lkjhdcba

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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
"isolationism"
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
My personal theory as to why chess isn't that popular in the US - and why the US produces relatively few world-class players given its very large talent pool - is that chess at a high level involves a large number of draws. The last
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Lol every time a piece like this gets posted some 'experts' come out of the woodwork and go like 'but what if women actually liked having low-paying low-status jobs though? Something something population differences something
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
I can't be the only one thinking that treating dating as some kind of MMORPG you have to grind through is somewhat, I don't know, creepy? And the comments aren't exactly reassuring. It's all about response rate, market v
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
I'm sorry, how does history require fewer hours than chess? Are you a historian or chess player? What does history 'performance' even mean?!
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
"there is no denying that people have different thinking speeds" -> "IQ is a real, relevant and construct-valid metric" What is the IQ needed to draw this implication?
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Genetics happens to be my field and...yeah. IQ is just too far removed from an actual mechanistic explanation ("gene X does this which interacts which gene Y whose coding protein triggers a cascade onto receptor Z of the brain which...
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
I believe it was a twitter thread that he unrolled and mashed up into a medium post. On twitter he's often abrasive and kind of a dick as a character, and the tone carried into this post. He's doubled down about it because his ran
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
I'm pretty sure this (or at least sticking to kana) was attempted shortly after 1945 but was abandoned because of the sheer number of homophones.
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
I've always wondered why so many toilets in the US seem to have see-through holes: you can be seen below the knees, between the hinges and if you're tall enough, above your neck. I've been told that this anti-privacy design w
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Nassim Taleb wrote a thorough rebuttal of IQ as a concept, if you can trudge through the math: https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-... It's also worth noting that no one in the field of neu
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Your study is based in the States, which has a long history of segregating cultures and even language according to ethnic lines. On the other hand, I mean is that both Switzerland and Germany have a diversity of peoples, cultures and langua
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
>Say a company introduces a policy that when men pass all the interviews, the company flips a coin and if heads they get an offer and no offer if it's tails. Women just get an offer after passing the interviews. Does this discrimina
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
What do you mean by homogeneity ? Do you mean as opposed to heterogeneity such as what is found in the many different cultures, peoples and language across Swiss cantons or German landers, or is it really just "people looking differ
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
TL;DR: a very entry-level article about the field of popgen ("what is a genome?") and how the "breakthrough" is representing multiple sequence alignments as compact binary matrices. There's very little explanation o
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Damore did not get fired for the debunked evopsych nonsense. He got fired by stating the following assumptions: 1) Google does "diversity programs" to increase their number of female employees 2) These programs involve "lower
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Yes LGBT people should dispassionately discuss with homophobic and transphobic folks by rationally engaging them in the marketplace of ideas. "You know, you think my sexuality is an abomination that should not exist and I will go to he
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
They are real but greatly exaggerated by people using the aforementioned rhetoric and completely surmountable. People who claim they aren't are either trying to push an agenda (usually on authoritarian, nationalistic, and/or warmo
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Sometimes things are black and white though. The Chinese government is bad, and undermining it in any way, including through violence, is good. Nuance for its own sake is not a virtue [1]. [1] https://kieranhealy.org/publica
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
This view is not controversial at all in HN where techno-libertarian crowds abound, and these are often adjacent to more authoritarian circles (see NRx/Moldbug et al.). It's also wrong. If it were true, modern democracies would no
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by lkjhdcba 7y ago
Lol, I'll assume the OP recently returned from one of the many European trance festivals (Mo:dem, maybe?) and discovered a new passion :-) The comments are on point: the best thing about psytrance is the community, and the extremely