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  1. Re: Mod parent up. on Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In · · Score: 2

    This already exists for H1Bs and it is still being widely abused. They need to require companies pay them 150% the normal rate. If they are so desperately needed for their skills, this should not be a problem. We would also get to see how much of a shortage we really have.

  2. Re: I don't even... on Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The thing most people seem to fail at understanding is that training children is a lot like training dogs. They are habitual creatures (even adults are to a large extent) and learn a lot of behavior through mimicking and repetition. You don't always need to explain with words. Taking a toddlers hand when they are calm and stroking the family cat nicely while explaining with a very positive tone is the same as teaching the child to not hit the cat. Hitting a child for negative behavior is teaching them to hit others for behavior they personally find disagreeable. Its not a perfect 1:1 corellation of behavior because we all have conflicting habits that balance each behavior like a neural net.

  3. Re:Political Correctness on massive steroids on FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate · · Score: 1

    Oh man that link has me clutching my sides in laughter. Thank you. The idea that anyone would be concerned about metal getting "sanitized" when it's already such a fringe industry is hilarious. The labels are small and don't care. The musicians don't care. Most of it is sold outside of major chain stores anyways, and most of them probably do not care.

  4. Re: Overtime should be illegal. on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    What? I think you replied to the wrong person.

  5. Re: Overtime should be illegal. on Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? · · Score: 1

    Actually there have been quite as number of people killed striking. The Homestead Strike immediately comes to mind.

  6. Re: Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    So if I can't afford to buy ammo, do I lack these rights?

  7. Re: Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    So you would prefer to be robbed at gun point by a corporation instead of by a government? If that's true it is OK, I am just verifying your preferences.

  8. Re: When did YOU ever say there was a limit? on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    In that scenario you really only need one guillotine...

  9. Re: Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    How exactly is tribalism any different than the ultimate outcome of libertarianism?

  10. Re: Great on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    With delicious oligarchy.

  11. Re: There is no single "fair" value. on UK Announces 'Google Tax' · · Score: 1

    learn to take care of yourself

    Damn straight. Anyone who isn't ready for when TSHTF deserves the screwing they get!

  12. Re: Definition - "Microaggression" on Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Thank you for illustrating my point.

  13. Re: Definition - "Microaggression" on Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    I'm stumpted to find any more than one meaning for "fuck you" that would ever be used in conversation. But that is besides the point. I can say anything in a disrespectful tone. In that case, it is the tone that is the issue, not the words. Working in Southern California, just about everyone will ask about where you are from because the vast majority of people I have worked with are from somewhere else, whether in the country or the world.

  14. Re: Training? on "Advanced Life Support" Ambulances May Lead To More Deaths · · Score: 1

    Interesting. In the rural united States, you are most likely going to get a specially trained nurse when a helicopter is called to the scene, but not otherwise. That nurse can treat a lot more than cardiac arrest when they are in the air, such as draining fluid buildup in the chest cavity from severe trauma.

  15. Re:The high heritability of educational achievemen on Genes Don't Just Predict Intelligence, But Also How Well You Do In School · · Score: 1

    I did read the article and I don't see where the researchers accounted for socio-economic background. Additionaly, they point to "nine general groups of traits that were all highly hereditary" but fail to mention what traits these are. This is not listed in the abstract either.

  16. Re:The high heritability of educational achievemen on Genes Don't Just Predict Intelligence, But Also How Well You Do In School · · Score: 1

    I did read the article and I don't see where the researchers accounted for socio-economic background. Additionaly, they point to "nine general groups of traits that were all highly hereditary" but fail to mention what traits these are. This is not listed in the abstract either.

  17. Re:Seriously? on AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough · · Score: 1

    Youtube on dial up? Seriously? Maybe if you're a masochist.

  18. Re:Discrimination on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Also why is it that WP should do more to appeal to females but FB doesn't need to do more to appeal to males?

    Uhh, because 64/36 female/male user ratio isn't that far out of line. That aside, I'm sure there are top men in Facebook working to pull in a greater number of men while not pushing out their female user base. Top men.

    Wikimedia Foundation doesn't neccessarily need to do more to appeal to women and they are not suggesting that they do. But it is certainly in their interest to understand why such an extreme gap exists.

  19. Re: Her work on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    You make me laugh. I was on the Internet when the BBS was the most happening thing going on. Clearly you do not understand that the rules of polite society do not go out the window just because you are posting something on the Internet, at least not in the eyes of the law and not in the eyes of the vast majority of society. Threats of bodily harm are the same whether made on the Internet, in the newspaper, in a hand written letter, or to your face.

  20. Re: Her work on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, we didn't threats of bodily harm as "insults".

  21. Re:And this is how we get to the more concrete har on Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio · · Score: 1

    First of all, I was not proposing a categorical imperitive. Obviously everyone matures at different rates. I've met 15 year olds who were more mature than some 40 year olds. In general though, high school aged people in the United States lack the maturity neccessary for serious study of philosophy.

    As to the age of the bulk of Aristotle's and Plato's students, interesting. Do you have a source for this? Aristotle did not study with Plato until he was 18, and the Platonic Academy was a highly selective group for discussing philosophical problems. It does not appear to me that it was a place for the young. Either way, different cultures result in different levels of maturity at different ages. My statement is only appropriate to the United States as I do not understand any other culture well enough to claim I know how mature people tend to be at different ages.

  22. Re:5e: Best D&D, MHO on Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released · · Score: 1

    What d20 took away was the shear impossibility of some characters being able to hit other characters, short of 1 in 100 if the DM allows. A 1 in 20 chance of a level 1 player hitting and damaging a dragon just isn't right. It should be next to impossible and certain death.

  23. Re:5e: Best D&D, MHO on Fifth Edition Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook Released · · Score: 1

    There are all kinds of examples of decreasing values being more desirable. It shouldn't be that difficult a concept.

  24. Re:Database? on Companies That Don't Understand Engineers Don't Respect Engineers · · Score: 1

    Yeah, like calculate the square root of -1!

    That's the joke.

  25. Re:Or don't be... on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    This is short sighted. Personally I don't see how the proportion of white's would be concerning, but it has been demonstrated before (no, I don't have specific citations for you) that having a team composed of people with very diverse backgrounds is good for innovation.