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hbd chick
Personal blog · hbdchick.wordpress.comsciencepolitics
hbd chick is a personal blog at hbdchick.wordpress.com about science and politics. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog as a source on human biodiversity, citing its start-here page and a large summary post on the Great Divergence. The comments do not judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
the exception that proves the rule
Most-linked posts?
- /start-here/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-10-29
What Hacker News says?
Extended family may be a thing in Western Europe and derived cultural areas but clans are not. Descent based political groupings are for backwoods peasants at best, not the commanding heights of the polity, unlike every other meta cultural grouping. The recipe for setting and enforcing a policy over vast areas of time and space is incentive compatibility. It is always in the interest of one powerful political group…
Comment linking /
on “How Indian Americans Came to Run Half of All U.S. Motels”The sources are out there, but you might not want to look. What is seen is not easily unseen: http://hbdchick.wordpress.com/start-here/ http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/ http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/ And although the common insult for people interested in human biodiversity is "KKK", much of the research is not being done by white people. For example, the Chinese are investing huge sums of mo…
Comment linking /start-here/
on “On The Information and How We Operate”Foremost I'd like to excuse myself for my laziness as I'm more engaged by the presumption of words like "racist" being thrown at the innocent and less by reading up individual political leanings - but could you please name some examples that prove what "rationalWiki" says, that she's a racist. Quoting Charles Murray often shouldn't count. And I didn't found an "about" page, just this: https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/…
Comment linking /2015/03/07/my-politics/
on “Hajnal line”https://hbdchick.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/big-summary-post-o...
Comment linking /2014/03/10/big-summary-post-on-the-hajnal-line/
on “The Best Books on the Great Divergence”Corruption is correlated to genetic relatedness (inbreeding/consanguinity)[1]. I've seen a hypothesis that the introduction of Christianity in North/Western Europe changed mating patterns and reduced consanguinity, thereby enabling the rule of law that European society was known for developing in the early modern period[2]. A caveat - while I find the hypothesis intriguing, I'm not sure how well this hypothesis expl…
Comment linking /start-here/
on “Ask HN: How does the US manage to have no bribery at lower levels?”