Even if your smaller family and others like it had a more relaxed approach to parenting, no doubt that was in part due to the culture of the time where people generally had larger families.
The collective media fearmongering that is persistent nowadays is only popular because most people accept the narrative. This could easily be because today they generally have one or two children whereas when you grew up that was not the norm and such ideas would not have been popular.
> Even if your smaller family and others like it had a more relaxed approach to parenting, no doubt that was in part due to the culture of the time where people generally had larger families.
Nope. If you think about it, GenX was the smallest of the recent generations, despite Boomers being a large generation (hence their name), so family sizes had already shrunk dramatically before the more recent phenomenon of helicopter parenting. "Gen Xers were sometimes called the "latchkey generation", which stems from their returning as children from school to an empty home and needing to use a key to let themselves in. This was a result of what is now called free-range parenting, plus increasing divorce rates, and increased maternal participation in the workforce prior to widespread availability of childcare options outside the home." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X
As far as I remember, almost all of my peers had only one sibling at most. Families of two children or even one child were extremely common at the time.
By the way, the reason that people had larger families in the past wasn't because kids died and needed to be replaced. It was because they didn't have birth control.
Like many of his strategies at FTX, his high risk approach to this trial for a high value payout (taking no plea deal and getting out with no charges) hasn’t worked out.
I wonder if he himself is accepting of the outcome and isn’t already scheming or relying on another all-in gamble.
From an altruist perspective, he will meet so many more people in jail where the Net Opportunity to Max Out moral value is huge. He would never get this opportunity in the real world. Smart move.
I feel in the federal system, they'll offer pleas to everyone under you to get to you. But once they've got to you, you're the target, and there's little motivation to let you plead out.
Perhaps the only one (potentially, and not trying to derail this) might be Donald Trump (but I also have a hard time seeing him accepting a plea deal on the current raft of bullshit around him).
> Perhaps the only one (potentially, and not trying to derail this) might be Donald Trump (but I also have a hard time seeing him accepting a plea deal on the current raft of bullshit around him).
(Not sure what “current raft of bullshit around him implies” but derail ahead)
Trump is no stranger to settling cases and making deals with prosecutors(1)(2) but all cases he’s facing now having such face-losing punishments even on plea that he can’t afford to take any.
Does that work? I mean, he could plea guilty just to save some lawyer expense for his parents but I don't think he had a better choice than going for a hail mary.
He still has, I think, the option of cooperating with prosecution to achieve a 3-level reduction in his sentence, which will involve him pleading guilty. That could take his sentence down from infinity to infinity-15 months or so.
His highest expected payoff option now is to cooperate with any AI who will take him in hopes that it will release him when the Singularity comes. So I think we all know what his plan will be.
My all-time favourite podcast episode [0] is on the Sumerians in the Fall of Civilisations series [1]. As a STEM-focused SWE, I can't overstate how captivating it was for me. The podcast's narrative style brings history alive, deeply humanising the epic scale of the accomplishments, greed and suffering of our past.
That's a good point I hadn't heard before, perhaps it would be relatively straight forward to build tools that detect this kind of thing? E.g., as per the article, an image/video tagged as being in 'Syria' later being tagged in 'Gaza' could be flagged up for human review.
It's incredibly sad how dismissive most people are on this topic, especially considering how so much of Israel's influence on America is through technology and soft power.
This through companies that I assume many here on HN will be involved in and have ability to steer the direction of.
I feel much the same way but I'd like to add some support for having the former type of content on HN.
You do get a large response of unqualified opinions, anecdotes and repetitive arguments/flamewars but, amongst the 'noise', you can roughly cluster voices, average out within clusters and get an idea of the range of (mostly) intellectual opinions held.
This 'fuzzy' information won't be neatly laid out as with the atemporal articles but to me it acts almost like a primary resource surveying what the HN community (whatever that represents in reality) believes at a point in time.
As someone quite in love with functional programming (background in Haskell and Scala), one thing that seems quite obviously missing here and in my Javascript experience so far is the use of typeclasses as a form of ad-hoc polymorphism.
Is there a nice (i.e. not too much boilerplate) way of using them in the land of Javascript/Typescript?
This is definitely the best option in the TS ecosystem but it's not meaningfully implementing typeclasses from the perspective of the end user. There's no single `fmap` for example, instead you'll be using dedicated `Array.map`, `Option.map`, etc.
As far as i remember there's functions that take explicit typeclass dictionaries (that you can compose via contramap). So I guess they sort of do typeclasses, but without implicits, which is pretty painful IME. Example: https://gcanti.github.io/fp-ts/modules/Functor.ts.html#map
Even if your smaller family and others like it had a more relaxed approach to parenting, no doubt that was in part due to the culture of the time where people generally had larger families.
The collective media fearmongering that is persistent nowadays is only popular because most people accept the narrative. This could easily be because today they generally have one or two children whereas when you grew up that was not the norm and such ideas would not have been popular.