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Birth rates will go up because they are inheritable and because exponential growth always wins. The USA will be Amish.

It's only a change in environment that can knock that down a bit, but exponential growth still wins. Birth control cut the birth rate for most people, but not for all. The resistant sub-populations are still on exponential growth even as the other sub-populations go through a population crash.

It's as certain as math. Exponential growth wins.

Wolfram Alpha is pretty good for random factual queries. It will even do computation, so you can ask for the number of dietary calories in a cubic lightyear of cream cheese. https://www.wolframalpha.com/

If you are looking more for proven statistics that get suppressed for political reasons, then the now-defunct hatefact site is what you want. It featured over 700 awkward facts, with citations. Archive as one big page: http://archive.is/LRe05 Archive with 1 page per category: http://hatefacts.subvert.pw/hub.html

That document could use a clarification for the "Ask HN or Show HN" section. I didn't see an option to make an "Ask HN or Show HN" in the UI. Do we just add that text manually? Does the software recognize it as special keywords? If so, is it case-sensitive and does it need spaces or a colon?

That sounds like the robustness principle, featured in RFC 1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) among others: "Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" or "Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you receive."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

This is 100% unjustified speculation. Dehumanizing an opponent helps to unleash hate.

John McCain's funeral was a political event.

Lots of people support the killing. When you look into the background of the 3 people shot, the reasons become obvious. The first person shot had attacked boys aged 9 to 11, raping 2 and molesting 3 others. The second person shot had a history of abusive relationships, including strangulation. The third person shot (surviving) was a burglar. That's 3 out of 3 being horrible people. Hitting a criminal in that crowd is like hitting a tree in a forest.

Remember that many people feel that a pedophile rapist should get the death penalty. They are offended by the fact that he was out on the streets of Kenosha chasing a boy. Some people, probably fewer, feel the same about the woman abuser. It is a common viewpoint that justice was served.

The original antifa and that modern antifa have a lot in common. They share the name, symbols, violence, and ideology. The original antifa was so awful that it made people want Hitler. The modern antifa might achieve a similar accomplishment.

He was considered left-wing until he dared to report what he saw, refusing to censor it for the benefit of Antifa. That sounds like a reputable journalist to me.

What loss, his marbles? If you mean his son, well, Trump lost two brothers.

When in congress, Biden pushed for the harsh sentencing that we had, with the 1994 crime bill. Trump supported and then signed the First Step Act, which is legislation to undo some of that.

"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle" -- Biden, in 1977

Accents and staple foods are terrible examples.

We know that the sound of the human voice is determined by the shape of the air passageway, including teeth and nose. We know that these shapes vary around the world.

We know that lactose tolerance varies by population, and that this would influence the degree to which milk is used as a staple food.

It pops up during presidential election years. The donations are what is funding the DNC and the Biden campaign. It's an odd thing when you consider that Harris was a prosecutor who was unusually aggressive about putting black people in prison for minor offenses like pot, and that Biden was a senator who pushed to pass the strict sentencing.

I think the deal is that getting a person to donate to an uninspiring political campaign is difficult, but it is easy to add a more-palatable organization in the middle to pass along the funding. It's almost money laundering.

Right on that web page:

"We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."

If you don't like the Marxist label, we can call it Soviet. The exact type of anti-family ideology isn't worth arguing over.

Encouragement of fatherless homes isn't going to make life better. You can see it even in the word choice when they say "mothers, parents" instead of "mothers, fathers". They can't even bring themselves to say the word!

You can be, to a degree. There is a long tail.

Targeting the top influencers would be too obvious. There are a lot of minor influencers that add up to quite a lot, being in total very important. Facebook knows who they are.

Not every influencer is making income that way.

Facebook is surely able to identify people with significant influence who aren't all that famous and who don't make any money off of it. Approximately, take the top 2% but excluding the top 0.01% to get these users.

Together they have huge influence, but mostly they aren't well-known. Their absence would have a huge impact but might not be noticed by an outside observer.

I'd like to know why this isn't standard today.

I don't like the typical moldy latex paint.

The PDF is a quick read, just a page and a quarter.

This should help to cut down on the hostile divisive rhetoric that is getting in the way of unity and effective teamwork.

Lin Wood is a lawyer defending a boy against a politically-motivated prosecution. The event was a clear case of self-defense against a murderous mob of felons. It's nearly all on video, usually from multiple angles, and the court filing even includes a reporter's witness statement that supports self-defense for the one part of the event that isn't on video.

Twitter bans it, yet Twitter does not ban similar efforts for other people. It's political discrimination, clear as could be. Facebook did likewise.

This is interesting: "upper class whites and a few model minorities"

Discrimination against the lower class is invisible within the white population. It just goes undetected. It is never reported to the government. Group photos doesn't raise suspicion.

If race and class are correlated, then one type of discrimination can be misdetected as the other.

For real-life trolling fun at a university, head over to the people who are really complaining about the lack of women in STEM. They'll be in Gender Studies or something like that. Suggest that they can take action against the problem by changing their major to something in STEM.

It won't generate a reasonable intellectual discussion. Some of the most common opinions on the matter are unspeakable in polite society.

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has this to say on that trouble:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

You can't have an honest discussion when not everybody can speak their mind.

Perform a trick to get a food reward?

It sounds like training dolphins.

I don't even know if that is a good sign or a bad sign, but... wow.

This isn't the first case. There certainly is a non-Eurasian privilege, particularly in academia. She wouldn't have done this if it weren't beneficial.

Well, sort of. They discriminated against types I and II.

You can be at war, as a pacifist, in total denial of reality. That's what the USA did with China. The trade war was really active, but the USA was just taking damage without any response. The non-response was pretty dumb.

Logically, the treatment ought to be for exposed people who aren't yet showing symptoms. Prime candidates would be family members of infected people.

In one photo, showing a murder, the murderer is seen from the back. (as happened recently in Portland)

In another photo, he is seen from the front, somewhat peacefully protesting. (his daughter was in the vicinity and held a weapon that he could have used)

If the face had been hidden in the protest photo, then that photo would not be useful for solving the murder.

It's not easy. The protester seen from the front in one video could also be a murderer seen from the back in a different video.

Harmless protesters are safe in the USA. They don't need to be covered up. Covering them is effectively an acknowledgement that they are not in fact peaceful.

There is a civic duty to do that. People are getting killed, maimed, and more. The "no snitch" mentality destroys society. Covering up crimes, for example by hiding the identity of rioters, is unethical.

It's pretty good for purely non-political things.

Sadly, this is political.

Wikipedia is pretty reliable for math, old computer hardware, and other dry technical subjects.

This is not one. This is a political subject. Wikipedia is a complete disaster for anything that even remotely touches upon modern politics. There are teams of people paid to impose an opinion on Wikipedia, relentlessly wearing down any neutral editor with 24x7 edits and every kind of bureaucratic fight. The people who edit for free are also pulled from a highly-biased population, with strong overrepresentation by unemployed single people with non-STEM degrees.

Simply put, "ineffective and may cause dangerous side effects" is a purely political attack on the US president.

Last year, the drug was handed out freely, with very little worry, to anybody claiming that they would visit a country with malaria. In many places it is non-prescription. Clearly, the "dangerous side effects" aren't such a big deal. You can get deadly "dangerous side effects" from aspirin (Reye syndrome) and from Tylenol/paracetamol/acetaminophen (complete liver failure).