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by tsoukase 8mo ago
The article doesn't compare 0 with N children. Caring for elderly depends on the role of family in society. In my country family still plays a huge role so having no direct descendants has it's impact.
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
"God made the integers, all else is the work of man", Kronecker, 1886. Complex numbers are just a fancy way to represent 2-dimensional numbers that are convenient in geometry through the sq(-1)=π/2 rotation. They are nothing
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Childless women don't age well. If they are saved from the effects of a never-pregnant climax on their arteries/metabolism, they will face a dementia cared by nieces. Not that mothers don't have these but physically and psych
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Let's reiterate: * kids are and were always born in severely underdeveloped places like Africa and during hard times like famines or wars * worldwide in the last 100 years and maybe throughout all history the education level and social
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Currently there is a torrent of research on the benefits of GLP1s. This raises doubts as most are not backed by solid hypothesis. The same happened almost a century earlier when aspirin was explored as super drug. A key metric is the NNT (n
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
I am waiting for the multi-$24T breakup from any American tech. But I am not so optimistic and not sure if it will be $T, $B or $M.
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Singapore is the greatest example of failure of public family policies. A whole "Flirting" department (1) was setup since the 80's to push births, starting from a marginally racist approach only to educated women. This only h
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Such an important announcement for a platform reminds me the attempt of OnlyFans to ban sexual content. I wait the D soon retracts this decision.
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
I am sure this rule of thumb was suggested after thoughtful weighing of traffic accident risk and jams in Cali's 8-lane highways. Everything is a compromise, often versus life.
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Inter-car distance is always a safety factor but can immensely reduce lane throughput. There is a compromise. I remember a few decades ago, in California at least, they suggested the drivers keep a one-car length distance from the leading c
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Fluid intelligence must be the classical one that the IQ measures. Crystallized and emotional must be the experience, professional and social respectively. In my case I was quite good with numbers in my 20s, not any more in my late 40s. But
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Smoking addiction is way harder to cope that alcohol, only surpassed by opioid. In any case a rigorous study must be performed as nowadays media hype articles about GLP1 drugs mention decline of supermarkets and increased profits by airline
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by tsoukase 8mo ago
Labile verbs is a source of ambiguity of natural languages (only western ones?) that we are all accustomed to. The bell rang should become The bell was rung, either way it means The bell rang another bell.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
About 20 years ago I realised the extreme immaturity of IT field. The market was fragmented and you could literally become billionaire from your basement (80's), from an office (90's) etc. It was at the stage of car industry of th
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
As a neurologist that certifies driving ability in 80+ yo people, I would say vision is only one factor. Motor dexterity, fresh reflexes and mental capacity are equally or more important but they are not quantified.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Banning highly addictive digital platforms are like banning addictive drugs (at least for minors). But it's also an unique opportunity to educate the youth/people to avoid them.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The comment voting is very opionated though. It's like the same person up/down votes consistently. Obviously the people who vote are of the same opinion group.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Prodigy, even just above normal, children don't own the experience to handle their powers, besides the low motivation that is mentioned. They rarely form a valid, concrete plan to success and let themselves progress only in small steps
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Not only teens but the whole population, from birth till death. The teens are just the easiest and most addicted target group. They don't want yoy to press anything out of their f browser tab.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
From Wikipedia: > The nature of the syndrome and existence of CECD as a clinically meaningful condition have been called into question by those who wish to roll back legal access. I belong to the scepticists although I want cannabis to r
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
When a single correlation of social media use with a positive outcome is found, it immediately becomes headline, while hundreds of other evidence are discarded because they are 'boring'. Well, even this correlation is of little b
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Not copywrite but the whole democracy is broken. A big company with an army of lawyers and an OS project will claim exactly the same case. Who has more probability to win? It happens in every occasion, it's just that copywrite ones ar
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
There is no chemical shortcut to brain health. If you have a neurotransmitter shortage, a substitution is suggested to bring it back. There is never a cannabis shortage or for that matter opioid or benzo and a surplus is harmful. Their use
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
In total social media has long surpassed drug addiction in bad effects in young people (mental, psychological and physical). Together with the economic situation they are the cause of the unfortunate state of youth today. Banning them is in
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
EU is a rare coalition in history, carefully implemented but still an expirement. There are three types of members: low (south/east), middle (north/west) and Germany. Basically money is flowing in producing Germany and then back t
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
I saved a scientific calculator in 1994 just in case. I never used it, as a PC was always on since then. Today two cheap calculators are available to my children mostly as an example of "productive technology", in contrary to mode
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
If you want to grow up a nation of centenarians, you whould like to promote the following for ALL of them: 1) keep BMI in the low 20s (yes, it's considered normal but difficult to maintain) 2) increase physical exercise: no cars and el
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Yes. Until 2019 we stagnated. Since then we have the best Prime M of the last 100 years, Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He has made some incredible stuff and some mistakes, too, but they are nothing relatively to the Balkan traitors of the past. The
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
A have a bad feeling for the US economy. A decline comes soon, then prepare for impact with a financial crisis and in the end of the tunnel the IMF. I know it's super crazy but that was also for my country 16 years ago.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The Linux billion dollar question is if the doubling of it's share in desktop in the last 2-3 years is going to saturate or continue doubling or exponential.

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