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> economies can’t pivot fast enough to handling such a high death rate per active worker

Why? People have died at relatively faster rates in populations throughout history.


It seems like you're saying that 6 million excess deaths a year in a country has been the norm throughout history, but I don't think that's the case. Even if we just think about it as a percentage of the total population, 300MM into 1.4B is ~21% of total population dead in 50 years, which would be catastrophic for a country's ability to maintain its economy, among other things. It's not exactly as bad as the bubonic plague, but much worse than Covid in any country, and much worse than any wars I can think of, so I think it would have a pretty large effect.


> 300MM into 1.4B is ~21% of total population dead in 50 years

This is old age we're talking about. All of those three hundred million people are going to die anyway over that time period.

> much worse than any wars I can think of

The Taiping rebellion killed somewhere between 20 and 30 million people, approximately 5-10% of the population of China at the time. See if you can spot it on this graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_China - it's lost somewhere in the steep vertical climb on the right.

For a part of that period of dramatic population growth, China famously had a (badly enforced) one child policy.

(also, I guarantee you that there's some maniac in the Chinese ministry of defence looking at a prediction of deaths in a nuclear exchange with the United States that runs into the hundreds of millions, and declaring it winnable. There certainly were on both sides of the US-Russia Cold War, fortunately ignored all the time)


They would, but the ‘support staff of the dying’ to ‘dying of old age’ ratio is going to change by orders of magnitude. It will be a difference of kind.


> catastrophic for a country's ability to maintain its economy

Productivity of 10s of new STEM every few years > productivity of 300m of subsistence farmers / low skill workers in informal economy. Having a lot of surplus people helps in some domains of development / consumption, it's a drag in others, i.e. per capita food/energy security. Thinking about PRC being just 20% less crowded during holidays/events is still pretty stressful.


I am asking why sub-replacement fertility at that rate would lead to an inability to keep up with the demand for final disposition.


The Siege of Leningrad killed 1.5 million people, roughly half the population of the city, over a period of roughly two years.


The survivors cohort left to rebuild probably was not composed mostly of retirement-age people.


It was also a vicious dictatorship, and the live tended to stay alive longer if they did what they were told.

A feature of St Petersburg is the weather. It helped keep the place sanitary when corpses just froze.


Who knows, but its probably a very small percentage if you look at the causes of death for people over 65 in Japan.


Or don't care if no one finds you when you're dead. What does it matter if someone finds you in a day or a month? You are dead.

Not having many close relationships when you die is probably a better net benefit. People are crushed when their parents pass.


What does it matter if someone finds you in a day or a month?

People don't always go from fine to dead in an instant. There can be a period of days when you are still alive, but incapable of calling for help. If you were found in that period you wouldn't necessarily have to end up dead.


Do they still advertise life-alert on tv? “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”


Seems to be references to Kendrick Lamar songs... for some reason?


Great, how long until they change the license again?


Depends on what new tricks ~FAANG~ MAMAA companies come up with to get as much as they can from open source without giving anything back I suppose.


Whatever you think of those companies in a wider sense, it's totally inaccurate to suggest that Microsoft, Google or Amazon haven't given anything back to open source.


Hyperbole aside, they certainly haven't given as much as they've gotten, though.

E.g., remember when Heartbleed hit, and the world learned that OpenSSL was maintained by one person getting only $2000/year for it? Fixing Heartbleed was estimated to cost half a billion dollars world-wide.


> Hyperbole aside, they certainly haven't given as much as they've gotten, though.

Agreed, but the point of sharing software is that it's not a zero sum game. The thing you create once is not diminished by me using it many times.


We still have to pay our bills under capitalism, though. Software copies might be infinite, but money isn't.


Of all the people who have to pay their bills under capitalism, why are you specifically concerned about the ones who wrote ElasticSearch and Redis?


Well, ElasticSearch is the topic of the link.

But specifically, those two are examples of companies who started off FOSS, then got exploited by AWS.

Every FS-focused person gives them sh!7, but leaves Amazon off the hook because they exploited under the FS rules, which is an inversion of who actually does harm in the world.


Hot take: lots of widely popular open source software only exists because mega corps developed and released it.

Reference: most software in the Apache Foundation and huge portion of the container ecosystem.


Other old links not so much:

https://zz.reddit.com

> upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure


Laravel itself is a Frankenstein with Symfony, so...


You need a PS1 bios and a rom or disk image as well.


> so many transfems

Sounds interesting. How many? What proportion against the general population? Do you know?



As with any novel phenomena, especially in sociology, it is very hard to provide tangible evidence for anything. If you demand nobody speaks of anything of sort without hard evidence, rarely anything would ever be said.


> If you demand nobody speaks of anything of sort without hard evidence, rarely anything would ever be said.

Eh, that is some bullshit, but there is evidence though. I edited my comment to provide it, instead of asking you to do so.


> I edited my comment to provide it, instead of asking you to do so.

Nice of you to do that. Thank you.


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