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by jlawson 7y ago
The birth ratio tends towards near 1:1 though it is not 1:1, the population gender ratio can be heavily skewed by different death rates, as can reproductive patterns. i.e. did you know that genetic analyses have revealed that ancestrally, o
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by jlawson 7y ago
>The commenter in the first case is supporting a marginalized group; the commenter in the second is attacking one. It's remarkable that you apparently can't even conceive of how someone could not believe one or both of these st
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Let's try it from another point of view: We'll pay cops per criminal they get convicted, or per ticket they write. Can you imagine some negative side-effects?
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Add on to that the massive tax break they get on they endowment's huge investment earnings. Harvard is a hedge fund with a school attached. They should be taxed like one.
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Even if you ignore the legacy admissions issue, if you count Jews as a separate group, gentile whites are the most underrepresented group at Harvard.
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>Someone lacking relevant market skills or education etc can go out and fix that. Not really, if they lack economic resources, have dependents, have low IQ, low grit, or lots of other reasons. Ultimately it comes down to what parts of a
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by jlawson 7y ago
You seem to think the law is the be-all end-all definition of perfect moral reasoning. The law is not God's word. It's open to criticism, and we're criticizing it. If you want to participate in the discussion, great. But, &qu
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Not animal farming. Replicants of animals. Remember the snake and the owl in the original movie?
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Because the non-immigrants who don't want to live among foreigners tend to leave and/or not move in. Simple self-selection. Real life example of someone like this would be John Cleese, who moves from London to Bath after London lo
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I believe in the movie it is implied that the protein is used on replicants of humans, or of animals which are then consumed by humans. Though it's never really that clear, I suppose.
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by jlawson 7y ago
The first scene in Blade Runner 2049 takes place in a 'protein farm'. The farmer grows parthogenic worm-like creatures in pits filled with some sort of nutrient goo. Parthogenic means they can reproduce asexually, and they're
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And yet from the point of view of the one who everyone is discriminating against, the feeling is pretty similar: Everyone rejects me and there's nothing I can do about it.
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If Stallman's email made anyone feel 'unsafe', either that person has serious mental issues for such they should seek therapy, or they are pretending/self-generating these emotions as a way of gaining political leverage
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Which rich people do you think all that money came from exactly? This is an absurd fixed-pie view of reality.
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Remind me of Robin Hanson's Age of Em. Ems are human minds copied into computers and executable there. Being easy to copy, you can spin up as many Elon Musks as you need. And if you have the brain state stored, every day you can have t
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by jlawson 7y ago
It's the potatoes that are saving them. Potatoes have basically everything you need to be healthy, in the proportions you need them. Carbs, protein, vitamins - you name it. There are people who have lived for years on nothing but potat
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I know some of these words.
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Even that sounds like a lot, so it's important to compare to other causes of death in the same time period. Just a random comparison: 200 per year for mass shootings. 3,536 per year for drowning not related to boats. 332 additional per
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It takes at least three layers: Interpretation Layer 1: He's mocking critics who were saying he wouldn't accept the outcome. Since he's mocking, he's not serious. You have to interpret a mocking response as serious. Inte
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by jlawson 7y ago
>James Damore outright stated that he believes that women are genetically inferior at the job he does. Outright ? Certainly not. It requires multiple layers of hostile interpretation to reach 'women are genetically inferior' f
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by jlawson 7y ago
What part of Damore's memo do you think was 'discriminatory' in an 'unacceptable' way? Please be specific, because this is into bizarro-world territory from my point of view. I read it and saw an attempt at proposin
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by jlawson 7y ago
"He outright said he wouldn’t accept the outcome if he lost." This is a is objectively untrue. You cannot find an in-context quote of Trump saying this 'outright'. You need to apply several layers of hostile interpretati
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by jlawson 7y ago
A lot of people seem to be down on this, citing GPS and other traditional numeric systems. But I think this is much better for police specifically. For reasons that are not about data or systems so much as physical practicality. Consider ci
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by jlawson 7y ago
Bizarre to combine "immigrants are subhuman" with "I prefer my own nation". The first of these statements is mindless hate supported by a fringe of a voiceless fringe. The second is a common belief within nearly every hu
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by jlawson 7y ago
The thing about voting is, the purpose is not to increase the quality of the decision. The practical purpose of voting is simply to avoid civil war. Without voting, a large group of people who are being acted against have no choice but to u
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by jlawson 7y ago
>social ownership of the means of production Slightly off topic but can you clarify what 'social ownership' means, exactly? I've been trying to figure this out for a few weeks now. I just ask since you seem to know. Wikipe
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by jlawson 7y ago
You're right. I was thinking of things like rocket physics (the US gained many great engineers and physicists from German and to some degree Russia). Example would have been better if I specified "rocket physics" or "air
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The fundamental difference is that calculus, physics, type theory etc are all studies of what is . The goal is simply to describe and predict the world. Ethics is the study of what one ought to do. It purports to lift some values over ot
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by jlawson 7y ago
Okay, I'll retract "Nobody was ever against Katie" since clearly some individuals, somewhere, were. Of course there were people who were awful to her. In any controversy, some Internet weirdos are awful to everyone involved.
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>White men are around 35%, so it's weird that this very vocal and pearl-clutching portion of the population commits so many murders per capita. Men commit more murders than women (in all places and times). In America, whites commit

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