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by jlawson 4y ago
This is false: "The fact that you can do some symbolic inference on paper does not mean that you will be more successful in life" IQ, more than any other psychometric measure, predicts a wide variety of positive life outcomes incl
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by jlawson 4y ago
Not surprising when the penalty for giving away my personal info is apparently four dollars and sixty-six cents.
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Good info! So I guess the answer depends entirely on the precise journey you want the horse to take - specifically the terrain, elevation, surface, and cart wheels/bearings.
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It just seems like you're not even registering what the other side thinks. Like, a total non-awareness or non-acknowledgement of what the disagreement even is. You're simply assuming the conclusion - that the fetus/baby isn&#
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by jlawson 4y ago
Well, no amount of weight can make the horse slide backwards and there's no cost to taking more time. So under a simple model, you just want to add so much food that the horse can barely move. If the horse eats 20lbs per day (as note
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You are correct but that's not what anyone's discussing. If I search for "food", the reasonable result would be to get images that represent food according to its actual proportions of real life. E.g. if Pizza is the mos
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by jlawson 4y ago
They might be an easier target than you think. What could a dozen 1MT warheads, sunk to a depth of 100ft, do to submarines anywhere in the Great Lakes? Shockwaves travel through water much better than through air. Water explodes into steam
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by jlawson 4y ago
The value will have dropped, but the distributions/dividends you got in the meantime will have made up the difference. The fund and its underlying holdings must end up even in the end (minus fees).
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by jlawson 4y ago
Are you really unaware that pro-life people consider the unborn baby/fetus a "living person"?
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You can hold bond funds to the maturity date of the underlying bonds and get the same result (minus fees). But in either case, you still get whacked with inflation, which would show up on this chart as a drop.
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by jlawson 4y ago
Non-genetic descent is actually much stronger than that even. When genes are sexually recombined, they don't recombine randomly per-base pair, they're cut and recombined in big strips. The chromosomes actually only 'snip&#x27
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by jlawson 4y ago
I think it's not that everyone is chasing their extra 1.5 years at the end. People always did that as much as they could. A massive portion of healthcare spending (50%) goes to a tiny percentage of the population (<2%). We've g
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by jlawson 4y ago
I'm not commenting on the experience of being poor; I'm saying that the mentioned behavior isn't "part of being poor", it's part of being frugal.
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It's foolish to compare statistics about all Americans to small homogenous countries like Norway or Japan, as though the difference comes from policy. The people are completely different. How do the outcomes of Norwegians compare to th
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by jlawson 4y ago
It actually does, if you own the single dominant platform in the space where the conversations are happening. Speech isn't just about the act of saying, but also being able to be heard. Anyone can whisper to themselves in bed, but that
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by jlawson 4y ago
>(bought a new phone? Let's keep the old one even if it has a cracked screen, just in case... <throws phone into drawer full of hopelessly unusable and outdated electronic doodads>.) Never been poor; me and my whole family hav
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by jlawson 4y ago
What game was it?
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by jlawson 4y ago
It matches previous results like this one from 2015: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/1... More scholarly take on the same study: https://www.pnas.org/doi&#
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by jlawson 4y ago
In a free market, no actor has the ability to 'let housing be crazy expensive'. If you don't build, someone else will and they capture whatever profit is there. This is the core of how the free market works. People can only &
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by jlawson 4y ago
From the quote it seems obvious that the 'flight to Mars' comment is really focused on her own limited experience as a ""suburban midwestern teenager with a severe anxiety disorder". Not saying India is so weird it&
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by jlawson 4y ago
Alternatively, you're saying that if your labor isn't valuable enough to be worth a living wage, you shouldn't be allowed to work at all.
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by jlawson 4y ago
Several of today's biggest companies in the world were startups during the dotcom crash, and survived it, lost value, but then came back and took over the world. Perhaps investors are thinking that some of these companies might do the
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by jlawson 4y ago
The reason is because he has a stated principle that he would have to violate to do it through Twitter. He didn't violate any of his stated principles with his earlier actions. If he goes a year or two without taking such action, will
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by jlawson 5y ago
Okay, so the response is, "You deserve to be hurt because you're harmful so shut up"? Anyway, You're twisting words to try to pretend that "woke scolding" exclusively means "asking people to stop one-sided
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by jlawson 5y ago
No, not the case. I've been going to gyms for years. Have never spoken more than a single sentence to anyone there and 99.5% of the other people I see there are also training and not socializing. In fact I can specific remember one pai
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Plutocracy.
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Interesting to see the confirmation - Horizontal alignment (symmetry) is best for most animals because they really need to echolocate on the horizontal plane. For the few that don't, some have adapted!
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They're also info-compressed. You can re-use the same DNA for both sides. This means you have less meaningful information to maintain against random mutation pressure over time. Symmetry is also challenging to maintain and very visible
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by jlawson 5y ago
There's a huge infrastructure for game discovery - Dedicated subreddits with millions of subscribers, curators, massive infrastructure from companies like Valve (Steam) and Google to help discoverability, forums and discussion groups a
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by jlawson 5y ago
What I'm understanding is that my account would be fine if I had a bunch of other posts in between my existing ones, and the other posts were all about Java optimization or Apache version control or other "non-political" to

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