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> the global south

Care to elaborate what you mean by "the global south"?

EDIT: Downvoted for asking a question? Did all the StackOverflow mods come to HN?



You were downvoted for not googling "the global south" before asking. It means you think that the time of others is less valuable than your own.


Yea, it was a rhetorical question.


As the other commenter linked, it generally refers to "developing"/underdeveloped countries. Aka, countries with lower per capita GDP.


global north = anglo/scandi nations and the honorary westerners (israel, japan, s-korea, singapore)

global south is everyone else.


(Note that it's the StackOverflow users voting on questions - the same ones that you are soliciting answers from. Mods have actual moderation tasks to deal with.)


So glad we're condensing entire tech stacks down to a language now.


I would love to know how dev resources are being spent there. Feels like every blog article these days is touting some small enhancement as some big feature. Meanwhile GitHub is pushing out actual new features.


Hey, GitLab team member here. We have a high level roadmap for FY24 in our handbook[1] and our OKRs are listed publicly[2] so you can see our vision for the product and what we're working on.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/#fy24-roadmap [2] https://about.gitlab.com/company/okrs/fy24-q2/#okrs


Appreciate the comment, but just genuinely curious. You guys seem to be clamping down on freemium, but not really landing any valuable "hooks" (product-wise). Would something like a better overall project management experience not be more urgent than a command pallete? Not to be nitpicky, but GH now has a scheduler component on top of custom fields - not amazing, but adds a ton of flexibility.


...long term visa for high earning remote workers...


ChatGPT has way more of a probability to hit the singularity first, thus rendering all coding efforts futile & useless, whilst it ushers in the machine apocalypse. So write that FE framework before you get taken away and used as a bio-battery for the great machine king.


To have more sex?

EDIT: My god, it was a joke.


I'm convinced a lot of our issues is just our general lost of testosterone and ability to conceive kids. Our bodies are just becoming worse and worse and conceiving and bearing children.

Probably microplastics coupled with a sedentary lifestyle.


Despite the hormonal changes induced by microplastics/obesity (or whatever the culprit is), the current drop in fertility rates is not because people are incapable of conceiving, but rather because people cannot financially support the cost of having children. If governments want children, they need to start paying for it: guaranteed paid maternity and paternity leave, state-funded daycare, and reduced housing costs. People are simply concluding that it is better to not have children than to raise children in abject poverty.


I just don't agree with this argument because humans have been having boatloads of children during all terrible-to-live eras of human history.


How many of those eras did women have access to very effective birth control, or the ability to say no to sex (or simply opt out of entering into a relationship with a man for her future security)?


When you frame it this way, you're telling me that given the choice women would not want to have children which means there's nothing wrong with our declining fertility rates. People simply don't want children anymore.


It is not that simple. At any given time, there are probably numerous factors affecting a woman's decision of whether or not to want children. Maybe lots of women do, but they are unable to secure their requisite lifestyle. Maybe lots of women have an unreasonable requirement of their lifestyle after having kids.

All I know is having seen my wife give birth twice, I am not in a position to judge. It is an enormous risk and sacrifice, the likes of nothing that I (as a man living in a peaceful society) have come close to having to make.


More like the woman is expected to shoulder a burden that normally took a few people working and being paid not that long ago. Even with modern technology helping, it's quite a bit.

Domestic service takes effort! Doing that and childcare 100% is hard too plus there's the small problem of not earning money which makes the "traditional" (actually imagined) family structure untenable.

And we cannot go back when villages don't exist and people do not have generationally recognized neighbors. We could try to begin rebuilding that structure at high cost...


Back then it was poverty with children or poverty without children. Now it's a poor life with children or a rich one without.

I'd postulate that a big reason here is that children have been separated from labor in two ways. The first is that it used to be acceptable to do work while minding children. The second is that children would be used to help out from a fairly young age.


Pretty good point actually.


The guy sure knows how to toot his own horn.


I guess my question here is: what exercise/s are you referring to with "majority of our aerobic exercise"?


what the article mentioned - Running, swimming, playing soccer and other similar ones such as cycling, kayaking, you name it


Soccer is more like HIIT if you think about it (and actually play it with a bit of heart) - few +-100% sprints and a lot of walking/slow running to fill the rest.

In team sports in general you are not so much in control of intensity, the game/other players are. Other sports you mention are more like that.


FWIW, many years ago I used to have a real problem with bleeding gums whenever I brushed my teeth (mainly around my molars). Flossing daily solved that completely.


I've similarly observed massive improvements doing it daily, but in general people tend to have very strong opinions one way or the other which makes me think it's very dependant on the teeth's in-between distance, microbiome, brushing technique and more.

Some people can just like brush once a day with a regular toothbrush and have perfect teeth, meanwhile some of us have to do scientific experiments, use sonic toothbrushes, floss, and use mouthwash or our teeth start falling apart immediately lol.


Sadly I fall in the "scientific experiments" group! :) I don't think my wife even needs to floss.


Sure we're going to have a "CEO should take responsibility" comment pretty soon.


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