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by puredemo 11y ago
Sounds a lot like AdSense too, honestly.
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by puredemo 11y ago
What creates those extremes is genetics and poor parenting (considering that IQ is ~80% hereditary,) and in some infrequent cases environmental pollution (heavy metals in the government supplied water.) Capitalism just deals with the result
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by puredemo 11y ago
It's my belief that equality shouldn't be the goal of capitalism, rather a fair representation of talent and productivity. Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ are, in fact, in en
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by puredemo 11y ago
At least the whole world is gradually becoming democratic and capitalistic. That's one form of homogeneity, at least in expectations if not ethnicity.
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by puredemo 11y ago
>Back to my startup -- a few good days and I should be able to go live. Read back on your posts a few pages, respectfully requesting to be put on your alpha list as well. My email address is on my profile here, for the time being.
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by puredemo 11y ago
That's usually how colonization begins, a series of trading posts.
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by puredemo 11y ago
I wish you would just post the books you have in mind, rather than writing a snarky response like this.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Sounds like an accurate statement to me, how is it incendiary?
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by puredemo 11y ago
Through colonization?
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by puredemo 11y ago
Can't they? Corporations can own property and can also be run anonymously..
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by puredemo 11y ago
Sometimes this is true. And many people are smart and strategic enough to be able to launch successful startups while sacrificing very little personally. Persistence matters more than personal sacrifice, in my mind.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Baquet's response makes Carney's complaints seem infantile. Carney should have known better than to post this in this first place.
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by puredemo 11y ago
I'm basically an Amazon fanboy, but with the failure of the Fire phone, the continually over-wrought nature of AWS UI, and now this hamfisted response to the NYT, they are really losing their appeal. Amazon: Your current employees had
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by puredemo 11y ago
Nice response. A society of used car salesmen would probably be better in most ways actually. The current global IQ is 95, I think. This makes me personally believe that having a very large demographic of 'average' people is fai
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by puredemo 11y ago
>when human beings are concerned a solution to a problem may involve nothing more than swaying the minds of people, something people with high intelligence often seem comically unable to do. So you're advocating that we select for c
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by puredemo 11y ago
What is fair or unfair is entirely subjective. Personally, it would seem a bit unfair to me if I was born with a 95 IQ, in the cosmic sense at least.
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by puredemo 11y ago
From a pragmatic standpoint, the article seems to assume that the lowest classes will all being getting pregnant via IVF in the future. Seems like a huge leap to make, those with the lowest IQs and most impulsivity are exactly the types wh
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by puredemo 11y ago
>I thought that taking "The Bell Curve" seriously was a big red flag? To whom? Certainly not to most scientists..
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by puredemo 11y ago
>the assertion that one's genetics is an unfair advantage strikes me as absurd. Are you saying you don't see the advantage inherent to having a much higher IQ?
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by puredemo 11y ago
Private VC investors take the gains rather than the public.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Which seems like BS, since WhatsApp obviously didn't need strong financials to be acquired for an amazing amount.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Isn't knowing better than not knowing? You can prepare accordingly.
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by puredemo 11y ago
>we can all be united in watching against the people who really are. Almost like a neighborhood watch, one could say.
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by puredemo 11y ago
In this example, are the blacks racist for assaulting Asians, or are the Asians racist for profiling blacks? http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Dirty-secret-of-black-... Who would you expose here, exactly?
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by puredemo 11y ago
I know my neighbors and wish I didn't.
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by puredemo 11y ago
So... you're talking about self-driving RV's right?
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by puredemo 11y ago
Can't read the article without signing in..
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by puredemo 11y ago
Why was any future academic career out of the question?
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by puredemo 11y ago
That was my original point.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Paying a million dollars for a house in SF isn't an appealing number either, compared to $350k in Santa Rosa.

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