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by scarmig 4y ago
I didn't say anything about genetics, though I wouldn't be surprised if that plays a part. Might be how you were raised. Might be simply your cumulative life path leaving you in a particular state. Might be toxins in the environme
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by scarmig 4y ago
Depending on your risk tolerance, you can get it from rather sketchy Chinese UGLs for $100/month.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> It’s so hard to eat healthy, I honestly cannot fathom how people do it. When I started taking semaglutide, I finally understood it. I'd eat a salad... and be full and more than satisfied! I'd look at a muffin right after lunc
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by scarmig 4y ago
Just because the primary source is both readily available but presented as images on Twitter (apologies for the hosting domain, skip down to "Scott Siskind Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 6:12 PM"), the text: https://emilkirkegaard.
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by scarmig 4y ago
The implicit assumption here seems to be that the husband/father unilaterally allocates working hours and childcare hours, and that working more hours outside the home is a privilege everyone will go for given the opportunity.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> However, the effect definitively widens at child birth, with women shouldering an unequal amount of caregiving responsibilities [1]. Whether married or unmarried, women with children take a hit. This is a a loaded phrasing, though. You
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by scarmig 4y ago
Of course, it's also possible for the father to deprioritize career and take on childcare duties. But that's much harder to make happen, and it's not because companies don't provide enough paternity leave.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Pew had this which is a bit better sourced https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/03/28/young-women... Results shake out more equal because it just compared young women to young men, not adding the c
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by scarmig 4y ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2010/09/01/129581758/ But there's one demographic where women outearn men: people who are single, childless, and between the ages of 22 and 30. Wi
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by scarmig 4y ago
The reframing leaves it as a passive thing that just happens. A bit more revealing of the assumptions involved would be "Organizations undercompensate women in monetary terms for their education." Which suggests the question, do w
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by scarmig 4y ago
Women and men both enforce gender roles. The expectation to work longer hours at less fulfilling, more rigid jobs falls on men; the expectation to perform more hours of childcare falls on women.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Speaking more generally, I'm curious to hear what your speculations are in terms of a war with China. Most people seem to think it'll be a walk in the park for either the US or China, but I think it'll end up a kind of stalem
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by scarmig 4y ago
I was limiting my scope to hypersonics, which are hyped compared to more conventional threats. I agree that in a US-China war, the US will stay very far away from Chinese land-based platforms. The surface fleet would mostly remain outside t
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by scarmig 4y ago
Even if satellites did have exact, continuous data on the location of a target (they don't, and in wartime there would be aggressive countermeasures being used against them), the targeting data has to be relayed to the launch facility&
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by scarmig 4y ago
Emotional stoicism. Homophobia leading to homosocial connections being stigmatized. Men being objectified for their economic utility leading to them investing less in personal relationships and development. The stereotype of men being dange
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by scarmig 4y ago
Key phrase here is kill chain. Finding a moving carrier on the open ocean is hard, even with modern satellite technology. And getting a missile launched from hundreds or thousands of miles away to hit it once you do know its position (10 mi
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by scarmig 4y ago
"Multigenerational households" doesn't really describe what we're moving towards, though. We're going from larger to progressively smaller household units. Nuclear families were an unfortunate step of this atomizati
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by scarmig 4y ago
You're right, but you miss a key point: much of what we call "the progressive left" is just corporate and professional managerial class value signaling. It's easy and low cost to call people names and culture war, so act
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by scarmig 4y ago
Don't reinstitute gender roles, but recognize that while women have made lots of progress men are still strictly held to their historical gender role, and that the only way forward is to open up the roles available for men.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Would you say Code-era Hollywood was a shining example of free speech? After all, it was private organizations restricting what kinds of content and people were allowed participation, for the well-being of society.
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by scarmig 4y ago
> Your free expression can suppress my freedom of expression How does even harmful speech (e.g. your examples) prevent your freedom of expression?
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by scarmig 4y ago
Most documentaries should be considered a subgenre of fiction. Inspired by reality, but mostly interested in telling a compelling narrative.
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by scarmig 4y ago
A high false positive rate doesn't imply a low false negative rate. If you're building a well-functioning system you have to consider trade-offs between the two, but a badly-functioning system can achieve both high false positives
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'm pretty sure you don't actually reject the outcome of my hypothetical. And, yes, fraud is endemic, we try lots of systems, and some work better than others. Building ones that attempt to satisfy multiple constraints at once mak
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by scarmig 4y ago
Imagine the government put a giant bowl full of money in front of every city hall, and said that you should feel free to take from it if you're starving for food. It's enforced by the honor system. This system is extremely easy to
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by scarmig 4y ago
Suppose you get $10kpa in SSDI, and the system described is in place. You then start working part-time and get paid $10kpa. What is your increased take home pay? $0; the effective marginal tax rate was 100% for dollars 0-10000 you earned. T
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by scarmig 4y ago
> It should instead be a credit, where earning income replaces the benefit $1 for $1, but if you earn over the disability limit you don't lose your credit permanently. This creates a steep marginal tax rate (100%), which still resul
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by scarmig 4y ago
I'm not arguing that China wouldn't wreck its economy by invading Taiwan. It would, and economic disaster would not be an overstatement. But it would be able to wage its war. For food it's fine, although people would certainl
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by scarmig 4y ago
China barely cares about its own far north, let alone Siberia. It would much prefer to have Russia as a client state ready to supply oil and gas in the case of a war where sea routes for those are cut off.
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's probably not the route China will take, but China has pioneered gray zone tactics in the SCS, using paramilitarized fishing ships to harass other vessels and extend its influence. But yeah, transporting hundreds of thousands troop

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