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It's not impossible to raise children in these conditions. I just turned 40 and have an 8 1/2 and 6 1/2 year old in the living room next to me reading books to each other.

There are 2 of them, and one of me. I am 'enslaved' to the bank for the next 20 something years. I am self-employed in the trades. I have very solid foundation in fixing and building things, which seems to survive many economic downturns as things that are needed to be done, are needed to be done regardless if a booming market or not - You just may face a bit more competition at that point.

Not ranting against you, or picking on your decisioning - Obviously it is a super-personal choice, and I'm glad thoughts have been put in place about many factors involved.

That being said, I've heard "I'm going to wait until I am 100% fully stable and secure to do **" my entire life. While I will agree that there are certain conditions and 'times of lives' that are extremely bad* ideas to do large things, especially when it comes into involving other dependents, I really don't think 100% stability is ever achievable.

You or your significant other could be taken out by a car tomorrow, or be caught in a fire, or even hit by lightening.

Obviously I had my first child when I was in the lower 30's -- for me, I'm finding this to be a very nice timeframe that worked in my life. I was far less stable than I am now, in the conventional sense of having a savings account, or owning a house, and I've managed to both purchase a house, and while hardly rich by any conventional notions of the world, when the car(s) break, or the house needs a roof, I am able to have those things done by either paying $ outright, or using prior life skills to offset the labor charges of those things making them more financially easier to swallow. My point is, now I am 40. They are still pretty little, and yeah, children require an insane amount of work and energy input to not only 'maintain', but 120% of what you have to offer to really enjoy the experience. I, personally, wouldn't want to be any older than I am now while having children at the ages they are - Advil is frequently consumed by now, part of growing up rolling around on a skateboard, part doing manual trades for (most) of my working life thus far, and part just being 40 and out of the 'Spring Chicken' age.

Time goes by, and with it, we get older. There is no way of changing that. The other factors in modern life, the money, the housing, the 'stability' can ebb and flow both by actions of your own and by actions too varied to even account for -- But time goes one direction.

I wish you the best, and strongly suggest if you want to have a child, and it's not 'the worst time possible' to do as such (drug addictions, homeless, uh, similar things) then perhaps ditch some of the fear of 'stability' (that truly very few have; none if you acknowledge life can end at any time for any of us) and get to doing the living!

Hard times happen to many; Even us single parent folk (and yeah, it makes things a bit harder, that's for sure) but I can promise you, if you care and you're willing to put the effort in, boy, it's worth it!
The site's instructions telling you where to find the checksum isn't any different than the site's instructions telling you the checksum.

If you're intentionally verifying what's on the site via a completely separate independent method (which is what you need to do to actually verify what's on the site is what should) then it doesn't really matter what the instructions on the site say in the first place as you just decided you're not relying on them for the verification.

What is still needed but not implemented yet is hashes inside the served script for content it pulls from the 3rd party CDN. That said there is a reason it's alpha.
> You can look at completion rates on Steam for some data.

I think we have to accept that not every game is for every person. How adamantly FROM Software fans defend the difficulty shows that this style of game is greatly appreciated by many and, while it sucks to not be into that if the rest of the game looks good to you, I think we just have to be ok with the fact that ok maybe this game was made for people who are into that.

Personally, I appreciate that FROM Software basically force me to learn their games mechanics rather than button mashing my way through, even if it is very frustrating in the moment. I know I'm not good enough to persevere if I could just play in easy mode, and I would have missed out on some truly exhilarating moments. I understand that that's just me and everyone is different, but I mean, there's plenty of games out there, not all have to cater to everyone. There are certainly plenty of games that I think look really cool but ultimately I don't feel are for me (most multiplayer games, really. Even if they look awesome, I just don't have the dedication for it).

This is also why I think its important to watch gameplay videos before you buy, so that you know what you're getting yourself into.
AI Index: Industrialization of AI and Mounting Ethical Concerns
If the folding under pressure is episodic/random, then those very competent people will likely make a correctly good impression in the next 1 or 2 interviews they attend and end up landing a job soon. From their perspective, it's still fine.

