Banthum

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by Banthum 9y ago
This is only a cheap option if you consider your own labor to be free. Plus don't forget about the seasonality of the crops, the effort of preservation, etc.
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It seems there's a natural experiment at hand to determine the actual effect of temperature on these outcomes. The temperature changes at different times during the year, and during different individual days and months. So, how do temp
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That was before there were billions of Africans, Indians, and Indonesians a few hours travel from the United States. Times change. Also this part is important: "yearning to breathe free" is quite different from "yearning to e
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by Banthum 9y ago
Humans have and have always had social status structures, reaching back into evolutionary time. This is why such a huge portion of our psychology is devoted to dealing with status issues. Animals have status too. Various primates form stabl
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by Banthum 9y ago
In feminism's the "motte and bailey" belief structure, that's the motte (the thing people say when challenged). It's not the bailey (the thing people actually want to say and do) though. One example of the bailey in
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by Banthum 9y ago
>The way to introduce a controversial idea on HN is to be substantive and neutral. I agree in principle. But standards should be applied the same way to all comments with regard to viewpoints. What I'm seeing is that the same standa
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by Banthum 9y ago
Every comment I've seen so far that has been dead or flagged down had these two properties: 1. Honestly attempting to contribute new information and views to the conversation, or asking new questions. 2. Opinion or assumptions would be
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by Banthum 9y ago
People say this all the time, but is there any actual rigorous evidence or argument for it? As far as I can tell it's just a way to demonize and dehumanize a group of really unpopular people in order to feel better about taking retribu
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by Banthum 9y ago
Its actually a quantitative result from the (left wing) Brookings Institute: Of the people who do all 3 of these things, 98% are not in poverty.
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It should also be noted that other actors in the situation are also making choices. The sister is staying with the bad boyfriend. The bad boyfriend is stealing food. Neither of these two is sustaining themselves. And that's ignoring th
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by Banthum 9y ago
You're implicitly comparing western cultures to an imaginary perfect culture, or to modern free (Western) countries. This is not reasonable. You should compare cultures that share similar options: those living around the same time in
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by Banthum 9y ago
True - If you're working in tech, you're already invested in tech, even if you've never bought stock at all. Heck - if you have spent any effort or time learning tech skills, you're already invested in tech. A penniless
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by Banthum 9y ago
>A questionnaire study directed at a selection of employers shows that there are three characteristics that the employers consider to be important and are worried that employees over the age of 40 have begun to lose: the ability to learn
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by Banthum 9y ago
Of course, some degrees are direct training, and some are more generally useful. But there's a spectrum. E.g. philosophy and "gender studies" are both considered generally useless. But I'd say that philosophy at least ca
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by Banthum 9y ago
>"a huge proportion of poverty stems from bad work ethic." restated as >"Some people have bad work ethic" And to you that restatement constitutes "attempting to shirk from and minimize away from your own comme
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by Banthum 9y ago
So you think of every poor person as having a fundamental disability comparable to a medically-diagnosed case of ADHD. This is flatly, verifiably wrong, as well as reprehensibly paternalistic and self-indulgent. And all this after I spec
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by Banthum 9y ago
You didn't answer the question clearly. It seems your answer obliquely is that you don't want it for yourself, you want it because it'd benefit the immigrants. >They don't bite. I grew up in a class of around 50% chil
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by Banthum 9y ago
I really hope you never get to experience what it would be like to live in a society where everyone thinks like you (and nobody stands guard while you clutch your pearls).
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Wow, I would've never thought a 3.4km shot was even possible. How fast is a .50cal even going at that distance?
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by Banthum 9y ago
It's interesting reading a pseudo-critique of the "new cultural elite" coming from an author who lives in that elite and an institution that represents that elite globally. It's like a weird ritualistic self-criticism ex
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by Banthum 9y ago
You're expressing the Harrison Bergeron impulse born from the pathological elevation of equality-of-outcome as an ultimate terminal value. People get different outcomes, and it's "unfair", and if we can't lift someo
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by Banthum 9y ago
Okay, I'm not taking the piss - let me ask you an honest question. 10 years of 10x immigration would be 100,000,000 people, so about 11 cities the size of New York of 100% new immigrants. Such masses could not possibly assimilate to an
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by Banthum 9y ago
It is a mystery. I don't think it's some grand thought-out non-poaching agreement, though. I think you have to break it down to domestic politics. The left wants to maximize multiculturalism. This has become a sort of fundamental
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by Banthum 9y ago
It's not about zero sum. It's about supply and demand. If you supply labor at X skill level, an influx of immigrants at X skill level (but not of Y or Z skill level) will reduce the buying power of your wages. Taking it to real li
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by Banthum 9y ago
Median age for immigrants to America is 44. Median age for all Americans is 36. Sources: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-... http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28&#
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Here's some reading to get you started: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence#Lat... Also - If you think the Flynn effect (measured increases in average IQ over time) contradicts the hypothesis
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Well, there's nothing that says the Amish are homogeneous or must stay that way. Even among Amish, there will be some sub-groups where fertility falls, and others where it stays the same or rises. So, the Amish who reduce fertility (li
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by Banthum 9y ago
In any population, there are sub-populations with higher and lower fertility. Over time, because of differential reproduction, these sub-populations will eventually come to dominate, and form the majority of the whole population. At that po
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by Banthum 9y ago
I feel this is irrelevant for this discussion, because none of what I or anyone else is arguing is that "it's their fault they're poor so screw them" as so many people here seem to want to conclude. All I said was: Some
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Eh, more like: 3) "This person is struggling, we can't help them in ways that are too paternalistic or agency-denying, because that will ultimately just end up harming them". E.g. You wouldn't tell your child that his ec

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