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Heh. I guess I was around median in 1994 :) Sometimes this stuff really bums me out..time to get on leetcode I guess!

It's very likely that since IQ comes from good Gene's, that a least some of the effect is the other way around ; you make more because you are more intelligent, and you're more int…

sure. you might be something else and have a lot of linux experience - I think most people who have this are either devs or some related profession, perhaps sysadmin or adjacent ro…

great article and I think shows the way forward. HN has a very technical userbase and overestimates linux as an desktop operating system. Desktop ubuntu installs are down year over…

actually, for many metro areas the delinquency rate is reaching 25%+ for FHA loans right now. they're surviving due to the feds preventing foreclosure. things are a little better i…

uh... didnt early proponents of many worlds interpretation actually say that it did? Say Hugh Evrett? If it is reinterpreted to say otherwise, is it really the same QM model anymor…

Yes, the protests are 'mostly peaceful' and any violence is due to reactionaries.

this claim is contested , and some would even say disproven; why do you keep bringing it up like a life raft.

Again, strawmen and worse. Theism hardly excludes science or technology. 3 children down you attempt to change the subject again. You have already admitted that you could only argu…

we were on the subject of your straw man burning; Which you seem to have already fessed up to ... something which speaks to some redeemable qualities. Let's not pretend that natura…

supernatural means above the natural order; your conception of a deity is out of step with traditional theism and represents straw man building at best

you might do well to learn what attributes classical theism claims of a deity before slandering them; any deity bound by the natural laws of the world is hardly in keeping with the…

The purpose of marriage is not and has ever been to be happy all the time. If you view love and marriage as about a transaction where the output must always be happiness, then you'…

royal navy is a joke these days. always wonder if a Falklands happened now would they remain british?

In this territory, a lot of arguments of the form "This does seem to be the obvious conclusion based on our human thought ,but that is a mere delusion/illusion" - the implication i…

I really get sad seeing wishfull thinking like this. In mice, it has been demonstrated that parkinsons is linked to damaged neurons - the cells are damaged for the lifetime of the …

I think a lot of people at HN just hate IBM for no real reason. An economy doesn't have to be composed entirely of scrappy startups, bleeding-edge tech (and IBM does do a lot of gr…

Guys with union cards in the right union can make as much as an average software engineer

havent there already been countryhams raised on acorns in the usa? why so much clamor about the spanish ones? if I recall, people have been doing this on the east coast since the c…