My office has a big grad program so there are hundreds of interns and people under 25 in the office. Is really fun for them, I think its a real benefit that people look for now.
I know its not an acceptable view in 2026, but if women had to leave school at 16 and thus couldn't have a professional career I'd think many more women would have multiple children, like 5+ would be normal.
Believing "if X, Y" is not unacceptable in 2026. That was the analysis of the recent FT article too, pointing to the fertility rates in different countries with different success in expanding education to women. The difference is what you did not state, which would be to say "Therefore, we should not allow girls to attend school beyond 16 or women to have professional careers". That would be quite a take in 2026 (or in, frankly, 1926).
One issue is that the wealthiest most advanced countries are having the fewest people, while the poorest countries have a the fastest growing populations. Pakistan or Nigeria alone will have more people than the whole of Europe. They may become wealthier but more realistically there will be an even tiny minority of people living well with most of the world in slums.
There ended up being 4 lines between the two cities. Hard to believe such a thing was possible in this day and age. I guess if there were no cars trains would be much more popular.
> As of 2016, the fastest journey times are around half an hour, which is little better than over a century earlier.
Which is fine if the reliability and comfort have improved [checks notes] Oh, never mind then.
(For me, it'd be fine for it to take an hour if you know it's absolutely going to be an hour, you know reliably when that hour is going to be, and you're not standing for that hour in a vestibule that reeks of urine. Alas, UK trains have yet to get to grips with running to timetable and also run enough trains to not have them packed out to standing.)
That's Kyndryl: They spun it off into it's own entity after "IBM Global Services" had such a (deservedly) poor reputation that they were scraping the bottom of the barrel for clients and employees. Not that Kyndryl is any better, but it's enough of a rebrand that you might fool decision makers for the few minutes that it takes to get them to buy in.
I have Opus 4.7 at work at 15x. Burns through tokens like water. It feels like one of these new mega datacenters is just for me. I'd love to know what the bill is, but we're just encouraged to do as much AI as possible.
I am able to write rust on a moto g power (a cheap android smartphone) inside of termux, running on battery, in battery saver mode, and cached compile times for every single one of my projects is under 5s easily, if not faster. Fast enough that I don't notice it at all.
Even a "cold" compile was under 1 minute for me, and I have a decent amount of deps.
I guess my projects are fairly small compared to others though so idk.
Los Angeles, whose population is only 50% higher than Houston, has 25x as many people who are homeless (75k vs 3k).
If people couldn't afford food because there wasn't enough food grown, no one would think handing out food stamps would work. It's silly to think that doesn't work for housing.
These may be accurate and real, but I also wonder if this might partially be because Houston sucks in terms of lived experience for the homeless so they tend to end up elsewhere?
Texas has a recent and storied history of just busing people out of state or into other cities for people it deems are problematic or they don't want to deal with. So it would not surprise me if some of the stats are cooked or they've partially swept the problem under the rug.
I gave actual stats. They also match my impressions driving around both cities. If you have stats about the scale of busing people out of state please do share.
What you've suggested may account for some of the difference. But "Houston has liberal zoning and builds more houses" is a far simpler explanation for the staggering 25x difference in homeless population between the cities.
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