Andre_Wanglin

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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Why does criticizing an impossible assumption put the onus on me to identify economies that do not make that assumption or to envision what such a state of things might look like? Is it not sufficient to refrain from obvious error?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
How is a subspecies defined?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
That view is ahistorical. Anti-immigrant sentiment has always been directed at the source of the immigration. When Chinese began immigrating in the mid-late 19th century, immigration was suddenly a problem and so we had the national origins
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Populations can grow geometrically at any time. What matters to a particular "branch" is that it remains a cohesive and clearly demarcated appendage while it weathers hostile conditions. Grafting on another branch is what ensures
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>Raising the overall level of education in this country should be a much larger goal that it seems to be. I envision a day where everyone enjoys the "right" to a PhD. We will be very smart then, won't we?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>A small difference between college drop out salary vs high school diploma salary only says that the key is to actually get a degree. half of a degree is worth much less than half of what a full degree is worth. That doesn't say any
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
We don't want secret court proceedings. People who have just been arrested have not been formally indicted for any crime. Nothing makes it to PACER until it has been through the oversight of a grand jury.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>there are high recitivism rates What are the rates and what makes them high? Do the rates vary by type of crime? Are, say, victimless crimes overrepresented?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Japan is a prosperous high HDI nation. They have clearly decided that making bankers happy is not worth sacrificing their national identity by inviting mass immigration. They may not appear to be "winning" to those who measure civ
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
It is disingenuous to assert that immigration de facto causes resentment instead of the source population of the immigration.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
In a debt-based growth-dependent (to repay ever the increasing debts) economy, it crashes everything. Turns out assuming infinite growth does not produce a stable civilization. This is why there are concomitantly erstwhile calls for people
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Isn't this how things are supposed to be done anyway? I imagine I will have to keep waiting for Congress to re-assert their authority over making war.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Plus Google will illegally seize your domain if they don't like you.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
What is the subject that intentional modifies in that sentence? That would be the 90% reduction in the native population, right? You aren't going to win any attempt at verbal/logical gamesmanship with me.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Capability and performance are distinct, IMO. Capability is what one can do, performance is what one does do. We train to achieve as much as we are capable of but are bound by our natural limits.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Why are those superior attributes to rationality?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
But intelligence isn't a skill, it's a capability. The most interesting questions about it are what portion is fixed, what portion is influenced (dictated?) by environment, and which way the causation flows for correlated measurem
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
>“We suggest that this is because poverty-related concerns consume mental resources, leaving less for other tasks.” How is this not stress?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Calling something an anecdote is not saying it is untrue. Anecdotes can be entirely true yet still tell us nothing about the prevalence or significance of the described activity. And I never stated that the kind of activity described in you
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Yes, that's right.
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Seeing as how those America First people are the ones who came around to fighting and defeating the Nazis, that's quite a disgusting and loaded remark. It is a shibboleth among the alt-right that they are called Nazis by people like yo
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Would there have been a "Holocaust" without the war? What would the fate of the interned Japanese in the US have been should the mainland have come under massive bombardment and firebombing that left the populace barely able to ea
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
There is a media/political machine at work every day pumping out propaganda that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to "hack" the election in Trump's favor. It should not be surprising that this has been effective i
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Roosevelt saw the war coming because he wanted it to come and engineered a way for the US to be attacked (the US way of war has alway been to provoke and goad the other side into firing first [or outright faking such a provocation] then fei
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
If it is publicly accessible, it is not a private website. If someone hands me a free newspaper and I cut out the ads before reading it, is that also stealing?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
Yes, the number killed by warfare is a rounding error in this context. And finding a single instance where someone suggested (there is no proof it was carried out) trying to infect the natives is an anecdote, not proof of a systematic progr
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
American here. I could never "get into" American novelists like Hemingway and Steinbeck because I found their characters unrelatably thin automatons whereas Tolstoy's and Dostoevsky's characters are recognizably and deep
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
How is it an oversimplification if 90% of the population decrease was because of initial contact, not overt actions by the Europeans against the natives?
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
What makes you think this won't be used by people of all classes? And did you hear the recordings? The AI is better at conversation than the humans it had to deal with. I would gladly use this to avoid talking to people who can't
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by Andre_Wanglin 8y ago
I don't.

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