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even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of increasing happiness
Since we don't have direct access to happiness dial, every advice for increasing happiness is going to be like that.
But be warned, it takes a long time
What's a "long time"? A month, a year, 10 years?
They're not the cheapest option
Whats "not the cheapest"? 100 EUR, 1000 EUR, 10000 EUR, more?
Barring not-yet-invented advances in automation, shrinking population means fewer and fewer people providing goods and services compared to the number of people that need them, which means worse and worse poverty for larger and larger fraction of people.
Yes, but that is the common terminology.
Our assumption was that we were in a stealth baby boom.
That somehow evaded fertility statistics?
people just want their recreational drugs
Yes, people want to recreate, doing all kinds of activities with various levels of risk. They don't need to concern themselves with whether you can respect it.
"General aviation" does not include commercial air transport, so that's probably not what you meant.
In Croatia, which is (and has been) seeing a tremendous rise in real estate prices, everyone talks about the high prices, but rarely can you hear about about housing shortage. Indeed, building new housing is sometimes brought up as one of the reasons for rising prices.
The economic illiteracy is just that bad.
I do not think the exact shape has any influence
Yes, that's what I said.
that doesn't affect the sound
That would be the whole shape.
Tetris effect, but with the baby!
whereas in this case the transformation is overwhelmingly negative.
The finding that this technique is actually bad in most cases
Why do you think this?
In Europe it's strictly forbidden to wear headphones under the helmet.
No it's not.
protective gloves with hardened knuckles is of course mandatory
No it's not.
No one uses their indicators/turn signals as they approach. This is a major issue because it makes the roundabout incredibly ineffective, as every driver needs to treat it effectively like a 4-way stop because you don't know the intentions of the cars around you.
As another commenter mentioned, roundabouts work just fine even if nobody indicates anything (which they usually don't where I live).
People are now ignoring those stop signs (because it’s a roundabout!)
Do you mean they treat it as if they have right-of-way when entering? Because that's also unusual (but not unheard of) in roundabouts.
anyone capable of living happily while being outcompeted by machines is well-adapted for the future.
I'm not
Why not?
I believe the science is pretty clear that in principle these beat gas phase change systems.
Do you know by how much?
Some people will sleep through alarms, turning them off without remembering it.
But more importantly, if your sleep schedule is shifted you might not actually be able to fall asleep when you need to, even if you haven't had enough sleep. After a few days you will be exhausted, fall asleep in the afternoon and take a nice 4 hour nap, leaving you unable to fall asleep until very late, after which the cycle continues.
Can you expand? What's actionable about it?
Go to bed early
Why? You have 24 hours in a day no matter when you sleep. How did it help?
the only way to do things you don’t want to do is to do them
Do you have anything that's not tautological?
Trains are self-driving. Europe already has the better self-driving system.
Well, I'm in Europe and it ain't here. Waymo can't get here fast enough.
On the other hand, I would not have learned to play the guitar without the high-speed internet.
I bet if we all wait a year, the back and forth will die down and we'll be left with a game that gets similar acclaim to Hollow Knight.
Sounds great, because I think it doesn't get much better than that.
Sold up. Put everything on 00 and gave the wheel a spin.
Wait, what?
I eat whatever I want, don't really exercise and I'm not fat. I guess I just have awesome willpower.
This is nothing new
Well, it's authoritarian bullshit and deserves contempt. There is nothing redeeming int the fact that it's been going on for a long time.
My impression was the parent poster was talking about order of operations like projection and selection, where you might more commonly write:
Π(σ(R)) instead of σ(Π(R))
and not about whether relational algebra uses prefix or postfix notation:
Π(σ(R)) vs. R > σ > Π
SQL's WHERE statement (and others) works totally differently from SELECT in that regard, so it doesn't make much sense to say that "SELECT comes first because relational algebra".
It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra, in which the projection is typically (always?) written first.
It's inspired by a mish-mash of both relational algebra and relational calculus, but the reason why SELECT comes first is because authors wanted it to read like English (it was originally called Structured English Query Language).
You can write the relational algebra operators in any order you want to get the result you want.
This was a historical decision because SQL is a declarative language
It would be equally declarative if FROM came first.