Sorry, dang. Posting this wasted a small but irretrievable part of our lives and was a bad decision all round. Please remove this chain of comments, or the whole account, if you want.
It's a ridiculous comparison, given in response to the ridiculous assertion that homelessness is a privilege. At the end of the day, at some point someone says "these working conditions are too shitty and I'd rather go…
It cost more than half a million lives to end slavery at that particular time. What is the appropriate life per slavery-year exchange rate? Because if for one less year of slavery you would spend 10,000 human lives, and…
Spoiler: Asian males, who have higher IQs and commit less crime than white males, earn more than white males. As no white male on HN has ever worked with an Asian male, this will of course be a total shock to all…
Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies. Some people have spent quite a lot of time doing this for IQ. Others have even identified some of the genes that are correlated with high IQ, TOR1A being one of…
It would be a real shame if the next Larry Page or Bill Gates decided to live in a barrel instead of founding a company because of this sentiment. A happy home and middle-class parents aren't a bad thing. In fact,…
The two more or less inescapable identities are "human" and "yourself". I read this essay as saying that you should embrace both of these, and nothing more. A socialist, a trade unionist, and a Jew are still all people.…
Sorry, dang. Posting this wasted a small but irretrievable part of our lives and was a bad decision all round. Please remove this chain of comments, or the whole account, if you want.
It's a ridiculous comparison, given in response to the ridiculous assertion that homelessness is a privilege. At the end of the day, at some point someone says "these working conditions are too shitty and I'd rather go…
It cost more than half a million lives to end slavery at that particular time. What is the appropriate life per slavery-year exchange rate? Because if for one less year of slavery you would spend 10,000 human lives, and…
Spoiler: Asian males, who have higher IQs and commit less crime than white males, earn more than white males. As no white male on HN has ever worked with an Asian male, this will of course be a total shock to all…
Heritability of traits can be measured by twin studies. Some people have spent quite a lot of time doing this for IQ. Others have even identified some of the genes that are correlated with high IQ, TOR1A being one of…
It would be a real shame if the next Larry Page or Bill Gates decided to live in a barrel instead of founding a company because of this sentiment. A happy home and middle-class parents aren't a bad thing. In fact,…
The two more or less inescapable identities are "human" and "yourself". I read this essay as saying that you should embrace both of these, and nothing more. A socialist, a trade unionist, and a Jew are still all people.…