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I'm québécois, my grandma came from a big family (12 siblings IIRC). She used to cook with ground beef all the time cause that's what her mother cooked with too - it was THE cheap source of protein. Meat loaf, shepherds pie, meat pie, beef and cheese macaroni, the whole shebang. Nowadays, when I cook any of those meals, it's cause I feel like eating that specific thing, but it often turns out to be the most expensive meal of the week.

> Pleasing your customers is how profit is maximized.

If you ignore everything like, including but not limited to, market capture, addictive products, lock-in, information asymmetry, planned obsolescence, dark patterns, captive markets, artificial scarcity, seldom-lucrative-yet-important services and any externality, very true!

That was my impression as well. I'm just wondering if there are actual numbers to gauge by how much. I'd find it almost concerning anyone would draw any conclusions from it if it's not significantly any better at predicting health outcomes than a coin toss.

How accurate is it, in practice, for a given individual? I'm not that out of the ordinary proportion wise. I have a slightly longer torso and arms versus my legs, a somewhat muscular-ish baseline and broad shoulders, but I accumulate fat almost exclusively abdominally. My teenage self, lifetime peak of my fitness, no visible body fat, hyperactive football player, qualified as solidly overweight. If I was to listen to it, I'd be called obese before I noticeably start to show body fat.

I often wonder far from the median I am in this regard. I was under the impression that it was pretty accurate for assessing populations, but fell apart very quickly at the individual level. How many "normal"/otherwise healthy people do fall outside BMI's numbers?

Pass it down depends on having a kid around your age that can pass it down to you. We buy second hand for most, but we still have to buy. Yes, there is a need for a larger car when your original car is tiny, or you didn't have one at all. Yes, there is a need for larger housing cause I lived in a one bedroom apartment. As for special needs, I mean, it always can happen, and you always need to be ready that it's a possibility. Telling people that they should have kids regardless then turning around and leaving them with no resources for it is just irresponsible.

You also entirely skipped the most expensive ones. Feeding them, an expense that's been ever growing in the last decade, much faster than inflation. Education and child care, which the cynic in me, having read you say the problems started when women joined the workforce, thinks this is probably cause you think women should stay home for these - I hope I'm wrong.

I'd be extremely surprised if your budget didn't radically change before and after having kids, even staying frugal and living within your means.

Oh come on. Spending it on kids ALSO means buying their products in the end, captive audience and all. Kids come with all sorts of expenses you can't just wave away. Daycare/education. Clothing. Twice the food you would as a couple, not that far down the line. Possibly a larger vehicle, or just a vehicle at all, depending on your pre-kid lifestyle. Larger housing. And that's assuming everything goes well and you don't happen to have special needs or sick kids, meaning healthcare, taking days off, etc. The whole freaking thing makes you pay at every corner. Don't be dense.

The drop in temperature was the most striking part for me. It wasn't just dark, it was night in the middle of the day for a couple of minutes.

Am I understanding that you’re building JSON with string interpolation? If so any special reason you wouldn’t build a dict and json.dumps() it?

Some people don’t die from cancer after smoking their whole lives either.

Re-reading they indeed didn’t say “chronic pain”, that was me extrapolating. However I think it’s still relatively safe to assume “hand problems” prevalent enough to prevent them from typing code for many years to be both painful and chronic.

You will absolutely care if the billionaire gets another million and you get a thousand if a thousand stops being enough to pay the bills. The value of money is nothing if not relative.

Missed the part where they had stopped entirely because of chronic pain? Are you somehow aware of the levels of pain they deal with daily to be able to say they could “totally” do it without?

Knowing how precious the current state of Earth is at human scale makes me fear the asshats acting like everything revolves around “progress” a lot more than knowing how insignificant we are at cosmic scales.

“Humming quietly”? Really? Humming, yeah, sure, but ask the people living next door how quiet they are.

They probably mean static site, in the sense of static front end, no backend.

I didn’t make the comparison in the first place.

> In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening. Most of humanity is wiped out, then arbitrarily resurrected in mutilated form by the Vile Offspring. Capitalism eats everything then the logic of competition pushes it so far that merely human entities can no longer compete; we're a fat, slow-moving, tasty resource – like the dodo. Our narrative perspective, Aineko, is not a talking cat: it's a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they're dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/05/crib-sh...

Regardless of believing in the “singularity” or not, please explain how this sounds utopian in the slightest without borderline (if not literal) sociopathic anti-human worldviews.

“Things can’t be bad now cause they were bad before”

Weird flex.

Last I checked, restaurants actually do run on razor thin margins. A fraction of the costs is food - IIRC on average about a third. Most of it is rent (typically very high in places where you’d have foot traffic) and labor (pretty labor intensive sector for a given output).

I run some light services on my NAS cause well, in the end, the distinction in naming is arbitrary at best, it’s a computer, and I use it for computer things. In an ideal world where I can afford separate purpose-built machines for everything, I’ll have a storage-only NAS, but it’s a computer I have that also happens to have many hard drive bays. Being able to service my own machines shouldn’t be all that surprising either.

The DoW head sees half of his own country’s population as enemies, Islam as an evil religion of hate, and the work he does as striking down the enemies of God. I heavily doubt that this man gives a single thought to children of muslims.

From an information theory perspective, isn’t a representation by definition a simplification?

It’s a “Parks and Recreations” reference.

There’s some irony to security not being a priority for security cameras. Different kind of security I know, but still.

Orrrr... He could just as well click the link he has bookmarked already, and see it with his own eyes, without the token use to report on his token use.

/goal fix all bugs

I haven't had to do first aid training in while, but even the first time I had to as a teenager working in camps almost 20 years ago, this was a thing they drilled in our heads.

There is a pretty sharp acceleration of that decline around 2022/2023.

If an ALEX drawer unit takes them over an hour and a half to build, IMHO they're doing something wrong. Many others on that list seem suspiciously high (the BRIMNES comes to mind). Curious how it came up with those values.