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by kredd 3y ago
I’m a bit confused with these comments, as if he is some low level engineer. He is on the board, he obviously talks to other people in the upper levels. It’s not just online mob whatsoever, you literally will be facing the people who aren’t
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by kredd 3y ago
In non-WhatsApp ubiquitous places, “what’s your IG?” is the standard when you meet someone in the wild. You can always go with “oh, just WhatsApp me!”, but then again you’re still on Meta. I’m talking about age range till like 35ish, probab
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by kredd 3y ago
I don’t think so, to be honest. The landscape for media consumption is so much different than 10-15 years ago. Without any supporting data, I have a hunch that, shows are mostly watched within a year of its original air date. New shows aren
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by kredd 3y ago
You’re absolutely correct. Highway was built around 1941 though, NA was still building itself up during that time. In an ideal world, we would be building up new cities, new rail lines, new infrastructure and etc., but I guess the momentum
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by kredd 3y ago
We used to discuss this back in university days! NA is extremely allergic to copy something that’s been done extremely well in the east (e.g., high speed rails) and instead tries to come up with some “cool better way” of doing things. After
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by kredd 3y ago
He’s not exactly in the age group, but quite a lot of young people have auto-capitalization disabled on their phone. Basically aesthetics. At the end of the day, as time goes on, the methods of communications change as well. It does not exa
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by kredd 3y ago
Tech industry was praising him left and right. Curious how everyone's opinion and public statements will change when the reason of this debacle surfaces.
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by kredd 3y ago
If they figure out LLM running offline on your iPhone, it will be very funny how Siri will be the winner at the end.
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by kredd 3y ago
I believe it. Very insignificant data point but - I've worked for small scale startups and larger scale enterprises, and in both cases you can see bots and crawlers trying to do random stuff. I don't think it was actually %70+ of
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by kredd 3y ago
It is just… rain? I’m very confused if I’ll be honest. Your jacket gets wet, or you carry an umbrella so you stay dry? It rains 7-8 months of the year here, I genuinely never thought of it as a reason to drive so might be the wrong person t
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by kredd 3y ago
How do you think a significant chunk of people outside of US live? Commute in public transit within city limits, go camping in your car… The problem in NA, we planned public transit so bad that it is very inconvenient to do anything. The se
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by kredd 3y ago
You can’t really kill someone else with casino chips, unless you tried really hard. Not everything is black and white, need to consider the context as well.
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by kredd 3y ago
I think I am miswording the question — I don’t care about fixing the trends. My worry us to be prepared for the case if we can’t fix the problem. Basically “how we can prepare society to live with less younger population?”.
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by kredd 3y ago
If women want to be sexually liberated wage slaves, we have to respect that as well. I guess, I am sexually liberated guy who is a wage slave, there’s no difference. We should definitely make it more possible for women to have an easy life
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by kredd 3y ago
Fair enough. My point was, in developed world, if you’re poor you might not have kids because of its costs. If you’re rich, why would you have a kid if they might experience extreme problems in the near future? And it’s also hard for me to
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by kredd 3y ago
From what I've read so far, the data doesn't really support that argument. Even in my circles, the richer the couple, the less likely they have kids and so on. I don't think it's just "if you have money you'll
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by kredd 3y ago
But when every country (we are going towards it right now) is going below replacement birth rates, what is the solution then? It's just hard to imagine how the society and infrastructure would function when any countries median age is
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by kredd 3y ago
Wait, "generally considered a right-wing talking point" is this real? Like it's even a bigger problem in Asia than in North America. Looking at demographics, as you mentioned, it's going to be a problem in Africa as well
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by kredd 3y ago
There is some discussion about population decrease trends, and I actually had a question about it yesterday ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38207457#38212649 )! I guess, I’ll ask here again — is there anyone working on
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by kredd 3y ago
I totally get this, but my question was not about trying to reverse the trend, but how are we preparing to handle it if we fail to reverse it. Since no country has been able to reverse it so far, it doesn’t give me much hope that we can get
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by kredd 3y ago
That sounds like an idea, but you still need more people "younger than yourself" to help you out, no? But I agree about "having kids so they can take care of you" being a very selfish reason to have kids. Due to multiple
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by kredd 3y ago
I would say that's not really how things work nowadays in developed countries? Hard labour physically cannot be done by older people, caregivers cannot be the ones who also be other elder people, and infrastructure maintenance somewhat
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by kredd 3y ago
The problem is despite global population increasing, the local population in most of the countries are on the route to decline. The average age in these countries also increasing as well, changing the lifestyle and requirements of the popul
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Ask HN: Is anyone working on problems surrounding population decline?
3 points by kredd 3y ago|10 comments
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by kredd 3y ago
The way I am reading this comment chain — you will never be able to prove whether there is a reality outside of your own. The logic and whether solipsism is socially acceptable does not really matter in this context. I don’t buy into that i
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by kredd 3y ago
I agree, and I don’t get why the whole conversation is framed around Berghain. The other clubs are losing customers as well, and many of them don’t have very strict bouncers. That’s a bigger problem imo.
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by kredd 3y ago
TikTok is fairly bit different as the algo can promote any random video to everyone in the world. A decade ago instagram was more of a “one-to-your-followers”. So you get these potential views from everywhere. It also promotes novelty and e
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by kredd 3y ago
I’m not that much older, but it adds to the “barrier to entries to have fun”. If a place perceived as “wear whatever, do whatever” turns into “look good in specific type of outfit”, it just loses potential customers. I’ve been around, inclu
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by kredd 3y ago
It’s HN, we have to keep in mind there is a huge self-selection bias that’s happening. In general, I consider good public schools can be good, bad ones can be bad. But even in the worst case you somewhat interact with other people at the le
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by kredd 3y ago
My usual perspective on life — it is absolutely fine for people to choose simple life as long as they set their expectations accordingly. Who am I to tell others to pick up a hobby or do something “complex”? Back when I was a kid, I’ve only

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