Sure my country has changed... for the worse. The guy who planted the bomb on the ship's hull actually came out and confessed his guilt and regrets. Nowadays ? They're just outraged you could even think of calling them on their hypocrisy.
Anarchy, in the libertarian extremist sense which I am actually advocating for realzies, isn't "absence of functioning government". What I mean by anarchy is better defined as "institutionnalized repression of coercion". That is quite a different beast, and Somalia doesn't qualify quite. However one thing Somalia does qualify for, is that it is (was) less of an offender than many of its neighboring countries, and that aspect translated into "surprising" progress (rising literacy and college attendance, huge drop in contagious diseases, formation of xeer-driven local courts, etc.) in the 00s, as observed by the World Bank analysts who went there at the time.
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considering how many people with even modertely useful degrees are under or unemployed; you're not getting those sunk costs back. And that is going to get worse as the population climbs.
Unemployment has nothing to do with population numbers. Many (most ?) countries in this world enjoy low unemployment figures with growing demographics.
No, diversity is not skewed in any direction. A vast number of different factors help or hamper in the reproductive success of any given individual, and as the population increases, even that growth generates new factors, and those new factors also tend to create layers of new factors of their own, etc. For example species that evolve mating rituals also end up evolving strategies that circumvent those rituals, and counter-strategies for detecting these 'sneakers', etc. And changing conditions eventually disturb any dynamic equilibrium they might get at. It never ends at any given point.
I think if 4 billion humans dropped dead next week, we'd all be better off long-term.
And you're dead wrong, even if all the cadavers mysteriously and magically turned into basic mineral components and were sprinkled all over the planet (instead of rotting wherever they dropped dead, contaminating air and water with diseases durably over the following weeks).
An 8 billion human population is overall better for mankind and also arguably for the planet, than just 1 billion.
Long-term, a forcibly reduced population would mean a lot less human capital (which is our true ultimate cap for progress potential), and a lot less competition for the same environmental resources, incentivizing a higher waste of these resources. Also, we'd be losing a lot of diversity, setting us back evolutionarily, and we'd just end up with more numerous but less adaptively fit individuals. This effect is well known and observed in all kinds of living organism populations, from bacteria to complex, social animals.
Oh and, if you'd honestly believe killing people is ultimately doing people a service, you'd have started killing already. Or are you just a cowardly homicidal hypocrite ?
... would be for them to establish sound and sane epistemological foundations for their works. For example they could stop trying to assert they can model human behavior, and instead limit themselves to observations of economical choices made by real, live humans only.
But the S.F. readers get bored of it much faster... Only the people who think they have a religious duty to "correct" reality have the patience, energy and engagement to stick around when everything goes eye-rollingly consternating.
I had not heard of this whole mess before today, and I find it already tedious just searching for basic factual information about WTF happened and who has been an arsehole and who stuffed whose ballots. I was just hoping to learn of exciting new authors, and now it feels like I'm somehow reading a Twitter argument between some random MRA and my transgender SJW sister.
... is that hybridization might play a very big role in the appearance of new species, in several different ways: - apomixis, producing some (most often aneuploid) news organism (which then clones itself indefinitely by fragmentation, budding or parthenogeny, becoming a distinct species all by itself) - polyploidization, where the different DNA sets just add up and coexist side by side (like in pretty much every angiosperm on the planet, and many other plants, as well as many fish, reptile and salamander species - like Ambystoma platineum) - symbiotic association, as seen in lichens and also in how mitochondria fused with bacteria into eukaryotes - recombinational stabilization (a.k.a allohomoploid nothospeciation), where the slightly mismatched chromosomes from different DNA sets of compatible but different species pair up into complex heteroduplexes that end up fragmenting or fusing chromosome segments when the first generation of hybrids starts mating - which very well might be how two chimpanzee's chromosomes fused into our own bigger Chromosome 2.
In the cases mentioned of TFA some of the 'exotic' genes may be explained more simply as introgressions from a past hybridization event with a different species followed by backcrossing.
There's more to it still: you can actually exploit the incertitude on the measurements you're using to categorize your subjects into subgroups, in a way to ensure your drug WILL report positive effects even if it has zero real effect. It's very well explained in this short article by Tom Naughton, complete with a numerical demonstration.
To put it shortly: you can design the subgroups' criterion in a way that overrepresents false positives and underrepresents the false-negatives that would otherwise counterbalance them.
And I'm not surprised, considering how full of holes and lapses taxonomy is. It's pretty much a pseudoscience as it stands so far. We've been trying to put every critter into a single, discrete box called "species" and arranging those in ways that simply won't fit with the facts. Which order do protoctists really belong to ? Are euglenids plant or animal ? Are myxomycetes fungus or protoctists ? What about racoon dogs, cynogales, etc. ?
Phylogenetic "trees" should really be loose hypergraphs with lots and lots of cycles and a wide circumference.
I can't think of any practical use for such a Genetic Access Control method nor of a reason to feel outrage and clamor "racism". For a start, this app only works for users who are also 23andme clients anyway, who also agree to have the app access their data (à la Twitter), and I'd say those people pretty much already explicitly waived their genetic privacy.
