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You and GP can both be correct.

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.

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 all this talk of Effective Altruism, it seems we actually need a greater push for "Effective Justice".

Individuals and companies need to be better held to account for the scale of societal (and environmental) damage that they cause.

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.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq1g8czIBJY [1] https://fallofcivilizationspodcast.com/

The trend for both of those countries is still a significant reduction over the past year.

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?