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4mo ago
It's not just women either. The older the father is the more you get risks for certain things like mental illness in the child https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal_age_effect
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4mo ago
I think just about everyone wants more sex than children. That said, many people would love the responsibility of raising a child but don't feel like they can afford it.
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4mo ago
> Everyone using the free service likes that, of course, but honestly I wish we'd make it illegal to do. I can see the benefit, but if you made free services illegal companies like google would just offer gmail for a penny. You'
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4mo ago
> Why did people want to have them in the past Most people are biologically wired to want children. "Survive and reproduce" is pretty much the driving motivation of all living things. Most children weren't conceived as a c
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4mo ago
It's certainly a huge risk when one company's outage can take down so much of internet. Decentralization and the ability to route around damage was a core feature of the internet. The more we depend on the internet, the less accep
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4mo ago
cloudflare (and CDNs more generally) certainly started out as an own goal. Warnings were ignored and most people did the easy thing instead of the right thing.
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4mo ago
Some people think they're providing value. They do block some bot traffic (at the cost of many many false positives) and I'll bet that they're providing endless amounts of data to one or more three letter agencies. They also
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4mo ago
Because they inserted themselves into almost everything we do online and basically managed to take control over it. Cloudflare should never have been allowed to man in the middle the entire internet, but now that they have they're the
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4mo ago
Consumers across the US are the residents. They're the same people. Especially when it comes to those living around data centers. The CEOs of amazon, google, and microsoft aren't living next to data centers and being subjected to
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4mo ago
I really don't disagree that the agriculture industry has pollution problems they need to address. It's just also true that one of the environmental problems data centers can cause is making existing problems with water quality mu
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4mo ago
> If the farmers are dumping shit in water, they can pay to remove it. Amazon isn't responsible for causing it, they're responsible for having made the existing problem much much worse. Amazon didn't start the fire, but th
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4mo ago
> The rollingstone article is crazy, because it's actually just about agricultural runoff which is poisoning a well Amazon uses for cooling. Did you actually read that article? The issue isn't that amazon is the source of the n
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4mo ago
I'm not convinced that communism is the future. I'm happy to stick with democracy where the government doesn't just force harms on the public whenever it will make them more money and voter's concerns about health and e
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4mo ago
Because they'll pollute their land/air/water and force their people to be harmed whenever it's economically convenient because the people in China don't have a voice in their government? I think I prefer democracy.
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4mo ago
Anything that slows their expansion will at least delay some of the impact on RAM and GPU prices since they aren't buying up GPUs until the places are built. In the meantime NY doesn't have to deal with the harmful environmental a
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4mo ago
> People should just focus on that, because you really really have to reach to make a metal box that hums into an existential environmental crisis. Turns out you you don't have to reach very far at all https://arxiv.org&#
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> How are they harming consumers? Consumers like breathing ( https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-centers-pollution ) and drinking clean water ( https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/data-center-ac
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4mo ago
I'm disappointed that reuters didn't see fit to mention the massive amounts of money the fossil fuel industry has bribed Trump with to act on their behalf, or even that Trump made promises to help them out while soliciting a bribe
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4mo ago
I'm guessing that their franchise agreement would prevent it, but they have the ability I hope they take advantage of it.
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4mo ago
However this plays out the one thing I've come away with is that I want nothing to do with Bricks & Minifigs. It's a shame for the franchise owners that Bricks & Minifigs basically made the brand toxic over such a stupid i
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4mo ago
> This article doesn't seem to hit or clarify any of the major points around police and official corruption or the involvement of the Mormon church The article did mention an "extremely bizarre, 30-minute YouTube video" th
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4mo ago
> The findings challenge the idea that prediction markets work because of crowds. They appear to work because of who is informed. That sounds about right. A small number of people with inside info are gaming the system itself and everybo
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4mo ago
> Starlink has made connectivity cheaper and more available. Yeah that's working out great for the average American isn't it ( https://natlawreview.com/press-releases/2026-consumer-trust-... ) > Earth ima
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4mo ago
> presumably without those the datacenters would have been built elsewhere. presumably without the tax breaks someone else could have bought those products, used the land/resources while paying for their fair share. Billions that sh
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4mo ago
I'm not sure how your points square with the evidence, but I'm always up for new fun facts.
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They were at least thinking about it a year ago ( https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/waymo-toyota-automated-dr... ) and maybe it will happen someday but I consider the fact that it hasn't happened as evidence that t
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> Zoning has nothing to do with separating uses. It never has. In Seattle, for instance, you absolutely can put an apartment building next to a pig farm. Nobody bothers because the market isn't interested in doing that. That also is
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4mo ago
Not "their car" and also extremely limited in availability and has remote drivers taking over when needed. We're not in the future just yet
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> It seemed so crazy to me in 2015 that anyone would seriously consider home cleaning robots to be on a realistic timeline. Yet here we are in 2026 and robots could plausibly clean our homes beyond vacuuming and mopping. I don't thi
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4mo ago
Considering we already have Apple wanting to scan your devices for whatever their AI thinks is child porn we're heading in that direction. There was one report of Amazon Echo reporting a domestic violence situation to 911. The Sheriff
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