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by jeb 16y ago
Are you trying to say that you discovered thepiratebay?
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by jeb 16y ago
Pretty much the same life, the toys are just a bit bigger. One thing I've found though - girls don't care about the money in the bank. Maybe they care about if you drive a big car or something, but just spending a lot does not seem to resul
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by jeb 16y ago
So how do foreigners get places to stay at?
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by jeb 16y ago
What is the most ghetto part of SF? Like if you had absolutely no fear of getting stabbed by a crackhead girlfriend and your kidneys being harvested if you roll down your windows, where would you live? Also, does one need to show some type
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by jeb 16y ago
You have still not made it clear. Do you REALLY want a score-only based systems that is going to clearly favour people from one small area of the U.S, or do you just not want minorities to get in easier? What do you think of the fact that s
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by jeb 16y ago
How about when the poverty rate of blacks in your country is not 25%? Or when the average black family has perhaps 80% or 90% of the income of the average white family, up from the current 60%?
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by jeb 16y ago
The people for whom things like skin color matter don't see jewish people as white. Hispanics are also white.
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by jeb 16y ago
Those schools have a huge pool of people to choose from. If they use skin color as a criteria to ensure that the people in the schools are exposed to different COLORs of people in a society where COLOR has been used as a discriminatory tool
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by jeb 16y ago
Then say that. When you make your arguments, don't say "let's get rid of affirmative action". Say "let's make the admission process merit-based only". Of course, you realise what you're saying then? You're saying you want 30% of all student
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by jeb 16y ago
How about making the elite institutions ONLY merit based. Then it would become 60% jewish and 30% asian, 8% white and the remaining 2% shared by the other minorities. Is that okay with you?
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by jeb 16y ago
Votes don't matter, doing the right thing is not a popularity contest. People who are raised in a lower class from which there is no breaking out become apathetic. In the west-indies or in Africa, even though they were poor, they could alwa
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by jeb 16y ago
To your last point - you know the untouchable caste in india? Imagine you have a poor untouchable caste, and you have a poor of the highest caste. You want to help them both, so you give them both some amount of money. Even when the untouch
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by jeb 16y ago
The concept of affirmative action has never been about individuals. It's a RACE-based correction for RACE-based discrimination. I don't know what makes you think it's not racial. Your solution for the societal crisis you face is to keep tho
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by jeb 16y ago
How about we just cut out the crap and make admission based on scores only. This will of course mean that your chance of getting in will become really, really low, unless you were jewish or asian. All these people who cry out for affirmativ
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by jeb 16y ago
It may be novel to you, but that's the point of affirmative action. It's not to help a particular person, it's to help an entire segment of society.
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by jeb 16y ago
All the schools have geographical quotas. They don't just allow people from one region to come in, no matter how great they are. Was there not a problem with one of those schools where 40% where jewish when admission was only based on test-
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by jeb 16y ago
In the short term it is reinforced. But on the longer term, you create a wide array of dark skinned college educated people who have college level jobs. College educated tend to breed college educated, and family/relatives will tend to be c
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by jeb 16y ago
It's about the same as constantly having to deal with the assumption you are there for geographical reasons, because you speak with a southern accent.
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by jeb 16y ago
The effect of having 5% black people in colleges will have a much wider benefit for the entire society, than if you converted those 5% into asians and whites. Yes, those 5% may become factory managers or programmers or something similar, wh
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by jeb 16y ago
I'm not sure you get the point of 'diversity'. The U.S has a class-based system that is very very strongly correlated with skin-color. Dark skin -> lower class, worker. White skin -> upper class, college educated. The system is ther
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by jeb 16y ago
A black person cannot hide his blackness. Black people are currently perceived as lower class. Making it easier for them to enter universities means that they get to be upper class easier (it's not easy to break the class barrier). What thi
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by jeb 16y ago
That's because the people from those areas did not face the travails that american blacks went through. I believe that that slavery thing and back-of-the-bus thing 40 years ago, and no-blacks-on-mtv 20 years ago left its mark. The immigrant
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by jeb 16y ago
I think that a lot of them prefer to be in the school and wonder if they are there because they are black than not be there at all.
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by jeb 16y ago
America is very diverse, and it's the number 1 economy in the world, even though a place like china has 4 times as many people. Europe, which is pretty diverse, is also massively successful.
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by jeb 16y ago
So your solution is that these best colleges in the U.S, which select based on criteria OTHER than scores, should stop selecting based on race, but should select based on other factors? So it's okay to select mid western people, because the
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by jeb 16y ago
So what you are saying is that discriminating in some way has a strong effect on the perception of society in general? Yes, there is this theoretical moral debate about what is right and what is wrong, but the real effect of doing what you
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by jeb 16y ago
Come on guys. Let's imagine a hypothetical situation where blacks are dumber than anyone else. Blacks are ALREADY at the bottom of the socio-economic classes, they are already responsible for a majority of crime, what EXACTLY do you think w
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by jeb 16y ago
Is it more profitable to work for people instead of continuing to build products? What do they hire you for - SEO expertise or programming ability? And how much of your name-recognition is due to your blog, and how much is due to how much y
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by jeb 16y ago
If they are advanced enough to space travel, and they evolved from a survival mode, it would imply that their thinking organs are not designed to deal with infinite complexity. Just like us, their brains would have been evolved to deal with
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by jeb 16y ago
I'd not work 12 hours a day for a company, and then end up worse than if I had worked for a big company. If I would end up with a million bucks, then yeah, but if there is no advantage, I rather work for a big company then. As any reasonabl

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