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    Fast Food

    When I work from home I get salmon makizushi or banh mi from the local shops. I eat it out of the bag on the walk back home. When I'm in the office I buy something from the street mall. There's a place that does penne bolognese that's probably only as good as I make at home, but just tastes...
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    The superiority of ternary computers?

    I'm not sure what you're thinking of, but it isn't binary and ternary trees.
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    The superiority of ternary computers?

    You can do that with binary computers. Your choice of m in your m-ary tree depends on what you're trying to do with the data structure.
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    Images that make you laugh

    Hopefully no theist points out that only two of those orbital paths have an electron drawn on them.
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    The Manhood Trap

    When my father was coming of age, there was a clear path to success laid out for him: get a trade, work at the mines, play football, get married, buy a house and have kids. The Australian Dream. He was and is a fairly normal person: gregarious and confident. I always looked up to my father but I...
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    The Manhood Trap

    I didn't mean to suggest that Atticus is toxic. Quite the opposite. I think he's a character that most people would consider to embody positive masculinity. I'm sure the novel is better known in the US than down here, and if you were to ask someone who has read it they would agree that he's a...
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    The Manhood Trap

    In high school we read To Kill a Mockingbird. My teacher described Atticus Finch as a caricature of a masculine ideal: he was gentle, kind, and learned, and a great shot with a gun but only when it was absolutely necessary. It is childish (as befitting the story's narrator) but also a clear cut...
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    The Manhood Trap

    I think that's a pretty reasonable thing to ask of parents. Ideally every child would be raised in an environment where they get all the guidance they need from their parents and teachers, and we would not need to worry about the manosphere because no young men would buy into it. Based on my...
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    The Manhood Trap

    I think these two points are worth comparing: What we need is the antidote without the toxic side effects. Compassion, service and respect aren't an antidote to young men's "anxieties"; they're an antidote to everyone else's anxieties about young men. Young men want to solve their problems...
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    New Computer

    Looks great if you don't actually plan on using the keyboard.
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    We Need More Kids

    Looks like the chatbot had an error and hit a GOTO post_talking_point instruction.
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    We Need More Kids

    Childcare is kind of secondary to housing: When housing is expensive, you need two full time incomes to pay for it. And when both parents are working full time jobs, they also need to pay for full time daycare. If housing was cheap, like it was when my parents started a family, then you could...
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    We Need More Kids

    I'm many layers removed from any kind of practical application that involves making or consuming material things, besides electricity and coffee. My work is consumed by other people whose job is Goes on the Computer, and the same is true in turn for those people. And that's the thing: the...
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    We Need More Kids

    It wasn't a great idea in the first place. "It takes a village to raise a child."
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    We Need More Kids

    Knowledge work is a service that people buy. It grows GDP just by generating an increasing amount of information that people demand, and getting better at making that information. Those services doesn't need to be used to make more material stuff or consume more resources. They just have to...
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    We Need More Kids

    It's the ones and zeroes I produce that people pay me for, because those artefacts express my solutions to problems. That's basically just thinking for money. Same goes for any number of knowledge workers whose job is Goes on the Computer.
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    We Need More Kids

    Does for me. And as I get better at thinking, my productivity grows, and I get paid more money. Meanwhile, I don't consume any more food or shelter, although I would like to get double glazed windows.
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    We Need More Kids

    That would be stupid. We'd end up with no houses.
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    We Need More Kids

    I tried reproducing like Elon does but the Post Office told me the envelopes were too soggy to deliver.
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