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kozd··on Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?
Obviously you give the reference a coding test
kozd··on New Windows 11 test build wants your credit card info
How do you prevent cheating if everything is running on the client?
kozd··on Strangest Sorting Algorithms
You don't have to destroy the universe. Just kill yourself. You'll therefore only exist in universes where the list is sorted. Quantum suicide sort.
kozd··on The claimed effect size is about a zillion times higher than is plausible
Can you elaborate
kozd··on If Everyone Else Is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich? (2011)
I think "silver spoon" tax has a nice ring to it
kozd··on All of Wittgenstein is now public domain
Maybe your assurance is ironic. I assure you that my assurance is not ironic.
kozd··on The Economist tracks excess deaths
Citation on suicide rates increasing 50%?
kozd··on My Path to Financial Independence as a Software Engineer
1) If that money isn't going to be needed, why continue to accumulate it?

2) Why would a job be necessary to have something to challenge/strive for?

kozd··on Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?
Highly recommend the translation by Andrew R. MacAndrew if you want to give it another shot
kozd··on It's not a labor shortage – it's a wage and workers rights shortage
Well presumably all restaurants would have similar issues hiring cooks so prices should rise everywhere. I would wager that demand for restaurant food as a category is less elastic than demand for any one particular Mexican restaurant's food.
kozd··on So You Want to Study Philosophy
> "all the answers to any questions I have"

Either you don't have many questions or you're content with answers that are sufficient rather than sufficient and necessary.

kozd··on Actual impostors don't get impostor syndrome
I think so. The loosey-goosey language of "if" is usually (would need to actually check this) interpreted as an implication relationship

"B if A" or "If A, then B" interpreted as

A -> B

The fallacy would then be to do the following

A -> B

B

------------

A

On the other hand, iff is interpreted as A <=> B

i.e. A -> B and B -> A

So you can get A or B if you have B or A respectively.

kozd··on Modern software development is cancer
What's with the greek characters?
kozd··on Going mouseless
If you want to ditch the physical keyboard/mouse, there are apps that let you use your phone as a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse.
kozd··on Counterfactuals are not causality
How would you determine that it's a necessary condition and not just a sufficient condition?
kozd··on Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
Since when is research not considered empirical?
kozd··on Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting
It gets even better. He used to teach WILD 420 Ornithology which was known for being a "bird course" (slang for easy course). https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2012-2013/courses/wild-420
kozd··on The Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious in Latest Crypto Binge
I don't care what unit you want to use. I place no special importance on a whole bitcoin vs a fraction of one. When people say bitcoin is scarce because there will only every be 21 million they are not saying that you can't subdivide them further, nor are they saying that only 21 million people can ever own bitcoin. They are expressing that it's supply has a fixed maximum. Do you disagree that the supply of bitcoin is fixed at a maximum of 21 million (or however many equivalent satoshi or any other unit)? This is what we are talking about.
kozd··on The Dogecoin Joke Is Turning Serious in Latest Crypto Binge
You are incorrect. The supply of bitcoin is limited. Whether you express that limited supply as units of bitcoin or units of satoshi does not change that the supply will never exceed that amount.

Doing a unit conversion doesn't change anything. The limited supply argument is not implying that you won't be able to own fractional bitcoins, it's arguing that the amount of bitcoin you do own with always be a fixed proportion of the total possible supply (in reality it's proportion will grow as people lose access to their keys) so it won't get devalued by the total possible supply increasing. Remember, value is relative to the supply. Looking at your bitcoin in terms of satoshis doesn't change it's value.

kozd··on Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt
What is opportunity cost?
kozd··on Ask HN: How is GME not a pump-and-dump?
Not if it's a cap-weighted index fund.
kozd··on How the self-esteem craze took over America (2017)
"weak Americans fading away will be a good cultural and physical rejuvenation for the republic" Seriously? What exactly constitutes a "weak" American. Do you consider this some inherent generic property or do you recognize the socioeconomic/environmental circumstances that greatly constrain how most of downtrodden America developed and continue to live. What do you mean by "fade away"?
kozd··on Are the brain’s electromagnetic fields the seat of consciousness?
You have direct access to your own subjective experience. Do you deny that it is like something to be you?
kozd··on I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There
One would hope being racked with moral agony would be sufficient impetus to work towards change. Unless you believe you have no influence, how do you justify closing your eyes as a solution?
kozd··on I'm a Coffin Confessor
Speaker for the Dead has a much better ring to it.
kozd··on Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]
The two things you've suggested as solutions are "parenting classes" and "encourage black parents to not beat their kids so much".

You're doing the same thing here as you did above with your original post.

No anti-racist would look at the results of IQ tests and frame their conclusion as "don'tcha see, black people are stupid".

No anti-racist would look at the article you posted which acknowledges that "the use of corporal punishment in black communities today is a byproduct of centuries of slavery, the racial terrorism of the Jim Crow era, and exposure to racism that continues to chip away at the vitality of black life." and come to the conclusion that "black parents just need to learn what white parents have learned".

Everyone can hear the dog-whistles loud and clear.

kozd··on Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]
I think your "values" are leading you to believe blatant racist and victim-blaming tropes like "black people have disparate outcomes because... they're worse parents". How about we instead start by closing the 23 billion school funding gap. Or would you consider that to be a "handout". https://www.npr.org/2019/02/26/696794821/why-white-school-di...
kozd··on Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]
Do IQ tests control for home life stability/quality, parental and generational wealth/education, school quality, other forms of hardship?
kozd··on Stereotype accuracy: One of the largest, most replicable effects in psychology [pdf]
Citation for for IQ test results == intelligence?
kozd··on Grade Inflation at American Colleges and Universities
If you're interested in this sort of thing, check out the R-score used by CEGEPs in Quebec. It takes into account how well you did relative to the average, what the standard deviation of that average was (the lower the standard deviation, the more significant your deviation from the average is), and then how strong the group of student that made up that average was (group strength is based on students results from standardized exams taken in grades 10 & 11). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_score
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