quantumofmalice

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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
This comes up once every few years. The confusion comes from the fact that java syntactically hides the pointer for objects, which feel kind of like structs. It doesn't matter too much IMO. Most people intuitively understand how obje
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
This may be reasonable advice for extreme extroverts, but many humans value stability and predictability over new experience, particularly when forming families. The majority of lifestyle-oriented media is produced with an extrovert bias an
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Your original thesis just got completely destroyed and now you are bring up unrelated speculative issues not explored in the article. Just admit that the marxist analysis doesn't hold much water in this case. That doesn't mean it
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
> It’d be cool if your and the other poster’s ideological spat could try to not use science as the battleground, or at least eliminate more likely issues before going there. I don't disagree. A big part of the problem is the soc
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The reproducibility crisis is most severe in the social sciences. Hard sciences like physics are on much firmer ground, and conflating the two is clownish. Social science research is funded almost entirely by the government[1]. It's
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
> pretty high 100 years ago irrelevant: there are no hard numbers for that and that's not the timeframe the article is discussing (since the 90s)
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Yes, I mean the people. The center doesn't want war right now either, despite the best efforts of the media to whip up a war frenzy. Our foreign policy is directed by people who do not care what the american people think.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The american left and right (and the maligned center) do agree on it, you can look at the polls on the syrian intervention. That's the insanity. Our foreign policy is controlled by people who do not care what we think.
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The article is the usual more-effort-is-needed pablum one expects from articles on education. Any analysis of American children that ignores demographics is silly. 44% of California children don't speak english at home. What on earth
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
The founders were against a standing army, preferring citizen-based militias. Looking at the behavior of Imperial America, one sees the wisdom. I suppose one bright spot in this otherwise dismal time is that both the left and the right mo
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Archived link since the site has been, ahem, brutalized: https://archive.fo/3W7yY There isn't really an argument for brutalism except laziness and the usual contempt the design community has for its end users. Minimal
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it" -- Andrew Jackson (apocryphal)
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by quantumofmalice 8y ago
Intelligence and conscientiousness are > 50% heritable. Political attitudes, including environmentalism, are also highly heritable. Adult intelligence is between 70-80% based on genetic factors. Articles like this are encouraging the m
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
The success of asians disproves a general bias towards whites in the US or any sort of "compounding interest" associated with it. The consensus amongst neurobiologists is that adult IQ is somewhere between 70-80% based on genetic
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Agile methods are solidly in the mainstream, but that popularity hasn't been without its problems. Organizational leaders are complaining that they’re not getting the benefits they expected. This article presents a fluency model that
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Asians have higher incomes, higher educational achievement and longer expected lives than whites in the U.S. The problem is not "compounding returns", it is genetics and, to a lesser extent, culture. Until this fact, which most ed
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Will they allow sites with unpopular but legal content, like The Daily Stormer, to resolve? Or will this DNS service, like their DDoS service, be at the whim of their CEO?
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
gab.ai the chans
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Unlike most of her lot, her family was "middle class", thanks to the help of Canadian missionaries in her region who aided in education and offered them religion. Her family was thus Christian and benefited with education. Her pa
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I'm relatively indifferent towards the matter, social media is cancer, but compare and contrast narratives: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-oba...
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
You can look up Putnam and the controversy around his work easily enough.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Social trust is falling in the west. I appreciate Utah making an effort here, but the problem is systemic. There are specific reasons that this is the case, but most people will not discuss it openly. Putnam sat on his results for years b
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
> whether bail-outs exist or not lol
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Exactly. There is no reserve limit: any pretense of that was washed away once sweep accounts became standard. Banks lend as much as they possibly can, and then a bit more, and then expect the taxpayers to pick up the pieces when it all fal
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
I think we are not as far apart as you might imagine: I am concerned with both problems and, particularly, how the former might interact with the latter, as well as the potential of future people who will exist (who, after all, are far more
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
"Very often" is too vague a statement to respond profitably to. I will say that, broadly, I am against poisoning children. But, if we are serious about the problem, we need to be honest about the large genetic basis of adult inte
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Yes, if you poison a child it will have an effect on them. Contra what you say, people (really, the liberal elite consensi) seem very attached to the "anyone can do anything" approach, but, once you avoid the obvious stuff and giv
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
Yes, avoiding death and horrible diseases in childhood appears to have major effects on adult outcomes. When we speak about these things we are assuming a non-disastrous environment and discussing incremental changes, such as spending more
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
If russian interference in our elections bothers you, AIPAC should bother you much, much more.
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by quantumofmalice 9y ago
The research is very good that, beyond basic nutrition, very little by way of environment has a significant effect on adult intelligence. Outcomes, as you say, are a different thing and you can teach people to have lower time preferences

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