> I suspect that the cure-is-worse-than-the-disease thinking in places like Red America might not be nearly so strong.
I think the anti-vaxx crowd will fight back much harder against vaccines in any future event, at least at first. They made it through Covid fine, the ones that are alive, why not the next plandemic?
I was just thinking today what a total shit show Covid was between shortages of masks and vaccines, the misinformation online, and the chaotic messaging from the government. It was a circus. I really don't want to go through that again.
If the government wants to increase the birthrate, then they should something about childcare expenses, like make them tax deductable, instead of building OkCupid.gov. If we're just going to print funny money every year anyway, then use some of that to maintain the population, and provide a public safety net.
It does seem clear that financial issues are a major contributor. Parents have been getting older before having children, presumably because it's taking longer to have financial stability. I know it was a factor with our kid.
If you want more kids work on affordable housing, decreased costs for healthcare, decreased costs for college, and decreased costs for childcare.
Child-care support is highly likely to be long-term anti-inflationary.
Inflation happens when the money supply grows faster than the productive capacity of a country. And few, if any, things are more important for productive capacity than a young workforce.
Or think about it from the other direction. Suppose the country was "fiscally responsible" and had lots of money to support retirees. But if there is nobody of working age, then those retirees will be spending lots of money on their needs and wants. Without workers to supply those needs and wants the prices will get quickly bid up. Aka inflation.
> If the government wants to increase the birthrate, then they should something about childcare expenses, like make them tax deductable, instead of building OkCupid.gov.
Meaning daycare? IIRC, they are already tax deductible to a point (see: Dependent Care FSA).
But it's interesting and kind of depressing that the solution is always to make it easier and cheaper to shove kids into institutional settings, because the assumption that the gaping maw of capitalism must consume a maximum amount of every adults' time and energy is unquestioned.
Institutionalizing childcare is the best for capitalism, because it captures the parents' time with paid work and creates a product to suck up their money with. Too bad about the kids, though. Capitalism comes first.
> Meaning daycare? IIRC, they are already tax deductible to a point (see: Dependent Care FSA)
At a cap of $5,000, the dependent care FSA does not even cover 2 months of daycare for my daughter, and the tax savings amount to less than two weeks of care.
What do you mean by "institutional settings"? I'm just talking about a daycare where my kid can learn their letters and make friends in the neighborhood. That's kind of an institution I guess, but I wouldn't describe it as an "institutional setting".
Arabic is significantly more difficult for English speakers than a Romance language, but you're still able to draw a straight line from symbols to sounds. Once you learn the alphabet, sounding words out in your head isn't difficult. (Naturally, you will not sound like a native speaker for a long time.)
Nope, I think it's a new project. Very confusing for me though because my project is also called OneJS (onejs.com), which is very different and provides Javascript support for Unity.
Oh wow! I saw your project while looking for this project. It's unfortunate that this project has such a similar name to yours. It's still pretty early; maybe they'd be open to rebranding. Best of luck!
I really, really like this list. I've been wondering for the last year what the "optimal" problem is to learn at least the syntax of a language. After learning to run something, how to print to the console, I like using heapsort to start learning syntax of a new language, then reading/writing to a file, then building a small TodoList server.
Imagine how upset you'd be if you ordered a kiln on Amazon, and you got two dozen bricks and a bucket in the mail. You might be tempted to say, "this is not a kiln".
I use DRAKON, or a loose form of it, when I draw diagrams. I like to use a square action icon saying "GOTO <title>", where title is a rounded title icon that names a process or procedure. It's not perfect.
I was approached through a recruiter for a job with a 100k-150k pay range, but I didn't get to interview because I had "too much experience" and they wanted someone with 2-5 years experience in the 120-130k range. I had experience with everything on the job description, even the nice-to-haves section. Make it make sense.
Late to this thread, but on the face of it I'd assume they didn't want to pay more than that range for a few years, if at all. Sometimes when they say "too much experience", what they really mean is that they want a senior developer or platform architect on a junior's salary.
It's neat that the Egyptian measure was subdivided in an increasing fashion, almost logarithmically. I wonder what the error bound is if you use the Egyptian rule as a slide rule.
I think the anti-vaxx crowd will fight back much harder against vaccines in any future event, at least at first. They made it through Covid fine, the ones that are alive, why not the next plandemic?
I was just thinking today what a total shit show Covid was between shortages of masks and vaccines, the misinformation online, and the chaotic messaging from the government. It was a circus. I really don't want to go through that again.
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