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What bearing does this thought experiment have on our reality, where Nazi race science is completely false and discredited?

Ah, you're right, Marks clarifies that racists appropriated the term he coined ( http://anthropomics2.blogspot.com/2019/12/i-coined-phrase-hu... ). Siskind obviously was referring …

Hmm, which geneticist coined the term? Oh, it was VDARE contributor Steve Sailer? The one who writes about black genetic inferiority and Jewish control of the media?

Siskind endorsed nazi race science ("human bio-diversity") in a leaked email. The NY times piece hit the nail on the head. https://mobile.twitter.com/arsonatdennys/status/136215319…

Can you point out for me then where the order of magnitude suburban inefficiencies are accounted for?

If Walnut Creek paid an extra $9000/year for each resident then they could easily offset whatever extra environmental cost. Carbon offsets etc are not all that expensive.

Walnut creek (suburban city near San Francisco) budget is about $1500 per resident, Contra Costa county, which contains Walnut Creek, spends about $3500 per resident. San Francisco…

For reference of the many people who apparently have no clue, this is an example of a "hatchet job": https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2003/10/the-fanatic-frau...

"They have insufficient talent or skill, and even less desire, to take on real power centers" funny line in a story that's basically just twitter/clubhouse drama

If you read the news every day then you will certainly hear from the other half of the country. I just checked CNN's front page, and while most coverage focuses on the new Presiden…

I'd be curious to know more, I'll try to take a look at that book when I get a chance. Are you saying, though, that Nazi Germany was very poor relative to its neighbors (e.g. Franc…

Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany were major industrial centers with large cities, educated populations, newspapers, trains, etc. They were vastly richer than peasant societies like …

A lot of the great wars of history have been instigated by rich countries - modern USA, Nazi Germany / Imperial Japan, Spanish Empire, British Empire, Napoleonic France, Roman Empi…

I don't get the joke in naming a laptop after a Nazi stronghold, could someone explain it for me?

I don't really understand what you're referring to when you say that Iran has a choice to improve their people's lives today. The Iranian leadership talked to the USA and worked ou…

Iran's, and North Korea's, strategies are working out pretty well for the people making those decisions. Khamenei, like Kim Jong-Il, looks set to die of natural causes at an advanc…

Yes, why won't Iran simply disarm under US pressure, like Gaddafi and Saddam did?

this is quite an academic exercise since a decade of intensive research hasn't brought us close to working self-driving cars, much less 1x safe self-driving cars, much less 5x safe…

The Rails people never went for SPAs though. Releasing another server-rendering AJAX thing for rails (previous was TurboLinks) no more represents "the pendulum swinging back" than …

or "servers you don't control / can't debug / pay extra for"

Insane that I can buy a fuel-cell Toyota but not an electric. The Hummer is actually going to go electric before the Camry. I get the feeling that Toyota wrote off existing Li-Ion …

If it is past exposures and disease resistence, how do you explain early spread in Wuhan? Why does Aus/NZ enjoy natural immunity but not Indonesia? Quarantines are effective agains…

If the goal is to prevent traffic fatalities then funding self-driving research must be one of the least effective methods. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent and no lives…

90% of PCR-positive subjects in the ENE-COVID test, for example, did also have a positive antibody test. So actual infection numbers might be ~10% higher than the raw numbers from …

I don't quite know what to make of the WHO estimate. I can't find further details about it. I don't think it makes sense to take this estimate and try to extract an IFR from it. Th…