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Is it any wonder that American men are going to Eastern Europe and Asia to find a partner? Most women there are thin, feminine and treat foreigners better than locals. Is it any wo…

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"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason." - John Harington Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said this is illegal. Well, if the mi…

Let's imagine the very high IQ'd high scoring person, who grew up in a certain environment has the task of creating software for someone in a rural community they know nothing abou…

The hilarity is in how this perpetuates the reasons for excluding a class of individuals from participating in the software creation process. You are excluded from companies using …

Yes, it's an indicator of competency in mathematics, which in turn makes a good computer scientist. What else would be a better indicator of math competency than math tests?

Take a look at this [1]: *SAT-Mathematics White - 534 Black - 429 Asian - 598 Even if Blacks get CS/Engineering degrees, they can still be less competent than Asians/Whites. Tech c…

Just look at this [1] list of the biggest tech/internet companies. They are all from USA and China. The only 2 reasons not all big companies are from USA is (1) Chinese versions ar…

Peter Thiel is a weird guy. For many years he said there is going to be a major economic crisis. - He wrote a paper on the fall of the Roman Empire [1] and thinks something similar…

EU bureaucrats are jealous of US internet companies. The only big internet companies come from USA and China [1]. They have very high taxes, it's very difficult to fire people and …

Great point. Nordic countries and other rich European countries owe large part of their success to colonization in the past. For example, Belgium performed mass genocide in Congo, …

very few economists agree that raising the minimum wage by X dollars will result in prices rising by X dollars so that the effect is non-existent You are looking for obvious increa…

some will be writing novels, or starting bands, or making community gardens, or teaching, or whatever. And slaves in 3rd world countries will make all the things (cameras, phones, …

Why is UBI so popular on this site? This is a site for hackers, programmers and engineers. Could it be the result of a decade long propaganda by VCs targeting Zuckerberg wannabes -…

Could you offer an abstract definition of "life" and "intelligence" (or maybe even 'thinking' or 'consciousness') ? For example, if you're trying to figure out whether something is…

I dropped out of college (computer science) few months ago. Ahhh, the sense of freedom and gaining my sanity back. I don't even know why I enrolled; plus I hated teachers and most …

Robots have the potential to give us what we've always wanted but could never ethically achieve: slaves. We want capable beings to do our bidding. To serve us, to build for us, to …

No actual intelligence required, IMO. This is a trick. What does 'actual intelligence' mean? Term 'intelligence' is already vague, so adding 'actual' creates even more confusion. S…

So, sentient means 'having the ability to learn new things' ? Kinda like humans, who are born with certain instincts, but are then able to learn new things or 're-program' themselv…

This is an interesting idea. Robots don't need to have human rights. They can have 'robot rights'. In Bolivia, for example, there are rights of nature (applies to living and non-li…

Why is being 'sentient' (a vague term) a requirement for something to have rights?

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