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by genwin 14y ago
Thanks for the recommend! The book 1984 also paints a world like that.
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by genwin 14y ago
Healthy discussion can include the word "religion". I haven't made any generalizations that haven't also been suggested by much research by others.
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by genwin 14y ago
If your diagram can explain away the fact that Utah consistently has the US's highest birth rate, then yes. Children largely are a consequence of religion/culture in many parts of the world. The parents use their free will to do what reli
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by genwin 14y ago
No one should get free food except temporarily for events that can't be reasonably predicted / planned for. No other conditions need apply. Doing otherwise does more harm than good.
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by genwin 14y ago
There's no contradiction. Religion/culture is the root cause of the problem. Free food makes the problem worse.
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by genwin 14y ago
You can search for the article "Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa", which says "Aid is an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster." I can't prove that aid including its free food form contributes to population growth. I'm
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by genwin 14y ago
More likely it'll be the small elite (who stay private) maximizing profits using the info that the vast majority made public. Those who make their "private" info public will likely on average pay higher interest & insurance rates, have
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by genwin 14y ago
Free food almost certainly causes more starving children in any country whose main religion/culture demands "be fruitful and multiply". > Whilst some famines are caused by over-population, it is far more likely that they are caused by o
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by genwin 14y ago
> ... Africa will also improve in the long run with the advent of modern agriculture techniques. In the long run that can't be true, when the population continues increasing. There's a practical limit to agricultural yield, even if outp
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by genwin 14y ago
It's not based on a general feeling. It's based on the fact that resources are limited. Any religion that successfully promotes "be fruitful and multiply" will certainly bump against that limit eventually. I can only suspect in any partic
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by genwin 14y ago
> Is basic human empathy such a bad reason to try and help? If the help does more harm than good in the long run, then obviously yes. Whether a particular course of action does more harm than good is open to debate.
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by genwin 14y ago
I think it would be almost impossible for their culture to change. One way might be for the first world to pay monthly stipends to families that have no more than 2 kids. Then taper it off over many decades.
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by genwin 14y ago
Young people are already dying in large numbers in some African countries.
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by genwin 14y ago
Yes religions can adapt, but of course they don't want to and needn't, so Rosling's reasoning isn't convincing. Utah has the highest birth rate in the US. I doubt that has very little to do with Mormonism.
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by genwin 14y ago
Does he explain away the correlation in Utah? It seemed a safe bet that Utah has the US's highest birth rate, given Mormonism there. A search confirmed it. (Sorry I'm lazy on video sources.)
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by genwin 14y ago
> But if you do nothing the second generation would be even larger still since the fertility rate of the extremely poor is so high. Obviously the population must eventually plateau or decline, due to finite resources. I think it will be
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by genwin 14y ago
I suspect that excessive influence of religion led to all those other problems.
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by genwin 14y ago
But what if child mortality is up mainly because of high birth rates? When their religion/culture calls for having as many kids as possible, it causes problems that lead to high child mortality. It's very difficult to change religion/cultur
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by genwin 14y ago
The police are accountable to elected representatives. Therefore the taxpayers are responsible for their police dept., and owe money to the victims when their police go astray. I chose my town in part because of its professional police dept
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by genwin 14y ago
I love Go, so it's a shame I can't trust its initial creator, Google, for hosting. Too many stories about accounts unilaterally yanked and prices jacked up 3X+ overnight.
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by genwin 14y ago
I think you're right about PHP for most web apps. A type of web app for which Go shines is ones that have data already prepared when the user arrives. Database retrieval and update can be handled by processes that aren't dependent on the us
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by genwin 14y ago
Examples for Golang are sparse compared to PHP-land. The books help a lot on that. Other than that I haven't had an issue with finding stuff online. The official documentation is extensive when you know how to look for it (namely, "golang
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by genwin 14y ago
Already sold! For my first web 2.0 project I started with PHP and, being a bit disappointed with its performance, switched to Golang. Among other things I didn't want to have to do ifs with parentheses or use semicolons. Those seemed superf
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by genwin 14y ago
I've done genetic algorithms. Yes they employ the concept of evolution but it's something that can be understood in under an hour, purely from a programming perspective. Knowing the theory of evolution isn't required for someone to be skill
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by genwin 14y ago
I do want schools to teach physics at a high level. As long as they'll get bogged down in minutia (as was my experience, and from what I've seen it's still the case) I'd rather they teach programming. Better they do Python functions than ba
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by genwin 14y ago
I took two years of physics classes. Virtually none of it applied to life. For example what good did it do me to calculate the trajectory of a projectile (multiple times, for homework, pop quiz, test, semi-final, and final)? We could've spe
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by genwin 14y ago
Simple: don't have an ever-growing population. It can't ever grow in any case, so it's better to work toward stabilizing and then reducing it. Through attrition of course. With a population significantly less than today's level, biotech isn
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by genwin 14y ago
It's certainly possible that biotech can be employed for the greater good. But I'm confident there will be a ton of competition for that relative sliver of jobs. I know several people with physics degrees. None of them do physics for a livi
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by genwin 14y ago
The theory of evolution has pretty much zero value in competing globally, the way I see it (although it's good to know). Global competition is a major contributor to climate change.
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by genwin 14y ago
I'd probably be disappointed if a kid of mine was in the biotech field. I don't support genetic modification of food, for example.

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