programmernews's comments

On: Here's the PDF I used to stop 100% of my student loan payments

[programmernews]

More info about IBR: http://ibrinfo.org/

On: Android IMSI-Catcher Detector

[programmernews]

Great project! Will follow this and share the GitHub link.

On: Average IQ in Europe by country (map)

[programmernews]

It turns out that calling things "facts" does not, unfortunately, make them facts.

To go beyond the armchair, try looking at, for example, http://books.google.ca/books?id=jj4tKn9gb1IC&pg=PT172

On: Average IQ in Europe by country (map)

[programmernews]

Probably because general intelligence is "the best-established, most predictive, most heritable mental trait ever discovered in psychology." (Geoffrey Miller, Spent)

[chriscool → programmernews]

I googled it and found the following:

http://www.barrelstrength.com/2013/12/31/ramachandran-iq/

where there is:

"Intelligence (says Prof. Miller at page 189 of Spent) is positively correlated to:

    brain size
    speed of performing basic sensory motor tasks (“reaction time is a factor”, as the cop said in Blade Runner)
    height
    symmetry of face and body
    semen quality (!)
    health, physical and mental
    longevity
    sexual attractiveness for long term relationships"

So it is most predictive of many things, but maybe not of future real-world achievements...

On: Nightsofa

[programmernews]

I wonder how much time it will last

[mylastchance → programmernews]

Yup. It's opensource so...

On: Is soccer anything more than Poisson noise?

[programmernews]

A lot of people don't care about the content of games, just their result.

[lukev → programmernews]

Oh, people are infinitely varied, but I'd invite you to try taking away the average footballer's television, then consoling them that you'll tell them the score when it's over :)

[programmernews → lukev]

I meant for example people who may not even know all the rules of the sport but care somewhat about how the home teams do, not the hardcore fans.