daymanstep

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by daymanstep 8mo ago
UN birth rate projections have also been consistently wrong for the past decades. I think even most experts did not expect fertility rates to follow the trend that it has been following for the past few decades.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
I've also noticed archive.today injecting suspicious looking ads into archived pages that originally did not have ads.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
But you can't run most Linux distros on Mac hardware without doing hacks
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Are you saying that Israelis are more likely to have kids mainly because Israeli society is more tolerant of kids? You seem to be supposing a model where most people naturally want kids, but are just discouraged from having kids because...o
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
> "unless you can give your children a perfect life, you shouldn't bother". Except in real life, income is negatively correlated with fertility. Meaning, those most able to give their kids the "perfect life" are
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Yes, the "cost of having kids" argument is 100% bunk. Africans in abject poverty are having 6-7 kids, while individuals living in the richest countries are having 1 or none even though they clearly can afford many more. Even withi
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
I can't agree with you enough. I am so sick and tired of the cost of living argument. Back in the 1800s people were living in tiny cramped places and having 5-6 kids while barely able to afford necessities.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
There is no labor shortage. Look at layoffs and job openings - lowest since 2020.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
It is obviously sarcasm.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Pretty sure he was being ironic. There's no way someone would seriously suggest that every student should speak a completely different language.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
In the past 50 years, not a single chess world champion started playing chess after the age of 10. I suspect the article is playing some games with statistics, and in any case I hope people don't come away from this article with the id
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Marx said that concentration of wealth can be a good thing as rich people can invest their money in capital heavy things, such as factories, whereas poor people tend not to do that.
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
> I’m sure dating apps use plenty of such algorithms and match profiles based on ranking. Gale Shapley requires a fully ordered ranked list of every opposite sex person on the dating app, not just "likes"/"dislikes&qu
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by daymanstep 8mo ago
Stable marriage problem seems to be quite fashionable among feminists in my experience. The motivating question seems to be "how can women get a better deal" and they come up with this solution "ask first" and try to rat
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
Just don't let it connect to Internet and you're done
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. If you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
I'm surprised they made critical material purchasing decisions based on what some guy thinks he heard in a meeting, rather than official written documents written by and cross-checked by multiple engineers.
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
Did you check that the drives actually honor the flush? Half of drives tested lose FLUSH'd data on power loss.
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
If you go back 200 years, you'll be smack bang in the middle of the Enlightenment with thinkers like Kant and Jeremy Bentham. You could argue that if you trained LLMs on only texts from that time period, you would get something even mo
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
That surely depends on the particulars of the anti-missile defense technology. If it turns out that bigger ships are actually more survivable because you can put more effective anti-missile defense systems on them, then maybe it makes more
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
100% this. People need to read "The Strength Of Weak Ties" before advocating extremely damaging courses of action such as deleting LinkedIn. Humans are social animals and we cannot survive without a social network. Yet many in the
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
Betteridge's law strikes again!
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
HDDs also lose magnetic charge over time, about 1% per year. So you need to periodically spin up and rewrite the data every few years. CD drives however, can store data indefinitely without needing refreshing.
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by daymanstep 9mo ago
What is baffling about it? It makes sense to me. A normal cell will kill itself if asked to, a cancerous cell will refuse. On some level you could interpret this as, the cancer prioritizing its own survival over the survival of the organism
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by daymanstep 10mo ago
You can achieve human level intelligence if you can simulate a human brain with sufficient fidelity
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by daymanstep 10mo ago
He can retire whenever he wants.
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by daymanstep 11mo ago
What's the evidence for more competence?
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by daymanstep 11mo ago
I thought the crusades came after the end of the Roman Empire
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by daymanstep 11mo ago
People will probably just use it for bitcoin mining or smelting aluminium or some other similar moneymaking activity that is essentially a black hole for electricity.
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by daymanstep 11mo ago
120Hz is absolutely a noticeable improvement over 60Hz. I have a 60Hz iPhone and a 120Hz iPhone and the 60Hz one is just annoying to use. Everything feels so choppy.

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