doombolt

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by doombolt 8y ago
So many people have zero understanding of mathematical modelling but insist that they're in position to judge research in this area from moral standpoint. It's The Holy Inquisition, crowdsource edition.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Thank you! So I went through more than half of abstract versions and the article itself, struggle to find anything scandalous there. I persuade everyone to do the same.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Monogamy is something that is mathematically well defined.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Yes it is a good thing, as far as my opinion is concerned.
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by doombolt 8y ago
> so maybe our society just isn't mature enough yet to have that conversation. Basically you're telling us that "maybe" you should have the power to censor us. For some values of (you, us). Maybe not. Definitely not.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Can you please add links for your pp. 1-4? Otherwise it looks like you assume the result of this path without helping us actually walk it.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Don't see why the math should be serving your taste. Nowhere in my message I am applying mathematics to a domain. I'm just stating that such math exists. Applying, or not applying, them to any real society is left as an exercise f
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by doombolt 8y ago
It's not a question of science. It's a question of math. Math is a model which allows you to over-simplify other scientific fields in the first place, and then devise solutions which turn out to be useful even in their over-simpli
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by doombolt 8y ago
E.g. do you want a real eye opener? In a monogamous society, given that Darwin's observation about increased male variability holds, when partitioning by desirability, women in the top half will have access to males with desirability g
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by doombolt 8y ago
He's not criticizing the mathematical model, rather the application of this model to modern human society, which is something that nobody ever claimed. Straw man and a bad one at that. He does have some arguments but math is nowhere fo
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by doombolt 8y ago
> let me assure you that strong Chinese government will find a way to use all the freed up labour/capital resources, You're telling us that they have found The Holy Grail. Let me stay confident that it isn't the case.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Maybe they have more room but then they have catastrophic failure scenario like USSR and unlike liberal economies. Think Greece vs. Venezuela.
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by doombolt 8y ago
There's no longer any sexual liberation. Instead you are told that you need to be controlled from outside in order to not be taken advantage of. It's 50s once again?
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by doombolt 8y ago
Russia.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I don't think so. Leader for life == trouble.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I'm really unconvinced by Xi Jinping concentrating power. It does look like he desperately wants to be China's Putin (with the charisma of Medvedev), and there's nobody to stop him.
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by doombolt 8y ago
It's a question of culture. I live in a country with awful driving culture, but blaring horn is still considered very rude. Car alarms sometimes misfire, which is more of concern.
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by doombolt 8y ago
> they are investing so heavily in reducing corruption I am extremely sceptical about such claims. Claiming to fight corruption is usually more of PR stunt. To really fight corruption you have to do institutionalized changes, such as inc
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by doombolt 8y ago
Trolleybuses are not trams - you can still block them, but it takes much more effort. With Chinese city density and love of infrastructure I would have expected them to have a massive number of trolleybuses.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I wonder how EVs really compare to trolleybuses (tech from XX century) pollution and money-wise? EVs have more route flexibility, and don't need expensive infrastructure, but they need expensive (and polluting) batteries and spend idle
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by doombolt 8y ago
Big-screen TVs start from $150 these days so I think they should not be mentioned as splurge wealth anymore.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I have a hunch that space engineers have suddently invented Huffman coding. (Which leads to a general observation of "just throw in transparent compression instead of optimizing your data format") EDIT: s/encryption/comp
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by doombolt 8y ago
If you as a society ignore it and let it loose, why won't it? See GDPR as a solid example of trend reversal.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Yes, but people in Europe and US are among the last to be affected by Climate Change. This means they will only cooperate if you manage to not piss them off. Telling people they should not have a second child is very potent at pissing them
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by doombolt 8y ago
You're talking about Egypt suddently becoming uninhabitable. That's not the case here. The case is that first it will be capable of hosting 100 mln people, then shrink to 90, then to 80, etc... Each transition will probably take f
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by doombolt 8y ago
There is a case of Israeli-Egyptian border. Israeli don't have to actively kill Egyptians because they, for almost all purposes, can't enter. Nothing much wrong in having my daughter participate in some wall building.
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by doombolt 8y ago
> How many couples will have more than one child? I think this speech should be aimed at nations of Africa, Middle East and India. After all, they have way greater fertility rate than Europe, US and Far East, and they are also in greates
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by doombolt 8y ago
> there is nothing to stop this trend of ridiculous ToSs. That's easy right here. Let's just tax corporations 1¢ per user per word in their ToS.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Their second strong correlator is bicycle parking. Meaning you really have to understand the context for such correlations.
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by doombolt 8y ago
It is only a matter of comfort, and not survival, if you own a car and drive it around exclusively. If you own a car, well, impact(car) > impact(any number of pairs of shoes).

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