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by roenxi 1y ago
It is true. That article doesn't really back up the idea that wealthy families have more children and in most of the graphs you can actually see fertility has dropped off with income. Eg, in Figure 1 it looks like the only demographic
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by roenxi 1y ago
>> Egalitarian Paxos introduced an alternative, leaderless approach... > Every 10 minutes the network elects a leader to... From that it sounds like it is completely different to how Bitcoin works. Bitcoin "elects" a lead
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I find it actually quite an interesting exercise to compare all their politics headlines [0] with the fact that apparently Kier Starmer is polling numbers like 73% feeling he is doing "badly" [1] and there is some obscure group ca
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by roenxi 1y ago
A popular noob error in Clojure is to get really, really excited about using reduce and trying to use it to replace for loops. Maybe someone wants to sum up every other odd number and they build some horrible reducer to do that which manage
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by roenxi 1y ago
There seems to be a fairly strong correlation between wealth and childlessness, so the obvious guess is that the world is getting wealthier. Exactly why that stops people having kids is a bit unclear to me though. Maybe being a parent is on
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> The 4 year term means even governments that do think a massive public transport overhaul is needed won't do it because cutting costs elsewhere to fund it will lead to losing the next term. Good? The point of democracy is for the g
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The vast, vast majority of the spending in the healthcare industry is for things that you have time to drive around for. And I'd still rather have a private option in the event of a medical emergency. Ironically, insurance in a free ma
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> But that wasn't what I suggested: I said having the ACA is better than not having it, not that having the ACA is better than other possible alternative laws. It seems to be the only way to interpret what you suggested. How could i
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You could ask the same question most things. Food and water for example - both more urgent and more necessary than most medical care. The costs are still low.
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LLMs are clever enough to hold down a professional job, and they've had far less time learning than the average human. If that is the bar then AGI has been achieved.
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That seems like a difficult one to provide evidence for. A major problem in the US seems to be that they've got this impenetrable thicket of legislation around healthcare, insurance and employment that makes it impossible for people to
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You're pinning a people problem on democracy. If the people of New Zealand are happy being a little out of the way island that is a nice place for a holiday then that is what they'll be. If they want to be as economically prospero
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That seems to be a classic no-argument-no-evidence assertion. And you really need an argument for this one, because otherwise it requires disbelieving in supply and demand curves. If you concede the price goes up, you have to concede that t
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by roenxi 1y ago
We can be thankful he lived to see the Cheney family being evicted from the Republican party in humiliating style; in no small part because of how ruinous his policies were for the right wing's strategic position. An unfortunate trend
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Not quite pointless - something we have established with the advent of LLMs is that many humans have not attained general intelligence. So we've clarified something that a few people must have been getting wrong, I used to think that t
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> Being required to dispose of air filters in a landfill is not the reason why you can't afford a repair. It is for someone - the market price is pretty much always going to be around the point where a small increase causes a notice
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You don't need to argue it out with HN, if you want to negotiate landlords generally are happy to at least consider it. I've paid rent as an annual lump sum before.
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The standing world order is already dead since well before AI, it ended back in 2010s in terms of when the US had an opportunity to maybe resist change and we're just watching the inevitable consequences play out. They no longer have t
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The author didn't consider a more basic selection bias that the 3 contradictory facts are driven by different groups of people. That makes it rather easy to reconcile 3 apparently contradictory views. You can't jump-start a new ma
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> ...against a specifically targeted class rather than dumping it wholesale on the economy as inflation... I doubt it. Taxing high asset people: - Doesn't create more stuff. - Doesn't cause them to consume less stuff. With that
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> The predictability and stability that followed from a clear hereditary principle outweighed the problems of incompetent and irrational rulers sometimes inheriting power. It doesn't though, incompetence is more dangerous than uncer
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Well that is the question, isn't it. What qualities are passed on to their children? It is actually fairly common to see ideological continuity between parent and child (eg, most members of a religion had parents from that religion). S
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I'm generally in favour of a <2% land tax because it is basically confiscatory - over the course of a lifetime (~20 years not owning land, 50 years owning land, 100% tax). That forces people to store their wealth in deprecating asse
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> why would I sink my money into any kind of risky venture when the market keeps spitting out 15% a year returns on safe investments If it returns 15% it isn't a safe investment. The rate of return for a safe investment is in the 1-
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President going to president. I'd advise most people save their outrage for when Trump pardons his extended family at the end of his term a la Biden. I expect it'll be an ongoing feature of presidential politics and that seems lik
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> In brief: this reduces to whataboutism (a form of the fallacy tu quoque); the fallacy that additional evil remedies the original evil; and presumes the validity of the conclusion as a premise en route to justifying it. That is a common
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I expect a defence could be offered, the laws around KYC and money laundering tend to be fundamentally authoritarian and unsound in principle. But the broader perspective is the US government is irredeemably corrupt, $300 million for a Whit
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It is fun being one of the elderly who set their standards back in distant 2022. All these demos look incredible compared to SD1, 2 & 3. We've entered a very different era where the models seem to actually understand both the promp
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Yeah but not the riots, the standards in US politics generally demand that people separate mostly peaceful political protesters from smaller numbers of rioters who happen to be involved. The Democrats identified the riots as a major tactica
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Do the multiple elections contested not count any more? MAGA clearly don't endorse insurrection, their basic strategy to control the government is to win lots of votes and come back to try again a few years later if it doesn't wor

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