Randall Parker

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My motto: First, don't die.

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    Oct 19

    "Preference beneficiaries are often so ill-prepared for the universities to which they are admitted that they flee economics and the more demanding sciences for those humanities classes where grievance offers an alluring succor and even an academic major.

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    Oct 19

    my point is to be clear is that people trying to beat the shit out of me cuz i'm brown when i'm a kid don't know jack about PCA. but hey i'll listen to white liberals lecturing me about racism all day, happens constantly, cuz white people know best

    So, is the idea of immutable/"natural" genetic differences no longer central to racist ideology? Agree “cultural’’ rationalizations are mostly what you hear. But “race realism’’ propaganda is all about perceived authority of biology. Curious to hear others on 's point
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  3. 12 hours ago

    Pew is focused on how to get the borrowers to pay. How about reducing the total volume of student loans, especially for degrees and colleges whose students have high default rates?

    The student loan repayment crisis is expensive for taxpayers. Here's how we're working to develop solutions.
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    16 hours ago

    "In 1976 Mao single-handedly and dramatically changed the direction of global poverty with one simple act: he died."

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    17 hours ago

    Going vegetarian only reduces emissions by 2.1% 4% from the food, but rebound (vegetarian food cheaper => increase in other consumption => slightly higher CO₂ emissions) lowers this reduction by 1.89%.

    Huge reduction in meat-eating ‘essential’ to avoid climate breakdown
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    13 hours ago

    An Asian-American applicant with a 25% chance of admission at Harvard would have a 35% chance if he were white, a 75% chance if he were Hispanic, and a 95% chance if he were black, according to Students for Fair Admission.

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    15 hours ago

    Rand Paul: Saudi Arabia is not a friendly ally. They have been spreading hatred of our country for decades. There’s no national security reason for us to be involved in the war in Yemen. We shouldn’t be supplying Saudi Arabia with bombs that are indiscriminately killing civilians

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    Oct 20

    Tucker Carlson on murder: "Its not surprising but what is confusing is the mindless posturing by our own ruling class. They are telling us that his murder is more important than the countless children the Saudis have bombed & starved in ??."

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    22 hours ago

    Yea. That has never happened before. Like arming "rebels" in Syria.

    It's unsurprising that the Saudis are lying. It's shocking that a US president would go along with it. From the editorial board
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  10. Oct 20

    Rather than try to change Saudi Arabia's government could we just reduce its ability to buy lobbyists and influence in Washington DC? Also, speed up the transition to electric cars so that Saudi Arabia won't matter any more.

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    Sep 30

    This --> : "Nearly 40% of the jobless in the OECD see a marginal tax rate of more than 80% when they start work."

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    Oct 20

    The left acts as if it’s been hacked - PC is devouring its children, notes , via

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  13. Oct 20

    Solution for high cost of higher education? Only if we automate administrators too: Humanoid Robot Successfully Delivers Philosophy Lecture to Over 100 Students

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  14. Oct 20

    South Korea has highest robot density, followed by Singapore, Germany: Global Robot Density Rose to 74 Robots per 10,000 Workers in 2016, Finds Report

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  15. Oct 20

    DC and Washington state highest: Visualizing minimum wage in the United States

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  16. Oct 20

    What the assassination was about: "Khashoggi and his fellow travellers believe in imposing Islamic rule by engaging in the democratic process. The Wahhabis loathe democracy as a western invention."

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    Oct 20

    Political scientist As`ad AbuKhalil sheds some light on who Khaghossi is. (Something the MSM & his allies haven’t been doing.) Needless to say, his murder must be condemned & met with proportionate diplomatic responses.

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  18. Oct 20

    Proving once more: You can't trust

    The American media is embarrassingly ignorant about . He was no liberal reformer. He was an Islamist theocrat who wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to gain influence across the region. Express anger over the murder but don’t lionize him.
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  19. Oct 20

    The bad new is that there are nowhere near enough people bright enough to hire to spend $5 tril/year to work on hard research problems. Having said that: I'd fund development of rejuvenation therapies as my first priority. After that, research on how to boost human intelligence.

    Benign aliens come to Earth and endow a research center with $5 trillion/year for the next 20 years. Through a random lottery, you're appointed director. What do you tell the research center to research?
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    Oct 20

    As Obama’s CIA Director, John Brennan helped Saudi Arabia fund and arm Al-Qaeda terrorists to wreak havoc in Syria, and bomb and starve millions of children in Yemen — yet now feigns concern about Saudi Arabia’s atrocities and barbarism...

    Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death will be the "downfall' of the Crown Prince, John Brennan says
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