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I went to poke at Wikipedia just for giggles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility Love the [citation needed] and lack of clarity in that second paragraph.

Sounds a lot like optimistic nihilism. Not my philosophy of choice but certainly not the worst one, either. :)

Wonder why math is such a problem. Growing up in the Ukrainian school system I was doing very well in math for 3 years and was doing double exams in the span of one. Moved to the U…

Yeah I agree but I've been using it for 5 months now and it's great and I can't say I care about the name that much anymore.

Yeah, I'm never too impressed by these. Once I have control over my depressive states, I can start looking at things like exercise or diet. But if I'm highly depressed, those thing…

Hmm, yeah. If I'm sufficiently depressed, things like diet become very negligible. Sense of belonging is much, much more important. I don't recall if anyone ever did a study for th…

From what I've seen this attitude often actually creates and reinforces this harsh reality, though. Most of our reality is composed of humans doing things, and if you dig deep enou…

It IS a meritocracy problem. If you are unable to measure who has the most merit, if you're not concerned with this problem, how can you possibly be having a meritocracy? Connectio…

Want to chip in here, love Endless Space 2! It takes a bit to get used to but it's so fun to just play even if I'm not winning.

Only if your definition of "best developer" is extremely narrow, maybe, since a typical "best developer" would want someone around they could learn from, no? And why would this iss…

Being on the other side of the process has only convinced me more of how broken it is. There are lots of baseline errors, biases, and insufficient attention given to the process th…

What if most people are not good at what society currently appears to value? I don't think most people are against doing what they are good at (or even, what they like), it's just …

Yeah, if I only ever did things that I rejoice in doing I'd be getting nothing done. Not everyone is a super naturally passionate type.

This, to me, sounds personal. There are wonderful games being made and I even found new titles to call my favorites as the years go by. I do not at all believe games are getting wo…

Generally I'm quite sensitive to that stuff but not really seeing that with this article (besides the phrase 'pool of women' maybe). Can you give some examples?

I find things like Leetcode very hard and my memory on it does not keep at all. I have to relearn all the relevant things every single time I start studying for interviews. Don't a…

> The universe is full of puzzles that mean something to solve. Why not work on those instead? Why would those be less interesting than a contrived set of rules? Can you give some …

I have somehow never heard of this and now I feel as if I've missed out.

Well, this reaction explains why people don't like to say it.

According to what? There are plenty of fairly trivial counterexamples to this. If what you say here is correct, what is mental illness? What is a solid marriage vs a terrible one? …

> In a Polish restaurant, i had a starter of lard on bread This sounds like something they could do in Ukraine. Was the large a solid piece, or a spread? Eating solid pieces of por…

Isn't this exactly the problem we currently have? Everyone is so focused on training their BS skills that nobody is real anymore?

I'd say that passage says a lot more things than that, and I'm responding to them. It's part of the fairly resilient narrative of "it was better before" that I think is extremely n…

> Longer breastfeeding suppresses ovulation and menstruation, so fertility is relatively rare. > Childbirth works better squatting. I would like to see citations indicating that th…

As I've already said others don't have to approve or tolerate whatever it is you do or are by nature of being authentic. That is not related, why would it be? Being authentic is an…