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Thomas, I would love to get some insight on OS choice from someone so well respected in the security community, and maybe a short mention of why OpenBSD's security laurels may not …

How does that sentence acknowledge income inequality as a problem? It just acknowledges it exists, it doesn't make any claim about whether or not it is a problem.

No, this work was done by the London based CEPR -- which is a bipartisan bank-funded research group for economists, not the leftist CEPR out of Washington, DC. They are completely …

I've worked with a lot of linux distros. I'm a Fedora person myself, but enjoyed Debian and Gentoo also. For Slackware heads, why should I look at Slackware?

If you're going to learn another language, learn something from a different programming paradigm, or one which is lower level. Learning Ruby would be an absolute waste of time. Thi…

If you had spent a small amount of time and energy propping up the general sentiment that your rock collection was the next big thing, yet had bountiful positive results in the the…

I believe they did indeed sell at a huge discount. Valuing all of Urbit at only 12m seems like a low ball.

Granted, I may not understand it at all, I only really started reading about it a few hours ago, but here it goes: It's a decentralized internet, where your computer is the server,…

Yours is fun, in that it's more free-form, but HIBP seems to cover more ground.

Monarchism is a sort of leftism. It's still about having the state own and manage industry, rather than spreading its ownership out among many people. In the end, leftism always en…

It's unclear how reminding us that Socialist Fascists locked up Socialist Democrats is proof that Nazis were somehow secretly Libertarians. The Nazis nationalized industry. They're…

It's really heartbreaking. As a person who was raised very leftist, and only became a conservative (to the consternation of all friends and family) in my 20's, I really don't know …

>" there are plenty of people too busy trying to get the next meal than to do anything else." Incredible that they have on average 6 hours per day to watch television, given how bu…

There are arguments that you'd need to create a computer capable of doing "infinite" precision real computation to recreate this effect.

Strange, when I hit that link before there was a paywall. Must've hit it indirectly or something.

Agreed. I wish I better understood how a PR firm manages to place an article that is so clearly an advertisement, like this, with such a major news outlet, without it setting off t…

Yes, there are correlations between genetics and IQ. There are undoubtedly hereditary factors which will effect nurture, which will subsequently effect IQ. That is not synonymous w…

I would argue that it is dangerous to hold an idea just because it 'feels' right. I'm on the not heritable side because I think that's what the science will show, given my understa…

Why would we assume the software is identical across humans? My point is that the software is NOT identical. It's where intelligence comes from, as opposed to the hardware.

>"Intelligence is produced by the brain" Depends what you mean by produced. If you mean it happens in the brain, then the following would also be true: - I prefer Strawberry ice cr…

I was inspired heavily by some chapters in the book "Intellectuals and Race" by Libertarian theorist Thomas Sowell. You can hear him talk about it here: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

A few things on torsio dystonia. One, Torsion Dystonia could just as easily be effecting something else which effects IQ. Two, the studies on Torsion Dystonia decided to only study…

>"But not IQ? What's the exception?" I don't think intelligence, outside of unusual situations, is a physical characteristic. So I'm not sure how to answer your question.

The change in the brains from early protohumans to homo was a change of kind not quantity . We evolved new mental apparatuses. On the other hand, from homo habilis/erectus to human…