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I think in some places society does work with this at least reasonably well, at least from the perspective of employees - I'm sure this is harder for startup founders. But I think that startup founders are in the minority, whereas the child-raising discourse usually touches on all kinds of professionals, including normal employees.

Where I live it is common for both parents to take long stretches of leave to be with their children for the first few years of their lives, and later it is common to take special childcare days off if your child is sick, has school events, etc etc. I _think_ the government pays for most or all of this time, so I am thinking there is a way for startup founders to claim it too, but I'm not 100% sure how that works.

I don't know all the ways that it affected each person professionally, but as someone on the team working closely with quite a few of these people I never got the sense that it hindered their position at the company. I've had a TD go on 6-month paternity leave for kid 1, then go back on another 6-month leave less than a year later for #2. He went on leave leading a project and came back leading another project.

Another anecdotal example: when I was joining my first project at the place, our lead producer had just left for maternity leave. Another producer was hired to temporarily fill her role. When the original producer came back, there was no question of her position: of course she was coming back to the team she'd been leading. The replacement producer was simply moved to work on another project.

I often hear in online discourse that it can be disruptive to the project when this type of thing happens, but personally I just never experienced it like that (from the perspective of the teammate who has experienced many people at the company going on parental leave, not from the actual parent perspective). I think when taking these amounts of parental leave is the norm and not the exception, we find that it isn't really as hard or scary as many companies seem to think it is. It also has the benefit of fostering a culture where no one person is absolutely pivotal to the project (or has to work themselves to death lest their project falls apart since everything depends on them...) They _will_ go on leave to spend time with their child, and you as a team/company/management have no option but to be prepared for that.
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It's completely unethical to have kids and like another commenter has said brings a great disadvantage economically. I would suggest to anyone to not follow your advice.

edit: I won't be further commenting on the topic because the same people asking everyone "when are you going to have kids like me?" are just going to downvote. Yes, I rather see an end to humankind because that ends suffering. Less suffering in a universe is better than a universe that experienced more. Yes, nobody cares about the ones that wish they never had been born because of whatever reason that was inflicted upon them.
The interesting part is that fiber rollout would result in less bandwidth pooling on coax, which would make coax competitive again. I'm projecting it may never entirely go away for this reason- the cables are already buried, and the service will get better as demand decreases.
Once more, this simply shows how weak EU is and how much it depends on the USA for survival: defense, science, tech.

The entire EU was only able to produce one vaccine: also UK is not in EU anymore, and AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish.

It does not come as a surprise. In decades, they haven't invested any significant money in research and tech, but austerity.

Thousands of EU engineers and scientists moved to the USA to never come back.

EU is now paying an high price. And given their inability to reverse this trend, they will always be at the mercy of other more developed and advanced countries.
We can't tell OP what their purpose is.
The economy isn’t a linear response system. Thought experiments about extremes tell us little or nothing about non-extreme areas of the domain.
Inside this concept there is a Douglas Adams like short-history about a self-conscious progress bar.
Tanks are a completely outdated military technology. Shoulder launched anti-tank missiles, anti-tank aircraft and now drones can all render large quantities of tanks scrap metal, especially the majority of old Russian tanks with WW2 era armor. There's a reason western countries have stopped investing in tanks and spend most of their military R&D budgets on airplanes and drones these days, air-superiority wins the day in modern conventional warfare.
Two in-laws and ourselves are expecting pandemic babies in the next 6 months.

In our part of the country it seems like a baby boom (midwest), so I’m curious to see how this plays out demographically.
I recently moved photos from google photos to icloud using google takeout and it removed meta data from the vast majority of my photos.

Photos with correct dates and locations in google photos not longer have any of that data in icloud. Makes icloud photos a lot less usable, not sure if anyone else has had this issue (can't find any articles on it)

Anyways agree that google takeout needs improvement.
There are societies where a woman can have both, a career and a family. And that usually comes with maternity leave, parental leave, child benefits, child care, etc.

I hope I don't misunderstand you but what you said sounded to me like it's either or, and I don't think that has to be true.
> Is it big business lobbying politicians to prevent them from having to compete?

Correct. The politicians that US citizens habitually elect are in the pocket of telecom companies. These politicians have not elevated Internet service in the US to the level of, for example, telephone service which, as a result of government policy established by now long dead politicians, is available almost anywhere someone would care to live in the US. This allows telecom companies to cherry pick lucrative areas for Internet service and ignore everything else. The result is that both rural and poor urban areas have poor or no Internet service while suburbs and dense metropolitan areas have high performance network services.

