TheAdamAndChe

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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
There is a strong connection between genetics and IQ.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
The comment you replied to was hyperbolic, but it has a point. Why are my taxes going towards paying for 30% of Israel's military?? They do nothing to improve the safety and stability of my country, in fact they increase geopolitical t
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
By that definition, would a meteor that vaporizes in our atmosphere before impact just be considered a meteor?
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
The real worry from these tools is relative power. A man with a knife can kill a few people. A man with a rifle can kill a few dozen people. A man with a few zero days can cripple infrastructure around the country and cause hundreds if not
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
This crossed the line into personal attack. Very not cool.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Why? I grew up in a rural area, moved to a city for a few years and hated it, and now live happily in a suburb. I get fresh air, see trees regularly, don't hear neighbors fighting or stomping, and can still drive into the city if/
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Wages haven't kept pace with productivity since the 70's, largely because of a lack of leverage by employees. Inequality and stagnation have been causing significant pressures, arguably causing the surge in populism in 2016. Why n
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
The post doesn't contribute to our curiosity, it just triggers our tribal monkey brain and doesn't add anything productive in the process.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Yes, actually. It's pretty great.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
I haven't found anywhere that is largely unbiased nowadays. I subscribe to a single mailing list that emails me news cliffnotes every day, but nowadays I'm largely unplugged.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Yet the BLM riots and the politicians who praised them got a pass.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
If it's that important, either I'll get an emergency broadcast text or it won't be televised. Otherwise, a family member will call me or I'll hear about it from other people.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
There's more than one major political issue in the country, and only so much political capital that we can focus.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
For most people, math and writing aren't part of their jobs. Skills that aren't used aren't remembered. I've seen this in myself. In high school, I got up to precalculus level math. I've been trying to relearn it, a
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Shame and disgust in myself drove a massive amount of weight loss. I feel better and am far more fit now. Given America's obesity epidemic, it's sad to me that they are focusing on a small percentage of people with such issues.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
The difference between Coke and Pepsi is marketing and flavor, but they directly compete in the same market. The products they have are virtually the same, only minor differences. The product differences between, say, Facebook and YouTube a
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Thinking of Facebook merely as a consumer platform seems overly broad to me. Each of those are social networks, but they fill a particular niche in the social experience. YouTube is for asynchronous videos from people you generally don&#x27
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
That's interesting! Something I noticed: > During the first dotcom bubble, we had lots of startups run by MBAs that were getting trounced by the competition run by hackers. Today, the dotcoms run by guys who only hack are going to b
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Only if it makes economic sense or improves their quality of life will the rich countries adopt green energy massively. We need to subsidize, develop, and deploy cheap forms of nuclear that scale well. Small Modular Reactors have me hopeful
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27609346 He's also indicated much more recently that any "suicide" wouldn't be such.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Though it is also highly notable that he publicly posted "I'm not going to kill myself, and if I do then I was probably assassinated" before his death.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
That's a good argument before the vaccine was released. Now the vaccine is available to all who want it. Only those who don't want it remain. Why should they be shamed and forced to take something that is only available because of
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Or you can just treat the unvaccinated like adults and let them behave as their own risk tolerance allows. That means no required masks, social distancing, or security theater like individually portioned food. High freedom, high liberty, hi
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
I was required to pass a personal finance class in high school, it resonated with me, and I am far more comfortable than most people my age. A class may not resonate with every person, but for those who take the lessons to heart and grasp t
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Yes to all of that, but it's tangential to the main topic here.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
My statement on the feminization of society doesn't come from trauma. Global testosterone levels have been dropping for decades[1]. You can see it in old pictures: men were less fat, more competitive, and happier. Rates of sex and rela
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
When growing up as a teenage male, there was a turning point in my mental development. I was sitting in class cracking jokes when this jerk kid stood up and punched me in the back of the head. I didn't know how to respond, so I just sa
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
It's funny/amazing to me how we lived without GPS for thousands of years, but it's become so integral to our society that it's one of the first things we're setting up there before visiting.
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
> It would just reinforce the belief that the original term was nothing but a slur against masculinity as a whole That's how people use it, and that's how it's interpreted by normal people. > That almost no one seems wi
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by TheAdamAndChe 5y ago
Language really matters and changes over time. The term "moron" shifted to "retard," then to "mentally disabled." These shifts occurred because the vernacular use of the term became drastically different from t

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