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Wouldn't rich people or powerful organizations be able to influence family planning decisions in exactly the way you just described?

Funding cheap ubiquitous birth control on a global scale.
Lol, Canada has FPTP and regularly features majority governments that win with 35% of the vote.
>older societies where each person working has to support multiple other people are sclerotic societies.

I don't hear any horror stories out of Japan about how grim life is there.
I want to get tanned(ugly) and get my legs tired
astral projection is just oobe and "experience" implies subjectivity w/no claim of objectivity and no corresponding onus or burden or anything
There should be a godwins law for people who attempt to use this method of ending a discussion.

"go read this book which explains my point because I can't explain it well enough to others." is not a convincing argument in the least.
The False Claims Act allows citizens to claim 15-30% of damages as a reward. It's a great incentive for tracking down misbehavior:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act
> People may believe that they fear for the "future of our species," but at a meta level, is it not merely an expression of the same innate human desire that caused us to build up civilization and medicine to the point that we're facing the aforementioned issues?

Yes, in a way. But with mindfulness, one can choose different thoughts to attach to that innate survival feeling of wanting to exist and multiply. Instead of, 'We need to always multiply / population control is evil', make it, 'We need to create a better world for our species and those around us'.

> IMO, there is no "saving" humankind. We're all doomed in some way. Life is just a way of postponing death.

Also agreed. I've read the big AI books like Nick Bostrom's and Max Tegmark's. Given their monumental knowledge, the sentiments around population control are not so much about saving so much as managing. More importantly, it's about saving the possibility of AI and superior forms of evolution to arise in the future, which are far more significant than current Homo sapiens.

One way to put this into practice is to choose to adopt a child as your own, instead of producing yet another one. I may do this in my life.
There are surely differences in taste. I do like Python for "scripting", small and/or short-lived programs, often used to handle administrative tasks. Python is famously the anti-Perl in many questions of language design.
It was Kuwait so there was no enemy fire. Actually, for most of the conflicts in US history there were more casualties due to illnesses and other health issues than enemy fire. IIRC the Gulf War might have been the first time that wasn't the case. I just think heated plastics causing cancer was just something they hadn't caught up with.
The parent is referring not to sex, but unprotected sex.
> Thomas, a former Duke lab analyst, sued the university on behalf of the federal government

You can do that?!?
In 5 yrs Bezos will be polishing Musk shoes
Retired voters, and voters approaching retirement, will fight denture and nail against that. The likely result is some claw back of benefits for them, but young workers would still carry a much heavier tax burden than the retired class did, preempting their own retirement savings. That causes them to defer or forego marriage and children as well, causing a continuing downward spiral.

Without an attestupa or genuine efforts to improve fertility rates, we're in for very grim times in most countries. There's a kind of virtuous cycle here, though, as a government that does figure out how to mold its age demographics in an effective manner will be a much more attractive destination for young emigrants.
sum types and non-nullability are not complex.
It's funny how people dismiss things so readily by labeling them "conspiracy theory." I just can't imagine looking at a world with such great wealth inequality and coming to the conclusion that this is an equal playing field where everyone exerts the same influence on the evolution of humanity.
The dish is powered by PoE apparently, single cable for the dish itself.
I guess just about anything will burn in oxygen if you can get enough heat into it to ignite it, sure. That's why I said the steel won't burn, not that it can't burn. I don't think a fire aboard a ship would be likely to manage it, although a specialist in shipboard fires may know better.
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I think there's definitely something to this, and I'd agree that career driven culture is very toxic.

But I'd also hesitate to call it "top-down" influence. That would drastically downplay the autonomy we have in first-world countries. Nobody is forced to prioritize their career over everything else. In most countries, I'd say it's the complete opposite - tax incentives and benefits are usually structured to encourage child-rearing.

It's too easy for everyone to blame "the man" or "society" for a mindset that is entirely self-inflicted - with the exception of the US system tying healthcare to employment. That is definitely a top-down influence.
>Government and private retirement strategies both rely on cash transfers from younger workers. In a government system, the younger workers pay taxes which are transferred to retirees. In a private retirement system, younger workers are the purchasing counterparties as retirees sell off their investments.

The core unit of the economy is not cash, it's value. Saving roughly corresponds to avoiding consumption and preserving value; in a very basic economy, this would take the form of e.g. preserving grain in a granary rather than eating it all. People or government savings systems that save for retirement are then able to consume the value they saved when they retire; they don't require any value transfer from the working population.
Financial crimes can cause as much - or more harm than physical ones.
I would agree but for the fact that if we look at habitability prospects from that same longer-term perspective, we see an ocean of scarier things happening just as fast.

