The Google guys seem nice. Zuckerberg does not give off a "nice" vibe. He's much more like Bill Gates than LarrySergeySchmidt. He is in the game to win and doesn't pretend to have a benign mission.
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I miss nickb and have slowly come to terms with the fact that I was the only one that ever believed nickb wasn't pg.
My topcolor is f1e9d9My belief is that science and religion are reconcilable, but by the time you become a rational theist, what's the point of still being a theist? You'll have already rationalized away most of your core beliefs, like a God that is really answering your prayers.
By the way, you can discuss this at Less Wrong with an obnoxiously rational crowd, but you'll probably get mercilessly downmodded because the question is answered already in the existing writing. Doing some more reading on Less Wrong should help make you more confident in your existing answer to the question.
The scriptment fills in some of the gaps though. First, corporations are banned from using weapons of mass destruction in space. Second, the planetary consciousness convinces the humans to leave and not return by threatening them with a virus that will kill all of them.
Kava's effects are like a mild benzodiazepine. It's a relaxing, mild sedative. Erowid is the authoritative source for the effects of these kinds of things, though most of the people there are probably doing higher doses than you want to do while coding. http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Kava.shtml
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>But I am sick of people selling/advertising drugs on HN.
This comes up all of the time in these types of threads, which have been less common since that surge of legalize cannabis threads. Please move along, your complaints are uninteresting, counterproductive, and off-topic for this thread. The OP didn't ask if you think this is a good conversation topic for Hacker News.
The "not Hacker News" meme is the most uninteresting thing here and it ruins many otherwise good threads which is why it is discouraged in the guidelines. This story isn't even on the front page. All you needed to do was flag it and move along.
I am not going to argue with you because this argument has already been beat into the ground thoroughly in the cognitive enhancement threads. Suffice to say, the minority of people that agree with you consistently lose the argument. Discussion of drugs on Hacker News is not inherently off-topic. And yes, I sell legal drugs, just like the health food store the OP refers to. You probably sell software. We're allowed to sell things on Hacker News. If you have a business and you're a member of Hacker News in good standing, it is completely accepted to discuss or promote your business here, whether it is a software business or not.
I also sell another substance, mitragyna speciosa, that may work for you depending on your situation. Email is in the profile. The other thing you could do is ask a mental health professional! Kava will relax you, but it's a bad idea to use it to treat an anxiety disorder.
Also see this comment from Ronald Hoeflin (an author of multiple super IQ tests) about verbal intelligence. http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/ultra.html
>A comment on verbal intelligence: Some people wonder about the value of verbal items as a measure of "intelligence," since trying such items seems to involve little or no intellectual effort. From the purely statistical standpoint, many studies repeatedly showed that verbal intelligence, including the sheer size of one's vocabulary, has one of the highest correlations of any type of test item with overall intelligence as measured by tests containing a wide variety of test items. See for example the book Intelligence in the United States, published around 1958, for ample documentation. On the purely intuitive level, one might say that learning a language, including vocabulary, is for the child like decoding hieroglyphics. The brighter child will master this decoding process far more readily than the average child. Later, of course, one can artificially boost the size of one's vocabulary, but cleverly designed tests of verbal intelligence can get around this problem by relying on somewhat atypical verbal items that one would be unlikely to pick up through a "vocabulary improvement" course but that a gifted child would be likely to have picked up if he has been reasonably inquisitive -- and isn't inquisitiveness an important part of intelligence? Finally, to use a computer analogy, a powerful computer without adequate software (analogous to verbal intelligence in humans) would be relatively unproductive no matter how powerful the hardware. -- RKH
He has one more test that is publicly posted. http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/titan.html
There is still inherent cultural bias in IQ tests, but it's definitely not that bad anymore. There's also a big difference between group IQ tests, which some states administer alongside achievement tests in elementary school and are basically completely worthless for measuring anything at all, and actual IQ tests, done one on one with a psychologist.
Normal IQ tests don't measure very high, to be certified with a 200+ IQ you need to take a test that looks more like a Putnam Competition test than anything else.
Email me, I have some invites...
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1. Reiser showed up at his childrens' school the day after Labor day, the first school day after Nina disappeared and a day when Nina was supposed to pick up the kids. The prosecuter claims he was making sure the police didn't show up to ask where the kids' mother was. Reiser claims he went there to add his mother, Beverly Palmer, to the list of people that could pick up the kids. He was scheduled to pick up the kids the next day.
2. Hans' Honda CRX was missing the front passenger seat. It went missing sometime after he got a speeding ticket (after Nina disappeared) and before the police seized the vehicle.
3. Hans admits his hosed out the inside of the car. He removed the seat and threw it away. He also removed the carpet and disposed of it.
4. The car was also missing a piece of trim that Hans admits to throwing out.
5. Han's admits he was trying to hide the car from the police.
6. Nina's van was found three miles from Hans' home. Her cell phone was found in the van with the battery removed.
7. When Hans was taken into custody his cell phone did not have a battery in it. On the stand he claimed that he did not remove the battery from his own phone. He later admitted he lied about that. He actually removed it frequently after Nina disappeared.
8. Along with his cell phone, Hans was carrying his passport and several thousand dollars in cash.
9. Reiser was seen hosing down the driveway to his mother's home shortly after Nina disappeared.
10. The police found two books on murder in Reiser's car. He had purchased them with cash shortly after Nina disappeared.
11. He paid a $5,000 retainer to a criminal defense attorney just days after Nina disappeared, while the investigation was still a missing person's case. He didn't even bother to try calling her to find out if she was alive before he shelled out for the retainer.
Touche.
A lot of startups come up around UPMC in the medical devices area. The investors that are here are extremely practica/rigidl. There's such a small amount of capital that they can only invest in something that seems like a sure thing, like putting a patented design for a medical device into production. I can't blame them for that strategy, but it doesn't make Y Combinator style companies.
This is a list of companies that got seed stage funding in Pittsburgh in quarter 4 2007. http://www.popcitymedia.com/timnews/vcroundup1219.aspx
I do think that this program is good for Pittsburgh. It certainly can't hurt and it is costing Innovation Works so little to run that they can surely afford to do it indefinitely while operating a loss. They get money from the state in the type of post-socialist arrangement that I think is good for society. They have a nice incubator facility in the district of Pittsburgh where I would most like to have an office. It's a decent sized building in the district that has great coffeshops and lots of restaurants and bars.
If anyone from here is thinking of applying, send me an email...
http://offthebroiler.wordpress.com/ is my favorite one. The photography is incredible. You can skip the top two posts.