One might assume that US citizens are fabulously stupid for continuing to elect such politicians. That's the easy answer, frequently offered, and like most easy answers it misses a great deal. There are political undercurrents in the US that create the alignments of power that explain our outcomes. Unfortunately it isn't possible to candidly discuss these currents in forums such as this without igniting flame wars, so I'll end here.
Some countries in EU use them just fine, only some set restrictions on ages
How about just letting me be able to plug my phone into any laptop and drag and drop my pictures?
Why do you classify that as a dark pattern? It's not harming people in any way, but the opposite.

It's lying. Lying is inherently harmful. Just because a computer is doing it doesn't make it unethical. Especially since people trust computers to be precise and correct.
Interesting question timing, at least for me, give the last 24 hours....

I've worked mostly at home for most of the last 20 years (albeit with some BIC periods, depending on customer work) and I have found the last year terribly difficult, far more than any other period (even when I first started working mostly from home after about 15 years of full-time BIC).

Sometime yesterday I just stopped. I couldn't work anymore. I had plenty to do, but I felt drained, far more fatigued than simple lack of sleep would explain.

Long story short, playing cards with my GF for an hour before supper then vegging for the evening and getting a solid night's sleep reset things for me.

I had burnt myself out, again. There's been a lot of that this past year.

My prescription? Little things.

1) Take breaks.

Even if you have a lot to do. Even if breaks are essentially somewhere else in the house right now. Get away from your screens, do something that allows as much of your work self as possible to disengage. For me, this means not reading, not even wrenching (unless the project on the go is well in hand, or something I can do without thinking, like changing the brakes or oil).

2) Exercise.

This the toughest one for me. I am not a gym rat and have no love of exercise, but I love how I feel afterwards. Force yourself to get a walk, do squats, pushups, anything. It really does help.

3) Keep a schedule, more or less. Keep separate work and non-work places.

Working from homes gives you 7/24 access to work, and sometimes work is a break from the real world and its covidiots and its selfish twits. For me, engaging in work gives me a break from that selfish, twitty, covidioty world.

But work fatigues your work self, and too much work self fatigue exhausts it to the point you can no longer work.

4) Forgive yourself. Be graceful with yourself.

We are our own worst critics, we see our "flaws" thousands of times larger than they are - if they "are" at all (cf "spotlight effect"). Some days, the schedule will be hard to maintain, exercise won't fit in to that schedule, the non-work-self distractions will pale, or any of a thousand other things will cause you to ignore the advice you have given yourself, the routine you have tried to keep, and you will skip the breaks or the workout or you will overwork.

And you will be tempted to chastise yourself, to be angry with yourself. Don't, don't be.

Forgive yourself as you would forgive someone else, give yourself permission to backslide today and try again tomorrow.

5) Reach out to others. That helps too. Just like you did here.

We're not "all in this together", necessarily, but we are in this more or less the same way. We can learn from each other, support each other, and that helps us too. Selfish altruism, as it were.
>I can not guarantee my genes will win, but if I fail to reproduce I guarantee they will lose.

It's probably not so wise to make decisions based on anthropomorphizing genes. They don't want anything other than to replicate, given that they're replicators and if they didn't they wouldn't continue to exist, that's all there is to it, it's a pretty meaningless affair.

I feel paying more attention to one's cultural legacy probably makes more sense than passing one's hair colour on.

That's not to say that having kids can't be fulfilling because many people get a lot of joy out of raising kids, but having attachment to a bunch of nucleotides seems kinda degrading to be honest
>We should focus on the important polluters, not minor consumers

Do you feel the same way about causes of death?

Imagine saying "who cares Cystic Fibrosis kills x people, heart disease is worse!"

Also, other consumers like cement, fossil fuel production, and plastics HAVE been focused on. Bitcoin is new and only recently popular so we don't know much about it and it's true cost.
-> I speculate that house prices has increased mainly due to credit expansion.

This is probably true, but not everywhere. There are still many places where the cost to build a replacement home (cost of labor and materials) is higher than the price of an existing house+land. Some societies try to solve this problem by forcing people to move.
>You have more economic growth if you give 1 million people $100 dollars (since they are more likely to spend it on goods/services) vs giving $100 million to one person (who will likely spend the bulk of their money on financial instruments).

The US spends the majority of it's Federal Budget on giving small amounts of money to the non-rich, to the order of trillions of dollars per year.

Also, when someone puts money into a financial instrument, that money usually flows immediately into productive use. Capital flows are attributed with about 30% of the economic growth over the last century, which is a huge increase in quality of life, especially for the most poor.
Some frameworks make it really easy to create reusable code that calculates something, pushes it into the network, and returns to the rest of the page.