Humans have endured and are generally resilient to population fluctuations. We and our industrial societies are not resilient to e.g., significant departure from the Holocene equilibrium[0].

[0] https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810141115
If we all have just as many stones to throw, why are they coming over here? Why aren't we going over there?
> frustrated at the time it takes to be as productive in something like c

Don't worry, no is productive in something like c

> After being stuck with a succession of scripting languages that weren't doing it for me

I am saddened yet also consoled everyone that likes Go comes from the scripting languages. That's such a low bar to beat!
As far as Tulane goes, JBE (Louisiana) is a Democrat. Gretchen Whitmer is in MI too.
Ranked Choice Voting, which is now the law for all elections in the state of Maine except the Presidency, is a way to help ensure that the winning candidate has been chosen by at least 50% of voters, even if the winning candidate wasn’t the first choice for all voters.

Adopting RCV seems to me like one of the best ways we can improve the health of the US’s democracy going forward.

Any voters Massachusetts can vote this November to have RCV statewide, just like Maine, from local elections up to the US House and Senate elections. I’ve volunteered with the group [1] helping Massachusetts join Maine in leading the way.

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Nope it does not!
When I test drove a Tesla for a weekend my opinion of the Autopilot was the same as the car's owner: "It drives like a learner driver". Just like the nervous parent teaching their teenager to drive, this is not a relaxing experience.

However, the speed-adaptive cruise control is the best I've ever experienced. It maintains the set speed exactly, slows down for corners automatically, and follows the car in front as if there was a steel rod connecting the two vehicles.

Using the cruise control in the Tesla was some of the most relaxing long-distance driving I've ever done in my life...
Even Huawei functionally has an advanced enough node at SMIC (14nm-ish) to fulfill their core industry.
What was Huawei paying Google for? If anything, Google was paying Huawei to be the default search engine on its phones outside of China.
What good are books if we can't direct people at them? That book makes my case. The fact that Bernays was a major advisor for the media complex of America makes the book an even more significant piece of evidence for my position.
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“Premodern?” The US fertility rate fell from 3.65 in 1960 to below replacement in 1972. In that time, the labor force participation rate of married women went from 32% to 42%. Then it’s been pretty stable since then between 1.8-2.1, even as the labor force participation rate for married women went from 42% to 67%. We are talking about much more recent social trends at issue.
The transition from 2B to 7.8B was also kind of fast: 90 years. The exponential growth we've seen recently is unique in human existence. Before the last several centuries human population growth was much slower. In fact, it seems unlikely that population growth will become that slow again without some sort of disaster scenario.
Is that for all lectures? In the engineering program at my university, attendance as only taken during labs as those have strict attendance requirements.
It's only 'jaw-dropping' if you've been living under a rock.
Mary Wollstonecraft was not rich, and (ironically given this discussion) died due to the complications of giving birth to Mary Shelley.

The claim that the wealthy are controlling everyone's fertility is as short-sighted as it is parochial.

Given that elsewhere in this thread you explain how this is all the work of a shadow government, the label hardly seems unwarranted.
I enjoyed your rant James. Its like a walk to Hermanos.
Kind of a silly thought experiment, but ever wondered why you were born at this point in history, and not some other point? If population is now nearing its peak, you're more likely to be among the people alive now.
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I lived with satellite Internet for about seven months.

It's slow but still a bit faster than dial-up. You can watch short youtube videos but not movies - unless you like to wait.

The main problem is latency, so it's completely impossible to use your phone over wifi.
I actually think they should cap Starlink at 10Mbps just so that it IS only competing for Rural. I will likely get Starlink because Frontier is ending support for future development in the rural area I'm building a house. The house will be ready by the end of this year, so I'm hoping I can go with them instead of an ATT connection.

Given that it is going to pretty be my only option, it would suck if a bunch of city people suck up all the invites.
I 100% absolutely totally utterly agree with you. It took a bit to get used to people saying "I totally agree with you" only for that to mean that they didn't agree with me. I don't consider myself particularly blunt but in comparison I certainly come off that way.
What a timely post. I actually just finished implementing an S-expression lexer and parser written in Python; I'm going through the LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual and my next step is to implement that manual's legendary Page 13 that describes a basic LISP 1.5 interpreter written in itself. All of this is in preparation for teaching an undergraduate-level course on programming language paradigms beginning next month, where I plan to teach my students the foundations of programming languages as well as introducing them to functional programming, logic programming, and Smalltalk-style message-passing object oriented programming (my students will be mainly third-year undergraduates with years of experience in Java but with likely no previous experience in languages like Lisp, Scheme, Haskell, Prolog, and Smalltalk).

