has always been around for us (but not so network oriented for the stuff I was doing - streaming sound, file I/O, DMA from one cpu to another, etc.)

But If I have to direct it, then precooking your data, so data once loaded only pointer mixup is needed was the basic to get streaming stuff in a game (Spiderman-2, Ultimate Spiderman, Spiderman 3).

Then comes stuff like ability to cancel async jobs, and off course start several at the same time, giving some more info to the underlying code - which should be done first. I can go on technical details in few pages.

What exactly is he talking about?
While parents, in general, distrust unknown men more than unknown women, that's not the situation described in the article. The woman was at a friend's house for a dinner party.

Unless some specific past behavior suggests that they shouldn't, parents do allow their friends to have conversations with their children. Don't ignore the advice in this article just because you want to make some unrelated point about a different set of gender relations.
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Microsoft will make and demonstrate all kinds of stuff. I'm sure it works and is well-tested on the hardware it supports.

My job is at an ISV. We get lots of customer requests, but I've not once heard a customer request support for this thing. Nor have I heard of any other ISV building for it.

But until then, it may as well not exist.
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I actually had a dream last night that I was sent a video that I viewed on my Mac, and only after running it realized it was a trojan. In my dream I felt stupid and also amused at the fact that there are Mac trojans. Then I woke up from my dream, and remembered the trojan wouldn't have been able to run without asking me first and wouldn't have been able to install anything with asking me to type in my password.
Since dmor mentioned the telecom industry, let me just say that when I attended the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, everybody (except booth babes) was wearing suits or other "business attire" - technies, sales, marketing, whatever. (I was very clearly an engineer and was there to answer technical questions, and I wore a suit).

[OT: after having been to the trade show, I still don't know what CBOSS do, besides hire lots of models to man their stand...]
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I think you and InclinedPlane actually agree here, although your post reads like you are arguing.
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A tailored well fitting suit is also extremely comfortable.

I bought a suit when I was in Syria two years ago and its probably the most comfortable piece of clothing I own.
It's true!

I even know someone who's seen a non-x86/64 Windows system!
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I have an experience just like this. I was telling my (now) cofounder in glorious detail why his list of ideas sucked or required way too much work, and then one of them ... well actually, that one was pretty cool. Now we've built it!
... currently typing on a MBP with a clearly visible #, @, \ and | all reachable by merely using shift.

Is this only an issue with a US keyboard layout perhaps (I've a Dutch layout)?
So, now I fail to understand what people are after.

The mindset stuff is a scientific result, it's not "after" anything.

Maybe you think you are so strong-willed and independent that you are immune to this effect, but however dumb you feel it is, the majority of people (and kids especially) apparently are not.
Call it whatever you want, being demeaning, bias, objectification, I don't care - the article has a weak argument.

"This is wrong on every level, and it’s an insidious form of objectifying women"

"By being conditioned to treat women as intellectually inferior to men, we are actively discouraging them from joining our environment"

I love it when people make up non-existent problems. The booth babes could care less - they are getting paid. No one is twisting their arm, and they probably don't want you to feel "sorry" for them. Women have suffrage, that battle is long over, get over it.

He is arguing that we should not have booth babes because they do not know anything about the product, which actually is not true -- plenty of booth babes are actually required to memorize many facts about the product. So in essence, the author is the one being sexist, assuming right away that the booth babes know nothing about it. And his so-called "solution" is just to get rid of them? Why stop there? We should get rid of cheerleaders too, right? Because they just get in the way of the football game. Its not like people benefit from these jobs...oh no.
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I believe it is important to also have a view and strategy for your career. Read "Apprenticeship Patterns."

I highly recommend the other books, too.

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I think I'm the bounty hunter that got $10 and $50 for two similar bugs.

Yep. I would have named you, but I don't like doing that without asking permission first and I didn't know that I was going to mention the $10/$50 bit until I was halfway through writing that blog post.
when nearly every culture in the world seems to have pretty much the same sort of normative ideas about men and women.

You're saying Saudi Arabia is like USA now? Have you even watched the TV show Mad Men? 1960s USA was different from 2000s USA.
Liking Arrington and reading TC have no logical correlation, as far as I see.
I think the biggest concern is people passing by the interstate with their gps on. One can now imagine literally thousands of people just passing by, and seeing that the place is closed, or maybe not seeing anything at all in their gps screen.
>>"If you could choose n where your language is n times as slow and you are n times as productive with this language were both true which value of n would you choose?"

>>if I can build an app 5 times quicker than before, and the amount of time involved isn't trivial (i.e. a few hours) then then development time is vastly more important than the end speed of the code.

