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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
I said they obviously will stabilize. They always do. Everything always does. At a certain point the population is just so low that having children becomes highly advantageous again. There's very very few biological system where the en
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
I said the population will stabilize (aka it will stop declining)
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
What’s really the downside of falling birth rates (as long as they stabilize, and they obviously will)? In real terms as far as I can tell: young having to support more old and less competitive on the world stage. There’s not many complaint
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
For myself, I hold my breath and swallow twice. Never failed, and much less uncomfortable
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Think it’s even deeper than that. The US was 50% of the global economy in the post war years. Now we’re a fraction of that. The world is more competitive now. The amazing surplus and living standards of the post war years were an aberration
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Is this really true? On stuff like this I'm kinda torn on whether this is our modern interpretation on stuff like this or genuinely their intention. These kind of traditions and laws were often implemented even in place where nobles &#
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It makes them things that liberals think are bad. Likewise, conservatives think liberal opinions are bad. The problem is exactly your comment: liberal opinions are not the same thing as the truth. So just because some liberal doesn't l
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
"what's life like on the outside" haha. It blows my mind how disconnected some people in tech are.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
As someone who's followed pretty much this exact advice the article lays out since I was maybe 14 or so, I found it very useful in my life. I was interested in physics actually. So at 14 as a B student at a school district in the middl
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Here's the difference though: If the algorithms weren't politically biased... - The conservatives would be happy - The liberals would be unhappy Conservatives' whole argument isn't "bad things I don't like on t
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
The "jack of all trades, master of none" heuristic works well for humans because given our limited lifespans and rate we assimilate knowledge, it's nearly impossible for someone to be both. ChatGPT in later iterations CAN be
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Ok, it sounds like you're not working a job relevant to national security? Google/etc doesn't care who you are as long as you can make them profits - bad person, good person, etc. I'm glad to see that at least the govern
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
I'm sure you're an otherwise intelligent person, but your view of the world has been so warped by living in the Bay Area that it's astounding.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Is it really weird? I get the gut reaction, and it certainly feels something like "pathetic", but when I think about it more: at the end of the day it's people trying hard to meet other people and find a connection. Why is it
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
TL;DR Sure tech progress is cool, but it's hard to care when I feel more isolated from my community than ever, the world feels "angry", and in many important ways my life feels much worse off than just a few years ago. The me
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Would you dress that way to meet your partner's parents for the first time? Or to see a friend you haven't seen in years? Or to represent your company at an event? What about going somewhere where you are expected to be a role mod
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It's really not that intellectual or complicated. Just don't dress like a bum in public? Not everything needs a theorem or rigorous, tested, scientifically researched set of rules. Nobody is asking you to walk around in a 3 piece
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Dress how you want in your own house. The public space isn't yours and you don't have a right to dress indecently in the public space. Turns out, some of us want to live in a society that takes itself seriously and gives a shit. W
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Completely feel the same way, except I attribute it to losing my job offer due to lockdowns (pulling the financial rug out from under me for months), being isolated from friends and family members for years, losing all access to outlets oth
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It seems more likely that the significant lockdowns and deep isolation that came with it had these same effects. When you can't see friends for months, can't do anything but stay home and watch tv/play video games, and are co
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Are there any physiological or biological signatures for Long Covid? Is there any objective way to diagnose? The symptoms of Long Covid are so vague and our recent work so wacky, you could use the same criteria used to diagnose Long Covid t
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
The actual reality is that starting a company is very complex, and for every “rule” there’s a very successful company that did the opposite. If your takeaway from this is that “build it and they will come” is a good go to market strategy, y
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
By this logic, there's no 10x any profession. This is all just semantics at this point.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
It blows my mind that this is so contentious and the only reason why seems to be that programmers think their job is unique or something. Are there people who are 10x better than others at a skill? Obviously. This is blatantly true in every
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Do we want true equality like that? I certainly don't. I will be the first to admit I derive a lot of meaning in life from being capable in my domain the being depended on by others to succeed in that domain (where many others can&#x27
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
This is obviously not true. If there was no new wealth in the world than there was 50 years ago, we wouldn’t be so much more well off despite have billions more people.
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Promising 3000 jobs and only getting acquired for $10m makes me think it wasn’t that much of a win at all. If they did any kind of due diligence, surely they’d have to know how much they’ve raised or what their revenue looks like, and $10m
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Sounds like you had bad parents and now for some reason want to throw out the entire institution (as if it were possible) despite the fact that for the vast majority of humans it’s an overwhelmingly positive experience (not to mention just
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
"Speaking in absolutes is never useful" is a great paradox
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by eldritch_4ier 4y ago
Maybe semantics (but then again I think a ton of leftwing phrases are just semantics and overloading words), but how do 40% of New Yorkers continue to be alive if not at a "living wage"? I think this is actually important in one k

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