>it suggested (at least to me) very unnatural about how incomes were being allocated I feel like the word "unnatural" is doing a lot of work here... can you explain what you mean? Do you believe economies "naturally"…
Last time I saw these stats the amazing thing was how little they had to do with income. A huge chunk of people even making over 100k had essentially zero savings.
Which rights specifically?
It should be noted - this definition as genocide as destruction of a culture (instead of physical murder of a people) also supports the idea of "white genocide": A targeted effort by people with power to liquidate white…
"It is a SCAM and will steal your seed!" I'm getting General Ripper vibes over here...
>incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy What you're describing is called NoFap; this community is…
Is it a "structural" issue? Or is it just the fact that, statistically, poor people are really unlikely to pay back loans, so loaning to them profitably means charging really high interest? Or is that a "structural"…
>the desire to preserve the inferior status of blacks has motivated policies against all members of the low-wage sector. So your belief is, the dominant economic-political movement in America regards "preserving the…
Another mode of travel doesn't seem to be accounted for: Travel for pleasure. Not to score social points. Not for meaning. Just to relax and feel good for a week. Weather can be a big factor. In the middle of five…
Grandparent didn't imply it was a triumph of foresight, but rather a failure of foresight. I think that's what he's saying - a general point that people's understanding of climate (and thus predictions about it) are…
Or maybe - and call me crazy here - men and women are different, and want different things, and therefore, as we reduce discrimination, nearly every job and hobby will end up with a huge gender imbalance as individuals…
I'm curious, what's the definition of hard vacuum? Obviously there will be a few nitrogen molecules bouncing around in there so it seems there must be some arbitrary cutoff.
Isn't that just the same Friedman approach with a longer time horizon? Imagine a farmer who farms to exhaust the soil. He earns money but in 30 years, the farmland is rendered useless. He becomes poor in the end.…
You need more if you're cold enough! Go out in frigid weather with a T-shirt on. You'll soon shiver - your body is recruiting muscles to generate heat. But also, your "brown fat" cells will start pumping out heat as…
Yeah, there are a lot of confounding differences between Americans and Norwegians here. History, terrain/density, climate, culture, and even genetics all likely play a role. Not just policy. I would be curious to learn…
>Small ideological sects with large families historically don't seem to take over the world. It only seems that way because pre-1960, the world was entirely dominated by sects (e.g. religions) with large families. All…
True, it is a de-facto outcome that constitutes a punishment. Still totally understandable from an employer's point of view. e.g. How much of a discount would you need to hire a nanny previously convicted or domestic…
After the Spanish flu, multiple near-missed accidental nuclear launches as well as political crises during the Cold War, September 11, SARS scare, Ebola scare, weather events like Katrina or the Ottawa ice storm, as…
In Tokyo they test the public emergency speaker system every day. At 5pm they play a 30-second traditional Japanese lullaby. If you ask people, they say it means it's time for children to go home - though as far as I…
Those three dots are doing a lot of work.
There are a ton of citizens who would benefit from college but can't afford to go. I struggle to see the utility in discriminating against your own poverty-stricken countrymen in this. What's the real motivation?
Given how absurdly twisted and misrepresented the Damore memo itself has been in the media (calling it anti-diversity when it was pro-diversity, posting it but silently removing links to sources, stating that it says…
>consider what in our genetics makes us different than cave painters 30,000 years ago A tremendous amount has changed in that time. Height, immune system changes, lactose tolerance, blue eyes, different hair colors,…
>That in general the well being of Native peoples in the US, of African Americans is devalued. It is witnessed in the exclusion in drug trials, in the diseases that pharma considers worthwhile to address... Speaking…
I feel fairly comfortable saying that in a group of Ethiopians in 1991, probably more than 4% are pregnant. For comparison, I've read that 10% of Syrian women in the refugee camps were pregnant at any given time. Doing…
>it suggested (at least to me) very unnatural about how incomes were being allocated I feel like the word "unnatural" is doing a lot of work here... can you explain what you mean? Do you believe economies "naturally"…
Last time I saw these stats the amazing thing was how little they had to do with income. A huge chunk of people even making over 100k had essentially zero savings.
Which rights specifically?
It should be noted - this definition as genocide as destruction of a culture (instead of physical murder of a people) also supports the idea of "white genocide": A targeted effort by people with power to liquidate white…
"It is a SCAM and will steal your seed!" I'm getting General Ripper vibes over here...
>incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy What you're describing is called NoFap; this community is…
Is it a "structural" issue? Or is it just the fact that, statistically, poor people are really unlikely to pay back loans, so loaning to them profitably means charging really high interest? Or is that a "structural"…
>the desire to preserve the inferior status of blacks has motivated policies against all members of the low-wage sector. So your belief is, the dominant economic-political movement in America regards "preserving the…
Another mode of travel doesn't seem to be accounted for: Travel for pleasure. Not to score social points. Not for meaning. Just to relax and feel good for a week. Weather can be a big factor. In the middle of five…
Grandparent didn't imply it was a triumph of foresight, but rather a failure of foresight. I think that's what he's saying - a general point that people's understanding of climate (and thus predictions about it) are…
Or maybe - and call me crazy here - men and women are different, and want different things, and therefore, as we reduce discrimination, nearly every job and hobby will end up with a huge gender imbalance as individuals…
I'm curious, what's the definition of hard vacuum? Obviously there will be a few nitrogen molecules bouncing around in there so it seems there must be some arbitrary cutoff.
Isn't that just the same Friedman approach with a longer time horizon? Imagine a farmer who farms to exhaust the soil. He earns money but in 30 years, the farmland is rendered useless. He becomes poor in the end.…
You need more if you're cold enough! Go out in frigid weather with a T-shirt on. You'll soon shiver - your body is recruiting muscles to generate heat. But also, your "brown fat" cells will start pumping out heat as…
Yeah, there are a lot of confounding differences between Americans and Norwegians here. History, terrain/density, climate, culture, and even genetics all likely play a role. Not just policy. I would be curious to learn…
>Small ideological sects with large families historically don't seem to take over the world. It only seems that way because pre-1960, the world was entirely dominated by sects (e.g. religions) with large families. All…
True, it is a de-facto outcome that constitutes a punishment. Still totally understandable from an employer's point of view. e.g. How much of a discount would you need to hire a nanny previously convicted or domestic…
After the Spanish flu, multiple near-missed accidental nuclear launches as well as political crises during the Cold War, September 11, SARS scare, Ebola scare, weather events like Katrina or the Ottawa ice storm, as…
In Tokyo they test the public emergency speaker system every day. At 5pm they play a 30-second traditional Japanese lullaby. If you ask people, they say it means it's time for children to go home - though as far as I…
Those three dots are doing a lot of work.
There are a ton of citizens who would benefit from college but can't afford to go. I struggle to see the utility in discriminating against your own poverty-stricken countrymen in this. What's the real motivation?
Given how absurdly twisted and misrepresented the Damore memo itself has been in the media (calling it anti-diversity when it was pro-diversity, posting it but silently removing links to sources, stating that it says…
>consider what in our genetics makes us different than cave painters 30,000 years ago A tremendous amount has changed in that time. Height, immune system changes, lactose tolerance, blue eyes, different hair colors,…
>That in general the well being of Native peoples in the US, of African Americans is devalued. It is witnessed in the exclusion in drug trials, in the diseases that pharma considers worthwhile to address... Speaking…
I feel fairly comfortable saying that in a group of Ethiopians in 1991, probably more than 4% are pregnant. For comparison, I've read that 10% of Syrian women in the refugee camps were pregnant at any given time. Doing…