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by pcrh 5y ago
This reminds me of After Man: A Zoology of the Future, by Dougal Dixon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/586677.After_Man
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by pcrh 5y ago
"Deamidated" exists... Otherwise, it's fascinating!
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by pcrh 5y ago
How useful is that list if it includes words like fish, cards, redhead, Texas, and so forth?
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by pcrh 5y ago
The article shows raffia baskets containing tomatoes strapped to the top of fuel tankers. So they're not transported within the same space as the fuel.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Just for the density of jargon, this is quite an amusing post. I just hope your project is actually working out, though I can't tell from what you wrote.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Bypass in context refers to the development of the motorway system in the UK. It was sometimes deemed necessary to demolish existing villages, or similar, so that a new motorway would follow a shorter path. Specifically, the bypass would be
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by pcrh 5y ago
Polygenic scores are measures of the contributions of many genes to hereditability, what else do you think they are? There are two questions here: 1) What genes contribute to human intelligence? Evidently there are some, as the structure
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by pcrh 5y ago
It's interesting that you cite that Plomin article, since it actually concludes that only a small proportion of intelligence is genetically inherited. To quote: >Using years of education rather than intelligence per se, the meta-ana
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by pcrh 5y ago
To illustrate, there is almost no difference between the genetics of humans 20,000 years ago compared to today. Yet there is a vast difference in what people understand and how they interact with the world, i.e. there has been an increase i
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by pcrh 5y ago
No, it is quite clear that, between people, there is only a very small contribution of variation in genetics to variation in intelligence. This is independent of understanding how genes might affect intelligence.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Yes, the challenges faced by Millenials are different from those faced by their parents. But I don't think they are harder than those faced by previous generations.
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by pcrh 5y ago
These studies are highly powered statistically. One conclusion you can definitely draw is that common variation in intelligence is not primarily caused by common genetic variation. Evidently, our genes determine our brain, and are what make
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by pcrh 5y ago
Plenty of people are living a reality where they're doing better than their parents. I should think that includes a lot of the well-paid software industry readership of HN.
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by pcrh 5y ago
>Intelligence is largely (~70-80% of variance) inherited Also a scientist here.... Intelligence, however measured, is largely inherited. However, that inheritance is not genetic, but social. It's now been rigorously demonstrated tha
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by pcrh 5y ago
>so many unrelated events spanning multiple generations. That's the point; the world has always been turning. In terms of post-WWII economic history, the current "crisis" in the west is neither special nor very great.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Try telling that to all those laid off in the 1980's, or those who had to abandon family farms in the 1960's and 1970's, etc, etc. Ordinarily it is the older generation that looks to the past with rose-tinted spectacles. Mill
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by pcrh 5y ago
>Majority of millennials have never seen a time of economic prosperity in their lifetimes. It is the complete opposite to what their parents experienced. This exaggerated view is unfortunately quite common. It completely ignores the cris
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by pcrh 5y ago
This article about the history of Greco-Roman Palmyra recently posted here [0] shows that Palmyra citizens made their living as caravan traders ferrying goods from India and China to the Roman empire across the Syrian desert. It's like
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by pcrh 5y ago
>without context That's an effect of perspective. Knowing the fact that the "home made" appearance is deliberate changes the photos from being random bad photos to being commentary.
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by pcrh 5y ago
I think the point they are trying to make is that proto-language spoken by our ancestors would likely have had fewer components and reduced sophistication, as does whistling. So identifying the minimum requirements for comprehensible, yet
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by pcrh 5y ago
On the contrary, they stress that using whistling to discover fundamentals of communication using sound does not imply that whistling was the original form of communication by sound.
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Why Small Beats Big: The Hidden Cost of Too Many Voices(drugbaron.com)
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by pcrh 5y ago
There are plenty of contemporary parallels in political parties (who become government). The distinction with 1984 might be that the media is not entirely controlled by the government of the day, but that is not for want of effort.
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by pcrh 5y ago
Maybe they thought agc was a more peaceful, serine, choice?
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by pcrh 5y ago
Just under 4%, figure 3D https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(21)00977...
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by pcrh 5y ago
From that report it seems that the level of Denisovan DNA in modern Aya Magbukon is just under 4% (fig 3D), if I have understood it correctly. Otherwise they are about 90% Australasian, with 10-15% East Asian (Fig 1D). So there was quite a
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by pcrh 5y ago
That's my opinion exactly. I was impressed a few years ago when Apple wouldn't allow interference with a device that belonged to an unconvicted suspect (I can't remember the details, apologies). But this concession to unmonit
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by pcrh 5y ago
Yes. If I read the article correctly, the data in fact say you cannot determine whether the death rate in vaccinated people who become infected is different than in unvaccinated people. However, 1) it isn't clear if Frieden is working
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by pcrh 5y ago
I think we have a very poor chance of colonizing any other planets. We can barely manage to colonize the antarctic....
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by pcrh 5y ago
It's seriously distracting that the headline describes these recipients as "CNN contributors"....

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