The definition of a clade doesn’t seem to have a “lower” limit. It’s just defined as “one common ancestor and their descendants”. So your mom, you and your siblings form a clade.

It doesn’t really help to segregate between different populations, since pretty much any clade large enough to include everyone of a specific population will include people outside that population.

A cline would apply, since it shows a very general trend of a specific trait creating a spectrum between regional differences. E.g. rabbits living in snowy regions tend to have white fur, while rabbits living in regions where there’s never snow tend to have brown fur, and anything in between is a spectrum.

This does apply to humans (e.g. people living in sunnier regions tend to have darker skin than people living closer to the poles), but the purpose of clines is specifically to show that these populations aren’t a completely separate thing that can be easily divided along lines. Instead, it shows that differences only become apparent when you look at the extremes and ignore all the in-betweens. It is specifically about the fact that you can’t just categorize populations into boxes.

In regards of clusters, I’m not exactly sure what you mean. Gene clusters maybe? They don’t really have anything to do with populations…

A big issue with categorizing people into “genetic boxes” is coevolution. Superficial details like skin color are comparatively easy to evolve. These traits are usually a factor of many different genes working together and mutating just one of them will result in darker or lighter skin tones. This means that coevolution is super easy and common. Light skin (dark being the actual default skin color for humans) has evolved many times over independently. So while light skin looks like a common genetic trait, it very much is not. It is instead something that evolved multiple times separately.

If a population of dark skinned people moves into a polar region or a population of light skinned people moves into an equatorial region it will not take long (maybe a dozen or two generations) for their skin color to adjust.

You can see the same with animals: It’s super easy to breed e.g. a dog with a specific fur color. It just takes a few generations of forced selection.

Don’t forget to deflate while doing so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jofn_9rPbzo

Do you have some anger management issues? Dude, that kind of behavior is just not right, and no it’s not funny, and no, you are responsible for your behavior.

Not a huge amount, maybe. I joined a party in my home country that’s supposed to fix things like that. I voted for an underdog candidate in the internal leadership election who had very classical left talking points (among them a vacancy tax).

The party managed to get into government for the first time in a long time at the next election afterward, but as a junior partner to the conservatives. Now they do hardly anything out of fear that the conservatives blow up the coalition and instead do a coalition with the right wing extremist party.

So that’s that for now.

Other than that I talk to people and tell them about stuff like that. Because while the majority of the voting public would benefit from e.g. a vacancy tax, the majority is not for a vacancy tax because they neither understand the tax nor why it is necessary. So I educate people and bring them around to the idea. I can’t change the country, but I can change people around me. And if enough people do that, movements can form and things can change.

One such movement managed to ban nuclear power in my country in the 70s (famously, right after they finished the first nuclear powerplant, which then never got turned on).

Of course. For a large corporation only having to support a single platform is perfect. Having to support multiple platforms increases the cost and we have to think of the poor, poor investors.

On the other hand, there are more than enough great indie devs making actually fun and innovative games.

Screw AAA games, they suck anyway.

I think the main issue there is that the player base is not big enough to justify developing a kernel-level anti-cheat. The variability in Linux kernels might also be a bit of an issue.

And now we get back to the core of the problem.

If you interpret gay in the original meaning (“full of joy, merry, light-hearted, carefree”) then yes, having sex with your wife can be gay sex.

It’s a common misconception in this type of discussion. You also get a lot of people who are like “but that would harm the people who own an empty property and can’t find a renter”. Well, nobody needs to own property they don’t use, even if it’s only because they can’t use it, and not because they don’t want to.

You can always sell property. Nobody is required to own anything.

In the case of DNA, because it’s shared with relatives and descendants who might be still alive. In Hitler’s case, that might not be that much of an issue, but you were talking about dead people in general.

If your parents are dead, and thus they get DNA sampled, that information gained is good enough to positively identify DNA traces of all their children.

Remember how they caught the Golden State Killer? They put a DNA sample into the genetics website GEDmatch and found a few of his distant relatives. They then used publicly available family history records to construct a family tree that included all of these matches. That allowed them to narrow down the suspects to two people. One of them could be ruled out by DNA testing a close relative, which left the last one. They then took a DNA sample from his car, which was a match and that’s how they got him.

Using that kind of stuff to catch killers is likely a good use of the technology, but there’s quite a few nefarious things a state could do with a DNA database of all dead people.

You don’t have to give it away. Just rent it out or sell it. If you have no need for a property, put it on the market so that someone else can use it.

It’s a massive mistake that the system is setup so that you can profit from owning but not using a property, and this needs to be fixed systematically (specifically, via a heavy vacancy tax).

If you want to park your money somewhere and want some ROI we already have stuff for that (e.g. stocks). We don’t need to abuse a limited and vital resource for that.

The problem is the same in most places.

In Austria, where I am from, there’s an average yearly appreciation of property value of 6% (average over the last 25 years, average inflation over the same time was around 3%). Yearly rent is on average 3% of the property value.

So investors have the choice of either taking 6% with no risk and no work or taking 9% but having to service the appartment, having the trouble of satisfying a renter and their legal rights and always having the risk of getting a renter who trashes the apartment and/or doesn’t pay the rent.

And yes, legally a landlord can sue for damages, but if the renter has no money, then all the landlord has is the security deposit, which might be far less than required to cover the damages.

So if you are looking for a super-secure low-risk low-interest investment option, keeping a flat you own empty is a good choice.

A way to counteract this would be a vacancy tax that is as high as the property appreciation. That way, keeping a flat empty nets you 0% ROI, while renting it out nets you 9%. This would disincentivize harmful behaviour (hoarding empty property for investment) while not affecting the behavior we want (renting out property).

It looks a little freeze-dried.

And it’s not just stupid people either. Even smart and educated people get lulled into a false sense of security by a few correct answers to easy questions.

In a way this has happened before (people trusting stuff on social media, trusting bad headlines from bad newspapers, …), but AI is this on steroids.

Die Polizei, der Freund und Helfer.

The problem is that we have a system that financially incentivizes owning property while not using it.

If there was e.g. a heavy tax on owning unused property, this would cause people to sell unused property, driving down prices which would allow many homeless people to actually be able to afford a mortgage.

Property is there to house people. Keeping it as investment without renting it out is abusing the system for personal monetary gain and a system that allows that is flawed and should be fixed.

Maybe skeletons can have some benefit over a regular human employee. For example, you don’t have to worry about workplace safety. If they get crushed, well, just summon another tomorrow. There’s no risk of them unionising or revolting. They will not abandon you for an employer who does care whether they live or not. You can use them to do all the gross and dangerous stuff where you’d actually have to pay humans more to do it. They don’t slack off, they don’t need breaks, they don’t need sleep.

I think it would be possible to capitalize on that.

It kinda is, isn’t it? Apt isn’t super stable.

Python is really good too!

This.

The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.

They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.