DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
How does that get reconciled with the consistently reproduced [0] ~15 point racial IQ gap in the US, since I was under the impression that the SAT was mostly a shitty IQ test only valid for HS graduates? I find it hard to believe that a tes
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Sounds like you're doing a bit of the same, and assuming that without discrimination outcomes would be different while ignoring any examples of cross-culture gender differences.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
You can't end the conversation by appealing to prevalence, either. Unequal representation does not imply discrimination.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> * The use of gender-neutral names like Alex and Jun instead of Alice and Bob. - As long as you are using a variety of names, this seems redundant. Alice and Bob are actually standard names for cryptography, though. They weren't na
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Demonstrably: Yes, or they wouldn't be asking for it. Obviously, people never ask for things they don't actually care about. IMO this is intended as something that is both unreasonable to include AND hard to object to on any
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by DuskStar 7y ago
While that's true, is there any reason to expect that the distribution of "successful connections" would be any different than that of initial messages? Or that it wouldn't be even more skewed towards the edges?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The theory is that the US has committed to ruining things for everyone if bad things happen to them. Otherwise, hostile countries would have an incentive to create false flag attacks, or to incite an enemy to attack in truth. But if Iran kn
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If we were behind the veil of ignorance, I think most economists would choose a consumption tax of some sort as that's both the least distortive and one of the easiest to administer, with transfer payments added on top to achieve the
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Strictly speaking, it means you can still have a wealth tax, it just has to average out to the same amount per person in each state. Which would go rather poorly for the poorest states.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If workers are 5x more productive and wages are flat after inflation, why are profits also flat (after inflation and population growth)? This isn't a case of the corporate oligarchs taking a larger share, this is the pie not growing
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Hell, there's NOT increasing inequality by sane definitions - meaning if you count government taxes and transfers. Yes, pre-tax, no-transfer income inequality has increased, but by definition increasing taxes and transfers won't
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Apple doesn't need to have the same business model to be a competitor in the mobile OS space.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> I was reading the other day that typically mass shootings happen during a recession, and right now is a confusing time because the economy is supposedly doing fantastic, yet we keep having mass shootings. This feels like the sort of th
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'd think the size of the project matters more. Nuclear power plant? Better bet OSHA's there. But a rooftop solar installation? Lol no.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
I'm a big fan of Naval Gazing, which has an article on that exercise: https://www.navalgazing.net/Millennium-Challenge-2002 As you might guess, it has a slightly different view of what went down, and how representati
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Electricity prices are now about 30 Ct/kWh in Germany. That's insane - I thought California was bad at ~$0.15/kWh residential, but that's on par with Hawaii . At least Hawaii has the excuse of being an island...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Or imagine a woman who has children out of wedlock, causing financial distress. Obviously, if she's not institutionalized she'll continue to have children out of wedlock, which will cause her condition to worsen. And only a ment
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> And if you aren’t aware of what plane is operating your flight then you risk having to cancel very late and re-book a likely much more expensive ticket. I always try to select my seats at time of booking, which requires knowing the mod
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by DuskStar 7y ago
It's only vastly less safe as a multiple to the other options, and not unsafe on an absolute basis. Similarly, driving NYC to LA is vastly less safe than flying from NYC to LA commercially. That doesn't make the roads unsafe.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That doesn't apply here, since the birthday paradox is about the existence of a collision, not that any particular sequence collides. Most people in the room will still have unique birthdays even if one pair share theirs.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Do kids really care whether the content was produced a year or a week ago? I'd be surprised if there weren't a bunch of kids who really wanted to see content from the latest Minecraft update.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If I had to guess, "being the kind of person who's friends with a developer in tech" is a very good predictor for "someone capable of being successful in tech". If that was the case, most friends-of-techies that did
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If it's purely plant based it would have to be, right? But the real achievement will be Impossible Bacon.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Finally, Gawker died legally. No laws were broken. Thiel had beef, for whatever reason and he used the law. Not to mention the fact that Gawker probably didn't have to die but instead basically committed suicide. Going into cour
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And my point was that motivation is irrelevant, and I would find it quite plausible that a two engined airliner would be safer than a four engined jet. Two fewer things to explode, after all. The president flies a 747 for size and prestige
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by DuskStar 7y ago
The only thing that a 3rd+ engine helps with in this context is uncorrelated engine failures. (Correlated ones - like "oops we used the wrong fuel units" or "that volcanic ash cloud sure is pretty" - are the same for two
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> But the conservative ideology of "creating a more moral society will solve all problems" turned out to be a huge failure that was soundly rejected by society. Is that truly a conservative ideology? Because to me that's a
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And yet, when you include cost of living California has the highest poverty rate in the country. https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20...
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by DuskStar 7y ago
You sure as hell should have the right to shoot someone who's armed and trying to get into your house, though.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> There is a huge gradient between "using 'they' indiscriminately" and "I believe killing all jews is the way to go". The problem is that the gradient between those is smooth, and there's no obvious Sch

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