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Pedestrians made contact with our vehicle @SonjaTrauss Ladies, marry a man who has a sister. https://economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/parents-of-daughters-are-more-likely-to-divorce-than-those-with-sons

Taken over the years, the daughter effect, though real, is small. In the Netherlands, by the time their first-born is 18, 20.12% of couples will have divorced if that child is a son, compared with 20.48% if she is a daughter—an increase in probability of 1.8%. But in the five years when the first-born is between the ages of 13 and 18, that increase goes up to 5%. And it peaks, at 9%, when the child is 15. In America, for which the data the researchers collected were sparser than those in the Netherlands, the numbers are roughly double this. Anyone who has—or has been—a teenager knows how turbulent those years can be. Surveys confirm that teenage daughters and fathers, in particular, get on each other’s nerves. They also show that parents of teenage daughters argue more about parenting than do the parents of sons, and that mothers of teenage daughters report significantly more disagreements with their partners over money, and become more open to the idea of divorce. Earlier research has also shown that one of the most common things parents fight over is how much they should control their teenagers’ personal choices, such as how they dress, whom they date and where they work. In light of all this, it is intriguing to note that Dr Kabatek and Dr Ribar found one type of couple who seem immune to the daughter effect: those in which the father grew up with a sister. Having seen things somewhat from a sister’s point of view may act as a sort of social inoculation. ■7 — (src)

I'm not sure I have much to add to this besides that it's quite surprising to me. Another question is whether religion or social views have an impact. Here’s the article from The Economist.

hackernewsyc 9h Google releases SoundStorm 🔊 🌩️, a follow-up to AudioLM that can synthesize audio voices up two orders of magnitude faster. Demos: google-research.github.io/seane… news.ycombinator.com/item… — (src)

Oh wow, I listed to the examples and they are impeccable, just absolutely perfect text to speech. I'm looking forward to the API being available!

This article makes clear that the US had a huge influence on what is now considered 'traditional' Italian cuisine. But one thing I thought was interesting was that the article also casts the invention of these new 'traditional' dishes as a deliberate choice by the people of Italy to reimagine what their cuisine could be. Seems quite wholesome honestly.

mattyglesias 18h One weird trick for building stuff more quickly, I-95 repair edition. — (src)

Would be great to sign something like this for California's housing crisis, just sayin'. Here's the underlying linked article.

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• Very short thread about how inequality is less obvious in Japan, which is nice.

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