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Count me as reeeeally leery of ascribing harm to an amorphous "cultural impact". Not that I think it's sensible or right that a child might not be allowed to walk around the block, but that in general, as with any other thing other people's parents seem to worry about, the kids are probably going to be fine.

Contrasted with our outrageously inverted reaction to the real and fictional (respectively) threats of climate change and terrorism, it's hard for me to muster up too much outrage. Fix this without fixing them, it's hard for me to clap too hard.

I used to play a game as a toddler where I would climb up on the highest chair, push myself backwards off the table with a huge crash, then set the chair back up and do it all again.

I'm pretty sure the only way to keep me safe in that house would've been to not have objects.

The research actually looks kind of cool, but this headline and the whole framing of the issue sounds like it was written by an alien. Uh, why?

We judge everything on the basis of perception, not reality. That's just... how this works.

And this is far from the most worrying thing Americans have a dramatically detatched perception of danger about, right now. If you want to really address this issue, and a few others besides, I'd stop worrying about how people relate to kids or parents and start worrying about how they relate to reality.

Surely the main point is that

    O(n) + O(n) = O(2n) = O(n) = O(n + 1) = O(n) + O(1)

and the constant factors left out of O() often dominate execution time.

Cache performance is just one example of a constant factor, right?

Why would you select against `; drop database prod;?