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by bsanr2 6y ago
You're right to be suspicious. The studies that this figure are drawn from are generally twin studies based in wealthy Western nations. Heritability tends to increase with wealth, economic equality, and ethnic homogeneity, all of which
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Homosexuality is potentially bad for the perpetuation of an individual's genetic line (sexuality is a spectrum, and a percentage if not a majority of homosexual men and women would be open to procreation given a suitable social framewo
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by bsanr2 6y ago
BLM did not use Molotov cocktails. BLM is largely-non-violent. BLM was not the only faction involved in this summer's protests, and even in the cases of major property damage that did occur, were not the perpetrators.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
They stormed the Capitol armed.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The latter. Usually when my Microsoft Surface Book 2 (the flagship consumer device, for context) BSODs for the third time in a day because MS couldn't be assed to fix compatibility/thermal issues with the graphics card that was on
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Bryant was, in fact, a major international celebrity. He was among the most popular players in a sport with global reach - his jersey was the highest-selling for many years - and represented the US in 2 Olympic gold medal runs, including wh
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Kobe Bryant's death is arguably the most infamous of a year defined by death. This is the only HN post mourning Gunn; again, there were dozens of attempts to give HN readers a place to mourn Bryant's death in a venue they found co
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Tempted to flag on principal. I have no idea who this person is, yet he's front-paged in the same year that every post concerning Kobe Bryant's passing was dead-modded in some weird way (search his name and there are dozens of pos
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Happy to provide a vital service to society.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I'm surprised, I distinctly remember The Great Pumpkin Waltz being on the CD we had, which goes back at least to 2000.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Angst and zeitgeist don't decimate the American tongue. If you want us to adopt verschlimmbessern, drop one of the Ms and one of the Ses and get Muppets to sing a song about it.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
More like ruined. Manufacturers chasing that form factor, even for mobile workstations, has allowed them to justify a pivot away from user serviceability, and has also introduced major thermal/battery issues which have hobbled machines
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by bsanr2 6y ago
My father would play Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for ACBC every fall and winter°, on his big tower speakers that were older than I was, loud enough to be heard around whatever house we happened to be living in at the time. Subsequently
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Correct, as to my intent (I probably should not have capitalized the P). The taboo nature of facial tattoos is simply the evolution of a revulsion towards tattoos in general among "polite" American society. Until very recently, vi
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Facial tattoos are a traditional practice for many ethnic groups. Many modern practitioners feel that they're reclaiming a practice that was persecuted under American Puritanism. It's not that there can't be reasonable appear
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by bsanr2 6y ago
There's a typo, I believe it means to say that the industry is $50 billion, as the video game industry does roughly $150 billion in business a year (which is crazy, as it was only $65 billion when I was in school in the 2000s).
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I don't see how it's different from what already exists. If you're questioning them, why not Gates, Bezos, [redacted], [unknown], etc.?
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by bsanr2 6y ago
>Now the authorities must decide whether anyone at Vega breached market rules by joining forces to push down prices—or if they simply pulled off one of the greatest trades in history. Couched in these terms, it's really difficult no
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by bsanr2 6y ago
It's been well known for a while among those who are honest, with themselves and with the evidence, that degree requirements are mostly a cultural gatekeeping exercise for entry-level work. That isn't to say that training and expe
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by bsanr2 6y ago
The focus for education is often way too much on the actual instruction (whatever form it may take) rather than the "life structure" the learning takes place in. Let's look at this guy's situation: >He wasn't wor
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Hard to know, considering that said extensive training/practice is not as well-known as other basketball-related training, and that the practice of fielding players who would benefit from it is discouraged. That said, a quick search of
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by bsanr2 6y ago
1) Slavery ended 150 years ago, not 300. 2) Second and third-generation descendents of slaves are still alive. In other words, people who conceivably would have benefited directly from their grandparents or great-grandparents receiving subs
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Black Americans whose families go back far enough have substantial Native American ancestry, actually, having been treated similarly as an underclass during the early years of English/Dutch colonization of North America. It's hard
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Depends on where in Africa (which is, famously, not a single country). Ghana has encouraged immigration with the promise of citizenship; Mauritania is not quite so hospitable. Liberia's situation is interesting in that it was one of se
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Muggsy re:the NBA has always stood out to me as an example of the failure of a supposedly efficient market due to a massive but unintuitive oversight. It would be one thing if he had just been a middling player, but even with the MASSIVE he
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by bsanr2 6y ago
When posters from rural areas complain about "coastal elites" (often a dogwhistle for PoC) stealing from their hard-earned living via taxes, this is one of the things that flashes through my mind. So many - SO many - of America&#x
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Is it comparable to a Ponzi scheme? It doesn't seem like Bitcoin relies on a constant influx of cash, simply the belief that any given holder desiring to exchange for USD will get x amount for it.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Cory Doctorow posted an excellent thread yesterday on the dysfunction inherent in automated IP-related moderation: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1337605157777862656
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by bsanr2 6y ago
A political discussion need not be divisive. Again, it's not good that so many have been convinced that it must be.
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I think the point is to realize that the unthinkable could be happening to you. We don't know until we know, and by then it may be too late.

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