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Birth rates will go up because they are inheritable and because exponential growth always wins. The USA will be Amish. It's only a change in environment that can knock that down a …

Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https:…

That document could use a clarification for the "Ask HN or Show HN" section. I didn't see an option to make an "Ask HN or Show HN" in the UI. Do we just add that text manually? Doe…

That sounds like the robustness principle, featured in RFC 1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) among others: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" or…

This is 100% unjustified speculation. Dehumanizing an opponent helps to unleash hate. John McCain's funeral was a political event.

Lots of people support the killing. When you look into the background of the 3 people shot, the reasons become obvious. The first person shot had attacked boys aged 9 to 11, raping…

The original antifa and that modern antifa have a lot in common. They share the name, symbols, violence, and ideology. The original antifa was so awful that it made people want Hit…

He was considered left-wing until he dared to report what he saw, refusing to censor it for the benefit of Antifa. That sounds like a reputable journalist to me.

What loss, his marbles? If you mean his son, well, Trump lost two brothers. When in congress, Biden pushed for the harsh sentencing that we had, with the 1994 crime bill. Trump sup…

Accents and staple foods are terrible examples. We know that the sound of the human voice is determined by the shape of the air passageway, including teeth and nose. We know that t…

It pops up during presidential election years. The donations are what is funding the DNC and the Biden campaign. It's an odd thing when you consider that Harris was a prosecutor wh…

Right on that web page: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care …

You can be, to a degree. There is a long tail. Targeting the top influencers would be too obvious. There are a lot of minor influencers that add up to quite a lot, being in total v…

Not every influencer is making income that way. Facebook is surely able to identify people with significant influence who aren't all that famous and who don't make any money off of…

I'd like to know why this isn't standard today. I don't like the typical moldy latex paint.

The PDF is a quick read, just a page and a quarter. This should help to cut down on the hostile divisive rhetoric that is getting in the way of unity and effective teamwork.

Lin Wood is a lawyer defending a boy against a politically-motivated prosecution. The event was a clear case of self-defense against a murderous mob of felons. It's nearly all on v…

This is interesting: "upper class whites and a few model minorities" Discrimination against the lower class is invisible within the white population. It just goes undetected. It is…

For real-life trolling fun at a university, head over to the people who are really complaining about the lack of women in STEM. They'll be in Gender Studies or something like that.…

It won't generate a reasonable intellectual discussion. Some of the most common opinions on the matter are unspeakable in polite society. Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has th…

Perform a trick to get a food reward? It sounds like training dolphins. I don't even know if that is a good sign or a bad sign, but... wow.

This isn't the first case. There certainly is a non-Eurasian privilege, particularly in academia. She wouldn't have done this if it weren't beneficial.

Well, sort of. They discriminated against types I and II.

You can be at war, as a pacifist, in total denial of reality. That's what the USA did with China. The trade war was really active, but the USA was just taking damage without any re…

Logically, the treatment ought to be for exposed people who aren't yet showing symptoms. Prime candidates would be family members of infected people.