Also, I can attest to how widely inaccurate some of the results you get through the API can be, especially the ethnic origin results. In my case it's ~16% inaccurate. It's known to overstate european origins and downplay or entirely lack quite a few less common origins, as the comparison database misses data from entire ethnical groups (Sinté, Romani...) or has only a handful (or single) individual DNAs for many potential origins (Romania, Azerbaijan, etc.). And the haplogroups tree that the API reports from is outdated (and, again as in my case, very lacking of resolution in several branches).
The important thing is not the cost of propellant, nor the absolute mass of the launcher, but rather how reusable we can make the launcher parts. Reentering the atmosphere at orbital velocities means that a very lightweight, fragile launch stage will NOT survive to be reused. But if we can afford making that stage bulkier and sturdier, by sarificing part of a much higher fraction payload, it may.
I wonder what kind of performance it would get from using maser-powered water vaporization for propulsion ? Water vapor holds twice as much heat as air, translating into twice the ISP. It would be very steampunk, too... I now envision aerospike-like rocket engine gloriously steaming into the stratosphere on top of a microwaved plume of vapor.
Did you pause and wonder what causes the very existence of "girl colours" and "boy colours" in the first place, while you were thinking about this pink&blue flip-over as an example that somehow could undermine the subtext of my (tongue-in-cheek) comment ?
Google deflected criticism for its lack of women techies in the past by blaming parents' unconscious biases for not steering their girls to study computer science, suggesting an intervention was needed. "Outreach programs," advised Google, "should include a parent education component, so that parents learn how to actively encourage their daughters."
Ah, parents. The supposedly superpowerful entities that can somehow control their children's career path over decades without even trying, yet keep failing to stop them from having underage sex or trying drugs no matter how hard they actively attempt to.
Establishing a lunar ice mining operation is actually the first, necessary step into building the much needed Cislunar Infrastructure that will power our future forays to Mars, Venus and the Asteroid Belt ; as well as sustain our existing LEO and GEO infrastructure in a more efficient way.
The Shackleton Crater is the perfect place to have permanent solar power as well as solid ice. From there the water and ice can be turned into bipropellant and brought to the Moon's L2 point, and from there you can pretty much reach anywhere around Earth cheaply.
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They should hire only the 80% who fail the tests, as the remaining 20% obviously can beat the polygraph with ease and are not trustworthy.
Sure my country has changed... for the worse. The guy who planted the bomb on the ship's hull actually came out and confessed his guilt and regrets. Nowadays ? They're just outraged you could even think of calling them on their hypocrisy.
Hear hear.
Anarchy, in the libertarian extremist sense which I am actually advocating for realzies, isn't "absence of functioning government". What I mean by anarchy is better defined as "institutionnalized repression of coercion". That is quite a different beast, and Somalia doesn't qualify quite. However one thing Somalia does qualify for, is that it is (was) less of an offender than many of its neighboring countries, and that aspect translated into "surprising" progress (rising literacy and college attendance, huge drop in contagious diseases, formation of xeer-driven local courts, etc.) in the 00s, as observed by the World Bank analysts who went there at the time.
This one's been frustrating me a lot: I apparently cannot search my own TL or my own tweets for that nugget of info / chart / URL that I need again.
The same applies: I think it's a bad thing, just as it would be a bad thing to see happen in humans.
Unemployment has nothing to do with population numbers. Many (most ?) countries in this world enjoy low unemployment figures with growing demographics.
No, diversity is not skewed in any direction. A vast number of different factors help or hamper in the reproductive success of any given individual, and as the population increases, even that growth generates new factors, and those new factors also tend to create layers of new factors of their own, etc. For example species that evolve mating rituals also end up evolving strategies that circumvent those rituals, and counter-strategies for detecting these 'sneakers', etc. And changing conditions eventually disturb any dynamic equilibrium they might get at. It never ends at any given point.
And you're dead wrong, even if all the cadavers mysteriously and magically turned into basic mineral components and were sprinkled all over the planet (instead of rotting wherever they dropped dead, contaminating air and water with diseases durably over the following weeks).
An 8 billion human population is overall better for mankind and also arguably for the planet, than just 1 billion.
Long-term, a forcibly reduced population would mean a lot less human capital (which is our true ultimate cap for progress potential), and a lot less competition for the same environmental resources, incentivizing a higher waste of these resources. Also, we'd be losing a lot of diversity, setting us back evolutionarily, and we'd just end up with more numerous but less adaptively fit individuals. This effect is well known and observed in all kinds of living organism populations, from bacteria to complex, social animals.
Oh and, if you'd honestly believe killing people is ultimately doing people a service, you'd have started killing already. Or are you just a cowardly homicidal hypocrite ?
... would be for them to establish sound and sane epistemological foundations for their works. For example they could stop trying to assert they can model human behavior, and instead limit themselves to observations of economical choices made by real, live humans only.
Yup, it's science alright. Muhammad likely just plagiarized his paper, like many.
Or maybe you're the one missing out on all the fun to be had ?
