aurelian

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by aurelian 12y ago
If country A makes and achieves its goal to give the next generation an average IQ of 130, and country B makes its goal to encourage the next generation to do something meaningful (to them), B will serve A before long.
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by aurelian 12y ago
>Poor are poor not just because they don't have money but also because they are unable to get out of it. They have to go through unspeakable ordeal just to get one meal a day and this places enormous cognitive load on the entire fam
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by aurelian 12y ago
I'm not so sure of that. John von Neumann was approximately as intelligent as a human can be, and his mental health was good as far as I know.
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by aurelian 12y ago
More on judicial combat between a man and a woman: http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/trial_by_combat/combat_...
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by aurelian 12y ago
If you have any hobbies, they can take up a lot of storage space. You may want to dedicate a room to them. You may want an office in which to work or study without interruption from a spouse or children. Many people enjoy having ample bathr
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by aurelian 12y ago
Communists, meaning people who were members of the Communist Party or identified as Communists and associated with other Communists, were more likely to have come into contact with Soviet agents and been persuaded to spy or subvert US aims.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Removing enemy agents from positions is not unAmerican. Removing people with known security risks from sensitive positions is not unAmerican. He missed hundreds of agents, identified several agents and many more security risks, and spurred
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by aurelian 12y ago
McCarthy identified several agents actively engaged in espionage. KGB records identify hundreds more that he missed. McCarthy identified many more people in sensitive positions who were security risks, many with Communist associations. Even
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by aurelian 12y ago
Why don't you quote the next sentence? "He suggested that a majority of those on the lists could legitimately have been considered security risks, but that a substantial minority could not."
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by aurelian 12y ago
According to your link, the Department of Justice, which included the FBI, had fewer than 20 employees. Edit: Thanks for acknowledging the mistake. I made the same one here.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Any organization with secrets worth keeping must try to detect spies and repel infiltrators. It may reduce disastrous false negatives at the cost of an increase in false positives. In the 1940s, the Soviet Union had hundreds of agents in th
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by aurelian 12y ago
You described differences between Asians and blacks and Latinos. I don't see why that means Asians don't contribute to diversity.
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by aurelian 12y ago
"At the same time, there is no financial pressure to lower the prices of its unchanged and rather low-tech graphing calculators since consumers are happy to keep buying them." Consumers are required to keep buying them.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Why do you think local food production would be more efficient? My gardening projects have been case studies in inefficiency.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Why would state sponsored overseas farming of thirsty crops for US import be desirable?
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by aurelian 12y ago
Maybe I'm too set in my ways to see what you're talking about, but I don't see this in the comments.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Incorrect. Please read page 2 carefully. http://www.tamu.edu/faculty/bmiles/lectures/biosynaa.pdf
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by aurelian 12y ago
Farm-raised meat tastes nothing like wild game. For that matter, lean cuts of meat taste nothing like fatty cuts, let alone organ meats. Modern consumers prefer less flavorful meats.
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by aurelian 12y ago
You misunderstood the poster above re: gays.
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by aurelian 12y ago
This statement cannot possibly be true. If everyone had access to the best education, it would not be the best education.
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by aurelian 12y ago
1. How so? 2. True, but the comment I responded to made a different claim. 3. is irrelevant. There are always under-represented groups depending on how you look at the data, but if you claim general bias against minorities when some minorit
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by aurelian 12y ago
"Regardless of where the failure is there is clearly something about the software engineering industry and the pipeline leading to it that is biased against minorities" How can you say that when East and South Asians are so overre
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by aurelian 12y ago
"There is no intrinsic reason why these numbers should not be proportional to society in the long run, that's why we compare the ratios." Tall black men are wildly overrepresented in the NBA. Should the NBA be "proportio
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by aurelian 12y ago
The US population grew by almost 10%, over 27 million, between 2000 to 2010.
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by aurelian 12y ago
If you call a person a racist, you're saying 1) that he has certain views about race, and you may also be saying 2) that he takes certain actions in line with those views. Saying someone can't be racist without power is saying &
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by aurelian 12y ago
Your definition of racism is at odds with common dictionary definitions of the word. Leftist academics have tried to redefine the word.
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by aurelian 12y ago
Was conking necessary to succeed, or was it done because many blacks preferred the appearance of straight hair? Sidney Poitier played a doctor in No Way Out in 1950, and his hair doesn't appear to have been straightened.
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by aurelian 12y ago
What does it mean to act white or to act black for that matter?
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by aurelian 12y ago
Aside from expense, what issues do plastic pallets have?
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by aurelian 12y ago
I don't mean to be uncivil. The claim that low-income students suffer because they are less likely to have families that enrich them is probably not as true as you seem to think. http://econlog.econlib.org/archives&#x2F

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