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We have to account for other improvements like better fertilizers, pesticides and the green revolution which would lower food prices independent of automation and migrant labour.

Maybe the issue is that how much you weigh is a terrible metric for how fit you are.

>There is no shortage of labor, but a shortage of people willing to work at the wages on offer for the job.

I wonder if this is a self fulfilling cycle. I mean if migrant labor and automation were unavailable would we close all the farms and starve to death because labour costs are too high? Or would we increase farm wages and pay the higher food prices if that's the outcome.

It seems to me that the low wages on offer for farm work are a result of so many farms utilizing migrant labour and driving down wages in that sector. And if that option was unavailable we would probably have higher wages in the sector and more people developing expertise in farm work. It would likely also solve the problem of struggling rural economies.

I think in words. For me during thought there is a literal voice in my putting my thoughts into words.

I've tried typsit and Ive really been enjoying it. It's very easy to learn and easy to use. It's a new project so it can't as of yet replace the functionality of LaTeX's many packages. However it is good for quick and easy texts, it's replaced markdown and office for me for writing simple documents on a computer.

I don't know much about caddy. I'm looking to learn more in the future. I hear many people cheering their automatic HTTPS. To me this seems like a strange reason to choose something else over nginx. I mean HTTPS is pretty much automatic in nginx if you use tools like certbot. Maybe caddy has other advantages I don't know about, but I certainly hope auto HTTPS isn't their main killer feature.

It seems to me that the evil of having haphazard laws that are enforced arbitrarily on discretion is worse than the evil of heritage loss. This solution is much worse than the cure. Yes it's hard for governments to write narrowly tailored laws to achieve narrowly tailored objectives while avoiding loopholes. That doesn't mean they should devolve into making overly broad laws and then enforcing those laws arbitrarily. That's just behaving like a tyrant.

I think it's a theory that should be regarded with suspicion. It too neatly aligns with modern world views and environmental concerns. That's not to say it's false, it may turn out to be true. Just as should tread carefully with it recognizing the social bias supporting it

Maybe that's just what happens to companies that have been around a long time. They go on maintenance mode. You don't see coke or visa innovating much either.

It seems like optimizing for innovation makes sense with new upstart products and optimizing for maintenance makes more sense with established products.

You started with if Amazon wants change and I think that's exactly what a product with a position of relative market dominance doesn't want

This is where I disagree. I think techonology can solve it, and policy can also solve it. But I think the movement has been hijacked by people with other agendas that differ from solving climate change. And I think you can sort of glimpse it here - the agenda is not solving climate change, it's making the oil companies pay.

That's the other reason it's going to fail, the dishonesty. Frankly I don't remember the weather being that much different when I was a kid. And aside from my personal observations or views, the bigger issue is climate and weather are different things.

It is scientific and backed by evidence to think that climate change is happeing and that the earth's climate is getting warmer. It is unscientific and not backed by evidence to think we can feel or experience that now in our current year at the level of weather. That doesn't mean that climate change isn't an important issue but there needs to be a serious change in the way it's presented to people, and I think a huge start is that things need to be led less by journalists and activists and politicans and more by climate scientists

We've been claiming that we need to take action by 2030 or there will be disaster. And the movement is going to pay a high price in 6 years from now when we notice that the weather isn't much differet.

I think the climate movement is going to fail soon. This mentality of find villans and blame and attack them instead of looking for productive solutions isn't sustainable for a movement. I don't know about the future of the climate but I think unfortunately the climate change issue, like so many pressing issues might be one we have to give up on until we make fundamental changes in our societies

Good point - the graph being US only means it misses offshoring manufacturing jobs to places like China. We can't assume that the loss of manufacturing jobs was solely caused by automation

Agree, but clickbaity title aside I think the main purpose of this article is to provide a good overview of golangs features and it did do a good job of that

Could this be due to the ban of sulfur in shipping fuels that was passed recently (2023 or 2022 I think). Sulfur I believe changes the reflectivity of clouds and has a cooling effect. Would explain a huge heating effect immediately after its ban

I remember reading that natives are not allowed to sell tribal lands in Canada

Might not be a huge bar though , they could put it up as rental property which we desperately need in Canadian cities - and their website suggests that's exactly what they're doing

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I used to believe this. And I still prefer density and think that urban sprawl is bad for mental health, finances and the environment.

However I no longer believe it's the cause of the housing crisis. Perhaps it contributes in Europe but here in North America there is space to build and building materials only make up a small portion of the cost of housing. So I don't believe we can point to single family homes as a cause for the housing crisis or price inflation.