From a company perspective, if you really can't tell whether they lack competence or just folded under pressure, you pretty much have to pass on them and try again with the next candidate.
(Founder of Neeva here) -- Chris -- I love the idea. Neeva does this in a contextually relevant manner to the intent of the query. For example, on health queries, we label all health sites as "trusted", "ad-supported" etc. and allow you to filter down to the appropriate subset of results. For programming queries, we label sites as "official sites", "forums", "blogs", "code repos", "programming websites" (the SEO-ed ones). We work with human raters to do this. Would love to hear if you find it useful and what other labels would be of use.
And now we got the God Skin Duo... gulp...
The bad news is Nature abhors a vacuum. The good news is there's plenty of it.
Hackernews: "Externalities happen to other people, now why are my gas prices so high?!"
The US Needs a New Strategy Toward the Autocratic World
Honestly, the model where families stayed together longer and aging parents lived with their kids as they got older is probably the closest thing to sustainable out there.

The alternative is going to be a huge amount of caretaking career opportunities.
I find my history full of noise, so I just press CTRL+D to bookmark notable links, and my bookmarks get synced to every device. Also: Having your history logged is detrimental to privacy. I wipe it every few months.
I know. We need to do better to help everyone with this problem. But I prefer to face these difficulties with an optimistic mindset, rather than resign myself to being powerless against the grim reality.
Why does Macrons nuclear energy policy invalidate his childcare/education policy? I'm not seeing a straight line there.

Also you complain about inflation but also want more direct cash infusions?
It's the time and age of antinatalists. ;)
With increasing robot productivity level, those under that rising level/threshold will not be allowed to raise children, should they have them. Those children will be raised by people of the highest productivity percentile. /s
Japanese costanza.
Yes but it should be back now?

My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.
> ecosystems are at their limits.

This is true due to resource intensity of consumption.
A lot of places have bizarre over-parenting practices that add social pressures on anyone who has children. I would have been much more inclined to have children in a place that either doesn't freak out about free range children like when I grew up or has a set public system over one that makes you feel guilty for not being bio enough, not choosing the right
private schools, not getting private tutors, etc, etc.

It is interesting to watch parents burn out and get divorced so their children can have a better life than the one social pressures dictate.
Right, I mean a "giant expandable box" never goes out of style on some level. But it simply no longer needs to be quite that big now that cooling requirements are a fraction of what they used to be. Maybe they'll take it down a bit, hopefully keeping the same size of most internal components to minimize churn.
I'm not surprised by racism. I'm surprised at the anti-immigration sentiment as public policy. I understand that racists vote in racist representatives, but at some point the representatives will have to make the case for more immigration to keep America young and vibrant.
Yes but it should be back now?
My hosting provider (Cloudflare Pages) seem to have a limit on "functions" I cannot increase. I've worked around it for now but it might open at Cork for everyone. If so, you can zoom out and tap the map to select somewhere else.
Children are expensive and take time to raise. It's no wonder that much of the world asks "why even have kids," where being childfree is positively correlated with increases in education and income. As the world population gets more educated, I don't really see this trend reversing.

Even if people were given free healthcare, pre/post-natal care, childcare, etc, I doubt this would incentivize enough people to have enough kids, as the money and time required to raise kids still does not change. If you really want to get into unethical ways to increase the birth rate, you would ban abortions (which China seems to be toying with [0]) and provide no sex education, effectively forcing people to have children. I wonder if we'll see more countries push towards something like that as the birth rate continues to decline.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_China#cite_note-au...
Do you ACTUALLY need to??

Or is better to simply "network" among "people who matter"? I'd argue the latter is far better, more effective and efficient.

You can do the math on this: networking smartly due to "6 degrees of separation" is far more efficient than broadcast advertising your skills.

Broadcasting "your brand" to the world requires communication of the least common denominator of information quality while the person on the other side who is your "match" (for jobs etc.) now has to wade through millions of same-looking other people's information. It's just stupid.

Compare that to being separated from that same person by 6 hops of people. If you do the networking smartly, you'll reduce those hops and find people in the path who have a vested interest in honest endorsement of you and of the other person you are seeking. In any case, it's a whole lot less work for everyone and the match is better.

The thing I notice about this "maxim" of "personal brand" is that it's based on a "mass market selling Coke or Pepsi" mindset of marketing. Which is NEVER what a person should seek or use as an individual - you are unique and that's your selling value proposition which can never be marketed that way.

Instead you should focus on all parties having agency and intelligence (which is anti-assumed" with traditional mass market branding) and also presume that iteration, planning and intelligence are part of what YOU have and what others that matter have.

That's changes EVERYTHING about finding things like jobs and maximizing either joy and/or pay in a career.
Starting with having fewer children, which appears to shady be happening via mostly-uncoerced process(1).

