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by moldbug 15y ago
Conning investors is quite different from making an actual go at a business . What is the difference? The difference is that when you invite investors to invest in your new location-based social network for morticians and coroners (or w
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by moldbug 15y ago
Why would I prefer that bunch of idiot hippies? My preference is for Karl Marx and Henry George (with the former being better at seeing what capitalism really is, and the latter being the better economist). Come on, you don't think you ca
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by moldbug 15y ago
Not that it matters, but for "1992" read "1994." 1992 was when I started at UCB (and presumably around when eli_gottlieb was born).
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by moldbug 15y ago
Of course everything you say about the software industry is true, right down to the "libertarianism and Austrian economics" (I take it you prefer critical race theory and postcolonial studies). Otherwise, your critics would have said somet
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by moldbug 15y ago
The agencies fighting against online poker are much weaker; also, poker is a profitable business that can defend itself. The US dollar is a centralized system. US financial regulation is in effect worldwide (except now Iran, I guess). If
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by moldbug 15y ago
Best comment of the thread. Alas, an infinitely thin razor isn't much use...
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by moldbug 15y ago
Upvoted. When the USG starts shutting down the exchanges, which will happen any minute now, Bitcoin will go to zero and stay there. Everyone who thought their BTC was worth USG will want out - and find that the doors are now locked. The B
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by moldbug 15y ago
BS. How do you "corner and squeeze" a market that can't be shorted? You can manipulate GLD down by issuing naked shorts (essentially counterfeited against collateral). But you can't counterfeit Bitcoin. If you want to drop the market pri
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by moldbug 15y ago
What you haven't established clearly for me is an objective criterion for what makes a discussion "abhorrent and taboo." Why does this matter? Well, we know what makes a discussion "abhorrent and taboo" in the People's Republic of China.
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by moldbug 15y ago
We're having a productive, sincere conversation here! I don't see any relationship, necessary, causal, or otherwise, between an executioner and a pragmatic principle of equality. But you do see a relationship between racist/nationalist/
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by moldbug 15y ago
You seem interested in reading my comments. You'll read quite a few before you see me flame someone who hasn't already flamed me - usually twice. It's everyone else who's obsessed with "IQ and Race stuff." They're just obsessed in the oth
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by moldbug 15y ago
Wow - I've literally never heard anyone be this frank before. I disagree with the position but I upvote the candor. I wonder, though, how you feel about all the violence we've seen committed in the name of egalitarianism, in the lives of th
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by moldbug 15y ago
Complexity is one invariant in Occam's butterknife. From the butterknife's point of view, the razor is always too simple to be true...
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by moldbug 15y ago
Thank you for the Google link. There I learned that Lewontin's fallacy is a fallacy because "Richard Lewontin is a Marxist Jew who has dedicated his career to attacking genetics as an explanation for human variation." That explains so much
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by moldbug 15y ago
The 20th-century scientist probably most influential in bringing about this change of perspective: Franz Boas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Boas You can evaluate Boas' logic yourself, by reading his The Mind of Primitive Man (1911
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by moldbug 15y ago
Genetic differences between races are very minor as compared to the genetic differences between individuals within a race. In case you're posting from a different dimension, these "minor" differences can change the color of our skin, the
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by moldbug 15y ago
The implicit comment is that the article's substance is of no conceivable relevance, because it fails to mention the most obvious possible cause - human genetic diversity - for the pattern it purports to analyze. It's one thing to refute or
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by moldbug 15y ago
Once again Occam's butterknife is spotted in the wild. Richard Lynn, call your office: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
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by moldbug 15y ago
It's true that the mechanism and value of "(succesful group) privilege" are difficult to quantify in a way that explicitly engineered (counter-)measures aren't. That's exactly right! Moreover, there's a very important reason your N-rays
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by moldbug 15y ago
I thought we were just focusing on the race checklist. (I actually am a straight married man, but from force of habit I always say "my girlfriend.") But let's pretend we're talking about my son. And let's find a racial handicap from the '
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by moldbug 15y ago
The vast majority of affirmative action has favored and continues to favor rich, connected white men. Famous example: And the famous example is that... white men network. As do black lesbians, Papuan pearl divers, and for all I know the
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by moldbug 15y ago
That subsample size is too small - it's just noise. Although I suppose the Asian adoptees available, as probably with all races, weren't exactly the pick of their gene pool. Blood runs true, you know - on average. (Ironically, the perspect
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by moldbug 15y ago
And let's not forget Liam Stacey! We're skating on the edge here, neighbors - the very very edge. Big Twitter is in ur thoughts, making sure they "look good." It could be that everyone is crazy. You and I together, comrades! If the 20
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by moldbug 15y ago
Wonderful! What I want you to notice, now, is how abstract every item on that checklist is. As compared to really concrete, obvious privileges like: 450 free points on your SAT. Could that be the first entry on our 'Black Privilege Chec
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by moldbug 15y ago
It's well known, of course, that two wrongs make a right. It's also well known that all white people have rich, powerful parents. (Wasn't that a Dave Chappelle skit?)
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by moldbug 15y ago
I don't need to do that.. I just need to point out that by picking an example of what one or more communists did or said doesn't make their actions a part of communism. Priceless! Where's my MasterCard? For the record, Paul Graham kills
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by moldbug 15y ago
You mean the UN? Isn't the UN benign and wise? Or do you mean this? Time Magazine, 1955: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,866343,00.html In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prospe
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by moldbug 15y ago
Alas, you could be all too right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_i...
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by moldbug 15y ago
It's not clear to me what the "privilege" of these few thousand people (who obviously achieved their positions by stealing them from worthy persons of color) has to do with the admissions odds of a million random Americans, black, white, pu
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by moldbug 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak I can even anticipate your response: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

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