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frans de waal is another along the same lines.

check out the two sides of evolutionary psychology - the bonobos and the chimpanezee. the bonobos are the feminine, nice, friendly monkeys that are dying out. the chimpanzees are warlike and aggressive and are quite strong. both are closely related to humans.

researchers will generally take one side or another depending on whether their views skew more to the left or the right

the page you links to cites one solo "debunking" study which was done by a guy named Dave Mech, who links to occupy wall street and likes "evolutionary biology and social justice": http://www.davemech.com/

people's personal views often influence research

i left the bay area for the same reason

or he's not, and this is a happy balance for him.

not everything is what you see on tv

its called "stimming". i do it too

the problem is this method encourages hospitals and doctors to avoid taking the difficult cases.

lets say you have a complicated problem which only has a 25% success rate. but due to these statistical models, nobody will do the procedure for you, since it will skew their results. what do you do?

i think its people like your GM friend that this startup is working to disrupt. a lot of backyard mechanics can do a great job very cheaply.

i have a lot of confidence in reeds law and over time i think facebook will demonstrate how powerful it is (provided they keep things together well).

the fb business model may be fairly simple today but in the future it will expand and expand

why did kim go to the red room alone, presumably leaving his wife and kids to be handled by the intruders?

do you think he had aspergers?

i thought both the question and answer was good, but it didn't need to be first. i don't like fluff interviews, its too easy for critical areas not to be discussed.

(i do quite a few interviews myself).

its pretty hard to know what is important in the moment.

what people generally miss about dropping out of college is that guys like bill gates, mark zuckerberg, etc drop out because they are working on something that is turning out to be absolutely massive.

ie the alternative of staying in college was a small opportunity by comparison.

same for me, except around 2003. RMS is a difficult guy but he tends to be right.

Happy new year from tasmania, australia

please let us know where you move to. i'm also disappointed by the lack of good options

this isn't a big deal. just study project management and get really good at it. you'll learn how to execute well on projects and find yourself getting things completed

amazon may end up solving this problem for us by becoming a good distribution outlet for music

no, its real. and its a great way to test whether you have something with commercial value and build a userbase

the social/behavioural problems of aspergers (autism spectrum disorder) are diagnosed in men at a 4x greater ratio than women.

this can be dangerous thinking.

sticking with a project that has no momentum for a long time can be a huge waste of time. better to focus on finding momentum as quick as possible either in the current project or abandon and find new one. there's a lot of interesting things to do in the world

maybe a smart MVP ;-)

he can't support it.

you're discussing the concept of "empty calories", just like alcohol has.

excellent post and exactly what i suspected.

i think the news should steer back to the middle east and libya in particular right now; thats where things hang in the balance and can impact billions of lives.

so this means my headphones will work now with VOIP sip calls on my ipad?

I worked with Sal when we were both at Oracle. one thing i think is that what he's doing with khan academy ties directly to his strengths.

he was very good at explaining and teaching, and liked analyzing data.

#2 in santo domingo

its a massive market. the problem is the targeting. how do you target ads appropriately? everyone wants the high CPM ads, but nobody knows how they will perform. and you have to do a separate mailing each time

yeah but costco generally gets very good deals in place; i've cross checked it numerous times.

once groupon management catches wind of this it will be fixed; they can't afford the damage to their brand

they're just people. there's plenty of countries out there