From iSteve: Kinsley on the Advantage of a Written First Amendment European countries, obviously, do not have a statute protecting ‘free speech’. The result is people are occasionally apprehended (severty of punishments vary, from being detained for a few hours or days or, in exceptional cases, imprisoned for years) for communication deemed ‘incendiary’ or a… Continue reading Free Speech, Democracy, and Crime
Not Worried About Tech Valuations: Why It May Be Different This Time
In the past month, there have been a plethora of doom and gloom articles about web 2.0, Silicon Valley, the economy, and start-ups. In this series, I address some of the major concerns, arguing that perhaps the doom and gloom is not all warranted. Big-Cap Tech Stocks Are a Sucker Bet We’ve been hearing these… Continue reading Not Worried About Tech Valuations: Why It May Be Different This Time
The Alt Right
From Radix Journal: WHAT IS THE #ALTRIGHT? The big-tent alt-right includes identitarians and archeofuturists, race realists and HBD bloggers, European New Right (ENR), shitlords, neo-reaction (NRx) and reaction (Rx), trad Christians, neo-pagans, white nationalists, PUAs, etc. (Note, these groups are not mutually exclusive. For example, an alt-righter might consider himself an identitarian and race realist.)… Continue reading The Alt Right
Nerd Culture: Here to Stay
From cracked: 6 Ways To Be A Better Nerd In 2016 Nerd movies aren’t just No. 1 at the box office, they’re every movie at the box office. The biggest TV shows in the world are either fantasies or shows about being a nerd. We have a sitting president who got excited about watching Star… Continue reading Nerd Culture: Here to Stay
Debunking More IQ Denialism
However, numerous twin and adoption studies suggest IQ is heritable. Heritability of IQ Various studies have found the heritability of IQ to be between 0.7 and 0.8 in adults and 0.45 in childhood in the United States.[6][18][19] It may seem reasonable to expect that genetic influences on traits like IQ should become less important as… Continue reading Debunking More IQ Denialism
Time to Retire MLK
Every year on the third Monday of January, most government and business activity in America grinds to a standstill to pay homage to ‘the dreamer’. But maybe it’s time to retire MLK, for the following reasons: 1. MLK is the only American to have an entire national holiday dedicated in his name, after Lincoln and… Continue reading Time to Retire MLK
The Daily View: 1/17/2016 (lots of stuff)
From Fred Reed: The Inevitability of Eugenics I predict within 50 years America will start giving Eugenics a serious consideration as a way to tackle the growing entitlement spending problem, which by then will be much bigger than it is now if trends persist. Liberals and conservative alike need to get over this squeamishness of… Continue reading The Daily View: 1/17/2016 (lots of stuff)
Cancer: The Mid-life Killer
In the past week, two famous people died of cancer at a relatively ‘young’ age: David Bowie, 69, and Alan Rickman, also aged 69, which is about 5-7 years below the average male life expectancy in western countries. Of note, David Bowie had a long history of heart disease (being thin apparently didn’t help), nearly… Continue reading Cancer: The Mid-life Killer
The Daily View : Stocks Plunge, RIP American Dream, Why Prescription Drugs are so Expensive
Here is the backstory behind the 5,000% price hike of Daraprim. In Martin’s defense, the drug is classified as an ‘orphan drug‘, which means there is little demand due to the rarity of the underlying condition it is supposed to treat. In order for phrama companies to profit from orphan drugs, they have to charge… Continue reading The Daily View : Stocks Plunge, RIP American Dream, Why Prescription Drugs are so Expensive
Classification of Ideologies
Inspired by the table above (can’t find the source), I created a classification of my own, but this is far from complete. Welfare Liberal: Humans are imperfect or savages upon conception, and must be perfected with the help of the state in order to help create ‘equal outcomes’ where no one should be allowed to… Continue reading Classification of Ideologies