But the S.F. readers get bored of it much faster... Only the people who think they have a religious duty to "correct" reality have the patience, energy and engagement to stick around when everything goes eye-rollingly consternating.
I had not heard of this whole mess before today, and I find it already tedious just searching for basic factual information about WTF happened and who has been an arsehole and who stuffed whose ballots. I was just hoping to learn of exciting new authors, and now it feels like I'm somehow reading a Twitter argument between some random MRA and my transgender SJW sister.
... is that hybridization might play a very big role in the appearance of new species, in several different ways:
- apomixis, producing some (most often aneuploid) news organism (which then clones itself indefinitely by fragmentation, budding or parthenogeny, becoming a distinct species all by itself)
- polyploidization, where the different DNA sets just add up and coexist side by side (like in pretty much every angiosperm on the planet, and many other plants, as well as many fish, reptile and salamander species - like Ambystoma platineum)
- symbiotic association, as seen in lichens and also in how mitochondria fused with bacteria into eukaryotes
- recombinational stabilization (a.k.a allohomoploid nothospeciation), where the slightly mismatched chromosomes from different DNA sets of compatible but different species pair up into complex heteroduplexes that end up fragmenting or fusing chromosome segments when the first generation of hybrids starts mating - which very well might be how two chimpanzee's chromosomes fused into our own bigger Chromosome 2.
In the cases mentioned of TFA some of the 'exotic' genes may be explained more simply as introgressions from a past hybridization event with a different species followed by backcrossing.
Since this is basically a smurf attack through a different protocol, I think we should call it a "snork attack".
There's more to it still: you can actually exploit the incertitude on the measurements you're using to categorize your subjects into subgroups, in a way to ensure your drug WILL report positive effects even if it has zero real effect. It's very well explained in this short article by Tom Naughton, complete with a numerical demonstration.
To put it shortly: you can design the subgroups' criterion in a way that overrepresents false positives and underrepresents the false-negatives that would otherwise counterbalance them.
And I'm not surprised, considering how full of holes and lapses taxonomy is. It's pretty much a pseudoscience as it stands so far. We've been trying to put every critter into a single, discrete box called "species" and arranging those in ways that simply won't fit with the facts. Which order do protoctists really belong to ? Are euglenids plant or animal ? Are myxomycetes fungus or protoctists ? What about racoon dogs, cynogales, etc. ?
Phylogenetic "trees" should really be loose hypergraphs with lots and lots of cycles and a wide circumference.
It depends on which brand of SJWs you ask.
I can't think of any practical use for such a Genetic Access Control method nor of a reason to feel outrage and clamor "racism". For a start, this app only works for users who are also 23andme clients anyway, who also agree to have the app access their data (à la Twitter), and I'd say those people pretty much already explicitly waived their genetic privacy.
Also, I can attest to how widely inaccurate some of the results you get through the API can be, especially the ethnic origin results. In my case it's ~16% inaccurate. It's known to overstate european origins and downplay or entirely lack quite a few less common origins, as the comparison database misses data from entire ethnical groups (Sinté, Romani...) or has only a handful (or single) individual DNAs for many potential origins (Romania, Azerbaijan, etc.). And the haplogroups tree that the API reports from is outdated (and, again as in my case, very lacking of resolution in several branches).
The important thing is not the cost of propellant, nor the absolute mass of the launcher, but rather how reusable we can make the launcher parts. Reentering the atmosphere at orbital velocities means that a very lightweight, fragile launch stage will NOT survive to be reused. But if we can afford making that stage bulkier and sturdier, by sarificing part of a much higher fraction payload, it may.
A similar technique was tested successfully by japanese researchers in 2010, except their rocket model used ambient air directly, instead of H2 in a tank.
I wonder what kind of performance it would get from using maser-powered water vaporization for propulsion ? Water vapor holds twice as much heat as air, translating into twice the ISP. It would be very steampunk, too... I now envision aerospike-like rocket engine gloriously steaming into the stratosphere on top of a microwaved plume of vapor.
Did you pause and wonder what causes the very existence of "girl colours" and "boy colours" in the first place, while you were thinking about this pink&blue flip-over as an example that somehow could undermine the subtext of my (tongue-in-cheek) comment ?
Yeah, I guessed not :D
Ah, parents. The supposedly superpowerful entities that can somehow control their children's career path over decades without even trying, yet keep failing to stop them from having underage sex or trying drugs no matter how hard they actively attempt to.
Establishing a lunar ice mining operation is actually the first, necessary step into building the much needed Cislunar Infrastructure that will power our future forays to Mars, Venus and the Asteroid Belt ; as well as sustain our existing LEO and GEO infrastructure in a more efficient way.
The Shackleton Crater is the perfect place to have permanent solar power as well as solid ice. From there the water and ice can be turned into bipropellant and brought to the Moon's L2 point, and from there you can pretty much reach anywhere around Earth cheaply.
"Moving" does not trigger any kind of fat loss. Only stimulating lipolysis can.
And that is why I hope the case gets dismissed with prejudice, possibly opening the way for a counter-case of barratry.