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by fgf 16y ago
yeah, but the less rich of the intelligent have better, safer and more widely respected jobs (I have met door to door salesmen that make more than members of parliament). They had opportunities to chose other more lucrative careers, but the
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by fgf 16y ago
tl;dr ... a minor objection tough ... it is not at all impossible for 70 percent of drivers to be better than average, you just need the lower 30 percent to (on average) be really bad
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by fgf 16y ago
you're being either difficult or dense ... nice gardens are nice, people generally agree that clean homes are too, this is a fact and it won't change cause it'd be neat if professionals did that and kept working even tough they would rather
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by fgf 16y ago
Or live in new york...
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by fgf 16y ago
"social status" that doesn't get you laid =//= social status that does
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by fgf 16y ago
ability in sport = martial prowess / hunting skills / good health in general / good genes in general -- It has always been more or less universally respected. Jazz players always had subculture specific social status, same with hip-hop pion
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by fgf 16y ago
might be hard to do that somewhere over poland if ww3 just started
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by fgf 16y ago
start business =//= start startup business = plumbing, food stall, import/export, constulting, YC company etc. startup = YC companies and other similar intense low odds/high reward businesses edit: vaksel stole my thunder
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by fgf 16y ago
why don't you get a hepatitis vaccine?
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by fgf 16y ago
"Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth." A contradiction in terms.
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by fgf 16y ago
"Linking to PG's older posts to help you make a point." The notion that this is bad is baffling. Citation is central to all serious science it also has a place in other forms of (rigorous/serious) thinking. If a scientific article proves so
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by fgf 16y ago
you might have found at anyway, and now, at least, you can avoid the subject
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by fgf 16y ago
other people will read that question too..
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by fgf 16y ago
there is no position to disagree with, just a well known fact posted as if it was in opposition to the quoted statement..
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by fgf 16y ago
switzerland, the US and the UK haven't had any restarts for a long, long time. they are doing good. canada, australia and new zealand never had one (after the initial settlement). the wealth of germany and japan was a re-convergence in spi
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by fgf 16y ago
An interesting comparison I'm not really qualified to make is between the relatively secure (?) and cohesive (!) chinese communist party elite and the chaotic free for all (?) in russia. The countries elites both help themselves to quite a
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by fgf 16y ago
I didn't know this, do you have a source? (because I want to read more about it not because I doubt it)
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by fgf 16y ago
I don't.. It's population is as big as russias and bigger than any other nation with a comparable average national IQ (besides the US) and some kind of capitalism. I can't think of a single example of this combination not leading to converg
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by fgf 16y ago
Yes, but don't forget pronunciation.
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by fgf 16y ago
I'm also very interested in more info about this.
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by fgf 16y ago
The word rebuttal could be misleading, Mencius is not against romers idea. If memory serves me right he thinks he doesn't go far enough and is annoyed with the intellectual dishonesty necessary (?) to sell this idea to the media/universitie
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by fgf 16y ago
it would not be too hard to find out for yourself; google china wages rising...
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by fgf 16y ago
I don't see this as creepy at all, have you never checked PGs latest comments or that of a commenter with interests/opinions you share? anyway, thank you for making this! ps. I'd prefer rss
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by fgf 16y ago
xenophobia |ˌzēnəˈfōbēə; ˌzenə-| noun intense or irrational dislike or fear of people from other countries : racism and xenophobia are steadily growing in Europe. DERIVATIVES xenophobe |ˈzēnəˌfōb; ˈzenə-| |ˈzinəˈfoʊb| |ˈzɛnəˈfoʊb| noun xeno
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by fgf 16y ago
I'm interested in Chinese, Malaysian and the Philippine cities, anyone familiar with a startup scene in these countries?
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by fgf 16y ago
Odds are his parents are net tax contributors, including whatever the state spent on him. Only people with poor parents really owe what they got to the state, as opposed to productive people like their parents.
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by fgf 16y ago
I love it.
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by fgf 16y ago
Yes there is. Niall ferguson describes it as "the empires [Indian colonial administrations] distinctly celtic tinge" if memory serves me right.
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by fgf 16y ago
Ah, I assumed the college was Ivy League or Oxford/Cambridge. I want to get seriously off topic here with questions about cramming for the JEE. If you'll indulge me there is a mail in my profile.
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by fgf 16y ago
That sucks. Do you sleep well? If no the obvious advice applies, walk outside every morning, install flux or avoid bright screens at night etc. etc. For your year off have you considered doing something like volunteer work somewhere? 1. you

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