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They use the story of Amalek from the Torah.
One of the Rabbis I watched recently said "when you kill the first child it breaks your heart [...] then you start to enjoy it."
_Many_ Rabbis are demanding that animals, children, women and unarmed males be "erased." IDF soldiers are bragging about killing and raping civilians on social media. One IDF soldier was complaining he hasn't shot any children under 12 yet.
Netanyahu is a moderate. He's not an "extremist."
Feel like there's a massive recession coming and it's time to hold onto my job as long as possible, sell my house and start a company.
Aiming for 10 - 15 years of runway (without tapping into my retirement accounts) to make this succeed.
Already learned Software Development, now it's time to learn Copy, Marketing, Sales, Accounting, Recruiting, Networking, Social Skills, etc.
An aside, but I wish more webpages for applications put screenshots on the front page. Probably would had made it easier to notice if the application was based on Electron or not
Didn't start that business I wanted to in my 30s. Would had been in the same position financially anyway.
You could make child-rearing unaffordable enough to require government assistance. Then that assistance could be limited by quota. There's a lot of things that could happen in the future. We don't really know. It's just a guess.
Another thing that In vitro fertilization solves is allowing for women to focus on their careers from age 20 - 50. If people in the future are going to live longer and be healthier, then it'd be feasible to have children (through surrogate) at the age of 50. If you'd already amassed enough wealth (or had privy to subsidies), I couldn't see why not...
H.G. Wells pointed out that we cannot have population control in one nation of the world, but not another. It must be worldwide, or it'd result in severe unrest.
Julian Huxley, H.G. Wells, Charles Pincus (and many more) made this one of the defining issues of the 20th century. The Pill and IVF were long in the works and heavily funded as a means to avoid the "Population Bomb."
They envisioned a new world without war or environmental destruction. Their solution was to reduce the birth rate, through various means. The reduction of family formation being one of them.
It's interesting to read through these older works and realize the world they'd envisioned has to some extent come to fruition.
Even with ReBar enabled, there's something wrong with the scheduler, firmware or driver.
AMD and Nvidia have had a lot of years to optimize their stack and get better consistency.
Averages are useful, but they don't tell the entire story. Hopefully the next iteration of cards from Intel resolves these issues.
They mostly cater to the existing residents that own homes and partake in municipal voting.
They'll stop creating new housing developments and put massive permitting fees on proposals for new construction.
> Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind being. Looking up a word in this hash table dictionary is a trivial expression, one built into the language. And that's it. Sure, you could come up with some ways to decrease the load time or reduce the memory footprint, but that's icing and likely won't be needed.
https://prog21.dadgum.com/29.html
5MB here. 5MB there. No one notices ;)
Why does the middle class taxpayer have to bail everyone out, with lower living standards due to taxation and inflation.
I've been in a recession for the past 10 years. If you don't hold assets you've been in a recession/depression whatever. It's been miserable.
Meanwhile most of the physical services are getting worse. Healthcare, road conditions, housing, etc.
This isn't progress.
People have become obsessed with manipulating digits and symbols, rather than building a physical reality.
Unfortunately this makes market research difficult. Guess it depends on the audience you're trying to reach.
This is the most manipulated, trash asset imaginable. The price of gold hasn't changed since 2011. It was $1900, still $1900.
Worst investment of my life. Maybe 2024 - 2030 will see some returns in gold like we saw from 2001 - 2011.
I'll keep investing in miners, because it's what I know and spend a lot of time reading drill results, balance sheets, etc.
But diversifying my portfolio. Oil has done particularly well in the past two years. There are many other interesting commodities.
It's fanless. Cost $45. Makes almost no heat after tweaking. Has a 12 hour battery life under use. Basically functions as an electronic (abeit more advanced) typewriter.
Since the screen is 11 inches. I usually prop the Kindle on one side of it and use nvim in vsplit mode. Half the screen becomes e-ink. Can read and take notes at the same time.
