Peter Scott

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@TheDanPeters @MarmotRespecter That’s not how polygenicity works; each genetic variant has only a very small effect.

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@MrKapitalist @MorlockP Haber and Bosch also deserve reverence for discovering how to produce ammonia at industrial scale for fertilizer. They averted a famine.

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@St_Rev He heard a mouse scurrying in the attic while sitting on my lap. This was, in that moment, the most important thing to him in the universe.

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@thealfordplea @mattparlmer The script already basically exists; they’d just have to make a screenplay adaptation of the book Voyage from Yesteryear (James P. Hogan, 1982).

(Fun book, though a bit preachy and non-Hayek-pilled in some of the more libertarian bits.)

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@Winwintegrity @benlandautaylor Only about one year, as I recall! I think it was about 2008–2009, though I could be misremembering by a year or two on either of those dates.

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@ProximalAI @justinskycak I suspect that larger class sizes would be a worthwhile tradeoff for better teacher quality. My elementary school had one teacher for every two grades, both in the same classroom at the same time, and it did unusually well at educating.

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@St_Rev Here’s my cat cuddling in my lap, as viewed from above. He was a feral kitten when I saw him slink out of a bush, terrified of everything that walked on two legs, but patient coaxing has gradually brought him peace and happiness.

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@CarlPham9000 @esrtweet If the future observables are actually observable, then falsifiability is an easy-to-prove corollary.

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@GeorgeProust @energybants Japan has routinely built large nuclear plants in 4 years, on time and under budget. France and Korea have done similar (about 6 years) many times, though France seems to have forgotten how to do it.

This looks like a skills issue.

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@gmiller @robinhanson The book is also a delight.

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@woke_edger @judgeglock It decreases both the supply and the quality of rental housing. (This is one of the things that left-wing and right-wing economists all agree on.)

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@paprbckparadise I’m old enough to remember when cars broke down often. They’re vastly more reliable now, because people would rather buy things that work, so corporations can make big money by getting good at quality control. So they did.

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@tescrealaccist @AaronBergman18 The trick here is to pay them well enough that corruption isn’t worth the risk, and then watch them like a hawk. This is how Singapore went from being super corrupt to being renowned for its honest public service.

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@RodeoClownII @politicalmath They also had an episode about Teal’c’s everyday life, directed by the actor who plays him. Those guys were having fun, and it showed.

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@bugimane @SamoBurja I feel that a properly equipped F-35 could take down a Balrog under most circumstances.

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@ben_utcimages @SamoBurja If you raise workman’s comp payouts for mining, at some point the cheapest option is to make things safer. This isn’t an inherently unsolvable problem.

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@AstroMikeMerri @WKCosmo I read this one when I was little, and although I didn’t know about academia at the time, I still found it funny.

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@obelisktoucher1 @peterrhague From what I’ve heard, SuperDraco produces too much thrust, but if they just add a few Draco engines to a standard Dragon capsule it’ll hit the sweet spot.

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@judkaads @wanyeburkett Common misconception! Twin studies are almost always a comparison of identical vs fraternal twins, raised together to control for shared environment. Very few look at identical twins raised apart.

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@alexeyguzey A TSA agent once delightfully said (after his shift) that I was that one guy from the security line who was actually cheerful.