FT's "Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once" was published, and discussed, recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168928

https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a-4ad6-b42d-eb08eb7c9...

https://archive.is/6VpWy

Spoiler: smartphones, social media, housing.

Also it’s not ok anymore to rape/get married to 13yo girls.

And now with a smartphone every girl knows that it is not ok.

The hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?

So, "Gnu is Not Unix, Dawg"?

That's the real joke...

Let's hope you're right, but you might be underestimating the "$200 per month (robo)engineer can only do it like this, therefore this is the way to do it" factor.

If you often find yourself saying "but you didn't specify humanity must survive this!" maybe you're part of the problem ;)

I believe originally it was a name for PTSD, that's an even more curious association. In case it wasn't obvious, tortoise-related puns can be taken too far :)

Yes: shell-shock is never good, which makes "shell-shockingly good" a poor turn of phrase even in the context of terrapins.

Patrick Boyle explains: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QkuAXOMYwA4

Pick your poison, as usual, but Patrick Boyle's "How The Japanese Economic Miracle Led to Lost Decades" suggests the fall was entirely of their (Japan's) own making: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=12ddOpt7Hio

He's got plenty of videos on China too.

I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitchell leaving the company features in the theory as well. Basically it seems like since at least 2021 HC leadership and/or investors are exploring exit strategies that will bring in the beeeelions.

Hashicorp is a public company so the theory doesn't make much sense to me. The execs and early investors already made their money.

They've been for sale since pre-IPO. Cisco almost bought them.

That tracks. IBM acquiring Hashicorp was a persistent rumor I heard during my last year at IBM (timing was not long after the Red Hat acquisition).