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Just a joke, phrasing it referring to "you" wasn't meant to be personal.

> immutable biological trait So now your two SUVs and white McMansion with a picket fence are an "immutable biological trait"?

Social mobility doesn't have anything to do with it really. Even if it is easier for the average citizen to become wealthy, that doesn't entail that the ones actually doing meritor…

> One thing is for sure, housing prices would skyrocket! Sure, in the hypothetical of instantaneously doubling the population without any time for the market to adjust for increase…

But it's not... the feds will utterly fuck you over for possessing cocaine. Just 5 grams of crack in many states is going to land you in jail for a long time. Maybe you mean for re…

The difference is that these agencies never even bother with a warrant to store all of our data, and claim to not "collect" anything all while using algorithms to conduct mass surv…

Actually if you check out more of his work it looks quite different from what was chosen for this article. I think the article wants to portray a logical progression from modern ar…

Me too!

> Well at any rate, the difference is that nearly anyone can learn to read, whereas there is no evidence to suggest that more than a few percent of people can become a computer pro…

It's a common complaint on HN that too many articles include irrelevant details about the people and scenery of technical fields, but this article really pulls it off perfectly. It…

> Sitting alone, staring into a wall while listening to music is not a thing most healthy people do. For most, music is a secondary activity. It's called listening carefully and it…

Joe Biden is another ignominious, sold-out prick. He will be remembered in history mostly for being complicit in a lot of death and misery, and for his creepy interactions with chi…

Biodiversity loss would be measured in loss of biodiversity, I would think.

We're in the middle of a mass extinction, what more indication do you need that this in not going to go well? The immediacy and stern tone of environmental news reporting is totall…

That's the whole point, isn't it? That's a good thing, right? Of course society at large should incentivize and facilitate the creation of open source software, but it seems the al…

Deal with it, recreational drug users have been under a constant state of threat and abuse since forever. We've had to put up with a lot more than you, so next time you notice the …