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Comment Re: $7 in Canada (Score 1) 112

Yeah I was always impressed by that in the UK, but also a bit confused on what the incentive is for banks to build out their networks.

The high out-of-network fees in Canada cause the banks to compete on this... banks with more ATMs in an area will get more customers. As a result we have bank ATMs everywhere.

Comment These aren't different "products" to the user (Score 4, Interesting) 41

Treating image search, finance search, travel search, and news search as different "products" is a false flag by DuckDuckGo and others.

When I search for a topic - let's say NVidia - all I care about is are the results accurate, relevant, and actionable.

If they aren't then over time I will go and use a different tool.

Having to go to different places for different kinds of search is just ridiculously anti-consumer and short-sighted - especially in this age of AI. If a ruling like that happened, then Perplexity would just totally eat Googles lunch, not because their results were better but simply because users wouldn't have to go to multiple places.

Comment Re: No data backs this up (Score 1) 125

I don't know how many times one has to say it...

Opinion-based surveys"
  are irrelevant when one has 150 years of actual statistics.

The population in developed economies shrinks - regardless of employment rates. There is ZERO correlation of employment rates to fertility rates. There is STRONG correlation of human development index to fertility rates.

The entire world is on track to be below replacement fertility before 2050. Note that every year that passes, that estimate is revised DOWNWARD. It used to be the 2080s as recent as 2023.

Comment No data backs this up (Score 1, Informative) 125

People - especially Millenials and GenZ - like to use this argument all the time. "Why would I want to have kids in this economy".

The problem is, there is ZERO DATA TO BACK THIS UP.

Repeat after me: The MORE AFFLUENT a society becomes, the LESS CHILDREN they have. We have hundreds of years of data to back this up. The reasons have to do with

- Increased choice for women in what they do
- Increased options for leisure time
- Decreased concern about "extending the blood line"

Comment Re:I must be weird (Score 1) 155

Drinking distilled water and de-mineralized water is actually very bad for your health, because your body needs those minerals and when you drink distilled water it actually strips minerals from your body instead of adding them.

Aquafina water IS mineralized, they actually ADD MINERALS TO IT after they filter the tap water, so I am not sure what you're talking about.

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