Sociologist in Limerick
Mostly playing with unrealistic computer models of real world processes
Emacs, Stata, Shiny & Rstats, Julia, Python
Linux on the desktop since about 1997
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RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jon_valdes/115969049226623700
This is an interesting observation.
It is worth noting that aviation is an extraordinarily regulated activity, with extraordinary safety benefits historically (and huge profitability nonetheless), and that this sort of regulation is hotly opposed by the advocates of capitalist innovation.
Interesting article on fertility in Ireland
https://www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2026/01/29/the-economic-forces-behind-older-motherhood-and-what-makes-ireland-different/
Since I have the data to hand, I attach a graphic showing the rate of first births by age 1980-2024 (see alt text for description).
I'm sitting on my couch, coding on my modest laptop, and I have a file with 216,783,180 rows open in #Stata, and it's ... a little sluggish.
200 million obs, and it's taking seconds. Unimaginable a few years ago.
Instant classic: Springsteen just wrote a song about Minneapolis
Echoes of Guthrie or Dylan singing about past atrocities, but it's happening right now.