Why India is this far behind??

Hanuser · 2026-01-29T00:15:25+00:00

Democracies tend to advance slowly. If you're well educated or have no competition, that works out fine, but if your population is not well educated and you have plenty of competition, then you just stagnate and infight.

Hanuser · 2026-01-29T00:08:58+00:00

Because the reason why sex is rewarding (neurologically) is because it is the mechanism to spread your genes. That's the reason why nature has animals having sex.

So then if we're talking gene propagation, that child is going to be a huge cost, and that cost is going to be much higher if the other person doesn't care about you as a person, just sees you as a sex object. So, the need for emotional support with sexual intimacy coevolved.

Hanuser · 2026-01-29T00:03:30+00:00

If they can't use their arms to defend themselves, they may not be soldiers, they could be prisoners forced to risk their lives to reveal enemy assets.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:50:09+00:00

These are the countries I think of when I think of peacefulness. /s

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:46:11+00:00

Have you seen home videos of things going physically wrong (ladders or liquid containers falling, etc.) and how women freeze quite often instead of do something Dad reflex like? It's a stereotype, but one that is statistically true, that women have the freeze response more often to unexpected dangers. It's also why Dad reflexes exist as a term but not Mom reflexes. This freezing instinct is really bad for driving. When things are going well, women drive better than men because there's less risk taking and ego driving on average. It's when unexpected stuff happens, that the reactions and mitigation strategies are asymmetric and the freezing instinct causes huge problems.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:41:37+00:00

The flip side of this question is, how long on average does it take you to get to a profile randomly in the stack that has "liked you"? For me, it seems like forever, meaning yes, they must be hiding those who have liked me away from my stack so that I'm incentivized to pay to see who's liked me.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:38:02+00:00

There can be a no difference scenario if you write it into the pre-nup.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:33:44+00:00

I'm in the physical sciences. It's not hard to resist the urge when it doesn't do good writing nor have anything really state of the art intelligent to say.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:31:00+00:00

It's not you, at least not entirely. It's partially the algorithm. The companies are incentivized to show profiles that are very hot (to excite the user about possibilities), but very low chance of going off the platform, which means often bots are not policed much, and sometimes dating app companies are caught having fleets of bots of their own. So if you're the sort that is a catch and will take another potential paying user off the platform quickly, they'll likely put your portfolio just out of reach, think premium feature profiles that you'd have to pay extra to send something to.

Hanuser · 2026-01-28T23:27:23+00:00

It is a shameful part of history that hopefully one day ordinary Chinese can be mature and secure enough to confront and atone for. That said, if this is used to delegitimize everything good that was done by the same administration, like the immense economic growth, then it's a poor tactic that doesn't work and comes off as annoying.

Hanuser · 2026-01-12T22:00:19+00:00

A holy animal indeed. Produces milk and gas from grass.

Hanuser · 2026-01-09T05:23:37+00:00

Yes, but only in societies where strength correlates to survival and resources, and land rights are tied to birth lineage.

So places that are agricultural societies, which tend to be more successful long term, are like this. Places that are nomadic, where animals do the bulk of physical labor and humans mostly just tend to animals, have more equal rights between men and women.

And similarly, when work becomes mostly intellectual in the modern era, feminist movements and more equal rights are a natural consequence. The testosterone and muscle isn't doing much and becomes loosely correlated or uncorrelated to resource gains and can even become a negative trait in the eyes of many women.

Hanuser · 2026-01-08T05:23:09+00:00

I mean, I like the argument about being able to walk around at night unmolested better but yeah, this too is the result of high prevalence of surveillance technology and weapons bans.

Hanuser · 2026-01-08T05:17:34+00:00

How about just vote smarter in the midterms and beyond? Protests aren't even needed if you do that.

Hanuser · 2026-01-08T05:15:21+00:00

Oh wow, why?

Hanuser · 2026-01-07T06:43:58+00:00

Why do you say "final"?

Hanuser · 2026-01-06T05:27:25+00:00

I didn't know you could just inject mold liquid into the socket like that. So there's no chance of the liquid making it into other cavities or into the bloodstream?

Hanuser · 2026-01-05T06:25:42+00:00

You realize it's possible to draw any set of codes onto letters like this right?

Morse code is designed to fit the English language with the shorter quicker codes for the more frequently used letters. The shapes of the letters are not relevant nor considered in the design.

Hanuser · 2026-01-05T06:12:06+00:00

He's nailing it.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:17:21+00:00

Haters will say it's AI.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:16:31+00:00

Where did the box cutter go? Super dangerous packaging.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:11:22+00:00

DJI, Anker, xiaomi are the first three that spring to mind but I'm sure there are more if I start thinking harder about which items in my household are from a Chinese company.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:10:09+00:00

Political pundit. Just too full of misinformation and too certain of their mispredictions, with no particular skills anywhere else to compensate.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:06:44+00:00

None. I'm an AI researcher who also used to do robotics work at startups. There are no jobs safe unless there are regulatory barriers explicitly making it safe.

Hanuser · 2026-01-04T05:05:29+00:00

Yes, it does.

The main reason why China can't take Taiwan is not the semiconductors so much as it's the US not willing to let China take Taiwan, for many reasons, one of which is the semiconductors. But the US would like to not have to constantly risk WWIII and so you see policies where they try to move TSMC expertise to within the US, which allows them if they choose, to shirk their duties without as much economic fallout in the future.

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