crassus2

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by crassus2 12y ago
I disagree with the tone with which yummyfajitas is discussing this, but I absolutely think he should have the right to voice his opinion. Aren't downvotes punishment enough? I wonder if he had been more cautious in his phrasing if his
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by crassus2 12y ago
I just want to say that I'm deeply uncomfortable with how quickly hacker news mods have moved to kill comments they disagree with since the new "professional" management came in. Is yummyfajitas hell-banned now? He had nearly
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by crassus2 12y ago
Problem is, only 1.7% of college football players are ever going to play professional ball.
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by crassus2 12y ago
Lyft Line blows my mind. It's like a Lyft, but half price. Works great within the city.
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by crassus2 12y ago
We do more good for more people when our beliefs reflect reality, rather than what we wish were true. If it turns out that the cognitive science research showing that some people are smarter than others is correct we might decide that merel
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by crassus2 12y ago
Not all expats are created equal. For example, Mexicans living in the US tend not to do so well in education or the economy, dragging a lot of US national statistics down. This is because a lot of Mexican-Americans come from lower class bac
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by crassus2 12y ago
Education can only make up for so much of a deficit in cognitive ability. We know that cognitive ability and income levels are correlated.
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by crassus2 12y ago
Chinese and Germans in the United States also do very well in the economy. Maybe there's some third factor that we're missing. These kind of articles make the implicit assumption that countries are the same except for being locate
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by crassus2 12y ago
He might describe himself that way, but he advocates for socially conservative values more often than libertarians do (see "Coming Apart"). He's at least a borderline case, like a Ron Paul. AEI is a right-wing think tank.
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by crassus2 12y ago
Asians and Jews beat vanilla whites at I.Q. tests, but also any other test that measures cognitive/academic ability - PISA, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, ASVAB - they're all correlated. It is truly miraculous that racist white people manag
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by crassus2 12y ago
Charles Murray's books are all worth a read. He's likely the most meticulous data guy on the American Right.
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by crassus2 12y ago
Nietzsche has interesting things about our need to tear down people who have great, unique accomplishments over common weaknesses - calling this the "slave morality". The weak need to feel superior to the great, so we redefine gre
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by crassus2 12y ago
It feels in violation of the spirit of the event to have paid help in your camp, but otherwise Burning Man is for everybody.
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by crassus2 12y ago
The most important question: what are the demographics of the founding team?
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by crassus2 12y ago
This sounds like something that could be taught in a 30 minute lesson. What's the problem?
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by crassus2 12y ago
I don't understand how this happens. The tech industry is pretty much the only economic game in town. How does it fail so hard at politics, losing out to a relatively small amount of middle-aged homeowners?
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by crassus2 12y ago
Culture is capital. The degree of social trust and respect for property needed to create a wealthy society is an historical anomaly. If we didn't have borders, the whole world would be the third world.
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by crassus2 12y ago
If a business owner raises wages, he solves his labor problem but spends more money and reduces profit. If instead he complains about a labor shortage, then maybe politicians will pass a law allowing more immigration and he will be able to
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by crassus2 12y ago
Could you point out for me where Sam talks about diversity of perspectives? All I see him talking about is what the OP mentions - gonads and skin color.
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by crassus2 12y ago
The San Jose Mercury News estimated that Silicon Valley tech jobs are mostly held by Asians. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dom... Based on my experience, I'd believe it, though the propo