Comment Re:if they were so fucking smart... (Score 1) 561
Not all dating sites are scammy, though admittedly some of them definitely are.
Not all dating sites are scammy, though admittedly some of them definitely are.
I don't know about the US, but in the Netherlands there are dating sites that cater specifically to the "highly educated", i.e. people with university degrees.
In fact, it seems to be the most lucrative market for dating sites, considering how many cater specifically for that market.
Because I am smart enough to know I don't need to be part of a group to be smart.
It's the opposite: you need to be smart to be part of the group. And somehow people like being part of a group.
I believe someone did some research in Eindhoven, which, being the home town of tech company Philips as as major tech university, has a high ratio of engineers. Turns out there was also a higher rate of autism in kids. It's possible they also looked at genetics. I forgot the details.
Has that been corrected for cultural differences?
Actually, if they were that smart, they should be able to find each other without a dating service. Or if they don't have time for that, at least build robots that go out there looking for smart people to date...
You mean, like a dating service? Seems to me the smartest thing to do is to use the best tool for the job.
I still have trouble believing that so many people think IQ equates to intelligence, when we don't even understand intelligence all that well.
Exactly. An IQ test tries to measure something we're not sure of what it is or even what we mean by it. As a result, different IQ tests measure slightly different things with different weights. Mostly, IQ tests measure your ability to do IQ tests. That IQ value does correlate strongly with all sorts of stuff, like doing well in school, university and work, but it's no guarantee.
There are motorcycle groups within Mensa. How's that for snobbery?
There is no need to try to suggest that is "snobbery" of any kind. Would you call a motorcycle gang "snobs"? Or stamp collectors? MENSA is a social club, nothing more.
Exactly. I don't know much about Mensa, because I've never felt the need to join. I'm pretty sure most of the people around me would qualify, but that also means that we already have plenty of smart people to have intellectual discussions with. My sister, however, studied sports, got surrounded by other sporty people, and eventually started to miss contact with other smart people, so she joined Mensa, and now she talks about all the game events and motorcycle trips they have and all the interesting people she meets there. It fills a need for her that for me is already filled in other ways.
Steam may be DRM, but it does provide some advantages in other areas that might balance things out.
Looks like Ubisoft is again providing pritates with a great opportunity to deliver a superior product. This seems to be Ubisoft's thing. They probably love pirates, that they're being so nice them.
They are keeping you free.
They're doing a lousy job of it. The US has become significantly less free over the past decade and a half. Keeping your country requires taking an interest in how your own country is run, rather than messing with how other countries are run.
You pay for the cable box? I get mine for free with the digital TV subscription. Well, I pay for the subscription of course, but if that included $10 for the box, there wouldn't be much else left for them.
I'm definitely surprised at how stupid many modern TVs are. It's trivial to include a computer in the TV. In fact, they do exactly that to create that awful menu system. Why not make it nicer and include a recorder and a standardized plugin system that your cable provider can put his cable decoding software in?
But should it be a required to join a streaming service in order to have your videos on YouTube? What about all the truly independent non-musicians that have videos on YouTube? It sounds like YouTube is making a difference between musicians and non-musicians for YouTube access.
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