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SerialStateLineXer
2yr ago
What I would do myself: I'd go "yeah I knew it, wireless earbuds are a stupid product" and go back to wired forever.
I use wired headphones with a USB dongle on my Pixel 6. There's a loud white noise effect that plays whenever the volume falls below a certain threshold.
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2yr ago
Nara Burns is an anime character? I always assumed that your user name was a reference to a historical event involving the burning of Nara, or maybe the annual festival where they burn text into the hillside in Nara.
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2yr ago
That looks like a bug. The use of backticks didn't prevent the tildes from creating a strikethrough effect.
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2yr ago
In doing GWAS, it's normal to use extremely low p thresholds to correct for the problem of multiple comparisons, right? I understand why it's important to do this, but doesn't this lead to exclusion of many SNPs with real but small impact? Or by "saturated" do they mean that they have a sample large enough to render this concern negligible?
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2yr ago
If I ask you what’s the result of 22+2, you are most likely going to answer 24, but if I ask you what’s 22:00+2:00, you are likely not going to answer 24:00 (which isn’t a thing)
It's quite common in Japan to see a bar or restaurant with posted hours of operation from 17:00 to 27:00 (i.e. from 5:00 PM to 3:00 AM). 27:00 is valid in the same sense that 27/24 or 400° is valid; we might call it an "improper time."
You also don't specify whether 22:00 is time of day or duration. If it's a duration, then 24:00 is clearly the correct answer.
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2yr ago
It's looking more and more like genetic engineering is the only viable way to close racial SES gaps. Ironically, the NIH is fighting to preserve racial inequalities while proclaiming its intent to narrow them.
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2yr ago
It sure was lucky for the left that the Kochs aren't Jewish.
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2yr ago
Assuming he means something like free, accurate AI tagging/filtering, how does that remove the incentive to call [objectionable thing X] worthy of proper censorship?
That's removing the conflation between moderation and censorship. It takes away the excuse that it's necessary for a good user experience because users don't want to see the content, and forcing censorship advocates to admit that they don't think that users should be allowed to see it.
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2yr ago
If your browser has an unpatched, exploitable vulnerability, the sky's the limit. It shouldn't be possible for a web site to run malicious code on a simple page load, but browsers don't always work the way they should.
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2yr ago
Cavity remineralization is a well-documented phenomenon, though fluoride assists in this process, rather than inhibiting it. Note that it's a fairly limited process; if you have substantial enamel loss, you can't rebuild it through remineralization.
Excessive fluoride intake can result in skeletal fluorosis, which can be severely debilitating in extreme cases, but it requires levels far in excess of those found in fluoridated water. The evidence that it prevents tooth decay is fairly strong, but if you're doing everything else right, you don't really need it.
The other advice is mostly okay, if excessive. The main things I would recommend are limiting refined carbohydrates and acidic drinks, brushing and flossing, and getting enough vitamin D and K2. Sugar is particularly bad; you know that sour taste you get in your mouth when you eat too much sugar? That's the acid produced by oral bacteria metabolizing the sugar.
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2yr ago
"Twit" is used commonly in American English. I've made the same joke myself.
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2yr ago
Are Canadian Muslims high achievers like in the US, or an underclass like in Europe?
The level of partisanship required to vote for Fetterman at this point simply boggles the mind.
In general Congressional elections, most people don't vote for candidates. They vote to give their party control of the House or Senate. Showing up and voting the party line is 95% of the job. Fetterman demonstrated that he can do that; anything more is gravy.
Same deal with Oz. He's a garbage candidate, but a vote for him is a vote to block a Democratic trifecta, and that's literally all I care about in this election. If I lived in Pennsylvania, I'd vote for him.
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2yr ago
Well the results for 2022 have just been released and people who answered "not at all" for trust in mass media is at 38%.
While these are mostly Republicans, a substantial minority are Democrats and "liberal" independents who don't trust the media because they aren't shilling hard enough for the left. The enemy of my enemy is not necessarily my friend.
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2yr ago
I don't know. Switzerland, maybe? Low taxes, high wages, smart people, and excellent graphics. Singapore seems cool, too. Taiwan has low wages, but would otherwise be a pretty swell place if not for the threat from China.
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2yr ago
The founder of Vdare (I forget his name)
Peter Brimelow?
