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And yet SpaceX has a 57% success rate (4/7), while the Delta family of rockets has had a 97.5%+ success rate (80/82, from 2000-2011, with the other 2 being only partial failures). …

I don't understand this - did the journalist misunderstand Musk? He's saying cost growth is going to come from a system that has been in place for years already. Why would costs sp…

Why should they? I think these courses are great, but how is Stanford benefiting from them? If Stanford has to expend all this effort without realizing a benefit of some sort, why …

Are these classes sustainable? Once a class has been run, how much labor is required of Stanford staffers? My concern is that Stanford will hold these classes, realize no payoffs b…

Does this mean self-absorbed hipsters cum wannabe food critics are worth something? The end is near. Yelp does a great service though. But half the reviewers are just intolerable a…

I noticed something similar, though not as a programmer. I tested videogames one summer, where it was my job to locate and report bugs. It was soon apparent that there was huge var…

"Featured Stops Starbucks (Coffee Shop) In-N-Out Burger (Burgers) Chevron (Gas Station / Garage) McDonald's (Fast Food) Jack in the Box (Fast Food) Los Pinos Mexican Restaurant (Me…

Novel claims require evidence. Here is another link: http://discovermagazine.com/2005/oct/sex There are more genes related to intelligence on the X chromosome than on just the X an…

This article doesn't tell us what we think it does. In America, the relationship between drug use and high IQ is small or non-existent: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scie…

A Scottish study found that IQ is stable, over a 66 year period. http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/ijdeary/papers/SMS32_98.pdf Also, just because one can game the test, or make its result …

"IQ is heritable, but the catch is that it may, in fact, only be heritable through the mother's half of the genes contributed to the child [1]." Do you have a source for this that …

"IQ is also correlated with revenue (probably because that's what it actually measures: socio-economic class)" False. Charles Murray compared brothers of the same household of diff…

I know a fair amount about IQ, having studied it a bit, and I'm surprised. IQ correlates pretty strongly, with law abiding behavior, at the very least, not going to jail. High IQ p…