Throwaway585250

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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
Sorry, dang. Posting this wasted a small but irretrievable part of our lives and was a bad decision all round. Please remove this chain of comments, or the whole account, if you want.
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
It's a ridiculous comparison, given in response to the ridiculous assertion that homelessness is a privilege. At the end of the day, at some point someone says "these working conditions are too shitty and I'd rather go look f
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
Yours is showing too, along with an unhealthy dose of smugness. GP literally chose to be homeless instead of licking the boots of the wealthy for table scraps, which is a degree of courage above and beyond what could have been expected of h
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
They very clearly do not take orders from an ostensibly racist 70 year old. That's beside the point, because she wasn't giving orders; she was complaining about her neighbours on the internet, not to the cops. Lastly, it would be
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
It cost more than half a million lives to end slavery at that particular time. What is the appropriate life per slavery-year exchange rate? Because if for one less year of slavery you would spend 10,000 human lives, and 20 years of peaceful
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
Having rights doesn't stop you being morally and factually wrong, which is the point of this piece: while you are allowed to cross the road when you see a black man, doing so is a dick move, because it upsets the man in question. I nev
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
I may not have been clear. I don't feel particularly discriminated and don't really care in any case. It's incredibly minor. However, I strongly object to the idea that it's okay to discriminate based on unalterable char
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
As someone who is extremely tall, it's not very nice to see people crossing the street to avoid you at night. How is making statistical inferences using my height any more justified than making statistical inferences using my race? The
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
Spoiler: Asian males, who have higher IQs and commit less crime than white males, earn more than white males. As no white male on HN has ever worked with an Asian male, this will of course be a total shock to all readers.
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
How about torsion dystonia? Increased IQ can be observed before the onset of the disease, even when matched to comparable members of the same population. What evidence would falsify your position?
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies. Some people have spent quite a lot of time doing this for IQ. Others have even identified some of the genes that are correlated with high IQ, TOR1A being one of the more interesting on
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
It would be a real shame if the next Larry Page or Bill Gates decided to live in a barrel instead of founding a company because of this sentiment. A happy home and middle-class parents aren't a bad thing. In fact, they're so good
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by Throwaway585250 10y ago
The two more or less inescapable identities are "human" and "yourself". I read this essay as saying that you should embrace both of these, and nothing more. A socialist, a trade unionist, and a Jew are still all people.