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cerebrum··on On the link between great thinking and obsessive walking
What's the name of the city?
cerebrum··on What is ‘elite overproduction’?
Please details. Which country and what doctorate. Lots of doctorates are useless. No surprise here.
cerebrum··on 2.1M of the oldest Usenet posts are now online for anyone to read
Do you know where I can find an archive with the de.* (German) groups?
cerebrum··on I'm a Coffin Confessor
> Who would question the last confession of a dying person?

If you are doing it so would lots of other people.

cerebrum··on Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway
https://www.econlib.org/the-uniformity-and-exclusion-movemen...
cerebrum··on Silicon Valley didn’t inherit discrimination, but replicated it anyway
You are assuming it is a problem, there is your political judgement. Why should all genders and races be represented equally in all occupations? Pertinent dictum: Strive for equality of opportunity not equality of outcomes.
cerebrum··on Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
> chess makes you smarter

Why do you believe that? Did you do an assessment before and after practicing chess?

Edit: I also linked to an article about studies in my other comment.

cerebrum··on Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
> Lifting weights, running, exercise.

Your comment needs to be upvoted.

cerebrum··on Study finds learning music won’t make children smart
Are there similar studies regarding chess?

I found this, it seems chess doesn't make you smarter: https://theconversation.com/does-playing-chess-make-you-smar...

Relevant quote:

"The fact that skills learned by training do not transfer across different domains seems to be a universal in human cognition. In other words, you get better, at best, at what you train in – which may just sound just like good old fashioned common sense."

cerebrum··on Harry Eng, the Master of the “Impossible Bottle”
Possibly softened it through steam, look for "Impossible nail through wooden block" in this thread.
cerebrum··on Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze
No need to reinvent the wheel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Hong_Kong
cerebrum··on x86 Bare Metal Examples
http://menuetos.net/
cerebrum··on Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results
If you think unions will improve the situation, consider: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2006/01/union_disillusi.htm...
cerebrum··on Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki [video]
In 2013 he was 72 years old.
cerebrum··on Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Iraq has WMDs.
cerebrum··on Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
Cookiecaper, I understand where you are coming from but complaining only makes you look like a sore loser. You are not helping your position by this post. Consider taking constructive action.
cerebrum··on Interview with CTO and Co-founder of Zapier on Working with Remote Engineers
Hello Bryan,

you started the company having already a pool of people you knew and trusted.

What if you don't have that? I'm worried about security aspects, hacking, etc...

How is it possible to start a company with remote hires and still have trust that they won't run away with your code, etc... Especially if the remote hires are in another jurisdiction where legal recourse might be hard or impossible?

Thanks

cerebrum··on To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)
Legs are stronger than your back. So a good load for the legs will probably be too much for the back. Also there is only a limited amount of repeated compression that the vertebral discs can handle.
cerebrum··on To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)
There are safer exercises for strengthening the back. Squats are good for the legs.
cerebrum··on To solve problems caused by sitting, learn to squat (2017)
Safe alternative: hip belt squat. Don't load your back/spine. Google it.
cerebrum··on 'You Get Sexual Advances 24/7': What It's Really Like to Be a Female Engineer
As a male I'm pretty sure this is an illusion. Go to Pattaya Thailand and walk down the infamous Soi 6 every day for a week. I've been there, done that. Tell me how many nights you will last until you don't want to go there anymore.

I understand you, it certainly feels good in your imagination but once you get hit on every day it becomes annoying. E.g. it is extremely annoying if you just want to walk through Soi 6 to reach the beach and every yard another woman walks up to you and tries to grab your hand or get hold of you.

It's even worse if you are trying to get some work done. Imagine that every time you want to grab a coffee while you are still thinking about a problem, some lady walks up and starts a chat "Hey honey, how is it going?"

cerebrum··on Stanford Stats 385: Theories of Deep Learning
Certainly there is. However, how much interaction do you expect to get if you are one of hundreds of students? Also there are probably other people who also teach/research this. It might be more relevant if you are doing a PHD.
cerebrum··on Stanford Stats 385: Theories of Deep Learning
Why? All the material is available online.
cerebrum··on Why Must You Pay Sales People Commissions?
I would be interested in an experiment. Do sales with comission and without and compare the results. Also consider that without having to pay comission you could hire more salespeople for the comissionless model.

I bet that there should not be a significant difference in the amount you are selling.

cerebrum··on Is There Any Point to Protesting?
Nonsense. Nixon wanted to be portrayed as a madman but it doesn't mean that he actually had any plans to use nukes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

cerebrum··on Binary Puzzle
1. and 6. row identical.
cerebrum··on The Boring Company [video]
Where is the advantage to the tried and tested metro? Transporting individual vehicles instead of people is much more complex, costly and will require more maintenance.
cerebrum··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2017)
SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE OK

Hello I'm looking for a free lance developer to do a progressive web app, primarily for Android.

It's for a social media app, so I want basic functionality like searching, displaying pictures, etc...

If you are interested reply to this message and I'll get back to you.

cerebrum··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)
Location: REMOTE

Hello I'm looking for a free lance developer to do a progressive web app, primarily for Android.

It's for a social media app, so I want basic functionality like searching, displaying pictures, etc...

If you are interested reply to this message and I'll get back to you.

cerebrum··on How a Machine Learns Prejudice
What other data do we discard? Who gets to decide which data to discard? There is no point in doing data analysis if you then discard uncomfortable data anyways.
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