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@akarlin Minor nit: apprehension to execution in the Diamond Age takes ~4-5 days.

"Bud had spent the last several days living in the open, in a prison on the low, smelly delta of the Chang Jiang..."

obviously this doesn't undercut the analogy

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@atlanticesque Homer’s heroes long for children to continue their family’s kleos (glory). Seneca speaks admiringly of the “paterfamilias”. Lot was assumed by all to be blessed when he was given 5 kids and cursed when they were taken away.

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@atlanticesque Dickens explicitly presents children as the ultimate sign of a well-lived life. In Hard Times, Louisa is denied children for her terrible mistakes (divorce), but takes pleasure in being an Aunt to Sissy Jupe’s. Rousseau presents the family as the supreme accomplishment in Émile.

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@akarlin Option 3: They've used the offer as leverage to extract massive pay rises from Sam, and are fine earning 25%-33% as much to work at the hottest company in the Valley.

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@Empty_America When my friends and I used to have "get from X to street Y with as few steps as possible" competitions when we were growing up, mews were an essential part of the strategy in nicer areas (e.g. South Kensington).

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@Empty_America Living in a mews usually means that (a) you're surrounded by beautiful townhouses which means you're in a nice part of the city, (b) you're in a tiny cul-de-sac which naturally deadens sound and (c) you have a cobblestone street outside, which is fun.

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@Empty_America Despite being much smaller animals, their eyes are the size of horse's eyes. They have vision that is as acute as a human using 8x magnification binoculars.

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@Empty_America These babies often have failure to thrive; they'll come out at a high percentile of weight, but then you will observer a low percentile of growth rate afterwards.

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Pronghorn legs can withstand up to 45,000 pounds of pressure during propulsion. Their hearts are four times large than those of a sheep.

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@Empty_America And macrosomia is actually more of a post-industrial issue too! Most macrosomia is in babies of diabetic mothers. Diabetic mothers give the fetus a ton of sugar, so it gets huge.

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@Empty_America Maternal anatomical barriers (the "passage" or the third P of the "four Ps" of failure to progression (FTP)) isn't as significant in the top reasons for C-section as you might think.