open0 | 4 years ago | on: Scientists re-evaluating relative brain size and mammalian intelligence
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open0 | 4 years ago | on: Scientists re-evaluating relative brain size and mammalian intelligence
> I don’t think many people doubt that there is a substantial hereditary component to the variation in intelligence between people.
I highly doubt it. Why exactly do you think this? Because some traits have been associated with intelligence?
open0 | 4 years ago | on: New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
There is no bot, according to the moderator you're responding to.
open0 | 4 years ago | on: New evidence that British workplaces are losing viewpoint diversity
The world is a big place. Many times I've seen local job ads for computer programmers that explicitly state "male only".
Where I am it is common for the hierarchy within a corporation to have a clear separation along ethnic lines, e.g. construction workers will be local, their supervisors will be from a nearby country, and the big bosses will be from another larger, wealthier country.
open0 | 4 years ago | on: Study shows class bias in hiring based on few seconds of speech
"And why shouldn't people seeking higher status jobs or education be expected to present and conduct themselves accordingly?"
Because accent has nothing to doing with "conducting oneself accordingly". Why is the onus on the victim of discrimination to align with your bogus, outdated way of thinking?
open0 | 4 years ago | on: CSS Tips
No need to remember, look at the source of this website.
open0 | 4 years ago | on: Pfizer is testing a pill that, if successful, could cure Covid-19
Yes, and it varies immensely by amount of activity.
I add at least 1500-2000 calories a day when I am lifting in addition to normal training (as in, 1-2 hours of intense exercise every day).
open0 | 4 years ago | on: Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after four years
Ever been enslaved on a Thai fishing boat? I know a few people who have, including a neighbor that was missing for 3 years. The US has its own problems, but places like Dubai, Southeast Asia, etc. have a much more severe problem with mistreatment and abuse of workers.
Last year a building collapsed here during construction and killed about 60 people. Stuff like that happens all the time.
open0 | 5 years ago | on: Jonathan Smith walks free after 21 years of wrongful imprisonment
Legalize drugs.
open0 | 5 years ago | on: Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
There is absolutely no problem with that. If you want to host it then do it yourself, nothing is stopping you with commercially permissive licenses.
I never knew how much I can't stand "free" software types until today.
open0 | 5 years ago | on: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
100% true, these people are not smart at all. They are parasites and criminals that are destroying society and they must be stopped. Youtube manipulates what people see all over the world and most of it is pure trash.
open0 | 5 years ago | on: Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
The line between user and developer is blurry, especially in the context of software that exposes its configuration entirely as some part of its core function.
> The freedom of users is more important than the freedom of developers.
What exactly is this "freedom" that users are benefiting from? Is this the part where we invoke some negative right? That's called "control".
open0 | 5 years ago | on: Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
> If you want to use AGPL software in your project, you're free to relicense under AGPL.
And this condition is the reason that the answer will be "no" every time to using copyleft. Why would anyone ever choose a piece of software which, however you want to twist words, is actually less free in the sense of what it permits and will have less adoption as a result?
I run some websites without ads used by thousands of people and I never intend to monetize them, but I would still avoid these projects solely due to their licensing.
open0 | 5 years ago | on: How often do people copy and paste from Stack Overflow?
It gives the impression that they don't trust their other more standard testing and analysis tools, and also that they don't trust their developers to use discretion when selecting online resources.
And it seems the software itself reflects a misunderstanding about how programming code is actually manifested. It's very possible to read the official docs or use an IDE and end up writing the same lines of code in some Stack Overflow answer, as many here have said already.
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This one? It does not indicate nearly the certainty that other commenters here do. Read it yourself, it's a good argument for what I'm saying. The GP characterized this scientific debate as settled, yet there is actually very slim evidence in that article for what is being claimed.
Why would it be surprising if among 1000s of the highest IQ individuals in some particular place, that there would be genetic similarities between them? It's completely possible that large groups among these people share a closer familial lineage far back into history that has influenced their present-day social and economic status, which are the factors that are actually responsible for developmental health and correspondingly intelligence, and so the genetic similarity is just a byproduct of the conferral of wealth and status between generations over a long period of time.