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2yr ago
I occasionally dip into Cyberpunk 2077 to marvel at the production quality
Huh. That's not a sentence I expected to see based on what I've heard.
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2yr ago
I think you're overlooking a simpler explanation: You don't need recruiters if you're not hiring. As for HR, I'm not sure about this, but I suspect that they spend a wildly disproportionate share of their time dealing with onboarding new employees. So there's less need for that during a lull in hiring as well. Plus companies that laid off engineers have fewer existing employees to manage.
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2yr ago
If it makes you feel any better, both major parties are pretty hard at work on ruining the US, so it may not be the best place to live for much longer.
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2yr ago
There are tons of people in the US who don't care at all about politics. Find them. Or find like-minded people in the US and move to where they are.
There is no clear theoretical way to "gradually" introduce it and dampen the blow, as any long term plan if factored into market price will bring long term land value down to nothing.
Because of discounting, phasing in an LVT gradually will reduce the present value of a plot of land by less than imposing it immediately will.
Think about a plot of land generating $25k per year with 5% discounting. The net present value of an infinite stream of $25k annual payments is $500k. If you impose a 100% tax on rental value right now, all those future payments are zeroed out, and the land's value drops to zero.
If you phase the tax in over a period of ten years, that will definitely reduce the land's net present value, but since it still generates some rental income for the owner, the NPV is positive.
I'll work out the math later when I'm at a computer.
Edit: I forgot about this. At 3% discounting, a 50-year phase-in will cut the current value of the land in half. At 5%, a 50-year phase-in will reduce the value by 35%, and a 30-year phase-in will cut it in half. At 8%, a 30-year phase-in will cut the value by 35%.
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2yr ago
8 episodes released over six weeks (two episodes the first week).
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2yr ago
Connecticut has a strict limit on punitive damages, so the damages are all compensatory. Given the implausibility of the idea of actual damages being that high (for comparison, OJ Simpson was ordered to pay only $8.5 million in compensatory damages for killing two people), I think it's pretty clear that the jury is trying to do an end run around the punitive damages cap.
If juries are allowed to award arbitrary punitive damages as long as they call them compensatory, then there is, in effect, no cap on punitive damages. An activist judge may allow this to stand, but it seems pretty clearly illegal to me.
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2yr ago
HBD is important because it's a refutation of the myth that low black and indigenous achievement is due to racism. It's also a refutation of antisemitic conspiracy theories about high Jewish achievement.
You point out the effects of genetics denialism on education, but it goes far beyond that. It also results in nonsensical ideas about and policies to address underrepresentation in cognitively demanding occupations, earnings and wealth gaps, incarceration rates, and even a literal blood libel about the causes of racial disparities in police shootings.
Note that although race gets all the attention, there's also class HBD, i.e. differences in average genetic potential for academic and professional achievement that break down along class lines, which is the main reason why even within races we see that children of successful parents tend to do better in school and earn more than children of poor parents. Because of genetics denialism, we get pants-on-head stupid discourse about "mobility" premised on the ridiculous idea that intergenerational income elasticity can be entirely attributed to rich parents buying advantages for their children and poor children having no chance to get ahead.
A lot of people, mistakenly believing that HBD is racist, nevertheless don't buy into the idea that racism causes racial achievement gaps, instead attributing the gaps to culture. There's probably a grain of truth here, but the very small effect of shared environment on adult IQ in twin studies is hard to reconcile with SES or culture explaining more than a small portion of the gap.
Aside from the fact that it appears to be wrong, I don't like the fact that this hypothesis adds insult to injury. Why blame people for something they can't help.
As for the dysgenic effects of welfare combined with low fertility among the cognitive elite, I do worry about this and would certainly be in favor of, e.g. sterilization of convicted violent criminals or making welfare eligibility contingent on use of long-term birth control, but I'm counting on genetic engineering to save us from the long-term consequences of the dysgenics program the government has been running.
Torisashi, it's called. People expect it to taste bad, but it actually tastes better than cooked chicken, IMO.
It's probably dangerous in the sense that you're more likely to get food poisoning by eating it raw than by eating it cooked, but the chances are still low in absolute terms, at least based on my experience of eating raw chicken several dozen times and never getting sick.
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