This will cascade, causing smaller companies to layoff staff, so they can replace their low performers with experienced developers on the market at slightly higher wages.
Russia exports way more resources and has decrepit living conditions.
LNG will not make up for a fall in GDP due to supply chain, monetary or political issues.
The risks are piling up for a black swan, but it's not a collapse. Western Civilization is far from collapse, but it might be entering its long decay. That's difficult to quantify.
In Canada (unrelated to article, but similar.) I'd need a 16% raise to keep pace with inflation. Since 52% tax bracket.
Meanwhile homeowners do nothing and have tax-free returns. Yearly returns larger than my net salary.
Collapse is a matter of perspective. Being in the working class sucks and everyone knows it.
This is a much better article:
Collapse Won’t Reset Society https://palladiummag.com/2022/04/11/collapse-wont-reset-soci...
It's not perfect (headphone jack doesn't work), but been really happy so far. Probably the best $ per performance laptop I've ever purchased.
One problem in Canadian provinces is your taxes remain the same regardless of where you live, but if you need access to healthcare or education, then you have to live near a major city. Particularly if you want quality healthcare.
In fact the cost of living goes up if you're a rural inhabitant in most of Ontario. Electricity is more expensive, heating is expensive, etc.
This is anecdote, but the higher salary companies I've worked at have been much more competent, productive and happier in general.
Most of the stress I've encountered in software development has been due to complexity brought by inexperience. They were all lower paying companies.
The counter is, in the USA, FIRE is a possibility. Few, if any, Software Developers talk about FIRE in Europe.
Pensions in Europe will be under pressure. I doubt they will keep up with inflation. Particularly with stagnant productivity and aging populations.
History has shown its better to have your own savings than rely on public pension systems (this is a long discussion.)
The US simply values software more than anyone else.
I don't use the majority of the services where I live.
Rarely leave the house.
I'm convinced that the income tax is a repressive tax, designed to curb consumption and destroy the middle class.
The rich don't pay income taxes. If you want to redistribute wealth, you have to do it through a wealth tax. Not inflation and income taxes. None of this is sustainable.
On one hand, I have less motivation to work hard.
On the other hand. I have more time and am not being verbally abused by anyone.
Having a partner doesn't necessarily mean I'd work harder or smarter.
Unfortunately, I have to spend a lot of time and money on family (parents.) Their nagging can be unbelievable.
My thoughts are that motivation should be found internally. Loneliness is a feeling you can escape. Even in solitude.
You could argue that becoming more inward facing and eschewing community is harmful to greater society and the world at large. But I'd rather save myself from the misery of having to deal with what I consider a mentally ill world. Solitude isn't a bad choice. Isolation isn't the worst thing. You can find peace and quiet.
Now, whether we need new cities is a separate question.
In Canada where taxation and housing is expensive, the complaint has been that fertile landed is being used for urban sprawl.
One potential solution, that's rarely discussed, is to build cities in the North adjacent to large bodies of water. With access to shipping routes, lower taxation and superior infrastructure to make up for the adverse affects of weather.
You may argue the economic incentives and capital aren't there. I'd argue there's a massive misallocation of capital and the economy is fundamentally broken, but that'd be a lengthy discussion.
From the government's perspective. There are many factors for not building and improving remote towns. Some are: a) climate change (vehicles, heating, trucking and more) b) lack of infrastructure (gas, roads, railroads, healthcare) c) lack of budget (most of Federal revenues go to redistribution payments)
The biggest issue I've noticed in Canada is a lack of will. Ibn Khaldun noticed later in a nation, citizens view the function of government as a means to provide leisure. Western Civilization is obviously going through a time of major upheaval. The 1950s - 1990s were an aberration, I don't think we're going to see those standards of living in the future. We can't expect large scale shipping routes to remote locations, so people can live in detached housing. Future housing will likely be large scale, high density, low sqft apartments designed for maximum efficiency of energy and infrastructure.
My thoughts are the nation technically doesn't need many people living in rural areas. The collective pursuits will win over the individual in the future.