Alan Kay said that "point of view is worth 80 IQ points." I want to show my students the value of thinking of problems in ways that are different from the dominant programming paradigm used by languages like Java and Python. I've been meaning to read some of the early Scheme papers; it looks like "The Art of the Interpreter" is exactly what I'm looking for.
I have family on 6mbps down for somewhere around $70, so that's a pretty decent price for rural internet :p
That's not true at all in 2020. Most streamers have low latency on which reduces it to ~3 seconds or less.
True. I think really a lot of people who are clamoring for generics in Go would already be working with more productive languages.

Generics is mainly for users who have committed to Go and new productive language features could possibly help them.
Honestly, that feels like a huge waste of your own time to game a broken system. And I'm guessing it is, but that it's a defensive move because the darker timeline is miserable.

Sucks it has to be this way so often.
> It's too easy for everyone to blame "the man" or "society" for a mindset that is entirely self-inflicted - with the exception of the US system tying healthcare to employment. That is definitely a top-down influence.

The truth is that most "toxic culture" issues are systemic, so dumping blame on individuals for following systemic incentives doesn't make any sense.

Nobody is forced to prioritize their career, but a lot of people don't exactly have a choice to pursue leisure either. Lot's of people working paycheck to paycheck with no savings. How can you start a family in this country under those conditions?
Climate change will either destroy the planet, or some team of scientists and engineers will avert disaster by inventing carbon capture or whatever. It is highly likely those scientists will have been born and raised in a well educated middle class family somewhere in the developed world.
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There's still externalities to be considered, even if the energy is renewable. But even accounting for that, I don't see why something like this would be preferable to just desalinating ocean water and transporting it via some method.

Unless I'm missing something with the energy needed to pull the water out of the air, or they've made a huge leap in miniaturizing the tech... this whole idea is a non-starter IMO.
Have you considered Bitwarden?
> Macau has over 21,000 people per square km. There are 510M sq km of landmass on earth. This means on 1% of the landmass you could fit 100B people.

Yes, because the earth's carrying capacity is about square footage and not the resources necessary to keep those people alive, healthy, and happy for 80+ years. How many square km of farmland do you think is necessary to feed Macau?
The ones I pick up in the checkout line at Microcenter still have I/O indicators (on top of being phenomenally inexpensive). It's a shame that more don't anymore.
Modern bricks are nowhere near the same as the bricks 5000 years ago. And concrete is probably much bigger ecological hazard: https://www.businessinsider.com/world-running-out-sand-resou...
Oops yes I am mistaken about the non majority thing. It still leads to bi party politics though.
I like this a lot. I've been a Bitwarden user for the past few months and I'm not looking back, but I'm so happy there's reasonable competition:

- It's still OSS, so you can self-host, which is a big selling point for me

- There's a managed/hosted option, which is a big selling point for probably most users

- It's got a browser plugin à la BitWarden/1Password, which is a crucial feature for any well-polished password manager (and hopefully it also comes with Android autofill integration)

Hopefully Passbolt, BitWarden and others can keep eachother on their toes and help this be an innovative and widely accessible space!

Expanding on that last point: I'm a huge fan of the general idea of having the option of self-hosting with a business model revolving around a paid, managed option, for password managers or otherwise.
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Mmh there should be more than two added lines if he wrote tests, no? I know some bugs are difficult to track, reproduce, and fix. But whenever I can I write as much as automated tests to check that the bug has really been removed.
There is an article in "The Atlantic" titled "A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat":

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/04/us-co...

the article discusses the use of "positivity rate" by doctors and epidemiologists, whom in recent months I have come to view as charlatans. To the good, the article at least tries to justify the statistic "positivity rate" somewhat.

My conclusion is that it is both more honest and more enlightening simply to provide to the public the two numbers (total tests, positive tests) rather than a quantity derived from the two, such as "positivity rate" which can be easily misunderstood, misinterpreted or misused.
As we all know, the only true value a programming language has is whether or not a majority of programmers align with its ethos.
I'm sorry, I'm terribly confused by your logic.

> hook up an [aircraft] autopilot to a car

This sounds histrionic

> semantically a car with an autopilot

??

> Literally by employing a self-steerer. The Tesla Autopilot does not permit this

This is not how Tesla autopilot works.

