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Autists are a tiny minority (2-5% of the population) and mostly male. Affirmative action for autists is hence unlikely to ever achieve a scale at which substantial discrimination c…

You need to rely on large scale studies to make statements about the population at large. You can use your small number of data points (anecdotes) to generate hypothses, but you ne…

> Disclaimer: I am a parent, and have fostered neglected children. And that makes you an expert in criminology?

How does the effectiveness of tracking down individual cases in this way compare to e.g. improving the eoconomic incentives overall? Commercial child abuse is mostly a result of de…

At least in 1st world countries. The contribution of those are rather small compared to China and India. WorldBank Pollution data: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/en.atm.pm25.…

Also, manufacturing and charging li-io batteries for cars currently still produces more CO2 than petrol vehicles: https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/lithium-bat...

Wear from car tires cause the majority of microplastics that get into the seas (around 50%, if I'm reading understanding this study correctly): http://epanet.pbe.eea.europa.eu/ad-h…

My next car will be "no car at all". Even electric cars have huge externalities that you do not pay for, but your children, namely, the disposal of the batteries, pollution created…

That's incredibly fascinating. It seems counter-intuitive that a random placement would be superior to a more regular one. Does this merely optimize for minimal length of the datal…

No, but I'm loving this song. Thanks.

What is this scattered design about? https://tomverbeure.github.io/assets/swerv/slides/13%20-%20S...