Top all-time · #25868
razib.com
Personal blog · razib.com/wordpressscienceculture
razib.com is a personal blog at razib.com about science and culture. Since 2018, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link razib.com posts on asexual species and evolutionary timescales, and on sex differences in grip strength. They cite the posts as sources and do not comment on the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I love and hate this. I like it because it is an objectively good thing. Caste is still a major issue in non-urban lower-middle class communities in India. While you're unlikely to see people from that economic starta at FANG companies (privilege leads to more privilege), you do see these problems arise in tier-2 companies who hire large numbers of vendors and temporary Infosys/IBM consultancy hires. I hate it becau…
Comment linking /wordpress/category/caste/
on “Apple becomes first tech giant to explicitly ban caste discrimination”> All of them have been around quite some time on earth, also. Asexual species have been around for "quite some time" by comparison to, say, all of recorded history. They tend to be very recent on a geological timescale. http://www.razib.com/wordpress/?p=101136
Comment linking /wordpress/?p=101136
on “The marbled crayfish is a mutant species that clones itself”Reminds me of this Razib Khan post about the difference in grip strength between males and females: http://www.razib.com/wordpress/2017/05/04/in-grip-strength-a...
Comment linking /wordpress/2017/05/04/in-grip-strength-a-woman-in-the-90th-percentile-would-be-at-the-10th-percentile-for-men/
on “Stronger hands lengthen your life”