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by matrix87 2y ago
> Men and women alike have been delaying family formation; the median age at first marriage for men recently surpassed 30 for the first time in history. Taggart wrote that the men he knew seemed to be forgoing marriage and fatherhood wit
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by matrix87 2y ago
every community wants more engagement, resources, etc not every community is worth the engagement my point isn't that community in general is bad, it's that communities aren't entitled to engagement unless they actually make
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by matrix87 2y ago
my point is, the end goal of writing this kind of article isn't increasing the net amount of happiness in the world. the happiness argument is just a bunch of anecdotal evidence that always conveniently supports the premise put differe
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by matrix87 2y ago
I don't think the choice between wife->kids->retirement->death and something else is analogous to choosing to walk or not walk. Walking is a natural thing that's intrinsic to our biology, the other thing is a product of c
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by matrix87 2y ago
> This neededness can come in several forms: social, economic, or communitarian. Our children and partners can depend on us for care or income. Our colleagues can rely on us to finish a project, or to commiserate about an annoying boss.
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by matrix87 2y ago
> 25% of US university students on antidepressants. Is it because they're emotionally worse off, or is it because pharma is advertising them more aggressively, kickbacks, etc
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by matrix87 2y ago
doesn't teaching english lead to more brain drain?
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by matrix87 2y ago
I felt the same thing in business school, I switched out after a year. The only useful thing we learned was excel (but holy fuck, excel is a rabbithole)
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by matrix87 2y ago
I mean, they were, e.g. the Twitter files. Or all of the handwavey threats around section 230
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by matrix87 2y ago
during the biden administration they were expected to shift their moderation policies to fit in with the political ideology currently in the white house now it's been normalized and the other party is doing it. but the news outlets hav
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by matrix87 2y ago
what should he have done? given her half first?
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by matrix87 2y ago
A few million is workable, but 60 million is a scarlet letter. Good luck finding someone who doesn't want their cut of it
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by matrix87 2y ago
Side question, why does anyone subscribe to the WSJ in the first place? Who's doing this? It just seems like a propaganda outlet Every time I read something written in the WSJ, I wish I could un-read it because it deliberately tries to
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by matrix87 2y ago
I mean Europe has more of the type of policy that you describe, there's still the same drop in birthrates (Not disagreeing with you that the WSJ is evil, but I doubt throwing money at people will make them have more kids at this point)
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by matrix87 2y ago
> when polling shows younger folks want just as many kids as their own parents but can't afford them. it isn't just that they can't afford them, it's that the standards for "good parenting" have increased. S
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by matrix87 2y ago
Technically visa workers can join a union, but if they get retaliated against, the stakes are much higher Also part of the appeal of having them is that they're easier to bully into overworking because of the threat of deportation. If
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by matrix87 2y ago
Given the current visa worker situation, how are unions possible? I understand, in traditional engineering fields, they're possible. Also I'm pretty sure (correct me if wrong) European tech jobs have them. But do they have the sam
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As Hollywood Struggles, the Region's Economy Feels the Pain(nytimes.com)
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by matrix87 2y ago
at the time, no, but this would've been perfect :/
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by matrix87 2y ago
I recently used code-gen'd protobuf deser objects as the value type for an in-memory db and was considering flattening them into a more memory-efficient representation and using bitfields. That was for java though, not sure if they are
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by matrix87 2y ago
I've done this, it only makes sense to me if you're trying to recycle some legacy code that's already using the domain types. Or else there's a bunch of extra conversion logic and unnecessary copying, feels like an antip
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by matrix87 2y ago
> The more I speak with fellow engineers, the more I hear that some of them are either using AI to help them code, or feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code, while they do code review and adjustments. I don't see this trend.
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by matrix87 2y ago
> There seems to be some unwritten rule that remaining a coder is a net negative when you start tickling the upper management ranks. sometimes I wonder if this is a thing because managers just don't want to code, and having other ma
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by matrix87 2y ago
> The Substack is still live This might be a bug in substack? If you go to https://substack.com/@breloomlegacy it says "Profile not found", so they might've tried to scrub it maybe some cache ttl hasn&#x27
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by matrix87 2y ago
this archive link is floating around on blind and reddit. I have no idea if it's authentic. I didn't find a link to his other social media but the part about back pain lines up with this bit I found in a nymag article [0] > Som
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by matrix87 2y ago
I don't know if this has been posted already, but here is his manifesto https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s... Sounds like both he and his mother were suffering from chronic pain
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by matrix87 2y ago
the blacked out minimalist aesthetic on this site looks really cool
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by matrix87 2y ago
I guess because he has some school from the northeast on his resume, he can write this far too long, hand-wringing blog post where he hyperfocuses on the value of his own credentials This is the problem with the Atlantic: the authors haven&
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by matrix87 2y ago
> It's not a surprise to me that the Kennedy family, being Catholic, the exact opposite of Buddhism in that sense, was always seen as particularly charismatic and alluring amongst political dynasties I don't think the "tec
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by matrix87 2y ago
If anything, it's a case for building more housing and public transit. Either this happens or it'll continue bleeding jobs to other metros Having corporations bring jobs here with the current housing situation is kind of irrespons

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