(1) Debatably. Plenty of room for disagreement. Point is, we don't have to remove anyone if we just don't replace them.
Maybe check:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/

https://status.cloud.google.com/
Worth is a measure of value and value is a measure of usefulness or importance. Ecology is a self-perpetuating system that depends on itself to produce itself. Everything in it depends on everything else in it, so its value is to be able to continue itself. Ecology is valuable to ecology.

What's really funny is that humans don't even seem to respect their own worth, as humans depend on ecology to survive, yet they seem hell-bent on destroying it so that they can't survive anymore. An abnormal growth that spreads until it kills its host.
More click-bait.

It hasn't even been proofread! "M1 Ultra SOC Fails To Impressive"?

Having a package size that is "nearly 3 times" larger isn't the same as having a chip which is nearly 3 times bigger.

Geekbench and Cinebench are fine benchmarks, but they're not exactly going to have the same level of optimization on ARM as they do on x86, or at least not yet. A tech site should know better.
What made the last century’s great innovations possible?
I don't have children but find it interesting that one way you propose that government can make it easier for families to have children is to create services that involve the children spending even less of their childhood with their family.

I agree education of a child is very important. Not necessarily public education, although that can be quite good in some respects.

But if a government wants to make it easier to have children wouldn't it make more sense to come up with policies that allow a couple to afford to raise children on a single income? That way, one parent is always able to spend time with the children when needed.
I think a "written interview" for a remote position is actually a really good idea; it shows writing skills, and ability to communicate in a remote position.

I don't like the questions about high school, especially the personal questions. It's been 25 years (and longer for others), it wasn't particularly good period for me to the point of being traumatic, and I'm a completely different person then I was then. I don't see how it really matters for any aspect of the job either (technical, social, or cultural).

We could argue a bit about some of the other questions, but overall it should be entirely doable to complete this in 30 to 60 minutes, the time a regular video chat would take, and it's probably less stressful for quite a few people. I don't really see how this is an "Interview from Hell".
I don't think this is a fair characterization of these students' abilities. Kids struggle not because they are too dumb but because the combined course workload is egregiously high. And they also have part time jobs that eats into their time. And the professors are selected for their research and not for their teaching skills. And therefore some kids drop out of STEM and some commit suicide.
> Most jobs and careers just aren't possible to do with halved working hours

I just don't buy this; it feels like a lack of imagination. Sure, today, very few firms that traditionally employ full-time, salaried employees would even consider the idea of hiring twice as many half-time workers, but there's no inherent reason why it couldn't work.

Certainly, there are hurdles: some per-employee costs are fixed regardless of how many hours they work. But this is just an argument to fix them (because they're stupid in general), not to avoid the situation. Most part-time and contract workers in the US don't get benefits like health insurance and retirement plans. But this is an argument to fix those broken programs, not throw our hands up and claim the status quo is the only option.

Corporate profits and executive pay growth is generally far outstripping the wages paid to mid- and low-level employees. There's no reason why most companies can't pay their employees more equitably, and stop with all the pay inequality garbage.

> That's the European approach that children belong to whole community not only their parents and the authority and the burden is shared. I don't get why are you so hell bent on having exclusive authority over your child?

I'm not a parent, but childhood education these days seems more about pushing government propaganda and training kids to be obedient little employees (not to mention providing much-needed free day-care for parents), than about nurturing creativity and curiosity, and giving kids the tools they need to be productive, yet critical-thinking, independent people. I look at stories of 12-year-old kids getting arrested at school for asinine reasons[0] and wonder what the hell is happening.

I don't think people need "exclusive authority" over their children in general, but I do think the current state of public (and even private, in many cases) education could easily drive parents to not want their kids to be a part of it.

[0] https://www.copblock.org/140900/stupid-reasons-police-arrest...
> That's the European approach that children belong to whole community not only their parents and the authority and the burden is shared. I don't get why are you so hell bent on having exclusive authority over your child?

I suspect you're trolling, but in case you're not:

As a European, I do have a lot of community centric philosophy - but given the government (local and country) incompetence in virtually all matters of education and the universally awful opinion all teachers I know hold of the government and their interference and policies regarding education and child care - I do not think that wanting the best for your kids that you love and wanting to be able to raise them yourself with individual attention and perspective is really that strange.

If there are good schools, I have no problem with my kids going to them, as long as it doesn't interfere with their growth and education.

