aluren

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New Turmoil over Predicting the Effects of Genes(quantamagazine.org)
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by aluren 7y ago
>You're brushing off my point, why no selection on the allele? Why did they all die out? Easiest answer is it never made it. Evolution works in more complicated ways than the toy model of sickle-cell disease/malaria you've
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by aluren 7y ago
You're conflating market economies (that have been around since basically forever and that no one except the most hardcore anarcho-primitivists are attacking) and modern day capitalism (which has been around since the Industrial Revolu
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by aluren 7y ago
Last I heard Stallman isn't forcing anything on anyone, even in the loosest sense of the word. Criticism isn't authoritarian.
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by aluren 7y ago
Genealogical mixing and genetic mixing have little to do with each other - the pool is too diluted at these scales and there can be much local variation. By the way, the fact that all of us share the exact same set of ancestors from a few t
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by aluren 7y ago
Fines should not exist. Anything that gets punished by a fine is basically codeword for 'you can break that law if you're rich'. The most spectacular example being Facebook's stock rising after being fined for a few bi
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by aluren 7y ago
>That’s assuming that the human population is well-mixed Yes that's why I took the conservative estimate of 7000 years, otherwise with the panmixia hypothesis it only goes back 3000 years or so.
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by aluren 7y ago
The Genghis Khan thing doesn't really say much - there's a statistical near-certainty that liteally everyone today is descended from every single human that 7000 years ago (whose line didn't die out obviously).
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by aluren 7y ago
There should be a moratorium on invoking evolution unless you're an evolutionary biologist. It's quite telling that whenever I read the word 'Darwin' on this site I immediately go 'aw shit, I'm not going to lik
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by aluren 7y ago
I don't think there's a single person today that knows all the rules. If you want to annoy any judge just ask about an interaction between 3+ cards involving Opalescence and Humility. On top of that the rules get more complex wi
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by aluren 7y ago
That's awful to be honest. I don't have anything against online dating in principle, though I do find it pretty weird, but there's got to be a better way than relying on obscure matchmaking algorithms, shitty apps optimizi
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by aluren 7y ago
Of course science is political. What isn't? I have a feeling that non-scientists see science as an invisible ethereal, platonic construct that's slowly being unveiled by hardy explorers, uh I mean scientists, until at last the w
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by aluren 7y ago
I don't get why people (I mean technically minded people who are aware of privacy issues and so on) don't just use firefox. They are pretty much at feature parity (Firefox may even get the edge due to the fantastic extensions ecos
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by aluren 7y ago
DNA is nothing like source code. Why do people keep repeating this analogy. At any rate, cell differentiation/compartmentation within a tumor has been observed, so things do get blurry indeed. It's also worth noting that there i
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by aluren 7y ago
My (fairly rudimentary) understanding of the United States is that the right wing controls most of its governmental apparatus as well as the biggest news outlet. How are they being 'deplatformed' or segmented in any way?
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by aluren 7y ago
Lol at 'American wine is better'. It sure feels nice to pay $17 for a much-touted fancy bottle that turns out to be meh at best when in the States. Meanwhile you could just pick anything at random for like 3€ in any French or Ital
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by aluren 7y ago
To be frank, a 3% tax is too little too late.
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by aluren 7y ago
Alright, I wasn't talking about you specifically, sorry if you took it that way. On HN curation: while I certainly look up to this community when it comes to coding, technology and latest new software tools in general, I'm sorry t
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by aluren 7y ago
Low-IF journals are easier to publish to by definition. You first try to publish in a high-IF journal, if they reject you then you try one with lower IF, and so on. I'm all about not taking IF as face value and don't need a n-th r
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by aluren 7y ago
While I agree there are plenty of issues in academia among which too much emphasis on IF is certainly a thing, it does provide a helpful filter (or prior, if you will) to quickly assess whether some material is worth your time. In this case
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by aluren 7y ago
It's not "obvious" at all and I've never heard anyone in the community express such sentiments, even in more informal settings. I don't even know what "courage" you're referring to. The courage to be
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by aluren 7y ago
A lot of people love to chime in about "genetics" or "heritability" despite having no background in actual genetics (no, evopsych or behavioral "genetics" don't count) and publish in low-impact factor jour
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by aluren 7y ago
India is rich though? There are also plenty of non-European countries offering free healthcare?
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by aluren 7y ago
>why shouldn’t it be in Sweden’s interest to one, either stop the flow or alternatively take control and annex Denmark in order to bring it into the fold? Because Sweden is not ruled by a dictator? The moral thing to do would be for the
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by aluren 7y ago
>Why shouldn't groups of individuals have self-determination including the power to limit who can enter their country? Why shouldn't groups of individuals have self-determination including the power to marginalize any subgroup
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by aluren 7y ago
The US defense budget is more than that of the rest of the top 10 combined . There are many things that could be said about it, but underrated is a bit of a stretch, to say the least. You could cut it by two thirds and the so-called pax
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by aluren 7y ago
India and Pakistan have very hostile relationships and a tumultuous past so it is one of the more understandable cases. (Still not an excuse seeing how the EU came to be half a century after one of the bloodiest wars of history ravaged the
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by aluren 7y ago
I think it makes an excellent point for borders not really making sense in the first place and having little reason to exist beyond adding leverage for dictators in poor countries and assuaging people's fear of foreigners. Both are pro
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by aluren 7y ago
Interestingly, ragtime had been out of fashion for 20+ years by the time of The Sting's setting (early 1930's). I also love ragtime and associate it with The Sting as well though, it's just amusing to think that our associati
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by aluren 7y ago
I am dumbfounded that uBlock Origin, arguably the single most important extension in modern web browsing, and one that makes millions of lives easier by making their web experience bearable at all, all of this depends on one single person,

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