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I don't feel I've acted like any of the things you're ascribing to me. Corporations are not divorced from the people that run them, but the people that run them are divorced from t…

We have lots of restrictions on corporate behavior because markets do not solve human problems, they solve corporate problems. The corporate response to long hours and low pay is t…

Yeah I wasn't aware of it either before.

I mean, yeah kind of. But I don't think that's entirely accurate. Wikipedia says "Initial funding was provided by Kapor, Wozniak, and an anonymous benefactor." It's not like he fun…

Yeah, the article discusses this.

I'm not sure, the article doesn't mention any of that. It actually tries (weakly) to claim the opposite, with statements like "Carlos and Wilber both had very similar white mobile …

I am having a civil discourse and did not intend to cause a polarization. You cannot discuss luck and success in life without discussing race. In no way did I suggest that people s…

Many people deny this, so I think it is an important part of the higher conversation and inherently productive to discuss. People tend to think luck is heavily about positioning yo…

Yes of course, but I don't believe that's what the commenter was talking about. The comment said it is not a race or gender issue, which I disagree with.

No it's not mandatory at all, just incredibly advantageous. Much more so than physical attractiveness, although that helps a great deal in life as well.

But it is a race and gender issue. I'm not trying to divide people, just stating facts. Attaining wealth is much easier if you're born into a specific race, thus your chances of be…

You can't position yourself to be born a white male, which I believe affords the greatest advantages, and opens the most opportunities of any personal attribute you can have.

Am I missing some detail here, or is this post getting downvoted solely because it's a faith based app? I'm not a religious believer but surely a company has a right to build a med…

Yeah I can see that, although in that case you do need to prove to your agent what you were making before, and if they feel it's not worth their time they will be more likely to pa…

I think there may be varying degrees of willpower such that a barrier can help and avoidance is itself a barrier.

I created a Chrome plugin to block all Hacker News comments and just provide a list of the links because I found myself wasting too much time reading Hacker News comments but I sti…

This suffers from the same issue with using a real estate agent to buy / sell a house. Agents are not financially incentivized to get you the best offer. They are financially incen…

Yeah, the article addresses this question pretty clearly. Even things that "feel" obvious to us should be studied. We shouldn't just take it for fact that an emotional support anim…

As lukas099 has said, the book does not take the view that you're saying it takes. Cherry picking quotes out of the context of an entire book can get you to any conclusion you want…

A few thoughts on this: The title of the article made me think it's a concept phone, as in not real and unlikely to be produced. I almost didn't click on the article because if tha…

But all of that is discussed at length in the book we're talking about. To pick out the word "selfish" and say that that's the gene model displays to me that you haven't read the b…

lukas099 is arguing one of the central points of the book, that altruistic behavior is inherently selfish on a genetic level. You seem to be arguing completely based on the title o…

While that's true, the context of the statement makes it clear that's not what's being discussed at all.

No, I'm not a trusting fool. I don't know how you came to that conclusion. I think you're arguing for the opposite of what you're saying. Con artists rely completely on our subcons…