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by xyzzyz 5mo ago
It's very easy today to transcribe and summarize every call that you have.
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by xyzzyz 5mo ago
Yes, and by shifting the labor supply curve you can make the laborers worse off, because it will often shift the supply curve of the product they’re making. If labor unions make you pay your workers more, you might need to raise the prices,
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by xyzzyz 6mo ago
None of what you said responds in any way to the arguments made in the post you are responding to.
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by xyzzyz 6mo ago
Sorry, I’m not chilled at all by the prospect that the court can subpoena my data from Goole. It can already issue a warrant to arrest me, and to search my actual home.
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by xyzzyz 6mo ago
I hate this change. I loved how the original Timeline worked, and now it's unusable. I don't care about courts subpoeaning my data. I'd love to opt in to previous status quo. I don't care about the loss of "privacy&
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by xyzzyz 6mo ago
No, they totally grew enough calories for themselves. My grandparents lived like that. They farmed around 15 hectares, which was actually quite a lot. You can easily grew enough calories for your family on 5 hectares, or even less if you ha
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by xyzzyz 6mo ago
Prior to Industrial Revolution, nobody could go hunt in the woods, because the woods were King’s, and poaching King’s game carried death penalty. Situation was similar on the continent: the tiny slivers of remaining wood lands were off limi
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
The research shows that the tests are predictive almost precisely to the extent they test “meta skills”. We can even measure how much individual questions test meta skills vs specific skills. You can learn about this by searching for the te
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Obviously, yes. This is not circular: it is by no means tautological that people who did well on test X will do well on a completely different test Y that tests different knowledge and skills. The fact fact that it does gives strong eviden
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
All scientific research on this topic points to the conclusion that standardized test results are the single best predictor of subsequent academic performance. Some studies suggest that using GPA in addition to test results improves the pre
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
If this is the case, then why doesn’t everyone get the top a score? The answer is, of course, that it’s not so simple, and you can’t just learn to the test. That’s just like with sports: anyone can learn how to train himself, and anyone can
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Traditional defense contractors have low profit margin because of the cost plus pricing on the contracts. They literally are only allowed to charge the cost they incur plus some fixed profit percentage. As such, they have incentive to drive
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
His political goals seem to align pretty well with the goals of the democratically elected governments, which are perfectly happy to buy products and services from him. You might not agree with their goals, but it’s absurd to suggest that t
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
On modern machines, looking things up can be slower than recomputing it, when the computation is simple. This is because the memory is much slower than the CPU, which means you can often compute something many times over before the answer f
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
That’s exactly how it works in the standard additive model of heritability, and we have lots of empirical evidence that heritability of intelligence matches that model very well.
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
I’m really struggling to understand what your point is. The person I replied to was wrong as to where the current debate is among experts, so I pointed it out, and gave an example of where the debate currently is. Is that really so strange
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
And why do you think Congress has passed this law? What prompted them to micromanage the military in this manner? I encourage you to research this topic, “McNamara’s folly” will serve as a good starting keyword. Spoiler: it has everything t
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Yes, I could have left off the last comment. I added it to illustrate where the debate currently lies. I am not sure what your point is.
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
One can take n number of positively correlated but independent things, and there will always be a some factor that can be derived from it. I hope you understand that your vague question cannot be seen as equivalent to this rather more con
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Sorry, what exactly do you mean by "is representative of general intelligence"? This is a very abstract statement. What does this mean in scientific, empirical terms? What kind of facts we would observe in the world where this is
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
There's no debate on construct validity of IQ among the experts in the field. The consensus position is that IQ tests measure something real, that the tests enjoy extremely high measurement invariance (which implies construct validity)
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Yes, but since the heritability is high, the average IQ of the children will be close to the average IQ of the parents, despite the fact that it will tend to regress towards the mean.
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Not quite. The point of Taylor’s theorem is that the n-th degree Taylor polynomial around a is the best n-th degree polynomial approximation around a. However, it doesn’t say anything about how good of an approximation it is further away fr
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by xyzzyz 7mo ago
Yes, it's unlikely that people are illegally voting in person in large numbers. It is relatively easy to do so, and the risk is relatively low, if you approach it intelligently (e.g. vote as someone who is registered, but highly unlike
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
They’d be filled to capacity even if they literally gave everything for free, because the unsold stuff is mostly the kind of things that people don’t want in the first place. The good stuff would be snatched, and the things nobody wants wou
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
OK, but do you want it vigorously enforced, or are you just pretending that your problem with the law is uneven enforcement, rather than the law itself?
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
So if we enforce it vigorously on everyone, you’d be fine with it? If not, then you are arguing in bad faith.
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
There's not a single home in Summerlin, NV that's more than a 10 minute drive from a large supermarket. Majority of the houses are less than 5 minutes drive.
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
You missed the "total wealth of U.S. billionaires ". The billionaires own a tiny fraction of total US wealth. Most of the wealth is owned by people like me, who own a house, and stocks in retirement account.
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by xyzzyz 8mo ago
Places full of single family houses with essentials being 30 minutes away don't tend to stay like that for long. They are great business opportunities for developers of supermarkets, malls and the like. You buy some cheap land, build s

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