johnnyanmac

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by johnnyanmac 18d ago
>The headline should have been: "Human forebrain and hindbrain arise from distinct embryonic progenitor lineages" - not that we have "two organs" in the brain. Well we see why you're not a journalist.
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by johnnyanmac 19d ago
>As I said in another comment, the population of Japan is projected to be 64 million in 2100. A hundred years ago, the population was 64 million, and that was at the peak of their colonial expansion. Japan has a population of 300m. a col
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by johnnyanmac 19d ago
>It's only for rich, for families who can comfortably live on one salary. or collectivist societies. We completely forgotten the old adage: "it takes a village to raise a kid". 3rd world countries still increase in populat
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by johnnyanmac 19d ago
Other first world countries. The global population overall is still slightly increasing because 3rd world countries have plenty of children. As for the why: because historically that has always been a solution to lacking specialized talent
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by johnnyanmac 19d ago
>why does it need to be reversed? Because a major superpower dying out doesn't really benefit anyone except potential conquerors.
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by johnnyanmac 20d ago
>We can't regulate incentives. We call tax subsidies "tax incentives" for a reason. You subsidize high-fructose corn syrup, you incentivize society to include cheap oils in their food. >the incentive today in a global
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by johnnyanmac 20d ago
>I'd love for my kids to grow into a world where everyone around them is a super jacked highly competent and motivated ubermensch, but what are you supposed to do? I just gave an example. Use your power to lead and improve your comm
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by johnnyanmac 20d ago
So you're just saying "it's okay I got mine" in that case, and don't care if the rest of society rots because "I can use it well". Fair enough. And I assume you never need to worry about applying to a W2 j
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by johnnyanmac 20d ago
>then work your brain on the activities you actually enjoy. 1. As seen in this coountry, most people did not in fact "pursue physical activities they enjoyed". They got much less healthy and then the white collar machines start
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by johnnyanmac 20d ago
>You can choose to be in the latter group if you'd like. And now you inherit the burden of proving you are "one of the good ones" after a mass amount of disappointment from the normal use case. I don't think the &quot
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by johnnyanmac 21d ago
You are right, and that is precisely the issue. When complex logic fails, we don't usually blame the machine. When natural language fails, we as of late seem to be trying to anthropomorphize a machine that cannot be held accountable. A
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by johnnyanmac 21d ago
Imagine buying a new luxury car's worth of virtual currency for your kid on your company's dime. sure, I wanted a Viper as a kid, but I don't think that would be a good enough reason for this.
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by johnnyanmac 21d ago
It has less to do with the devs having fun at their job and more to do with if they'll even wake up to go to their job tomorrow. Layoffs are never fun.
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by johnnyanmac 21d ago
We are in fact finding out precisely why natural language sucks in real time, as we have all kinds of catastrophic errors with people who think this is finally the time for complex language to prevail over pesky nerd language. The only diff
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by johnnyanmac 22d ago
Their model is DRM, but they have no vendor lock-in (in theory, at least). You can use a Valve product (or non-valve product) and never use Steam, or use Steam on any of the 3 major OS's. You can't say the same for an apple produ
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
You have it backwards. A big part of why the terrible companies are terrible to begin with are because they do stuff like this.
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
Why not? The best way to repeal bad laws is to sling them against those who otherwise benefit from it. The best case here is that the law is thrown out entirely. The "worst case" is an unsympathetic target getting their just desse
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
I don't disagree, but this was Nintendo of America. Nintendo's main branch has some of the best worker retention and satifaction in the industry (thanks to actual Japanese labor laws). NoA meanwhile, is identical to any other Amer
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
I hope the union admins weren't foolish enough to let in management that way. My best faith assumption is that the mole got in, grabbed the content, and shared their account with management. That still feels like a form of entrapment,
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
>consumption taxes across income brackets not scaling is factually inaccurate I'd love to hear a proper counter-argument. Maybe Florida works different, but sales taxes tend to be constant (i.e. scaling linearly with consumption), a
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
Sure. 20 years ago I would agree, and even 10 years ago I'd say there are some nuances to explore. Today, though: governments are actively pushing policy to restrict the internet, legalize backdoors, and normalize mass surveillance. We
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by johnnyanmac 23d ago
It's fairly simple 1) there's a lot of money to be made with data, so there are a lot of incentives to jump over any gates setup to protect privacy. If not actively tear down the gates and lobby to make it illegal to build more ga
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
Data centers in a nutshell too. It's an absolute clown show of a PR event. Pretty clear who they laid off and got advice from to have bipartisan rejection from such a politically polarized population. I suppose it's like the Cabin
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
Sales taxes are fundamentally a tax on the poor. Someone making 20x the median income is not spending 20x more on groceries and other goods. It doesn't scale well at all, especially when a lot of net worth goes into housing. And the GP
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
Not everyone has the drive, talent, connections, time, nor resources to run a political campaign. Showing up to your townhall every 2 weeks can already be an overly high barrier given some townhall times, but is much more feasible.
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
>The notion that it should be more constrained than private actors seems absurd. That is precisely the notion of the US constitution. If some random person chose to take down a flier criticizing the president, that is fair game (legally,
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
Let's clarify things. You can call 911 for a non-emergency. That dispatch worker will then redirect the line to a non-emergency line based on the situation. They will also likely remind you of a faster way to reach the non-emergency
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
> You have a day job that pays the bills That's the part that worries me most. Jobs aren't paying the bills these days, the ones that do are in decline. > You had the great temporary luck to have both for a bit, but it'
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
> what if they no longer have to "tolerate mucking out the stables" and can instead focus on riding. Then you haven't seen the say to day life of modern western civilization. That's not the reality. People are workin
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by johnnyanmac 24d ago
>It is a world in which video game designers get to make higher quality games faster really such a bad one? If that's what was happening it would be great. But we already saw the mobile market as a canary in the coalmine for how thi

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