RelativeDelta

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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
This is true at the global level, and especially in the 3rd world, but not in the developed societies most of us are living in. The Flynn effect reversed sometime in the mid 80s. The pattern is currently for less educated people and people
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
The bifurcation of response to this is telling. Nobody has free will therefore: -We have an obligation to be kind. -Kindness doesn't 'work' at scale.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Please, by any means necessary, do this. The more we learn about heritability and environment the stronger genetic determinism (at scale) gets. If you are smart and relatively well off (as is your partner) have as many kids as you can. The
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
GPS is a passive system. The satellites in orbit emit a constant location and identifier signal perceivable from the ground. A GPS positioning device looks for and reads those signals and then performs a triangulation calculation. Spoofing
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Sure. There's two major baskets: 1. Paternity. Sometimes it's tragic when an otherwise good father learns he's not the father. The truth was very inconvenient to the established narrative. 2. Heritability of 'problem&#x2
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Talk to anyone working in genealogy about that exact problem and be ready for hours and hours of stories.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Great discussion. Worrying implications for western society though. If Caplan is right, and the data says he is, the declining birth rate among the wests richest and smartest is a death knell. Also, it would suggest we radically re-evaluate
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
The intent is rather irrelevant. DNA and whole-life outcomes have been an extremely contentious conversation, but one that's worth having, and any actor with more data is going to be able to make more fruitful insights. A person (or, l
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's impossible to cure. The 'ringing' sound people hear isn't actually a sound. It is how the brain processes signals produced by damaged Stereocilia. If the 'ringing' is constant it means the cilia are perman
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
You'd have to ask the bill's authors to know for sure. If I had to bet though it was a security thing. They want caste named explicitly because a good deal of Indian immigrants are dealing with it despite it supposedly being illeg
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Kinda feels like the author is just talking about productivity as assessed via correlation.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's because they're only trying to prove a single thing: At scale, perpetually buying into a stock across a period beats mass buying into a stock at any one point in a period where future results are unknown. That's it. That
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Cool, but how are we going to get there?
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
When in doubt fall back on ol' reliable: The military industrial complex. Power is the only guarantee.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
They consider caste an ethnicity. They likely shot it down because 'caste' carries a very different meaning in American parlance. It mostly relates to wealth and they absolutely DO want to discriminate on that basis.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's also an apt closer for his thoughts on his own space in the history of man. He doesn't grow food. He doesn't produce profound technology. He doesn't save lives. He is entirely dependent. But he made the iPad.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Somewhat. It's a novelty factor response. If you're not used to hearing background noise then every little thing sort of 'pops'. Individual key clicks sound more distinct, you pay more attention to the sound of footsteps
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It largely does away with the need for a lot of work and thus workers. Don't worry, the coming rise of the welfare dependency state will provide.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Do you have a hard % of certainly you can apply to your estimates in backtested data?
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Starting with the price of energy is a great idea. Everyone benefits from cheaper power. That said, it should probably be adjusted to exclude public subsidy as that distorts the true cost.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I mean, people are certainly being replaced. Maybe they don't want to be? The conspiracy elements of it are entirely unnecessary.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
I've added the USA ones as I had some time between clients. I have some Canadian ones and if memory serves a UK one as well. I will add them shortly.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
>Is immigration actually meaningfully impacting party demographics? Yes. I will edit in a few examples from several countries in a moment. It's worth noting, however, that interest displacement/dilution is still an issue even i
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
That kind of presupposes that anger is bad, no? That seems like an assertion more than something that can be proven. Surely it is right to be angry about threats as anger motivates action to eliminate the threat.
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
The kinds of studies this article is based on are less useful until their findings are disaggregated by both degree and attainment/performance within the degree. How do extremely highly graded english majors stack up (ideologically and
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
There's also a degree of ideological warfare to consider. An idea that might sway others to join your enemy's team is a threat to you. If you can, you probably want to prevent others from hearing it. Blocking, shadow-banning, de-f
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
That's polarization for you. When politics becomes less about swaying a vulnerable middle and more about growing your base/shrinking your opponent's base, you eventually realize the best tactics are to take from those who wil
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Agree on the last point, but the net zero strategy is a losing game. We can't reduce fast enough to avoid the multiplier effects (slowing heat exchanges in atmosphere and ocean currents, loss of polar reflectance, thawing of sea floor
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's a deliberate muddying of terms. The entire idea of 'trans' from the GC lens implies that there is no such strict thing as 'man' or 'woman', rather just individuals with common behaviors that roughly c
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by RelativeDelta 3y ago
Because they're aware they're being scapegoated under the intersectional model. Non-white = you get special treatment and attention. Non-straight = you get special treatment and attention. Non-male = you get special treatment and

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