I would set n somewhere between 50 and 100. Then benchmark the resulting programs and rewrite bottlenecks in C. (Just think about it; years of productivity in a month! Then another few months to optimise the prototype.)
I agree with that, there's nothing sexier than a battle of wits. Even more so if I lose.
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So let's say I take the author's advice, 'always listen to ideas', and unlike the author, get told an awesome idea by a friend-of-a-friend with zero ability to execute.

Great, now what?

Do I really set up a working relationship with this person, who's likely dead weight and valueless now that the idea's been revealed? Do I give him the ownership he thinks he deserves, which is a 50-50 split if I'm lucky? Do I just build it myself?

I prefer to avoid such ethical quandaries, which is why I stick to my own ideas.
It's mainly a humor blog, but I write serious posts on there as well. The disclaimer about it being fiction is a CYA for some of the humor I write. The OkCupid post is completely serious.
That's a very good point, my apologies. #links used badly are bad for usability.
I feel sad for your culture :/
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I don't know that much about anorexia, but I suspect it doesn't have to do anything with beauty ideals at all (case in point: anorexia does not look pretty). It is more about control issues (I suppose).

I know it can hurt to feel ugly, though, so I don't think it is a bad thing to be reminded now and then that you are not ugly (at least not to everyone).

About pretty little girls: I was taught in biology class that babies are actually born to look cute (it is called "Kindchenschema" in German, other mammals also have it). It is a natural reaction to want to care for cute little humans, and it makes sense for little humans to look cute.

Sorry I did not understand how you are not creating a strawman. I think you are thinking way too much about all this. It seems important to me to act naturally with children to some extent, and not having to go through a endless mental checklist before reacting to them.
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That's true, I think that one is particularly impressive because for that reason. Nonetheless if you look at the majority of entries, the main techniques used are things like heavy wizardry with pointers, broken macros, and other preprocessor stuff, which, while admittedly not unique to C, are not so bad in most other languages.
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Isn't that Instagram? So yeah, always listen to ideas :-)
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This guy disgusts me. He's so obviously either a fabrication by the iranian government or someone who has been brainwashed by their propaganda to the point that he would do irreparable harm to his fellow humans to prove some ideological point.

He claims some injustice about 10,000 Muslim soldiers being killed. How many Muslims in Iran are going to be killed for writing something against the clerics in Gmail?
I thunk his point is - he's wasting his breath talkin about it
It is a technical point, in a technical forum. It is fairly common for HNers to comment, say, on the CSS technology used in an article about the US deficit, and they are generally not downvoted or scolded. Similarly, my comment is that the author essentially appeals to no CSS at all.
Direct link to Scoble's 13 reasons (mentioned in the article): https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/JN6mD71b...

And his subsequent comments ("What is better than a suggested user list?"): https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/LcvKDZYG...

From the latter post:

> By focusing on content Google's staff can reward behavior it wants to see here. That is a very useful "stick" to use in community management. Does it want us to share more videos? Then put more videos on the "post of the day" lists. Does it want us to write more helpful content? Then post more helpful posts on "post of the day" lists. Right now the suggested user lists just tell us to focus on being more popular. Not really good memes to feed a community.

Really? He expects lots of people to post (say) videos in the realistic hope of making some kind of worldwide top-ten list?
OK, lets name some names. Kindle. Nook. Galaxy Tab. Xoom. All those Japanese, Korean and Chinese vendors who're trying to catch.
Thanks. That's what I was going to do, but then I thought I should at least link to the original game and give the developer some credit. I should do that in the credits page or something like that, right?
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If Steve Jobs made some claim about the history of Apple Computer, I wouldn't ask for a source because he is a source. If he were making a claim about the correlation between attractiveness and success, then yes I'd ask for a source, because why should he know anything about that in particular?

But even in that case, he's already a real person I know of, a person who is known to be pretty intelligent, a person whose motivations I can have a reasonable guess at, a person who I know needs to be careful about what they say in public fora. Each of these things put Steve Jobs a little ahead of 'random stranger on the internet' for reliability.
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Which, of course, is MG Siegler's style. That makes the tone of the article far less surprising than if it had originated from another writer.
I don't know what your point is. Nowhere is the author making the point that you should hail any genetic gifts. And nowhere is she arguing that good looks are not beneficial.

Moreover, if you want to make Darwinian arguments, one could equally well say that without competition we'd all be as stupid as amoebas. I don't see where you get support for appearance being more favored than intelligence.

Furthermore, why do you focus on either of these attributes being genetic at all? If we assume that they are, then it shouldn't matter whether we encourage people to care about either their intelligence or appearance. But clearly there is a huge amount of nurture in both aspects, so the genetic aspect is just a red herring.

