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Comment Re:Were Denisovans really a DIFFERENT SPECIES? (Score 1) 133

Except that it is not.

A lot of different species can interbreed, and a lot of animals in the same species cannot.

There are a huge varieties of dog breeds, many cannot viably mate unless through intermediate dog breeds.
Loads of birds rely of feather patterns to keep them uninterested why being perfect genetic matches for interbreeding.
The preponderance of evidence suggests that humans could interbreed with other great apes. We have done it in the past, hundreds of thousands of years ago, and some scientists have stated that there is a decent chance that it would work (the Nazi's got increadibly close to trying).

And yet I think all of these categorizations are correct. Dogs are all quite related and since there is a range there is no anyway sensible cutting point. They have to be the same species or we need a new word to call it. The birds do not naturally interbreed, the is the whole point of the feathers. And just because many of the great apes can interbreed does not make them one giant species.

At the end of the day "species" is a layman term and is used loosely and with great flexibility.

Comment Re:Just pay him not to work (Score 1) 272

That sounds pretty easy to take advantage of.
"Ya, my brother is starting up a finance firm that is doing the exact same thing as you, he says he will pay me 150% of my current salary to go work for him.
According to my contract this means you now have to pay me 50% more than my current contract and I can sit at home and do nothing, or maybe take on a little work on the side under the table"

Comment Political/Moral (Score 1, Troll) 305

These are people who analyze and predict the health of countries. Of course their results are more politically motivated than evidence based. Would it even be ethical to tell a truth that would cause an economic disaster? If economists had known in advance of one of the great depressions that it was going to happen, and releasing the results would of only sped-up the collapse, should they release the information? And it will always be better politically for the government to be just as surprised as everyone else when things go belly up, instead of being the president who predicted, but was unable to solve, the coming collapse.

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