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sadris··on German Jews warned not to wear kippas after rise in anti-Semitism
What?
sadris··on Heritability of Lifetime Earnings
> The contribution of the shared environment is negligible

Typical. As with most things, parenting doesn't matter.

sadris··on Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
47% of California households do not speak English at home.
sadris··on Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
> What evolution compels us to do is have sex. We've just disconnected that from reproduction.

It compels is to do everything we do in life. There isn't a single trait ever measured in which the heritability was zero.

sadris··on Japan Begins Experiment of Opening to Immigration
Lack of Japanese genes
sadris··on Silicon Valley Couldn't Care Less About Earth’s Imminent Demise
"electric" cars are just coal powered cars. 40% of our grid is coal. Then you add a 50% efficient battery on top of that...

We need nuclear and we need it now

sadris··on California bill to expand privacy protections fails
Thank God. The regulatory requirements would have been insane.
sadris··on 414M pieces of plastic found on remote Australian islands: Study
I think MIT designed a bacteria that eats plastic, wonder what's taking them so long from deploying it.
sadris··on Chelsea Manning sent back to jail after refusing to testify before a grand jury
It's actually fairly common when being held in contempt.

Judges in America have an egregious amount of power.

sadris··on SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
Sorry it was 75%: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three...
sadris··on SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships
It occurs in most non-merit based social settings. 95% of all churches are 95% homogeneous. Racial groups self segregate at lunch tables. 85% of millennials don't have a single friend outside their own racial group.

In merit based settings like employement, the employer is going to be selecting for IQ so the racial demographic of the employees is irrelevant, only their productivity.

sadris··on Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment
The other Chernobyl units continued to operate commercially until 1998.
sadris··on Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment
You can swim in spent nuclear fuel pools. I know a professional diver who did it for a living.
sadris··on Public's Dread of Nuclear Power Limits Its Deployment
The US military has lost 8 nuclear warheads. To say "no incidents" might be a bit of a misnomer.
sadris··on Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
Every mainstream outlet promotes wars in the middle East.

The only individual who is saying to not do that is... Tucker Carlson, who is on Fox.

sadris··on Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
He explicitly said visiting Paris and Turkey radicalized him.
sadris··on Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
Saudi Arabia considers athiesm to be extremist. Many people consider child mutilation ("gender surgery") to be extremism. Some people consider Zionism to be extremism. Some people consider border security to be extremism. Some people consider abortion restrictions to be extremism.

So now, what is extremism?

sadris··on Illinois might charge $1k/year to own an electric vehicle
Mileage tax + Weight*Multiplier would be fairest.
sadris··on Improving support for adult content on Mastodon
People called the past tense of tweet a "twat" many years ago.
sadris··on Ask HN: If You Could Make Anything, What Would You Make?
An artificial womb. Would save a lot of stress for a lot of people.
sadris··on Show HN: Fast – Replace your login form with one button
Future pricing plans?
sadris··on The Cassowary: World’s most dangerous bird (2016)
You guys are everywhere
sadris··on Wages Are Finally Rising, 10 Years After the Recession
Oregon.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266495645_Effects_o...

sadris··on Ask HN: Best mask for wildfire smoke / extreme air pollution, children included?
EMTs and cancer patients use c95 masks. They're not bad.
sadris··on EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants
European hostility to business rights in general is a much larger elephant in the room.
sadris··on Ask HN: If you have project making 13kUSD passively, how to value and sell it?
Flippa.com
sadris··on Buzz Aldrin: It's time to focus on the great migration of humankind to Mars
How about instead of colonizing mars, we colonize Greenland first? Or Antarctica?
sadris··on Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people
I'm not sure how you could have bias in a system that literally just measures packages moved per second.
sadris··on Amazon's warehouse worker tracking system can automatically fire people
Why is it ethical to terminate bad employees when a human determines said employee is bad, but unethical if software makes the determination?

Ethnic bias would be eliminated in the latter case.

sadris··on AI-powered laundry-folding robot company has filed for bankruptcy
I didn't say in driveway. I said in car.
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