The real question is whether encouraging girls to focus on appearance over anything else is helpful or healthy.
Well since 9 out of 10 companies fail then what's the big deal?

You think it's a bigger problem for you than it is for those who fail?

I don't understand your point.
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In other words, you missed the point entirely: this is more continued evidence-free speculation, complete with hand-wave theorization that there has been a gender-based task division matching the dominant Western religious-driven socialization for hundreds of thousands of years when we have no data for more than a small percentage of that period and considerable evidence that the proposed specialization wasn't globally true even during that small period of time where we do have data.

It's highly likely that there are measurable differences in the capabilities between male and female brains but neuroscience is very far from being able to explain anything high-level enough to start speculating about the complex skills relevant to these discussions: say, hypothetically, that we found evidence suggesting male brains tend to be 10% faster at detecting the path of a fast moving object or recognizing orientation of geometric shapes - does that tell you anything about someone's ability to write a research paper or debug a program?

The other major confound is that many people rely on MRI data to support claimed differences and even assuming that the technology is precise enough and the relevant brain structures well understood enough (neither of which is really true) all that will tell you is what the brain looks like now, not why: children who play the piano extensively will have different brain structure but it's from years of practice causing hypertrophy, not because there's a pianist gene pre-ordaining that they would be good performers.

Finally, "Evolution put those differences in brain structure for a reason" demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the mechanism: there are many, many examples of things which exist by accident (e.g. the crazy design of our eyes) or because they're connected to something which is beneficial enough to compensate for the drawbacks.
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x220 screen is supposed to be nice. I'll know in a week.
This article correctly notes that those in the lead should play to conservatively extend their marginal advantage.

The corollary, for those in behind, is that they should attempt more gambits.

The principles of variance are strange. Sometimes, if you're in behind, you reduce your chance of losing by adopting what looks like a "losing" strategy (according to naive expected value calculations). With a wild all-or-nothing strategy, your chance of winning from behind likely won't exceed 50%, but by acting more like the 'risky amateur,' you might up your chances from 10% to 30%.
"If people already know something, there's no point in posting it."

I think you expect something else from HN or this discussion than I do. I think it can be helpful to remind other people of facts in a discussion, lest they get carried away. Not every human exchange has to consist of novelties.

If I do maths, I might remind myself that 2+2=4. I have known it before, but chose to recall that knowledge at opportune moments. In discussions, other people can help with the recalling, it does not imply that the other parties were ignorant before. It is just about adding another perspective.

"I have nothing to go on, other than what you write"

In such situation I tend to resort to common sense. Does it seem plausible ("have merit") what the other person is saying? If yes, I might remember it as an interesting thought (not as established fact), or if it seems useful if true, might take further steps (Google) to verify it.

It's not that hard, and you don't have to insult the discussion partner.

Here is another idea: "That sounds interesting, do you by chance remember the source for that?" See the difference? But hey, it is the internet, there is no human on the other end.
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I would prefer to run Ubuntu as well. Unfortunately it looks like Optimus support won't be coming soon, so I'm starting to lean towards biting the bullet and switching to OS X.
Sure. But one important point here: Verisign doesn't tell you to trust Amazon.

What Verisign can tell you is that you can trust that the server you're talking to right now is in fact affiliated with Amazon (in the case of EV certs) or corresponds to the hostname in your URL bar (in the case of regular certs). As long as no certificates got stolen, no one mis-issues certificates, etc....
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The attrition rate isn't the worst part. The worst part is what's known as the "Dead Sea effect" - all of the people who can leave, do. They're usually the better ones, at which point you're left with all the clueless or unskilled people who couldn't find better jobs.
Except Zynga holds all that information.
Funny, for me "limited memory" means 50 GB these days...
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If the author doesn't make it abundantly clear why he is rejecting the Apple product he will get 290845243 comments saying "just buy an Air".

And he's right about the keyboard. Personally I'm screwed because I use dvorak - I'll never have a decent UK map (except on Linux). On the bright side, having the wrong symbols on them makes the keys in question blend in with all the others.
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I've run into the situation more times than I can count where there was some little display difference between, for example, FF on OSX and FF on Windows. Always pays to spend the short amount of extra time needed to test across operating systems.
Yeah -- but one which I totally don't buy. It takes me all of 2 minutes to adjust to the transposed @ and " characters and back again, and I'd never even noticed the difference with Return before now. Feels like the author's just setting up a straw man to make the lack of a non-Apple ultraportable seem like it matters.
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