nhchris

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by nhchris 4y ago
Unpaywalled: http://archive.is/vGZXG
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Statues of ‘old white men’ may need to be destroyed, Welsh government advises(telegraph.co.uk)
10 points by nhchris 4y ago|19 comments
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> Police and prosecutors can and do make mistakes, inadvertently or sometimes prejudiciously. That's one of the reasons murder is used. Hard to fudge the statistics on it, immune to overpolicing, most of it is intra-racial, and it&#
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by nhchris 4y ago
US homicide rate: 6.5, Black population: 12.1%, homicide rate/Black %: 0.54 UK homicide rate: 1.1, Black population: 3.15%, homicide rate/Black %: 0.35 (0.65x that of the US) So gun control seems to have helped, but not as much as
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4.5%, and the Demographics of American Murder(datahazard.substack.com)
8 points by nhchris 4y ago|12 comments
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by nhchris 4y ago
Are all immigrant populations interchangeable?
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by nhchris 4y ago
> did you even read the article? I did. It's using a lot of words to obfuscate its central thesis: That even if you select against a trait, that trait won't diminish. It may as well be arguing that antibiotic resistance cannot
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by nhchris 4y ago
Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80% - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ >
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by nhchris 4y ago
A movie was filmed to answer your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy A comedy, but based in fact - e.g. educational attainment is inversely correlated with fertility. For a less individual view, you can
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by nhchris 4y ago
> I've been told all my life The younger generations are the target audience, who will believe these lies about your education. As old times slip from living memory, they are rewritten into a caricature of themselves to serve the cu
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by nhchris 4y ago
> It's really depressing how we totally fail to permanently learn our lessons. [..] It's so bizarre that people will campaign for and champion the rollback of regulations that negatively affect them directly. From my exposure t
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by nhchris 4y ago
As people such as Martinez fill Stanford and rise through its ranks, each subsequent president becomes more likely to endorse such actions, instead of demanding apologies for them.
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by nhchris 4y ago
Surely we can agree that a protest out on the streets, or inside a lecture hall, differ. And for outdoors, "loud and disruptive" is the norm. There the line is usually drawn at violence.
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The objection is one can't effectively lecture while heckled, not that they can't "handle" it. Disrupting class, in other words. Though FIRE also calls that heckling "unlawful", which, unless I'm missing s
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by nhchris 4y ago
I saw the video of him calmly saying "you are an appalling idiot" twice to a student after the student said what he's doing is disgusting (thrice) [1]. Is there a video of him shouting it? [1] https://twitter.com
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by nhchris 4y ago
In that video he calmly replies "You're an appalling idiot" to the person calling him* "disgusting". I was more interested in the alleged shouting at civil questions. * Correction: The student is calling what he&#x2
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by nhchris 4y ago
> The administrator kept asking “is the juice worth the squeeze?” Well no, not at all. If you answer 'no', then they move on to the next thing, and ask again.
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by nhchris 4y ago
> shouting down students who raised questions with civility Sounds awful. Is there video?
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Israel's parliament extends ban on Palestinian family unification(haaretz.com)
6 points by nhchris 4y ago|1 comments
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"The law was originally approved as a temporary cabinet resolution during the second intifada, but was extended every year since. In 2021, then-Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said it is 'one of the tools aimed at ensuring a Jewish ma
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by nhchris 4y ago
I see. So despite the sources saying that "these subject peoples were then exploited for cheap labor", and, presumably, were also used for the documented human sacrifice, we know that they otherwise treated their slaves relatively
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by nhchris 4y ago
> The event that led to the slow demise of Arabian slavery, the Zanj rebellion, occurred a thousand years before transatlantic slavery even existed. Slow indeed: It is estimated that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, 1.4 million slaves w
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by nhchris 4y ago
Then HN is an exception, because I never come across it otherwise. Which is not surprising, given the complete absence of those instances of slavery and imperialism from pop culture. Sorry, near complete - I'm sure if you really try,
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by nhchris 4y ago
The Arab slave trade took even more slaves than that - mostly Black, but some 2 million Europeans too. How come they didn't benefit so much from it? In fact, almost every region in the world practiced slavery at some point or another
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Does that only count "slave trade" as exporting slaves? I.e. it does not count local slavery, such as that of their subjugated neighbors.
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It's strange how, despite the widespread consensus during and after the 2008 crisis, that the banks were "too big to fail", no action was taken to break them up or somehow reduce their size.
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What about a society where everything you see, read, and write, is logged in some central database, to be used, or not, for purposes unknown to you? The Stasi spies were such a great idea that we want to keep them, but much, much more power
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by nhchris 4y ago
You raise an interesting and well-reasoned argument. I'll need some time to think about it.
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> I don't know what you're talking about Sure, I'll try to be clearer. You wrote "I'm making a simple positive argument about the clearly stated goal of the founders." Which goal, and where was it stated?
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> Americans are Americans because we believe (or should. Do you?) in the Constitution and the rule of law. I'm not American. But that's not the citizenship condition your founding fathers passed. It's not even the citizens

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