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Europe is struggling with low birth rates. They wouldn’t do it here, as is right now it’s already a calamity.


What would that look like? Women complain it's unfair they have to be responsible for birth control in relationships. Now there's the ability for men to shoulder the responsibility too. Will voters, male and female, be ok with not taking the egalitarian path? Obviously governments are concerned about falling birthrates but they already have shown a willingness to continue policies that get them re-elected, even at the expense of birthrates.

I hope you replied to the wrong comment, I don't think women complaining about paying for birth control is a valid reason for sterilizing a population. Also condoms exist.

While there are complaints about cost depending on location, most of the complains are about the side effects of the pill, which women endure and men don't.

Ok, I'll just ignore the rest of the context of this thread.

> the side effects of the pill, which women endure and men don't.

women are free to choose to not take the pill or take it and accept the consequences. Also, there are many alternatives to the pill.

Either way, I don't understand what point you are trying to make. You are just making random statements and ignoring the context of the discussion.


"women are free to choose to not take the pill or take it and accept the consequences. Also, there are many alternatives to the pill."

Yes, but some people want all the benefits with none of the side effects. Of course there is no perfect solution.


> Yes, but some people want all the benefits with none of the side effects

Life is about making tradeoffs. There is no such thing as a free lunch, except while you are still a child.


> Life is about making tradeoffs

Progress is about eliminating them. We don’t need to trade off seafaring against scurvy, for example.


I would highly doubt this pill will eliminate tradeoffs. I'm sure the studies will find tradeoffs (side effects) just like virtually all medications.

> would highly doubt this pill will eliminate tradeoffs

I would, too. But it increases the pool of options, which means that for some people it really is a win-win. Get the same as you’re getting now, but with fewer (or less meaningful to you) side effects.


I wish it were that simple. As an occasional amateur photographer, I’ve looked for alternatives to Lightroom with a simple UX, and to my surprise the alternatives are far more complex and unintuitive than a old software such as Lightroom.

Traffic. Huge loads of it.

I'm not sure what "huge loads" means in this context though.

Remember when nginx was written in 2002 to solve the C10K problem?


What do you mean? What is huge to you? For me a static blog on a small vps would start to crumble at around 30 to 150 requests per second. This number is broad because the are a lot of moving parts even in this scope. This results in 2.5 million to almost 13 million page views a day. To reach numbers like that you need to get reeeeaally popular. With some planning a static website can be served billions of times a day before saturating the network stack.

So what are you talking about?


How would your static text only blog generate "huge loads" on a CDN?

You will sell out when the VC money starts flowing in.

/s


> rent seekers

Finally someone described them by who they are, rent f* seekers.


So I asked ChatGPT what is a rent seeker and it said it's someone who seeks to make money without contributing anything. I don't think that fits OpenAI. I think you're overlooking ChatGPT, for example, which was developed by OpenAI.


I believe that this documentary is a must watch for anyone in the tech industry regardless of the capacity.


Is it likely to be of any interest to people who were there at the time?


> Now this will create problems because now countries will start requiring Apple no to disclose their citizens information to any other party.

This is an excellent take and I couldn’t agree more with it.


Yes, but not "all of a sudden". Mind you that Edward Snowden blew the whistle in nearly 12 years ago.


Here is a nice read on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_...

The subject being, how far large corporations are willing to go for the sake of profit maximisation.


That's the thing everyone forget, Hitler was never a socialist, capital thrived under his reich. Capitalist know socialism means their doom and are actively financing, forming and promoting far right politics accross the occident. Playing on people fear of the unknown to make them vote for parties that are counter-beneficial to them.


I have been pondering about such subject over the past weeks. Maybe one could compare it to people who worked for Allianz, Audi, Bayer, BMW, IBM and others before 1945.


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