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This study is of a small island population.

Didn't it take thirty years to get back there?

Childcare is never as good as time with a parent. We sacrifice our time with our children for future career earnings to maximize lifetime income. People in this discussion throw ar…

Many cultures had nuclear families by default including much of western and northern Europe. Especially after the plagues.

Die hard rust fans often minimize the very real developer difficulty incurred by their language of choice. Even major library maintainers in rust have criticisms of various languag…

People who are really interested in rust tend to be top-tier developers. I don't think they're consciously lying about their experiences working with the language but they may not …

The number one reason is the same reason women do post birth pelvic floor therapy...

Saving heirloom apples has zero biodiversity value, or near two it. All domestic apples are extremely inbred and from a one or two cultivars brought to Europe a few hundred years b…

So you just want implicit returns?

In go, you either handle the error where it happens or close to it, or log it. No need to pass things up just to log. I like the simplicity, and the zero cost at runtime. If you co…

I am very partial to python, but i have hit a lot of bottle necks with it. I find GO to be a reasonable intermediate, balancing ease of use and flexibility with some speed trade of…

It really depends on the person. For me, I was already remote before covid. I realized commutes really impacted my performance on the job. When I did work from the office, there we…

The romans used these systems extensively as well...

Havent the calculations changed ?

Wikipedia is most young peoples go to source for knowledge. The way important entries frame a subject is considered to be a neutral observers take, but they're often anything but w…

Since Global petroleum supply and demand is inelastic even a small shortfall in Global Production will result in much higher prices In the turmoil of regime change in Russia produc…

I agree in general, but i also think hoping in early career helps people get good experience. If you're over thirty, I don't understand it but in your early 20s you honestly need t…

Adjacent to this, the USA used to have great light rail / trolleys in even small and rural towns. If we just brought back rail, we would be able to improve walkability without rebu…

'Immortality project' or just, a traditional way of seeing oneself as being a part of a 'line' or stream of life.

Generally, pro life people arent going to find the violinists argument forceful: 1) the violinist is framed as being particularly valuable due to their talent, this is not a shared…

I think the comparison works in terms of percentages, but falls apart because the Europeans were not unified. Something like 3 or four great powers colonized America vs a single et…

OK, great discussion in here about hype and toxic positivity. Does anyone beleive this would have worked if they went with a Leander team and decreased spend? Made a simple MVP and…

Maybe the answer is that any system which can't account for our experiences is wrong.

Cool stuff! One nit to pick - isn't the major source of Sulphur oil refining? Trying to spin this as being greener than the existing tech might be a bit much.

I think the Chinese room experiment is pretty effective, but a person might say the room is conscious and one might not. We all agree that, if we had a Chinese room in front of us,…