throwaway4666

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by throwaway4666 5y ago
You will find that 'some races just have the dumb SNPs, you know' is indeed a fringe and unserious position often posited by Pioneer Fund recipients (you know, the organization founded in the 30s for the 'purpose of race bett
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Seeing how African populations are extremely diverse and we're just seeing the extent of it I would refrain from making such definitive statements. >To repeat, interest in human populations and such phenotypic differences does not
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Scientific racists don't use such crass words like 'inferior', they'd rather say 'have a lower mean IQ and impulse control due to genetic differences'
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Yeah I'm not saying literally everything in the article is trash, my thought process basically went as follows: "Wait this is an elementary mistake. Also he's not really up to date on the science. Who wrote this again? That n
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
The science is constantly evolving to this very day on the supposedly 'trace levels' of Neanderthal DNA in Africans (especially as we gather a more diverse range of cohorts) so I'll leave it at that. I just want to comment on
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Ah, he also believes in "Ashkenazi IQ" stuff. And is best friends with Greg Cochran who thinks homosexuality is caught by germs. Very instructive stuff
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Yes, this is the usual precanned retort when faced with the fact that one's fringe viewpoint isn't in line with the mainstram science. It's not an argument though, in that it doesn't tilt the balance of probabilities (fr
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by throwaway4666 5y ago
Multiple inaccuracies there. Crick and Watson certainly didn't discover DNA as the substrate for Mendelian inheritance, that was known long before. They (in collaboration with Rosalind "don't talk to me about this woman"
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
You have put a lot of thought in your post and I actually agree with most of it but I just want to interject about a few things: -Darwin, Mendel etc. are seen as foundational because we as humans need plucky heroes in our narrative of histo
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Peer-review has its problems but I don't think the solution is 'we need more people carelessly injecting themselves and others with things with unknown effects'. I think the covid crisis aptly showed that the 'plucky out
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Good for him. I still have no idea what that website is for and why people use it in earnest (i.e. not for joke or 'bit' accounts like dril)
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
The main reason for me is that Ubuntu somehow breaks at every major upgrade, while Mint doesn't. That and Cinnamon, of course.
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What Is a Proof (2012)(mathbabe.org)
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
We don't really know how feasible multithreading is, but the community suspects at least some tasks could be computed on different threads, such as e.g. the pathfinding stuff that one of the worst offenders when it comes to FPS.
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
DF is much more forgiving and easier than it used to be. Follow the wiki, setup DFHack for a lot of bugfixes and UI improvements and you're pretty much set. You don't even need Therapist anymore when you have the in-game labor man
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Funny how you seem unable to conceive of a people that doesn't have a concept of numbers ;-)
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
He's hinted that he could release the sources if the Steam/Itch sales make enough money that he could stop worrying about the stability of his income in the long term. The worry was that if DF got open-sourced and forked, people w
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
You'd be surprised at how popular Stalin seems to be in Russia and Central Asia countries. Forgot the link but I read that 45% of Russians have a positive opinion of him. Yes he did all those atrocities but more importantly he brought
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
You'd be surprised at the number of "basic phenomena" that turned out to have cultural origins. Look up the language of the Piraha people, who famously does not contain any concept related to numbers or counting (because they
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
I didn't say GWASes were useless, just that it's absurd to consider them to be a 'revolution'. The actual revolution would be second- and third-generation sequencing which enabled GWASes and a bunch of much more useful t
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
There's no evidence all of this comes from cancel culture. As I said in a previous thread, the main doxxing comes from an alt-right dude who angrily posted Scott's personal info and clinic because he believed to be shadowbanned. S
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
'Predictive' is just a glorified word for 'correlating'. Staring at a bunch of correlations only gets you so far and doing only that certainly isn't science. If you have no idea how genes work you're going to
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
At no point did he mention cancel culture or 'the norm'. In fact, his argument entirely revolved around his relationship with his patients and that has little bearing on what he believes about the IQ of black people, since, as he
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
You're grasping at straws here. How do you even determine the size of the 'groups'?
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Found it: https://mobile.twitter.com/pastramimachine/status/1263937115... Edit: if it doesn't work try this i guess? https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mobile.twitter.com/past
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
It's not that hard to look up and prove you wrong mate: https://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/f... >“In 2018, far-right terrorist attacks accounted for 17.2% of terrorist incident
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
Most terrorist attacks in the west are done by alt-righters though
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
The cost of many false negatives is an overall worse quality of life for everyone, especially for targeted groups, and the enactment of a massive surveillance apparatus to enforce that QoL degradation.
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
I still have no idea why people are making this whole thing about a political point or 'controversial opinions'. The facts are: -The NYT wanted to write about SSC notably because SA warned about covid ahead of time, wrote a nice p
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by throwaway4666 6y ago
What does 'mob' mean and how does it differ from 'majority'? The fact that the speaker is not part of it, maybe?

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