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Don't our brains also extrapolate? I am sure our eyes feed the brain at a limited frequency, and the brain combines and extrapolates the images to create the illusion of smooth streams.

I wonder if narcissism and individualism are also linked to higher suicide rates.

I see this sentiment quite often on hackernews. Despite having more than enough, we are just bitter than we don't have more and it's blinding us from enjoying what we have. Immigrants are just the scapegoats.

We are talking about MIT. Their acceptance rate is around 6%. I am sure they get plenty of applications from the smartest American undergrads. Assuming that they choose the best and the brightest, it makes sense that they would have students from all over the world. Americans don't have a monopoly on intelligence.

Depression is a real disease. It should and can be treated. Stanford professor Sapolsky on depression - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc

Competition is great but when the narrative starts leaning towards "Us vs Them" and "We are at war" and countries start actively sabotaging each other, then we have a problem.

Every day or two I see something new about facebook on hackernews front page, and pretty much all the discussion boils down to "how awful facebook is", "oh, I quit it five years ago, I don't understand those people who still use it; oh, they sell our data to generate so much profit". Facebook has more than a billion active users, and is probably the most used social network in the world.

I wish hackernews users stop repeating how awful facebook is and rather provide some constructive criticism.