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>You're brushing off my point, why no selection on the allele? Why did they all die out? Easiest answer is it never made it. Evolution works in more complicated ways than the toy m…

You're conflating market economies (that have been around since basically forever and that no one except the most hardcore anarcho-primitivists are attacking) and modern day capita…

Last I heard Stallman isn't forcing anything on anyone, even in the loosest sense of the word. Criticism isn't authoritarian.

Genealogical mixing and genetic mixing have little to do with each other - the pool is too diluted at these scales and there can be much local variation. By the way, the fact that …

Fines should not exist. Anything that gets punished by a fine is basically codeword for 'you can break that law if you're rich'. The most spectacular example being Facebook's stock…

>That’s assuming that the human population is well-mixed Yes that's why I took the conservative estimate of 7000 years, otherwise with the panmixia hypothesis it only goes back 300…

The Genghis Khan thing doesn't really say much - there's a statistical near-certainty that liteally everyone today is descended from every single human that 7000 years ago (whose l…

There should be a moratorium on invoking evolution unless you're an evolutionary biologist. It's quite telling that whenever I read the word 'Darwin' on this site I immediately go …

I don't think there's a single person today that knows all the rules. If you want to annoy any judge just ask about an interaction between 3+ cards involving Opalescence and Humili…

That's awful to be honest. I don't have anything against online dating in principle, though I do find it pretty weird, but there's got to be a better way than relying on obscure ma…

Of course science is political. What isn't? I have a feeling that non-scientists see science as an invisible ethereal, platonic construct that's slowly being unveiled by hardy expl…

I don't get why people (I mean technically minded people who are aware of privacy issues and so on) don't just use firefox. They are pretty much at feature parity (Firefox may even…

DNA is nothing like source code. Why do people keep repeating this analogy. At any rate, cell differentiation/compartmentation within a tumor has been observed, so things do get bl…

My (fairly rudimentary) understanding of the United States is that the right wing controls most of its governmental apparatus as well as the biggest news outlet. How are they being…

Lol at 'American wine is better'. It sure feels nice to pay $17 for a much-touted fancy bottle that turns out to be meh at best when in the States. Meanwhile you could just pick an…

To be frank, a 3% tax is too little too late.

Alright, I wasn't talking about you specifically, sorry if you took it that way. On HN curation: while I certainly look up to this community when it comes to coding, technology and…

Low-IF journals are easier to publish to by definition. You first try to publish in a high-IF journal, if they reject you then you try one with lower IF, and so on. I'm all about n…

While I agree there are plenty of issues in academia among which too much emphasis on IF is certainly a thing, it does provide a helpful filter (or prior, if you will) to quickly a…

It's not "obvious" at all and I've never heard anyone in the community express such sentiments, even in more informal settings. I don't even know what "courage" you're referring to…

A lot of people love to chime in about "genetics" or "heritability" despite having no background in actual genetics (no, evopsych or behavioral "genetics" don't count) and publish …

India is rich though? There are also plenty of non-European countries offering free healthcare?

>why shouldn’t it be in Sweden’s interest to one, either stop the flow or alternatively take control and annex Denmark in order to bring it into the fold? Because Sweden is not rul…