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Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by greyman on Friday December 05, 2008 @04:29PM (#387551)
I skimmed through the article, but couldn't find anything really new there.
Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by petercooper on Friday December 05, 2008 @11:35PM (#387845)
The history was interesting, but it seems they threw up a lot of stuff of no substance to pad it out:

Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, believes knowledge is always a good thing—and that more of it should be shared

Like.. for real? :)

Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by dimitar on Saturday December 06, 2008 @10:38AM (#388142)
How do magazines do business? They have stories suggested and paid by PR firms who are paid by other firms. So this is really an advertisement.

Eh, and I actually like Google and the Economist..

Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by robak on Saturday December 06, 2008 @01:36AM (#387914)
What happened to The Economist recently? First, day say that intelligent men have better sperm then stoopidos. Now, they treat Sergey like an example for super-human. A few more articles and they'll be explaining why euthanasia for poor and stupid is a good thing.
Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by byrneseyeview on Saturday December 06, 2008 @12:49PM (#388228)
First, day say that intelligent men have better sperm then stoopidos.

Is this actually false? I thought that adoption and twin studies were pretty clear on the matter.

A few more articles and they'll be explaining why euthanasia for poor and stupid is a good thing.

There is actually a pretty huge gap between, e.g. "People inherit traits from their parents, including intelligence," and "All people with trait x must be killed." Maybe if you didn't immediately make that logical leap to a policy conclusion, you'd be more comfortable considering the facts.

Re:A profile of Sergey Brin: Enlightenment man by robak on Saturday January 10, 2009 @12:56AM (#427696)
Well, nazis also never said directly they're killing weak people in camps. I just meant the overall style they represent. It reads like the newest findings of Nazi science or something...