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by sershe 3y ago
I am yet to find a reason for having children that is neither based on a past, now non-existent economic concern, nor could be retorted to with "so would getting yourself addicted to drugs". This article is of the latter variety.
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by sershe 3y ago
A pretty good response: https://blog.daviskedrosky.com/p/jared-diamond-a-reply-to-hi... This FAQ is mostly ideologically-driven and, at the very least, willfully misinterprets what Diamond says in his books in a way th
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by sershe 3y ago
So few? Is it even 1% of total per company? I think we need to work harder to realize economies of scale in housing.
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by sershe 3y ago
That type of stuff generally happens because people allow it to happen.. not that I would recommend this cause you have to be ready to escalate, but, I was getting gas in SF and as I lift the nozzle a hobo gets between me and the car and ag
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by sershe 3y ago
Why is induced demand bad? Induced demand means more people get to do more things! It's like you have a bunch of people at 1700 calories per day, and you are against growing more food cause there'd be induced demand for food - the
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by sershe 3y ago
I think I've read in on Acoup blog somewhere, it's not a given that ancients had PTSD. E.g. Roman writers complain a lot about all aspects of warfare from fear to tedium, so it's not like they are trying to hide their suppose
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by sershe 3y ago
I think the negative is the birth rates falling too fast, resulting in an "unbalanced" population pyramid. If the birth rates were falling slowly, and stabilized at replacement, does it really matter where within reasonable range
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by sershe 3y ago
I think these are weird things listed, does anyone actually believe that? "As a senior, I'll get to play with the latest tech and build amazing projects", "Once I become a senior, I will have more time to relax", e
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by sershe 3y ago
Based on talking to my coworkers from Europe on the West Coast (some have more nuanced position, but some were outright "everyone in tech in their right mind moves away from Europe"), nothing short-term. If you forget specifics, a
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by sershe 3y ago
The way AI makes me sad was best described either by Joel or some guy he was interviewing, way before LLMs. I went into IT/CS to assemble and repair intricate clockwork mechanisms, not to train puppies to not pee on the carpet. Trainin
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by sershe 3y ago
That's what they did in Russia when some company founders dared go against the govt or own/fund anti-government media. They did call being against arbitrary, excessive and illegal governance something like "trying to usurp th
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by sershe 3y ago
It's not judicial supremacy other than the constitutional authority of the courts to interpret the law. Congress still passes the law - if they want it to be interpreted differently, they can just be more specific. In this case especia
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by sershe 3y ago
What other mechanism do they propose to distribute scarce resources? Let's say it's FCFS. I'd like to see cnn-critters write an outrage piece: "larks [people who tend to wake up early] are first in line at Disney World&q
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by sershe 3y ago
Can confirm from first hand (customer) experience, I was already on the fence about delivery with all the fees (not sure how many were Seattle-specific before this - I know Ubers in Bellevue, just outside of Seattle, were considerably cheap
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by sershe 3y ago
Did jury add anything to the large body of evidence that roundup is basically safe, with only flimsy studies showing effect more flimsy than your average psychology paper, despite being one of the most scrutinized chemicals in existence, an
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by sershe 3y ago
When I moved to Canada, on a work visa that is not guaranteed to be permanent, and with a job already lined up, they still had me do an extensive medical exam beforehand to make sure I won't be a burden on the free healthcare. Producti
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by sershe 3y ago
"And that's what a comprehensive assessment will include" Do you have evidence of this? A typical assessment of impacts, especially any environmental assessment I have ever heard of, only focuses on the negatives.
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by sershe 3y ago
"you obviously have to assess the impact of burning the oil." It's not at all obvious. 1) If we assess all the indirect negative impacts that happen in remote places, nothing will ever be done. Should a factory making phones
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by sershe 3y ago
The GP used it as an example of the technology that would also leak to one's enemies. Atomic bomb is a poor example, it barely leaked and was anyway developed by everybody's enemies. It's better to be the first ones in this c
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by sershe 3y ago
As an immigrant to the USA I'd be really happy to work for MIC without leaving the tech industry (I'm too selfish to accept lower salary + move to the East Coast + deal with, presumably, a huge bureaucracy). Atomic bomb still hasn
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by sershe 3y ago
Do people really care about 1-2 day delivery in most cases? Although I can see how this can be a double whammy - I generally care about 1-2 day delivery for certain non-obscure items that I just need now, like protein powder or a screwdrive
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by sershe 3y ago
Wasn't the preliminary consensus from current studies that LLMs improve the performance more for the workers with lower initial performance, in various fields (copywriters, developers)? I.e. C worker becomes a B+ worker, but A worker b
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by sershe 3y ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics ... unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." I feel like it needs an explicit rule for "non
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by sershe 3y ago
It's not that. I used to work on web apps about 20 years ago, and we created some involved interfaces using hand-coded cross-browser AJAX and DOM (it was before jquery even existed; iirc I remember when prototype.js came out and it was
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by sershe 3y ago
I come to HN for tech news and recently I get a heaping of 100% political, 100% partisan, non-tech-related drivel that is not even news - it's just opinion blog. I'd apply it to both sides, but I only see one side on HN: Dear left
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by sershe 3y ago
Somehow it works fine literally anywhere else in the world. My parents, who were both engineers, had me when they were living in a 500sqft flat shared with my grandma. Then they moved out to a 700sqft flat and had my sister :) Of course, pe
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by sershe 3y ago
When I hear about a case like this it actually warms my heart. As the 20th century ideological parties/governments/organizations demonstrate, compared to true believers, criminals faking it to enrich themselves are a lesser evil b
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by sershe 3y ago
Strongly disagree. I went to an average school in Russia where I was from one of the poorest families, then hung out a few times with people from a selective maths focused school where I was invited but didn't go to because I was lazy,
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by sershe 3y ago
Hmm, most top comments appear to construe this as some sort of anti-labor tactic. As someone who has seen them in action and actually sorta been on one, that seems super alien to me. If anything these plans are way too soft and pro-worker..
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by sershe 3y ago
"Not only is the cost unacceptable, but industry numbers suggest that only 3 percent of people want to be tracked – while more than 99 percent decide against a payment when faced with a “privacy fee”." "Industry numbers sugge

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