I think we've made a huge mistake in our notions of "experts", especially the blind assumption that we need experts to tell us something on every arbitrary issue. On all the recent issues, you can and should engage with…
Social psychologist here. There's a profound lack of cognitive activity in American journalists, and what I'd call legacy leftist media especially. I don't think we can explain what happened here without reference to…
It will be a chunk. It accounts for a lot of income variance in existing research, like Chetty's at Harvard. He and his colleagues seemed to bury the effect though in at least one of their papers on "inequality", which…
Are you taking about the word "Defense" in Oshkosh Defense? Yeah, this isn't a military vehicle. It's a van, not some sort of modified Humvee or anything. Oshkosh makes lots of vehicles and some civilian kit like fire…
As a brown person and hopefully a champion of reason, I would like to encourage you white folks to be a bit less obedient and compliant with this madness. It is long past time that this ideology was firmly and squarely…
You're assuming racism is the cause of the gaps. Big assumption. Out of wedlock births alone will explain a gap of that size: more than 70% of black American children are born out of wedlock. That's a disastrous figure,…
I don't see much nuance or texture there. I think this work is a scratch, has no epistemic standing, meaning, or utility. Modern academic methods are incredibly sloppy and non-rigorous, where they just make all these…
Social psychologist here. The article doesn't back the headline. They never mention the effect size, how much parental finances matter. The mention that smarts "explain 11% of the gap" or something, but they don't…
I agree. In fact, I'm not aware of any context or venue where leftists have supported freedom of speech (for non-leftists). They're failing every test. Campuses, disinviting speakers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or even Condi…
Anyone know what happened to Intel over the past 5+ years? They used to be unstoppable, relentless, the best. Have they had trouble recruiting the best engineers? How have TSMC and Apple been been able to pull ahead in…
Faster still would be to skip the request for the CSS altogether by inlining it in the head. Therefore you'd just request the font immediately and directly. This makes the preconnect moot, and should be faster. Faster…
Nice. I love Mini Discs, and especially Mini DVDs. They're great for archival storage. I would just keep them, not migrate to something else.
The reason governments waste time on recycling, or fail to authorize landfills, or orchestrate the export of trash to other countries is because environmentalists exist and are very active. They're especially powerful…
Interesting read. It always surprises me that companies go many years running major apps and infrastructure with interpreter-based languages like Python and Ruby to begin with. It's an incredible waste of energy,…
Why is WeWork considered a tech company? And what exactly is wrong with their business model? That's not clear to me from the article. It says they take long-term leases and sell short-term leases. That seems…
What is the article referring to when it cites an "increase in climate change" and says that it's been more aggressive than predicted?
I like it. What would also be cool is another Go compiler and linker, developed by a different team not at Google. It would be good for the ecosystem and performance if there was more than one compiler and runtime. I…
Anyone know what it's made out of, the specific materials?
1. Yes, many millions of people are still buying cars. Some of us love cars. Real men drive, and drive well – they don't ride bikes or trolleys to work. Driving is an essential element of grown-up level autonomy and…
Stealing? That would imply that someone else's money belongs to you, which by definition it does not. I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income, and if people can escape it I'm happy for them.
Anyone know what programming language the kernel is written in?
> It is also not possible to use C++ to fully write iOS or UWP applications... UWP has native C++ APIs. So does Win32, right? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-windo...
Right. Squarespace is a hosting provider and website builder that anyone should be able to use to build a website, typically a smaller scale website like a blog or a small to medium online store / e-commerce site. It's…
This would seem to be a private problem. If people choose to park their money with a non-transparent, unaudited random crypto startup, that's their decision and their problem. I'm not interested in paying for…
Good work on Redis. Ruby, however, strikes me as pretty fragile. They can't get it running on Windows, officially, and the third-party Windows installer is hit or miss. Ruby also seems to depend on a specific compiler,…
I think we've made a huge mistake in our notions of "experts", especially the blind assumption that we need experts to tell us something on every arbitrary issue. On all the recent issues, you can and should engage with…
Social psychologist here. There's a profound lack of cognitive activity in American journalists, and what I'd call legacy leftist media especially. I don't think we can explain what happened here without reference to…
It will be a chunk. It accounts for a lot of income variance in existing research, like Chetty's at Harvard. He and his colleagues seemed to bury the effect though in at least one of their papers on "inequality", which…
Are you taking about the word "Defense" in Oshkosh Defense? Yeah, this isn't a military vehicle. It's a van, not some sort of modified Humvee or anything. Oshkosh makes lots of vehicles and some civilian kit like fire…
As a brown person and hopefully a champion of reason, I would like to encourage you white folks to be a bit less obedient and compliant with this madness. It is long past time that this ideology was firmly and squarely…
You're assuming racism is the cause of the gaps. Big assumption. Out of wedlock births alone will explain a gap of that size: more than 70% of black American children are born out of wedlock. That's a disastrous figure,…
I don't see much nuance or texture there. I think this work is a scratch, has no epistemic standing, meaning, or utility. Modern academic methods are incredibly sloppy and non-rigorous, where they just make all these…
Social psychologist here. The article doesn't back the headline. They never mention the effect size, how much parental finances matter. The mention that smarts "explain 11% of the gap" or something, but they don't…
I agree. In fact, I'm not aware of any context or venue where leftists have supported freedom of speech (for non-leftists). They're failing every test. Campuses, disinviting speakers like Ayaan Hirsi Ali or even Condi…
Anyone know what happened to Intel over the past 5+ years? They used to be unstoppable, relentless, the best. Have they had trouble recruiting the best engineers? How have TSMC and Apple been been able to pull ahead in…
Faster still would be to skip the request for the CSS altogether by inlining it in the head. Therefore you'd just request the font immediately and directly. This makes the preconnect moot, and should be faster. Faster…
Nice. I love Mini Discs, and especially Mini DVDs. They're great for archival storage. I would just keep them, not migrate to something else.
The reason governments waste time on recycling, or fail to authorize landfills, or orchestrate the export of trash to other countries is because environmentalists exist and are very active. They're especially powerful…
Interesting read. It always surprises me that companies go many years running major apps and infrastructure with interpreter-based languages like Python and Ruby to begin with. It's an incredible waste of energy,…
Why is WeWork considered a tech company? And what exactly is wrong with their business model? That's not clear to me from the article. It says they take long-term leases and sell short-term leases. That seems…
What is the article referring to when it cites an "increase in climate change" and says that it's been more aggressive than predicted?
I like it. What would also be cool is another Go compiler and linker, developed by a different team not at Google. It would be good for the ecosystem and performance if there was more than one compiler and runtime. I…
Anyone know what it's made out of, the specific materials?
1. Yes, many millions of people are still buying cars. Some of us love cars. Real men drive, and drive well – they don't ride bikes or trolleys to work. Driving is an essential element of grown-up level autonomy and…
Stealing? That would imply that someone else's money belongs to you, which by definition it does not. I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income, and if people can escape it I'm happy for them.
Anyone know what programming language the kernel is written in?
> It is also not possible to use C++ to fully write iOS or UWP applications... UWP has native C++ APIs. So does Win32, right? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/universal-windo...
Right. Squarespace is a hosting provider and website builder that anyone should be able to use to build a website, typically a smaller scale website like a blog or a small to medium online store / e-commerce site. It's…
This would seem to be a private problem. If people choose to park their money with a non-transparent, unaudited random crypto startup, that's their decision and their problem. I'm not interested in paying for…
Good work on Redis. Ruby, however, strikes me as pretty fragile. They can't get it running on Windows, officially, and the third-party Windows installer is hit or miss. Ruby also seems to depend on a specific compiler,…