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Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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sarker
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3hr ago
Still on The Glass Bead Game. Haven't formed a firm opinion just yet despite being nearly 60% done, but intrigued enough to continue. I get that it's a kind of hagiography of Knecht that's not supposed to be taken at face value but I'm hoping there's more to it still.
sarker
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3hr ago
Screwdrivers exist to screw screws for a purpose.
Is there anything that exists to do X for no purpose?
sarker
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7hr ago
Wow. You're telling me for the first time.
What are screwdrivers for?
sarker
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7hr ago
Do screwdrivers exist to drive screws? Then why are there undriven screws still? Are screwdrivers so bad at their job?
sarker
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8hr ago
Thanks for this. A few scattered thoughts.
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It's fascinating to see the fun house mirror reflection of western classical architecture in that development your grandparents used to live in.
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The drug problem is much improved in SF under the new mayor - most of the large encampments (e.g. 24th Street Bart, un plaza) have been broken up, though I admit you can still see small groups of fent enjoyers here and there.
sarker
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1d ago
Tech companies can't seem to admit that demand for their products may be declining. Or that advertising and data harvesting for free products aren't as valuable as they thought.
Well. We don't have to speculate, these are mostly public companies. Meta's Q1 profit (not revenue) is up 30% YoY. Doesn't sound like demand is declining to me.
sarker
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1d ago
I do concede they are better than asphalt or corrugated metal.
sarker
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1d ago
Searching "black guy who drove a car into a parade" returns the wiki article on the attack as the first result and has the same info in the AI box.
sarker
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1d ago
What does it mean to be compatible with IKEA furniture? Standing seam roofs are truly a Faustian bargain of giving up aesthetics in return for durability.
sarker
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1d ago
Who's saying anything about the greater economy? CS new grad underemployment is low compared to other majors.
sarker
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2d ago
That's an interesting fact, but I don't see why it wouldn't show up in unemployment/underemployment figures. If fewer people are going into CS when there's a glut of workers and unemployment is stable... Seems everything is working as intended?
sarker
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2d ago
The problem is, there are many more computer science graduates than in 2020.
Sure, but this should be visible in unemployment/underemployment figures and there's nothing there.
There's also a separate issue: hiring is broken, so talented applicants can't get jobs even though there's demand for them. AI makes formerly common benchmarks (like LeetCode) easy to cheat, but even before AI, employers didn't know how to evaluate candidates: ironically, they don't seem to understand what the job they're hiring for actually requires, because many resume screens and interviews have completely unnecessary requirements.
This is a major pain in the ass (recruiters are also, as a rule, retarded). I don't know if AI makes it worse though.
sarker
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2d ago
Darts is an interesting case. A few possibilities are that professional darts players start out as dudes hanging out at the bar, which women don't do. Former Communist countries do their damnedest to scour the earth for the best athletes to send to the Olympics, so it's a more representative view of the best in a population. The more complicated motion of throwing a dart may also advantage men.
sarker
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2d ago
Seems clear that you aren't reading my responses so this will be the last one.
reduces within cohorts + significant differences between cohorts
No, there's basically zero difference in hassles for married with/without children in each group. The difference in means is tiny compared to the SDs. Differences between Amish and genpop exist for all categories of women.
Married & kids Amish have fewer hassles than unmarried. When number go up it mean hassle go up
Meaningless. Married genpop have fewer hassles than single married.
Hassle one metric. Not best metric. Other metrics for between pops. Metric still evidence. Shows having kids reduce hassle in both pops and between pops. Lower for married w kids. 48 = max stress. 12 = absolutely no stress.
No other metrics besides hassle break out the effect of kids. If you don't like it, please find a better source rather than pretend that it shows something it doesn't.
Better yet - find a wife, have a kid, and let me know how relaxing it turns out to be. I might as well be arguing with an LLM for all the life experience you have in this department. At least the LLM has read more than one study.
sarker
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2d ago
But nothing you’ve posted indicates that you really know anything about this.
