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Well now you're saying something quite different. Before, you said it was "necessary" to find out which (if any) gods exist before asking whether or not the existence of various kinds of god is compatible with the existence of evil. Now you're just saying that this particular sort of hypothetical question seems pointless to you. I can't argue with your lack of interest, but there is no reason to think that hypothetical questions in general are pointless; and in the particular case at hand, moral philosophers have learned a lot by investigating these questions. The question of whether or not evil is possible in a world created by a good and omnipotent God is basically equivalent to the question of whether or not it is logically possible for good to exist without evil, and this is a question of fundamental interest in moral philosophy (whatever one's religious beliefs).

It's worth repeating that the scope of the problem is very narrow with respect to classes of deity. There is basically only one kind of God for whom the problem of evil arises -- a God who is omnipotent and wholly good. The problem doesn't really arise in any interesting way for the Gods of non-Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions. For this reason, it's not the case that we have to catalog many kinds of god, one-by-one, and then consider the problem separately in relation to each kind of God.
> Jives true to me as well. Most of the people who have identities based on being smart far underperform their intelligence.

Best example, William James Sidis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sidis).

Someone I think we all can identify with on a lot of levels.

"A true man in a world full of animals." Powerful words.
You sound like you might have some interesting ideas on better alternatives, care to share?
Most of the people who have identities based on being smart far underperform their intelligence.

Most people who have identities based on any single term underperform. I think you'd find that people who live life in a singleminded "athlete" way, or "gamer" way, or on and on, underperform similarly. Possibly they're happy that way, possibly they've just pidgeonholed themselves.
I will never understand luddites like you. You honestly can't see any value in Twitter, in any respect?
I used to have "chronic" wrist pain for 8 years, and have now been completely pain free for just over a year.

Saw many doctors, many bouts of physical therapy, many batteries of tests - steroid injections, nerve conduction, MRIs, rheumatologists, chiropractors, acupuncture, etc, none of that was helpful.

In the end exercise cured it. Now and again I had hints that exercise could help, I'd do bicep curls, or reverse curls, and it made the pain recede, but the relief wouldn't stick.

A year ago, I started doing wall push-ups, 1 set, daily, in the morning. In the beginning, I couldn't do one without pain. No fixed schedule, I just kept growing reps, still one set, having rest days when it seemed appropriate, probably about once a week. In 3 months I could 100 wall push-ups, with no significant discomfort. I'd also have a break of about 1-2 hours after the exercise, before I had to start typing for work.

At some point I added "finger extensions" -- wrap rubber band around the fingers, and straighten them, the load is the reverse of typing where you need force to curl you fingers. It seemed like a good idea to balance the load on the muscles. I'm don't recall when I added them in, my best guess is that they helped, I think the wall push-ups were the main thing.

When I started, I could type about 5000 keystrokes per day (so about 300 words), with pain, on a datahand keyboard. As things progressed, I increased keystrokes, then eventually switched to a Microsoft Natural keyboard, and recently to a regular one, with essentially no limitations on how much I type, and with no discomfort.

After 8 years of pain, my outcome has been nearly miraculous. Perhaps this will be helpful, and I hope a similar experience is waiting for you. Best wishes.
I hope someday to actually understand this. It seems to come up once a year or so, and each time I understand a bit more... so hopefully in a few years...
Lots to give it away if you look at the page source. Drupal.extend for one in the js. But I don't see anything that makes me think drupal on first glance.
Laziness is not relevant. SML is definitely functional.
I decided to post the entire interview based upon feedback here at Hacker News - THANKS for the feedback.

What impressed me about Mike and FB's approach is that they are thinking holistically about system software ontop of open source.

The other trend that is highlighted is the inter disciple required now for these type of engineering environments.
There will always be those more or less smart than you.

Subject to the (entirely reasonable, I believe) presumption that humanity is finite, a lack of maximal and minimal elements implies that "is smarter than" is not a strict partial ordering. (All finite partially-ordered sets have maximal and minimal elements.)

This seems profoundly counterintuitive to me; both the asymmetry and transitivity of the "is smarter than" relation seem almost axiomatic (and the irreflexivity is indisputable).

