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The problem of resource distribution is solved by money already.

If I can't pay for the robots, I am not getting them. And if I buy my robots and you only get a dishwasher then you can afford two nice vacations on top while I don't.

You don't lose anything if I get robots.

I want to disagree about voters mostly following their peers. In my opinion the votes follow the values and from your example, you can predict a person's stance on gender idiology from their stance in immigration simply because both derive from the same underlying value (in this case probably how progressive vs conservative this person is). And generally of course people with the same values flock together.

They are conservative and have a few idiots and extremist people in their ranks yes, but that doesn't make the party as a whole extremist.

I never heard about their women-workspace-denial.

And being against marriage of homosexuals was the majority opinion from the beginning of time until around 10 years ago so you can hardly count that as extremist.

> AfD are extreme because of what their positions are

Then show us their extreme positions! Their official party program is actually quite tame.

I read all the praise about Claude Code, tried it for a month and was very disappointed. For me it doesn't work any better than Cursor's sidebar and has worse UX on top. I wonder if I am doing something wrong because it just makes lots of stupid mistakes when coding for me, in two different code bases.

How many people could be replaced by a proper CMS or a Excel sheet right now already? Probably dozens of millions, and yet they are at their desks working away.

It's easy to sit in a café and ponder about how all jobs will be gone soon but in practice people aren't as easily replacable.

You could say that about any time in history. When the steam engine or mechanical loom were invented there were millions of people like you who predicted that mankind will be out of jobs soon and guess what happened? There's still a lot of things to do in this world and there still will be a lot to do (aka "jobs") for a loooong time.

Traditional news media and print media are really strong in Germany (and for example Spain).

They also made laws happen that limit how Google can link to news sites to prevent Google News from stealing readers.

And they tried to make Google pay each time a user clicks a link that leads to a German news site.

Also there are surcharges on printers (around $50 or so per piece), laptops etc because you might copy copyright-protected texts with it.

And the German online news websites know they lose a lot of money to adblockers so of course they want to ban them.

About the profile photo you said it yourself, conformity is important and the photo is part of that.

As a counter point, education in Germany and other European countries is completely free and people still get less and less children.

I would love to see a complete cost comparison with solar.

1.5 MW is nothing to scoff at, so if it costs a bit in maintenance that's okay. But overall costs would be great to know.

The BSW is indeed an interesting mix because they are conservative-liberal-left while usually leftist parties are progressive and authoritarian-leaning instead.

Examples for the BSW's left politics are * higher taxes for the rich * higher taxes for large and international companies * take on new debt to finance stuff * more state-aided social housing.

Interesting! How does it compare with Supabase?

EU funds to pay for American engineers in California who earn 5x what European enginners get, great.

That's because many European countries now already had 4 months of basically all media reporting daily of how Trump is dismantling the US.

Public perception for many people is that the US is on its way to become a failed state.

Yes, true of course.

But I meant that if you take an example of tshirt production that gets sold in the US, with fabric that comes from Bangladesh, one producer in Vietnam, one in the US. The final price consists of materials, labor, shipping. Both effectively have materials and shipping tariffed and for the Vietnam company additionally the labor is tariffed.

So the only difference is the application of the tariff on the labor for the Vietnam company.

> Secondly the money isn't lost, it goes to the state. Like a tax, but it is called differently. With this 255k more the state can now subsidise the local floodlight industry.

Alternatively the taxes can be lowered so that overall the American consumers don't lose buying power (imports get more expensive but people also have more money to spend).

It still is a very possible effect.

Yes, less chaos and more predictability would be better obviously but the theoretical foundation is somewhat solid.

A tax on foreign labor, to be exact. (Not foreign products or materials per se).

> What kills me with the autoplay (at least on mobile), is that the video continues from where it was when you click it. But the autoplay had no sound, and I probably didn't watch it closely.

As a counterpoint I love that feature on desktop and use it all the time.

Often I don't even click videos but just watch them with the preview autoplay (with sound enabled). I also zoom in on my mousepad so that it covers the whole screen and I only need to click through to like the video or for the comments. Much more seemless experience for me.

IMO it also depends on how the whole process is tied together.

I always loved Vercel for their easy hosting of Next.js with included CI/CD, but I recently switched to self-hosting - their pricing switched from a flat, worry-free $20/month to an unpredictable whatever-it-may-cost plus it sent me 10+ emails every single month about hitting some quotas that they introduced and I couldn't find a good way to stop that.

I love this!

Hetzner half-heartetly started to offer database hosting as well but they need a lot more services and present them on eye level with the servers.

I a am huge Hetzner fan and waiting for years already for them to expand their offering.

> the government enforces a zero-sum game against the population

Can you expand on what that means, in laymen terms?

> The only reason residential rooftop solar became the industry it did was the massive subsidies handed out to consumers to make it financially viable.

Savings per Watt can be a lot larger for residential though, as you save the all-in price of electricity (electricity price + transport fees + other fees + taxes) while solar farms only earn the wholesale price.

Any evidence and/or links for this? My Google search didn't result in anything substantial.

> I’ve been annoyed enough times by ‘tok’ers doing crap like I dunno, licking ice cream buckets in supermarkets,

Did you ever see that in person? I feel like this is just typical outrage about something that maybe a total of 5 people did, so basically irrelevant.

"On the checkout page at the very bottom there are two buttons that are visible when the user chooses to select fast shipping. The right one of those buttons should be a tiny bit more round and it seems like it's not 100% vertically aligned with the other button."

Takes a lot longer to write than just diving into the code. I think that's what they meant.

> unified SEPA wires including instant wires

Just to clarify a detail, SEPA bank transfers are not instant yet and until very recently could take 6 days, even between banks in the same country and small amounts.

> I still don’t see most people naturally gravitating to these tools.

I barely know anyone who doesn't use ChatGPT frequently, to help wording an email or such. I agree though that in instances like this it is not transformative to society and rather one more tool that we use. We will see, IMO the impact of the current AI technology on the world is rather "medium".