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>>Another example of a good language problem is question answering, like “What’s the second-biggest city in California that is not near a river?” If I typed that sentence into Google currently, I’m not likely to get a useful response.

So I typed that in google just to see and indeed I got nothing. I guess their [1]knowledge graph still has a long way to go.

[1http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge...]

Recently rolled out at my local hospital. The best part is I get e-mail reminders for all appointments. I also get an e-mail notification when a test result has been logged.

>>even if those children got adopted away or orphaned early on

Was race accounted for. i.e. Where there minorities and white kids in the group. If only white kids then that tells me that the problem is more systemic. i.e. racism.

You really need to explain what you mean because his explanation seems to make sense to me.

You also have to define "better". Here we are only talking about super intelligence. But what about creativity in music, film, writing, etc. Those things enrich our lives. Who is going to make the films and animes that I love?

What if the person does not fit your definition of a super intelligent person with a high IQ but instead is a genius in music. Also, how do we know that by focusing only on super intelligent people we won't be killing off the other traits that make life worthwhile, the arts, music, film. There are multiple perspectives that make a person a genius, high IQ is just one of them among many.

As somebody else mentioned, just like breeding dogs, you may be able to select for one trait at the expense of the others.

Frankly high IQ is overrated. It is probably biased anyway. i.e. Children that grow up in high income families have better IQ results than children living in poverty. It could simply mean that the differentiator is good education at an early age.

Purely anecdotal. It is not bad. It could be better sure. The times that a family member has been sick and taken to an emergency room everybody has done their part to nurse them back to health.

Unfortunately there are always incompetent nurses, staff, and probably even doctors that hide among the competent. You always find a couple of them in the hospital. Thankfully I've only ever encountered incompetent nurses, or nurse aids. Especially nurse aids. Doctors have been OK.

They are really hard to get rid off because they do just enough to not get fired. They also work really hard to mask their mediocrity.

Of course, I have not been able to experience the health care of other countries so there is a chance that USA's health care is worse than I think. I'll be extremely happy once we are able to automate health care.

Maybe use the same solution as Hacker News: Allow users for a limited time to make changes, even delete their answers. Once that time expires make the question accessible to the wayback machine crawlers.

Other than that if users don't want to be associated with something they said in the past to an audience, maybe they shouldn't be saying it at all.

>>Coincidence, not correlation.

You probably mean not causation?

hm?

>>American organizations appear to bend over backward to be of service to American intelligence interests around the world, but tend to act arrogantly if approached by local authorities over local matters, to the extend of openly violating the law of the country they're operating in.

Why is it that this makes what the French authorities did OK? Your argument boils down to "He did it so I should be able to do it too?" What kind of screw up logic is that. Seriously, W.T.F. We are not talking about kids here.

>>Pays what? They will create a few LLCs for each case with next to zero assets. If they lose the case the patents are almost by definition worthless, so they get nothing.

Sounds like fraud to me. I'm sure this loop hole could get closed.

So what do you do when it changes direction. Keep it simple, just get away as fast and far away as possible.

Right, it sounds quite stupid in retrospect.

This could be it. I pretty much stopped watching films for a long time. I know find them enjoyable again.

The last Batman films and the last transformer films. I wouldn't say they were stupid, just so predictable that there was almost no point in watching.

I know that Jack Reacher and the Last Stand were not critical successes and yet I enjoyed them immensely. Which is what makes me think that I was probably suffering some form of depression.

>>What other goal would there be?

The goal for the drastic measures my mom took was to not loose her child. That he stopped being such a big brat was a bonus. He was still strong tempered, but at least he would no longer test my mother. And the threat of a beating kept the rest of us in line. We knew not to test her. All of my brothers and sisters grew up to be decent human beings.

In case you are wondering, my brother never beats his kids, is enough for them to see him mad when they misbehave for them to fall in line.

I concede, had he had a mental disorder it would probably not have worked. In this case though, I'm not sure the OP really had a mental disorder which is why I suggested the beating. Some kids will go to great lengths to manipulate you as much as they can.

Anyway, this is just an anecdote so take it as such.

> “Then I’m going to kill myself,” he said. I remember doing that. > He’s been on a slew of antipsychotic and mood altering pharmaceuticals, a Russian novel of behavioral plans. Nothing seems to work. I remember that. > A few weeks ago, Michael..threatened to kill me I did that too.

I wonder if a nice beating would have done you any good. I have one anecdotal story.

My older brother was uncontrollable at the age of 9. He threw a rock at my even older brother straight at his head. Nobody could tell him what to do. Once he run away from home on a bus heading to a big city. Had he not been spotted by some friends of the family we may never had seen him again.

When they returned him my grandfather advised my mom, who has a strong temper, not to scold him. So she did not. From there after he became even more uncontrollable. And now he would threaten my mother that he would run away if he didn't get his way.

Seeing the truth in his eyes my mom realized that one of this days he was going to run away and this time it might be for good. So this is what my mother decided to do as a last resort:

She tied him up from the feet to a branch of a tree. Basically he was hanging upside down. My mother told him that since he was going to run away she'd rather kill him so that at least that way she would know where he was. I believe at this moment my mom took out a belt, she might've hit him once or twice with it, and asked him if he was going to run away. My brother, as you can imagine, was terrified and crying and telling my mom that he would never do it again.

Outcome: The problem was fixed. He became more subdued and never threatened to run away.

Now my brother is a grown man, in his 40's. He has a family, a house and is a productive man of society. Overall he turned out pretty good.

Mind you that it wasn't like my mom would abuse her children with beatings every other day. But you could definitely expect a beating if you really misbehaved. Not once did I get a beating nor do I remember any of my sisters getting a beating. Just trying to establish that she was not an abusive mother.

All of this happened south of the USA border.