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I wouldn't say most women do, but a lot of women do. And, more importantly, those are the women dropping the $$ on clothing and therefore what is catered to. I work in a lingerie/bra boutique at the moment and there are a large am
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Yeah, we hung out more...if we had people to hang out with and got along. I was from the rural edges of a metro area in the 90s. My main interests at 6 years old were programming, astronomy (particularly star classification systems), video
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> Content aggregation in the form of applications like Tik Tok, IG reels, YouTube shorts, and even HN have the ability of providing hours of content and then some by just refreshing the page or scrolling down. Like over a thousand TV cha
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I'm 34 and I've been online as often as I've been allowed for 30 years. Hell, I used to load sites/discussions while I got ready for school, print them off and bring them to school and spend my time reading them. I&#x2
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tl;dr: Nobody is steering the ship because they don't know they're on a ship. Or that the ocean exists. It's hard without doxxing myself or calling out specific people and organizations which I'd rather not because I&#x2
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> beyond that are we just telling a story and really nobody is 'in control'? Basically. Or at least that's the impression I'm left with after spending a couple of years in politics work. I had a nice long breakdown.
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Highly unlikely. If every single person with that coding experience only coded, that's likely, but not every person who got their start that way focused on coding to the exclusion of everything else. There are at least a couple of us
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Depending on how much you have on your plate, this is ideal from a time management perspective. Knowing when and how to delegate is a very important skill. Just because you can do something doesn't mean that it's a good use of y
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Yes. I was internally screaming by the end of the first paragraph. They mean marketing . Marketing rare books is a carnival fire, because of course it is: Marketing requires you to play to people's psychologies and egos. And it&#x27
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Can you start him with JavaScript and basic web development instead? That's how I learned around that age (started around 5 or 6). The immediate feedback of being able to change something in text and immediately see the impact was a bi
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What you say about senior people/leadership is pretty accurate, although I'm not sure that the directness is their 'true' comms style. My experience with people at that level is that it's really hard to tell what th
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It doesn't need to be successful on everyone, and you're right that we should also be teaching the kids in order to eventually have a population that's less susceptible to trickery. That said, there was a point when the avera
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We could also educate the parents/adults. I feel like a lot of these issues come from the fact that the newer generation(s) have so much more knowledge of what they're using than their elders. Society has changed things and implem
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I'll also add that it's a class signifier, as much as we're all loath to admit it. The upper-middle and professional classes really don't like direct communication and they have control over key parts of most companies.
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I wouldn't assume using something means people trust it. I pay my taxes, but I don't trust the US government. For that matter, I don't trust my grocery store either but I still need food.
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I thought about this for a while and I think I would boil it down to being used to dealing with language as data instead of just as a communication medium. Experience with corpora, sentiment analysis, and the various parts of linguistics
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I agree. I'm not a SWE because I don't want to code for 40+ hours a week, but I've been picking up projects here and there for small businesses for a long time (I started helping my dad do the same when I was 5-6) and so I ma
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I disagree with him. I've spent several years answering people's random questions (librarian) in multiple settings and my first W2 job back in 2004 was technological education. I also have a Linguistics degree and can program so I
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I'll throw my own low-stress money maker in the ring: Bra-fitting. In addition to the emotional intimacy that's a necessary part of the job, there are aspects of it that would be hard to replicate with LLMs/AI in general beca
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The problem is that you can't easily verify whether someone is 12 or 14 with documentation so the checkbox is all they had. You can easily verify if someone is over 18 and there are systems in place to do so, which means it's
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I can respect that position. I tend to be very in favor of autonomy for older kids/adolescents because I think going from 0 to 100 and having them be 18 and fully responsible is going to result in bad decisions. Like we see with drinki
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Why let 18 year olds+ use it then? If it's that bad, it sounds more like crack, which we ban for everybody.
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Right? I learned through reading browser documentation in elementary school when CSS and JavaScript were implemented and then running to my dad or internet forums/chat rooms when I ran into topics or problems I didn't understand
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I mean when teens/children congregate in large numbers anywhere they get unhealthy. Like it or not, the digital realm is part of life and they have to learn to handle disagreements, toxic people, etc. at some point. If their adults won
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I'd like to add that this may have outsized unintended effects like COPPA did - COPPA being the law that established that accounts online required you to be 13. I was 12 when COPPA went into effect. What a lot of people don't know
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I know how to treat water and have the supplies I'd need to do it.
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Back of napkin math suggests that the water in the lake would sustain drinking, hygiene, and daily bathing for all current MI residents for over 10,000 years, so probably fine.
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It's basically techno tarot cards in my view: The illusion of an external force helps you break certain internal inhibitions to consider your situation and problems more objectively.
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That's just wild to me. Even if our infrastructure collapsed tomorrow, we could all probably get our water needs met. I live within walking distance to a sizeable river - I'd be annoyed if I couldn't buy water anymore but t
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One interesting experience I had was going to the Middle East. It was the first time I'd ever dealt with water restrictions or even considered my water consumption, which didn't just baffle the Jordanians but also a lot of the oth

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