Cynical. Some love is unconditional.
No one is questioning the love, the sina qua non for disappointment.
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throwawaysalome commented on Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents milkyeggs.com/biology/est... · Posted by u/noch
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throwawaysalome commented on Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents milkyeggs.com/biology/est... · Posted by u/noch
I can answer this. As a parent of two girls, I used to put a lot of pressure on them to boost their development. However, it took me a while to realize that they were just normal, gifted children who were experiencing too much stress, which was not helping their IQ. I stopped putting pressure on them and now simply love them for who they are. I try to support them as much as I can and avoid the mistake of pushing them too hard. I have explained to them that I want to give them tools to survive in this world, and that I will never be disappointed in them if they can't use these tools.
that I will never be disappointed in them
They may not be gifted but they can see through this lie.
throwawaysalome commented on Estimated IQ distribution of children given IQ of parents milkyeggs.com/biology/est... · Posted by u/noch
So I can't speak to this specifically but I think it's well known reading to children when they're young improves their IQ. And that sounds pretty believable to me. In the formative years if you give the brain good info it's going to learn how to operate well. I know this is hand wavy, but I think wealth can be a proxy measure for a good home life in the formative years. So sorry I have no citations, but I find it pretty believable.
Elementary school teachers would read to their classes in the 80s.
They always picked books like that Shel Silvertein shit whose message
appealed more to adults than children. I remember being bored into fits
of rage and thinking "This is making me dumber. I want to go outside."
throwawaysalome commented on Ask HN: What major(s) would you recommend to incoming freshmen? · Posted by u/lordswork
Applied math.
throwawaysalome commented on Ask HN: Is being a software engineer worth it? · Posted by u/bendigedig
No one cares.
throwawaysalome commented on Ask HN: Has any of you dropped out college because of failing grades? · Posted by u/226_ebro_treaty
special word to distinguish those who drop out to work
We say those students are "on leave." Gates and Zuckerberg often commend Harvard for its flexible leave policy. Given Harvard's overambitious undergrads, the bureaucratic overhead of granting a hiatus is a small price for the glory-by-association of a potential Microsoft or Facebook. Come to Harvard. Even if you don't graduate, you'll be rich and famous!
throwawaysalome commented on The businessman and the fisherman (1963) thestorytellers.com/the-b... · Posted by u/antimora
Which is a reflection of an intensely unequal distribution of income.
In a society where few people earned more than Nx the lowest (pick your own N), this distribution of tax origin would look very different.
Think of it a different way: suppose a government explicitly targets being able to spend 23% of GDP on government (i.e. publically) chosen goals. How does it collect 23% of GDP? Well, if everyone earned precisely the same, it would collect it equally from each person. On the other hand, if one person earned 99% of GDP and everyone else combined collectively earned the remaining 1%, then obviously the super rich person will be be paying almost all of the tax revenue themselves.
The current situation in the US is obviously not this extreme, but the thought experiment shows why it works the way it does.
Also important is the concept of marginal utility of income, which describes how each additional currency-unit of income becomes less and less significant as your total income grows.
In short, 10%-pay-80% reflects the other decisions that have been made about how the US economy works (or doesn't work), and don't have much to do with taxation in general, or the provision of public services.
You managed to burn another 212 words that added nothing to the
statistic you were replying to.
Did you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere!
The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dating back to dynastic times.