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sadris··on We're not even close to ready for the population growth we're getting
But doing such a thing would turn Canada into a not-stable, not-wealthy country by changing the average genetic makeup of the country.
sadris··on Bank of America just launched a zero down payment mortgage in 21 cities
https://www.takimag.com/article/the-wisdom-of-dan-quayle/

> The GOP was in the White House when the Housing Bubble was brewed up in 2002–2005. President George W. Bush strongly pushed the finance industry to lend more to nonwhites at his Oct. 15, 2002, White House Conference on Increasing Minority Homeownership. There he told his federal regulators not to worry so much about traditional credit standards regarding down payments and documentation of income because he wanted to see 5.5 million more minority homeowners by 2010. ...

> Angelo Mozilo, CEO of Countrywide Financial...wanted to boost Countrywide’s share of the national mortgage market from 10 percent to 30 percent. He believed he could safely do that by increasing lending to marginal customers, especially Hispanics. ... In 2003, Mozilo, citing Bush’s push for minority home ownership, pledged to a Harvard audience that Countrywide would lend $600 billion to minority and lower-income borrowers by 2010. In 2005, he boosted that promise to one trillion dollars. ... Countrywide went under in 2008. ...

> For example, a 2015 paper by Lin, Liu, and Xie found that in a sample of 18,000 households: The difference in the mortgage delinquency rates between immigrants (15.7%) and natives (4.4%) is significant.

> Similarly, a 2013 paper by Luea, Reichenberger, and Turner revealed 2009 default rates for whites of 3.4 percent, blacks 11.3 percent (3.3 times the white rate), and Hispanics 16 percent (4.7 times the white rate)

> A 2013 paper by Reid featuring data from the fifty largest metro areas for mortgages originated just in 2005 shows that foreclosure rates by 2009 were twice as bad for blacks as whites and almost three times as bad for Hispanics as whites. By 2010, 10.5 percent of Hispanics were in foreclosure versus 4 percent of whites.

> According to Zillow, Hispanic neighborhoods nationally exploded in price by 280 percent from 2000 to 2006 versus about 160 percent for white neighborhoods. Remarkably, by the peak of the Bubble, the median home in a Hispanic neighborhood was worth almost a hundred thousand dollars more than the median home in a white neighborhood. Not surprisingly, the decline in home value from peak to trough was almost twice as severe in Hispanic neighborhoods as in white neighborhoods.

> In summary, immigration was seen as a vast boon to the housing market until it turned out that Hispanics tended not to be able to afford the huge mortgages they had been given. At that point in 2008, housing prices in several high-priced Hispanic-heavy states, such as California and Florida, plummeted, taking down financial institutions like Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, and Countrywide Financial. This carnage set off a national recession even in places without a Housing Bubble.

> Santayana famously said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But what if you haven’t forgotten it because you never had a clue in the first place?

sadris··on Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change
Behold, exactly what you are talking about: https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/positively-motivated-to-he...
sadris··on DPA blocks facial recognition system in Italy and MP proposes moratorium
You get arrested. Then police take a closer look, then release you...
sadris··on Why Is the U.S. Murder Rate Spiking?
3% of the population commits 57% of all crime. So you could incapacitate those individuals prior to them committing murder. IE: put them in prison for 20 years for theft, then they can't commit murder. Let them out when their testosterone drops below criminal thresholds (in their late 30s)
sadris··on US says Saudi prince approved Khashoggi killing
He was also a terrorist: a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is classified as a terror organization by many states (including SA). So how is this different than other states killing terrorists?
sadris··on Apple told some Apple TV+ show developers not to anger China
They're not harvesting organs. Criminals who are executed have their organs not go to waste in a coffin.

It's not like they're taking everyone's second kidney.

sadris··on Terminating Service for 8Chan
The FBI tracks homicides by firearms. You are incorrect.
sadris··on Killing a process and all of its descendants
I just use rkill
sadris··on Get ready for a waiting list for European IPv4 addresses. No jumping the line
Hopefully the big tech companies find ways to punish organizations that aren't IPV6 compatible.
sadris··on Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
PrEP effectiveness against PrEP-immune HIV is zero.
sadris··on California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
It must be zero? What if that resulted in 50% of murderers getting away?
sadris··on California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
And how many innocent people were convicted based on false positives?

How many guilty people were convicted based on true positives?

sadris··on Majority in Dutch Parliament Supports Building More Nuclear Plants (2018)
You place an order from AREVA in France and then wait 24 months.
sadris··on California Police Are Sharing Facial Recognition Databases to ID Suspects
This is great. More sharing between departments will help catch criminals faster.
sadris··on Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
HIV can remain undetectable for up to six months.
sadris··on Alarming surge in drug-resistant HIV uncovered
HIV has already mutated to bypass prep. There was a case in SF about 8 months ago in the local news.

Wear condoms.

sadris··on Are wind and solar and batteries the future for US electricity?
https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/recycling-nu...
sadris··on The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely
In bad conditions humans breed more. There was a ten year famine in Ethiopia yet there wasn't a single year in which the population actually dropped. People stop breeding when they know their offspring will survive
sadris··on The heritability of fertility makes world population stabilization unlikely
In almost every case, parents do not pass traits socially. Shared environment impact is roughly zero in nearly every trait ever examined.
sadris··on YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
What evidence do you have that he knowingly stated that falsehood at the time of saying it?
sadris··on All Flint water crisis criminal charges dismissed by AG's office
They were given $600m to fix it. But they racially discriminated in the hiring process and got a black owned firm with no experience and then wasted the money:

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/05/flint-lead-pipe-replaceme...

sadris··on US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
RAND corporation found that the H1B program reduced tech worker's salary by 9%.
sadris··on Google Cloud Is Down
So is Youtube.
sadris··on Show HN: Interactively select the quality and format for youtube-dl
They do block it. Which is why it doesn't work if you install from your OS repo. You need to get it directly from GitHub.
sadris··on Ask HN: How do you deal with back pain from sitting all day at the office?
This solved all my back pain problems

https://youtu.be/DWmGArQBtFI

sadris··on AMD Ryzen 3000 announced
I'm begging for a good single threaded CPU that isn't $600
sadris··on Neutrino combines the power of webpack with the simplicity of presets
Looks really good. Webpack is crazy complicated. And last time I tried it I couldn't even install it from npm.
sadris··on Ask HN: How do I make sure my non-technical parents are safe online?
Give them Linux and ublock
sadris··on The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth
There is less cognitive ability diversity in Scandinavia than the US. Given the extreme correlation between intelligence and workplace performance, it would be expected in a locality with high levels of variance in intelligence.
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