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New comment by centimeter in "China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline"

centimeter — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:56:02 +0000

> Do you have a single source to back up these claims?

I have many. You should start with these:

https://www1.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/30years/Rushton-Jense...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4270739/pdf/mp2...

New comment by centimeter in "Facebook could stop 10B impressions from “repeat misinformers”, but doesn't"

centimeter — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:10:19 +0000

I’m not spending time reading a salon article, but I’m willing to bet money that their definition of “repeat misinformer” is total bullshit.

New comment by centimeter in "China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline"

centimeter — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:06:04 +0000

Poverty is actually a quite weak predictor of crime rates once you condition on demographic factors such as percent single-parent households.

New comment by centimeter in "How People Get Rich Now"

centimeter — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 18:25:24 +0000

You’re describing monetization, not a pyramid scheme.

New comment by centimeter in "The Gaslighting of Science"

centimeter — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 04:51:45 +0000

The biggest gaslighting of this whole affair has been the political adherence to clearly insane propositions like forcing everyone to wear masks (questionable in any case) but allowing cloth masks (which do, at best, ~nothing, unlike actual rated masks, so definitely pointless) or quarantining billions of young people who accumulate less than 25 micromorts of mortality from covid contraction in the name of adding (on expectation) a few life-months for geriatrics who are not contributing to society and are about to keel over anyway.

The unnecessary manmade destruction of utility over the last year is nearly unprecedented, perhaps the most devastating since WW2.

New comment by centimeter in "“Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading"

centimeter — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 20:05:56 +0000

> Jane Street isn't that successful.

Their historical record is very good.

New comment by centimeter in "Setting up Starlink"

centimeter — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:36:51 +0000

Yes. I’m not even using their wifi box.

New comment by centimeter in "PSD is not my favourite file format"

centimeter — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:32:56 +0000

Affinity’s iPad UI is quite nice and relatively full-featured as well.

New comment by centimeter in "Visceral fat shows strongest association with ICU need in patients with Covid-19"

centimeter — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 04:19:31 +0000

Why would they have dumped billions into developing these vaccines in the first place if they expected to just lose the IP rights right away anyway? You might be able to save a small number of extra people this time by screwing over the vax manufacturers, but a lot more people will die next time when no one is willing to put up the R&D money.

New comment by centimeter in "Apple’s Find My network now offers new third-party finding experiences"

centimeter — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 03:29:25 +0000

Last time I looked into this, Apple actually used quite a bit of clever crypto engineering to protect user privacy. It's not just a big database of locations that Apple keeps.

New comment by centimeter in "Twitch will ban users for 'severe misconduct' that occurs away from its site"

centimeter — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:40:44 +0000

Do you support the right of businesses to refuse business to homosexuals, for example, on religious grounds? If you come back with “homosexuals are legally a protected class”, that’s evading the question and functionally equivalent to “no I don’t actually support freedom of association”.

I ask because in my experience most people on HN only support freedom of association when it’s politically expedient for them.

New comment by centimeter in "Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than predicted"

centimeter — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 20:37:28 +0000

The evidence is quite clear that going to college doesn’t actually improve life outcomes very much at all. We mistakenly thought it did for a while, but what was actually happening is the people who were going to college were smart and very likely to succeed anyway.

New comment by centimeter in "Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency"

centimeter — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 04:04:56 +0000

What in the world do you mean? Lightning has excellent privacy; payments are onion-routed.

New comment by centimeter in "Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency"

centimeter — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:32:36 +0000

If they weren't using this as an opportunity to pump some shitcoin, this might make sense. Bitcoin Lightning integration would be much less suspect, for example, because A) it's already well established B) they're not going to make a quick buck off it.

New comment by centimeter in "Where have all the kindergartners gone?"

centimeter — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:27:26 +0000

Ideas don't need to be correct to be adaptive.

New comment by centimeter in "Where have all the kindergartners gone?"

centimeter — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 03:25:36 +0000

How dare you! We need state-run pre-school to get those kids sitting at desks even earlier!

New comment by centimeter in "A CO2 capture solvent with exceptionally low total costs of capture"

centimeter — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:25:54 +0000

I really doubt that any industrial-chemical process will have a net better environmental or economic impact than, say, re-foresting desert areas.

New comment by centimeter in "Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study"

centimeter — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 04:01:34 +0000

Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.

New comment by centimeter in "Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study"

centimeter — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:11:59 +0000

My evidence is that I've lived in countries with market-based healthcare (Thailand, Mexico) and countries with socialized healthcare (Canada, UK), and the market-based healthcare is always infinitely better. My wife had to wait months to see a psychiatrist in Canada, before we moved away. WTF? In Thailand it's like $50 and you get in right away.

> empirically do those things better than the US

Why are you bringing up the US? It's not market-based healthcare.

New comment by centimeter in "Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for Medicare: study"

centimeter — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 03:04:26 +0000

The factors that cause America to spend a lot of money on healthcare don't go away when you switch to a single payer. If anything, they get worse.

Reform needs to happen elsewhere; for example, we need to stop using taxpayer money for extremely cost-ineffective treatment of very old people (which is where most of our money goes).