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This my response to all the people that have disagreed with me and have asked me for proof. There have been studies like "The Bell Curve" book were they attempt to demonstrate how …

>>Hey, why give up? Doesn't Hard Work Conquer All? very funny

My experience has always been that people that do bad in school is because they simply don't work at it. Or that they've neglected years of school and suddenly studying really hard…

>>Not everyone is talented enough to be a professional >>athlete or a tenured physicist. Many of the people that think this way always think that it has to do with talent. The thin…

You said: -------> On the contrary, your thesis goes against our everyday experience, not only because we know people who are stupider than us, but also people who are much smarter…

Read it, it doesn't state up to how many significant digits that percent is accurate so it doesn't prove I'm wrong. They may have just shorten it for brevity.

I read a couple of paragraphs. Is one thing to do a study on rats then to do a study in humans. This doesn't disprove my claim. Edit: Also, it seems that you are implying that the …

I would just add a couple of more nines to that 99.9%.

I do agree that some people may have higher learning rates than others but the differences are too small to matter. I will even agree that there may be outliers, a super tiny amoun…

You will never be a michael jordan but if you practice hard enough you will become close. That is my point. The differences that you are talking are superficial differences. And ho…

I worded that wrong. I meant to ask whether there are elitist in Hacker News.

This supports my thesis that all human population has the potential to be as smart as any phd graduate. All you need is to put the work required to get there. i.e. put thousands of…

I think you and me are using different definitions of smart. You think a person is smart only if he goes to school. That is not what I mean by smart. So that you understand I'll us…

I stand corrected. You are assuming that a person with a phd is inherently smarter than a person running a hot dog stand. He is not. He has more accumulated knowledge but I don't t…

If people are poor then they won't be able to buy your stuff. On the other hand people with more money means that they'll have a stronger buying power. It benefits the rich that th…

The problem is that many of these libraries are underfunded. Not enough new books are being added. All the books that I have needed over the last couple of years I can never find t…

Lets assume that P==NP, why assume that we would be able to find algorithms to easily crack crypto? Let me put it another way, lets say that we finally discover that it is possible…

True, some of those intellectuals must have poor eyesight due to a lifetime of reading.

Just buy two extra battery packs or a portable power supply that you can fit in your backpack.

I would never have burned down the library of Alexandrida. Not unless there were a backup for every book there. Then I would burn it down. :)

That is great. Too bad there are none like that around where I live.

I hope you are right. If libraries make this transition then they will get more customers and maybe even make some money to pay for expenses. I've also tried to replicate the atmos…

It was also the reason for WW2. Germany put all those unemployed people to work on many national projects. Projects which were aimed at world domination.

If they added coffee shops in libraries and made it a more social place I would be so there. I go to coffee shops or Barnes & Noble for the atmosphere. People humming around me, ha…