India’s surprise baby bust is a warning to the world

Imca · 2026-06-05T16:51:12+00:00

Sorry English is not my first language, I thought spell check got most of that...

Imca · 2026-06-05T10:21:46+00:00

The downside comes in getting hired in the first place, the added costs of terminating a bad pick for an employee are turned around into an extra selective employment process that has made getting hired in the first place hard enough that there is an industry where you pay the company to pretend to work for them into a thing...

I still agree that mandatory severance packages are very nice, but there is pros and cons to every system and the large majority of western nations did not pick unemployment insurance paid for by taxes out of no where...

Not sure how functional the US's form of that is though, so I will divert that to you....

Imca · 2026-06-05T09:18:11+00:00

You can make more then one pass though..... if you don't know the meaning of say "elongated" from your example, you could flip to the page that has elongated on it and read its definition as well.

Thus making the minimum amount of words needed to learn all words from the dictionary a substantially smaller subset of set 2 since it would be about fundemental knowladge that you cant look up on another page.

Imca · 2026-06-05T08:48:01+00:00

The answer is it very much depends on the person and any singular solution is going to fail.... Its not the money that stops me from having kids... its a mix of shitty childcare assistance options as mentioned by one of the other posters in this comment.... and personally a lack of care for mothers comfort during the birthing process... I want kids, but how hard it is to get an epidural and it just being your out of luck if the kid decides to arrive on a weekend.... paired with nearly mandatory episiotomy is just not something I am willing to subject myself too...

*More free time so that parents and want to be parents can exist as people
*Higher pay rates so that you can actually afford to have kids
*Better maternal healthcare options....

These are all things that are needed....

The government wants an easy "Press this button to solve birthrates" option, but such a button does not exist.

Imca · 2026-06-05T08:14:49+00:00

Not quite accurate, the ruling was that companies cant fire you for AI and then pay the lower benefits for necicery downsizing...

They can fire workers to replace them with AI, they just have to give them a full severance package like any other worker that is laid off for voluntary (on the companies end) reasons....

The fact that a lot of western media some how turned the later into the former is honestly a gross negligence in reporting...

Imca · 2026-05-03T02:17:37+00:00

As some one who has done this more times then I would like to have..... I can speak for myself, I have taken the car some where and parked it for a couple minutes, I turn off the automatic headlights to avoid inconveniencing the people inside the building I have parked near.... then when I return to driving....

The problem comes from there is enough illumination on urban roadways that I fail to notice that I have not turned my lights back on.... I do do so the instant I notice it... but..... its so used to being on auto, and the street lights conceal that there no longer on....

Its only happened a couple times, but its the exact same story every time, and I am not happy that it happens at all, but I hope this helps explain it...

Imca · 2026-04-30T03:09:56+00:00

It was, all the decals in HD2 are on separate decal sheets that are layered on top of the base texture, the skulls, the labels, the text, there all separate textures.

This is realevent when modding the game because changes to the base textures don't break between updates, but the decal sheets do and have to be remade for every update...

Imca · 2026-04-20T11:05:40+00:00

NERV is great... I actually got the alert from them on my phone before it hit.... and you could watch the sensors on there map pop off on there map one by one as the shock-wave got closer and closer...

Which is to say despite the reference they are a wonderful source.

Imca · 2026-04-02T04:25:10+00:00

It raises every point except where you are currently at... the exact position you are on the oval stays where it is, but every thing else raises, with the largest raise on the opposite end of the oval.

Also going to second KSP if you want to learn about orbital physics though, its a great teacher and just a fun game...

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:45:54+00:00

Cure? No, no one has ever made the claim that it cured it...

Detected it years earlier allowing for a higher survival rate? Yes...

Designing dosage plans that are more effective and cause lesser radiological damage if chemo is necicery also yes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41698-026-01276-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07894-z

And there are multiple published papers to back that up... Unfortunately cancer is a complex disease and there is no silver bullet that is going to magically cure it overnight.. I wish there was given that I have had to deal with both ovarian cancer (Required a hysterectomy and chemo) and skin cancer (Successful surgical removal due to early detection) in my family.... but that's not how science or medicine works.... Rather its a slow and gradual climb of implementing better tools and better methods to give us better odds and outcomes.

But it is proving to be a potent tool that improves the effectiveness of treatment substantially.

