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your argument begs the question of whether or not we can successfully test for this trait to begin with.

i don't think we can. the outsized productivity impact a good person can have far outweighs the statistical probability of getting one if you simply accept all competent interviewers, i.e. the expected value is so high that you can blindly hire until you find one, given sufficient financial resources. without the financial resources, you only hire people you already know are good, which is the general pattern i've seen over 20 years working in this industry.

just a note: as with all wolf-looking dogs, the biggest risk is unscrupulous breeders who will sell you something much more ... shall we say "authentic" than just a big friendly dog with some wolf phenotypes. buyer beware.

the biggest dealer at my college went to a "very good" law school and is now working in DC.

go figure.

> less likely ... to engage in drug abuse.

i really doubt this.

google absolutely sucks at it, probably because they don't see any value in it given their user base (everyone) and lack of competition.

i.e. my youtube front page just shows the same 100 video links over and over and over.

there isn't even a really good way to discover relevant content in the channels i've already subscribed to. it's pretty lame.

it's amazing how much the finance industry can get away with. like honest-to-goodness amazing.

it's really impressive how these people can have such a death-grip on society. honestly, i'm more curious than mad. how is such a thing even possible? i mean, wow.

read my post again carefully. my point is actually that _no_ non-white american people would be shocked.

i'm not really talking about white people at all, because obviously there are some who would be and wouldn't be shocked at widespread racism by white people.

this is a subtle point that you are missing, which is ironic because you are 25% asian, i imagine you have seen quite a bit of anti-asian racism (it's just a joke bro! don't you love being the butt of jokes? who doesn't love that!) from white people because they have no idea you have asian family.

and i'll just pre-empt your next point: i'm not saying only white poeple can be racist, that's obviously not the case if you've ever been overseas, and anti-white racism also happens a lot in america.

i'll generalize my point for you, so that you may understand:

no person of a minority race would be shocked that the majority race harbors a not-insignificant subpopulation with vehement racist views against other races. if every single majority race were to spend a week as a minority, that would likely dispel any notions they had of the contrary.

^ this works for all races.

i didn't make any of those points, but you just did, and then ascribed them to me, which is pretty typical of online discussions. it's called a straw-man argument.

the reason it's so widespread is it's so easy to do. all you have to do is come up with a bunch of stuff you dislike, and then accuse me of being/doing that stuff.

and there's nothing i can really do about it, because these ideas exist only in your head, not mine.

if every white american spent a week as another race, i don't think a single one would be 'shocked' or 'flabbergasted' about any of this.

me too, my tax guy is great at that. here's his number.

yeah, wow.

since i own a small business i just tell people i work in finance now. less questions and comments and more quiet, inaccurate assumptions of wealth and power which i am happy to let be.

i drive it less than 5000 miles a year. insurance rates aren't determined by how much you drive a car, that's just meta-information the ins. co's collect. theft, crashes, and zip code (for full coverage) are far more important.

it costs me $120/month to insure a high end 911.

they're also involved in far more accidents.

if you have good enough credit you don't need anything down.

> American Southern-style fried chicken & BBQ

this will make a killing even in the US, anywhere but the south. people just can't seem to do this very well anywhere else, for whatever reason.

uhm, a lot of people do. some people love numbers.

also, medicine, law, automotive engineers, pilots, merchant marine, musicians, actors... people are passionate about different things.

maybe you haven't heard people talk about their passions in those industries because you aren't in those industries?

what a bizarre thing to have to explain to someone.

i have no idea what you're trying to say, because you keep making typos in critical words.

for you to say something like "bumpers aren't a safety issue" pretty much discredits you immediately, but i'll answer anyway, for posterity.

"actual bumpers" are quite likely the single most extensively regulated pedestrian- and collision-related safety part. there's extensive legislation about their design and characteristics.

car companies exist to make money, yes, but they operate within a global framework of strict regulation.

i'll go out on a limb and agree with you. it's not "obvious" that obesity is linked to cancer unless you view the world through hindsight-glasses. skinny athletic people get cancer too.

it wasn't even "obvious" for most of the 20th century cigarettes gave you cancer. people have short memories.

a contemporary example: is it "obvious" right now that sugar gives you cancer? because to a lot of people it is blindingly, astoundingly obvious, and to some that sounds like conspiracy theory nonsense.

i don't understand this aversion to doing "obvious" science -- we have to do science to make things obvious, not the other way around.

nearly everything people find 'wrong' with modern cars is done for passenger and pedestrian safety.

even the phone integration and annoyingly bad electronic gadgets and infotainment software are designed to get you to put down your phone when driving, or be more aware of your surroundings.

remember, the alternative is nearly everyone staring at their phones while driving, and the obvious fallout from that (people still do it, of course, hence the physical safety features).

this is the reality that car designers must deal with and a point that is totally lost on the majority of people who complain about 'new cars'. if they could sell you a 1200 pound tin can death-trap with insufficient power and torque, they would, and we'd buy it, because it gets 120mpg and costs $5000.

a lot of doctors and especially surgeons are closet smokers.

bad habits picked up during residency and ER/on-call work die hard.

that's because everywhere else people will just break them open during an emergency. which i think is probably the more reasonable thing to do for everywhere else.

came here looking for a story like this. i had a 2-digit id that i coincidentally sold for exactly $150 on ebay also. college beer money. don't regret it at all.

cmdrtaco announced his site on irc and i happened to see it in the first few days.

sure, but i'm going to have to charge you a royalty of $5 per use.

well why not extend the analogy further? it's worth noting that in this arrangement, the natural is order is the parent eventually dies after a long and possibly painful period of decline, while the child rapidly develops into an adult within 18 years, with the expectation of outperforming the parent by the time it reaches middle-age (35 or so). at which point the cycle repeats and continues.

this is HN, you have to think through your snark or it will snark you back.

you can just run the application if you have an old OS installation on another volume.

and of course, just like real money, it's in the interests of those holding large amounts of it "go along to get along". the big banks know that, that's how they operate. this announcements almost seems like a dog whistle to those new elites and extant elites who may want to diversify their holdings.

so if this comes to pass, it effectively captures the interests of the now-wealthy first-adopters, who are presumably the most ardent proponents of the societal 'benefits' as well.

and then, we are back to square one, with a monied super-class effectively imposing the will of the bankers on the general populace through the very act of holding and controlling the wealth (which is ultimately owned by the state).

the more things change...

> All that said, I went to Berkeley and I use their School of Optometry

wait, can you expand on that? i went to ucsd, is there some uc program where alumni get some kind of benefits from the medical programs? or is it just cal?

every weekend? that's self medicating.