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by xyzzyz 2y ago
What discovery? Are you suggesting that the defense in the murder case will be able to do any kind of discovery on UnitedHealthcare? How would that even be possible?
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
And what's the crime here? What's the moral error? Can you elucidate? I hope you're not trying to argue that insurance should not be allowed to ever deny claims?
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
There is absolutely no way to run an insurance scheme without denying some people coverage. No system anywhere in the world, public or private, accepts every single claim. You must deny some claims, there's no way around it. This means
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Ah yes, let's murder people we feel (without even any concretes to support this) are not morally pure, what a perfect idea. Which other CEOs do you think it would be justified to murder? Or are there any that are morally pure enough to
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
The only potential crime that article lists is allegation that the murder victim failed to disclose some material fact to the company investors. Are you saying that Luigi Mangione killed Thomson on behalf of the stock holders, who lost mone
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
What actions? What did he do? You're just repeating empty phrases to smear the murder victim.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Any healthcare system must deny healthcare. No healthcare system existing anywhere on this planet provides infinite healthcare to everyone. Denying healthcare is not violence. In any economic system, units of economic organizations must som
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Using such a weasel phrase like "by some accounts" means that there's absolutely nothing standing behind this. If there was any concrete thing Brian Thompson did that was any kind of legal crime or moral error, you'd be
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
But what he did was objectively what we consider to be bad… in our society, vigilante justice (especially against nonviolent offenders) is wrong. What are you talking about? What "vigilante justice"? The innocent victim, Brian T
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I was waiting for the reply, but I realized that you might not be able to send one or edit your comment anymore, so here is one from me to give you opportunity to do so. I’m really curious what you found about GWASes or the state of debate
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I support assisted suicide for people who are not capable of doing it without assistance (because dying moments of many people are really not pretty, as many stories in this thread attest to), but I think that the cases of medical and lega
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
This is just obfuscation. The population clusters will still exist even if we don't use the word "race" to describe them, and they can be described in biological terms that will overwhelmingly overlap with the sociocultural c
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
You could make the same point about the actual color “white”. You can point to various items of different colors and ask “is this thing actually white?”. You’ll have some people agreeing on most of these things, and disagree on some of thes
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Please, tell me which GWAS study is claiming to estimate entire heritabilty. I am not aware of any. This is because their methodology simply does not allow it. They by design are going to miss some heritability, and the methodology is not p
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
We spend more on education that practically anyone else, and we spend more on it that we had in the past, with very little difference between now and then.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
No, you are completely misunderstanding what GWASes show. The previous estimate of heritability of things like intelligence are entirely unaffected by GWAS results. That existing GWASes explain small percentage of variance is the problem wi
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I’m not leaving out anyone. What I’m saying is that each American group individually comes out out of top, relative to matching groups elsewhere, and the fact that overall we don’t, is just an example of Simpson’s paradox. American blacks a
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> Self-identification on the basis of race is not objective. It correlates extremely closely with objective measures like percentage of genetic ancestry from a given continent or historical population, so close in fact that for statistic
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> The problem is that the educational system in the US is designed to be fine for the subset of kids who come from families that 1) speak English, 2) are educated themselves, 3) hold full time employment. I think that, to the contrary, t
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
The same way the entire US educational establishment officially groups and tracks students for the purpose of outcome comparison: by self-identified racial classification primarily, and by country of origin for immigrants secondarily. Was i
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I think the opposite is true. There is large gap between educational outcomes of white and black Americans even if you match them on SES, and every successive GWAS increases the amount of variance in outcomes explained by variants, despite
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> First, where is the evidence for all of that? Sorry, what do you mean by “evidence”? I clearly said that I am talking about PISA results, and described what these look like. You can look these up yourself if you are curious about more
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
K-12 education is also leading international charts, but I agree that we are most likely massively overspending on it.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
I have known Cremieux for a long time, and trust him a great deal when it comes to handling and presenting data. In any case, I don’t know what standards you’d find satisfactory. He made the graph out of data he listed on the graph. Anyone
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
It might not be super sound methodologically to only do it for US in PISA, but I don’t think that it affect results significantly. Other high performing countries have highly homogenous populations, so the aggregate score of the entire coun
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
> Comparing white Americans (a random group of people defined by a subjective criteria, rather than by anything scientific) to a whole European country is random. “White Americans” is very much not a “random group defined by subjective c
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Of course you’re right that children of US Asian immigrants are ahead even of US whites, I mention this in my different comment in this thread. However, since there are few of them relative to other groups, they don’t affect the distributio
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Ah, I get it now. Yes, it would be more apples-to-apples to, for example, compare white Americans with ancestral Europeans, by disaggregating scores in European countries by ethnic/ancestral group of origin. However, this would not aff
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
The image in this thread you linked has the information about the data source in the bottom right corner.
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by xyzzyz 2y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by “advantaged”? I am not exactly sure what you are talking about.

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