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by Retric 3mo ago
In this case my original post that everyone was responding to here was talking about employment as a function of population as obviously a larger population needs more food etc. Ignoring that when the global population is likely to peak soo
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by Retric 3mo ago
You’re mistaken in thinking it’s paid for by the government, though yes many governments are collectively a significant funding source they are far from the only funding source here. The most critical function by far is it saves people do
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by Retric 3mo ago
Programming reinvented a similar system of peer review before commits. It’s not that the reviewer is more knowledgeable about the bits of the system being changed that makes this work it’s that they have enough expertise to understand what’
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by Retric 3mo ago
> we'd get better results with no process at all. I’m going to give some advice that you probably won’t understand for years, but when you don’t find value in a process you’re missing something about what it’s doing. A common shortc
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by Retric 3mo ago
Not in your post, if you did you could quote an actual rebuttal that larger populations don’t inherently need more food, increase the need for banking services, etc etc. You also found it odd I didn’t “remove non participants” but preindust
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by Retric 3mo ago
> Why can’t the scientist and the news outlets be trusted to make the decision about whether to publish or not themselves? Why can’t the general public be trusted to evaluate the quality of the news outlets they read? Because the scienti
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by Retric 3mo ago
> Why do you think the more critical scientists are more correct? I am not qualified to make a judgement here, the point is following the process is better than jumping the gun on principle. It literally doesn’t matter if it’s eventual
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by Retric 3mo ago
Journalists believing what you tell them says nothing about if the underlying work is actually significant. The legacy of bad science being picked up is why this is a bad idea, even you personally don’t think it’s an issue the risk reward i
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by Retric 3mo ago
Not if that’s your regular order. For many families of 3 ordering 2 15” pizza, dessert, and drinks would be a regular lunch others may simply order 3 large slices. That’s my point, family of 3 isn’t some standard size.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Depends on the family. I’ve seen 2 active teens at healthy body weights split that 8pc meal + a side of biscuits. Obviously if you’re talking about a 6 year old the numbers are different.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Did you include tax? Also, that meal doesn’t include drinks. Poppies is significantly cheaper if you’re taking it home and supplementing with your own drinks.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Programming/engineering may be of supreme concern to you, but they made a much wider claim. > There's never been an automation revolution that worked otherwise. Requires all automation to have zero effect on net jobs long term.
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by Retric 3mo ago
The Australian population size isn’t pretty much the same as it was 25 years ago. 28 million in 2026 vs 18.8 million in 2001 is a ~50% jump… So no the numbers are down significantly even with outsourcing.
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by Retric 3mo ago
> Banks employ more people after introducing ATM's than before. Not as a percentage of the population. In 1967 the US population in 1967 was 200 million today it’s 350 million. Globally the growth was even faster. Your farming pro
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by Retric 3mo ago
That’s not supported by the evidence. Current rates of employment are well below historic levels. In preindustrial societies nearly everyone was working to support themselves and their families, these days a huge percentage of the populati
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by Retric 3mo ago
They do happen in real life. They are overused in sitcoms because it’s easy for actors to mimic on demand unlike several other reactions.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Sometimes you minimize downtime by running something while some other system you don’t control is down.
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by Retric 3mo ago
The issue with changing the alignment of bones with an “adjustment” is it’s your body keeping things in that position. Physical therapy is almost always a better long term fix because it can actually strengthen muscles and increase flexibi
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by Retric 3mo ago
As an idea sure, but not in practice. Homeopathy was created in 1796, and we still haven’t gotten rid of it. Meanwhile 65 years later https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis The maternal mortality rate dropped
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by Retric 3mo ago
The content itself provides a sorting mechanism. You go to the grocery store and you can buy most things without showing ID, but you want to get booze and suddenly you need to verify your identity. > accidentally clicks on such a piece I
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by Retric 3mo ago
IMO, that falls under the same umbrella as copyright in terms of distribution. The actor in a porn needs to sign over their rights before you can distribute it. If you’ve got all the proper paperwork then it doesn’t matter if it’s your ex
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by Retric 3mo ago
> all porn watchers That doesn’t follow, you wouldn’t need to track non CP content to track people downloading CP. YouTube doesn’t want legal porn on its servers, and I suspect most porn websites aren’t going to want CP either especially
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by Retric 3mo ago
Human spaces are built for humans. Outdoors cars and quad coppers are a great form but constrained by stars, doors, and low ceiling makes them a poor fit. Alternatively a 2 foot tall or a 20 foot tall humanoid robots aren’t particularly us
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by Retric 3mo ago
> a topic of much more debate. People who want to step away from linear no threshold seem to ignore the extreme likelihood people will get cancer at some point. Which means for any given population there will be many people who are real
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by Retric 3mo ago
I don’t think it’s inherently obvious that censorship is the right tool for CP. I’d rather track people downloading CP than prevent them from being able to find it and thus not know who was more likely to be a child predator. Of course any
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by Retric 3mo ago
The most recent price listed is from a month ago and the prior prices are increasing. So really you can roughly compare years but not Today. There’s plenty of data to say prices in 2012 and 2016 overlap, which is wild.
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by Retric 3mo ago
Lowest 2012 price listed is 3.7 (2012-10-30) vs highest listed in 2026 is 5.375 (2026-2-1), which overlaps based on the margin for error involved. https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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by Retric 3mo ago
Memory prices per GB were cheaper in 2012. It’s possible we’ll see a huge price drop on the near term but SSD + Cache + GPU’s seems to have changed the equation where RAM speed is considered more important than size. And from a pure archit
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by Retric 3mo ago
They are using the “gold standard for the evaluation of expert medical computing systems ” not a proxy for what a doctor actually does when diagnosing someone. It may have some utility after diagnosis, but this test doesn’t demonstrate uti
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by Retric 3mo ago
Companies ultimately don’t have a choice here. They can do what works, or they can fail. Large enough companies with enough inertia can do really dumb things for a while, but even giants fall.

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