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There are, like, two countries where TFR is even close to 6. And there’s about 20 where it’s higher than 4. And since those countries also tend to have sky high infant-mortality ra…

I didn’t mean home schooling specifically but the assertion, and the general sentiment, that parental input is the only determinant that matters when it comes to the development of…

Back when smoking was more normal we basically did leave it up to Big Tobacco to determine how best to tackle underage smoking and they would literally say insane things like “Oh c…

You’re trying to engineer a social interaction. Stop that! People remembering your handle is persistent, and people remembering if they had good or annoying interactions with you i…

Just put your kids in a bubble so not a single adult is the slightest bit inconvenienced by having to exercise any social responsibility for their well being. Easy.

I feel like you must have a very restrictive definition of what constitutes “raising” kids if we’re omitting the place where they spend the majority of their waking hours and the p…

You don’t need IRL identity, you just need persistent reputation. That reputation can be attached to a pseudonymous identity or an IRL one. But the design of most modern social med…

> The problem is not just with people who want to walk places, but people who want to mug/murder/rape those that do. This is a completely irrational (though commonplace) fear. Crim…

I’m a minority who, despite visually fitting the stereotype of a plane hijacker, have found our passport control people to be nothing but professional and courteous. The overall sy…

The Steam Deck is basically a way to play PC games on mobile. You can imagine a world where people can just plug their smartphone into a KVM and just use it as a gaming PC. Modern …

These are basically different markets that only compete with each other because there are finite hours in the day to engage with media, not because they’re offering variations on t…

If you can hold it in your hands you still might not necessarily own it. Remember DivX? (The medium, not the codec).

I think those games are mostly played on tablets these days. But there might be a generational change coming. Basically the entire cohort of parents in my kids’ kindergarten is muc…

Specialized graphics hardware hasn’t been the selling point of having a console since at least 2002 with the first XBox. The selling point of consoles is that they’re a software pl…

Yeah but I’ve seen color e-ink fridge magnets that are like $30. I don’t think it ends up being more expensive or substantially worse for the environment than people buying cases m…

The obvious innovation is to just make the back of the phone case an eInk display. No need for all the bulk when you can merely have an app on your phone that controls the case-dis…

I think this will be isolated to highly specialized fields where training data will need to be selectively curated.

I don’t understand how one doesn’t. I need to do it to look up status on health insurance claims and to access the tax documents for my financial accounts. I guess you can avoid th…

I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the Flash animation splash pages I was forced to sit through before being able to look up hours of operation.

For an end user the “very difficult” repair process is to go to an Apple Store and either get it repaired under warranty or pay a parts and labor fee for it. It’s not actually plan…

The iPad lineup has forked into two classes that seem to be drifting in the direction of “alternative laptop” or “portable television” respectively. A big folding phone would maybe…

Wanting those traits and asking about those traits in a self-reporting questionnaire are two different things. If it’s a questionnaire you are functionally just screening for liars…

I go back and forth on this. Maybe it is the right inclination with software development where there is a strong drive to keep pushing more features and trade offs in terms of “tec…

Anecdotally it seems like anywhere I’d hop to pays about the same unless I can get to the next tier up. If you want to move up a level they expect you to have at least 3-5 years al…

A lot of those ‘edge cases’ in the definition of “knowledge worker” are probably the stuff that’s most likely to have significant parts of the work augmented or replaced by AI agen…