henrymercer

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by henrymercer 11y ago
She wants mass firings of people like me and you for no other reason than our sex and the color of our skin.
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by henrymercer 11y ago
He titled the post AMA. If he doesn't care to answer here, I'll email him in private.
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by henrymercer 11y ago
Last March, you mentioned on twitter that you are a customer of/financially support Shanley Kane's organization, Model View Culture. Since since then (and before then too), she has made a variety of racially and sexually charged s
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by henrymercer 12y ago
Tell you what. You point me towards the stats and the literature (not the anecdotes!) that have led you to these conclusions and we'll explore this topic together. Send me an email at henry.k.mercer at google's email service. I&
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by henrymercer 12y ago
(c) it depends how you define racist. If you define racism as exhibiting personal animosity or prejudice to people one knows of another race, due to the color of their skin, then I am not a racist. If you define racism as identifying and pa
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by henrymercer 12y ago
"That word `legitimate' is very sneaky. I'd say it's close to racist to assert that black on white crime is a "legitimate problem" rather than just a "social problem" or a plain old "problem&quo
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by henrymercer 12y ago
Except that every example I pulled from Philadelphia, a city where I would like to live, but where I do not think I can raise a family safely, was black-on-white or black-on-asian crime. Read the links I included, this is a racial issue. Fr
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by henrymercer 12y ago
" Let's completely forget the centuries long history of white on black oppression that has led to the unequal socio-economic conditions between blacks and whites. I'd, you know, cut them some slack. " By saying "cut
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by henrymercer 12y ago
" Your "legitimate grievance" adds nothing to explain the main hatred of the site, which according to the article, is anti-semitism. " Um, well you can believe what Seth (the article's author) says, or, um, you can
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by henrymercer 12y ago
"The Jews are to blame" aspect is NOT part of the 30% that is legitimate grievance. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8029096
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by henrymercer 12y ago
The hateful milieu arises from the mixing of four ingredients: One part legitimate grievance. For instance, black on white crime is a huge problem that is not talked about and not addressed in mainstream discourse. In Philadelphia, a close
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by henrymercer 12y ago
IMO, the Stromfront-type writings consist of about 30% legitimate grievance and perhaps 70% crackpottery, all portrayed in a grossly simplified and vulgar way. Part of the fuel for the crackpottery, is that the media/NYTimes in general
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by henrymercer 12y ago
"Why do some people feel this way?...And I can honestly offer the following answer: I have no idea." Do you actually not know? Or are you asking rhetorically? The reasons seem pretty obvious to me, not sure why they would be har
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by henrymercer 12y ago
"then why aren't those frat boys, who did the flash-lighting, likewise?" Is that a rhetorical question or do you actually want to know the answer? If you actually want to know the answer, the best explanation I have read is
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by henrymercer 12y ago
It's hard to find someone to talk to calmly about these things. It is even harder to find people who will write politically incorrect opinions under their real name. Frankly, I would advise against it. The internet is written in perm
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by henrymercer 12y ago
No there is more to it than that.
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by henrymercer 12y ago
The disparity goes back over 100 years. Even in 1914, a city such as Philadelphia had 10X the homicide rate of London. The best book I have read on the subject is Raymond Fosdick's "Crime in America and the Police" https:&#x
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by henrymercer 12y ago
Also I should note that I am not saying their is no risk in investing. Even for Sequoia there is risk. I am that the the risk that exists does not cause high returns. I am that this statement is wrong: "to the extent capital reaps high
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by henrymercer 12y ago
At the time he took leave from Harvard (which was not dropping out), the company already had offers for $500k in seed money at a $10 million valuation. The chance that going full-time on Facebook would end up worse than staying at Harvard w
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by henrymercer 12y ago
Risk has little to do with it for the top firms (like Sequoia) that have built the networks and reputation to attract the top companies. Yes, they take some risk on individual companies, but across their entire portfolio the risk is not tha
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by henrymercer 12y ago
" Piketty converts the entrepreneur into the rentier. To the extent capital reaps high returns, it is by assuming risk (over the broad sweep of history real rates on T-Bills are hardly impressive). " The high returns entrepreneur
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by henrymercer 12y ago
"Spaced repitition software has significantly reduced the barrier to literacy; I read my first novel after ~10 months" That is impressive. I took two years of Chinese in college and did not get anywhere close to that ability. How