jhpriestley

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by jhpriestley 6y ago
What bearing does this thought experiment have on our reality, where Nazi race science is completely false and discredited?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Ah, you're right, Marks clarifies that racists appropriated the term he coined ( http://anthropomics2.blogspot.com/2019/12/i-coined-phrase-hu... ). Siskind obviously was referring to the nazi/alt-right&#x2
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Hmm, which geneticist coined the term? Oh, it was VDARE contributor Steve Sailer? The one who writes about black genetic inferiority and Jewish control of the media?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Can you point out for me then where the order of magnitude suburban inefficiencies are accounted for?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If Walnut Creek paid an extra $9000/year for each resident then they could easily offset whatever extra environmental cost. Carbon offsets etc are not all that expensive.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Walnut creek (suburban city near San Francisco) budget is about $1500 per resident, Contra Costa county, which contains Walnut Creek, spends about $3500 per resident. San Francisco is like $14000 per resident.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
For reference of the many people who apparently have no clue, this is an example of a "hatchet job": https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-frau...
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
"They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers" funny line in a story that's basically just twitter/clubhouse drama
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If you read the news every day then you will certainly hear from the other half of the country. I just checked CNN's front page, and while most coverage focuses on the new President, these three articles all feature right-wing viewpoin
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I'd be curious to know more, I'll try to take a look at that book when I get a chance. Are you saying, though, that Nazi Germany was very poor relative to its neighbors (e.g. France, Poland, Italy) or relative to the world at the
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were major industrial centers with large cities, educated populations, newspapers, trains, etc. They were vastly richer than peasant societies like China or Mexico. For a somewhat objective example, look at t
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
A lot of the great wars of history have been instigated by rich countries - modern USA, Nazi Germany / Imperial Japan, Spanish Empire, British Empire, Napoleonic France, Roman Empire. This is my qualitative sense from studying history,
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I don't get the joke in naming a laptop after a Nazi stronghold, could someone explain it for me?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I don't really understand what you're referring to when you say that Iran has a choice to improve their people's lives today. The Iranian leadership talked to the USA and worked out a deal. The USA then went back on that deal
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Iran's, and North Korea's, strategies are working out pretty well for the people making those decisions. Khamenei, like Kim Jong-Il, looks set to die of natural causes at an advanced age. The people of Iran and North Korea are not
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Yes, why won't Iran simply disarm under US pressure, like Gaddafi and Saddam did?
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
this is quite an academic exercise since a decade of intensive research hasn't brought us close to working self-driving cars, much less 1x safe self-driving cars, much less 5x safe, nor is there any clear path to resolving this open re
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
The Rails people never went for SPAs though. Releasing another server-rendering AJAX thing for rails (previous was TurboLinks) no more represents "the pendulum swinging back" than a new version of COBOL that runs on mainframes rep
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
or "servers you don't control / can't debug / pay extra for"
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Insane that I can buy a fuel-cell Toyota but not an electric. The Hummer is actually going to go electric before the Camry. I get the feeling that Toyota wrote off existing Li-Ion batteries as not good enough to make a marketable car, focus
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If it is past exposures and disease resistence, how do you explain early spread in Wuhan? Why does Aus/NZ enjoy natural immunity but not Indonesia? Quarantines are effective against all infectious diseases and have been for centuries,
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If the goal is to prevent traffic fatalities then funding self-driving research must be one of the least effective methods. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent and no lives have been saved. If we could achieve cycling usage at the l
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
90% of PCR-positive subjects in the ENE-COVID test, for example, did also have a positive antibody test. So actual infection numbers might be ~10% higher than the raw numbers from the antibody tests (and I believe that this is factored into
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I don't quite know what to make of the WHO estimate. I can't find further details about it. I don't think it makes sense to take this estimate and try to extract an IFR from it. They could be suggesting that the IFR of the vi
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
If you look at the responses to that editorial, they note that the 11% positivity of igA tests, cited as suggestive of a high level of undetected infection, is actually the false positive rate of the test, among other embarrassing errors. T
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
The CDC estimate was from before we had any good studies using antibody prevalence. It was too low. The WHO estimates a fatality rate of 0.6%. If you are simply dividing deaths by (an estimate of) current cases then you will get an inaccura
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
1) I'm not a researcher and I can't claim to have a comprehensive view of the evidence, but I think there have been enough high-quality studies based on seroprevalence to give a good estimate. This one https://www.medrx
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
I've been reading about this virus daily since February and my impression has been the opposite. It's a very boring virus which has offered very few surprises. We knew since February that it is a flu-like respiratory disease with
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Damn, these are the same people who came up with that ridiculous antibody study which fueled the crackpot "widespread immunity" theory? They must have no shame to keep pushing their contrarian covid takes.
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by jhpriestley 6y ago
Clinton was in fact a centrist "third-way" democrat who often compromised or coopted Republican issues, e.g. welfare reform. Obama was not as much of a centrist but he was obstructed heavily by the opposition. I'll continue t

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