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Sounds a lot like AdSense too, honestly.

puredemoon How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU

What creates those extremes is genetics and poor parenting (considering that IQ is ~80% hereditary,) and in some infrequent cases environmental pollution (heavy metals in the government supplied water.)

Capitalism just deals with the results, in this case human capital.

puredemoon How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU

It's my belief that equality shouldn't be the goal of capitalism, rather a fair representation of talent and productivity.

Someone hard-working with a 130 IQ versus someone depressed or maladjusted with a 90 IQ are, in fact, in entirely different classes. It isn't "dangerous" to admit that, it's simply reality. Capitalism does a decent job handling those extremes.

puredemoon How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income in the EU

At least the whole world is gradually becoming democratic and capitalistic. That's one form of homogeneity, at least in expectations if not ethnicity.

puredemoon Old Techies Never Die; They Just Can’t Get Hired as an Industry Moves On (2012)

>Back to my startup -- a few good days and I should be able to go live.

Read back on your posts a few pages, respectfully requesting to be put on your alpha list as well. My email address is on my profile here, for the time being.

puredemoon Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class

That's usually how colonization begins, a series of trading posts.

puredemoon Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class

I wish you would just post the books you have in mind, rather than writing a snarky response like this.

puredemoon Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class

Sounds like an accurate statement to me, how is it incendiary?

puredemoon Africans are mainly rich or poor, but not middle class

Through colonization?

puredemoon The Case Against the Universal Basic Income

Can't they? Corporations can own property and can also be run anonymously..

puredemoon You Don't Have What It Takes

Sometimes this is true.

And many people are smart and strategic enough to be able to launch successful startups while sacrificing very little personally.

Persistence matters more than personal sacrifice, in my mind.

puredemoon What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon

Baquet's response makes Carney's complaints seem infantile. Carney should have known better than to post this in this first place.

puredemoon What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon

I'm basically an Amazon fanboy, but with the failure of the Fire phone, the continually over-wrought nature of AWS UI, and now this hamfisted response to the NYT, they are really losing their appeal.

Amazon: Your current employees had already written much better responses than this within 48 hours of the NYT article coming out. What is this drivel supposed to accomplish? Why is PR rant hosted on Medium? Why are you exposing old employee personnel records? Why are you putting political operatives like Carney in charge of your PR?

Get it together guys. The NYT article is ancient history now and didn't merit further response. It was an obvious hit piece but your reaction has been quite poor.

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

Nice response. A society of used car salesmen would probably be better in most ways actually. The current global IQ is 95, I think. This makes me personally believe that having a very large demographic of 'average' people is fairly stabilizing, for various reasons. If some technology came out that did raise the global IQ to 110 or 120, I suspect things would become chaotic and self-destructive in short order. That's not to say it won't happen though, progress marches on.

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

>when human beings are concerned a solution to a problem may involve nothing more than swaying the minds of people, something people with high intelligence often seem comically unable to do.

So you're advocating that we select for charismatic, persuasive people of average intelligence? Seems like a rather short-sighted plan, considering this would describe most used car salesmen.

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

What is fair or unfair is entirely subjective.

Personally, it would seem a bit unfair to me if I was born with a 95 IQ, in the cosmic sense at least.

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

From a pragmatic standpoint, the article seems to assume that the lowest classes will all being getting pregnant via IVF in the future. Seems like a huge leap to make, those with the lowest IQs and most impulsivity are exactly the types who have the most unplanned pregnancies.

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

>I thought that taking "The Bell Curve" seriously was a big red flag?

To whom? Certainly not to most scientists..

puredemoon The fall of the meritocracy

>the assertion that one's genetics is an unfair advantage strikes me as absurd.

Are you saying you don't see the advantage inherent to having a much higher IQ?

puredemoon Ask HN: Why have none of the ~940 YC companies ever gone public via IPO?

Private VC investors take the gains rather than the public.

puredemoon Default Alive or Default Dead?

Which seems like BS, since WhatsApp obviously didn't need strong financials to be acquired for an amazing amount.

puredemoon Racial Profiling via Nextdoor.com

Isn't knowing better than not knowing? You can prepare accordingly.