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> developed world

There are four types of economies. Developed countries, underdeveloped countries, Japan, and Argentina.

Japan has so many unique sociocultural idiosyncrasies that shape economic decisions.

> Tokyo, young people... because of unstable housing and insecure employment.

This couldn't be more wrong.

People on minimum wage jobs in Tokyo can afford a standalone 1 bedroom apartment in the suburbs. White collar workers can pay off a house in less than 5 years if they wanted, too. The Google engineers can do it in 2, a manager probably 1. My rent's barely 5% of my income versus 30%+ of income being commonplace for young people in Bay Area / New York.

Japan's labor laws are exceedingly protective of employees, and it is nearly impossible to fire a full time employee. This is why you don't hear about layoffs happening in Japan.
There is still widespread expectation that employees will stay at a job for decades, if not their entire life. Unlike America where 401ks replaced pensions and workers have to take more responsibility in their retirement, pensions are still the de factor employee perk in Japan.

That said, pensions are part of the problem. With demographic collapse, the pension system is growingly unsustainable and the likely solution is significant taxes increases over the next few decades.

Other reasons for declining birthrates is social media. For dating, people are exposed to a lot more options which leads to decision paralysis. It's been known that people less populated areas are more likely to marry their high school sweetheart. (Accessible) travel has made less people want to settle down in their 20s and 30s.

As evidence that young people have different different economic priorities, consider the prevalence of fashion consumption in Japan. There's literally a Louis Vuitton store at every major train station around Tokyo. While not at rates similar to China, the luxury goods market is continuing to grow in Japan, despite inflation and economic repercussions of COVID-19. There's 4 Celine stores in Ginza alone, which is an obscure brand to most Americans, but most young Japanese would recognize this. On any given train car in Japan, you will find a young person sporting a garment that's $500+ which is the average rent for a studio in Tokyo.
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Yeah, but what does one do with an infinite supply of ok-ish images?
As far as I know, there are special agencies that help companies or government agencies with their accessibility goals. I assume they have a more diverse set of employees and would be open to hire you.

When I looked into hiring someone for a company directly, I was told that because of HIPAA laws you cannot advertise „we want to hire blind programmer“.
If you wish to learn grammar, especially more advanced grammar not grammar that is often not covered by many of the more popular "JP Learning Guides" online I highly recommend imabi.net

I have a very negative view of most language learning apps. Learning a language is more than vocabulary memorization and memorizing phrasebooks which is what most language apps devolve into. Consume JP media, use Anki to help build vocab/memorize kanji, and study grammar from a book dedicated to explaining grammar and not a "generalist" book that tries to dip its toes into everything.
Meanwhile workers in the US don’t live in other countries.
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Any time you actually need to use the ordering property. For instance, if you have an ordered map with string keys, you can very efficiently find all the keys with a given prefix. With an unordered_map, you'd have to iterate through the entire data structure.
You making jam with those cherries you picked?
If there's ticks on the moon, we have bigger issues I suppose.
You contradict yourself. Japan is widely known to be behind on gender equality, much more so than the U.S., and you point out that birth rates are declining faster there. Which means if anything that women's rights increases birth rates.

The burden of proof is on you to tell us why women's rights affects birth rates at all. So far the flawed (i.e. batshit insane) reasoning of "women are forced to marry less" doesn't hold.
AI is a new technology. The responsible thing to do is grow it slowly and intentionally.
I don't understand why "fake" exactly-once delivery is fake. If I make you generate a random UUID in your system, then store the UUID in a centralised place in my system and ignore duplicate messages with that UUID, and you keep retrying until you get an ACK, why is that not exactly-once delivery?

Is it because the UUID is "only" random with some collision chance? (But then how come a sequential ID from your system wouldn't count?) Is it because my system needs to trust your system? (But why is trust a factor here?) Is it because my system needs a centralised database? (But our two systems are still distributed when you consider them together, right?) Is this a semantic argument over the meaning of "delivery", where I'm not allowed to impose requirements or check a database because the message has already been "delivered"? (But then why are we quibbling over semantics?) Is it because the message broker becomes stateful? (But why is that a constraint?)

I think from looking at the article that this is about delivery within a finite number of retries, but that seems like the kind of problem where in the real world we just ring each other when a message has been retried 50 times over the course of two days.
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what do you mean landline connection?
They tried to spread out, but Americans put a stop to it in WW2.
Believe it or not, women don't have to be forced into having kids. That you view this as important to birth rates is messed up TBH
> As we gather more data our understanding of human migration inevitably clashes with identity politics/nationalism

It's funny you should mention this, as I saw the documentary and I seem to remember some North American indigenous tribes refusing to participate. Their reasoning was the Nat Geo was just trying to prove they were immigrants like everyone else.
Fake DMCA complaints are muzzling journalists
It is? I thought it was owned by the Australian Government, similar to the ABC or the Australian Rail Track Corporation.

Australia Post is wholly owned by the Australian Government represented by two Shareholder Ministers, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts.[1]

[1] https://www.finance.gov.au/government/government-business-en...
Thank you. Though it isn't quite clear to me whether the additive part is negligible?
The common narrative always appears to be money. I would contend that the modern life is too fragile. Day to day life is so filled with stress and anxiety that young people don't mate until it's too late.