Except, of course, the fact that I know what it's like to raise children, and you don't even have a wife, let alone a child. The life experience gap is massive, and you can't know what you are missing from your side of it.
The evidence you show is that having kids makes little difference to psychosocial hassles for married women, both genpop and Amish. All the benefits are due to being Amish vs being genpop - nothing to do with kids. Even unmarried women have fewer hassles if they are Amish. This is literally what your study says.
Again, why is there no benefit to psychosocial hassles from having kids if kids relax women? why is the only measure that breaks out women by marital and childbearing status show zero effect on the parameter you think is important? This is basically enough to dismiss your claims out of hand.
sarker
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2d ago
Have you tried making the house deeper than eight meters? I'd be surprised if there were any actual colonial houses of such modest dimensions.
I also find it amusing that the colonial house plan is now colonizing Rus'.
sarker
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2d ago
How bad is the new grad job market, really? There's been a few high profile layoffs in tech companies, but a lot of those companies had insanely over exuberant hiring during the pandemic (and let me tell you, they hired some absolute howlers). That seems like a much better explanation for layoffs than the AI washing coming out of the C suite as a sop to investors.
Why are they booing the boomer? Well, the left hates AI, and college students are pretty left. Do we need to go any deeper?
sarker
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2d ago
But if the stairway touches the external wall, it has to fit between the window openings.
You could have a window in the stairwell, offset vertically if necessary to have it a reasonable height off the floor.
sarker
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2d ago
Don't know much about watches, but based on my careful study of /r/watchescirclejerk, try giving the AD a charcuterie board and a night with your wife if you want to get the call earlier. If you want the privilege to exchange funds for goods you need to go the extra mile.
It'd also be nice to have a Rolex I could give to my future kid(s) to sell when they're middle-aged or senior citizens, since properly-taken-care-of vintage Rolexes seem to be valued highly, so giving them a pretty insurance policy that both I and they could get use out of in the meanwhile seems nice.
I don't think your kids would much care for a watch.
sarker
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2d ago
Can we talk about the bizarre cast of characters involved in the Hantavirus outbreak?
We've got:
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A Pitcairn Island resident. Pitcairn, population 35, is 400 miles away from the nearest inhabited island and is famous for being settled by mutineers from the HMS Bounty, the descendants of whom pass the time by molesting children. This woman went on a brief pacific tour before quarantining:
The woman had flown from San Francisco on 7 May and travelled through the island of Tahiti and then Mangareva in French Polynesia, the French Polynesian government said.
It's unclear to me how she ended up in SF to begin with.
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A Tristan da Cunha resident. Tristan is the most remote inhabited island in the world (population 221) and the UK military had to airdrop medical personnel and equipment to monitor the case.
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An American woman who "mostly lives in Ecuador".
Perhaps others?
Keep in mind there were about 150 passengers and crew total aboard the MV Hondius during the hantavirus cruise.
I wonder if I can find a traditional Saudi guy to chime in. If he has three wives, then you would be forced to believe whatever he says on this subject
You misunderstand. It's not that I weigh evidence by number of wives. It's that if you don't have a wife and kids you literally have no idea what you are talking about on this topic.
It does by way of the % anxiety or depression and the % feeling overloaded are proxies of relaxation.
None of these are broken out by married/not married/children/no children. You're way overextending the evidence to look at depression rates among Amish vs genpop and claim this is due to kids relaxing women. That's simply not what the study says.
In both groups, the within-group “married with children” are less hassled than never married.
We're going in circles. As I said:
There's no indication that having kids actually changes psychosocial hassles in either population.
Which basically puts to rest "women are relaxed by children". If they're relaxed by children, why is there no meaningful change in psychosocial hassles versus married no children?
And we can compare between these two sets of groups, one set where 32% has 6+ children and the other where only only 4% has 6+ children
6+ pregnancies does not mean 6+ children.
and we find that the one with more children is slightly less hassled while scoring better on anxiety and depression.
