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theoden··on Super-Economy: Sweden is more politically corrupt than you think
I'm Swedish. Some of this is true, but there are also many half truths and over-simplifications in this post.

The Swedish system does have aspects of corporatism in it. You may criticize those aspects, but they don't constitute corruption just because you don't like them. There's nothing secret or shady about them -- it's how the system is supposed to work.

theoden··on How Anonymous Shut Down Sites
LOIC also works under Mono on Linux. I tried it.
theoden··on What the Average Person Doesn't Understand About High Paying Jobs
I think a Muslim would score more diversity points nowadays.
theoden··on What the Average Person Doesn't Understand About High Paying Jobs
"So all things considered, is she really worth $6 million? If she's a top 1% engineer, and a scarce female top 1% engineer at that, why not?"

Imagine if she was not only female, but a black, lesbian female. Why, she'd be worth billions!

theoden··on Brave New World banned from High School curriculum
But we can't have those nuances in our multicultural brave new world! It's the person being offended who decides what's offensive (so long as they belong to a protected group). Four legs good! Two legs bad!
theoden··on Brave New World banned from High School curriculum
"the text lacks literary value"

No, but the mother lacks human value.

theoden··on Are Canadian Universities 'Too Asian'?
It is my observation that Asians, on average, are more uncreative/conformist/careerist/bland than Westerners. But hey, that's OK -- I just wouldn't want to got to a university with too many Asians.
theoden··on Are Canadian Universities 'Too Asian'?
This is obviously a subjective matter, but I would say that the sum of the culture of the West is far richer than that of any other culture, even though ancient China and India are impressive in many ways.

But it really doesn't matter what China was like 2000 years ago. What matters is what Asians are like _today_.

theoden··on Are Canadian Universities 'Too Asian'?
Why would you want to go to university with a bunch of completely uncreative people who only sit around and study? Studying (for actual classes) is only part of what university is about. Most Asians are so bland that they could easily be replaced by some sort of advanced work/study-robots and we wouldn't know the difference.

Of course, since universities have been turned into factories, robots are perfectly adapted to that environment.

theoden··on What computer games do HNers play?
Wargames ("hacking" games). I like that they are much harder than normal games, and you learn a lot of useful stuff playing them.

Web based: http://bright-shadows.net

Console based: http://www.smashthestack.org/

theoden··on Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks
Nice project. Sharing some great images here:

http://www.dropmocks.com/mtfA

theoden··on StarCraft 2: help us mourn the death of content freedom
Damn, there goes my ZergNigger mod.
theoden··on Google Kills Wave
And the vast majority don't even know that it exists.
theoden··on Are Elite Colleges Biased Against Poor Whites?
Not to mention the fact that the rich/urban whites admitted to elite colleges are actually mostly Jews: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/authors/Connelly-Harvar...

Also see this excellent article on the same subject: http://theoccidentalobserver.net/tooblog/?p=2923

"When lower-class whites are matched with lower-class blacks and other non-whites the degree of the non-white advantage becomes astronomical: lower-class Asian applicants are seven times as likely to be accepted to the competitive private institutions as similarly qualified whites, lower-class Hispanic applicants eight times as likely, and lower-class blacks ten times as likely. These are enormous differences and reflect the fact that lower-class whites were rarely accepted to the private institutions Espenshade and Radford surveyed. Their diversity-enhancement value was obviously rated very low."

theoden··on 75% of New Zealanders to get 100Mbps fiber by 2020
Seriously, that's TEN YEARS from now. I had a 100Mpbs up and down connection almost TEN YEARS AGO. It surprises me to no end how backwards some countries are.
theoden··on That Bright, Dying Star, the American WASP
Now watch the slow but steady slide of the US into third world status.
theoden··on The Surprising Psychology of Impressiveness
What's the deal with these joke admissions to American universities. President of some silly high school club? Who cares?