Pretty cool, I actually explored the same idea several months ago, as you can put a huge amount of information while keeping emphasis on local features
Conductor is really nice!
A feature I would really like would be to be able to automatically configure “direnv allow” in the different shells as I use nix & direnv all the time
Liberalism (in the traditional economic sens) likes competition. Capitalism is a mode of production, and capitalists notoriously don’t like competition when they are the incumbents
First yes it is. The claims that this time period was too short to meaningfully change phenotypes in human populations was not entirely far fetched.
Then to address the elephant in the room - which is the race discourse subtext let’s be honest - it’s highly unlikely that any recent selective pressure on a separated population, which resulted in meaningful phenotype adaptations, happened similarly everywhere at the same time
“What scientists are wary of is how any discussion in the field gets jumped on and twisted into ammunition to reinforce racist beliefs”
Yet nothing ruined the reputation of the scientific establishment more in recent time than their tendency to change their behaviours and adapt their beliefs for political motives
There is a graph arguing “intelligence” has been positively selected in west Eurasian population in this paper according to a polygenic score (page 8 fig. 4)
Now I would be quite curious to know how they constructed this polygenic score