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Since it's certainly possible that blacks have genetically higher IQs than whites but are environmentally made to underperform, isn't that all the more egregious? Wouldn't that be …

The canonical reply here is that while it's true IQ tests a narrow range of abilities, (a) it's highly predictive of various facets of success in life, and (b) "specialists" are re…

They concede that IQ (a) exists, (b) predicts many life outcomes, (c) differs between groups, and (d) is partly heritable. If an alien at this point were presented with these premi…

Fair enough.

You are possibly right to be frustrated about gender problems, but your suggestion — that in the fight for gender equality it's ok to construct a double standard for men and women …

The assumption that a woman is not capable of holding that opinion is sexist.

The strange thing is that the same comment has been used in support of gender equality. In Iceland, where every board must have at least 40% representation for each gender, they in…

Sorry. I wrote it impulsively and thoughtlessly.

So, after all the virtuous hate for Uber has subsided, is anyone going to address the elephant in the room that what he said was statistically true? Edit: Looks like the evidence i…

Have you considered using a Chromebook? It costs $150 and runs Ubuntu.

Holy shit are you the dude who was on Shark Tank? That episode was hilarious hahahaha

Link is down.

> Do not ever even attempt a big-bang rewrite Really? Are there no circumstances under which this would be appropriate? It seems to me this makes assumptions about the baseline qua…

Apparently comment scores were initially hidden because mobs would previous cheer on a fight between two polarized views, commenters would say reactionary, incendiary things, and g…

That's true. I suppose my next argument is that seeing matrix.append(row) on its own line signals strongly that this is not a functional language.

On the other hand, how many languages do you know where arrays are passed by value?