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lev99 commented on Women and the slowing global population pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/ar... · Posted by u/anotherevan

bwood · 7 years ago

In most developed countries there is no easy way for man to "opt out" of responsibility for an existing pregnancy. The argument goes that women can have an abortion or give the child up for adoption if the pregnancy is unwanted, but men have no guaranteed say in what happens. One slip up and they are on the hook for child support, etc.

Basically, some people think men should have a right to abdicate responsibility for a pregnancy at least up to a certain point.

lev99 · 7 years ago

> Basically, some people think men should have a right to abdicate responsibility for a pregnancy at least up to a certain point.

Are there any specific plans for this that are not harmful to the child or society?

lev99 commented on Women and the slowing global population pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/ar... · Posted by u/anotherevan

qubax · 7 years ago

> I get the feeling this article is conflating birth rate with actual population growth.

It's not. Fertility rate for the US and the developed world is below replacement. And in the developing world, it has been dropping consistently.

> One reason why people have less children is that more of them survive.

That's a reason why women don't have 5 or 6 children, but that's not a reason why women has less than 2 on average.

lev99 · 7 years ago

In an agricultural society children are an asset. In an industrial or service based economy children are a sacrifice. This has always been my view on why birthrates are declining.

lev99 commented on Women and the slowing global population pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/ar... · Posted by u/anotherevan

belorn · 7 years ago

> But - big picture - what’s important is that reproductive rights are extended to all women and men.

Reproductive rights for men as consistently ended at the point of conception, with the modern feminist movement seemingly being one of the strongest voice against men having any rights beyond that point. Did Professor Peter McDonald just mistype when he includes men in this part off the article?

lev99 · 7 years ago

What specific right do you want to give men after the point of conception?

lev99 commented on Women and the slowing global population pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/ar... · Posted by u/anotherevan

gottebp · 7 years ago

A wise person here once suggested viewing the world population as a parallel computer, with each human mind working to move us forward. With this view in mind, as soon as space travel opens the solar system Malthusian philosophy dies forever -- we are going to need as many people as possible both to colonize and to discover answers to all the new problems that will arise. What would technological growth look like with a trillion minds across the Galaxy inventing and discovering?

lev99 · 7 years ago

I wish more people held this view. It surely leads to an increased investment in education.

lev99 commented on Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012) supermemo.com/en/articles... · Posted by u/maoeurk

shittyadmin · 7 years ago

> "We don't get enough sleep, and we are not going to "change our ways" because there are already too few hours in most people's days to do things they enjoy. Call it a sad fact of life because that's what it is"

This honestly is spot on the way I think about it - I can sleep early, but who benefits from my day to day learning as an adult? My employer maybe? Me in some minor long term ways?

Or I can stay up and do things I enjoy, wake myself up with an alarm every day and consume enough caffeine to bridge the gap. This way, I get more enjoyment out of my life in a very direct and measurable way.

If 5-6 hours of sleep a night is enough to get paid, I'm not going to make a sacrifice that will cost me personally.

lev99 · 7 years ago

There are other ways to get an extra 2-3 hrs a day that are not bad for your health. Some ideas.

* Acquire a shorter commute by moving somewhere closer to work, shifting your working hours to avoid rush hour, or working from home.

* Bike to work, to combine commuting and exercise time.

* Hire help with daily chores like lawn work, house cleaning, laundry, and cooking.

* Eat lunch at your desk

lev99 commented on How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/extraterra

lev99 · 7 years ago

No matter what disease you are worried about, it seems like you need to follow the same advice in your day to day life: eat better, smoke less, drink less, exercise more, sleep appropriately.

lev99 commented on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around? · Posted by u/cellml

lev99 · 7 years ago

Demonoid, a private torrent tracker.

It had a wide range of quality files and the enforced ratio kept seeders around.

lev99 commented on Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence unenvironment.org/news-an... · Posted by u/crunchiebones

gregwtmtno · 7 years ago

This argument is dead wrong and impeding progress. As other commenters have mentioned, stationary sources are much easier to filter. They're also more efficient than thousands of small internal combustion engines. They also produce pollution away from where people are breathing it.

Electrification of surface transportation is a huge win for people regardless of how the electricity is generated.

lev99 · 7 years ago

The argument for public transportation is not dead wrong nor impeding progress. Expanding bus systems is something communities can do today in order to reduce their carbon footprint and their traffic levels.

lev99 commented on Air pollution linked to “huge” reduction in intelligence unenvironment.org/news-an... · Posted by u/crunchiebones

75dvtwin · 7 years ago

I would argue that priority has to be 'de-urbanization' itself. Pollution is just one problem that will be solved by de-urbanization.

lev99 · 7 years ago

How will pollution be solved by de-urbanization?

Urban citizens have better access to low carbon transportation (Walking, Biking, Mass Transit).

Urban citizens are easier to reach in many last mile problems. Power lines can be shared by more users. Less network cable needs to be laid per user. Fewer miles of water pipes are required.

Apartments common in urban areas are more fuel efficient for heating/cooling than stand alone houses commonly seen in suburbs and rural areas.

lev99 commented on Brave New World Revisited, Revisited spectator.us/2018/10/brav... · Posted by u/DyslexicAtheist

mosselman · 7 years ago

"But why do we look to Orwell’s vision when Huxley’s rings truer?"

'We' here apparently is the US as I think China, with its social credit system, looks more like the society from 1984.

lev99 · 7 years ago

I think BNW's mechanism of control is much more relevant than 1984's. In BNW the mechanism for control is the carrot, not the stick. In the west we are definitely using the carrot.