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You are suffering from the survivorship bias in its purest form. I really hope nobody follows your advice.

"we show that the observed Flynn effect, its turning point, and subsequent decline can all be fully recovered from within-family variation. The analysis controls for all factors sh…

As far as I understand it, it's saying that IF the upbringing is the problem, then on the level of the society, not on the level of individual families. I.e. there doesn't seem to …

The basic fact is that the world is by virtually any objective measure of human well-being in the best place since the start of the recorded history. And still there are people (ev…

The growth of the blockchains will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law' - which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the squ…

This is slippery slope fallacy. The argument against mandatory donations is exactly that - it's makes donations mandatory, while opt-out gives you choice and just changes the defau…

Did you read the article? Patients were pushed to the top of the list, no donor was given subpar treatment, that would be murder.

On the other hand, it can be equally traumatizing for the victim's family to see the perpetrator get off with a slap on the wrist. We don't have to go into the extremes either way.…

You analogy isn't really on point. It's more of a difference between a controlled reaction (targeted gene splicing) and randomly smashing pieces of enriched uranium and watching wh…

> Limiting free speech This accusation is very vague and it could mean anything. It's surely more limited than, say, in Sweden. It way less limited than in Saudi Arabia. > banning …

> In any case, it seems to be that the threat to democracy will come from these paid trolls that seek to influence the minds of the western citizens. We need some kind of Ministry …

> Right now the Kremlin is likely undergoing an intense debate on how to spin the downing of the recent Russian flight as something other than a reaction to the Russian air war in …

"Hand over the jew gold you jew, i know you have two bags, one real one fake, give me both."