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I am always joking that duolingo sells a dream to speak foreign language fluently. My argument is I have not seen a person claiming learned a language on the platform.


Is not it just to expensive?

While having a child you must pay for daycare, school, evening baby sitting. Next to that if the family splits the woman is doing most of the child care alone. Sounds like to much risk.


Rich people have less kids than poor people and countries with the best social safety nets in the world also have low birth rates. so no. its not too expensive


That's a huge logical fallacy.

It's like telling Americans, "Bill Gates has less operations than poor people, and countries with the best healthcare in the world, their people also have less operations, so no, medical operations in America are not too expensive". You've wildly mixed up cause and effect, and are comparing non-like things.

The people in America who want to have children are routinely priced out of having children, "kids are too expensive" is absolutely true. The existence of rich people in America who do not want children despite their wealth, in no way disproves this.


> The people in America who want to have children are routinely priced out of having children

Pretending that income and fertility are not negatively correlated is being willfully ignorant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_and_fertility


And assuming an income correlation is the same as affordability, is also being willfully ignorant…


I created a playlist that tells the strech exercise name and then beeps every 20s. Efective stretch takes between 20-30s and the strength of it should be such that the intensity phases out at the end of the 20s. I did 3x20s for every exercise. My whole routine was approx 20minutes and took me daily for 3 months to achieve the angles that are checked by physio therapist.


Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?


What positions are you hiring?


Frontend Developer - Javascript & React.js


After you solve it, please share :)


So sad. Your thougts do not sound as free person thoughts. On a countrary I would better be dead than a slave.


What might be the reason..?


Call in all inteligence heads and ask the most important question: do aliens exist?


After reading the quote “Most men give advices by the bucket, but take it by the grain.” W.R.Alger. I stopped giving advices.


I never give advice due to what i call the advice paradox. allow me to explain

1. You can give 'good' advice or 'bad' advice 2. Your advice can be followed, or ignored

There are thus four outcomes:

i. You give good advice and they follow it. They will most likely internalise the merit of the advice and not really give you any credit, but no praise is the best possible outcome.

ii. You give good advice and they ignore it. They resent you for giving them good advice that they ignored.

iii. You give bad advice and they follow it. They resent you (and blame you) for the outcome.

iv. You give bad advice and they ignore it. They dismiss you as an idiot.


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