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My point is that many Americans, self included, never heard of FGM until immigrants brought it into to our country.

> you seem to think that everyone in these countries is the same

Your words, not mine. Everyone is an individual. I think many of these individuals should fix their own countries before fleeing to mine. They are not the meek and downtrodden. Every one at the university has blown through at least $125K on immigration attorneys for the student visa alone.

> smart, well-educated, and generally "good" people

There is more to being good than calculus and not murdering people. Given the immense purchasing power they would have in their own countries, why aren't they raising up their own instead of fleeing? So many brahmins blowing through half a mil on a 3rd-rate US compsci degree, while people back home don't even have clean water.

$10,045.99 industrial grade pillow

be careful what you wish for. per GBS: "all professions are conspiracies against the laity"

He's talking about you people. So many others have reached the same conclusion.

So you don’t see the organized crime tie-in when there’s obstacle after obstacle in billing and revenue, high bandwidth and storage expenses, a product that is in such oversupply as to be practically worthless, in a space that is mostly opaque and privately held, and has ties to organized crime all the way back to the Betamax days?

I’m not claiming AstroTurf here. I’m claiming “track record.”

For nearly every time I’ve been accused of bullshit, vindication is right around the corner.

No. I think the typical HN commenter participates in a debate where the boundaries are narrowly and firmly defined by officialdom, and that any discussion outside of those boundaries will be treated as heresy.

But hey, nice job putting words in my mouth.

As for evidence, you also have bing and google. There’s no shortage of it.

If you keep tabs on the history of organized crime, the general unwillingness of payment processors to deal with the porn industry, the quality of advertisers on porn sites, and the logistics of the porn business in general, it is a very obvious conclusion.

But I'm not a journalist, and I'm not going to scrounge through all of my books for a post that's probably going to get flagged and removed anyway. I'm sure the good journalists will eventually pick up the slack. There's bound to be another Robert Caro out there for this generation. We just have to wait and see.

1. Elite suppression of the upper-middle class (upper-middle class pays most of the taxes). Imagine the kind of market competition / wage pressures they'd face if doctors/lawyers/engineers only had to pay the same rates Warren Buffet does.

2. Assault eugenics on the poor (even if they get big refunds in April, they are still subject to withholding on their meager paychecks). More time wrestling with payday lenders and scrambling to get their 39 hours in == less time making more babies.

With all due respect, Konrad can go f himself. Plenty of performant, non-foot-gun, alternatives to C++ these days. The choice of that language, and any abuses of it fall entirely upon Ferguson and his team.

And for this nugget:

“It’s also you, the software engineering community, that has made no effort to warn the non-expert public of the dangers of these tools.”

I say he deserves it without lube. Hardly a day goes by on Lobsters or HN where we (including many C++ devs) don’t complain at great length on what a reeking dumpster fire C++ is.

Commissioned by Mozilla. 3rd place in browsers, but 1st place in penis recognition!

I doubt they do the eight-separate-interviewer hazing to people with public achievements. Who would stand for it?

"Go calculate the angle, Linus."

HeidiSQL on Wine, seconded.

Exactly. That's also a big part of why Mao and Stalin had such high body counts--position maintenance.

Even Hitler was not immune. There's a story in Speer's biography where he was lecturing the gauleiters for wasting materials and skilled laborers on their McCastles when the military was in dire need. After the lecture, Speer was warned by Hitler to never do this again. Speer noted that this was the first and only time he had ever seen Hitler visibly afraid and shaken. No one is indispensable.

Similar issues arose in ancien régime Europe for the same reasons (nobles of the robe).

Of course, if we bomb, starve, or plague ourselves back into the stone age, that would definitely flatten the org chart, and forms of government would regain their distinctions.

I think Yarvin's only beef is the same one held by most of our malcontents. They aren't upset because our system is evil (it is). They are upset because they aren't at the top of it.

edit: Will also add that China is perfect example of this. In the first generation, Mao starved the peasants and executed his enemies. Once the patriarch was pushed aside, the system scaled-up and took control, and now we have a nation which is regularly held up as an example (or even a necessity!) by our own Western elites.

