jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy
What bearing does this thought experiment have on our reality, where Nazi race science is completely false and discredited?
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jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy
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 to the nazi/alt-right/nrx meaning of the term, associated with Sailer, though.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Notes on the Slate Star Codex Controversy
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?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
Can you point out for me then where the order of magnitude suburban inefficiencies are accounted for?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
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.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while paying SF and NY salaries
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 is like $14000 per resident.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Statement on New York Times Article
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...
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: NYT reporter falsely accuses tech investor of using a slur
"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
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Judge refuses to reinstate Parler after Amazon shut it down
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 President, these three articles all feature right-wing viewpoints:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/2024-republican-prim... https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/fact-check-marjorie-... https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/21/conspiracy-th...
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: If you want peace, study war
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. France, Poland, Italy) or relative to the world at the time (e.g. Mexico) or in an absolute sense (widespread extreme poverty, lack of basic necessities of life)?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: If you want peace, study war
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 China or Mexico.
For a somewhat objective example, look at the life expectancy around those years ... Japan and especially Germany are near the top both before and after the war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_life...
Modern USA hardly even engages in full scale warfare since starting one of the deadliest wars of the late 20th century, except for the time we started the deadliest war of the 21st century?
Your reasoning strikes me as kind of post-hoc, but maybe I'm mistaken .. could you say more precisely what you think causes countries to go to war, in a way that I could take a random country and see if it fits the criteria?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: If you want peace, study war
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 Empire.
This is my qualitative sense from studying history, and it seems to hold up quantitatively based on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Software That Sucks Less
I don't get the joke in naming a laptop after a Nazi stronghold, could someone explain it for me?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: GitHub is fully available in Iran
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 out a deal. The USA then went back on that deal, reimposed sanctions without even trying to renegotiate, and basically declared war on Iran, assassinating a top Iranian general. What choice do you think that Iran has right now? Their choices are surrender to US aggression, or continue to resist. I've mentioned a few of the many recent regional episodes - Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the Kurds - which make it completely obvious that appeasement of the US will not end well for the Iranian government or its people. They are making the only rational choice at this juncture. Since they have no alternative they are blameless at this juncture. Since the USA does have choices - to go back to the deal, or to try to renegotiate a new deal with whatever demands they might add - the USA is therefore to blame for current Iranian suffering.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: GitHub is fully available in Iran
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 advanced age.
The people of Iran and North Korea are not doing so well. But if you were an Iranian citizen hoping for a better future, would you really pin your hopes on a US-backed regime change, after seeing the aftermath of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: GitHub is fully available in Iran
Yes, why won't Iran simply disarm under US pressure, like Gaddafi and Saddam did?
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Self-driving vehicles against human drivers: Equal safety is far from enough
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, nor is there any clear path to resolving this open research problem.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Hotwire: HTML over the Wire
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 a new version of COBOL that runs on mainframes represents the pendulum swinging back to mainframes. If this approach gains market share against React etc., then that will be meaningful - but don't hold your breath, there are legitimate reasons for the move to SPAs and also an enormous amount of institutional inertia behind it.
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Vercel raise $40M Series B
or "servers you don't control / can't debug / pay extra for"
jhpriestley | 5 years ago | on: Toyota's game-changing solid-state battery en route for 2021 debut
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 batteries as not good enough to make a marketable car, focused their resources on next-gen moonshots like fuel cells, and are now stubbornly refusing to admit their mistake after Tesla proved them wrong.
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