If you are genuinely asking my opinion, I would very much like to see this technology in the driver seat of more vehicles on the road as soon as possible. Where distracted drivers kill 9 people PER DAY in the US [0], if an autopilot system (speaking about the current one available today) is anything less than that, then it is well worth it.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/distracted_driving/in...
While there are a myriad of possibilities, three things come to mind;

A) hardware error. Esp memory. Rare, but that just makes it harder to spot.

B) ram. If your open programs exceed physical ram then virtual mem kicks in, and it is slow. If the working-set ram is below physical ram the machine thrashes making it more or less unusable

C) cpu. Programs can gobble cpu generally slowing the machine down. This is less noticeable these days with multiple cores. I don't think this is the cause of your problem but inspecting task manager can be helpful.

D) drivers running in ring 0.these can crash a machine, but bad drivers these days for out the box hardware is very uncommon.
I have never felt this world was a place to bring children. And I am not alone. I rarely mention my feelings because it runs contrary to most people's stated views. Yet, any time I bring it up I get a minority sharing strong agreement. I'm 55, and I've asked my entire life the question "how can people bring children into this?" My childhood was no more unusual than the typical American Midwest dysfunction, too.
While I don't really believe in a 'conspiracy' - I can easily see "targeted 'top down' forces" in the reverse direction...Limiting women's access birth control, abortion, etc. Hell - just getting your tubes tied can be 10x harder then getting a vasectomy.

If societal forces can be so effective in limiting women's choices/options, is hard to believe they could have had a hand in expanding them as well?
You could probably fit even more in virtual reality.
The Economist is still one of the best, but they have also deteriorated in the last 3 years, and continue slowly descending into NewSpeak.
This also causes people to move farther away from their families for both school and then work, often meaning that the grandparent support system is not available when you want to have kids.

That, in my opinion, is taken for granted more than anything else.
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BigQuery is one of the best things from Google Cloud. I’m glad to see it made more easily consumable from other clouds.
I lived in Germany for two years and spent a lot of that time talking to natives, as well as students and refugees from around the world. When I returned home to my native America, I was put off by how over-the-top positive people were.

I get it that when you say “how are you” in America, people are usually not asking how you are actually doing. I think I surprised a few people by telling them about all the things that were going wrong that day.

Does anyone else get wrong-footed by these little niceties too?
Counterpoint; quand les pauvres n'auront plus rien à manger, ils mangeront les riches.
I really enjoy this newsletter. The commentary is always quite good, and it's been a great way to direct my focus to safety-oriented papers.
Yeah I thought that was really bad advice, especially for incomplete bug reports. There's literally no harm in asking for more information to fix a bug, except for your ego...

A 5 minute phone call or direct message can save hours of hunting and frustration trying to replicate the bug...
This is not possible.

But what would be interesting is if scientists actually watched what happens.

They have done this with cults around the 'end of the world' type scenarios.

How the cult leaders and followers react when the impossible doesn't happen can be psychologically useful to know.

I haven't read this book so don't recommend it, but I think it's cool it exists - https://www.amazon.com/When-Prophecy-Fails-Leon-Festinger/dp...
Require a court order before any take down.
The hope with light sport aircraft was that prices would drop. But it’s minor, a Cessna 172 is still cheaper than what you can get in light sport
You'd still need someone to sell that 20% more product (or service) your worker is producing and with 15% less people your entire market has just shrunk.
I never said the US has more responsibility but has it's share of it. I call by name recent US presidents because they have been both since the 60s the ones that have changed the US policies regarding to Cuba, both in very different directions.
It is a question that can be addressed quantitatively with two thermodynamics questions. Size matters not.

How many joules of energy are required to extract a liter of water from the air (average dewpoint, temperature) at the site in question compared with the number of joules of energy required to remove the salt from a liter of the available seawater?
There should be more than two lines of codes added anyway: whenever I can I add as much as automated tests as needed to check that the bug has really been removed.
> He was 3 levels above me in the management chain, I really liked the two above me (the test manager, as I was in test at the time, and the software manager) and the guy above him [0]

I happen to get along really well with the person three levels above me, but I can't imagine dealing with getting direct negative feedback from him. Honestly, more of my conversations with him over the years have probably been about things unrelated to work than work-related; we don't just hop over my direct manager and his boss unless there's a really good reason for it.
Yeesh my blood started to boil just reading that.

I've left companies because of devs like that. People who just stand in the way of getting the software to do the correct thing. I do not understand what makes these people tick.