You are right that it's not a great thing to do. A little bit of buffering on the sender can improve things a lot. But it's an easy thing to do, so people do it.
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Ok, thanks, I'll look into it.
Adoption is another logical answer that can be very rewarding. All of us in the family I grew up in were adopted as infants. It's more expensive than birthing your own children but I imagine parents that left their fertile years focused on a career would be able to afford adoption.
Can you point to the 'dramatic' risks for older fathers? Usually it is a minor change in chance blown up by sensational press.
Increasing the UX of a product never seems to be a mistake. And of course switching to another device is also part of the User Experience.
Or what if pricing is a supply/demand signal and it's rising to demand outstripping supply?

Like there are TONS of houses being built in Texas, but they aren't being built in what were trendy areas - instead they are being built in suburban areas.
UK banned export of some 100 medicines that could be possible treatment for COVID early last year.

USA never intended to export vaccines under Trump administration, Biden is upholding it.

The only difference really is that our EU politicians had big words, but when the rubber hit the read went the same route as everyone else.

To be honest, EU politicians were naive.

We should have banned all exports very early on as everyone else did and then graciously allow exports on case by case basis to the level we have now.

It would have been a lot better optics, but the same practical outcome.
Even when having children young, I feel that whole child-rearing experience, aka family, takes a back seat once both parents start working full time. 8 hours work day + one hour commute = you see your kids for hour or two before they go to sleep.
EU used its negotiating power to drive the price of covid vaccine down, and now producers are ignoring "low profit" EU contracts and selling vaccines to highest bidder.
Those have been illegal since 1992. Almost none of the infrastructure in use today was built under those protections from competition.
USA built out its internet infrastructure earlier...

It's a story that repeats itself. See the Type A electrical outlet, imperial measurement, measuring cups, etc
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Consciousness is the ghost in the machine that seems to be unnecessary to the functioning and behavior of the machine.

All of your interactions with the outside world can be explained by the signals in your brain, even our discussion of consciousness can easily be explained by physical/measurable processes.

This conversation would still happen in a universe without any conscious entities . Of course you can build a machine that can recursively think about its self, and in turn speak about this self awareness. This should all be able to happen without there being a subjective experience of that self-awareness.

So why is anything experienced at all.
It's a somewhat silly idea, but actually what would really make it shine would be if the OS provided an api. You could give it some identification, and maybe a listing of tasks. That way it could pool learning data from all programs.
Wasn't this solved back in the days of floppy disk OS installation?

You have one progress bar showing progress for this floppy, and another showing progress for the entire operation.
You don't think that more people use Apple iCloud in Japan or India (total population 1.5 billion) than in Liechtenstein (total population approximately 0)?
I always thought Hofstadter's argument (I see he's discussed elsewhere in this thread) was that consciousness was a convenient illusion, which is kind of like the idea that it's a feeling here. And that the key insight is that consciousness arises through self-reference in a non-obvious way. It's kind of like bootstrapping an operating system. It's the only explanation I've ever read where it all made sense and you could see all the mechanics of how it worked if they were explained in-depth. Maybe psychoanalysis and philosophical arguments can point you in the right direction or develop your intuitions, though.
> sub-atomic particles

Mostly whole atoms (or ions) plus electrons and protons (although the latter could be thought of as the ion of a particular isotope of hydrogen). Being pedantic, we can include photons, too.
> That framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between “old tracking” and “new tracking.” It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads.

This seems backwards to me: the alternative to "targeted ads" are "untargeted ads", aka Spam. Who would rather have spam than targeted ads. Sure, spam might be easier to ignore, but it's also not effective from the company's perspective: showing the ad only to people who might be willing to spend money seems like a good thing to me. It's certainly economical. Which is why I feel like targeted ads are not something we can get rid of.
If the man acts as a virtual machine that faithfully runs the program, then it's still the program that understands Chinese, it doesn't matter on what machine it runs. In this case there are two minds: the man's mind and program's mind.
> I noticed a bug in the PR that I found later... want to show you why it could be a problem so we don't let it slip next time

I don't know, that seems kind of confrontational. If I got called out for missing a bug in a review I'd be annoyed
What impact do you foresee any economic gains from childlessness having in 100 years, if your advice is followed universally? Who will inherit those gains?
What good would transaction value per day be? This is like counting your salary twice, once when you earn it, once when you spend it, lol.
It is a strange use of language so it would be interesting to see what he defines a demon as. If he has said “Gab does not negotiate with evil people” no one would have cared but saying demon criminals brings forth images of horned beings we all see in fantasy movies, perhaps that’s the imagery he was going for.
Left/right divide is a myth-myth. Check out "Master and His Emissary" for the enormous amount of evidence about left/right divide.

