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by rubashov 14y ago
"The Bell Curve" way back in the 90s touched on the many ways substantially above average IQ appears to be maladaptive. You get much more than 1.5 standard deviation for the parents on IQ and infant mortality actually spikes. Also various n
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by rubashov 14y ago
You don't play a match in one game. You play five or seven. The doubling cube speeds up play and has a critical impact on the whole game. There's plenty of online backgammon gambling.
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by rubashov 14y ago
The successful speculations are predicated on artificially low interest rates and subsidized leverage.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> replace it with taxes on capital gains The reasons capital gains taxes are lower than income seem sound to me. You want capital formation and savings. There's only a problem because the government inflates the currency and manipulates
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by rubashov 14y ago
> ostensibly "free market" healthcare system Some guy said of sick care in America: The American health care system is socialism without a central plan, and capitalism without markets or prices. You really have to pick one or the other
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by rubashov 14y ago
I understand it perfectly. You're a heathen. Submit to God.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> perhaps biological, norm that men make proposals and the women evaluate them I don't think this is quite true. In a bar or club women invite specific men to hit on them with positioning, proximity, and eye contact. She'll steal glance
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by rubashov 14y ago
> No one has attained Enlightenment through Zen nor meditation Maybe because no one has attained "Enlightment", whatever that means. Go say the rosary.
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by rubashov 14y ago
The lack of generic programming in Go is a huge deal. It's vital for modelling complex systems without a mess of runtime checks, and generally leads to clean and reusable designs. With D, you can get very close to the generic ideal, "Th
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by rubashov 14y ago
I don't see any reason to prefer Go to the D programming language. D achieves all the major claimed benefits of Go and yet has vastly more abstraction power and better type safety and error handling. The interest in Go is a mystery to me.
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by rubashov 14y ago
The Fed was founded because in fly-over country the financial system was rickety. Off the coasts, banks were regularly going bust and taking people's savings with them. This almost always happened during harvest season when demand for curre
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by rubashov 14y ago
For calling the last three recessions surveys did better than economists' forecasts. You see similar results for forecasting and reporting current price inflation. I don't really buy that the common American man is an idiot. "Elites" have p
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by rubashov 14y ago
Qt is what it is because in the 90s and much of the aughts they needed to implement loads of their own stuff for support across many compilers and platforms. That's not really true anymore and using their containers and smart-pointers and s
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by rubashov 14y ago
A lot of people "feel" fine but blood work shows they're insulin resistant, have various deficiencies, or are loaded with cortisol. Going by "feeling" really doesn't work. Also, the evidence against a vegetarian diet is overwhelming.
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by rubashov 14y ago
I've not really used a webcam. Are the feeds pretty much real-time these days? If so I think it'd be pretty cool to hop online and easily find someone to jam with. I play harmonica and have always had fun playing blues with even beginner/in
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by rubashov 14y ago
Well Loren Cordain, godfather of "paleo", remains convinced that salt is bad. He claims the chloride does some bad stuff (I forget) and also the sodium screws up potassium and magnesium levels somehow.
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by rubashov 14y ago
It's not even about agriculture. In medieval europe peasants had a lot of leisure. Of course harvest season was brutal, but much of the rest of the year was easy. Asian rice agriculture was endless back breaking work. But that wasn't the ca
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by rubashov 14y ago
You don't at all understand the arguments. Suggest you read, or at least skim, the manifesto.
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by rubashov 14y ago
The point is more general and it's not worth getting hung up on specific examples and technologies. The more general issue is population density and industrial society force people to behave in narrow parameters, or the "system" doesn't wor
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by rubashov 14y ago
> highly interconnected systems exposes us to an 'unnecessary' risk Kaczynski's arguments are not mostly about the risk of technology, they are mostly about how technology forces us into ever narrowing conformist behavior. He makes the
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by rubashov 14y ago
The overall tone of the Unabomber Manifesto is pretty crazy, but substantial parts are rather profound, or at least concise and effective restatements of important ideas. In particular, Kaczynski's discussion of the Power Process, Autonomy,
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by rubashov 14y ago
> Everyone else will be part of a "sports, arts, and leisure" society It can't work. Leisured aristocracies become decadent, dysfunctional, hedonists. People on reservations with free food become violent drug addicts. The human animal c
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by rubashov 14y ago
I'm often shocked at how people think history started at some point in the last 200 years. Malthus was completely right and all the historical data we've been able to gather has validated his views, going back tens of thousands of years. Th
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by rubashov 14y ago
If the system is out of memory, and you're not in some special case huge allocation, odds are very high your program can't proceed in any useful way. You're going to have to terminate anyway. Why pretend it's a recoverable exception? It's u
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by rubashov 14y ago
> alloc errors throw Which usually aren't really recoverable anyway. I mean, you can also blow the stack. Then what? Just ignore those essentially unrecoverable eventualities and terminate.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> not using it is writing c But that's not true. Giving up on exception handling and initialization code in constructors still leaves tons of super useful C++ to use. Generic programming, the standard library, what's left of OOP rather
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by rubashov 14y ago
Yeah, just don't use virtual methods or constructors on classes and his second complaint pretty much goes away. And you get a syntax and amenities that are still way nicer than C.
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by rubashov 14y ago
> It is also hard for a manufacturer to signal durability The distribution channels and price are the primary signal. Good stuff made by craftsmen is, of course, much more expensive than crap glued together by slave labor. So spend doub
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by rubashov 14y ago
> the only durable products made today are firearms I don't think that's quite true. You can seek out many "made in America" products at a higher price point and with a lifetime warranty. I recently ordered a Duluth Pack bag. It cost tr
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by rubashov 14y ago
In simulations the stealth (MADL, IFDL, and low radar profile from the front) and the fire-on-remote fused tactical picture the F-22 and F-35 present play out huge. It's mostly about the avionics. Conversations about these fighters are gene

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