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This study is of a small island population.

Didn't it take thirty years to get back there?

Childcare is never as good as time with a parent.

We sacrifice our time with our children for future career earnings to maximize lifetime income. People in this discussion throw around terms like GDP growth due to increased labour market participation from working moms...

It's ok just to accept what's happening. its not like you don't know what you're doing. Life is full of unpleasant tradeoffs.

Many cultures had nuclear families by default including much of western and northern Europe. Especially after the plagues.

Die hard rust fans often minimize the very real developer difficulty incurred by their language of choice. Even major library maintainers in rust have criticisms of various language features because of their difficulty to use. These are real and substantiative concerns that would affect any development team not made of expert rustaceans. Just look at basic dynamic programming implementations in a normal language versus rust for say popular leap code questions and you'll see the difference in basic developer productivity.

People who are really interested in rust tend to be top-tier developers. I don't think they're consciously lying about their experiences working with the language but they may not hit the speed bumps that normal people would. My personal abilities make me competent in golang, ruby, python, java, c++. I love the quasi-functional styling of rust but whenever I've tried to build small projects in it I've gotten bogged down in fighting with the compiler in ways I never do in the former. It is fast as all get out tho!

The number one reason is the same reason women do post birth pelvic floor therapy...

Saving heirloom apples has zero biodiversity value, or near two it. All domestic apples are extremely inbred and from a one or two cultivars brought to Europe a few hundred years back. The reservoir of apple biodiversity , at least for sylvestris is in its native range where domestic apple cultivation is actively polluting the genome. I think that's like khazakhastan and western china.

So you just want implicit returns?

In go, you either handle the error where it happens or close to it, or log it. No need to pass things up just to log. I like the simplicity, and the zero cost at runtime. If you could handle the error in another lang you could handle it in go, or youd just supress or log it anyway.

I am very partial to python, but i have hit a lot of bottle necks with it. I find GO to be a reasonable intermediate, balancing ease of use and flexibility with some speed trade offs. I should probbably learn rust but it seems like a lot for writing web apps, and I could never get my head around lifetimes

It really depends on the person. For me, I was already remote before covid. I realized commutes really impacted my performance on the job. When I did work from the office, there were nice snacks and parties and chances to socialize and I do miss that. However, I'm not young anymore and now my life is focused around my family. The benefits of being able to spend more time with my kids at home, and to live further from a big city are worth their weight in gold. If i miss out on a joke or two, or dont go out to thai food with co workers, oh well. I have a lot of friends and social engagements outside of work, the social side of the office isnt necessary.

The romans used these systems extensively as well...

Havent the calculations changed ?

Wikipedia is most young peoples go to source for knowledge. The way important entries frame a subject is considered to be a neutral observers take, but they're often anything but when it comes to politics, history and philosophy. Often these important entries are the personal fife of one or more admin who structured things according to personal preference.

An easy way to see this is to look at a topic that is split in the academy along geographical lines - the entry in wiki will often favour whatever region the original cabal sided with and give the other short thrift.

Meeting a wikipedia admin in real life is often eye opening and explains some of these choices.

The old encyclopedias were more transparent; siding with their own cultures scholars in a way that was generally more uniform. Wiki masquerades as the final objective authority but has the same old issues burried and obscured.

Even an undergrad intro course on a given historical subject will often come into violent conflict with a given entry.

The best entries are scientific topics, like botany or physics - and this impression of mine is probbaly based on ignorance.

Since Global petroleum supply and demand is inelastic even a small shortfall in Global Production will result in much higher prices

In the turmoil of regime change in Russia production would fall and probably not come back online again for decades

When the wall fell Russian production declined and has never reached its 1980s Peak because of the geography of Russia. In fact I think most of the wells that were turned off at that time have never come back online and recent production increases are due to new infrastructure being built

I agree in general, but i also think hoping in early career helps people get good experience. If you're over thirty, I don't understand it but in your early 20s you honestly need to to get a good role.

