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by centimeter 5y ago
> Do you have a single source to back up these claims? I have many. You should start with these: https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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by centimeter 5y ago
I’m not spending time reading a salon article, but I’m willing to bet money that their definition of “repeat misinformer” is total bullshit.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Poverty is actually a quite weak predictor of crime rates once you condition on demographic factors such as percent single-parent households.
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by centimeter 5y ago
You’re describing monetization, not a pyramid scheme.
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by centimeter 5y ago
The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best, ~nothing, unlike actual
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by centimeter 5y ago
> Jane Street isn't that successful. Their historical record is very good.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Yes. I’m not even using their wifi box.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Affinity’s iPad UI is quite nice and relatively full-featured as well.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Why would they have dumped billions into developing these vaccines in the first place if they expected to just lose the IP rights right away anyway? You might be able to save a small number of extra people this time by screwing over the vax
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by centimeter 5y ago
Last time I looked into this, Apple actually used quite a bit of clever crypto engineering to protect user privacy. It's not just a big database of locations that Apple keeps.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Do you support the right of businesses to refuse business to homosexuals, for example, on religious grounds? If you come back with “homosexuals are legally a protected class”, that’s evading the question and functionally equivalent to “no
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by centimeter 5y ago
The evidence is quite clear that going to college doesn’t actually improve life outcomes very much at all. We mistakenly thought it did for a while, but what was actually happening is the people who were going to college were smart and very
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by centimeter 5y ago
What in the world do you mean? Lightning has excellent privacy; payments are onion-routed.
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by centimeter 5y ago
If they weren't using this as an opportunity to pump some shitcoin, this might make sense. Bitcoin Lightning integration would be much less suspect, for example, because A) it's already well established B) they're not going
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by centimeter 5y ago
Ideas don't need to be correct to be adaptive.
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by centimeter 5y ago
How dare you! We need state-run pre-school to get those kids sitting at desks even earlier!
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by centimeter 5y ago
I really doubt that any industrial-chemical process will have a net better environmental or economic impact than, say, re-foresting desert areas.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.
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by centimeter 5y ago
My evidence is that I've lived in countries with market-based healthcare (Thailand, Mexico) and countries with socialized healthcare (Canada, UK), and the market-based healthcare is always infinitely better. My wife had to wait months
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by centimeter 5y ago
The factors that cause America to spend a lot of money on healthcare don't go away when you switch to a single payer. If anything, they get worse. Reform needs to happen elsewhere; for example, we need to stop using taxpayer money for
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by centimeter 5y ago
This website is full of overconfident midwits - nothing new. I appreciate that you're still willing to put in the effort to show them the evidence. Unfortunately, I'm at the point where I don't think it's worth it; it&#x
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by centimeter 5y ago
US healthcare isn't good. I never said it was. But the correct direction of reform is towards market-based healthcare, not to make it even more DMV-like. > universal healthcare does not imply government-run healthcare There is no pr
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by centimeter 5y ago
> More people are in favor of universal healthcare than against it. In the US, you can get an answer in either direction depending on how you phrase the question. When you bring in the fact that this will cost money, people tend to flip.
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by centimeter 5y ago
> The bill of rights includes the right to an attorney. You can't just show up whenever and get an attorney. You only get an attorney when the government is prosecuting you.
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by centimeter 5y ago
> I cannot comprehend why anyone would be against health care for all? Then you probably shouldn't voice an opinion on the issue. If a lot of people disagree with you can't come up with a coherent explanation for why , then yo
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by centimeter 5y ago
> It is clearly more economically efficient to treat malignant cancers earlier. This is not necessarily the case, because additional screening has costs - both direct costs of running the screening, but also hidden costs like costs assoc
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by centimeter 5y ago
Gwern is great. One of a small number of people I support on patreon. Really high quality authorship on a huge range of topics, from drugs to cartoons to AI research.
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by centimeter 5y ago
Broadcom seems to pump out a lot of garbage in general. The SoCs on the raspberry pis are particularly terrible.
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by centimeter 5y ago
The raspberry pi is pretty popular here, but as someone who works on both embedded and server applications, I find it to be a massive piece of shit. The broadcom SoCs they use are complete garbage, with really poor reliability and several b
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by centimeter 5y ago
I don't really object to the first 4 layers of the OSI model as applied to the current network stack - it's a pretty useful model of the separation-of-concerns between, say, Cat5, ethernet, IP, TCP.

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