The mirror neuron system is also a myth-myth. While there aren't "mirror neurons", per se (e.g., biochemically different), there is a system of mirroring and it is very important
No, you did. You consider this a safety related matter, not me. Personally, I think the MAX (after the fix) is the safest 737 available. If safety played a role in their decision, you should also consider Airbus unsafe, as they are cancelling also their Airbus orders.
While it's good that this is finally being provided, it's still somewhat amazing that there isn't any documented API to interact with iCloud.

One can of course, on Apple hardware, use apple proprietary APIs to do some things. Or one can use the iCloudJs stuff from a webpage.

But there's not an official/documented way to, say, write a program that runs on a Linux server to mirror photos in iCloud to disk (or access any other iCloud data).

There are reverse engineered APIs that folks can use to interact with it, but the official iCloud story has been data lock in.
Downloading is an async operation of unknown duration, which is best represented by a spinner. Processing, on the other hand, should be deterministic. I'd say, have a spinner and a progress bar (dimmed, while the spinner is active, then switch to a dimmed, but filled spinner and an active progress bar.)
> available only to residents of the United States

Meh
FWIW, you can do a takeout to another service like OneDrive or another Google Drive account and use their clients to sync. You can probably use wget to download in a more stable way, too.
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It's true. Telling people they can have everything does them such a disservice, because it strips them of the knowledge that these decisions exist. We all have to pick and choose where we apply our energies based on what we value most, pretending that isn't the case just means those decisions are made for them.
No, this is not true.

The EU has no regular authority to 'enforce' contracts in such a matter, how any company decides to delivery is up to that company.

If Italy wants to sue or sue for damages, it can try do to that.

For example, if this were procurement of some kind of automobile, Italy would not be in a position to 'ban' shipments outside of the EU.

This is happening because:

1) 'Emergency Powers'

2) EU's failure to acquire vaccines through normal operations.

3) Optics and populism. Every politician in the world is sweating right now.

Otherwise, the issue would have be taken up on court.
Do you have links to share for what you're claiming is now false? I haven't seen any conclusive evidence yet for what you're claiming.
A much quoted figure is that the AZ vaccine is 'only' 60% effective compared to 90%+ for Pfizer et al.

However, this 60% number is for totally preventing a COVID infection. The AZ vaccine is just as much, or even more effective at preventing severe illness / hospitalization.

I do blame the EU commission for the general narrative about the AZ vaccine, as it has negative consequences directly with the public : in NL ( and in DE as well if I am not mistaken ), there are people who don't want the AZ vaccine because of this.

So I do blame the EU commission on endangering the general public health of its constituents.
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Unfortunately, that is the other side of the coin. Most people who have children at young ages tend to be less well off financially for the rest of their lives than people who wait until late to have children. That is simply because time and principle are the only factors that really matter in building wealth.

This difference can also be taken to absurd extremes though. I honestly wonder why single people without children in my line of work aren't millionaires just based upon the compensation of their day jobs. After having 5 military deployments I can live in a cardboard box and would require only the cheapest of cars to commute to work. I don't spend money very often.
Well we used to have a society with a division of labor and stable institution of marriage so that women didn't have to work themselves to death through the child rearing years but we decided as a society that in order for women to be truly free, they need to be trapped in the same work to death life that men have been in since prehistoric times, to the detriment of their lives and the lives of our children. But it'll be OK because the village can raise the children; just send them off to the tax subsidized day care to be raised in a 1:20 adult: child ratio (they'll be fiiiiiine) and then you can have your career and your "motherhood" (no matter that the child trusts the nanny more than you because you were always at work) too
I wonder if there are better models that might work with a bit of help from everyone involved, that don't amount to taking medical risks and delaying children more than any man ever would?

Such as: being a founder comes with a lot of work, but also some power. To the degree that bringing children to work is mostly a problem of co-workers rolling their eyes, could a confident founder make them stop doing that?

Since that would probably still be somewhat stressful, could a pair of founder-parents pull it off? And/or could on-site childcare make it work? For a VC-backed startup, the costs wouldn't seem to be prohibitive?

(I maybe naive here, considering some of the tales I've heard of how women are still seen/treated in the industry)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26251143

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This is great advice. I was in a similar position till we moved to the Bay Area, which flipped the financial calculus.

Other than breast-feeding, Dads can do everything that's required and pumping works out great for everyone.