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rayinerlast Monday at 6:31 PM1 replyview on HN

Exactly. Your average European alive today likely is better off because half their ancestors died of the plague.


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Tor3last Monday at 7:59 PM

So the general theory is that if you kill half of the population the descendants will be better off? What's the mechanism, and what happens if you follow that to its conclusion?

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