Viewing profile — fgf

yeah, but the less rich of the intelligent have better, safer and more widely respected jobs (I have met door to door salesmen that make more than members of parliament). They had …

tl;dr ... a minor objection tough ... it is not at all impossible for 70 percent of drivers to be better than average, you just need the lower 30 percent to (on average) be really …

you're being either difficult or dense ... nice gardens are nice, people generally agree that clean homes are too, this is a fact and it won't change cause it'd be neat if professi…

Or live in new york...

"social status" that doesn't get you laid =//= social status that does

ability in sport = martial prowess / hunting skills / good health in general / good genes in general -- It has always been more or less universally respected. Jazz players always h…

might be hard to do that somewhere over poland if ww3 just started

start business =//= start startup business = plumbing, food stall, import/export, constulting, YC company etc. startup = YC companies and other similar intense low odds/high reward…

why don't you get a hepatitis vaccine?

"Three and a half years and 70 countries later, I've gotten the equivalent of a Ph.D in general knowledge about the people and places of Planet Earth." A contradiction in terms.

"Linking to PG's older posts to help you make a point." The notion that this is bad is baffling. Citation is central to all serious science it also has a place in other forms of (r…

you might have found at anyway, and now, at least, you can avoid the subject

other people will read that question too..

there is no position to disagree with, just a well known fact posted as if it was in opposition to the quoted statement..

switzerland, the US and the UK haven't had any restarts for a long, long time. they are doing good. canada, australia and new zealand never had one (after the initial settlement). …

An interesting comparison I'm not really qualified to make is between the relatively secure (?) and cohesive (!) chinese communist party elite and the chaotic free for all (?) in r…

I didn't know this, do you have a source? (because I want to read more about it not because I doubt it)