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by klipt 3y ago
That only works in a polygamous society. In monogamous societies like the UK the deaths of many men in the world wars led to "marriage gaps" where a roughly equivalent number of women were unable to marry and have children. So X p
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by klipt 3y ago
If you're already drafting people based on their genitals (sexism), a little class discrimination on top of that barely moves the needle.
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by klipt 3y ago
The sad truth is you can't build grungy housing. At least no sane developer wants to. Grungy housing was new fancy housing - decades ago. I guess if the government is willing to build Soviet style grey blocks then you can have new but
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by klipt 3y ago
Are cities still more expensive than rural areas if you adjust for income of the inhabitants? Maybe cities are just more productive economically, so people earn more, so they can pay more. I think where having more housing helps though is m
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by klipt 3y ago
Green card holders already have to pay taxes overseas, same as citizens.
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by klipt 3y ago
> Even a green card holder can be denied re-entry on the basis that they 'abandoned their residency.' If you're actually living in the US and just taking occasional vacations abroad this is extremely unlikely. Where people
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by klipt 3y ago
> More people sick is good because that increases the size of the health market, et cetera. See the Parable of the Broken Window, 1850.
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by klipt 3y ago
That's great if it's your hobby but if I value my time at my current wage, darning socks is incredibly more expensive than just buying a pack of new ones. You just can't beat the efficiency of factory machines.
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by klipt 3y ago
The solution is a carbon tax, which is unpopular with big oil companies but probably also unpopular with many citizens who vote based on gas prices. We may just have to use solar radiation management instead.
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by klipt 3y ago
Boiling loses many nutrients to the water. Unless you’re making soup, steaming is superior.
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by klipt 3y ago
"Lead free" may be impossible, there is natural levels of lead in the soil that is taken up by plants. However there's orders of magnitude difference between those natural levels, and adulterated spices with lead deliberately
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by klipt 3y ago
An iPhone SE is half that. A budget Android half again. Both completely usable, just won't replace your mirrorless camera just yet.
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by klipt 3y ago
Maybe the probability of dying per climb is only a few percent. But probably goes up as the climber gets older. And if you are exposed to that high risk repeatedly, it's almost certain to kill you eventually. Of course everyone dies ev
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by klipt 3y ago
Maybe some are written better. GCC's says "no racism" which can be interpreted as allowing hatred of white people because under some academic definitions it's impossible to be racist against white people. Compare federal
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by klipt 3y ago
And of course, complaints about white people are one of the things that wouldn't be punished under these code of conducts despite the "no racism" clause, because they're usually not evenly enforced.
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by klipt 3y ago
There are always scissor cases. Suppose X, a Ukrainian says on Twitter "I wish the Russians would get out of Ukraine" and then Y, a Ukrainian of Russian ethnicity reports X for saying that Y shouldn't exist. Who is right in t
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by klipt 3y ago
GCC used to be the only good free compiler but I think LLVM compilers are better now. Still good to have the competition I guess.
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by klipt 3y ago
If a government job signals a man is a good provider, a teaching job probably signals a woman likes (and is good at) dealing with children.
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by klipt 3y ago
It's fine to form a hypothesis from old data ... but it's not a theory yet until that hypothesis is challenged by (and isn't falsified by) future data :-)
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by klipt 3y ago
India's anti dowry laws tried to address this but went way overboard. Some highlights: https://theswaddle.com/indias-dowry-laws-are-ineffective-eas... * if a man is sentenced on a dowry related charge, his whole family
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by klipt 3y ago
> So basically, you want to subsidize transit by making the transport authority be a slumlord Is everyone who owns land a "slumlord" now? It's well studied that transit generates huge economic value, but that value mostly
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by klipt 3y ago
Transit is completely feasible without subsidies if the transit company owns the land near the stations, which generate generous rents. Of course if the land is owned by other people, the increase in value provided by transit should be reca
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by klipt 3y ago
Honeyguides, the birds, definitely trade with us (well, with the local populations who co-evolved with and understand them)
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by klipt 3y ago
There's also a gender lifespan gap that's even bigger than the black-white racial lifespan gap. E.g. black women live longer than white men on average. Consequently, more than half of elderly voters are women.
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by klipt 3y ago
I assumed the ratio of travel agents to travelers has gone down since the advent of flight search engines, is that not true? I certainly haven't used travel agents since I became aware of Google Flight Search etc But maybe older people
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by klipt 3y ago
Math? City population has to be smaller than total population. If total population eventually shrinks to zero, city population must eventually too.
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by klipt 3y ago
A shrinking population does eventually have to lead to smaller (or fewer) cities.
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by klipt 3y ago
They'll just switch from saying the man in the couple is the oppressor, to saying that the lesbian who doesn't gestate the baby is the oppressor.
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by klipt 3y ago
I guess there are 3 possible approaches: 1. Make a scripting language like Python faster 2. Make a systems language like C++ easier for scientists, e.g. by embedding a Matlab like DSL 3. Make a completely new language targeting the ease of
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by klipt 3y ago
To clarify, I'm including stuff like Python code under language , because these large language models are also trained on Python code.

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