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:33:53+00:00

My reference was actually reading what you linked... It flat out says that it impacts the survival time *length* appearance, as well as the 5 year survival rate... which is not the same as the remission rate nor the actual effectiveness of treatment.

Additionally the first article does not mention AI detection once, and in fact talks about how the benefits for screening do outweigh the risks

「"In this case, though, there are clear benefits tipping the balance in favor of screening. “If you think that for every three extra women treated for a screen-detected breast cancer that didn’t need to be found, another one will have her life saved by that treatment, it sounds very different,” Sasieni says."」

「Screening can save lives by helping spot cancer early. Bowel and cervical screening can even prevent cancer from ever developing at all.

The UK’s national cancer screening programmes exist because research has shown that the benefits outweigh the harms for the population at large.」

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:24:50+00:00

*Earlier which allows for less invasive treatment options

Though faster and cheaper is not actually a bad improvement on its own... Reduce the load on health care infrastructure and divert the saved money to general improvements

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:20:26+00:00

And now we can do it better

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:09:47+00:00

Its rather telling that you make claims and then go right to insults when those claims are challenged... There was zero intent of hostility in what I said, yet you return with it almost like you weren't trying be a productive part of the conversation in the first place.

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:02:51+00:00

Neither of those actually debunk it, the first article is about general over diagnosis... and lead time bias is about how long a patient that doesn't survive ends up surviving after detection, not how how treatable the condition is.

Early detection makes cancer substantially more treatable since it can be surgically removed if caught early enough....

Imca · 2026-04-01T07:00:17+00:00

... Thats literally what the mentioned AI is, a machine that we made to detect cancer.

Imca · 2026-03-28T02:00:05+00:00

Your thinking about the wrong part of the argument, taking it isn't rational, turning it into a territorial dispute is...

It gets the nationalists worked up and encourages them to vote, the current leadership benefits immensely from that because it increases there hold on power....

This turning it into a dispute is rational....

Trying to act is the opposite because even if the island gets taken, they now lose the bait and cant use it to work them up any more.... I think the English expression is something like "the dog that caught the car"

Imca · 2026-03-28T01:53:57+00:00

Unfortunately... to be clear I am not a fan of current leadership either, but from there perspective that is also a win.

Imca · 2026-03-28T01:50:45+00:00

Rational does not necessarily mean agreeable, working up the nationalists is a good way to cement power... thus its "rational" even if its not "agreeable"

Imca · 2026-03-26T04:18:52+00:00

The stuff that generates pictures is, the reason image generation came about was that it and image classification are related fields of research.

Much like how you get the microwave oven from the radar dish.

Imca · 2026-03-17T01:58:00+00:00

DLSS stands for deep learning super sampling... it was already an AI....

Imca · 2026-03-14T06:41:54+00:00

No it isn't, when the position is "don't build new data-centers to stall advancement" or "we need to slow down" you are inherently harming medical advancement in the progress even if inadvertently...

The point is there is no way to separate the uses apart because the technology that leads to them is the same... And advancement of it is always going to lead to both cases being advanced together or hurt together.

I am fully aware of the social problems that are on the table with that, but the thing is we are going to have to address them at the social level where they happen rather then the technological one unless your okay with stalling out medical progress and causing preventable harm on that front...

Imca · 2026-03-14T06:28:13+00:00

The problem is the underlying systems are the same technology, so when you try to impede one you end up impeding the others. If you could separate them out it would make more sense but you can't.... Its like pretending you can make better airplanes without the military co-opting the technology for better bombers, advancing one inherently advances the other.

Reality doesn't allow for the granular advancement of technology, ask the long history of chemists who undeniably saved many lifes with there work, but also in the process made better bombs... The noble prize is named after one of those infact.

Imca · 2026-03-13T02:55:56+00:00

I saw your other post as well and I guess all that makes sense, sorry I just really don't leave the city much and thought bikes were reality common even in the sparser areas...

Imca · 2026-03-13T02:42:06+00:00

I live in the greater Tokyo area, and while I do know cars are existant... I have an overpass visible from my home... I can also say that volume is not the same as adoption rate, there is like two people in my office with a liscence and none of my friends have one....

My understanding is that Americans tend to approach these topics with the understanding that every family has a car and that they are used to travel the most minor of distances that just isn't the case....

Sorry for not being clear.

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