m-photonic

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by m-photonic 13y ago
"They're rather specialized, and there are lots of other jumpers that don't have them, so there must be some kind of advantage." Not necessarily. Evolution has a lot to do with path dependence and in no way guarantees th
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Your analogy completely misses the point. Studies show promiscuous men tend to have better than average accuracy in their assessments of their own attractiveness. This makes sense; having had more experience flirting with women, they have a
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>I have exact same problem with how I perceive woman and man having multiple sexual partners. "Good key opens many locks, but good lock is opened by only one key" and all that bullshit - I know that it's ridiculous to hold woman and men
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>The Finnish schools are equal in the sense that socio-economic background has a smaller effect on study outcomes than elsewhere Wouldn't Finland's flatter income distribution be a potential confounding variable in this case? When the d
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by m-photonic 15y ago
It's misleading to discuss matters of ethnic demographics in such terms as "diversity" and "immigration." The fact of the matter is, while immigrant and/or minority status can be a variable in its own right, it's usually just a proxy for ef
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by m-photonic 15y ago
I don't deny that past eras took their hidden psychological tolls as well -- for example, "the problem that has no name" that Betty Friedan wrote about. However, the fact that women's self-reported happiness levels have declined considerabl
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>Cultures are self-modifying based upon changing conditions. Yes, and like biological evolution, cultural evolution has no foresight. Birth control may have facilitated these cultural changes by removing the most obvious downside to pro
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by m-photonic 15y ago
I wouldn't call it "a lie that people agree to believe," I'd call it an ideal that people may or may not live up to. All cultures have ideals, and they have a strong impact on the direction of a society even if people don't live up to them
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>My own cynicism grew enormously after witnessing the dramatic change that money brought into women's attitude toward me. This isn't necessarily because these women are after your money, though I'm sure that's true for some of them. The
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Perhaps the worms themselves are vulnerable to smaller parasites.
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by m-photonic 15y ago
You and I may think bringing race into the discussion of hiring practices is completely unnecessary, but the federal government doesn't. That's the point. Hiring practices that select for cognitive ability are restricted (through the threat
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Whether you think the racial IQ gap is genetic or socioeconomic in origin is neither here nor there. The fact is that it exists, while the four-fifths rule that has been with us since Griggs v. Duke depends on the assumption that it doesn'
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>Prospective employers aren't allowed to effectively discriminate based on intelligence (no, really), so they can use possession of a degree as a proxy for it. Yep. Amy Wax has an excellent take on it here: "The combination of well-docu
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>It is occasionally possible, with a sample of genetic information about genes not under strong selection pressure, to make a reasonably accurate rough guess of the "race" categorization of many individuals. (I have read the article, an
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Employers used to give out aptitude tests all the time, prior to the rise of disparate impact lawsuits. Who knows how much better we could have gotten at testing these sorts of things if colleges hadn't essentially been granted a monopoly o
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Well, who has more debt? And what if we compare her to a high school graduate employed at a similarly low level rather than an unemployed dropout? There are PLENTY of reasons why it might not be worth it to spend as many years in education
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Well for one thing, you shouldn't look at it as an issue of "32 million surplus men." The hurt is going to be distributed more broadly throughout the entire male population. It's not like things like serial monogamy don't exist in China. Wh
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by m-photonic 15y ago
>I highly doubt that all those men will be satisfied with sexbots, no matter how realistic the Japanese will have made them by then. It doesn't matter if they're satisfied or not, so long as they don't become criminal or violent. Porn a
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by m-photonic 15y ago
Not really. The bulk of China's decline in birth rates can be ascribed to the same demographic cycle that all developed countries go through rather than to the one child policy. In fact the policy itself only affects a certain percentage of
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I don't see why that should make it unfeasible; China is still the wealthier country of the two, after all.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>Canada has demographics comparable to the US's I suppose so, if you aren't including race in your demographic profile. That happens to be an area where the US and Canada diverge significantly.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I don't know, to me it looks like the bit about Americans of Scandinavian stock is just a throwaway line that has nothing to do with the point they're actually making, which is that the observed correlations are mainly just a product of the
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>And magenta? It comes from full R and B with no G, activating Filter #1 full-positive, Filter #2 at zero. This doesn't seem right to me. If the second filter were at zero, you should have a pure red and not something with blue content
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>I imagine the progress in the North will be rapid For the most part, what I'm imagining is mass migration from the North to the South.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
HN poll?
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>Besides, 'fag' is an affectionate term to a /b/tard... Case in point: at the bottom of the page the survey author says to contact him at "resultsfag@yahoo.com" :-)
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by m-photonic 16y ago
site:4chan.org - 38/59/2 Huh.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Heh, at the time I posted I hadn't seen that the exact same site was actually linked in the article itself. Having now read the article I have to say this is a great idea for a site and I'll be following it with some interest. Also you sho
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by m-photonic 16y ago
The link is down for me, but I remember reading about this on another website; the coverage is probably of similar quality between the two. http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>Just because we're at our peak, doesn't mean we're still growing. In fact it would mean we're NOT still growing. The "peak," strictly speaking, would be the point where a function ceases increasing and begins to decrease.

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