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Some of the subreddits are excellent, but you miss out on what made the community viable: people encountering things they didn't otherwise know to look for. I'm a mod at: http://ww…

Quantity over quality. Reddit expanded rapidly and exchanged its audience of programmers, writers and creators for the 4chan crowd, who are working entry-level jobs and specialize …

Some related resources: IQ is history-correlative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations IQ determines life success and more http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/r…

Biologically, the races are different. As someone concerned with maximal design, I am seeking someone similar but not identical to me, so am looking within my own racial and ethnic…

I disagree with the title. Free will is a question of the degree of choice we have; the test seemed to attempt to measure whether that choice was conscious or not by aligning it wi…

I've known really great programmers to commit all of these sins. There are different abilities and types of mental focus at work here. I don't think it's unfair to say a good app w…

I disagree. I think the bigger question is whether Apple's specific regulation of its app store is anticompetitive, thus legally actionable. IMHO ;)

Reminds me of the "Anus Laptops" saga: http://www.thescambaiter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109

For more detail: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=806910 I'd wondered about much of this myself

If you have more of anything than other people, they want some of it and will use equality/friendship/politeness as a means of demanding it.

Like it not, MS Office is the de facto standard for basic tasks in a modern office. If Open Office were really good, it would have replaced it instantly because it's free. However,…

Only adults are full enough of pretense to deny the obvious: we're all different.

You mean, founder of the modern overpopulation problem? Let nature regulate itself. It seems to think several steps ahead of where human thinking stops.

Highways empowered suburbanization, but I think White Flight was the "cause."

Creativity is overrated. Critical thinking is underrated. Most "creativity" is just doing whacky stuff, like pasting an octopus onto a toy airplane and calling it "art."

One reason you don't hear the truth of biological determinism -- it's taboo: http://www.newsweek.com/id/193534

Flynn effect reversed: http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordD...

In what case is a person with an IQ of 105 smarter than someone with an IQ of 125? Please cite examples.

Oh good, a new study of cherrypicked data from liberals who refuse to believe biology determines abilities. It's the new Scopes trial.

That's nothing. We had to use MACS.

The Crowd hates anyone who might rise above, starting with MBAs, and it's easier to blame them than the horde of dumb customers who happily buy inferior products at inflated prices…

http://www.sf2600.org/ Maybe check out these folks?