I don't think American nationalists realize what a small percentage we have of the world's population.
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The US is big in money but small in people. And if we close the borders we won't even stay big in money.
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did you bash Obama when he said no more Cuban refugees? Or just more fake outrage from the left?
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Not even close to the same. That closed a loophole just made Cuban migrants the same as from other countries.
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what does this have to do with anything?
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Exactly, nothing. Obama didnt ban Cuban refugees.
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I feel that you may be missing the imbed bias currently within the tech industry that this hypothesis breeds. Disappointing.
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The hypothesis that people everywhere are born with roughly the same distribution of innate ability breeds bias?
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You didn't say in the essay that talent was necessarily equally distributed. You made a specific reference to the "best" programmers.
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The whole essay is based on that principle.
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That's the basis of the idea that if you have x% of the population, (100 - x)% of the best people will be born elsewhere.
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how wise is it to geographically concentrate bright people in a single place? Wouldn't the more distributed brightness be beneficial?
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if you look at human history, great things happened whenever brightness was concentrated. Da Vinci's Florence, etc
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true, but if brightness is not an intrinsic characteristic, but is somewhat "contagious" concentrating it may be a bad idea
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assuming skill is 100% nature not nurture (we both know it's not!).
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No, only that nurture tends to equalize across countries. Which is ever more the case.
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maybe eventually, but time constant is slow; talent begets talent. More likely to become the best when surrounded by them...
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how many of those 5% are illiterate muslims from war torn countries or illegal immigrants.
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How many then?
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