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I mean do we not want food to be stored for tough times? And the people who do this storing should get paid for it?

Unless you're French.

Not a single country has a fertility rate of 6 children per woman. And the highest middle eastern country is Yemen at 4.3. The next highest is Iraq at 3.1.

They also say it seems to work well up to 500k a day, which is quite a bit.

To be fair they also say

> Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K hits/day should work fine with SQLite.

The UK is still the world's 5th largest economy. It's a large domestic market, just not a hyperscale one.

This is bizarre to me, because the energy markets in my country (the UK) are bent to benefit solar and wind over all else. We banned oil and gas exploration, and even regulated out coal from the entire market. It's extremely hard to see how this benefits fossil fuel companies.

That is not the answer (plenty of profit in solar), it's probably that society is literally older and so people don't like change as much.

People hate the idea of solar in currently-unused space. Even if that space is bare desert. So you can get a big PR boost if you propose "solar, but on a thing" (roadways, water, and now trains).

If I (a Brit) moves to the US, I'd absolutely get a Yorkshire-branded tea caddy filled with teabags on my desk. Sometimes you need to live up to the stereotypes.

If you already know what the inputs/outputs are, why should you spend days or weeks of your life typing it out rather than giving it in a well-specified and tested form to an LLM to get it done a hundred times faster?

NASA? JET? CERN?

I recognise that makes it politically tricky, but "creates almost no jobs" and "creates lots of jobs, but dispersed elsewhere" are two very different statements. And for data centers the latter is true, and the former is a lie.

To a point, yes. Otherwise you are at the mercy of whoever's compute you use.

What damage do you have in mind? I live next to a big cluster of data centers, second biggest in Europe, and I haven't seen anything like "damage" from them.

Directly, sure. Indirectly, they have created many millions of jobs. Tens of millions at the very lowest. There are nearly 30 million web developers alone.

I realise it's a politically hard sell, but it's just a lie that data centers produce few jobs. Few direct jobs, sure, but the internet and cloud existing has created many, many millions of jobs.

The services provided by a data center do provide jobs. My job for one, and I'm guessing a majority of posters here too.

1. The EU spends enormous sums subsidising farmers.

2. Italy != Europe. Countries can and will do things differently to other countries.

I'm not trying to lose weight, and I've never knowingly bought a specialty orange. Sugar is in basically every plant food, and saying "give up all sugar" means going carnivore plus eggs and a select few dairy products.

Added sugar? I really don't think giving up all fruits and vegetables is a good idea.

> and didn't play a major role until a decade ago

Sergey Brin? Paul Graham? Elon Musk?

Moscow, Belgrade, the Vatican, and yes, London, are all part of Europe. They just aren't part of the EU.

Then people should say "continental Europe" instead of saying "Europe".

Europe is not a monolith and I don't know why people think it is. 2 years stints are not unusual at all in London.

Europe is not a monolith. Lots of short stints is not unusual in London.

The JVM takes tens of milliseconds to boot up, not a second and a half.

This is just Kotlin. Strongly typed, more concise than Java or Go (and probably Typescript), less likely to blow up at runtime than Typescript, epic tooling, plenty of public code, and a library for basically anything because JVM.

At the same time though, out of 6 developers, my team in London has two Brits (including me), two Eastern Europeans (Hungarian and Romanian), and two South Asians (Indian and Pakistani).

My last team had two Poles and two Scandinavians (Swedish and Norwegian).

It's been a _very_ long time since I've had a team that didn't have significant Eastern Europeans representation on it.

But given the amount of astroturfing and star-buying out there, relying on star counts may well select for deceptive founders.