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by morepedantic 1y ago
IIRC, that's because Intel attempted it without EUV to save a handful of dollars.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Regulating with positive feedback is usually unstable and rife with unintended consequences. Can we start by striking down regulations that make having children more expensive? Zoning laws, environmental laws, development approval processes
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by morepedantic 1y ago
That may be, but this is the internet. Everyone is an American, didn't you know?
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by morepedantic 1y ago
You are unusually self-aware. You do you, but it's unfortunate for everyone else that you don't want kids.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
By law, Social Security invests surpluses in US Treasury securities. So the US government "lends" money to itself, where it is spent that year on government programs for the taxpayers in that year. The securities are backed by tax
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by morepedantic 1y ago
That was my initial thought, but on further reflection it feels wrong. The electron is also a wave, and that wave can spread across the entire grid. Another interesting aspect is that in an infinite grid, a spontaneous high voltage is going
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Democracy is little more than simulated warfare. Rather than harsh campaigns and brutal battles over every issue, society has learned it's cheaper to predict the outcome and avoid the bother. But if the majority voting bloc is geriatri
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Sometimes there is an income problem. Sometimes there is a spending problem. And sometimes there is a cost problem. But cost is unlike the others, because income and spending are individual, but cost is universal. Inflation from 2020-2024 w
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by morepedantic 1y ago
You mean those people with running water, indoor plumbing, central heating, electric lights, and a passenger vehicle capable of reaching speeds faster than the fastest land animal who entertain themselves with a magical rock that performs t
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by morepedantic 1y ago
It's called hedonistic adaptation. Most people scale material consumption with income, and the new consumption level quickly feels normal. If this happens to you, then it's plausible that children will always look expensive, no ma
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by morepedantic 1y ago
That may be true, and you may have banned the account, but I don't think you banned the person. New account created immediately after, responding to the same thread with the same sentiment but less extreme specific statements. https:&
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by morepedantic 1y ago
It's only accidentally illegal. Nobody made it illegal on purpose. It just so happened that car seat regulations and car seat testing regulations were highly prescriptive, but also written at a time where nobody had thought to build a
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by morepedantic 1y ago
>Historically The car seat related drop predates high daycare costs. In some places, high daycare costs aren't the primary concern: it's infant daycare waiting lists longer than 9 months. Grandparents used to look after young c
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by morepedantic 1y ago
I'm not sure what the double whammy is here. I proposed a deduction for raising children, and he countered with a payment premium for adult children, but it sounded exclusive. Only one whammy applies. Raising your child will run you ~3
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by morepedantic 1y ago
You're insulting people on the internet AND you're wrong, which puts you one Hitler comparison away from the trifecta.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Not necessarily. There are a lot of second and third order effects to consider.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
The guy's name was kitler. Do you think that kitten hitler, or something else?
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by morepedantic 1y ago
I don't think you understand how closely related Europeans and Indians are.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
If the burden is too high, there's a risk that future generations will simply decline to care for the elderly who contributed to the problem (childlessness), but then expect the children to care for them in retirement.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Perhaps they simply have unrealistic material expectations not in line with individual productivity. In fact, if your expectations are a function of your childless consumption levels, then it will always exceed what you can achieve with the
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by morepedantic 1y ago
First one, then the other.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
I suppose the high child mortality rates of all the other economic systems tried thus far are preferable. The proximate cause is social collapse, not economic. Maybe the ultimate collapse is economic, but it could again be social.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
1. Those are often semi-permanent installs 2. Those must be professionally installed 3. Those are pricey 4. Those are, quite by accident, illegal in North America
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by morepedantic 1y ago
It's still impossible for many vehicles. Plus, slim fit car seats are expensive. Here's the cheapest: https://www.amazon.com/Graco-SlimFit3-Forward-Highback-Kunni...
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by morepedantic 1y ago
>You can get car seats that do three across in a normal sedan though Only in the last few years, and they require a full size sedan.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
The car seat phenomenon is real, well studied, and interesting. The explanation is not only logical, but is exactly what you called a "serious" reason: cost. Parents must often buy a new car with the 3rd child, because they cannot
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Historically, the jump from 2 kids to 3 kids requires purchasing a new car. The new car is more expensive to buy, operate, and maintain. Today there are many narrow car seat options on the market, so 3 across seating is possible in full siz
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Funny thing is, 100% of social security is paid for by US tax payers in that tax year.
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by morepedantic 1y ago
Perhaps there should be a social security deduction for every dependent child you had that tax year? For example, each dependent child that year could be a refund of 3.1% of income up to the social security maximum, such that at 4 children
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by morepedantic 1y ago
I've seen this exact problem in C code many times in my life, especially in kernel space where data structures and memory allocations are fun. Ironically, this is much _faster_ for small sets. Sometimes the error is intentional, becaus

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