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codesushi42on Why Switzerland? (2007)

And don't get me started on xenophobia or the place of woman in society.

Exactly. Moving to Switzerland is only a reasonable option if you (and your family) are white.

codesushi42on The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017)

Oh, shit. I confused Larry Ellison with Scott McNealy. Carry on.

codesushi42on The sudden death and eternal life of Solaris (2017)

Genuine question, what was so bad about Larry Ellison?

codesushi42on OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites

That doesn't matter unless they operated all nodes in the routing chain.

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

If said model only predicted whether it will rain or not.

But not really. You pulled those numbers out of the air, and they aren't very descriptive.

Will someone with a 140 IQ fair better academically and economically than someone with 130 90% of the time?

140 vs 100, sure. But as the # of standard deviations converges, it's less meaningful. And there are still other covariant factors you are failing to consider, as mentioned before.

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Again, no one is arguing that IQ is meaningless. It is less meaningful the closer you are to the middle of the Bell Curve though. And it is not an end-all measurement of human intelligence.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fund...

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Sure, because what did society do before IQ tests? Surely because they've been around for that long, they must be flawless.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/iq-tests-are-fund...

“It has always seemed to be odd that we like to call the human brain the most complex known object in the Universe, yet many of us are still prepared to accept that we can measure brain function by doing a few so-called IQ tests,” Dr Highfield said.

I wonder, what is your opinion on Murray's and Herrnstein's The Bell Curve?

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

No one is arguing that IQ is invalid. It is not the be-all-end-all metric of intelligence and success, nor is it as accurate as people make it out to be. It measures a narrow spectrum of intelligence.

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Says you. But in reality what you're claiming as undeniable truth is actually debatable, and there are plenty of studies to the contrary.

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

It's strongly correlated with outcomes in life and better than any psychological test we have.

Your IQ is correlated with your parents' IQ. But so is your social status, physical appearance and wealth.

IQ is not independently responsible, and it's covariant with other heritable traits.

codesushi42on Superior IQs associated with mental and physical disorders, research suggests

Unless you are an outlier on either side of the spectrum (e.g. 80 or 150), IQ isn't very indicative of anything.

And why would anyone believe it should be? Do you really think a test with a relatively small set of questions, written by a biased group of individuals is going to be representative of human intelligence?

It baffles me that IQ is used as any kind of meaningful measurement beyond showing whether someone is mentally retarded or a prodigy.

codesushi42on Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult

Yet another PR story from Lambda School spun as news on HN.

Fake news.

codesushi42on Uber lays off around 350 more across Eats, self-driving and other departments

Don't forget Slack and HipChat.

codesushi42on Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?

Your whole post is one long and droning denial. I didn't have to go back a year to find an example. That's just what HN gave me the fastest. There are plenty of examples. Maybe you should try looking harder yourself.

HN has a problem with fake news. So does Facebook. And Twitter, and so forth.

Instead of saying "we can do better", you've taken the route of complete and utter denial. And in a kind of off the cuff, blame shifting way.

Just like so many other tech bros in SV. Completely unprofessional and unhinged when faced with real issues. You're enjoying the club, I guess.

codesushi42on Why do companies with unbounded resources still have terrible moderation?

That was never shown, it is you who are stretching what can reasonably be claimed with basically no evidence supporting such nonsense. None of what you said was in the original source.

Stretching the truth like this is lying, whether you like it or not.

codesushi42on Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

This is entirely true if you check the account. And my posts were downvoted multiple times within seconds, which seems obvious...

To the mods: potty mouths aren't the problem on HN, the spreading of fake news is.

codesushi42on Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China

I guess you missed the bit about false equivalency. The US government is not the same as the CCP, as much as you'd like to fantasize it is.

Maybe you would have repeated the same line if Disney was making cartoons for the Soviets or Nazis last century. And to that I say, bug off.

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

Nope, there's not enough work to go around for that many rats.

codesushi42on Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime

Now you're getting all touchy feely instead of looking at the data.

Which is why this paper and most of the comments in this thread reek of falsities and unfounded bias. Which is the norm here now.

Hi dang.

codesushi42on Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and eBay exit Facebook’s Libra project

I am overjoyed. Because now a truly open and decentralized solution has a chance instead.

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

Sounds like a FAANG.

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

Huh? What do your acquaintances do then for 8 hours, sleep?

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

I guess. But I bet the work environment was terrible. Why waste time? Life is too short, pull the trigger and leave. If you can.

codesushi42on Uber Go Style Guide

Why is this better than Google's?

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

Even so, surely the revenue numbers were shared internally at some point. After which, anyone who could would have run for the hills.

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

People like easy money. Anyone with ambition, opportunity, talent and foresight would likely have left We after a month and never looked back.

codesushi42on 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015)

At that point, you may as well implement your own server in C++ using epoll.

codesushi42on WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

I am even more baffled that 1500 engineers accepted an offer at a company that's clearly a fraud. And it would have taken one Google search about their prospective employer to have seen this.

If you work at or did work at We, what was your reasoning? Did you have any?

codesushi42on Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime

If that is the case, why aren't major cities in China, or other major Asian cities like Singapore bastions of crime? Hint: they aren't. They are in fact some of the safest places in the world, and on average have air pollution levels much higher than cities in the US, even dangerous ones!

And yet look at all of the misinformation in the comments, as usual.

codesushi42on Lego logic gates and mechanical computing

We need a Babbage Difference Engine made out of Legos.