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by vivekd 2y ago
We have to account for other improvements like better fertilizers, pesticides and the green revolution which would lower food prices independent of automation and migrant labour.
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by vivekd 2y ago
Maybe the issue is that how much you weigh is a terrible metric for how fit you are.
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by vivekd 2y ago
>There is no shortage of labor, but a shortage of people willing to work at the wages on offer for the job. I wonder if this is a self fulfilling cycle. I mean if migrant labor and automation were unavailable would we close all the farm
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by vivekd 2y ago
I think in words. For me during thought there is a literal voice in my putting my thoughts into words.
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by vivekd 2y ago
I've tried typsit and Ive really been enjoying it. It's very easy to learn and easy to use. It's a new project so it can't as of yet replace the functionality of LaTeX's many packages. However it is good for quick
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by vivekd 2y ago
I don't know much about caddy. I'm looking to learn more in the future. I hear many people cheering their automatic HTTPS. To me this seems like a strange reason to choose something else over nginx. I mean HTTPS is pretty much
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by vivekd 2y ago
It seems to me that the evil of having haphazard laws that are enforced arbitrarily on discretion is worse than the evil of heritage loss. This solution is much worse than the cure. Yes it's hard for governments to write narrowly tai
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by vivekd 2y ago
I think it's a theory that should be regarded with suspicion. It too neatly aligns with modern world views and environmental concerns. That's not to say it's false, it may turn out to be true. Just as should tread carefull
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by vivekd 2y ago
Maybe that's just what happens to companies that have been around a long time. They go on maintenance mode. You don't see coke or visa innovating much either. It seems like optimizing for innovation makes sense with new upstart
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by vivekd 2y ago
This is where I disagree. I think techonology can solve it, and policy can also solve it. But I think the movement has been hijacked by people with other agendas that differ from solving climate change. And I think you can sort of glimp
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by vivekd 2y ago
That's the other reason it's going to fail, the dishonesty. Frankly I don't remember the weather being that much different when I was a kid. And aside from my personal observations or views, the bigger issue is climate and
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by vivekd 2y ago
I think the climate movement is going to fail soon. This mentality of find villans and blame and attack them instead of looking for productive solutions isn't sustainable for a movement. I don't know about the future of the clim
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by vivekd 2y ago
Good point - the graph being US only means it misses offshoring manufacturing jobs to places like China. We can't assume that the loss of manufacturing jobs was solely caused by automation
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by vivekd 2y ago
Agree, but clickbaity title aside I think the main purpose of this article is to provide a good overview of golangs features and it did do a good job of that
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by vivekd 3y ago
Could this be due to the ban of sulfur in shipping fuels that was passed recently (2023 or 2022 I think). Sulfur I believe changes the reflectivity of clouds and has a cooling effect. Would explain a huge heating effect immediately after
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by vivekd 3y ago
I remember reading that natives are not allowed to sell tribal lands in Canada Might not be a huge bar though , they could put it up as rental property which we desperately need in Canadian cities - and their website suggests that's ex
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by vivekd 3y ago
I used to believe this. And I still prefer density and think that urban sprawl is bad for mental health, finances and the environment. However I no longer believe it's the cause of the housing crisis. Perhaps it contributes in Europe
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by vivekd 3y ago
Maybe not all but for the most part yes I do think software engineers in San Francisco are by in large more productive than software engineers in Kansas city. Just like I think finance professionals in NYC are more productive than finance g
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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't buy that idea, an economy full of very poor people who can barely afford anything is not sustainable not at the national level and not at the global level. Countries with very low wages are also countries with very low producti
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by vivekd 3y ago
This sounds like a race to the bottom where we keep demanding workers accept less and less to compete with poorer and poorer nations - while simultaneously ignoring that economic powerhouses like the US who pay workers relatively well
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by vivekd 3y ago
Are you serious - if that's the case EU is in serious trouble
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by vivekd 3y ago
They said that about Canada too. As a result we had a surge in immigration that led to huge jumps in youth unemployment. If companies are so desperate for workers why are wages stagnant and why are so many people getting ghosted during job
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by vivekd 3y ago
Canada, our government's happy to have companies bring in underpaid foreign labour instead of hiring locals. Sad that hasn't really gotten is anywhere in terms of attracting business investment. I think maybe we should see throug
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by vivekd 3y ago
Can someone clarify please, I don't know much about India other than published economic data, and lately those seem to be showing impressive growth. Is there a reason I should be suspicious of this data?
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by vivekd 3y ago
That's one possible cause. It could also be that our diets have changed to make us more prone to obesity, perhaps people consume more processed foods than before. The article alludes to this when it says eating badly is a major cause o
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think suburbs and urban sprawl could be described this way. But urban core at least here in Toronto is very people friendly and it's definitely possible to live well here without a car. I'm fact most people in the downtown cor
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by vivekd 3y ago
You missed that I was replying to a poster who said we don't have safe supply in Canada and it was just a political scapegoat. Other papers have written about the more nefarious effects of safe supply but I avoided them because I suspe
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by vivekd 3y ago
True I suppose it's a balance. You want to be open to constructive criticism. But you don't want to follow every critic including the malicious ones. You also don't want to get caught up in negative societal measures like s
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by vivekd 3y ago
Possibility seeking religion might help with this. Measuring self worth in relation to human dignity as the beloved creation of a diety might help distance us from more materialistic measures of self worth that society proposes.
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by vivekd 3y ago
I mean there aren't enough quality studies to make conclusions either way. But the promise to us was that safe supply would help drug users, and this uptick in homeless drug addicts and more people suffering visibility from drug issue

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