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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I clicked on the first link. Is the point here that Elon Musk is a billionaire because parents bought him a new car when he was in his twenties? If this is the example of how family wealth allows people to get ahead in life, then, well, all
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> The degree of augmentation is going to make a big difference. During the era of the Flynn effect, we sort of had this happen naturally and we handled it just fine, but a 20 point boost would basically obliterate things. The Flynn effec
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, because this regression towards the mean tends to pull the children of below-mean parents up, just as much as it pulls the children of above-the-mean parents down. That said, the grandparent's figure are rather wrong, for two reaso
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
And what good was his family wealth for? How much of it actually played a role and how? Did he get millions from his family to start PayPal? I hear a lot about the role of "family wealth", but I never actually hear about mechanism
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> IMO dedicating funding to improving child care, healthcare+diet, and k-12 education will have a much greater impact on increasing a society's measures of intelligence and educational attainment. Maybe if you do it in North Korea,
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> it's hard to believe that they're uncovering actual biology and not just chance correlates with external/socioeconomic factors. This is routinely validated on siblings. If the polygenic scores are as accurate in predicti
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Sure, and US can pass a law saying that safety regulations of Airbus planes made in France are not sufficient either. Americans just don’t like flying in unsafe planes! If you talk to actual people in Europe, outside of HN, you’ll find th
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The warrant is due process.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I would be frankly shocked if EU countries did not have the same laws on the book. If German court serves Volkswagen AG a warrant for data kept by Volkswagen America, can Volkswagen AG just not comply?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This sword cuts both ways. US can also stop sales of Airbuses, Volkswagens, IKEA furniture etc. under some fishy premise. If EU does that to US companies, why shouldn’t US do it to EU ones? This kind of tit for tat trade war would be a loss
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Like the Head-of-Line blocking problem: it is not solved in HTTP/2 How so? It is not solved on the network level (due to its use of TCP), but it is solved on application layer: slow response to one request is not blocking other re
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Why? Do you care to elaborate, or do you prefer to just cast vague aspersions?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, it’s stupid. IRBs today are, on net, more of a detriment to science than a benefit. When they block a stupid voluntary questionnaire for being “unethical”, just imagine how much other useful science is not being done, because of concer
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, not quite. I can agree that taxation might be useful or necessary for some pragmatic reasons. It is not, however, any sort of “payment for service rendered”. The crucial element of transaction being a “payment” is it not being coerced.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Churches owe taxes because they conduct business in the United States. And you owe the bully your lunch, because you conduct your presence in his class. When the bully says he won’t take your lunch today, he is actually buying you your
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Not having to pay a tax is not an "implicit subsidy". This is a completely absurd way of thinking. Taxes is not some sort of fundamental law of nature, and tax exemption are not government being helpful by using its own resources
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
One can occasionally do engine braking in an ICE car, but it is simply not feasible to use it for most, or even significant fraction of one’s braking needs: try driving through a city without touching brake pedal (actually please dont, it’s
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Given that the fatalities in 2020 went up a lot among black Americans, barely budged among white ones and went down a lot among Asian Americans, I consider the above theory to be total bunk (unless somehow only black Americans were benefitt
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you cannot read the PDF, you can also download LaTeX source from arxiv. I don’t think it is reasonable to expect anything more accessible than that.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, they should, and rendered PDFs are accessible to readers.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Do you know what physicists or mathematicians actually want, or are you just theorizing as an outsider, based on experience from completely different domain?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
They will not have to do anything of the sort. The can continue to buy services of the Polish resident, and pay their invoices. The Polish government cannot and will not do anything to the company. What it can do, however, is that it can go
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> require the company to set up a local legal entity, make corporate filings, pay taxes. Or else pay fines. They can require it all they want, but if the company has no presence in Poland, they cannot actually make them do so. > Or el
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In fact, you are incorrect. Real wages have decreased YoY. Anything can be classified by “strong labor numbers” by people who are trying to deceive you. Remember this next time you turn the TV on or open a newspaper.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Not sure about France, but in Poland, if you’re sending invoices to an entity that has no presence in Poland, is not incorporated there, has no offices etc, it can hardly be legally seen to be a legal “employment” relationship. But, assumin
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What about real wages, are they also increasing, or only nominal ones do?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them o
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
For most people, much cheaper and simpler is to buy a beater car. That’s what the working poor do.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Aluminum wiring woes is as much of a problem in parts of Europe I am from as it is in the States.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The rise in sea levels is extremely slow at human lifetime scale. We are looking at less than 1 meter (just over 3 feet) by year 2100 in the worst case scenario analyses by IPCC. This is not nearly enough to make Gibraltar power plant pract

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