Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1. The big issue with Turchin is that the norm with data science is that you don't run a model back that far because the underlying model changes too much. You don't even run it back 20 years. It's a disturbing scenario, of course.
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  2.  @bobwhite9248  don't check your line with soap, have your supervisor check your work, orange tape, gray dope, hand tight, quarter turn, now you're the lowest level of gasfitter
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  3. That's a somewhat terrifying anecdote. There was an older study done of social trust by the number of rounds of reciprocity two randoms could generate on a game where you could gain a small advantage by sticking in the game for another round or cash out for a fair sized advantage at any point. Japan and UK were the two highest representations of tit-for-tatters.
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  4. sounds too much like "Scumbag Steve" from the meme of the guy with the chin strap beard and the Burberry hat "Greg" would make more sense. Work always with memetic synchronicity, not against it.
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  5. The saying goes that the two people in the world who are the most comfortable being besieged are the Russians and the Turks, but the Turks don't have a character who was a somewhat famous author who left a long correspondence about how much he enjoyed being under siege due to having access to a piano, the way Tolstoy did at Sebastopol.
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  6.  @1mol831  Chicks can do a lot of stuff, but they can't do infantry.
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  7. On the subject of the destabilization of Europe, purely from a Clausewitzian continuation of policy by other means perspective, preventing Europe from becoming a China- or India-sized potential competitor is as much in the interests of America as preventing the Turkic Hyperempire.
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  8. IQ measures pattern recognition, as a basis for problem solving. Also IQ can go up due to setting familiarity - forget the name of the guy, was cited by Thomas Sowell, basically when you run kids through the IQ test a couple of times, the racial difference in IQ shrinks by three quarters or so - and there was also a case of a guy who was in for the death penalty for shooting people outside of ATMs to take their cash who ended up initially testing as legally retarded, then the prosecution ordered a do-over and he scored well in the 80s, which his lawyers attributed to trying to understand abstract arguments, but could also have had an element of setting familiarity as well
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  9. I guess one could argue that because Newfs by blood are West Country people rather than East Anglians, that makes them distinct from New England, by the standard set by the video.
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  10. In America, the obstacle to social advancement is the chance of getting sick while not covered by medicaid. In Canada, the obstacle to social advancement is taxes. The Canadian system reduces homicides, but is more intrinsically reliant on immigration, and sucks the hope out of the youth.
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  11. Thomas Sowell blames the northern English herder culture for it if my memory serves me.
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  12. I don't have any particular love for Elon Musk. The guy's a salesman. It's more that his detractors are aggressively insufferable.
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  13.  @FallingPicturesProductions  give the leaf credit when the leaf pile starts to burn
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  14.  @1mol831  Scythian noblewomen did fight as horse archers, the Soviets used female snipers and pilots during WWII, Heinlein included essays on why he thought female conservativism would make women superior space pilots, and there's always the odd Boudicca or Rani of Janshi willing to lead from the front...but if we're talking about infantry? No. The percentage of women who can keep up with basic standards for infantry is similar to the percentage of men well suited to be a Royal Marine or a US Navy Seal.
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  15. 20:07 "local officers starting wars out of their own initiative without orders" sort of also describes a LOT of the 2BE's wars during the Gladstone Government, if not all of them.
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  16. It's sort of funny that it's precisely the bits of France that weren't on the French side in the Hundred Years War that exported people to Quebec.
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  17. My instinct is that the decisive reason why foreigners tended to take a lower view of Trump was that the Trump tax plan targeted Americans who wanted to follow the live, work, and invest abroad lifestyle - be it as simple as drawing dividends to pay the rent on an apartment in Thailand or off the beaten path in Mexico, or summering in Austria or Peru and wintering in the Caymans - and outside of America, these are intuitively disproportionately the Americans one meets.
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  18. You need to throw the narrative the occasional bone if you want to be allowed to remain up and monetized.
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  19.  @linkskywalker5417  Islam'd fix a lot of this shit the way cold showers are good for your heart and to help you lose a bit of weight.
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  20. IIRC Rudyard said he was done debates after his thing with Vaush. Rudyard moved the ball forward any time the conversation came to ideas, from either him, or Vaush, but stumbled every time basic gotcha debate tactics came up.
