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by dionidium 2y ago
https://icq.im/605080
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by dionidium 2y ago
> Early twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%, with some recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%. IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics for children, to bein
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by dionidium 2y ago
Sorry, I deleted that part right after posting it, because I thought it was a little bit uncharitable. But I stand by the general sentiment, and I would just say that in our system of law and government, we have decided to solve this proble
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by dionidium 2y ago
> Some among the medical staff and social workers involved in the case thought that Jenn reacted strangely to the discovery of her children’s injuries. She didn’t show emotion or seem bothered. Her affect was “flat,” according to the D.
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by dionidium 2y ago
These are medians.
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by dionidium 2y ago
No. This is obviously adjusted for inflation. https://twitter.com/johanknorberg/status/1780892502070898828
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by dionidium 2y ago
> A common view among Gen Z or younger Millennials I know is that not only will you have a lower quality of life than your parents (and your kids probably will too), you'll have a lower quality of life even to elder Millennials (wh
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by dionidium 2y ago
Yes, my (limited) understanding of the literature is that this is exactly what they do. You don’t see the same single-fatherhood effects when looking at the children of widows, for example.
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by dionidium 2y ago
It actually seems like it's the behaviors of other poor people , which those in poverty cannot escape, that "fucks people up." It's not privation. It's proximity to violence and abuse (both of which are highly corr
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by dionidium 2y ago
It also begs the question of nature vs. nurture. If researchers won't take this seriously, then nobody should take their findings seriously. It's almost impossible to untangle, "single-fatherhood leads to bad outcomes because
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by dionidium 3y ago
I always think of this from Aaron Swartz: > But let’s say you can narrow it down to one good one, and you can find the time to read it. You plunk down an absurd $30 (of which, I’m told, less than $3 goes to the author) for a bulky hardc
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by dionidium 3y ago
> As someone who lives in an area with plenty of high-density residential buildings And yet you live there, which means, presumably, that it's your best option relative to the alternatives. People should be allowed to choose livin
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by dionidium 3y ago
This is wrong in an important way (that's quite relevant to message boards like this one, about which you'll often hear that arguing about controversial subjects is pointless because nobody ever changes their mind). Basically, nob
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by dionidium 3y ago
"Paycheck to paycheck" is not an official term or (to be frank) even a meaningful one. The fact is that Americans are extraordinarily wealthy and by no reasonable measure are "most" of them "low income." See:
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by dionidium 3y ago
This is sort of true, but confused, because it's land that has value, not housing, and the value of land increases when it's upzoned. [0] [0] It's of course not increased when government unilaterally constructs low-inco
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by dionidium 3y ago
It’s a pretty typical YIMBY prescription. I’m just careful to emphasize the market-rate nature of it, since some YIMBYs are sensitive to attacks from the left and quick to assure people that they also support public housing, etc. My view is
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by dionidium 3y ago
I'd dramatically increase by-right permitting while at the same time assuring people that whatever gets created will be market-rate. The government shouldn't be in the social engineering business, one way or the other. In my perfe
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by dionidium 3y ago
I'm as capitalist as they come, but I don't see how it's tenable that we created a system in which if you were in a good position to buy in 2020, then you got a huge windfall, but if you weren't, then you're probabl
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by dionidium 3y ago
It’s not 2015 anymore and I’m not going to have a conversation with you about whether cancel culture is real or if maybe actually everybody complaining about it just simply deserved it. If you want to have that debate, then you’re going to
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by dionidium 3y ago
Why don’t you just say explicitly what you’re trying to imply and save everybody the bother of guessing.
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by dionidium 3y ago
> You're in a country with no worker protection for that to be scary? Almost all employment in the United States is "at-will" and you can be fired for practically any reason and with no notice. > And if you are, do y
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by dionidium 3y ago
David Shor was fired for pointing out (with data) that riots are electorally counterproductive, for example.
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by dionidium 3y ago
> I can't understand people saying it's better now. Those things are all bad, but they're fairly easy to ignore. I much prefer random sexbot spam to the hysterical culture that was ascendant on Twitter in, say, 2018. I t
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by dionidium 3y ago
I find X to be far more enjoyable than at any time in the past, but I suspect that's because we have different politics. Peak unusability on Twitter for me was, say, 2016-2021, a period during which people who disagreed with me on ther
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by dionidium 3y ago
The President pardoning a turkey is an expression of meat-eating culture, not vegetarianism -- we eat turkeys; that's why the symbolism works -- and meat-eating is indeed the dominant culture.
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by dionidium 3y ago
This is why I don't worry too much about AI. It can write the code better and faster than I do? Wow, you just freed up 5% of my day.
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by dionidium 3y ago
I can carry one of those in each arm or maybe three total bags, if I balance it right. With the plastic ones I can get just about the whole trunk-load wrapped around my wrists and up the stairs in one go.
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by dionidium 3y ago
That's great! I'm sure there exist thousands of high-conscientiousness hard-workers just like you who are taking the time they spent commuting and pouring it back into work. Forums like Hacker News are filled with this kind of per
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by dionidium 3y ago
It's a countervailing force. You can tell because when people are challenged to say explicitly how they think it's made them more productive they say stuff like, "I can get the laundry done in the afternoon" or "it&
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by dionidium 3y ago
It's wild that this has become unchallenged conventional wisdom. There's basically no evidence for it: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1690894492688437248 Young people own homes at higher rates tha

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