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by DuskStar 6y ago
Right, but the ideal number of feral hogs is zero. The ideal number of wild wolves is not zero.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
At the same time, if 1-2% of the planet's population had died over the course of a day, with deaths more common among the old and unheard of in children, it would be in the news for years - but life would have gone on with minimal in
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by DuskStar 6y ago
A calamity, but not something that would cause the collapse of civilizations, or meaningfully impact military strength a century ago.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That's not my reading of the grandparent - instead my reading was that COVID was closer to the (normal) flu than to the Spanish Flu, Bubonic Plague, or other such calamities - or at least that many people would feel that way.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Which is either evidence in favor of lockdowns or evidence that the lockdown was useless - one of the two.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
There is a difference between diverse outcomes in parallel and diverse outcomes in series. If you have a hundred people flip a coin 10 times, redistributing each time - heads they get back triple, tails they lose everything - you'll en
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Now the question becomes "do you trust the grandchildren of the rich more or less than you trust the people's government?" Yes, I trust a collection of 3rd-generation rich more than I trust a government that is currently
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> If you're publicly listed, it's not your company anymore. Well, maybe. Something can be publicly listed while being majority owned by one person. But the "short-term vs long-term" dichotomy was meant more as a comme
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> "oh don't worry, they'll piss away that money anyways" is a bad reason for not taxing someone. IMO that argument is meant to counter people disliking unearned wealth. But to argue in favor of dynasties: 1. It migh
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> preventing a permanent aristocratic class from passive investment Well, there's a difference between passive and active investment...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I can! Spendthrift children. Or even just plummeting real yields on investment like we've been seeing over the past decade. Another commenter posted [0], which indicates that there's something besides inheritance taxes driving s
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Oh, sure - I'll spend extravagantly on their education, take them travelling around the world, do everything I can to set them up for success - but if I can't leave them my company, there's no reason not to run it into the gr
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> but in behavior influencing. Ah, yes - because of course we want people to spend all their money before they die instead of investing long-term for their children.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
"Twitter Delenda Est" is a pretty common sentiment in the culture war threads.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Isn't that in Canada, and thus unaffected?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Ireland is a different country.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> It's not the political orientation of the mass gathering - it's the purpose. What is the political orientation of a "mass gathering" (rally/protest/etc) if not its purpose? Seriously.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> where their opinion amazingly veered far right on virtually every topic If you think SSC, the blog that sources anything remotely controversial, is alt-right for the conclusions it comes to... Maybe you should show the issues in the lo
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> I'd much rather be downvoted on HN or called names on Twitter than beaten up or deprived of freedom. This blog post is literally about someone fearing that it'll escalate to "beaten up" or "fired" if their
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> 246 kN of thrust, which is about 3.4 times the thrust envisioned for the Starship upper stage AFAICT Raptor is planned to have ~2,000 kN thrust [0], and Starship has more than one. And your metrics for fuel use are a bit off to me - b
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, there was the Saturn C-5N [0] - basically a Saturn V with a nuclear upper stage instead of another J-2. That increased the payload to LEO from 118,000kg to 155,000kg. (and an even larger increase in mass to TLI/TMI/etc) 0:
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Heritability does not imply the existence of a genetic mechanism. Twin studies have a number of flaws that further demonstrate my points about standards of methodology that geneticists wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. Even not
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> "Intelligence research" is, like most of psychology, an elaborate grift designed to give a handful of people cushy tenured jobs. Actual geneticists, that is, people who study how genes actually work, wouldn't touch the s
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> they delivered lower price for (say) 64 cores worth of performance, by putting them all on the same chunk of silicon. Arguably AMD did the exact opposite - lower prices via splitting a processor into multiple pieces of silicon. (Chip p
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by DuskStar 6y ago
"no racial bias in police shootings" is something I've seen from a few studies. It all depends on how you define "racial bias", of course. (In other words, in a given situation police shootings seem to be even acros
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> I'd truly encourage you to go engage with the literature and experts on this subject. You might find that your "100x" expectation is wildly inaccurate. Funny thing is, for the people asking that question (and IIRC litera
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This the article you're thinking of? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-myth-of... That article says that a large part of why US university admissions aren't purely merit based... is that j
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> There is no singular "intelligence" and measuring it is certainly not linear. Wanna bet? I think most intelligence researchers would disagree with you, and IQ is predictive of life outcomes. There are areas where you can find
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> if we decide to have additional children and the data showed we could select for traits that were important to us (intelligence, height, athletically predisposed), I would absolutely opt for it. You want the best for your children (in
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> IQ scores are heritable: that is, within populations, genetic variation is related to variation in the trait. But a fundamental truism about heritability is that it tells us nothing about differences between groups. Even analyses that

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