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The only thing missing from this is a reference to the mathematical theory of harmonic analysis, which provides a way to calculate the exact eigenvalues (or modes) of these systems…

One thing that really sped up my compiler was eating a ketogenic diet, and eliminating preprocessed foods.

It sounds like you are jealous of Musk's intelligence, and so you write something that puts down smart people and talks down to them in a patronizing way. Why else would you lump a…

The article criticizes the standard of evidence provided for mainstream diet advice, and yet they provide absolutely no evidence for their claim that the really important factor is…

Well said. I often get downvotes on comments that go against the "more women in tech" feminist agenda. You just have to ignore the hive mind and give your honest opinion, no matter…

Nerds were cute when they started getting big paychecks. Now they are using their money to buy things that other people want. That's not fair!

That's unfortunate. Have you considered renaming the game to gogame?

I found Haskell was not that hard. But I did try to learn by reading Learn You a Haskell twice and gave up. When I really learnt it, I treated it like I would any other language: I…

Reverse-agism is part of an egalitarian mindset of many HN commenters, who believe experience is more important than individual variation in skill. For them, skill and ability incr…

Can someone fill me in on why IPC is important? I would have thought that most parallelism was either within a process, or across machines.

In Australia we have a single system, where the test for qualifying for welfare is almost entirely based on (1) total assets and (2) income. This disproves the theory that excessiv…

No, it's time for something proven: Australian style welfare. Maybe in 50 years time, it will be time for basic income. The problem with giving people free money, is it reduces the…

Jealousy is a natural human emotion. It is notable how many stories bashing smart people (not for being smart per se, of course, but for lacking other important qualities) come up …

No matter what the control for, these studies are very limited. If they say that intelligence is correlated with X, if we like X we will say that this proves X is a good thing, and…

This is a terrible idea. It doesn't sync live, you have to send the entire notebook back and they scan it for you. That makes it much less useful that, for example, those special p…

>I only need to point out the many companies that don't pay dividends and yet are widely accepted as investments. Your logical error is in assuming that if a company that pays no d…

You are correct about the empirical facts (there exist some companies don't currently pay dividends), but theory is needed to understand that if those company's never paid dividend…

It's extremely simple: The only real value a share has is dividends, and dividend-like things (like share buybacks, the whole company being taken private, etc.). In theory (and pra…

Nonsense by people who don't understand free market economics and therefore choose to ridicule it. Calling themselves artists (as another pointed out) shields them from the critici…

I'd be interested in seeing a meta-version of this: give two papers with identical methodologies, one showing that employers tend to hire women less because they are biased, and on…

Python was invented by an extremely talented programmer who didn't happen to know one particular thing. It's not the minutiae of theory that make Python so popular, but it's overal…

On my motivations, society does allow bullying to happen, and the discrepancy between what it allows to happen to children in the context of bullying, and what it allows in most ot…

Well it's not surprising it seems like a truism to you, since a big part of conservatism is maintaining the status quo. But to be more precise about the benefit that conservatives …

please see my other replies - I'm not endorsing bullying, I'm explaining why many conservatives don't think it's a problem.

When I say "social structure" I mean the idea that people should feel compelled to follow societal norms. Even though school bullies don't enforce the same norms as society at larg…