Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents • Hacker News Board

Re: Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

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Post by asdff » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

inglor_cz wrote: post #297

asdff wrote: post #229

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in vitro fertilization is the development you are looking for, and exists for those who can afford it.

I know quite a lot about IVF, we are currently going through it. For IVF to work, you need good ova (eggs). You can stimulate the woman to harvest eggs, but in women over 35, the share of ova that have unrecoverable genetic errors (aneuploidy) grows fast and women over 40 hardly have any good eggs. This might be amenable to future therapies, given that old mice were currently medicated with NMN (a NAD+ precursor) and…

You can select for the good ova, but it's true that you are best off freezing eggs and sperm when you are young.

Re: Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

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Post by JohnBooty » Mon, Oct 05, 2020, 9:13 PM UTC

coolgod wrote: post #347

muffinman26 wrote: post #232

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Of course they do. In fact, there are two main types of Chinese dictionaries: phonetic dictionaries organized by pronunciation and character dictionaries organized by radical.

Thanks for the reply, my question was intented to be rhetorical but my writing style wasn't the best. I was just trying to get JohnBooty to do a quick google search for Kanji/Hanzi dictionaries, after all how else could the east have developed such a sophisicated literary tradition without dictionaries.

I apologize - my question does look a bit like a lazy "please Google it for me" type of query.

I did very honestly attempt to look up the answer on Google, but found the results quite confusing. It's probably my fault.

However, I'm very grateful to the concise and comprehensible replies here on HN. I hope that perhaps they helped others as well.

Re: Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

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Post by reducesuffering » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:34 AM UTC

asdff wrote: post #350

reducesuffering wrote: post #277

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The part about U.S. development is partially true. Idaho has been developing immensely, with Boise Area 10x'ing since 1930 and averaging 30% YoY population increase the past few decades.[0] If you go there, there's immense construction with frequent road closures and cranes everywhere. So while Idaho may still be dealing with the second-order effects of California's underdevelopment, I would struggle to find anywhere…

I'm willing to bet Boise is still not building nearly enough housing to put a dent in increasing cost of living.

While that could be true, it wouldn't point to the root cause. There exists a limit to how fast an area can physically develop by modern construction speeds and government permitting procedures, orthogonal to the area's willingness to develop. It's possible that 600k population Boise area is unable to build as fast as California's 700k yearly exodus would like to be accommodated.

Re: Japan’s lost generation is still jobless and living with their parents

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Post by pyuser583 » Tue, Oct 06, 2020, 8:51 PM UTC

_jahh wrote: post #344

pyuser583 wrote: post #341

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There is another problem with multigenerational housing: it can seriously reinforce inequality. Living with your parents in a wealthy suburb is very different from living with your parents in a trailer park.

you're missing the cause for the effect, multigenerational wealth is the source of inequality. Most generally in the fact the 'west' has been pillaging 'the rest' for 400 odd years.

A factor can be both cause and effect. It’s called a virtuous (or vicious) cycle. These cycles are what reinforce inequality.

A family has more money, so they can afford better education for their kids, so their kids make more money.

A family can afford a good house, in a low-crime neighborhood, with neighbors who are corporate executives. Their kids grow up living next door to the rich and powerful.

Living at home with mom and dad at age 25 might mean living in a house with lead paint and drug use. Or it might get you free membership at the neighborhood country club.