MaximumYComb

Does the US have a lot of eminent domain for development?

In some ways, yes I would. When I die I no longer experience anything. I'm reasonably young still and I want to watch my children grow up, to be there to support them, to see their achievements and to help them when needed. If I die then that is ripped away from me.

When I am older and I can look back at my life then I think I will be ok with dying. For now though, I want to live the one life I've been given.

You're not entirely gone. You are one person in a society who contributed your small to the cultural memes (in the original definition of meme). Even if you bear no children, some part of you will still exist in future generations

It's because he is looking long term. Once you eradicate polio then it's gone forever. If he stops now to save more children from malaria instead then polio will return and the work so far wasted.

The studies account for wealth.

I'm not knowledgeable on the inner workings of insurance but if the company agrees to insure for $X, even if it's more than you paid, then isn't that legal? I assume the deliberate crashing is the illegal part?

Which awful thing did I even remotely justify? My comment was in reference to the comment I replied to, which was:

>'hoped to seed the human race with his DNA

I then gave examples of powerful men attempting to seed the human race with their DNA. I make zero justification of exploiting/grooming underage girls, that's an entirely seperate issue.

It's creepy by modern western norms but it's been a fairly basic drive in rich and powerful men for a long time. Look at the percentage of men who share Y chromosomes from Genghis Khan, or the sultans who kept large harems.

I guess my argument is that most people can learn to do a lot more work than they are. Not everyone can sustain 100+ hours per week but someone working 40 can probably get a 50% improvement. The most significant change in my life occured through simply working more hour and developing habits to make those hours efficient.

I feel there is a common trait of extraordinary people that anyone can develop and it pays dividends. That trait is industriousness. When you listen to interviews from successful people like Elon Musk all the way through to Arnold Schwarzenegger, they all talk about working hard.

Terry Toa almost failed the general exams at Princeton due to slacking off, and it was a valuable lesson for him. I don't care how gifted you are, you won't reach the top without working harder than others.

IQ is one of the strongest predictors we have for many life outcomes, such as career success, wealth, lower risk of death. This doesn't mean "everyone with a very high IQ will blah blah blah" but it does mean that those with high IQs are more likely to achieve certain things.

There's actually an unlimited number of messages that will result in that hash. For all we know, that sha will also result from the hashing of "I'm a giant idiot" repeated an enormous number of times. I'd hazard a guess that there is probability 1 that this is the case.

In Australia we have linear rankings, you're placed in allotments of 0.05%. It does favour the kids from rich backgrounds but the smart kids from poor backgrounds get a good shot at attending a solid university.

Is obtaining optimal solutions a requirement in motion planning for robotics?

It wasn't a sleep issue but I felt like I was thriving when I was doing 4 hours of hard exercise per day. I burnt myself so hard I went down with glandular fever that then led into a year of post viral fatigue (chronic fatigue). I'm much more sensible now and listen to my body.

My salary as a CEO was only $1 last year, therefore my children need access to this school.

I'd argue that high socioeconomic people on these selection boards would be likely to select high socioeconomic students. The sports, hobbies, etc will all be familiar. This isn't a "white" issue.

A lot of children of African immigrants are actually outperforming the US population as a whole in regards to education.

You also need to consider that the people with the skills to commit most cybercrime are also likely to be working in roles where working from home is suitable. It's the small businesses, retail/service workers and blue collar areas that are being hit the hardest with unemployment due to covid.

These are alpine birds and only, rarely, attack sheep that are stuck in the snow. The sheep is defenceless, much like a man buried up to his neck.

Can ficticious characters be copyrighted? Google stole those from home too.

The light reaching the most centred wheat would barely be reduced in a 1mx1m vertical farm. Scale this to 100mx100m and it would be nearly dark without artificial light in the centre.

The birth rate differences between high IQ and low IQ sections of the population have been suggested as the primary driver of this. The fact that it's been suggested at all is amazing due to the western world's strong avoidance of any topic that resembles an argument for eugenics.

Is that really a thing? I live in Australia and I'm really careful about who I have sex with mainly due to not wanting to catch HSV-2. I'm an early 30's man and I turn down more potential sexual partners than not. Condom use prevents most STD's + unwanted pregnancy with a high degree of success but not HSV.

IIRC the Flynn effect has been in reverse since the mid 90's. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:

"Research suggests that there is an ongoing reversed Flynn effect, i.e. a decline in IQ scores, in Norway, Denmark, Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, France and German-speaking countries, a development which appears to have started in the 1990s".

In my country, Australia, we saw zero improvement on the Colored Porgressive Matrices from 1975-2003, and a decline since then.

Worded as such it does appear threatening. If someone tweeted that about me I would feel worried about my personal safety and that of my family. The law specifically states that placing a reasonable person in fear for their safety via online communications is a crime.

If you're going to request personal information for a legitimate reason then you should word it in a non threatening manner.

What proportion of journalists are building sources and chasing stories verse the proportion that are just pumping generic clickbait to generate views? I prefer to get my news from user selected sources, such as Hackernews, for a variety of topics than rely on mainstream journalism. Too many articles that have very little substance.

I spent a decade in a similar paid field and while pay was tied to position there was no real way besides time to figure out position. Junior dev vs senior dev is often a matter of time and not ability.

A quick search revealed only one study that said this, and a ton of studies that said the complete opposite. Oh, and articles showing faults in that one study. i.e. for masters students entering new jobs, men were 8x more likely to negotiate on salary.

In this case being attractive makes you more credible so I see this as a feature.