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Comment Re:Gay? (Score 1) 764

I don't see why it should be a reason to be "proud". Gay is the way he is rather than something he has chosen but it does not confer some form of superiority on him. If he was a paedeophile though, that definitely *would* be a reason to be "unproud".

Whatever, see if I care.

Some people are even proud to be American even though there are lots of heterosexual American paedophiles.

Comment Re:Intelligence is.. (Score 1) 306

Intelligence is knowing that everyone around you is full of shit. Wisdom is knowing you are, too.

The flip-side is imposter syndrome where you live in fear of being found out as an idiot. You wonder how long you can keep on winging it doing your well paid job when you know you're not really that good at it. So maybe if you feel that, you should be less hard on yourself. This, of course, does not apply to me as I'm actually brilliant.

Comment Re:Who cares about succinctness .... (Score 1) 165

We don't usually supply a proof of correctness with every program. The program itself must stand as an argument for its own correctness. Sometimes breaking it down into more verbose steps is a way to clarify to future maintainers what your intention was. Also densely packed code is much harder to modify later.

Comment Re: they will defeat themselves (Score 1) 981

Nice straw man.

White countries are rich, because they have a large amount of social and cultural capital, which we maintain by having rules and norms that we enforce.

Third world countries are poor because of their lack of culture, lack of law and contract enforcement, lack of morals and respect at street level, and because of general filth, shittiness and decay.

Whitey didn't make you rape and rob each other, or throw rubbish in the streets, or rip each other off. This is readily apparent when you see the filth in Third World areas of major cities like London. The difference is like night and day.

Poor countries are poor _despite_ the influence of evil Whitey, not because of him.

White countries are rich because of geography. Try reading Guns, Germs and Steel.

Comment Re:illogical captain (Score 0) 937

Atheists will be in for a rude awakening when they die as they will realize that their belief was incomplete.

Religion is for those with weak minds who cannot cope with the finality of death. They seek comfort from fanciful notions of an afterlife. 'You'll get pie in the sky when you die' - that's a lie!

Comment Re:Obvious Reason (Score 2) 579

There's a difference between pedantry and the out-and-out bullying that makes subject-area experts give up on the whole WP experience. That's why so many articles remain half-baked stubs. I'm not surprised that women are put off even faster than men.

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