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by temphn 15y ago
If you want a modern reference on the heritability of intelligence, read Paul Thompson from UCLA: www.loni.ucla.edu/~thompson/HARDI-IQ/hardiIQ-PR.html He and his colleagues can predict IQ from a 3D brain scan, a concrete dataset of voxels;
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by temphn 15y ago
Capitalism reduced the poverty of Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Chile, and Estonia (to name a few). What country was built from foreign aid?
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by temphn 15y ago
It is really as simple as noting the robust heritability of cognitive traits (see "The Blank Slate") and the strong correlation between intelligence, conscientiousness, and wealth. But surprisingly, many highly intelligent people (including
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by temphn 15y ago
Unfortunately this entire article is pseudoscience. The obvious fact is that men have founded and built the vast majority of technology companies, manage most of the largest businesses, and built up most of modern science. To state these ob
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by temphn 15y ago
A journalist arrogates to himself the right to take your confidential code and splatter it on the internet in return for advertising pageviews. Siegler profits directly from leaks. Do you deny this? And FB does not profit from leaks. So thi
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by temphn 15y ago
America is in debt to the tune of trillions of dollars and in the worst economy since the Great Depression. When do you think we should start looking at the profit/loss implications?
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by temphn 15y ago
Not really a big deal at all. These are some middlemen who wanted some biz dev money for bringing in clients. Read closely and they "bring technology" to wineries, they don't operate their own wineries. Scvngr probably realized these guys
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by temphn 15y ago
If it is an investment then we need to look at ROI and determine the point at which this investment becomes cash flow positive from a net tax expenditure standpoint. Chinese, Korean, Indian, Russian, Persian immigrants are throwing off cash
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by temphn 15y ago
http://irepp.stanford.edu/documents/GDF/SUMMARIES/Imazeki.pd... Average cost of a California public school student per year: $8268 [with 90% between $6200-$11000]. http://paa2008.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=8035... Hispanic
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by temphn 15y ago
Not with certainty, but with probability. Mexican immigrants vastly outnumber Russian, Indian, Chinese, Korean, and Persian immigrants. But the entrepreneurship ratio is lopsided in the opposite direction. One group creates jobs on net, the
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by temphn 15y ago
Hmmm. "More capitalist" would be to eliminate local sales tax to allow businesses to compete.
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by temphn 15y ago
Arguably, soap, deodorant, and candy are a lot more important and useful than most art, appreciated only by a few.
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by temphn 15y ago
The issue is that society thinks it's ok to charge $50k for a fancy car but not for a lifesaving treatment. In the former situation you have a choice, in the latter you have no choice.
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by temphn 15y ago
Respectfully disagree that Facebook has peaked. Once growth settles down at 700 million users or so, they will roll out service after service. Start thinking about all the things you could do with it. Overthrowing countries is just the begi
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by temphn 15y ago
Given the choice between a world without AirBnB and a few emails to Craigslist users about a better service, most rational people would vote for AirBnB to exist. The ends do justify the means. Just be sure your ends are defensible, and be p
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by temphn 15y ago
The US Government has backdoors into every large webservice in the world. China has to hack their way in. That's the main difference here, as the USG long ago stopped being "on our side".
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by temphn 15y ago
Right. Not just b2c, but every country in the world was formed by people who killed the previous inhabitants, took their land, and set up a new system of laws. Afterwards they set up myths about how great and moral they were. But the birth
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by temphn 15y ago
Amidst hundreds of comments in this thread, few will explicitly point out that there are obvious differences between the demographics of SF vs. the demographics of Oakland, Hunter's Point, Camden, South Central LA, and Detroit. Most likely
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by temphn 15y ago
AirBnB raided Craigslist for users. Those users made more money and had a far better user experience on AirBnB to boot. Not exactly your traditional Viagra/Nigeria type spam. When the end doesn't justify the means, sure, complain about the
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by temphn 15y ago
^ This post is a classic example of why it's so hard to be an entrepreneur. No matter what mountain you climb, there will always be people yelling that you don't deserve the success, or that anyone could have climbed that mountain, or that
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by temphn 15y ago
A lot of people on the left side of the political spectrum are starting to wake up to the fact that many people start startups as Democrats, but quickly become strongly libertarian in their economic views as they come face to face with th
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by temphn 15y ago
Right wing autocrats talk about security, left wing autocrats talk about safety. What they really invariably do is take away freedom.
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by temphn 15y ago
but most regulations are useless and serve only the bureaucrats who proposed them, and there is little scrutiny on the tens of thousands of pages in the federal register. democracy is highly inefficient for this purpose. no one is going to
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by temphn 15y ago
Standard way to do this is with Fourier series on the sawtooth wave. http://math.mit.edu/classes/18.03/spr10/lec_22.txt
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by temphn 15y ago
> I should also point out that what is really relevant to success in a college course in physics or mathematics, even more than SAT score or some other IQ proxy, is specific subject matter background in science and mathematics. But this
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by temphn 15y ago
Steve Sailer: thought criminal and smartest pundit you've never heard of. http://isteve.blogspot.com La Griffe Du Lion: rarely posts but highly interesting. http://lagriffedulion.f2s.com
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by temphn 15y ago
The thing is that this article and the Sequoia "RIP Good Times" slideshow are actually both kind of right. This "recovery" is completely fragile and we will see what a real Great Depression 2.0 looks like after the dollar collapses. The fin
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by temphn 15y ago
My apologies, mbreese, but I actually must go through your comment line by line. You seem like a good guy, but you are way off base about a lot of the facts here. Your quote from the doctor was for an FDA regulated diagnostic test,
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by temphn 15y ago
Affymetrix is not their vendor, Illumina is. With all due respect you don't seem to know much about this space. The vast majority of laboratory developed tests (including millions upon millions of blood and urine tests done every year by La
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http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/03/your-genes-yo... ^ Watch that video. You don't even need to postulate insurance as the hidden hand behind this. In the span of four short minutes, FDA head honcho Jeffrey Shuren manages to co

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