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by aylmao 3y ago
This isn't new, right? I've heard it's especially prevalent for management positions, both because the severance would be higher, and because it's "better for office politics" to slowly push someone out, or hav
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by aylmao 3y ago
Personally, I find calls less "distracting" than texts or emails. Information gets exchanged much more quickly and naturally with voice, it gets done, and you can move on. With text/email things accumulate and ultimately &quo
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by aylmao 3y ago
I'm from Mexico. Given the landscape with energy worldwide, the current president has been overhauling the energy sector to keep foreign influence low. It makes sense in the current geopolitical climate, which really shook the energy m
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China is putting a lot of money down with its Belt and Road initiative, and specifically has tried to attract partners/allies calling it vehicle for prosperity [2]. In Africa, they've been building infra and haven't shied awa
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by aylmao 3y ago
Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. I think it's relevant to the discussion, whether people agree with it or not.
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by aylmao 3y ago
It's interesting to think how the geography of the earth could've shaped the anthroposphere and its history differently had humanity happened a few million years earlier. 30 million years ago the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans we
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by aylmao 3y ago
The simulation is probably not as accurate as modern city-builders, but this is one of the reasons SimCity 4000 Rush Hour is still my favourite game in the genre. Roads and cars still form a core part of the game, it doesn't support pe
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by aylmao 3y ago
It's worth thinking about this beyond the money— what values does the USA and its people want to stand for? Affirmative action can be viewed as an obstacle to individualism and self-determination, but as a boost to multiculturalism and
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by aylmao 3y ago
> I believe there's a shortage, they can't hire more math or science teachers here in western MA. This is probably a symptom of, amongst other things, unsatisfactory salaries over generational time-periods; people might simply
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by aylmao 3y ago
There's a clue later on in the article, when it describes reading for fun almost every day is also lower than previous years. The goal of school is not for students to learn what The Pearl by Hemingway is about. The goal is for student
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by aylmao 3y ago
I don't think it's bizarre. I'd attribute it to a common and timeless sentiment applied to the modern age. I have no reason to believe maternal/paternal love, expressed as the desire that your kids live a better life tha
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by aylmao 3y ago
Where is this the case? I've only heard of incentive-driven programs to drive fertility (economic help, fertility-positive ad campaigns, etc). I haven't heard of countries forcing millions to bear pregnancies to term against their
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> In the US, the vast majority of Americans want to own a single family home, not a condo or apartment IMO there's 2 points to consider regarding this though: One can't underestimate the fact it's illegal to build densely
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by aylmao 3y ago
> There is no economic system that is sustainable where there are more elderly people not working / unable to work than there are young people who do work. I don't think this is true. At the micro-economic level, it's not
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by aylmao 3y ago
I wrote about this in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36161277 I've come to believe this is what reaching carrying capacity is supposed to feel like. A gradual desire to have fewer kids due to str
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by aylmao 3y ago
You're right. Japan's population pyramid is inverted [1]. Personally, I wouldn't call the rate ever more rapid— it's seems quite linear given that fertility rate has been pretty steadily around 1.3 since the 90s [2], but
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by aylmao 3y ago
That's an interesting point; Crimea has about 2 million people. This doesn't seem to show on the charts though, when in theory it should look like a spike around 2014, no? [1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator&
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by aylmao 3y ago
This is true, Japan's population pyramid [1] looks way more dire that Russia's [2]. Russia's does seem to suggest shrinkage after the big generation born in the 80's passes away, but oscillation afterwards. Japan's
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by aylmao 3y ago
I've thought about this, and I'm no expert, but I've come to be convinced this is how reaching carrying capacity is meant to feel. It's easy to imagine it as some sort of famine, where there isn't enough food to fee
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by aylmao 3y ago
IMO this is getting a bit too ahead of ourselves. IIRC, Russia and Japan are the countries with the most population shrinkage, and they've just lost 5 million and 2.5 million people off their peak. - 5 million / 148 million is 3%
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by aylmao 3y ago
Beyond pollutants, which isn't at all far-fetched to think is affecting fertility rates, there's also just life. I know plenty of people who want to have kids, but there's a lot of reasons to wait before having them. The late
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by aylmao 3y ago
IMO calling it "population collapse" and a "train wreck" is the wrong way to describe it. This isn't so much a collapse, it's a leveling-off. A train isn't supposed to wreck, but populations are supposed t
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by aylmao 3y ago
An economic system that depends on an ever-growing population is by definition not a sustainable economic system. Wether shortages happen this century or N centuries from now, at some point, like any population, a cap will be reached If thi
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by aylmao 3y ago
Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to underestimate an enemy like that. Thinking the other side is incompetent or in the brink of losing is the kind of thinking kept the 20 year, $2.313 trillion Afghanistan War going, and
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by aylmao 3y ago
> That's sounds a bit too rational, not MAD enough, you know? Putin clearly wasn't thinking rationally, otherwise there wouldn't be a war to begin with. I'm from Mexico and am currently down here and not in the USA. W
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by aylmao 3y ago
This sounds very exciting, but the more I think about this the more I think the right interface UI for light control isn't language. I recently bought smart switches for my smart lights and its fantastic to be back to clicking. Having
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by aylmao 3y ago
Your comment is rather confusing. I'm not sure what all these links to video-game clips or a movie review (?) are supposed to mean.
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by aylmao 3y ago
North Korea is not a global military power, its not an important economic power, it doesn't hold considerable reserves of important resources, it's not a big player in world trade, it doesn't have a seat in important intergov
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by aylmao 3y ago
This is a very short-sighted take, that relies on the assumption Russians are comically corrupt and incompetent. I'm sure the mechanisms to prevent this sort of theft that are in place in the USA have similar analogues in Russia, start
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by aylmao 3y ago
I personally don't worry about this, it's too outlandish to happen. That'd not only be cartoonishly corrupt, it'd also be cartoonishly dumb. You don't sell the ultimate weapon, much less in shady means to shady peop

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