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by icandoit 7y ago
Would you think a tax levied on the childless and payed out the child-possessing to be sufficiently gender neutral? Why are childrens well-being not the concern of men? You have assumed something to be true, that I haven't, maybe.
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by icandoit 7y ago
I'd be careful assigning meaning depending on a relative time frame. After all the Sun will swallow the earth in about 7 billion years. I like to think the things we do matter independent of that fact.
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by icandoit 7y ago
Foxpro, visual basic (6 and below), and pre-bad delphi were workhorses. Surely, demand for similar tools today still exists.
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The RT article said that "Nearly half the couples had not had sex in a month". That happens because they prefer to do something else instead. Will you grant that this means that interest in sex has fallen? The Politifact article s
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I think framing child-rearing as an individual choice is a dangerous framing. That's what I was getting at with the comparison to the movie Bird Box. It's important to think of ourselves as biological systems first and thinkers-as
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by icandoit 7y ago
A running car would be equally disruptive I think. I have worked at places that paid for convenient nearby parking. I worked at a university that had a daycare just across the street. Given the dramatic pay gap between there and elsewhere i
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by icandoit 7y ago
If we imagine that the work of women was craft work that could be safely and comfortably be done in the presence of children, then we can compare that to the places and conditions of the workplace of todays woman. If yesterdays woman could
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by icandoit 7y ago
I would expect that if wages wise, that screens-per-person would increase and children-per-person would continue to decrease. Housing, healthcare, and actual-cost-of-food (because eating out is on the rise) are all increasing beyond any rea
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by icandoit 7y ago
I wonder how much the feeling is one-sided. I visit my grandparents more often than they visit me (even generously discounting for physical ability, income, and the one-to-many relationship). I think the way to measure this might be grandpa
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by icandoit 7y ago
Nearly half of young women in Japan are "uninterested in sex" or "averse to sex" - https://www.rt.com/news/377342-sexless-japanese-marriages-st... - https://www.politifact.com/pundi
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by icandoit 7y ago
>People would have children for emotional reasons even if society does not intervene. What if that isn't true though? Fertility is universally falling in rich countries. Could you give me a number of births-per-woman that would moti
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by icandoit 7y ago
Some indigenous North Americans used the strap their babies into cradle boards that could be propped up somewhere safe while parents did whatever. That handles pre-walking children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cradleb
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by icandoit 7y ago
It may have also been the case, that before industrialization, metal smelting, and anything-faster-than-walking the world was inherently safe. Daycare only become necessary once transportation, tools that could cut, and exposed toxins becam
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by icandoit 7y ago
>And I don't understand why people absolutely need to have biological children. Consider these possibilities: 1. A best case scenario is that what you have expressed is a personal opinion that takes your genes out of the future in a
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by icandoit 7y ago
I think you are right. Also anybody could right-click and "view source". (Imagine being able to do that in any Swing app in their peak, for contrast.) When pages were just a few hundred lines any page could be recreated with a web
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by icandoit 7y ago
In some circles C has a better reputation than C++. Surely you see that other people value other things than you do? If you value simplicity check out the programming language zig. https://ziglang.org/
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by icandoit 7y ago
I like my code to look simple and behave as expected. Stability and "one right way to do it" are great language features. I think this was why Python was able to overtake Perl, for example.
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It's nice to see Microsoft embracing Rust. I'm sure crustaceans would love to see if they can extend it's reach through their product range.
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by icandoit 7y ago
They chase demand. Ideas exist in a market place. I wouldn't expect "Everything is great, No problems here, Weekly" to sell many copies.
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by icandoit 7y ago
If we could do this wouldn't we spin up minds-in-machines to do all sorts of cognitive tasks on demand and shut them off when the task is done (or they abandon their task) like a virtual machine. Imagine making a copy of someone like F
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by icandoit 7y ago
We can do both. One doesn't limit the other does it?
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by icandoit 7y ago
Correlation is all we have to go on mostly. If A causes B and B causes C then we can only say that A and C are correlated. If the average chain of causality is 4 long then the Bs outnumber the As and Cs. Inductive (observation) evidence is
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by icandoit 7y ago
What conclusions can we make about the fact that Japan (an industrialized country) has a longer life span the US (also an industrialized country)? There is more than one variable in play. We can optimize wealth AND health. (An aside: Your a
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by icandoit 7y ago
The value of a treatment can be measured in lives saved. Causes (where no treatment is implied) can only be measured in ink on paper. Which would you value in your medical care professional? Measure what you value and optimize for it. Why d
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by icandoit 7y ago
Being the kind of person that is willing to experiment to solve their problems is better than being a person that is miserable and changes nothing. A random walk may not get you out a bad situation, but staying put is strictly worse less li
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I have a friend Galant who cleans his room everyday and has wealth and happiness. I have another friend Goofus whose room is a mess. I'm not suggesting that the things in a room cause depression. Correlation tells you more than strict
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Mental health isn't a strictly subjective experience though. You can measure days called-in-sick. You can measure suicide count. Cause and effect isn't necessary to reduce harm. You with me? It's nice to have certainly, but i
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by icandoit 7y ago
Differences in Birth Weight Associated with the 2008 Beijing Olympics Air Pollution Reduction: Results from a Natural Experiment https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/ehp.1408795 Personally, I'm down with har
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by icandoit 7y ago
Why insist on causality depending on a single variable? This is very strange to me. Of course the trust is confounded, the truth is multi-variable. The algorithm to pursue truth: 1. Find out how you personally differ from happy and he
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by icandoit 7y ago
I can think of 2 research questions: 1. Does adding an air filter in peoples home improve health outcomes? 2. Does pumping a suspected noxious element into a room in lab harm some small group of people in some limited testable way? Question

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