(My kids go to local state schools, fwiw).
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[test -test -tests -tested -testing] returns no results for me - teased out the synonyms!
As a question bank this isn’t terrible.

As a home assignment it’s a sign of mental illness
There is little to setup. I install the KDEConnect app on my Android devices and the GSConnect Gnome extension on my laptop. Then it works by sharing to the other devices much like I'd share to WhatsApp or Telegram. There is the added benefit that my laptop's audio is silenced when I get a call on my phone and I can use any of those devices to stop and resume media on the others.

I gain that it's not Mozilla's or anybody's else business to deal with my links. Everything stays inside my devices.
It would have been no problem to allow access to ivermectin through offlabel use seeing as there was no other treatment. The fact that this didnt happen was caused by politics. And we do live in a democracy with public opinion having a great sway.

The burning bridges thing is silly as long as you look at individual problems. They sum up quickly. And your political camp just denied me lifesaving horse dewormer, didnt you? Some people might not take that lightly. I dont have to join Q anon or flat earthers to vote tactically to stop you. Especially if you think you get to act the way you do because i have no alternative.

I am pretty sure this is a very real mechanism at play explaining a lot of what we see around us. We really cant afford more confrontation over trivial stuff.
Starting with the elderly, as they naturally pass away by virtue of being human, and being old.

No-one is suggesting that we actively kill people.

The article is talking about attrition (rates of reproduction are declining - fewer people are being born and the people who are here naturally age & die)

From TFA: "The next stage of the demographic transition, after a drop in mortality, is a subsequent drop in fertility (although the relationship isn’t straightforward). Family sizes fall from 5 to 6 down towards replacement level. But then they drop further — and never come back. Indeed across most of the world, outside of sub-Saharan Africa, family sizes are still shrinking, and populations ageing."
That’s a very disingenuous take on “in stock”. Sure, if you’re willing to pay multiples of MSRP, major retailers will now take your money too and not just let scalpers only get in on the profits.
It doesn't have to be that expensive in terms of dollars (although there's often strong social pressure to spend all your disposable income on private preschools/travel soccer/expensive colleges), but it's very expensive in terms of time. And for higher income people, that time commitment has a much higher opportunity cost.
Flyhomes is in that game, too: https://www.flyhomes.com/
Or they just don't want to violate laws back home and made up an excuse
Termon, not pockete. Who has a terminal in their pockets?
Can confirm. Mine was resting in a drawer for some years, but seven i found it, I immediately started using it again. Great mousepad since 1989.
Don't worry about those people. The US still allows a larger total number of immigrants per year than any other nation in the world. Over a million people a year - basically the same as all of western Europe combined:

"In absolute numbers, the United States has a larger immigrant population than any other country, with 47 million immigrants as of 2015. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international migrants worldwide, and 14.4% of the United States population. ...

According to the 2016 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, the United States admitted a total of 1.18 million legal immigrants (618k new arrivals, 565k status adjustments) in 2016. Of these, 48% were the immediate relatives of United States citizens, 20% were family-sponsored, 13% were refugees or asylum seekers, 12% were employment-based preferences, 4.2% were part of the Diversity Immigrant Visa program..." [1]

That's roughly 3,200 new Americans every day, 365 days a year. 1/5 of the world's migrants come to one country: The USA. I personally think this is something to be proud of. We are still a nation of immigrants and though the Trump administration did try to curtail immigration, the system is still functioning and relatively robust.

Now, what to do about top international talent avoiding the country because of radical right wing politics that demonize immigrants and conservative lawmakers that consistently try to prevent people coming? I think that's a solution with an obvious answer.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_St...
If you can afford a "really expensive" sports car then I'm not sure your reference on fiscal responsibility is comparable to what most people experience. Assuming you're talking about a non-special used Ferrari or something, that's $200k + $20k a year. Most people have trouble coming up with $200k for a down payment and are nowhere near dropping that on a car. Preschool is $25k a year though, so in a sense the upkeep there is higher.
A problem that will solve itself. Since parental preference is now the primary determinant of family size it will come under Nature's lens. There will be huge negative selection pressure exerted against non-breeders and their genes will be swept out of the gene pool en masse. Fertility will recover, likely within less than 10 generations or 300 years and we will be back to growth - and to ravaging the planet like never before.
While being definitely more on the hippy-dippy side for some, for me the book that affected me the most was Ram Dass' Be Here Now.