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by rory 5y ago
New Orleans is a wonderful city. Berlin does seem like a great option to live for a couple years-- the biggest problem being that it's arguably too appealing to expats. I'd also recommend Valparaíso, Chile as a good Berlin alter
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by rory 5y ago
Okay, fair-- I guess I just think it's important to be clear that although most Americans choose to live in sprawling places, if you're newly arriving at the US, it's not strictly necessary. Many, many immigrants choose walka
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by rory 5y ago
Where are you in France? What was the biggest surprise? I have an EU passport and wouldn't mind spending a year or so in France to make the most of it.
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by rory 5y ago
I think it might be a euphemism, but I'm not positive.
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by rory 5y ago
I've lived in three different US cities and in each, walking to get groceries was normal and not challenging. I made my reply assuming the parent comment meant literally what they said. If you are reading another meaning into it, that&
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by rory 5y ago
Yeah my comment only really applies if you can choose the region of the country you live in. I don't really know what it's like in e.g. Indiana, so I trust your judgement on it.
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by rory 5y ago
"Hard to walk to the grocery store where you live" isn't the same thing as "hard to live where you can walk to the grocery store". If you count entire cities as "well to do areas" then I suppose I agree.
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by rory 5y ago
> It’s very hard to live where you can walk to a grocery store. Very hard seems like an exaggeration. More expensive, maybe, but millions of low-income people also do it. I didn't have a car for most of my twenties, and the majo
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by rory 5y ago
The CDC says whatever they think is most likely to influence the public to do the whatever they think is best for public health in general. Whether or not what they say is the truth is entirely incidental.
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by rory 5y ago
The lack of a subway system can't help here. How reasonable is it to live without a car in Seattle?
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by rory 5y ago
There's no reason to believe POLYhj is any lower now than during the Habsburg dynasty. Homozygosity is independent of population-level allele frequency.
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by rory 5y ago
Eschew variables altogether. It's the constants that make for a good life.
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by rory 5y ago
Not sure if this is a joke I'm not getting, but the "variants" in the linked study refer to tiny genetic sequences, not phenotypical appearance traits.
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by rory 5y ago
> genetic markers of aristocratic inbreeding declined along with elite endogamy I think this is the flaw in that theory. The genetic markers each come from a single parent, and so wouldn't decline if those carrying them started ma
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by rory 5y ago
Fairly startling stuff, in my opinion. > Over several generations, there is no doubt that dysgenic selection lowered the quality of genes for intelligence and increased migration had an adverse effect. > Looming over all is their m
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by rory 5y ago
If you cast out the "inferior," you don't have to start out superior to end up so.
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by rory 5y ago
I'm not sure if a joke is going over my head, but it seems that you're intentionally using the synonyms for the secondary definition of sophisticated [0], when in context the author clearly means to use the primary definition. [
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by rory 5y ago
Ah it appears I was confused by the word "state"-- according to Wikipedia, the thinking is it was more of a capital and/or the seat of a ruler and territory controlled could have been a lot bigger, although we don't know
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by rory 5y ago
> Great Zimbabwe was home to about 10,000 people. The state covered 1,779 acres That seems... absolutely tiny? 7km^2, so a reasonably fit person could run around the entire country in an hour. Population of 10k at a time when the total
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by rory 5y ago
They're called "SYRYN Swimbuds Flip and Waterproof MP3 Player". Just got them a few years ago as a quick, inexpensive Amazon purchase. Looks like they're a bit more expensive nowadays, but not too bad. They work fine-- o
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by rory 5y ago
As a PSA: this book is old enough to be public domain, the audiobook is (legally) available for free on LibriVox: https://librivox.org/the-brothers-karamazov-by-fyodor-dostoy... . The written version is available on Project
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by rory 5y ago
Thank you for explaining, that sounds highly plausible!
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by rory 5y ago
What you're saying is supported by the data, but do you (or does anyone) know why infections slow down when they do? I can't think of any intuitive reason for it, and haven't been able to find an explanation why the waves c
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by rory 5y ago
You mean because your country had high inflation?
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by rory 5y ago
I never understood the argument that nuclear takes too long, so instead we implement new technologies that have never been done at scale. What if we run into unexpected problems with energy storage that push their timeline out even longer t
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by rory 5y ago
Sure, this is all complicated. Groups have similarities and overlaps. Anything "charismatic" gets strange. And red state politicians have been able to put a lot of pressure on abortion by basically being supreme court single-issue
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by rory 5y ago
Indeed, they are a large voting base of an alliance of religious conservatives (along with Mormons, conservative Catholics, etc.) that is hyperfocused on that one issue, and so seemingly having some success on it. But it's not like Amy
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by rory 5y ago
By nature of being a whole lot of people, they do have a significant degree of power. That's how democracy is supposed to work. I'm just pointing out that the Supreme Court is a ridiculous example of this, as they are arguably the
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by rory 5y ago
Evangelicals Protestantism is the biggest religious category in the country (25%), yet no Supreme Court justice is Evangelical. By contrast, 6-7 are Catholic (21%) and 2 are Jewish (2%). That doesn't seem like enormous political power
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by rory 5y ago
If those are benefits you value, you should be happy to (indirectly) pay Amazon the premium that they charge for it.

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