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There is a hypocrisy in libertarianism à la Mises. When you read his hyper-logical texts (wich should be appealing to the HN crowd btw), he claims that we should remove any sort of…

I'm sorry if I sounded offensive, and I indeed was, I was tired when I wrote my last comment and my words didn't reflect my tought. I'd like to elucidate this problem once and for …

"Somebody is wrong on the internet". I'm wasting my time and this is my last answer. If you haven't noticed, I only use strict mathematical arguments and I invite you to do the sam…

This is the reason I'm buying the less possible games from Steam, because I know Valve could be bought buy Google or EA some day, and you have no control over it . You have absolut…

If you include m and f in the universe of possibilities, then you must add the following combinations as well : 7) m/f 8) f/m You are not allowed to skip arbitrarily some of the co…

Basically you're right, and Paul is right too. This is just a matter of convention, it depends on what you want to hear in the question. If Jeff said "one of the children is a girl…

Ok this thread is confusing. Actually, your second algorithm wasn't the point of my argument. You're right that according to your second formulation, the probability is 1/2, of cou…

I'm willing to bet $5 that the probability (according to the current statistical science corpus) is still 2/3 (even if you're right that announcing the child doesn't alter the sex …

This is precisely the first subtility you encounter when you learn probabilities : they are not identical. Paul is right that the formulation of the question doesn't refer to the M…

You are right about the question ("Announcing the gender of one child does not magically alter the gender of the other child"), but wrong about the statistics, even in your second …

I'm French and I know Todd, the title sounds correct to me. Todd predicted the collapse of USSR (when it was a minority position among intellectuals), and it has been several years…

I don't know why you're being downvoted. It's cool for the guy, but I found the speeches of Obama completely dull as well. Maybe the talent resides in writing speeches that will of…

I might be downmodded to hell with this message, but whatever... I feel about the same. Do you have some sort of nobility in your ancestorship (or in the army) ? I noted that this …

I'm French and I enjoyed the article. This Loic LeMeur guy has always been a self-proclaimed ambassador of whatever he wants, but he's just blow hard. He needs the bad press so he'…

A = You have a good sperm B = You are intelligent In logic, the argument translates to : A B ( quality of sperm depends on your intelligence ), B A ( and vice versa, intelligence d…

The quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa It is unfortunate that an article talking about intelligence starts with a tautology.

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Interesting, but definitly not surprising. When I was younger I found a way to hack a poorly designed online quizz, tied to a very famous french radio quizz. It was pay per play, w…

So true. Even with the best spam filter in the world, I'll always have to check for false-positive. We need something else...

What is the adsense of life ?