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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Not entirely true, standardized testing kind of breaks down for really low income populations. It's a good proxy for a population living in a functional environment and attending school regularly, but a poor one in highly dysfunctional
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Correlation does not imply causation.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Low IQ people can only be educated to the extent of their abilities. If anything, they need specialized education which is more rote-learning based and slower than that of the general population. Maybe you think that education increases int
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability . Perhaps you meant that at any given time, the heritability of a trait depends on the "state" of the population, and that heritability values can change over tim
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Huh, what? Are you talking about the appearance of new genetic mutations? I think evolutionary timescales are a bit longer than a few generations. Anyway, I don't understand how this is supposed to explain what heritability is...
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Points 1 2 and 4 are pretty well studied in academia concerning intelligence. Intelligence is defined as "g", and it's 60 to 80% heritable depending on the study (leaning towards 80%). More info for the curious: https:/
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Seems like you learned the hard way that social skills are an important part of thriving in a social hierarchy. I recommend you read books on how to deal with people.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Interesting. I've actually developed a Lacroix addiction and feel constantly thirsty. Maybe I should tone it down a little...
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Sounds insanely boring. All the people interviewed come off as misanthropes.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Google is just as bad as Facebook but they don't get this constant negative media coverage.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I'm really curious if there's a deeper reason for why companies are suddenly thrown under the bus by the mainstream media, or if it's just journalists mimicking each other because they lack imagination. First Elon, now Zuck.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
It's actually thanks to his healthy McDonalds based diet.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Haha I actually bought that book after hearing about it in a HN thread.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
That book is about the application of eugenic policies to spread the nordic race, which the author alleges is superior to other races. I agree that it is pseudoscientific in regard to its theories of racial superiority, but it does not refu
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
How is telling starving people not to have 8 kids per woman and providing them with free condoms "genocide" exactly?
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I personally oppose eugenics from a moral standpoint. I was just quibbling with the assertion that eugenics does not work because of a "misunderstanding on how DNA works". If that's the case I&#x27
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
How is eugenics wrong (in the scientific sense, not the moral sense)? It seems to work pretty well with plants and some animals (dogs, horses, etc.)
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I fully support this idea, but I wonder if it will impair the ability to collaborate academically.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Works for me in Chrome. I assume it's cookie based, so it should work? I noticed that Chrome incognito keeps cookies until all incognito tabs are closed, so maybe close them, open a new incognito session and then reopen the page.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Incognito mode works too
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> You are moving the goalposts. You first asked why only Soros was being targeted and not other liberal, Jewish billionaires. How I am moving the goalposts? The initial comment I replied to was "There's a reason why George Soro
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> I don't understand what you're so skeptical about. What is the standard of evidence for antisemitism you're seeking? I suppose a good counter example would be liberal jewish billionaires being attacked despite not contri
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
If that were true, why George Soros and not other liberal jewish billionaires, who no doubt exist? I think it's absurd to state that he's not being singled out due to his political activities.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
He's the left wing Koch bros.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I wouldn't give up being able to use a computer for a billion dollars!
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
He simply operates on a higher level of abstraction, above the low level interface which constitute a mouse and keyboard.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> so I’m at a loss to explain why so many of my relatives thought they were descended from a Native American. Because it's cool
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
If I needed 24/7 monitoring that's when I'd kill myself.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I think I'd rather kill myself than ever go live in a nursing home. I suppose the only way I'd accept is if I had late stage dementia and didn't realize where I was.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
The Spanish silver mines actually ended up bankrupting Spain by causing runaway inflation. Not really a good example!

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