cmahler7

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by cmahler7 9y ago
>Is the implication here that this is not already the case? I think you are marginalizing the many variable preferences that people have when choosing partners. There is no general set of optimal human traits. Marriage limits a man to on
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by cmahler7 9y ago
The reality is our brains are built on hardware hundreds of millions of years old. It would be nice if we could build a perfect world but until we can genetically modify ourselves we are stuck with it and all the biases and instincts associ
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by cmahler7 9y ago
I agree, China is already investing massively in research on intelligence and they won't be afraid to use it. Chinese culture combined with super-intelligence will be unstoppable. >such denial of the biological realities around inte
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by cmahler7 9y ago
People have been brainwashed to hate their own culture, demorilization is the first step of ideological subversion. Western Civilization might not be perfect but there's nothing else in human history that has come close to it. Everybod
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by cmahler7 9y ago
What's your opinion on studies showing that people with lower intelligence reproduce at much higher rates? This would seem to lead to an Idiocracy like future. Do you think something should be done to prevent this?
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Your method would destroy society. Women would make the choice for who the father would be and would choose only top tier traits, leaving out a vast majority of males. Men would either have no reason to be productive members of society or w
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Does anyone have an explanation for why China is so successful? We have it pounded into our heads that we need globalization in the form of open markets with no protectionism for US companies and immigration, yet china almost completely loc
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US charging 412 in health fraud schemes worth $1.3B(apnews.com)
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by cmahler7 9y ago
this, tech is lifting more and more people out of poverty. It's still not great but compared to feudal times where basically everyone were peasants except for a small nobility we are doing well and it will get better with time. This is
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Can you give me examples that come anywhere close to Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Mao's China, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc?
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by cmahler7 9y ago
I agree, probably a big part of why the standard of living has dropped so much in recent years. We should reduce the budget significantly. Government massively missallocates resources
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by cmahler7 9y ago
1. Those countries are all capitalist economies, some with more economic freedom than the US. They can't be used to defend socialism/communism 2. We're on HN so we all now about scaling. There's a big difference between
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Socialists/Communists not satisfied with 200 million+ deaths, must want to hit an even 1 billion. Blows my mind people can even be calling for socialism while we have a real time implosion going on in Venezuela right now. It's end
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by cmahler7 9y ago
with regards to what specifically?
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by cmahler7 9y ago
There are entrepreneurs that have success numerous times, many times in wildly different fields. Creating a successful business isn't a coin flip/lottery, it's tens of thousands of decisions over years.
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by cmahler7 9y ago
It all comes down to the petrodollar. When you look at it through that frame everything makes sense. Saddam started selling oil in Euros so they had to take him out, despite all 9/11 guys being Saudis. Gaddafi was going to make a gold
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by cmahler7 9y ago
According to Assange on twitter CNN broke several extortion laws here. Donald Trump Jr already retweeted it, only a matter of time before Trump Sr hears about it. CNN doxing people over memes, what a time to be alive
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by cmahler7 9y ago
The key is that there's a big difference from getting C's because you are working on a business on the side and getting C's because you are spending too much time partying or just aren't that smart. Too many people use t
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Every person here should watch Yuri Bezmenov's lectures on ideological subversion, you can find them on youtube. The lecture is 30 years old but everything going on today makes sense after hearing him lay things out. The division in so
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Germany is currently raiding people's homes for posting anything they deem "hate speech" online. Facebook can be fined 50 million now for not removing what the German government deems hate speech. No WrongThink allowed in Ger
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Reasons it's still illegal 1. Pharma lobbyists 2. Private prison lobbyist
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by cmahler7 9y ago
and guys prefer women with large breasts and wide hips, both unnecessary due to baby formula and C-Sections. Doesn't change the fact that preferring those traits are ingrained in us due to thousands of years of evolution and aren'
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by cmahler7 9y ago
No I'm simply putting out facts that universal health care isn't a perfect system. Nice strawman though
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by cmahler7 9y ago
every stat in the article is backed by a study.
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Wealthy Canadians get medical care in the US for a reason. Here's some stats on NHS 1. 3x higher death rate after major surgeries compared to US 2. 48% of Brits haven't seen a dentist in over 2 years 3. Average surgery wait time o
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Kalanick's first startup was a P2P that was sued for 250 billion. He filed bankruptcy and made another P2P startup that got acquired and then started Uber Every startup he's run has been built around breaking the law
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by cmahler7 9y ago
china is the most racist and nationalist country in the world and they are doing just fine. Why is the US and Europe the only places that have to sacrifice themselves for the greater good of globalism? Why do China and Japan get free passes
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by cmahler7 9y ago
From day one the only reason Uber was "disrupting" the taxi industry is because they blatantly ignored regulation. It should be expected for them to be equally shady in other areas if their entire business was based on breaking th
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by cmahler7 9y ago
The reason trump was successful is because he didn't apologize for being rich. On the other end you have hillary clinton pouring beer terribly and spending hours planning which meal to get a chipotle to appeal to the most voters. Peopl
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by cmahler7 9y ago
Zuckerberg has the charisma of a damp rag, he'll embarrass himself if he actually runs for president. Clinton had experience and all the data in the world thanks to Eric Schmidt and still lost to a novice because she lacked any charism

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