However that said, although it is not behind housing inflation, it does still have negative impacts on quality of life and the environment and I do hope we move towards samer urban planning models incorporating density, public transportation and walkability.

Maybe not all but for the most part yes I do think software engineers in San Francisco are by in large more productive than software engineers in Kansas city.

Just like I think finance professionals in NYC are more productive than finance guys elsewhere.

There's a culture around that in those places and opportunities and tools that promote excellence in those fields in a way that is very difficult for someone acting alone.

Just like it's very difficult for a kid in Africa to become a Olympic runner while there are many African American sprinters too, the tools and training and instruction and mentorship is simply not available, the opportunity is not there for him to be able to reach his potential. And that often matters more than innate ability

Workers in many poorer countries are overcoming comparatively more barriers just to work, while in rich countries we have systems set up to help us be as productive as possible

I don't buy that idea, an economy full of very poor people who can barely afford anything is not sustainable not at the national level and not at the global level.

Countries with very low wages are also countries with very low productivity (throwing cheap labour instead of technology and expertise at problems)

This sounds like a race to the bottom where we keep demanding workers accept less and less to compete with poorer and poorer nations - while simultaneously ignoring that economic powerhouses like the US who pay workers relatively well

Are you serious - if that's the case EU is in serious trouble

They said that about Canada too. As a result we had a surge in immigration that led to huge jumps in youth unemployment.

If companies are so desperate for workers why are wages stagnant and why are so many people getting ghosted during job interviews and why does it take so many applications to find a job. This doesn't add up.

We have record numbers of women in the workforce basically doubling the number of workers compared to the 50s. But apparently we can't find workers.

And now we're right wing racists because we object to you bringing in people from low income countries to work low skill entry level positions in a proposed system that a little too closely resembles colonial era slave trade.

Meanwhile there's a huge strain on housing prices and infrastructure and social services as we struggle to absorb this influx - why so corporations can have higher profit margins. So GDP can get a little higher.

And these clueless out of touch elites wonder why people are moving to the far right.

Canada, our government's happy to have companies bring in underpaid foreign labour instead of hiring locals. Sad that hasn't really gotten is anywhere in terms of attracting business investment.

I think maybe we should see through the corporate nonsense and stop pandering to these companies and their demands. There's more to being investment friendly than just offering low taxes and a surplus of cheap foreign labour.

Can someone clarify please, I don't know much about India other than published economic data, and lately those seem to be showing impressive growth. Is there a reason I should be suspicious of this data?

That's one possible cause. It could also be that our diets have changed to make us more prone to obesity, perhaps people consume more processed foods than before. The article alludes to this when it says eating badly is a major cause of obesity.

I don't think there is enough information quite yet to jump to the positive conclusion of greater abundance causing obesity.

I think suburbs and urban sprawl could be described this way. But urban core at least here in Toronto is very people friendly and it's definitely possible to live well here without a car. I'm fact most people in the downtown core don't own a car.

I hear downtown Vancouver is also this way. Montreal's urban core and Quebec city also fit this bill.

I do admit everywhere else in Canada is terrible for being people friendly. Not sure about other places

You missed that I was replying to a poster who said we don't have safe supply in Canada and it was just a political scapegoat. Other papers have written about the more nefarious effects of safe supply but I avoided them because I suspected I was dealing with a group that would dismiss all criticism of it as propoganda from opponents who want to punish addicts with prison. So I posted a supportive article from a government sponsored source to prove safe supply actually exists in Canada and is not just a political scapegoat

True I suppose it's a balance. You want to be open to constructive criticism. But you don't want to follow every critic including the malicious ones. You also don't want to get caught up in negative societal measures like seeking self worth in material possessions, the size of your bank account etc.

Possibility seeking religion might help with this. Measuring self worth in relation to human dignity as the beloved creation of a diety might help distance us from more materialistic measures of self worth that society proposes.

I mean there aren't enough quality studies to make conclusions either way. But the promise to us was that safe supply would help drug users, and this uptick in homeless drug addicts and more people suffering visibility from drug issues at least seems to run counter to that that should at least give us pause and make us re evaluate

This was done because Portugal did it and people in places like hacker news started pushing it as evidence based because of self proclaimed success in Portugal. Well overdose and drug use is up in Portugal, it's up in Portland and it's up here. How long are proponents going to suggest other factors - this safe supply idea is starting to look less evidence based and more like a religious belief.