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Other than blaming illegal immigrants (a dubious politically motivated response) Reference? I'd like to see what percentage of California's population is the result of post-1960's …

I have the feeling you're not a programmer. An algorithm that generates the optimal solution for a given configuration is trivial. Do a breadth-first search of the results of each …

a1 = 10^10 a2 = a1^a1 ... a_n = a_(n-1)^a_(n-1) My number is a_(a_(10^10))

Did you Google for the DOJ stats I mentioned? Regardless, here's what we know: 1) Blacks commit on the order of 10x the violent crime of non-Hispanic whites and Asians in the US. T…

Case of exaggeration for comedic effect.

Sure, in America there are at least three independent lines of evidence for the 10x figures. DOJ arrest rates, DOJ violent crime victim surveys, and simply by looking at the race o…

The blog post gives the example of how more distractable old people can outperform less distractable young people on a specially contrived mental test. Similarly, if you put a bunc…

Other than linking to culture and cognition... Maybe I am still misreading, what did you mean by "The answer to that one is pretty straightforward, well known, and easy to understa…

You've obviously thought very hard about all this. But you do know that blacks commit a lot more crime (~ 10x) everywhere, not just America? The answer has everything to do with ra…

There's a little bit of that on HN. Not more than other places. HN is certainly not "Digg." On the other hand, if you attack the big SWPL shibboleths (human neurological uniformity…

FUD FUD FUD. What an awful summary. There is an efuse and they refer to it in the statement: "the technology is not loaded with the purpose of preventing a consumer device from fun…

That sounds like a recipe for population replacement. Historically a wonderfully bad idea. Why are Canadians (like whites everywhere) not having children? It strikes me that we sho…

The importance of APM always struck me as evidence of misguided design in Starcraft/Starcraft II. It takes emphasis off the parts I find fun (the strategy), and puts it on the part…

Xz appears to use the same algorithm as 7zip. Here are some comparisons between the big 3 compression algorithms (taken from http://blogs.reucon.com/srt/tags/compression/ -- he use…

Oh really? I don't think you know what you mean. In point of fact, I just sent myself a very important password in clear text. Hack me.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. There is a trade-off here between security and usability. 99% security is good enough for a lot of purposes and has its place.

Posterous really does fail here. I can see why they would want to tolerate a little of this to preserve ease of use for their users (just like Amazon with their Kindle email addres…

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/cxx0x_status.html : "Status of Experimental C++0x Support in GCC 4.5" Last month's release of 4.5.0 is stable, but the C++0x support is experimental.

Where functional programming in C++ falls apart is this step: bind(std::plus (), _1, bind(&Die::faceValue, _2)) When I first learned the STL, I worked pretty hard to figure out bin…

Absolutely right. That's actually what I was thinking. It should be built into the OS. Same for adblock in IE (too late for that, maybe). And there needs to be serious backup softw…

Microsoft Security Essentials is free now, works at least as well as the other anti-virus programs, and doesn't get in your face about it. If Microsoft had released it in 1999 inst…

"Second, it may provide a credential that employers want, not because it represents actual skills, but because it's a weeding tool that doesn't produce civil-rights suits as, say, …

1. Open -- We're the freetards now. Booyah. 2. Full Web -- You don't really want Flash. 3. R,S,P -- Flash is some buggy shit. 4. Battery -- Forcing you not to use Flash saves your …

What? I think you meant to reply to someone else. Re-read my posts and find any statement where I suggested any behavioral differences and backed it up by anecdotal evidence.