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by wait_a_minute 3y ago
People have decent enough access to fiat already. Certainly better than what our parents and grandparents and so on went through. What’s absent is the foresight to think about the future with wisdom. People are in party mode for too long an
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Likewise, it doesn’t hurt to take your own advice - an aspiring young man does not need to rush when he has offspring, and can plan to successfully have healthy children for most of his life even into his 50s. I ask questions to lead people
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> 10 percent increase in home prices leads to a 1 percent decrease in births among non-homeowners in an average metropolitan area How many average metropolitan areas experienced 10% increases in home prices? That’s a lot to decrease birt
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> The later one starts in life to have children the fewer, if any, they will have. How do you know this? > That might be true if it was a choice made to save money but instead it's not a choice and there isn't any money. I’m
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I think it will actually increase fertility rate. Not leaving so soon and investing into your career and saving up money will eventually enable more people to choose parenthood. Multi-generational households are a nice thing and much more c
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If it was Skynet everyone would already know by now...
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Haha yeah I think that journey is worth taking into creating your own ecosystem as well, if there's time for it, otherwise having a polished walled garden is good news to me. Like in The Secret Garden. https://www.imdb.com&#
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Yeah, they need to significantly streamline Windows or else it will stop being valuable.
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They have legitimately incredible products and services. The M1 alone was a game-changer in so many ways, and as far as I'm aware Apple has always been innovating that way.
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> iOS is great. It also “just works”. Yep. And not just iOS. The way the hardware and software synchronize with each other when you include more devices is just alien. Like when you're using an iPhone with a MBP next to a Mac Mini a
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> Reeks of projection that he thinks anyone who disagrees with him is a cultist, and not that maybe they just have a nuanced opinion. Indeed. It's also really tone-deaf in terms of what it's like to actually be in a cult or wha
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> Remember: the only people who could use an alternative iOS store are Apple customers. Moore – a Minister from the Conservative Party – went on record saying that if you want to use your private, personal property in ways that the corpo
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Apple makes legitimately awesome products. That's why this lengthy response. > Apple's most valuable intangible asset isn't its patents or copyrights – it's an army of people who believe that using products from a $2.
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> Most people don't argue within moral frameworks. Most people don't live logic-based lives. Yes they do. You may contest aspects of the foundation of their logical and moral framework of choice, but most people on earth adhere
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Switching companies frequently increases comp, but it’s less safe from the point of view you brought up around starting from square one in terms of rapport and “safety.” I think this is a normal trade off. You left a team or a company for m
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I believe that if an organization is having that many layoffs, that means they are imploding and it is not quite the same thing as these smaller rounds. So far I’ve not seen indications that software teams are experiencing this many cuts. T
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I think if you survive(d) layoffs, then that means the company employing you now has a more long-term view of their investment into your onboarding and continued growth. So while the pain at first may be jarring, in the long run it is worth
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Is that how God defines his power over knowledge, or is it according to human definitions? Ultimately, this being is the one who created reality and decides the limits of what can be known because he is the one furthest in knowledge and pre
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> How is it possible for God to not be the cause of all things since he's is the creator of all things? If god did not cause something then that means there is something that god did not create and came from somewhere else. > Rev
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I agree that God created the weather and doesn't predict it. I only brought up the weather as an example of systems that humans can predict with high success despite that prediction not having any causal impacts. The predictors don&#x2
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Same way you can predict the weather even though predicting it doesn't cause it to happen. God's prediction abilities would have been honed over trillions of years versus our few decades of computerized meteorology. It doesn'
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That only follows if God didn’t enable free will. Most theists believe God will redeem and rehabilitate the entire universe once time is up. For example, Christians believe that sin is responsible for a fallen world and that God will fix no
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I think what you are both missing is that everyone reading this thread can, right now, schedule coffees and lunches and dinners for a month out and text people and get the ball rolling. We should not underestimate the impact of a few people
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> Not sure if we can ever go back to that without some major catastrophe. We easily can. With the network effect, we can just encourage everyone we know that socializing with real people in real life is important and set up some coffees,
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Absolutely. Maintaining and modernizing code means making use of the newest capabilities so your systems are more efficient, thereby reducing their costs. Newer tech also has many more capabilities which means older products can become new
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The need for competent IT will only increase, especially in the US. There are so many systems that need upgrades and improvements that it is scary. Some may say that AI will do this, but by the time AI is capable of doing this then all labo
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Once those 200 posts offshore come up to speed, soon they'll be acquiring incomes at comparable levels since skilled thought-work and crafts are always going to be sought after until labor is meaningless. We saw this trend happening wi
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> yet social expectations that men be the breadwinners (outdated, since everyone is forced to work now) Still plenty of stay-home moms who raise the kids and make the home. I don’t think your comment about that way of life being outdated
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> Our state is getting school districts to remove all advanced classes and gifted programs. All in the name of equity. Last year they got rid of all of the advanced math classes in our district because the number of minority students was

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