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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 wa…

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 condi…

Yours is showing too, along with an unhealthy dose of smugness. GP literally chose to be homeless instead of licking the boots of the wealthy for table scraps, which is a degree of…

They very clearly do not take orders from an ostensibly racist 70 year old. That's beside the point, because she wasn't giving orders; she was complaining about her neighbours on t…

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 …

Having rights doesn't stop you being morally and factually wrong, which is the point of this piece: while you are allowed to cross the road when you see a black man, doing so is a …

I may not have been clear. I don't feel particularly discriminated and don't really care in any case. It's incredibly minor. However, I strongly object to the idea that it's okay t…

As someone who is extremely tall, it's not very nice to see people crossing the street to avoid you at night. How is making statistical inferences using my height any more justifie…

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 o…

How about torsion dystonia? Increased IQ can be observed before the onset of the disease, even when matched to comparable members of the same population. What evidence would falsif…

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 correla…

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 par…

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 un…