There's the grandmother hypothesis that holds we could just not have menopause and reproduce more, but we don't because there's greater evolutionary advantage for having the elderly provide support to their kin. Maybe this type of kin selection is bounded by consanguinity though, and that limits the advantage? Or maybe population pressure discourages family units from getting too large?
That’s the kind of evolutionary explanation that doesn’t fit natural selection at all in any time period
You would need to explain how populations who did those things were selected against
Instead of the more aligned reality that there was a random attractive or forceful menopausal mutant that popped out alot of babies or put alot of babies in others
speaking of attractive, what we see now is that older women are selected against and everything considered attractive is correlated to ability of carrying a pregnancy to term. which came first? impossible for me to say, would older women have many more pregnancies if the menopause never happened? the viable eggs would have still gone towards zero, unlike other mammals and beings
In my experience, that was pretty much true until I started doing small discussion-group-style graduate classes. But those are necessarily capped by staff-to-student ratios.
Pixel 6 dropped out of guaranteed software support yesterday:
Pixel 7a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro & Pixel Fold
These phones, including Pixel Fold, will get updates for 5 years starting from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US.
I can recommend the Fairphone 6+, recently launched, they increased the RAM compared to the 6 (as opposed to many other companys decreasing it), the price is a little higher, but you get a phone that is sustainably produced, can be largely fixed by yourself, and has software update commitments until 2033.
Probably to similar purposes as the 2024 opioid settlement: housing assistance, schools, subsidized child care. Legislators will probably try to align it with goals that seem like they would counter the stuff Meta's doing. Smaller communities will probably fail to allocate it promptly.
I'm a little unclear on the timeline here, but Mullenweg just got back from Burning Man. I suspect that's related to both the content of the post and the board's timing.
Matt is Automattic's CEO.... I see what you're doing... ;)
We/I want to build useful things. This is a distraction. I believe Automattic is a net benefit for the web and look forward to having more focus to continue delivering on that. Internally, were focused on that.
Sounds like you've never worked for a CEO with "ideas." One time a CEO made the whole R&D team switch to "aspect oriented programming" because he had read a blog post. Another time we had to switch to C# because he had heard it wad better than Java.
I worked for a company with co-CEOs. The ideas CEO left and the company tanked. I think there's a right way to have an ideas CEO but maybe a balance helps keep them from switching everybody to C# on a whim. A CEO without ideas seems like a recipe for at best stagnation and at worse just fleecing the company of value and taking a golden parachute.
One thing that's a occasionally annoying (because I deleted my account) but understandable is that a lot of the non-English speakers have stayed on X because it's easy for them to ignore the Nazis.
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