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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Again, I'm just re-posting that comment. Would be nice if someone who could read the actual article confirmed that the comment is accurate.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
First, this apparently covers one single set of twins. Tiny sample size. Second, I can't access the actual paper, but a commenter at Marginal Revolution wrote the following: "Everyone in the comments here arguing about the implica
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
I wonder how it would do with more technical engineering drawings, like shop drawings for machinists or blueprints for a building.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Embryo selection based on genome sequencing is already being done: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/welcome-polygenically-...
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
>the SAT's a way of laundering discrepancies in generational wealth, which is indeed due to racist public policy as well as racist private actions. it may be intended not that way, but that's how it functions. I'm not awar
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
No, because the debt is owed to the government or to private lenders. Once the money is issued from the lender to the school for tuition, the school has no further exposure to any risk. Total scam.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
It's not clear, although it seems reasonable to assume that the availability of cheap processed food is a major factor. If changing one's environment were a straightforward thing, like changing what foods one keeps in one's c
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
People get mad when they hear this, but: A) Obesity is HIGHLY heritable. Tons of twin and adoption studies prove this. The correlation between the adult BMIs of adopted (non-related) siblings raised in the same household is virtually zero.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Russia will be greatly hurt overall by all of these sanctions and corporate decisions. Still, it's striking how many of the American companies pulling their products from Russia sell things that weaken and enervate the people who consu
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
If enough of this happens, the world will become a giant shopping mall in which everyone is from everywhere and no one has anything in common. No common culture, history, identity, ancestry, anything. The distinctions between countries will
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
The Federal Housing Finance Agency has a lot of good data: https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Pages/House-Price-I... The Five Digit Zip Codes developmental indices give good information about local-mark
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Anonymous people online might use this murder as an argument for limiting immigration. "As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
It’s not clear that condo units have higher long-term capex costs than single-family homes; arguably economies of scale make their capex lower as a percentage of home value. So the problem isn’t a problem of cost per se, it’s a collective a
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
This wasn't something that flew under the radar. They had done a lot of due diligence on it and were about to start an extremely expensive and complicated project to fix it. I suspect that some of the delay was due to the amount of wor
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Modular home manufacturing has been around for many decades. It certainly has a role to play, but if it were that much better it would have put the traditional contractors out of work long ago. The main problem is transportation. You can ma
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
You only need holes in certain places and they can be drilled in seconds. Electricians use specialized right angle drills called "hole hawgs" to drill them.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Platform framing is done in the north too.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
>you don't have large firms that can exploit economies of scale. There are also diseconomies of scale in residential construction, partly for reasons described in the original post. Having many layers of management is inefficient wh
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Great essay. This is a much more sophisticated analysis of construction efficiency than you typically find; most of them basically imply that construction is inefficient because contractors are dumb. One minor comment: balloon framing is no
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Because it was done by the government, not just by Google. Yes, Google played a major role and yes, the tech companies do a lot of deeply concerning things on their own. But I was still taken aback that actual government software was instal
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
I emailed massnotifyhelp@mass.gov to ask why the app was on my phone, and I got the following response: Hi [my name], In order for MassNotify to be available to users in their phone’s settings, an update was made by Google that resulted in
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
I'm a MA resident and this app was on my (Android) phone...until a few minutes ago when I read about it on Hacker News, found it, and deleted it. I have no memory of ever opting into the program you describe, and it isn't the type
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Inside Operation Warp Speed: A New Model for American Industrial Policy(americanaffairsjournal.org)
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
It's not a question of what people "mind" or "don't mind", it's a question of what level of risk people will accept in order to live a normal life. Hiding away from people may reduce risk in a lot of ways,
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
Because it would give people a better intuitive sense of how bad COVID is in a larger civilizational/historical context. Over the past 12+ months, people have accepted enormous infringements on freedoms in their everyday lives. Many of
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 5y ago
I'd like to see a version of this analysis that incorporates all-cause mortality from a much larger time period; say the past fifty years rather than the past five.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 6y ago
"the indigenous people over whose heads it would take place, the Saami of northern Scandinavia." It's never been clear to me why the Saami are "indigenous" but average Swedes, Finns, and Norwegians aren't.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 6y ago
Does anyone else find it at all creepy that the words "disinformation" and "misinformation" went from unusual to ubiquitous virtually overnight?
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 6y ago
How many violent attacks have resulted from activity on Facebook?
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 6y ago
In three years, the slippery slope has gone from deplatforming a tiny handful of online Nazis to deplatforming the President and an app with 10 million users.

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