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  21. I read your comment and have unfortunately very little to offer you besides the acknowledgement of your existence.
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  22.  @dariusgreysun  Funny you should say that - trans are turning into a disproportionate share of recruits since the military covers breast surgery.
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  23. Faith Family Freedom
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  24.  @MLGDouglas  I thought it was interesting and held validity having been a history major, but having dipped my fingers in data science, no longer consider it valid.
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  25. one of the few creators whose content truly is worth an hour of sleep when one's trying desperately to get back to a normal sleep schedule
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  26. Cody from Alternative History Hub had an argument that Trump was and remains a Perotist.
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  27.  @dld6959  yeah the Millennials have been cringe AF
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  28. Canadian side of the rustbelt. (general Toronto area) Union guys burned my dad's shop when I was a little kid. He took us in to see the burned out office one time when he was watching us and had to go back to check for something. They made shelves.
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  29. @Possibly Layne Staley Stalin does have some good ideas for how to deal with a bureaucracy.
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  30. and I did NOT like that you brought up Germany. The German apprenticeship system, much like the German system of private insurance oligopolists donating health insurance to the poors as part of their cartel, works in Germany, where it is surrounded by cultural Germans.
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  31. YES! Eric Flint shoutout by minute 3!
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  32. Dead Prez had an intro to a rap that has always stuck with me about the Inuit practice of hunting wolves by blooding a knife and then setting its hilt in the ice. The wolf wants to lick the blood, but then it cuts its tongue, and so it parches to death. Then the hunter comes to skin the wolf.
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  33.  @Lestibournes  with the fence? That falls into the same category as the American success against the Pinoys in the second act of the Spanish-American War or the British success against the Boers in round two of those wars - unfortunate the name used by the British for that strategy given Israel's...peculiarities.
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  34.  @5h0rgunn45  ah thank you I managed to forget the other half of the Border Reivers.
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  35.  @jollygrapefruit786  I did not hear about that.
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  36. You know what, I'm actually happy for you man. Good on you securing that bag.
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  37. The video on social justice touches on this topic.
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  38. ​ @jaimay125  Which is another way of saying that "the West" is not a useful analytical construct as of present day.
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  39.  @avroarchitect1793  well...the Ukrainian government says that, and...if that becomes a problem, the Maidan got them in, and something similar can be arranged to get them out
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  40.  @CAProductions051  The summaries I would recommend of refutations of the labour theory of value and therefore the central premise of orthodox Marxism would be those of Eugene Bohm von Bawerk and Jean Baptiste Say.
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  41. "those periods of history where history just sort of stops because people are drinking plum wine and sleeping with their Circassian slave girls" was a good turn of phrase
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  42.  @jackdeniston59  The classical Chinese - hell, the pre-classical Chinese - loved having their bureaucrats do essays. The story of the composition of The Classic of the Way and Virtue is that an old man was driving a cart out from the borders of a state into unincorporated territory, and the border official stopped him and forced him to write an essay as a final tax on leaving the state to explain why it was that he was on his way out. You read say the Legge translation of that one, as it goes from this mysticism and analogies of primal matter and archetypes at the front, through descriptions of the ideal ruler, finally, right at the end, to the classic lines "let the state be small and the people few," and it sort of puts it context, you know.
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  43.  @jackdeniston59  or in other words, one of the three indigenous Chinese intellectual traditions originated as an essay
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  44. He took more than one sponsor for this one. I'm sure he has what I hope are five million reasons for feeling the way he does.
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  45.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  USA has socialized medicine, for poors and olds. It is risky to be and to stay middle middle class in America, since you might end up with not the best or no employer offered health insurance, and get wiped out by medical bills. It's just a different obstacle to social advancement than Canada's tax rates.
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  46. allahuakbar
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  47. ooga booga
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  48. Peter the Great dragged Russia, kicking and screaming, into the Long 18th century - where, culturally, it has been stuck ever since.
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  49. IT'S OUR BOY!
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  50. 4:19 ight if that was a map drawn deliberately to rustle the jimmies of people who pedantically draw a distinction between early iron age civilizations and late bronze age civilizations as well as to rustle the jimmies of anybody know knows the rest of the results of the study which disproved the Khazar conversion thesis or the basics of the study of religion then it was a good map
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