But even with the increase in births, the country’s population fell for a third consecutive year.

The data also showed that more than 2.6 million couples filed for divorce last year, up 1.1% from 2023.

Yes, “Does this look the same to you?” Is strikethrough.

Couldn’t agree more. Good message, but pontificating as hell.

Gotta start the day early with some data scrubbing. One of our ETL processes is fucked and I’ve been tasked with figuring out how to fix it.

It reads as strikethrough text on my browser :(

Lemme see and judge too!

Maybe that’s her marketing plan to get more fans?

It’s a shame because your feelings are right, and I believe it’s exactly what conservative American politicians want everyone to think.

I don’t know what the long game of the US ruling class is, but I do believe it’s for the US to be isolated from its neighbors and (former) allies.

A lot of people here say that your bother’s son is too young for a Switch.

I’d like to take a different approach and point out that you do a comparison between childhood when you were young and childhood for your brother’s son. You show (rightly) that you and your brother grew up well-adjusted even though you had video games in your life.

I would rebut that “growing up well-adjusted” probably isn’t the biggest concern of you brother. It’s probably more about how much harder it’ll be to get his son to engage with other things that are important to the family if the boy has the Switch as an ever-present alternative.

I actually think you should buy your brother a beer and ask him more about it (out of curiosity, rather than looking for an argument). The beer will probably help your brother limber up and you’ll get to hear him complain about what a pain in the ass it is to try and wrangle a kid.

But all of that doesn’t nullify that you’re trying to be a good and fun uncle, so thank you for that.

I don’t really know anything about China, so I really can’t say.

Yup. It’s phuckin awesome

I dig this — sometimes you just want to do a little “adventure”. I’ve never not ate for a week, but have done similar things.

Just wanted to ask about eating disorder because I’ve had friends who’ve done similar things and it always makes me sad.

Was this part of an eating disorder? A week of not eating for a person who can already cycle 12 miles seems unusual.

(Hope that’s not too sensitive to ask, feel free not to respond)

Nm I’m dumb. It’s under the “Digital Archive” on their site.

https://archive.gamehistory.org/

Hmmm… I found an old magazine in their listings, but can’t for the life of me find out how to read it.

Yeah, that’s the downside with data like this, nothing prevents copying it. You’d need fines to help enforce it (which, as we’ve seen from this exact article, aren’t an effective deterrent).

Just one more of a million massive breaches within the last 10 years. No real consequences, I’m sure.

At this point, I think it’s safe to say that no individual person’s personal data hasn’t been caught in one of these breaches (unless they were born very recently). That’s not even mentioning the hundreds of vendors who I no longer work with but still have my sensitive data on their systems.

I heard an idea a few years ago that I found interesting: each person has their private data hosted on a secure data hub. If a vendor needs some of that data (ex: FirstName, LastName, Email) for their system, they have to make a request to your hub for it, which you then have to approve. Each time a vendor system needs that data, they make a callout to your hub. As long as they have an active approval, the callout would succeed for the fields they’ve been authorized. You can then revoke that request whenever you’d like.

I like the idea of having a running list of vendors who have access to your data and being able to revoke that data. However, it would also create a single location (your data hub) that could be breached and be a higher value target than any of the particular vendors.

Trade-offs.

Let’s get it on!

Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing

Sales. No joke — the knowledge you need has a hard cap (the product line) but sales is commonly the highest-paid entry level employee (as long as you hit commission).

Now add a line in here for “effort” flattening out over time and that’s what I wanna see.