Life has become too complicated. There is far too much paperwork, government bureaucracy and things to keep on top of. If you don't keep up on the bureaucracy, you will get penalized harshly.

E.g. why the fuck does a car need to be registered every year? If I need to register a car, why can't I do it online? If I can do it online, why can't I do it if I change my address? Why do I need to present a thousand documents for 5 mins worth of work? Why does the registration have to be sent via snail mail? What happens if USPS loses it?

These questions may sound trivial but for someone who may lose their job due to slow bureaucracy, this is a matter of their life.

And now, imagine the same bureaucracy with income tax, property tax, drivers license, voter registration, health insurance, property insurance, car insurance, healthcare providers with a zillion portals, loan providers and their bullshit paperwork etc.

One mistake with any of them will add even more burden on you to clear your records, pay things on time etc.

Life has become too burdensome. And after living 30 years with this, the thought of more paperwork for kids seems awful.

This all discounts how unstable jobs and incomes are. Without income stability, all of the above becomes crazier.
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To preempt the inevitable comment: in some cases (make sure to check!) you can use a third-party hash table such as the one Abseil provides, which may be faster for your usecase if you can use it. Of course, profile first before switching and make sure that std::unordered_map is your bottleneck, understand why it is slow, then determine whether it would be possible to switch.
Is this a low price for a datacenter negotiating their load with a utility provider (as most do?)
Relativity, different gravity well. Cesium is the same, actual time is different.
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It does. Not for the observer on the moon, but on the earth.

Hafele-Keating experiment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafele–Keating_experiment
Yes, I would.

If I need to call someone in their morning, I need to determine the same offset.

I have plenty experience with both ends using UTC regardless of where in the world they are. It's much easier. Either 0425 works for both or we need to adjust one way or the other. I still need to know that your schedule is four hours ahead of mine, but we don't need to do math to figure out what time 0425 is. The cognitive overhead is diminished.
China on track to dominate development of critical future technologies
This article claims that China is the world leader in 37 out of 44 critical technologies.
Because spacetime. Clocks run at different speeds depending on the gravitational field in which they operate. This is true for any two clocks, not just between earth and the moon. Satellites have to constantly correct their clocks for the same reason.
IMO one of the most humorous talks at the event! :)
Nope, those are relativistic effects. This dude called Einstein had a few things to say about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity

One of the effects in time dilation, where moving clocks are measured to tick more slowly than an observer's "stationary" clock.
Yet somehow the mortgage and lending industry manages to exist in Europe despite lack of a credit score.
There was some previous drama and some people switched to this one.

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean...

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
yeah, that one is really puzzling. There is NO difference in KYC/FTUE/SIGNUP of pre-paid or post-paid SIM cards. You do the same process for both and its a matter of "choosing", new sim cards are now by default pre-on-post (whatever the hell that means) so we don't understand why would they ban them and not others.

pre-paid sim cards DO NOT mean the same as in american movies where you go to a store and buy a mobile phone with preloaded, pre activated sim card for $20.
From earths perspective, yes.

It’s just that time really passes quicker on Moon (not just an illusion).
I have no idea what you mean by forced.

If you took a look at the data, youd realize it’s mostly people having fewer kids. Almost the same percent of American women give birth as 50 years ago.

Women will choose to have fewer kids if given the option.

Why does that offend you?
Lunar gravity is about 1/6th of Earth gravity. Clocks slow down due to gravity (Einstein's relativity). Thus, clocks tick faster if there's less gravity.

Aside: we can measure this effect on Earth, between the foot and top of a mountain. Tom Scott has a video about exactly that.
I don't follow... having an AI read it doesn't make it less divisive.
> Reliable deliveries with all-weather protection. The roof over the DXP AU provides great visibility and protection against the wind and rain.

Calling BS on this. Anything more than a light drizzle (or any kind of wind + rain combo) and that driver is getting wet.
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He's doing exactly that. Helpful guy, maybe he has some tips for you.
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nobody yet has said 1m KG == 1000 1000kgs == 1000 tonnes == 1 kilotonne.

the original A bomb was 17 kilotonnes. explosive equivalent. I have no idea what a kilotonne of friable matter entering the atmosphere represents, in explosive equivalent.
And then risk drawing you down the rabbit hole/money sink of getting a pilot's license
Right, Haredi are an ultra orthodox subset of Orthodox Judaism, but they are often wrongly equated like I did. Too late to edit my comment now though
As the article noted, clocks lose 56us per day on the Moon, relative to the Earth.
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I suppose the fact that "native americans" were also from Siberia/Asia makes it complicated to separate Polynesian/Asian DNA from "native american" DNA.

The Mapuche people look stunningly Polynesian/Asian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapuche
The United States of America.

Yes, I'm being 100% objectively serious.
>Absolutely painful. I would love something that summarizes the articles and discussion without pretending to be a conversation between two people. I mean it says it is AI generated but they are adding all this conversational fluff which really does not work for me.

