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Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
I’d say it got the point across.
But sure. I think associations with racism are the key reason progressives are bearish on IQ research. They get their own Wikipedia article with top billing on the IQ page. By the time of Griggs v. Duke, the political valence was firmly settled. It didn’t get any less political by the Charles Murray era, when the criticism again focused on racial differences.
If the question of sex differences has gotten second billing since at least the Civil Rights movement, do you think it’s gotten more important to modern progressives?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
So it’s not the philosophical tradition of equality that got us the French and American revolutions, the 14th amendment, and the suffragists, all before IQ was really conceptualized. And it’s not the specter of communism, even though it influenced plenty of other groups to try their own flavors of radical egalitarianism. Nor can it be pure guilt-by-association with the Nazis; progressives certainly wouldn’t jump the gun there. And it’s definitely, certainly nothing to do with battles fought during the Civil Rights movement, such as the only Supreme Court case most people could think of relating to IQ.
No, women hate and fear IQ because they know it proves men are superior.
Seriously?
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Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
It’s like Goku’s training weights, except they never take them off.
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4mo ago
It looks like they source batteries from Panasonic and then integrate them into packs. So they’re involved relatively early in the process.
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Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
AFAIK, Tesla’s battery and motor tech is very competitive, and sees use in aftermarket retrofits. That can’t be a huge market, and I suppose it could be a political or branding statement, but I take it as evidence that their fundamental parts are decent.
It’s the interiors and user experience that has always bothered me about Teslas. Fragile paneling, that big ugly screen… I could tell a story where Tesla was able to surpass legacy automakers in their core design, but failed (or chose not) to compete on making it feel luxury. That’s the kind of decision I could see Musk making, especially when pressed for time and money. But perhaps it’s too tidy .
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
I’m not convinced that it makes sense to count potential people as, well, people.
The eggs which are never fertilized don’t get to be living people, either.
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4mo ago
Now I’m imagining a bison with a browser-grade neck. Cartoony animal.
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4mo ago
Moderation queue.
I recognize that my perceptions might get a little skewed…
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4mo ago
…What sort of noise? In my line of work, we’re hard limited by the thermal noise floor.
Anyway. My understanding of the patent system is that it’s enforced by lawsuits. Someone sets up a factory making your widget, you hear about it, you sue for infringement. The larger the operation, the more value in bringing a suit. As a result, the legal department of those large companies will seek out your license ahead of time. Especially if your company is on the prowl for violators.
I have zero idea how this works for software. Presumably all the same rules apply, but if a commercial product skimmed your paper and implemented it, how would you ever know? And yet people clearly do patent techniques, and if your technique is as applicable as it sounds, you might really get value from patenting.
So, uh, no idea. Sorry. Hit me up if you decide to share it though :)
netstack
Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
Absolutely.
I remember an article about A&F intentionally trying to be “exclusionary.” Ah, that checks out: it was a Netflix exposé.
The models, the hiring for storefronts, it was all very specific. And why wouldn’t it be? Fashion gets a lot of mileage out of that. It worked really well for them.
This had to be intentional at some level.
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Texas is freedom land
4mo ago
when they are actually going to police their crazies the way the right's mainstream does
Tucker got fired for some combination of legal liability and picking fights with his management. Owens apparently just for the latter. Which progressives are in a similar position?
I’m not really sure who you’re expecting to be policed, here. Reasonable center-leftists don’t have any way to punish random TikTokers for jumping the gun. I guess they can cancel their NYT subscriptions if they don’t fire an editor or two.
Maybe they are. Maybe that’s the vibe shift I keep hearing about. If Nate Silver is right, and Colbert’s Late Show was struggling enough to get on the chopping block, is that what you’re looking for?
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
can't even say what a woman is
A nitpick, perhaps, but I really don't think that's a fair description. Refusing to step on a trap isn't incompetence.
That's not to say Jackson handled it well. Maybe there was some response that turned it around, suggesting the question was ill-formed? But that's something I'd frame as a failing of charisma more than intelligence.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I think most attempts to characterize “this place” are misguided. General agreement with a principle isn’t enough to make that principle representative, especially where political coalitions are involved.
