- It seems surprising that IQ would not be heritable. Literally everything else is heritable.
Height, skin colour, sporting ability, body weight, eye colour, cancer risk, most disease risk, beauty.
Why would IQ be mostly random when other things are very heritable?
Occums razor says pick the simplest hypothesis that explains the data. The onus is on the blank slate crew to find some good data to demonstrate that IQ is not mostly heritable.
- I think we need a law that government agencies must support out of band identity proofing.
The root of the problem is that government agencies can request personal details and if the tech company fails to comply then the tech company is sanctioned. However the government agency forces the tech company to provide details in an insecure way often over email. If the tech company tries to demand reasonable security then the law enforcement agency views this as non-compliance and starts the sanctions.
- I think they will create fake candidate identities. So you’re just the person who passes the interview for them. You might find that you spend most of the time interviewing and fill many positions per year. Providing lots of work for Indian developers.
Obviously it’s fraud so don’t do it.
- Keir and Lammy want to jail Palestine action and extinction rebellion protestors. Juries keep acquitting peaceful protesters.
Juries are a great safety measure for bad law. This is why they have been vital for the last 600 or so years.
- Synonyms rarely have identical meanings for example:
Happy: Joyful, cheerful, merry, delighted
Or
Beautiful: Lovely, pretty, attractive
The only truly identical synonym I can think of is flammable and inflammable
- Slow roads are easier because you can rely on a simple emergency breaking system for safety. You have a radar that looks directly in front of the car and slams on the breaks if you’re about to crash. This prevents almost all accidents below 35mph.
The emergency breaking system gives you a lot of room for error in the rest of the system.
Once you’re going faster than 35mph this approach no longer works. You have lots of objects on the pavement that are false positives for the emergency breaking system so you have to turn it off.
- Yes many contracts contain unenforceable or unactionable clauses that are superseded by common law. This is an example of that.
For example a tennant can sign a lease that says they have no notice period before eviction. If they’re in a state with a 30 day minimum notice period then the notice period is 30 days. It doesn’t matter what the contract says.
Google would comply with the US court order and ignore the contract it signed with Israel.
- This article is not making a good comparison.
Most EVs are luxury vehicles. Luxury vehicles depreciate much faster than regular cars. Luxury car buyers care if the car is new or not.
Tesla should be compared to BMW not Ford. Teslas depreciate at similar rates to BMWs.
EVs like the leaf are depreciating fast because their technology is becoming obsolete.
I think it is too early to be sure that EVs depreciate quickly.
- You can usually remove the fuse that powers the 5G antenna. That will probably isolate your car from kill switch software updates.
Agreed that most people don’t think about this. I’m a preper and I hadn’t thought about this.
- I’ve looked at the fuse box for my car and found the fuse that powers the Ariel Module. Removing this fuse breaks GPS and all cellular connectivity. Hopefully it breaks automatic updates. I am tempted to leave it disconnected to see if my car skips an update.
The rest of the car works fine. If the political situation heats up then I can remove this fuse to isolate my car from the internet.
Some people connect a toggle switch in place of this fuse so they can leave the car disconnected from the internet when they are not using online functions.
I would be surprised if simply removing a fuse voids my warranty.
- You’ve got me thinking. I drive a Chinese made EV. If China ever had a nuclear war with the west they would definitely brick all of the cars they’ve sold us. Also it doesn’t have to be China that issues the command. Remote shutoff of cars is a great cyber warfare target.
- Best case you’re transforming 10^6 cells and you expect 20 of them to take up the DNA.
Worse case it could be 10^11 cells for a strain of bacteria that doesn’t transform well.
You would have to look at a lot of colonies to find the one that transformed.
- Biologists modify cells so that we can study them. The modifications are about 0.00001% effective. If you attempt to modify 10^6 cells then maybe 20 cells will be modified. Most cells do not take the modification. So you need to select out the individual cells that have been modified.
You do this by including antibiotic resistance genes alongside your modification. Now all modified cells are resistant to the antibiotic. Then you apply a small amount antibiotic to kill the unmodified cells. Now you only have the cells with your interesting modification.
This is the mainstay of molecular biology. Every lab biologist has done it. We even do it as college students in lab practicals.
Banning the use of antibiotic resistance genes in biological research is effectively banning all wet lab medical research.
- The authors tried to find evidence of gene flow between the domesticated messor drones and the wild messor populations, but couldn’t. They sequenced about 100 ants, so it was not an exhaustive search. However if it was common you would have expected to see it.
- The original paper discusses this in more detail. There is a well understood phenomenon called sperm paratism where male sperm will take over the egg, instead of sexually reproducing with the egg.
In sexual reproduction the offspring has 50% of its genetic material from both parents. In sperm parasitism the offspring is 100% related to the male and the female’s genetic material has been destroyed.
These inbericus females are allowing the messor male line to reproduce by sperm parisitism to maintain a domesticated messor line that they can then later sexually reproduce with to create hybrid worker ants.
- In 1975 the British Queen instructed her representative the governor general to dismiss the Australian prime minister, dissolving the Australian parliament.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitution...
In principle this power still exists. Whether Charles could pull off the same trick depends on the political situation on the ground.
- I think the author would say you did the simplest thing that could work.
Ignoring the namespace creates ongoing complexity that you have to be aware of. Your solution now just works and users can use namespaces if they want.
The author deals with this in the hacks section.
- I’m unsure how the risk compares to an e-bike.
Assuming speeds are equal I think the consequences of a crash are better on a scooter. You don’t have a crossbar between your legs to trip you as you fall, and you start in a standing position, so you’re more likely to land on your feet. Also your head and shoulders are above the cars so you’re less likely to end up under the car.
Having said that I think scooter crashes are more likely given the tiny wheels and less stable frame. Try riding an e scooter without hands. It doesn’t self balance like a bike.
All law abiding citizens have data that they want to hide from fraudsters.
Fraudsters often get their hands on government data through breeches and bribery.
Also fraudsters pretend to be government agents to get data from big tech companies. So any channel that governments use to get data from tech companies is abused by fraudsters to commit crime.
Fraud is a very big deal. The UK economy loses 219 billion per year to fraud. Our national deficit payment is 93 billion per year and we spend 188 billion on the NHS.
If we improved privacy of all of our citizens then the savings from fraud reduction would cover our entire government deficit