It seems to me that there must be thousands of individuals who are maximally smart -- each of them, naturally, incomparable to the others.
Why wouldn't he be? Twitter is a startup, he is a full-time employee now.
I was told I was smart and I worked hard. Country living left no room for insecurities about losing what was special about my identity. When I didn't do the math homework it wasn't because I didn't want to be discovered as a simpler person than other told me I was, it was because I was busy hacking away at some silly QBASIC code. Even playing Civilization or making minor explosives, I learned more there than a year long of "Egyptian History" in grade 6. Teach your kids to be independent, smart, kind, and get 'em to do at least 10 hours of chores a week and they'll be fine.
Yeah, I've touted Carol Dweck's research on HN before. It's one of the most fascinating pieces of education research I've learned about. And it's clearly what the author refers to.
Amazing isn't it. AAPL was ~$70 just last Christmas, and $200 now, and Palm was at $1.50 something, $15+ now.
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Wouldn't less towers equate to less potential channels of data? I'm not too familiar with how mobile broadband works but I'm thinking if you have one tower utilizing a X Mhz band covering 50 square miles that would be less bandwidth than 5 towers, overlapping X Mhz bands out of range of each other, each covering only 10 square miles. Could be totally wrong though.
The most interesting quotation to me in the article:

"'Who is steering this fear and global paranoia about the G.M. cotton and all these G.M. crops?' said Hans P. Binswanger-Mkhize, a South African agriculture consultant. 'Show us where the corpses are--the corpses of earthworms, the corpses of bees, the corpses of antelopes and the corpses of humans. Nobody has yet ever shown us a corpse.'"

Is fear of continued human improvement of food crops slowing the spread of more productive agriculture?
I think it depends on what conclusion you draw from being smart.

For me, it became obvious very early in elementry school that I was smart. So my mother told me that my mind was a gift. She also told me that being given such a gift meant I had a special responsibility to develop it to its fullest capacity.

Henceforth, it was not failure in any given project that I feared. On the contrary, I routinely failed and thought that if I didn't, I wasn't taking on sufficiently difficult challenges. What I feared was not pushing myself hard enough. Not living up to my potential.

In elementry school, I set my own intellectual pace, and as a professional, I still do. I sought out challenges and ideas, and still do. I feared complacency, and still do. Being taught that intelligence equated to responsibility has done more for me than raw intelligence ever might have.
I think the reason you haven't heard anything negative about them is because the vast majority of people here wouldn't know who they were or what they did.

On the other hand, if I were to randomly pick a player in the lineup of a state or national football or cricket team, odds are the vast majority of the population here would be overjoyed with the idea of telling you how awesome they are and how much better the world is with them around.

And yes, this is indeed part of the problem with this place.
If you're interested in this, check out the book Mindset by Carol Dweck. I recommend it, it's amazing how hackable your mind is.

http://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Success-Carol-Dweck...
Your elitism is astounding. Even minimum wage work is valuable work. Just because someone earns below the median wage doesn't mean they are valueless to the economy or to society.

You again seem to miss the simple fact that jobs do not fall out of the sky from some deity. The value of a job is in the work done, people doing work adds value to the economy for everyone. Even if people earn less than others for that work.

As to your question whether there is no benefit to being a citizen of the country you inhabit, that's tangential to the topic at hand. Whether a job is being done by a legal or illegal immigrant, or whether it's being done by automation that earns no wage at all it's ignorant, backwards, and harmful to label this as "stealing jobs".

When women entered the workforce they did not "steal" jobs from men, though many feared this, they contributed to the economy by doing work. The western world is now significantly richer per capita because of women in the workforce.

Immigrants "stealing" jobs, women "stealing" jobs, and automation "destroying" jobs are fundamentally responsible for the runaway generation of wealth in the US over its history.
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Thanks .. this seems "good enough" for what I was looking for
A side project our company (Citrusbyte) has been working on is OpenFriends (http://getopenfriends.com/). It is an universal friending system, which then can be subscribed to by various services (myspace, facebook, forums). We've been busy with our day jobs (consulting), so we haven't had a chance to polish it quite as far as it could be but your comment about users owning their own social network immediately made the connection in my head. Check it out, and shoot any feedback my way.
Your first sentence is rather rude.

Also, I'm not an economist but probably have studied it much more than the average person. Last time I checked I had a bookcase with 20+ economics books, most of which I've actually read. :)

My post was only half-serious but the half that was serious was referring mostly to the large influx of Hispanic, mostly Mexican, people. And yes, I do think that when they fill jobs in stores, restaurants, etc. and are willing to do them at wages less than a native citizen would otherwise do them at, it means it becomes harder for those citizens to find a job. It raises the supply of job hunters looking for other jobs, which puts downward pressure on market wages, across the board. It also increases the chance or frequency that those other folks (mostly teens or lower-income adults) will become more of a financial burden on our government and the rest of community, as well. Yes, the Hispanic/Mexican immigrant demographic does spend a portion of their income here in the US, clearly, but studies have shown that their average income level is fairly low, and thus their personal contribution to taxes relative to the benefits they consume is much worse than for a higher income worker. Plus, it's a fact that they send a larger portion of their pay out of the country, to Mexico or wherever. Again, unlike native/natural citizens.

