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by natded 5y ago
The parent did a partner selection before the breeding took place, unless there was rape involved; and I doubt a parent that wants a kid that turns out right goes to: "hmm today I will breed with the disabled person to make for great o
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by natded 5y ago
Height is a good example: nobody thinks you grow taller by playing basketball, but many think you get smarter by going to school.
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by natded 5y ago
The focus on the mating part: if they don't produce an above replacement level of babies they are leading the lives of gay men functionally.
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by natded 5y ago
Intelligence has trade-offs, costs and other limitations or we would have maxed it out hard (ie. an "intelligence explosion" would have occurred). Increased mental illness might be one, other one is the brain size being limited by
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by natded 5y ago
Taleb is just coping for his audience in this post, it is sad that he lowers himself to such status games. OTOH, winning at status games is lindy so.
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by natded 5y ago
Idea that you can select against intelligence would lead to an idea that eugenics == good and that is a taboo. It is a can of worms in the High Status Discussion to bring up the idea that intelligence can be measured and inherited by offs
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by natded 5y ago
The point of total nuclear war is not to declare a victor anyways. States that can ensure MAD have a nuclear deterrence based on irrationality, of which you cannot exactly reason rationally like this. FWIW. if your city has blast doors at 1
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by natded 5y ago
Installing this in Ubuntu is a PITA and I always just give up. No I'm not going to start """symlink this and that""" when my aim is to save references for myself.
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by natded 5y ago
My unironic recommendation for any nation state is to block American social media companies and then proceed to restrict or outright ban R&D work on 'ads' and other such trinkets. Exactly because of: ".. a tragedy for ...
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by natded 5y ago
It lacks diversity.
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by natded 5y ago
How do C++ programs / programmers enforce and manage modularity in the general sense if they don't even have simplest module system? I'm not even talking of having module functors like Ocaml, but something like Rust has. It s
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by natded 5y ago
Somewhat incredible that all of .PDF reading software is just bad. There is not a single .PDF reader that I think of as "This is a good program" when I open it. Maybe the spec (PDF) is just fucked, I don't know. That's m
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by natded 5y ago
Machine Learning. Nobody's going to program hard coded programs in 10 years. It will be looked like handwriting assembly or something equally absurd.
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by natded 5y ago
This is pretty funny though, if I've understood this correctly. People in the West always seem to think that a properly democratic government made by the chinese people (be it those in Taiwan or those in China) would be "peacefu
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by natded 5y ago
Superpower logic is far too cold for terms like colonizing . There is very little focus on such ideological by-products of power when the General Staff makes its considerations and recommendations for the security of the state. If you th
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by natded 5y ago
OTOH, US did just this year lose its longest war and it was against Afghanistan. I rely on this closer event. Granted, admitting the loss there was the first step in road to recovery.
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by natded 5y ago
The Taiwanese leader is hardly "standing up" to China. China's calculus of attacking Taiwan is probably a more global in scale: for example US submarines can end the maritime traffic in South China Sea completely at any given
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by natded 5y ago
US isn't technically drumming up war on China and Russia; they are promoting war to the last Ukrainian against Russia, and probably the last Taiwanese against China. A difference, but probably enough to help US hitch a long as superpow
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by natded 5y ago
She is a good "simplifier", taking complex phenomena and making it digestible for brainlet (like me).
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by natded 5y ago
Imagine thinking it shouldn't have been in a public repository to begin with.
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by natded 5y ago
And as I understand, this is already an old design (they started building it in the 00s).
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by natded 5y ago
Teaching sand to think was a mistake.
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by natded 5y ago
One of the best post-beginner / intermediate learning experiences wrt. Rust is to try to model the Borrow Checker behavior with Rust. Just write small (>10 LoC) programs within safe subset of Rust: 1. Rejected unsafe programs (a
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by natded 5y ago
The "dependencies" can be written off quickly as the "complaints" about them are ridiculous.
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by natded 5y ago
> educate their organisations on the importance of supporting open source solutions Githubs of the world could just gate downloads, pull requests etc. behind a payment to see what is the real valuation of open source software; I imagine
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by natded 5y ago
Fact checking is censorship taken on behalf of protected opinions. This is what Facebook itself has asserted in a lawsuit[1]. It is an political act, taken against political enemies. Schmitt would have a field day in 21st century. > [1]
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by natded 5y ago
It's time for the butcher's bill over the silly corona restrictions, and none will ever connect the two to together.
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by natded 5y ago
Always like hearing his thoughts, he has some other recent interviews that were good too https://youtu.be/y1qf2MCzneU
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by natded 5y ago
Rather than a list of tools, I simply recommend learning one tool well so you can always on do a quick presentation if you need. I like draw.io but it is sometimes buggy.
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by natded 5y ago
Not really mandatory. Check out whatever jobs you are interested in if they ask for React or Vue learn one or the other. MDN is the single best source on learning web dev, so trust it over stackoverflows etc.

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