You won't need to tell yourself to get up and go, not ever again, not until they leave home.
Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)
Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.
Ahh the myth of eternal technological unemployment. You realize that people have been saying similar stuff about every single piece of technology in the history of humanity, right? This is no different. There's always more work to be done.
That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.
Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)
What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?
"Women over 40 have the lowest birth rate" shouldn't come as a shock to anyone
Older does tend to mean wiser, after all. Well... okay, for some people.
Destroying middle class has predictable consequence of tanking birth rate. News at 11.
"We must have constant inflation or people might, you know, save!"
Then... basics cost (a lot) more and mid- to low-tier wages don't even come close to keeping up
Brutal housing, education, medical, food, vehicle, and fuel costs, crushing taxes on the lower tier workers... gee, sounds like a great circumstance to bring some ever-more-expensive rug rats into.
The "American Dream" is deader than Trump's diaper contents for a large swath of those of an age to be pumping out crotch goblins. But hey: The stock market is doing Great!
Or perhaps it's just that no one wants to hump someone with their pants falling off their butt — or otherwise dressing like a refugee.
Obligatory: get off my lawn.
I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.
I remember a friend trying to get his shiny new AWE64 to work with his off-brand beige box. Either the printer port or the sound card could work, because they had incompatible DMA channel-address space combos.
He must have had a strange LPT port and/or address then, because normally those wouldn't be in conflict. I've had cards with fairly huge numbers of dip switches, but as long as you could get your hands on some documentation you were OK. Even very cheap ATA multi-I/O cards usually had fairly generous I/O ranges. I had a 120MB Maxtor ATA disk in the 386DX25 on which I first ran Linux, on a $15 no-brand ATA card, and with a 1MB Trident VGA card. That $15 card had pretty decent UARTs, too.
I tried to significantly upgrade the CPU in an AMD-based netbook that I really, really liked... it was 64 bit, but it was single core, and I was just trying to get it into the prior era at the time really and just get it to be a dual-core. And in theory this was possible and I even did it, but it was unreliable AF and I stalled out at the BIOS hacking stage and just got some other used thing. And now I have a $300 HP (I know ugh) Ryzen 3 laptop which... I doubled the RAM and quadrupled the SSD in. Remarkably, it has a combo SATA/NVMe M.2 slot. It's been great with Devuan on it, it's still running version 4 even. We watch youtube on it while we eat dinner, high tech shit. But suspend/resume works reliably, so I've got that going for me.
That's terrible, it means if you buy very much RAM in the frist place you're basically getting reamed.
I'm gonna want something Linux-based, and then it's not going to be all GPLv3. Otherwise, I'm happy to agree.
The fewer platforms I have to learn, the better.
If there is any place in the world where the Jews can have a state of their own, it is in The Land of Israel.
That's one thing, illegally settling lands that they were not handed by the US through the UN is another.
The history of the Jews, as well as the history of the Jewish statehood, began before 1948.
And yet THOUSANDS OF YEARS after the region we're discussing was settled by others.
Those sopwith planes were fighter-bombers. Snipe and Camel could both carry "four 9 kg (20 lb) Cooper bombs".
https://airandspace.si.edu/col...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I am simplifying the situation just as much as is called for.
Publicly held corporations exist specifically to separate the people profiting from a corporation's actions from responsibility for those actions. They have no other purpose as literally everything else a public corporation does can be done by some other type of entity.
Yep. For all its drawbacks the PC was an amazing platform for its day.
When it came out, nothing could beat the Amiga for versatility, though. It was even better at having all kinds of stuff on its bus at once than the PC was. The bus wasn't any faster than 16 bit ISA in the real world, but it was at least a dozen times more convenient.
yes but, the fares won't cover the cost, we end up paying for it.
Sure, but roads are the same in that regard — we pay for them, too. But they are a lot less efficient and they lead to a lot more pollution, and arguably just as importantly they just get clogged up with more cars in short order and then we've essentially spent that money to hasten our own destruction and make more people sit in traffic longer.
Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world.