To give a particular example, say there's a Mexican guy working in the US on a farm for at or below minimum wage, he lives in small cheap quarters with a lot of other workers, and sends the bulk of his pay back to his family in Mexico, and only stays part of the year, every year -- is that a net win for the US economy? Or a new family that's arrived and has 5 kids, they're in the public schools, they have to be taught in Spanish and English, stores and government offices all feel obligated to double-print everything because of their presence, and their income level is so low they qualify for lots of benefits and may even be a net tax beneficiary rather than a net tax payer -- is that a net win for the economy? Perhaps for that family's little micro-economy, but what about the larger community?

You're basically making a black/white assumption about what I was saying, and coming back with another black/white statement as your position. I do think it's subtle with shades of gray. If someone immigrates here and works at a restaurant, great. But what's the net effect on the government budget, and on the wages & prices experienced by those in the community? It may be a net lose rather than a net win.
This story illustrates it is all influenced by how your parents and others around you help you build your expectations and convey their expectations.

I skipped second grade (not recommended) and heard a lot about "potential". I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
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When the developer claims that Erlang only uses "slightly" more memory and is currently not optimized for efficient memory use how exactly do you get to "uses much more memory"? The difference between 10M and 2.5M for the distro size is so slight given current average broadband speeds as to not even be worth mentioning.
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Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong here, but I believe the title should say "Out of Salvia/Iboga/Ketamine/...?" because it's dissociative hallucinogens that induce hallucinations through sensory deprivation. LSD does the exact opposite; it increases sensory stimulation.
As near as I can tell Playdar is not just io bound, it is network-io bound. I would love to see a Perl or Python example, even a toy example, that can sling bits over the network faster than Erlang. This particular app (outside of the thrid-party libraries the OP mentions) is well within the Erlang sweet-spot.
Maybe the problem you've struck is that of the limitations of OO itself. Objects and methods only work up to a point. You often also need to implement behaviors/processes/algorithms. In a multi-paradigm language, such as Python, you'd implement the objects with their behaviors using OOP paradigm and then tie it all together using FP paradigm.

Lots more details: http://www.artima.com/articles/dci_visionP.html
I think a lot of people would like to think of themselves as smart. I do, too. I'm smart, you're smart, and he's smart as well, but it's all relative.

Instead of thinking about how smart I am, I instead think about how much I don't know, especially about things I need to know, either for my professional life or for my personal life. This list can quickly grow, especially since the more you know, the more you become aware of the things you don't know. This is a more concrete measuring stick. Yeah we're both smart, but you know things I need to know to get through my day, so at least today, you're better off than I am. But hey, I'm so smart, maybe I'll figure it out.
Maybe the standards are different. I wonder how many of the tank people had used hallucinogens, and were only reporting really noticeable hallucinations?

> Among the nine participants who scored high on the first survey, five reported having hallucinations of faces during the sensory deprivation, and six reported seeing other objects or shapes that weren’t there. Four also noted an unusually heightened sense of smell, and two sensed an “evil presence” in the room. Almost all reported that they had “experienced something very special or important” during the experiment.

(A heightened sense of smell, really?)
Thanks for the feedback again. Tiny tiny is a good alternative, for peoples who know how to install a php script out there and have a server for it, some also use desktop clients, that's great. For all the other peoples out there, I hope a web solution will help. Thanks for the advice on social sharing
I've never heard a clear definition of "smart" and "stupid" that didn't involve huge inconsistencies. If anyone has a consistent definition, I'd love to hear it. Otherwise, I propose we drop the words from the language for being too vague.
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Compared to six billion people, I don't think you have to worry too much about being, or meeting too many of those people.
Chalkboard paint is pretty nifty too. Something about huffing dry erase fumes always makes me think, "nose cancer".
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in dogs, the metric is how many feedback loops it takes to learn a new trick, iirc. e.g., Fluffy takes 50 treats to learn to "sit" on command; Einstein takes 25.
They could have waited until 10.3. And you can wait until your app is v3 before you launch. They can buy all of Dell's public stock with the money in their bank account. What are you going to do?
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That's clever. My labrador learned sit in about 6-8 tries I think.
Is it me, or does the market value of AAPL being > Google seems a little odd to anyone. I know Apple is doing good but being just below microsoft and above google suggests that the stock is way overpriced
both the asymmetry and transitivity of the "is smarter than" relation seem almost axiomatic

Hah, you can't be serious! Look around you - asymmetry is so painfully obvious that even pop theories propose to split intelligence into "book smarts", "street smarts", "social smarts", etc.

