jman220
You guys really need to scale back the absolute hate or absolute love of any particular candidate. Real life just isn’t that black and white. Bloomberg has done more to advance the cause of gun restrictions in the past 10 years than nearly any other single person. He’s not a bad person and has done a lot of good.
You guys… 
You’re probably right brainiac.
This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. We are all dumber for having read it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
They’re at the same stage I was at in the early/mid 80s, with a new and horrible regime that I thought should only be countered by an idealistic opposition.
Micro going to the mat on Gates not being extremely smart is quite the interesting hill to die on.
I also like the subtle goal post shift from not “extremely smart” to not one of the “50 smartest people on the whole planet”. Or maybe that’s a strawman. Or maybe both. In any case, good effort, I guess.
I think I get this, but can you elaborate a little.
I’m not for burning it all down, but instead I’m for voting for normal candidates who have their feet on the ground working for local issues who also understand the power balance that we face.
Labour is were am at the moment alough I’ll vote SNP in the general and I’ll keep emailing my local MP for the issues that I like that JC & Co roll out.
I suppose I’d be OK voting Labour if they had our backs on independence but I’m afraid that will never happen, tbh.
Take it to the Land of Hope and Glory thread if you like, as we’re had a few derails on this topic. 
Well, I don’t know what everyone who thinks he’s a genius, or “extremely smart”, means. Like 1 in a 100 kind of smart or 1 in a million. Not that people can even be ranked like that in intelligence, but seems like most people who call him extremely smart mean it like, say some average starter in the NBA is extremely good at basketball. But nothing he has done is close to proving that’s true. In the smartness game all he’s proven is that he could maybe make the bench on a not very good NCAA team. Now that is being extremely good at basketball, but no cause for hero worship.
I’m only halfway through that thread, so no comment.
But I’ll Stan for microbet here. 
Because if the words “I’ll vote for Trump” ever come for someone’s mouth I’ll assume their really really no smart even alough something something Maths 55.
See:
If you think I’m using aptitude test results and genius interchangeably you’ve got the wrong guy. Genius is a special term for people that make breakthroughs in a domain using creativity or ingenuity. It’s not enough to just be brilliant. Also, their genius is almost always limited to a single domain. I dunno if Bill Gates is a genius, but if he is, his crowning achievement is basically mass-distributed ransomware.
These takes that he doesn’t have an incredibly high aptitude are bad though. Doesn’t mean he actually developed that talent in a meaningful way or that I want to hear his dumb ass opinions on tax policy. Decent piece about him here that reveals some strange personality quirks imo (also 7stud hi/lo content):
Nothing I said in those two paragraphs is even remotely controversial among reasonable people. It is only controversial a small group of people on the internet pushing ideas that should have died with collapse of the Soviet Union. Not even controversial among sane left wing economists.
Read this and study. Will make you less dumb. https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Way-Thinking-12th/dp/0136039855/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=economic+way+of+thinking&qid=1573331667&sr=8-1
I mean, look at my last post. These measurements are vague as hell. He has a high aptitude sure. A fair number of kids at every single high school have a high aptitude. Some are in a position where they can develop it and get into a good or even great college and pass a really hard class.
It’s not a linux system, it’s just posix compliant. One of the biggest lies mac has perpetuated is that it’s built on the linux kernel. Lol no. They’re not even binary compatible.
It recently made common (i mean like REALLY common) directories like /usr/bin (where all your programs go) and /usr/include (where common library headers go) read only. Not even with sudo. And there’s absolutely no way around it in catalina without some extremely dirty and dangerous hacking. So there goes the open source world right there. Completely against everything nix systems stand for.
I could go on for 3000 words about this. But even common linux utilities on mac like “find” and “ls” work completely differently on mac. You dont have a true sudo anymore, even if youre on an admin account. Recently my mac forgot where all my common c library headers are, like stdio.h (like literally the most basic c include ever) even though it was in /usr/include. Apparently the linker looks somewhere in “cellar” For some god forsaken reason which is managed by brew. Even moving my headers into that path didnt work because brew freaks out that it didnt place it there itself. Changing the system include path doesnt even help, I need to do a clean install with the new OS most likely. And trust me I am NOT a novice user of these things at all. These things are all just ass backwards and make no sense whatsoever.
It’s just a mess. I could go on and on and on but I won’t. Comparing it to a nix distro is really insulting to them, honestly.
Lol
Wtf is this thread. Who cares if he’s smart? Take all his money he’s old and weak.
Nope.
This is a slight oversimplification, but “I’ll vote for trump” could be either.
Of course it can be both and often is, but either alone is enough. In Gates case, #2 alone is enough to explain it.
…in which case he qualifies for a billionaire money-grab on either grounds.
Ok, so even by your definition he’s extremely smart.
If so, then why bother questioning the claim that he is “extremely smart” (which is how this whole thing began):
So, I’m not a big fan of hero worship at all. I also think people generally grossly overestimate the difference in intelligence from person to person, mistaking ignorance and lack of curiosity for stupidity. I don’t think Bill Gates’ intelligence, though perhaps required for some of what he did, was anything like his most important characteristic as far as becoming so rich, and none of his characteristics were anywhere near as important as luck.
He’s not dumb like Trump.
But, he’s not so smart that it’s a huge shock that he’s willing to vote for Trump.
You are just so incredibly wrong about this. He dropped a 1590 SAT when the test ceiling was much higher. He apparently scored well in the Putnam Competition in high school. He passed the hardest undergraduate math course in existence. He published in a peer-reviewed math journal for a result he obtained in a homework problem that wasn’t bested for 30 years. His co-author (now a top computer science theorist at Columbia) said Gates was the smartest person he ever met. Jesus Christ.
He probably had someone take the tests for him and took all the credit for himself much like his businesses.