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I disagree with the tone with which yummyfajitas is discussing this, but I absolutely think he should have the right to voice his opinion. Aren't downvotes punishment enough? I won…

I just want to say that I'm deeply uncomfortable with how quickly hacker news mods have moved to kill comments they disagree with since the new "professional" management came in. I…

Problem is, only 1.7% of college football players are ever going to play professional ball.

Lyft Line blows my mind. It's like a Lyft, but half price. Works great within the city.

We do more good for more people when our beliefs reflect reality, rather than what we wish were true. If it turns out that the cognitive science research showing that some people a…

Not all expats are created equal. For example, Mexicans living in the US tend not to do so well in education or the economy, dragging a lot of US national statistics down. This is …

Education can only make up for so much of a deficit in cognitive ability. We know that cognitive ability and income levels are correlated.

Chinese and Germans in the United States also do very well in the economy. Maybe there's some third factor that we're missing. These kind of articles make the implicit assumption t…

He might describe himself that way, but he advocates for socially conservative values more often than libertarians do (see "Coming Apart"). He's at least a borderline case, like a …

Asians and Jews beat vanilla whites at I.Q. tests, but also any other test that measures cognitive/academic ability - PISA, GRE, MCAT, LSAT, ASVAB - they're all correlated. It is t…

Charles Murray's books are all worth a read. He's likely the most meticulous data guy on the American Right.

Nietzsche has interesting things about our need to tear down people who have great, unique accomplishments over common weaknesses - calling this the "slave morality". The weak need…

It feels in violation of the spirit of the event to have paid help in your camp, but otherwise Burning Man is for everybody.

The most important question: what are the demographics of the founding team?

This sounds like something that could be taught in a 30 minute lesson. What's the problem?

I don't understand how this happens. The tech industry is pretty much the only economic game in town. How does it fail so hard at politics, losing out to a relatively small amount …

Culture is capital. The degree of social trust and respect for property needed to create a wealthy society is an historical anomaly. If we didn't have borders, the whole world woul…

If a business owner raises wages, he solves his labor problem but spends more money and reduces profit. If instead he complains about a labor shortage, then maybe politicians will …

Could you point out for me where Sam talks about diversity of perspectives? All I see him talking about is what the OP mentions - gonads and skin color.

The San Jose Mercury News estimated that Silicon Valley tech jobs are mostly held by Asians. http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22094415/asian-workers-now-dom... Based on my experience,…