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sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
In particular, West Virginia was a high fertility rate state during the baby boom, among those. Maybe Vermont, too.
sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
There’s also a large tax credit for adoption costs. I wonder if GP comment would result in more births, or something like H1B arrangements for personal tax reasons.
sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
We adopted. So many things today are in opposition to Christ’s teachings. The politicization of helping the poor. The individual reaction to problems by wanting so much wealth that those problems don’t apply to me.

Adoption is costly but for now there’s a tax credit. And I suspect every company would like to have the kind of employee who adopts. Some will pay large proportions of the cost, but not the median employer.

sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
Only in the middle classes does opportunity cost come in. Today, the wealthiest and the poorest have beyond-replacement fertility. Race becomes a factor in America, but the only group of women with higher fertility in the middle class are foreign-born.
sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
I think you’d lose that bet. Women die in childbirth regularly. And it’s not birth control but our stratospheric advances against infant mortality that most strongly influence population dynamics.
sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
On the other end, the wealthiest have high fertility as well. What have the middle classes concluded about their prospects with and without children?
sigwinch··on Older Adults Outnumber Children in 11 States
This is not true. In the west, the wealthiest do have higher fertility.

https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-...

sigwinch··on Cyber experts warn of the 'catastrophic' threat quantum computing could pose
In crypto, the phrase is “early q-day”, meaning that certain protocols are presently unprepared for what a quantum advantage against elliptic curves would look like.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993479

sigwinch··on Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production
We had a lack of (digital images of) training cases in emergency surgery. You’d prefer to give ML experience with many rare cases, but must resort to style transfer. Humans can do this, but variously problematic and you’re taking them away from necessary work.
sigwinch··on Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production
That’s our definition of a process: when your objective is well-defined, a process is guaranteed to succeed. Not everything is a process. And sometimes people mistake what the desired success must be. For example, a piece of surgical equipment might not have features guaranteeing profitability.
sigwinch··on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
Yet false arrests without probable cause are happening. The limits on this are being tested on real people. For some voters, those are the right people to test it on.
sigwinch··on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
To be more specific, ICE will be scanning the lines to vote, and pulling people out. In some states, poll watchers will be there to say, “no, you don’t have to go with them”. In other states, poll watchers will also be scanning.
sigwinch··on ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship
It’s ironic that it’s brave to uncover your face, it’s brave to verify your identity, but these officers’ policy actively avoids the brave choice. Then, we’re supposed to accept that they’re operating in war zones like Portland.
sigwinch··on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts
Yeah I don’t agree with that quoted. If you experiment with replying to emails by hand, you’ll practically avoid long threads. If you experiment with avoiding as much typing as possible by allowing an AI substitute, you’ll probably end up erasing large portions. AI pad-out followed by human pare-down might be closer to handwritten.
sigwinch··on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs
It’s possible AI moderation called the Windows videos unsafe. Next might be routine car maintenance.
sigwinch··on The end of the rip-off economy
Take the list of wine uploaded to a chatbot. Hasn’t the seller already run his supplier’s list through the same chatbot as you? Shouldn’t the efficiency be most noticeable in jobs that have 75 different tasks; none of which is important-enough to hire a service for?
sigwinch··on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
Don’t be so hard on yourself, truly. What if every US state lost the equivalent of one Burlington, VT? How much would you expect traffic, housing, lines at the grocery store, to change? It’s not easy, even though 2M people is over the total number of men drafted into Vietnam.
sigwinch··on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media
Averaging 40,000 per state, that’s 50 large universities worth of opened-up housing.
sigwinch··on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
I’ll be very embarrassed when I’m still writing 9999 on my checks.
sigwinch··on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
It’s good that no one is arguing that. But your argument isn’t strong. You’re saying that numbers matter. Those kinds of people go in and out of SCIFs. If they belch a secret at lunch, maybe it has lobbying implications, but it wasn’t compartmentalized. It can even be disinfo.

The real ROI is to land a Jonathan Pollard. Not even a million Hegseths can leak enough info to collect into one Pollard.

sigwinch··on A Buc-ee's broke a small Colorado town
https://archive.ph/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/202...
sigwinch··on A Buc-ee's broke a small Colorado town
I’m surprised Colorado Springs or Pueblo hasn’t lobbied Buc-ees. Or even Larkspur.
sigwinch··on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
Why did you choose random’s SystemRandom rather than secrets?
sigwinch··on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
That sounds like an elected legislator, not like the kind of person with close access to compartmentalized info. And its the form of a leak of policy or some covert program; details which could also be bought; so it’s called “retail” compared with systematic.
sigwinch··on This World of Ours (2014) [pdf]
Probably used to average over $1m. Nowadays, those operations (polonium, novachuk, expending expensive KGB resources) send a signal. Otherwise, swatting your home while they drain your wallets; or threatening to swat; quite inexpensive.
sigwinch··on Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
I’m sure it’s movies.
sigwinch··on Movie posters from Ghana in the 1980s and 90s
There are some Ghanaian movies trending right now on streaming. And part of the marketing is that Ghana produces way more per capita than Nigeria.
sigwinch··on The future of Python web services looks GIL-free
A board tracking progress on libraries:

https://hugovk.github.io/free-threaded-wheels/

sigwinch··on Old Masking Tape Tearing
I’d watch out for formaldehyde. Maybe leave it in the sun instead of risking it.
sigwinch··on Making a micro Linux distro (2023)
More recently, qemu supports uftrace on the more popular architectures. That’s how you answer the pro’s question, “but how do I debug this?”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45533804

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