Feudalism/Democracy/Socialism/Capitalism/etc. ceased to explain reality a long time ago.

Regardless of one’s ideological starting point, the complexities of the modern world will necessitate an org chart which is both very broad and very deep.

A better explanation of what we have—and will continue to have barring some cataclysm—is laid out in Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” and Michels’ “Iron Law of Oligarchy.”

Maybe because they don't get extra money for labeling a patient as a COVID patient:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/04/24/fac...

The masks are coming off!

Things eventually have to add up. If they could de-rail your train because you’re the wrong race/gender, you were on the bullshit track to begin with--even if the world hasn't gotten wise to it yet.

Lonnie Johnson grew up in segregation-era Alabama. That probably set him back, but it did not stop him.

The Lancet reported similar findings on March 5:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2...

The media has consistently been 1-2 months behind on the most relevant COVID-19 information.

You have the wrong end of the stick. I am not here to forbid some words, but to liberate others.

If they named it something like “Pinochet” or PIZZAGATE, I’m sure we’d be getting completely different responses from the same people who think naming a project after a child sacrifice idol is “funny” or “cool“.

Double-down on a real subject like math/physics/chemistry or maybe engineering, and then the wizards in the current shop won’t seem like such wizards after all.

Workplaces generally aren’t the most efficient avenues for personal development.

Will Blavatsky have the last laugh?

My public school was teachers taking naps and complaining about their personal problems while feral inner city youths dry-humped to the smooth sounds of MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice.

From the stats, I believe my experience is the rule rather than the exception.

In that scenario, teaching “Brideshead Revisited,” AP Calculus, and the history of the Qing Dynasty to gifted children seems more like a cunning globalist scheme to suppress IQ through blunt force trauma.

Most schools are massive daycare centers. Giving gifted kids their own time back—to pursue their own interests—would be more effective and less expensive than “three grades ahead.”

Grinding out paperwork and watching the clock in the 8th grade isn’t any more rewarding than it is in the 5th.

Smart kids just need a push in the right direction.

So many gilead/remdesivir posts here... of no better quality than the whole chloroquine controversy...

Ctrl+F Gilead:

https://www.ycombinator.com/people/

How about responding to the words I wrote instead of the ones you imagined? I did not advocate "upvoting articles from blithering conspiracy theorists."

I have advocated two things:

1. Not flagging/censoring/de-platforming people for their screwy opinions. Most people aren't stupid, and can assess statements well enough without your assistance. If you downvoted him because you disagree, great! That's what votes are for. However, flagging this is an abuse. His synopsis was mostly consistent with the research, and there was nothing uncivil in his "blithering."

2. If an idea is incorrect, attack the idea, not the person. Going after the guy's politics and his (lack of) credentials is just a lazy, thinly-veiled, ad hominem when the idea is of an objective nature.

And if you are going to ding him on credentials (not that you should), what exactly are yours?

"Why not get YOUR information from..."

I got my information from the academic article (https://chemrxiv.org/ndownloader/files/22129965). Then I saw this submission on HN that I felt was an OK summary of it. Then I saw your ilk flag it.

An interesting hypothesis is an interesting hypothesis--even when it does not come from our pill-pushing, astroturfing, tell-us-more-about-harry-and-meghan-while-the-bombs-are-falling mainstream media.

linked an academic paper... 33 citations... every actual MD I've shared it with has responded with something along the lines of "very interesting" or "compelling" or "explains what some of the nurses are seeing"

if a crank takes the theory of relativity to heart, does that invalidate it?

strong pedants aren't necessarily strong thinkers

I admit that I don't live in bizzaro world--where some crazy old man's conspiracy theories must be suppressed, while multi-billion-dollar corporations that deceive broadly, frequently, and incompetently are the "good guys."

"But, BUT, we retracted!" After they were caught...