The hassle differences exist for all groups. Has nothing do to with kids.
sarker
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2d ago
I don’t know, I’m just not convinced that your anecdota is valuable here as a generalized principle. There’s no reason for me to think that you have insight into female happiness, nor your wife or female friends.
I'm not talking about happiness. I'm talking about whether they find a particular activity to be relaxing or not.
To whatever extent you doubt my anecdata, consider that you have even less. You don't even have a wife or children of your own!
The study indicates their lifestyle make women pretty relaxing even though they babymax.
The study doesn't measure 'relaxation.' As I already stated:
In both populations never married women score higher on psychosocial hassles than the other groups. The difference between married with children and married without is very small in terms of SDs in both populations.
Women of all categories (married, unmarried, kids, no kids) have fewer psychosocial hassles in the Amish population. There's no indication that having kids actually changes psychosocial hassles in either population.
Maybe if the psychosocial hassle score increased for genpop women with children vs genpop childless women you'd have something, but as is you're just grasping at straws to support a conclusion you really want to believe in.
sarker
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3d ago
I’m extrapolating because she’s your n=1, or within your n=5. How else can I respond to your sample?
No, you're engaging in Bulverism. You assume that I'm wrong and work back to reasons why.
Yes. But not every moment of it. But that are major moments of relaxation.
That's rather a weaker claim. Almost everything has moments of relaxation. Even the most stressful job you can imagine probably has coffee breaks.
But not if you’re multitasking two huge stressors
You wouldn't know this since you've never raised a child, but raising a child does in fact involve multitasking a bunch of stressors. This is all squared with multiple children. Again, I strongly recommend you raise a child before forming opinions about what it is like.
There’s only one other way to gain wisdom about this without reading: going around conducting polls. I have not gone around conducting polls in these communities. There’s not another way, as far as I know. Not one that’s reliable.
In fact, there is a way to acquire true knowledge about the world without symbolic manipulation, and that's by gaining firsthand experience.
When you say that she isn’t stressed, you mean that she isn’t stressed generally speaking.
Why, no, that's not what I mean.
She wasn’t given any sort of role model relevant to the domain of motherhood, the chief domain of her existence.
It may surprise you that it is in fact the case that you're mistaken about several of your "no true Scotsmen" assertions about the conditions necessary for a mother to find children relaxing in the context of my wife. It's not your fault, since you don't know her - but one wonders what possesses a man to invent stories about another man's wife.
I’m assuming that you understand that people are comfortable doing tasks which have been reinforced and tasks which they have been trained to do.
Comfort isn't the question here. I'm perfectly comfortable doing my job for which I have extensive training. Nevertheless, it is exhausting.
I’m assuming that you can understand how the study would debunk the claim that motherhood is stressful (the population with tons of children is much less stressed than the one with very few).
I hope I don't have to explain why you can't compare Amish vs genpop stress and conclude that motherhood isn't stressful. Instead, I'll pretend you reiterated my point about the small gap in stress between married women and married women with children in both groups. I'll go ahead and reiterate what I already said in response to that point, which is that you can find something meaningful, fulfilling, and also utterly exhausting. I also couldn't immediately tell what goes into the hassle assessment, so it's unclear to what extent it even measures what you think it measures.
I'm genuinely puzzled that you don't understand this point. I'm my last post, I assumed that you had worked a job that you doing fulfilling at some point. Am I mistaken on this? Have you never done that? Generally speaking, have you ever done something hard, taxing, exhausting, yet absolutely worth doing?
Has a mother ever told you that raising (especially small) children is relaxing?
I can't help but feel as if your knowledge of childrearing, but also of women's attitudes towards it are entirely symbolic, in the sense that you derive this knowledge entirely from reading words on a screen. Am I correct in this assessment or does the rubber meet the road somewhere?
Well just the other day I used a screwdriver to tighten a loose cabinet door. That didn't increase production of anything, in fact, it decreased the demand for new cabinetry.
Am I misusing my screwdriver?
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