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"Involuntarily Childless" is a term I'd apply to people who can't have children for medical reasons and not people who arranged their lives such that they were unlikely to have children.

Is that ideological or biological?

I think it's because they know what to expect, so there's less fear of the unknown. They already know what to look out for, and they already know people inside.

Plus, life for an ex-con is pretty hard on the outside.

>Nice thing about wood power is that as long as you have a sustainable source of wood, you're 100% solar-powered and carbon neutral. That is to say, it's a source of energy that is (can be) non-fossil, nor derived from any fossil sources, and which recycles it's own CO2 emissions.

As long as you're happy pouring carcinogens into the air, sure. Also, compared to oil or coal there's not much energy in wood, so it doesn't scale very well.

It's almost as if people like to use the sins of others long dead to excuse their own shortcomings.

In any event, if free will isn't a thing, there's no point in trying to make the world a better place, right, so we should just leave things as they are?

AFDC and other Great Society programs are better candidates for a culprit if you're looking for a reason for increased out-of-wedlock births based on the timing.

When you set up incentives such that a woman loses money by marrying a guy with a small or nonexistent income, you're going to see fewer marriages in the lowest income bracket. It's rational in the short term, but the long term effects are corrosive.

>If it simply to incarcerate people for a while to make their lives difficult and make them not want to reoffend...

One thing I've noticed about ex-cons I've actually come in contact with is the people who are least afraid of going to prison are the people who've been there.

Laziness and CYA. Nobody wants to be the guy who didn't realize there was a useful section for making weapons, poisons, weakening bars, etc in a book he green-lighted.

>Racism is the simpler and blazingly obvious explanation, backed by endless reearch and even the most casual observation.

Things that are wrong can be obvious to individuals and groups of people. It's certainly not obvious to half the country, and that "endless research" is tainted. How long do you get to keep your job in academia if you point out the primary drivers of black misery in the US (out of wedlock births, drugs, and violence) are self inflicted?

I don't know why you would have thought that. Is it not obvious the physical aspects of what we call "race" are a collection of genetic expressions?

When you say "your assumption seemed to be" aren't you really talking about your own assumptions about what I'm thinking (but didn't write)?

... which is why I listed genetics under "other explanations". Did you read the whole comment?

>You dismissed one assumption and named three more. Please explain which applies to Occam's razor.

Because there is a direct correlation between observable characteristics like obesity and poverty to health outcomes for people of all races. If a fat, poor white woman in Appalachia has heart problems in her 40s and receives low quality care, is that a result of systemic racism?

And as others have pointed out, we don't know the entire scope of genetic effects, but we know they exist to some degree (which was the whole point of the article).

>Had to get that "oppressed conservatives" narrative in.

>I keep asking what views people are so intolerant of. Tend not to get real answers.

Because this is HN and people are less willing to let you derail the conversation with politics.

>Getting a US VISA is hard and painful when you come from a populous country like China or India

Which is funny in the specific context of Chinese people, since you essentially have to get an internal visa to move to the city from the countryside, and it's difficult to get.

It does in certain regions. In others, not so much.

>When US sociologists and political scientists talk about “systemic and structural racism” this is one of the manifestations.

Which has always bothered me, since there are other explanations (lifestyle habits, genetics, poverty) that would explain the difference, in whole or in part. It's a politically convenient assumption that goes contrary to Occam's Razor.

I wonder if that's really a problem or if it's the same group people getting manipulated over and over.

I can see Google paying just about any reasonable price to avoid discovery in this one.

Cyclists are supposed to come to a full stop as well. They're easy to see stopped right at the corner.

Looks more like a dune buggy with legs than your classic Gundam, but still... pretty cool.

Exceedingly small numbers of civilians hold M-16s legally in the US. If there are M-16s going over the border the source is military or law enforcement.

>All it does is force land lords to massively increase rent amounts when someone moves out to account for multi-year market increases.

Depends on the scheme in place. There are a lot of places where the amount the landlord can raise the rent between tenants is capped.

There are two big problems with rent control: It results in a constriction of supply over time, and it causes degradation in housing stock quality. There's no reason to put one cent more into your rent controlled place than required by law.

Okay, that's funny, but something like that isn't impossible. Remember the Glomar Explorer? These black project agencies are past masters of the big con.

>How do you put a satellite in orbit without anyone knowing about it? You hide it with another satellite!

Heh. There was a Russian launch recently where a piece of "debris" started moving under its own power after stage separation.

http://www.iflscience.com/space/mysterious-satellite-sparks-...

I would agree, except there's no customer for FH. Even if there's some small chance the 2nd stage will fail, a test of the three core first stage makes sense.

Having said that, I would be very surprised to find there was a failure of SpaceX hardware in the Zuma launch.

There's violence across the region, even in countries that have little or nothing to do with the drug trade. Bad governance is more responsible for violence than anything the US has ever done in countries like Venezuela and Argentina.

Some of the violence? Sure. Most? Not even close.

>There are millions of Americans who have given up looking for jobs, because they are unable to find a job that pays enough for them to stop caring for their children/relatives/take time off schooling/pay for costs of working.

>They are not represented in unemployment numbers ...

Depends on the set of numbers you're looking at. DoL produces different numbers that encompass different assumptions. Normally these people are not considered unemployed, so putting them to work wouldn't change the unemployment statistics.

And I don't believe having 30% of the population carrying the other 70% is at all an economic success. That's an unstable situation that can't continue.

You don't have to inflict intentional injury to be liable for something like this. Intel's customers aren't getting what they paid for, so it seems pretty reasonable for the company to compensate them.

If you bought a car that was advertised as having 300 horsepower, and then the manufacturer realized it was unsafe unless they made a software change limiting the horsepower to 200, wouldn't you expect some compensation?

That's a noble goal albeit completely unattainable in practice.