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Because almost no one (outside of accessibility needs) truly needs or wants to use voice to control their device. It’s one of the few UX fetishes that refuses to die.

When someone realized that the inheritance glass castle is doomed to always get shattered upon contact with the real world.

Inheritance might be OK for formally finite domains but I can’t envision other cases where it should be favored.


Do you dislike type inheritance? Or only implementation inheritance? My view is that type inheritance is incredibly useful, both for single system programming, and rpc. Whereas implementation inheritance creates brittle systems.


Inflation, at minimum, needs to be factored into such calculations.

Just one data point to illustrate: in 1950, a bottle of Coca-Cola cost 5 cents.


“Talk”, no, but a scary number very much think like this. It’s an easy pseudo-intellectual high ground to take.


It's a biological and societal reality. While we may end up solving the immediate demographic crisis through technology (e.g. Optimus for the elderly), the future of humanity depends on raising children. Not taxing the rich, personal convenience, or trivializing my stated position as one that is "easy" to have.


Of all the public online communities, you'd think HN would be capable of calling it the way it is. But I'm afraid it's been overrun by brainwashed ideologues as I've seen many times the truth being downvoted into oblivion during my short time here. Maybe we should do an experiment and make an account that only posts Paul Graham's positions and see how often it gets downvoted. I suspect the culture has shifted quite a lot since HN's founding and a decent chunk on the margin no longer cares about what's true over what's acceptable.


Some of the highest birth rates are in relatively quite poor countries. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/birth-rat...


We still have (for now, though even this is under threat) good access to contraception, good sexual education, relatively low child mortality rates, etc here in the US.

Comparing the affordability crisis for the middle class in the US to that of historically poor developing countries as it relates to birth rates is not a very good argument.

It might be somewhat comparable a decade or so from now if we keep letting wealth inequality run away at current rates, but it isn't right now.


Quite poor countries can plop out an infant and literally do not worry of him ever again. So much for buying him stuff, education, care...


The reason is very simple, contraceptives.

Developing countries don’t care less about their infants, how can you think that?


Ask UNICEF if it's not a problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_children


Read the paragraph about causes maybe.

This phenomenon has many many causes, and does not represent any statistic on a parents caring for their kids. It is ludicrous you would think so. Please provide at least one study that shows some form of causality.


lots of developing countries have way stronger communities. in these places you can raise your kids in a more "free-range" style and nobody will give you shit about that.


agreed, they collectively care more, would be my view. In many neighborhoods in the US, people only care about themselves, no one else. They don’t even know their neighbors.


way easier to raise kids when you have a clan/family around, and they generally cost a lot less money/attention.


Just some ideas:

- Drone-bombing an embassy in downtown London does not look good on social media

- He's too famous and has many supporters in the Western world to be publicly assassinated, regardless of location (example: Lady Gaga visited him while he was stuck in the embassy)

- He's more useful as a deterrent, i.e., "see what might happen to you", to the people who might decide to go a similar route. Some will go that route regardless, but chances are at least a few have been persuaded otherwise.

For all the ridicule of the government, the Intelligence Community seems to be doing a fairly intelligent job most of the time to satisfy its objectives.


React Native is pretty good at cross platform but yes, it must be tested right away on all platforms.

Retrofitting an iOS-only React Native app to Android later is possible but can be of a pain, at least initially.


My experience as an Android user is that React Native apps don't feel "Android native". Maybe it's because I only notice the apps that have the poorer UI, I don't know.


React Native apps can be made to feel native but it takes some knowledge and skill. In certain cases, a bit of native code might be required instead of off-the-shelf libs.

For example, I was looking for a way to perform certain computations on a stream of frames from the camera. Most libraries available I found would send the image frames to the JavaScript side first and do the computation there. Unfortunately, that was never 60fps because the amount of data being copied/serialized was too large. The solution was to write a bit of custom code that performs the computation on the native side and only ship the computed result (tiny JSON) to the JavaScript side. The end result was easily 60fps and felt 100% native.


Yeah… It’s like NFTs with 100% centralized supply and control, if I’m understanding this niche market correctly.

Control, as in, tomorrow Valve might decide that some of those items are “unusable” in their game which would presumably also crash their value.


Don’t they also 100% control the supply though?


Yes, Valve controls supply. That strengthens my point.

Market makers do not control the supply of goods. They provide resting liquidity for pre-existing goods.

Similarly, market makers do not get to establish rules of the of their own "reality". Market makers are participants in a venue. It is the venue/exchange that sets the rules.

User Bengalilol seems to have inferred that because Valve made the venue, he can refer to them as the "market maker". This is not correct. Words have meaning. The meaning of market-maker is well-established in the context of exchanges. Market maker is incorrect terminology for Valve’s role.


02:34 Pacific: Things seem to be recovering.


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