In reality, I don't think "smart" is a word that makes much sense, outside of the context of signaling social status (pIQ).
Is modeling humanity as finite really the right way to go? There's always a stream of new humanity coming in, and old humanity dying off. Not to mention the way you change as you age- even if you're maximally smart at 16 (which everyone is, of course) eventually you won't be.
That's because Ruby folks don't work on that as a community. We're all working on our pet projects, instead of helping get ruby1.9 into the popular OSes -- there's no one-click installer for Windows or OSX, and packages for various linux distros are lagging.

(Yes, I'm pointing the finger at myself too... if only I could stop wasting my time on random stuff, I could spend a bit of time each week helping out.)
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Haha, I was just thinking this rocks for Ruby and other upcoming languages. If people don't have new Python features to play with, they can spend the time learning new languages.

I hope the proposal gets accepted, because I don't like python (personal taste, not trying to start a flame war) and I hope it stops showing up in all the systems I work with.
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I think it's interesting how praise, in this case being told you're smart, can lead to insecurity.

I guess that by being told you're smart, it builds up high expectations within your own mind, leading to emotional distress when you fail to meet those expectations.
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I wonder if there's a correlation between this and dreaming?
"...there must be thousands of individuals who are maximally smart..."

I think that's the core truth of "genius". Melville put it, "Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round".

Joseph Campbell, Isamu Noguchi, Martha Graham, and Rudy Arnheim were all geniuses in very different fields, but they were also drawn to each other in friendship & collaboration. They can't compare to each other on any scale, but somehow shared something in common.
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And when both groups are given another set of relatively easy problems, the first group's performance takes a nosedive.

The other part (working longer on hard problems) is important, but this is probably not so bad - there's rarely a point in doing math problems below your skill level.
To be fair, little of the way we use the internet now was deliberately designed. If there's a specifically PC-centric bent, that's only because the PC's been the sole form of hardware it's been built around until now.

I'd say it's less than five years until Ballmer eats crow.
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I really enjoyed this video...and it was so great to see the alpha product. It reminded me of seeing the initial drawings of Twitter. Those times in the startup are what it's all about!
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Oddly, whether or not there were potential conflicts of interest tripped us up for about two weeks. We were lucky to know a lawyer willing to hammer out the technicalities of it for us pro bono - though finding out that most of the potential problems'd be from me was... a dash of cold water.

Luckily, they're low-probability scenarios. Nobody's going to be offering me a senior editorial position out of the blue.
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Curiously enough, today, such a hack is completely pointless (at least on x86): the rsqrtps instruction can do 4 of these in just 3 clock cycles, with higher accuracy to boot.

Most modern instruction sets with remotely decent floating point support have a similar instruction, in large part because of the prevalence of hacks like this in the past.
It's not that counter-intuitive, it's just a vague definition of "insecurity". When you praise someone for X, you show them that your admiration depends on your perception of X in them, they try to keep your perception of X alive, but avoiding things that would disprove X.

Instead of "admiration", let's say I give you $100 a day as long as you're "smart". Now, do you want to risk my perception by trying something new, or keep doing whatever you're good at?

It's still utility maximization, through and through.
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It makes a ton of sense when if you concede that every single time you say it (well, really, say anything) it's done in context. You rarely say someone is "smart, without qualification" and even if you did it really absolutely means something more like "smart in most of the ways I admire and have observed that person performing".

Which is really total agreement with your point. "Smart" is as much a partial ordering as "friendly" is, for a lot of the same reasons.
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How do people account for complexity of the tricks? Is there a standard trick or is that number fairly stable?
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It does not bother me any more than someone who is particularly animated with their body gestures or language when communicating an idea. Beside that having ideas written out in a shared space can be very useful when you are collaborating on a large project with many facets.
The main benefit I find from having something to draw on is the ability to talk about multiple things without blowing their/my working memory. Seven chunks gets used up pretty damn quick when you need to consider both the parts and the interactions.