1. w-j-w Jul 15, 2024 parent

   This misses a bigger issue with a baby bust: population composition. When birth rates decline sharply all at once, as is happening here, populations skew older and older. More elderly people being supported by fewer young people is also not a recipe for sustainability, in fact it is quite the opposite. The people who will be burdened with caring for the elderly are also the people who will need to have children in order to stabilize the population. This isn't an easy leveling-off of a population, its the beginning of a collapse.
2. w-j-w Jan 30, 2023 parent

   You fell for the spaghetti-tree hoax of your own making.
3. w-j-w Jan 6, 2023 parent

   That's a bold claim. Calories as a concept can be derived from the principals of Thermodynamics, to which the human body adheres. The conception of calories does however ignore the body's natural response to calorie restriction, and is therefore incomplete.
4. w-j-w Nov 24, 2022 parent

   Many people complain about how good individual producers, but few talk about effective front-line managers being moved to where they are less effective. In organizations it's often assumed that the best managers need to be near the top of the org chart to spread their effectiveness as far as possible, but I contend that these great managers might be better off near producers in critical areas.
5. w-j-w Sep 15, 2022 parent

   It's pretty easy to see the bright side of a deal that makes you incredibly wealthy.
6. w-j-w Jul 29, 2022 parent

   So?

   Vendor lock-in is just the price of using a vendor, and one which is often overwhelmingly worth paying. What you are saying is true, but it's not really enough of a detraction to justify building everything in-house.

7. w-j-w Jul 25, 2022 parent

   Is your city a 15 minute city at 8:30 AM?
8. w-j-w Jul 3, 2022 parent

   Are you trying to claim that the model would better understand the complicated, real world of law enforcement if it were MORE reductionist?
9. w-j-w Jun 27, 2022 parent

   I also do not understand which users anywhere using the internet wouldn't have access to an https capable browser?
10. w-j-w Jun 15, 2022 parent

    Low inflation, yes, but not stability. Many people in their 20s now watched a parent lose their job during the 2008 housing crisis. Just because they didn't see the 70s don't mean they haven't seen macroeconomic calamity affect their parents microeconomic reality.
11. w-j-w Jun 15, 2022 parent

    If he is comparing meaningfulness as the parent comment would imply, then he has it right.
12. w-j-w Jun 14, 2022 parent

    > 4-5 years of runway

    > startup

    If this is your criterion for working at a startup, then you are too conservative to work at one. Every job carries risk, and looking to eradicate it is pointless.

13. w-j-w Jun 3, 2022 parent

    > small and hobbyist mail server operators

    From the perspective of an email receiver, I WANT things to be difficult for this group. Truly free email available to all would be unusable owing to spam. Oligopoly, I believe, results in the best experience for everyone.

14. w-j-w Jun 3, 2022 parent

    > IMO the fact is simply that policymakers have become really good at ensuring that crashes like 2008 don’t happen again.

    So many people have lost so much money to ideas that rhyme with this one.

15. w-j-w Jun 2, 2022 parent

    Why? I am not dealing with a person. The ethical reasons for being honest don't extend to groups of people acting like psychopaths.

    Don't let profit driven corporations brand themselves as "family", or any other concept which deserves moral consideration.

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