econcon

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by econcon 7y ago
Yea but with Mongol archers, taller you are the easier you are to hunt down.
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by econcon 7y ago
In which case, only way forward for short people is to become very famous and pray that atleast few people in the room know you.
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by econcon 7y ago
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."
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by econcon 7y ago
Do you know anyone in your community who don't have enough to eat but yet they are tall?
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by econcon 7y ago
My new theory is that, Dutch were already selecting for "tall strature" for long time (maybe 10 generations) even when they were on average much shorter than rest of the Europe because of mostly malnutrition. But why were they agg
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by econcon 7y ago
Mongols had no problem going Europe and dominating much taller tribes. Yes, it could be why Scandinavian are taller but East Europeans are not, maybe Scandinavian never faced enemies like Mongols? So in Scandinavia always solo fight (sword&
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by econcon 7y ago
Even if average height is quite high. There will still be people on both sides of the bell curve much taller and much shorter than average people exists. So basically, it will look like as it looks anywhere else. Pretty sure there are 6&#x2
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by econcon 7y ago
It's been 150 years, roughly 3 generations can fit in that. Also, you are improving average height of population here, so if you simply remove a lot of people with below average height, average benefits a lot.
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by econcon 7y ago
Yea, but if we've average 165, there will be some taller than 165 and some shorter than 165. We might as well have someone 190, we can use them to breed tall population. And but how do you achieve that just using nutrition? Effect of n
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by econcon 7y ago
>That doesn't happen in human societies where most males will have a chance to breed. How do you know most males get chance to breed in our society? Just because a lot of men end up married and have kids to show doesn't mean th
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by econcon 7y ago
Thinking about it more. I think tall men are not necessarily more successful at warfare or sea faring where people of short stature might have more advantage due to needing less food. For example, Mongol archers could definitely kill enemie
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by econcon 7y ago
Reminds me of the article I read recently about Pharos of Egypt where royal males were consistently taller than average men and royal females were shorter than average female of the time. I wonder how can tall gene flow in a way that they a
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by econcon 7y ago
Most people are fixated on nutrition to make people taller but nutrition can only do so much. Imagine if you've a goal to increase height of people from 165 to 190cm with minimum number of generations. How will you go about it. Easiest
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by econcon 7y ago
>Dutch were really short because of malnutrition. It's hard to be malnutritioned. Can you link why only Dutch were malnutritioned and not other Europeans? You don't really lose much height through lacking diet. My grandmother w
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by econcon 7y ago
>significant part of the population comes from Balkans, those immigrants are actually "improving" the average. Aren't Turks the biggest immigrant group?
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by econcon 7y ago
I don't understand, why tall people will have more kids? And why they didn't have more kids before the time when they were shortest? What could drive tall people having more kids in last 150 year when they went from shortest to ta
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by econcon 7y ago
>for why this phenomenon only happened in the Netherlands, and not it's neighbors Belgium, Germany or Scandinavia. They were already tall no? Were they ever shortest in Europe?
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Dutch went from shortest to tallest in Europe through sexual selection(royalsocietypublishing.org)
56 points by econcon 7y ago|97 comments
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by econcon 7y ago
>What good reason do you think there is not in spending money to stop poor people from having kids? Dystopian world where people aren't allowed to have kids, just because they are poor? Much better is to make sure poors have enough
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by econcon 7y ago
One area where I think we need this is SARMs. I am still waiting for an steroid/SARM which has Anabolic properties but doesn't cause baldness, left ventricular hypertrophy, plaque accumulation through lipid ratio change and other
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by econcon 7y ago
>Nuclear power is the only solution but decades of delusion have made it impossible to build anywhere. In short industrial civilization will be non-viable in the tropics by the 2050s and world wide by the 2100s. I wonder why they don&#x2
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by econcon 7y ago
>And dating addicted gamer that also drinks or takes drugs sounds like special kind of hell. It would just make her suffer in bad relationship where she has no meaningfull companion and partner. That happened once they accepted that they
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by econcon 7y ago
>I am lonely because my friends have all married and moved away to start families. Why don't you have a family and kids?
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by econcon 7y ago
Loneliness is because people have convinced themselves that the cost of being with someone is bigger than the reward of being with someone. The immediate cost of being alone is going down. We need to understand, no matter how much a person
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by econcon 7y ago
First of all there is no need for people to trottle globe needlessly, all Instagram culture and people every person on earth dreaming of seeing same locations as photographed on Instagram is vanity. Why we've to damage our planet so mu
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by econcon 7y ago
I've always wondered why we've learn a specific music instrument and I say this after learning flute (simple bamboo one I bought from India) Even without music theory or knowledge of specific instrument we are able to hum or vocal
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by econcon 7y ago
I think they believe that every thought that comes to them is the part of common consciousness of the cosmos.
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by econcon 7y ago
>Please, tell me more about the genetic mechanism behind religiosity, let alone 'everything'. Which genes are involved, how does the epitaxis play out, which pathways are influenced I've seen people here claiming that Asia
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by econcon 7y ago
>Ah yes, the famously identified "career women" and "divorcee" genes with well-known genetic pathways. It doesn't require direct genetic pathway, imagine if assertiveness or dominance is comes from specific hormo
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by econcon 7y ago
>I don't get this comment. Subjectively, how am I supposed to justify that I find PUA crap repulsive? I just do. FDS differs from PUA in that they want to settle for a man who is valuable to them and PUA just goes through women one

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