Adjacent to this, the USA used to have great light rail / trolleys in even small and rural towns. If we just brought back rail, we would be able to improve walkability without rebuilding!

'Immortality project' or just, a traditional way of seeing oneself as being a part of a 'line' or stream of life.

Generally, pro life people arent going to find the violinists argument forceful: 1) the violinist is framed as being particularly valuable due to their talent, this is not a shared assumption between the two camps, and even if it was - every baby is a potential violinist.

2) the violinist is not offspring, and there is no parent-child relationship

3) extraordinary means were and are required to maintain the violinist, this is unlike a pregnancy - where extraordinary means are required to end it.

I think the comparison works in terms of percentages, but falls apart because the Europeans were not unified. Something like 3 or four great powers colonized America vs a single ethnic group for the Mongols (even if they did fight with each other)

OK, great discussion in here about hype and toxic positivity.

Does anyone beleive this would have worked if they went with a Leander team and decreased spend? Made a simple MVP and tried to slowly grow?

Just wondering. I feel their idea is pretty mediocre and some very similar solutions already exist. The basic pitch 'one click buying for grandma' is not something I would enable for my parents or my grandmother - they'd just buy too much crap on qvc like sites.

Maybe the answer is that any system which can't account for our experiences is wrong.

Cool stuff! One nit to pick - isn't the major source of Sulphur oil refining? Trying to spin this as being greener than the existing tech might be a bit much.

I think the Chinese room experiment is pretty effective, but a person might say the room is conscious and one might not. We all agree that, if we had a Chinese room in front of us, the only real way to tell would be a Turing style test.

In the American south, there are a lot of masonry, or concrete homes or even AAC. See florida.

In the north masonry homes have a lot of problems with freeze thaw cycles. As far as upgrades , remodeling, overall costs goes stick built homes are superior.

Two points:

1) resistance genes are already in the genome, they don't need to be added. This means the entire endeavor is unnecessary

2) this is an internationally recognized definition of genetic pollution, it's controversial only with a few hardliners.

Releasing GMO chestnuts will contaminant the gene pool forever, it's a bad idea.

Two things about the American chestnut are relevant: 1) the percentage of forest it occupied is widely overstated, seemingly due to exageration thru retelling of the story. It was usually a top ten tree at most sites, far from the numbers you usually see in articles. The these numbers are from ideal sites for its colonization or areas where it was planted by humans. This is widely known and studied, but people who write about it to lay audiences tend to use exaggerated figures out of context.

2) many specimens survived the blight due to partial resistance, not all were wiped out.

All we need to do is wait and they'll do just fine. Even a traditional breeding program would work in a few generations, there's really no good reason to rush this stuff.

Criticism of religion as derivative is generally reserved for the abrahamic faiths you don't generally see it done to say Bhuddism. A sort of early modern bias creeps in, the idea that a religion is invalidated by showing that it arose among men at a certain time. of course, that this is exactly what religions generally claim. I'm struggling to think of any sects for whom this is actually a deal breaker... maybe some American fundamentalists?

it's common to interpret the structure of genesis as being a riff off of earlier myths, in a critical way. The structure is often parallel, but also often different as though to draw a comparison to the mind of the reader. We see a harmonious creation account rather than a violent one, and a creator God who is master over both earth and water.

Anyone who studied religion at an undergraduate level (or at a good highschool) knows this. The specific narrative you're weaving is , however, highly speculative.

It should not surprise Christians or jews that the ancient Israelites recognized other gods, this is covered extensively in the Bible. There are frequent references to the 'God's of the nations' in the old testament, particularly evident in the greek.

The existnece of miltiple lower case G 'gods' - is still held in even the New Testament 'principalities and powers' are 'gods over the nations'. I think, it is fair to say that modern jews and Christians alike still hold this to be true.

I can only assume you mean the evidence of a shared language family and some similar flood myths. I have read some ANE journal articles on this topic and most researchers admit the flow of information may have been bidirectional.

I tend to view the opening of genesis as being a take-down of prior creation myths from other cultures in the region, but I'm unaware of exactly the same story in any of them.