Ditto6687
6mo ago
Yeah, mine too, and it's pretty funny since we are a Slavic nation, one that might not compare favorably to Russia when it comes to civilizational accomplishment and so on.
A certain aspiring class in our countries seems to be possessed by a complex of lesser value, and would rather see their neighbors fail, even though to a German we may as well be the same. Like that scene in Borat.
Then again, probably all parties are guilty, don't doubt for a second that Russians are bad winners and arrogant. Slavs may be fine individually, but our group characters on average and in a political aggregate will never be able to overcome our history and circumstances like Scandinavians did, for example. Nobody is even interested in that.
Ditto6687
7mo ago
Dursleys are people who say “settee” and “pleased to meet you” and so on.
Not English, what is the connotation here?
Hermione’s background is upper-middle.
I'm rusty on my HP lore, but where is this implied? I don't remember her family situation being discussed much in the books or shown in the film.
Ditto6687
7mo ago
Anecdotal, but in my experience material concerning mothers with borderline personality disorder seems strongly oriented toward women, while the material oriented toward men is far more concerned with getting over a borderline ex-GF/wife than dealing with a borderline mother.
Do you know where I can read up on this?
Ditto6687
7mo ago
Off topic but whats the best intro to Civ4 for someone who can't even parse the map? Aside from playing the game solo obviously that's the best.
Ditto6687
8mo ago
I remember moldbug saying he will not come on Twitter, did he change his mind?
Ditto6687
8mo ago
The footnote (no. 28) continues the argument:
I support embryo selection but I don't buy the argumentation Gwern puts forward in this footnote. People may be fine with rolling the dice naturally, but still take issue at monumental, population wide changes due to engineering.
"Yes, I'd love my kid to be selected from a better distribution, but I fear long-term effects if this policy is implemented at mass-scale because I am not a geneticist and it seems risky" is a perfectly consistent position.
Ditto6687
8mo ago
Those are all more or less well-defined terms you could bump into depending on your social circles. It might be beneficial to just read up on them a bit
Ditto6687
8mo ago
It died at least two decades prior, when the US waged war to claw an internationally recognized region away from Serbia.
Ditto6687
9mo ago
I mean to what extent is being fans of a fictional world whose themes appeal to them comparable to astrology? LotR doesn't come with some woo-woo belief system attached.
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Off-topic slightly, but are the women at these parties presumed to be prostitutes? Or is it more like a "two couples who know each other met and had a crazy night" story which got blown out of proportion for sensationalist reasons?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Somehow these temperaments seem less violently offensive to rational thought than astrology.
Astrology has an "in-your-face" stupid effect, whereas the temperaments at least attempt to explain some causal mechanism.
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Public Choice Theory suggests that for certain policies democracy and majority voting is no guarantee of quality
Is there a salient example for this?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
I understood that part, but I still don't understand the broader implications. In particular, you seem to be implying that electing a candidate preferred by the median voter is better than the alternative, and I asked about the reason why. I can come up with some reasons, e.g. you don't get policies such as reparations or bloody deportations because those are preferred only by the extremes. But what about broader policy questions, or those unrelated to polarization or culture war?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Median in terms of polarization? I like your comment but you didn't do a lot of work to actually describe the particular outcomes that would be better if the median voter had more say.
Do you expect higher quality decisions from the median voter? Or is this just about avoiding outcomes such as wokism/far right?
Ditto6687
9mo ago
Stick some in the cargo area, it'll be fine.
Classic Balkanic coming of age experience
Ditto6687
9mo ago
since the TRF differential between advanced and non-advanced countries is the real problem that we as a global species need to deal with.
I wonder if there may be entire industries and ways of life whose realization depends on economies of scale.
In other words there may be a limiting number of people such that for any smaller amount, it becomes uneconomical for i.e. advanced microchip research to continue.
Ditto6687
10mo ago
You have none cus you're a lying liar who lied and got caught.
But in reality I have none because no one has any proof about cash tips, right?
Now they are looking at your bank statements for 3 years
To what end?
pay back the last 3 years of tip fraud you committed
So basically they just assume that I made the average tip amount in my area and calculate the fraud based on this?
It seems like the difference between my reported amount and the average must be very high for this method to be of any significance. If I work at an unpopular bar my tips might be 3x less than the average without any tip fraud whatsoever.
Ditto6687
10mo ago
and if they could get away with exponentially distributed prices they'd do it in a second.
Can you elaborate?
Ditto6687
10mo ago
I don't get this. Why can you freely change the probabilities? Don't they represent something about the real world?
Ditto6687
10mo ago
Wait a second. Audits mean the government gets to sift through all your communications???
I suppose they only have the right to see email accounts and phone records of your business, not you personally?
Wasn't sseth a LoL YTer in the olden days? I might be mixing him up with Dunkey though
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