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Sigh, the best way to deal with this sort of thing is to ignore it.

> And I'm not sure what you mean by East Asians having a higher but less creative IQ?

See, when racists use "average IQ" as a weapon against blacks and mexicans, they have to somehow justify their 2nd place to the Asians or else they will not feel comfortable using these "studies" as proof. They just say "oh, well they're less creative, so you know, white people are really still at the top", and everything is right again in the world.

Did you see what they did there? They took valid objective metrics - statistics - and disqualified the positive outcome for a selected class of people with something totally subjective - creativity. This is classic racism. It's a nonsense argument posited by younger people who really haven't had much life experience, and have not met many people who aren't of their same race.

Personally I don't believe in average anything when it comes to race, it's a totally meaningless metric that will get you absolutely nowhere when you deal with actual people and in some cases will handicap you with preconceived notions. I've conducted enough business with enough people in this economy to know that. Younger or less experienced people may have not.

> but aren't Mexican's mostly of Spanish descent

Racists never blame white Europeans for anything, especially not fundamentally flawed colonial systems like the Spaniards' that were devised by greedy people who were bent on raping native people and lands for as much wealth as possible in as little time as possible - actually, why should they blame them, it worked flawlessly, didn't it?

> East Asians are even higher IQ (perhaps less creative)

Less creative? How exactly do you measure this? Or is this your totally non-racist white hunch on how to classify a third of the population of planet Earth?

> Oh, and if you are getting ready to call me a racist (I'm not)

This seems to happen often enough that you have a prepared response. You might want to just go with the flow and reclassify yourself as a racist, that way you don't spend half your energy defending yourself against false accusations and can spend time attacking people who aren't white in a more efficient manner.

> Then how come startups don't flourish everywhere those services are offered?

I'm not sure how to start tackling the logical fallacies in your response because there are so many.

Yes, this is good.

On first glance it seems like they also fixed some of the blocking i/o issues that caused beachballs in Safari 3 and earlier - I wouldn't be surprised if they vastly improved this, since the whole history indexing thing probably is fairly intensive with disk.

In other words, by simply ignoring out of existence the non-white population of the US before 1965 (which is what white people loved to do back then), you can make it look like the country went through a rapid transformation and is rapidly being taken over, when in fact the minority population has always been there.

> Can you point to other situations where an advanced infrastructure created by government led to an increase in entrepreneurial activity?

USPS. Interstate Highways. Airports. Seaports. SEC, FDIC, FAA, NTSB, etc. The Internet.

Quit thinking so small - swimming pools, hi-tech office parks, is this all you can muster?

I said that it started in the 1600s in England, not that they invented it.

And don't be facetious, everyone knows the Dutch were very innovative during the slave trade.

> some people have reason to be happy about this

Obviously not you, LOL.

My in-dash unit does this. It works great for tunnels and parking garages.

Immigration policy by the US is, and has been for the past 200 years, determined by populist racial attitudes.

No, you're wrong. The concept of corporate singularity started in the 1600s in England.

From wikipedia:

In the late seventeenth century, Stewart Kyd, the author of the first treatise on corporate law in English, defined a corporation as,

"a collection of many individuals united into one body, under a special denomination, having perpetual succession under an artificial form, and vested, by policy of the law, with the capacity of acting, in several respects, as an individual, particularly of taking and granting property..."

Which is strange, because the whole concept behind the British invention of the "corporation" is to address a group of people as a singular entity.

A lot of EA apps suck, and a lot of them don't.

Conversely, a lot of open source apps suck too. A lot of them also don't.

Why are we stereotyping again?

Programmers tend to teach themselves. I wouldn't worry about it, Mr. President.

Load test your service first. If you go to press and your service fails, you're doomed.