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by jimmyk 10y ago
Could you describe to me how they looked different? I'm not looking for cultural body modifications, but descriptions like skin color, skull shape, and cranial capacity.
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by jimmyk 10y ago
1/7 to 1/14 is incredibly low for a race that had been in close proximity to another for over a hundred years. If there were no preference, or if there were a positive preference for interbreeding, you'd expect by that time n
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by jimmyk 10y ago
In what way were they clearly distinct? Was it their culture, i.e. how they spoke and how they dressed, or was it their genetics, i.e. how they looked?
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>Really? You think that walking up and trying to talk to one won't make it obvious which is which within about 30 seconds? I'm clearly talking about ethnic Frenchmen and ethnic Germans. I would not be able to tell an ethnic Ger
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>this argument applies to ethnic/language/religious groups in general, not just races OK, but that doesn't take away from the fact that it applies to races. >Sort of. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>Yes, but this ignores the geographic inhomogeneity of both populations. For example, in Boston blacks were a much smaller fraction than 20%. The fact that the races end up living in different areas is strong evidence that when put in cl
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>That said, genetic analysis of African-American populations shows a significantly higher percentage of European-origin genes than can be accounted for by marriage rates, yes? Yes, and a much lower percentage of European genes than you&#
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by jimmyk 10y ago
I'm not suggesting they're the same thing at all. They're just the best approximation I could quickly find any decent statistics for. What were these higher rates you refer to? Were they as high as would be expected if humans
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>whereas humans rather enthusiastically behave in the opposite fashion. What are the worldwide rates of interracial marriage? I see in the US (a country where the majority race makes up about 60% of the population) that it's now aro
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by jimmyk 10y ago
>any government is isomorphic to a perfect "Libertopia" where a single corporation owns everything. Do you not think the common belief that governments are of, for, and by the people, compared to the common belief that business
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by jimmyk 11y ago
>the world's needs can and will be met by fewer and fewer people Perhaps, but jobs also exist to fulfill wants, and there's no end to those.
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by jimmyk 14y ago
Why do you believe google owes you access to data you put on their servers beyond what they choose to offer as part of their service? They are under no obligation to offer you any service of any kind in the first place. Why should they not
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by jimmyk 15y ago
Species are an attempt to label a continuous phenomenon with discontinuous labels. Sometimes the cutoff point is the ability to produce fertile offspring, but that doesn't work all the time. It's always going to be very subjective.
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by jimmyk 15y ago
It's not compatible with the original Pre or Pixi. It's compatible with the veer, which just came out, and the pre3, which doesn't even have a release date yet. It might be compatible with updated versions of the Pre2 but I don't think they
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by jimmyk 15y ago
> I can't recall if it still keeps a small reminder icon on the bottom. It does this if you don't swipe it away and you interact with some other app. So, if I'm writing an emial and a text message comes in, it will show up with the full
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by jimmyk 15y ago
Yup, and it took me over two months to get a Pre after it came out. And I was the first to get one from that Sprint store.
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by jimmyk 15y ago
I can't imagine it's possible to successfully sue someone for damages that were caused by a court decision.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
It seems to me like that kind of concentrated power would be capable of vaporizing any small particles (or even turning them into plasma briefly) in the way.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
The fifth amendment only applies in criminal cases. If you are in a civil case where the gag order comes up then you have no such protection. "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
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by jimmyk 16y ago
The first amendment guarantees free speech from being prosecuted criminally, not civilly. If your speech causes harm to come to someone or someone's property, then you can be prosecuted criminally just the same as you can be prosecuted crim
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Voting cannot be considered a negative right. I have no more of a negative right to tell the individuals in my government what to do than they have to tell me what to do. I do have the negative right to give them the privilege of governing
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by jimmyk 16y ago
The author does have a few indicators that his teacher was in the top tier; the teacher trained special forces troops, the best mountain climbers, and ski racers. These are people who you can trust to be among the best trained in general fi
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by jimmyk 16y ago
For your analogy, he couldn't write "hello world" in C before writing the article. Before finishing the article, he was able to write software better than the vast majority of developers. While writing the article, he received training an
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Yes that's a good point. I edited my comment before I saw your reply and once after I saw your reply. I'm not too familiar with CALEA but it seems to be an example of the phenomenon I was describing. It began as a way for law enforcement to
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by jimmyk 16y ago
No it certainly doesn't have anything to do with that. However it does set the precedent that the FCC can set rules for how businesses operate their networks, and once that precedent is set it will become much easier to extend it to regulat
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by jimmyk 16y ago
> That a fundamental human right is being denied to a company? Which one? The right to freely trade with whoever they want on terms that are mutually agreeable to both parties with no coercion involved. >Why should companies have fu
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by jimmyk 16y ago
That seems to be a complaint about corporations themselves, as in the legal entities granted immunities by their government. I'm not about to defend them in any fashion.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
I would consider a design problem like that a bit worse than an arbitrary limit, from both the perspective that the artificial limit demonstrates someone considered that edge case and the perspective that the arbitrary limit will probably b
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by jimmyk 16y ago
Well, some websites do have some business telling you your password isn't secure enough. If someone cracks your bank password, the bank is liable for the money lost.
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by jimmyk 16y ago
>Um, be drafted? Pay taxes? Yes. We can force each other to play by rules. Taxes are a (perhaps) necessary evil. It is best not to use necessary evils as precedent for other infringements on human rights. And drafts are also an infringe

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