reallydontask

I've heard it as:

buy cheap, buy twice

Unfortunately, it seems that now it's:

buy expensive, get some shitty cloud enabled feature, still buy twice.

While it's true that wealth is relative, this is so disingenuous that I can only presume that this comment is not made in good faith.

FWIW, I think multinational corporations that engage in all manner of legal tax avoidance are probably more of a problem than individual billionaires.

You might want to familiarize yourself with e-bikes.

I guess this is the same old ignorance of the right.

I can also throw meaningless insults, sigh...

> The young like it because they don't have much skin in the game.

This is completely backwards, they have the MOST skin in the game. They are the ones that are going not going to have things we take/took for granted like: living and working in the EU or being able to enjoy a pension.

I just thought it was interesting to post because:

chatGTP has been featuring quite a lot on HN

I had literally just asked the same question to chatGTP

and it's asking an interesting/relevant question to chatGTP

I do get your point about spam though

If the unreliability of the traditional banking system is due to sanctions, then that would suggest that what you are doing is circumventing sanctions and thus quite likely illegal.

Lots of caveats as I don't have enough information, happy to be corrected though.

Altering the prompt a bit (how will AI put programmers out of work?)

>It is unlikely that AI will completely put programmers out of work. However, it is possible that certain tasks currently performed by programmers, such as routine and repetitive tasks, could be automated by AI in the future. This could potentially lead to job displacement for some programmers. It is also possible that the increasing use of AI could lead to a shift in the types of skills and expertise that are in demand in the job market, potentially making some programming skills and knowledge less valuable. However, as AI and machine learning technology continue to evolve, it is likely that new job opportunities will be created in fields related to these technologies, such as developing and managing AI systems.

Funnily enough I was just asking chatGPT what it thought about it, so here it goes:

>It is unlikely that AI will completely replace programmers. While AI and machine learning technology has advanced significantly in recent years, there are still many tasks that require human creativity and intuition, such as coming up with new ideas, solving complex problems, and making decisions that involve subjective judgement. Additionally, as AI and machine learning technology continues to advance, it is likely that new job opportunities will be created in fields related to these technologies, such as developing and managing AI systems.

The inference is that they use insider information

I guess for me the takeaway is:

Buy fewer electronics

I got tired of being asked to sign in for services so I created a google account, reallydontaskmetosignin and I think when I tried to create that username it wouldn't let me, so I shorten it to reallydontask

> Books as a medium actively encourage unnecessary verbosity.

From memory that is the main thesis of this article by Sam Harris (from the article):

>If your book is 600 pages long, you are demanding more of my time than I feel free to give. And if I could accomplish the same change in my view of the world by reading a 60-page version of your argument, why didn’t you just publish a book this length instead?

https://www.samharris.org/blog/the-future-of-the-book

>And I cannot use this public transport offer. But I am contributing to it with my taxes.

Not all government subsidies, benefits, etc are supposed to help everybody equally, this should not be a hard concept to grasp and yet comments like yours are so common that it makes me think that people don't really understand how taxes and government spending works.

West Bank occupation began on, or after, the six day war, a conflict started by Israel.

Not necessarily the case.

Friend of mine was on the middle lane on the motorway when somebody switched on to his lane and braked hard.

He crashed against but wasn't deemed at fault by insurance.

Not saying that this is what happened, btw.

Rains come before the cold

Frankly, I would be surprised if it weren't both

The fact that we struggle massively to recruit people and that there are teams with a majority of contractors would suggest that perhaps there aren't enough people willing to look at the tradeoffs and maybe higher salaries would deliver better value for the tax payer ( we get paid a lot less than contractors)

Obviously anecdotal evidence regarding the above but still

I am a civil servant and while it's technically true that I could double my pay in the private sector, I would likely be on the top 1 percentile or higher.

I'd guess that salary is on the bottom 10 percentile for enterprise architects.

Edit

Pension is a good reason too, it is my main reason :)

Enterprise architect at £50-60k per year seems like a role that has been put on the jobs website to provide evidence that it cannot be filled and thus can go to a service company rather than an honest expectation of getting any realistic candidates

Maybe I'm being too cynical

That's another good argument against poverty not bicycles

What do you call a rota?

Seems a word in common use in the UK

> On a side note the performance thing seems to be a myth to me.

I've always thought about the performance advantages as more related to how (FP) allows for easy parallelisation as your functions are pure, no mutability, etc .

>Everyone I know, me included, just uses debit cards for purchases everywhere including Amazon.

This is just as anecdotal as GP or indeed myself. I never use a debit card and don't know anybody that uses them other than for getting cash out of an ATM

I would be very surprised if the data was hosted overseas.

The UK government could create such a company, given the size of IT operations that the government has.

This could be a commercial entity that is owned by the government.

>UK Mobile Data for most is unlimited

I very much doubt this is the case given the number of tariffs with data caps

> In Europe most PhD students earn pretty close to what their starting salary fresh out of school would be.

I'd be surprised if this were the case. In the UK, stipend is ~£16k.

You do get to keep student benefits, e.g. no council tax and don't pay taxes but even then it's below what a lot (most?) graduates make.

Interesting, I did a PhD in experimental physics in the UK and we only had two dropouts during my time. The group increased size from 8 students when I joined to about 25 when I officially finished (about 5.5 years later, long story)

What's more interesting, to me at least, is that I was one of the very few that didn't continue down the academic science path. Though to be fair most have since left it and I think only 5 have stuck with it, but still an impressive amount of postdocs

>It's strictly better to rent an apartment out because otherwise you're getting nothing from paying management and taxes.

Renters can choose not to pay rent, can cause untold damage to the property and can use it for illegal purposes to name but a few reasons why it might be rational not to rent a property out, specially if it's an appreciating asset.

I suspect that the majority of these empty properties are owned by wealthy people from countries like China or Russia.