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pl1234

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    Comment #19235087

    recently the mods started banning people for unorthodox ideas, in old threads you can see kevin mcdonalds work being discussed as plausible, that wouldn't happen on recent threads.…

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    Comment #19232418

    I think he speaks for anyone who understands basic human behavioral genetics.

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    Comment #19232393

    How the fuck would your grandparents experiences "ripple down" to you. Did you even bother thinking about how the causation would happen? All of this research is obviously more bul…

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    Comment #19081417

    But did she get into the companies because she is good at programming, or because she is a woman?

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    Comment #19080865

    There is no case made that women are actually undervalued apart from the delusion that the sexes somehow have to be equal. You can equally argue that there is a lot of talent in wh…

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    Comment #19020414

    Also check out the dancing israelis celebrating after 9/11 http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-dancing-israelis/

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    Comment #19002509

    there is no objective source since everyone has their biases. For an alternative perspective, check out the unz review

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    Comment #19000773

    Women aren't impressed by programmers, yet at the same time they believe they are being unfairly excluded from the field. There isn't much social prestige associated with being a p…

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    Comment #18909415

    "The rationalist view and rationalist methods have created more wealth and alleviated more human suffering than most any mystic of the world pre-1800s would ever have imagined." Th…

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    Comment #18908830

    most people here turn flat-earther level stupid when it comes to evolution applied to humans. They don't fully believe in evolution. They are often the same people who will make fu…

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    Comment #18908782

    "humanity" wouldn't really be humanity anymore if it did that. biases are part of our nature. societies are always built on sacred fictions.

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    Comment #18880089

    co-founder, not just early employee

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    Comment #18859152

    because they control America and sacrifice the lives of innocent Americans to achieve their own ends

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    Comment #18804786

    Comically wrong. Defining ancestry is not that hard, sub-saharan africans will cluster together regardless of the diversity in Africa. This is what the experts actually think regar…

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    Comment #18804747

    Agreed. I think the current interviewing system should be replaced with an IQ test + some more standardized domain specific knowledge tests. The pseudoscientific programming contes…

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    Comment #18799708

    what a disgusting policy

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    Comment #18798390

    possible that it's related to enhanced cognitive abilities, this was discussed after He's talk: https://youtu.be/cH57-YO9Eso?t=5636 No good reason to believe it was chosen for a re…

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    Comment #18775389

    HN is a big fan of pointless wars for our elites and supporting the lunatic state of israel. It's not hard to figure out why.

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    Comment #18759599

    "You could practice solving the sort of visiospatial puzzles that they pose but then you'd ruin your results." You are contradicting yourself. First you claim it is not based on st…

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    Comment #18730348

    for the USA, israel is the biggest offender