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by em-bee 5mo ago
i am not chinese, it's just an observation from living there.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
you need to look at the origin. if we accept that this is written in the holy scriptures of the espective religions then the question is how did it benefit the people at the time it was written. never mind today because religions aren'
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by em-bee 5mo ago
they didn't just happen, they were expected and demanded. there was social pressure to have children. that's still true in china today. some not yet grandparents put a lot of pressure on their children to give them grandchildren (
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by em-bee 5mo ago
how about making your pension depend on the number of kids? take an average pension now: X=100%, take half of it as a base, and then add a quarter or one fifth per child. so a childless person gets half the current pension, 1 child gives yo
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by em-bee 5mo ago
Potholes are indeed a problem actually, less people would mean less traffic, and less wear on the roads, therefore also less potholes.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
having kids is a blast true, but you didn't know until you had them, and society keeps telling us otherwise. we need to change the message and educate youth about becoming parents. but also create a culture where having children is w
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by em-bee 5mo ago
in germany education is free, and some places also offer free childcare. parents get $300 per child per month in financial support regardless of income. and yet all that is still not enough.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
both parents having to work fulltime, and the severe hit to your career if you pause working while the children are young is the primary hindrance in my view.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it's more like people are forced to move where the jobs are. mobility is demanded by the industry.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
it's the same with linux viruses. they were always a possibility, but because linux is not popular, they were never an issue.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
true, but was mostly picking up on the "unfortunate" part. given archive.todays behavior, i don't think it's unfortunate. they deserve to be blocked, even if this block here didn't happen for those reasons.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
young men pay more for car insurance than young women (today). This is based on statistical models. Should they be outlawed? EU has outlawed them. their argument is that differentiation is only valid if the difference is the actual cause
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by em-bee 5mo ago
~cks specifically blocks Archive.Today, which is unfortunate. archive.today has been found to use their pages to run DDOS against someone they didn't like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006
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by em-bee 5mo ago
i'd be interested on your take on the graphical interface of plan9.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
the website would still depend on google to be found by most people.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
well actually, to be honest for me too. i had actually read about unix before i could get access to a computer, and the first o'reilly book i bought was titled "DOS meets Unix" in 1988, long before i had my own computer.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
take a few days off. ok, in the US with only two weeks yearly vacation that is a bit harder. so this mostly works for people who are already out of work. but i don't think that's a downside. these days there are so many people bei
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by em-bee 5mo ago
early versions of MacOS X were really just reskinned NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. in the first versions you could even switch through some trickery, i think.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
good question. let me dig in my memory. the first computer i got to use was a TRS-80 III i believe in highschool. this thing was already old at the time which was the late 90s, but it did the job. we had a full classroom of them, one of whi
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by em-bee 5mo ago
dos was the reason i switched to linux. (sorry, i could not resist, i am old ;-)
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by em-bee 5mo ago
well, that's kind of my implied criticism. which is why i checked what would happen if i removed all the em-dashes. it's not that much better. but i think the number of em-dashes also matters. check your article with and without e
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by em-bee 5mo ago
pangram says 100% generated. whatever that means: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350638
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by em-bee 5mo ago
there was also a delay in the decision for funding until may 2017. that's another 8 months. but then we don't know when that decision would have been made originally.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
you have to be fairly negligent to think you're going to build something in California without a massive legal headache that's not fair. the question was: did the legal headache cause the budget-overrun. predictable or not, your
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by em-bee 5mo ago
that's the thing. em-dashes are such a low hanging fruit, that i fear that they soon will be gone. i mean if i am ever to post an AI generated text, removing them is the first thing i would do. (edit: turns out it doesn't help as
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by em-bee 5mo ago
if we are going to complain about AI content then i suggest we also include some evidence to make the argument at least somewhat insightful. i'll start: pangram gives this a 100% score (without the sources section), on account of the e
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by em-bee 5mo ago
only if you actually log in. not everyone does.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
to do that you have to open the link in new reddit first to expand it, then change it to old reddit. if you use a tool that automatically replaces www.reddit.com with old.reddit.com the shortened links break.
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by em-bee 5mo ago
well yes, that why i concluded that at this point using AI to help me is just not worth it. i'll wait until the reliability goes up and the level of frustration goes down. for myself i don't even want to use it to learn because i
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by em-bee 5mo ago
you mean like AI agents?

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