I also think that, compared to the vast majority of people who want to generalize about “this place,” you’ve put more effort into doing so politely and constructively. It’s a good post. The least I can do is answer for myself.
On the first point of argument: that’s not what I would call “individualism,” which normally refers to the weighting of individual interests as opposed to collective ones. What you’re describing is like the opposite of “collective punishment.” Perhaps “personal responsibility.”
Your use of “meritocracy” is more agreeable, though I don’t know how many people would limit “personal virtue” to avoiding self-interest.
With that out of the way,
I think the people whose ancestors fought in the Civil War [Group R] have a hell of a lot more claim over America than the people who say they don’t belong [Group D].
If Group R gets privileged based only on the deeds of their ancestors, then that’s corrosive to meritocracy, to personal responsibility, and to individualism.
If the two groups start out with equal claims, but Group D has thrown theirs away by rejecting the American ethos, then it flips. Now meritocracy demands we prefer Group R, since at least it isn’t trying to wreck the project. We’re supposed to hold Group D responsible for their individual actions.
Guess which of these is closer to the modal Republican worldview?
Vance’s dogwhistle motte and bailey is consistent and defensible to his intended audience. It’s actively hostile to anybody who doesn’t already agree. I don’t think he cares.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Ha. No, but it’s amazing what people can do to this game.
I did play through Elden Ring Reforged using the Seamless Co-op mod. Changes the game entirely.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I don’t think that fixes anything.
Well. Maybe it pushes the nonviolent homeless out of the choicest spots on the West Coast. But the fent users go through worse. Public mockery ain’t shit compared to whatever they’re already doing to their bodies. Opioids mean the normal rules of shame and discomfort just…get washed away.
This probably also increases the number of shootings of police. A medieval peasant had zero chance against one or two men-at-arms. A crackhead with access to Austria’s finest export? You never know. Police are already on edge when they confront these guys. There’s no way that raising the prospect of a beating makes them safer.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
To be clear, there are no plans to adopt something like this.
But you also make a good point. I’m amenable to the idea of some bans just being for the CW thread. I wonder if that’s feasible.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
by subway
Alright, but what is that in freedom units?
I joke, but I really have no idea how fast the average subway covers ground. Our light rail is…not particularly efficient.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Scandavian winning again due to their socialized natural resources…
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
I got a good chuckle out of that one, too.
I think it was a couple BC bans ago that got me thinking about alternatives to the tempban. I thought, “when he does one inflammatory post, it’s interesting. It’s when he follows up that people start to insist he’s a troll.” How could we get the compelling conversation starters from some of our most divisive posters while making it clear that their behavior was still against the rules?
Once your 60- or 90-day tempban expires, you can post or comment again whenever you like. But it starts a timer leading to an automatic follow-up tempban. We like hearing from you, but you don’t get to stay.
Since it was BurdensomeCount, I thought about calling it the Motte Travel Visa. Or maybe it would be less controversial to call it resurrection and ascension?
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Oh, most certainly.
It’s my pseudo-suburban wasteland that ought to ward them off. We get yotes and bobcats.
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Texas is freedom land
5mo ago
Search time is directly proportional to range. The more you zoom, the longer it takes to scan the whole field of possible approaches, and the more data you’re funneling to your GPU.
How far away do you want to make the decision? How much of the image needs to show a drone before the AI flags it? How closely does the countermeasure need to get to secure a kill? What’s the false alarm rate?
It’s probably possible. It’s definitely not trivial, and I would not want to be the guy testing it out in the field.
Pretty sure it’s the optimism that’s doing the work!
Dune may have been pretty confused about genetics, but like everything else in its setting, the fruits were definitely reaped by the aristocracy. Maybe this is just because the camera follows aristocrats, and there are Mentat-grade weaponmasters hanging out in every village? It takes a millennia-long suicide plot to spread one genetic advantage to the human race as a whole.
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