Yeah, the conversational fluff is easily my least favorite part of podcasts. Adding that to an AI version that should theoretically be even more efficient at summarizing/delivering information is... unexpected. A non-starter for me.
You know they have to get out to deliver letters and parcels? They have a solution and it's called a rain coat.
Empowerment of women made not being forced to take a husband and pop out babies an option. The birth control pill gave women a choice and a ton of them immediately jumped on it to escape from the cycle of being constantly pregnant or breastfeeding. It's been a desire of women probably since the dawn of time to be able to choose whether and when to have kids.

I take serious offense at the idea that it's just less interesting than other options. As if women were just content raising children before the idea of literally doing anything else crossed their minds. As if women today are being selfish by having lives outside of the home. How dare they want to live their life and establish financial stability before procreating? They should be raising 5 kids while struggling to make their hard-working husband's paycheck stretch far enough to feed the family. Because that's what my grandparents did.
> Women will choose to have fewer kids if given the option.

This right here. Having a kid is an intensely personal and individual decision. Generalizations like this are the essence of bigotry.

Women that have more social responsibilities will choose to have fewer kids. Now, is that because they're women, or because of the responsibility? Which one do you think matters more?

Also, the idea that women must be cajoled by society into having children is just profane. Women actually want to have kids, you know (I guess not from personal experience?). It's a biological fact. Women can have equal rights and also want kids because wanting kids is natural.
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I think this is a deep battle-of-the-approaches topic - whether it's better to "rewrite history" or deal with the different shape of past data. But in the history preserving case the data model doesn't need to be perfect up front, you can approach the data in your application in a way that takes into account the evolution. Eg in Datomic there are practices that support this [1] [2].

Of course you can have dev time scratch environments to play with stuff without to support

[1] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/best-practices.html?search=...

[2] https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/best-practices.html?search=...
that's why the correct unit here would be megakilograms :)
That's a yikes from me bro
Of course you've been downvoted.

I believe humanity is just one generation away from being able to get rid of the idea that noon is 12:00 and 24:00 is midnight.

I think I've heard all the arguments against and they all boil down to "no, old days are best".
> A surprising number of systems exhibit this behavior, sadly.

I noticed [0, ∞] delivery semantics in a widely-used, internal/homegrown message delivery system at a big tech company once. The bug was easy to spot in the source code (which I was looking at for unrelated reasons), but the catch-22 is that engineers with the skills to notice these sorts of subtle but significant infra bugs are the same engineers who would've advised against building (or continuing to use) your own message delivery system in the first place when there are perfectly serviceable open source and SaaS options.
Forgive me my ignorance but does that mean that you age at a different speed at the moon compared to earth ?
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Japan already has many of these things.

Preschool is free. And after-school programs are either free or very inexpensive for elementary school students with working parents. And there are tax breaks as well as a monthly stipend that gets deposited into your bank account for people with children (not sure of the exact amount off the top of my head). Housing is also quite affordable compared to many developed countries.
Didn't they later say that 'double' was a figure of speech, and that they would increase it /after/ birth rates increase?
Do you know haiku-os.org? Some people did this but the long way round...
Does Japan have those values, though? Last I heard, Japanese mostly don't travel (not abroad at least); strongly promote monogomy / long-term relationships; abhor the notion of adult children living with their parents; mostly don't have trouble deciding on which city to live in; and still put a lot of pressure for mothers to stay at home instead of going to work.

I should read TFA first but it seems like the root of their birth problem is simply that the financial & social costs of having children far outweigh the (short-term) benefits.
Your joke was good, alas my sense of humor is a little rusty.

Hopefully my delivery there sounded good on your end, I have no helpful advice but best of luck!
For example:

> Each Internet service provider that provides Internet
services in this state shall make every reasonable and
technologically feasible effort to block Internet access to
information or material intended to assist or facilitate efforts to
obtain an elective abortion or an abortion-inducing drugs
What other language could the EU possibly use as a common language for communications between member states? English is the only language that you can use everywhere within the union and have a decent chance of being able to communicate with people (and this is true everywhere else in the world too).
That was indeed the thinking in the mid-1970s. But that was just after Xerox's peak profit years. Wikipedia: "Following these years of record profits, in 1975, Xerox resolved an anti-trust suit with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which at the time was under the direction of Frederic M. Scherer. The Xerox consent decree resulted in the forced licensing of the company's entire patent portfolio, mainly to Japanese competitors. Within four years of the consent decree, Xerox's share of the U.S. copier market dropped from nearly 100% to less than 14%.[31]"
> These "clean code" principles should not, and generally are not, ever used at performance critical code, in particular computer graphics.

I agree that this is mostly true, but maybe not for beginners in the field

When I was reading "Raytracing in One Weekend" (known as _the_ introductory literature on the topic), I was very surprised to see that the author designed the code so objects extend a `Hittable` class and the critical ray-intersection function `hit` is dynamically dispatched through the `virtual` keyword and thus suffers a huge performance penalty

This is the hottest code path in the program, and a ray-tracer is certainly performance critical, but the author is instructing students/readers to use this "clean code" principle and it drastically slows down the program.

So I agree most computer graphics programmers aren't writing "clean code", but I think a lot of new programmers are being taught them because of introductory literature