aardvark
1yr ago
I am too addicted to this thing. Even more frustrating, if I decide to comment, then no matter how much time I spend composing comments I get "low effort" materiel and it only makes my life worse.
aardvark
1yr ago
Literally God of the Gaps, social justice version. Also this is a form of circular reasoning.
aardvark
1yr ago
It was never Polish. A Baltic ethnicity, Prussians, lived here before Germans assimilated them.
aardvark
1yr ago
Ukraine had revolution of dignity and Euromaidan in winters, both succeed, as you see. (2003/2004 and 2013/2014)
aardvark
1yr ago
I do not recall such moods being so visceral among the common folk in the West before.
With number of protected classes increasing every day, people still want to hate someone.
aardvark
1yr ago
They're expressing the sentiment "Soviets were bad!"
They're expressing the sentiment "MODERN RUSSIA is bad"
aardvark
1yr ago
nobody could publish results using the leaked data.
Your mean publications in scientific journals?... ... one can publish anonymously.
aardvark
1yr ago
"phenotypic null hypothesis", according to Google Ngram, does not appear before 2002 and it's usage going after 2010. It's a neologism.
And disingenious one. For testing medications, null hypothesis "it doesn't work" is useful because we have voluminous history of ineffective medications. We don't have prior history of controlled experiments on population IQ differences. It's like theists requiring atheists to prove.
Jack and Jane both collected some stones on beach. Compute average size of stone each of them collected. Must they be same, exactly to 10-digit after comma, unless proved otherwise?
Rightist inclined people want to preserve racial inequality of outcomes
As been said, it is looking at rightists under leftists theory of universe. What about "rightists don't want certain kind of government-mandated redistribution which give a net harm to society" or "rightists don't want their bikes stolen"?
Now I am going to violate rules and say that intelligence is clearly biological. It's not controversial to say that fish are smarter than jellyfish, and crocodiles are smarter than fish, and rats are smarter than crocodiles. It's only when feelings are hurt it requires some "phenotypic null hypothesis". Yes, intelligence has long causal chain, but so are many biological phenomena.
Your
aardvark
1yr ago
and assassinates people near Moscow
Did you miss that part that a lot of Ukrainians live in Russia, and Ukrainians still can enter Russia without a visa, while Baltic sea isn't full of Ukrainians boats/subs?
aardvark
1yr ago
No they claim that racial purity
HBD advocates claim that if you mix two populations of same size, IQ of mix would be very close to average of these ancestral populations. Don't they? What does this have to do with racial purity?
aardvark
1yr ago
What Germany could do better for Russia? Germany sends tiny amounts of weapons to Ukraine. It's US weapons & intel which is a problem for Russia.
aardvark
1yr ago
The Germany is influential enough so they can buy a lot of gas from Russia which could translate into supplies for the war
aardvark
1yr ago
Majority muslim Albania was the only country in Europe to come out of WW2 with a higher jewish population than before the war.
what about Spain and Portugal?
aardvark
1yr ago
He claims it's worse: Employers are looking for conformity, which by definition can't be signaled by something new and innovative.
I remember I read "completed higher education means you can do boring, useless stuff for 5 years without questioning it".
... well, you can make PGS for conformity...
The cultural grip of 'the West' doesn't exist
I think you misread it, Ilforte wrote "grip ON the West".
aardvark
1yr ago
("When the Russian middle-class cannot go on holiday they'll overthrow Putin etc.")
In Russia there exists a meme that Russia has no middle class...
aardvark
1yr ago
When USSR launched the first satellite under Chief Designer Korolev (Ukrainian), many Americans got scared. When Russia wishes to unite (in some way in another) with Ukraine to try making some another scary things this is seen as more menacing than Saudis killing Yemenis with reason rooted in faith differences.
Saudi Arabia currently is only starting to make its own firearms.
There is probably another axis on this. Russians are perceived to be whiter than Saudis and therefore higher standard is applied for them.
aardvark
1yr ago
Smolensk NPP size is irrelevant, it's a RBMK-type reactor which is large compared to any other type of nuclear reactor. Water-water reactors are a lot smaller.
aardvark
1yr ago
...Your question about taboo attracted so few answers. Maybe the topic itself is tabooed...
aardvark
1yr ago
Chess is a lot less in a sense that very crude algorithm which evaluates trees is enough to beat an average human, because of low branching quotient and it's a perfect information game. Games with incomplete information require more complex AI.
What /u/JarJarJedi username meants? I thought it was established he was a Sith Lord.
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