Viewing profile — jaredklewis

> Lack of children is about to bite us very, very hard. Why is everyone so sure of this? My own instinct is just that we'll adapt to it and it will be fine. It's just seems like th…

Can I spend money to influence voters? Say that I hold the political that the US should provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza. If I raise a bunch of money for this cause, can I use…

oh haha. Yea, my brain somehow interpreted shell as framework. But yes, I agree, WP is very useful for those times when you need to run a quick `sudo rm -rf /` command but can't ge…

Is it? I did a project with WP a very long time ago and was kind of baffled. Like it's nice to have an good rich text editor, I got that part. But the absolute monstrosities people…

But what if I want to live in a country with a growing economy and improving infrastructure? Forbidding all development does hurt corporations and the wealthy, but just in the sens…

We run power lines to everything else: houses, offices, commercial buildings, factories, and so on. Any particular reasons we should have a special exception where we don't run the…

I'm fine with paper tests as a tradeoff, but in the real world where I am paid to program, I am a strong advocate of advanced type checkers/compilers and other static code analysis…

If there is something that can be done without human approval, I don't want to call support to do it. I want to be able to do it myself on the company's website. I only ever want t…

I doubt there is a statistical correlation between stock market performance and "avoiding doing awful things," though obviously we would need some way to quantify "avoiding doing a…

That's fair, but I think your original comment could be much more clearly written. "There was a spoils system in the late 1800s. It sure would be great if we could go back to that …

Your comment suggests you think cronyism was in some part responsible for America's rise as a global power. Common sense would indicate that we became a power despite the cronyism,…

I would argue that PE often makes things better for the consumer in the sense that they often buy businesses that are going out of business. When the 65 year old sole proprietor of…

This is insightful. It does sort of feel like the search for the Northwest passage.

It’s only natural to want to defend one’s preferences with these things. Because unlike with some other preferences, such as what IDE, operating system, or terminal emulator you us…

> What it achieves, is that the quality of people who assume office sinks even lower than it is today, since anyone with a modicum of competence, would never divest a business for …

Which part of the syntax for fizzbuzz can you not recall from memory? The for loop? Printing to std out? The modulus operator? There’s almost nothing to forget? I’m just struggling…

If you can’t even write a for loop, how can you verify the ai code you generated isn’t going to wipe the prod database?

Yea, that makes sense to me. But again, would not address most (any?) of the complaints in this post.

I don’t disagree with your post but I’m still unclear on how you envision gatekeeper should work. You want the ability to choose a different “authorities” that verify and sign bina…

This take is insane. The charges could be very serious but I’m not sure what that has to do with anything, because being charged (or even just arrested) is not the same as being co…

I linked that study because it is particularly interesting because they run the mass spec test on archived blood samples. But there are other studies and meta analyses which cover …

> testosterone levels have dropped without a solid explanation There is a solid explanation. First, before the adoption of mass spec, studies used a less accurate method of measuri…

> I'm GenZ, my parents were Silent Gen (WWII vets) and my kids are Millennials. My understanding is that Gen Z comes AFTER millennials, so if you are Z, your kids can't be millenni…

They fund more than 10k research grants a year. These grants are for research into basic, unapplied science that would be extremely unlikely to get funding from the private sector.…

Which changes to CPI since 1983 do you most object to? How are you measuring the "actual standard of living?”