In Germany you're asked to send cover letters for almost any job, in any industry, outside low level entry jobs like cleaning, tending tables, etc.
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Is't it quite ironic, that somehow this product statement is sneering on the exact kind of people ("expensive developers") that are required to build the product itself?
Dead on
This is a ridiculous comparison. Chess is infinitely less complex than the most simple of living rooms. Real world tasks are much more complex than something contained inside a limited, finite universe like that of chess.
Any other website, where people just share information freely, where you might get different opinions, experiences, hell, _anything that is different from just trying to sell you something_ (even if it is ads), will be very far in the back.
Animal feed to grow plant-based protein?
> Unlike conventional protein production, it takes just a fraction of all these resources if any, to produce the same nutritional amount of Solein. Even photosynthesis, the way plants convert energy into food, is not as efficient as our method.
So... they use magical electricity that comes out of nowhere, and operates more efficiently that just letting a plant sit there and use the sun.
Amazing how these people blatantly lie and present half-facts so shamelessly.
We need to fly as little as possible, not to incentivize it even more. 80% less fuel consumption? Expect people flying 5 times more, and feeling like they are doing a favor to the environment. Jevons Paradox.
You don't have the "spontaneity" of going to a shop anymore, everything is delivery. You don't share public transport anymore (and what is that if not enjoying living in "community" with other people?), you take an uber (and when it's finally robotized, you won't even talk with a driver anymore). You don't ask for directions or recommendations, you just look at maps or yelp or whatever. Social life is being destroyed by exactly that same people, and I find those complaints quite cynical.
Innovation is overrated. And standardising is not blocking.
What we need more urgently than innovation is to stop creating so much waste, extracting so much stuff from the earth, and in general reduce consumption. Standardisation accomplishes at least some of that.
(source: https://www.bvg.de/de/tickets-und-tarife)
On the contrary, our world is practically made for those people to be successful. Psychopaths do great in unbridled capitalism.
> You might argue that this is a pretty lightly traded product these days so the evidence is weak, but this product used to be one of the dominant ETH products and exhibited the same behavior.
If in the past this was one of the dominants products, and now it is not, it could be because the market now cares _more_ than before about crypto-denominated wealth, and therefore stopped investing in it. Now, there are less people than before who prefer fiat-denominated. What are people trading these days mostly, and what does _that_ instrument tell in terms which denomination is preferred?
Could not be clearer: either you allow Bitcoin, benefitting only a few miners and users, or you let society as a whole transition to a more sustainable future.
Aschenbrenner seems to suffer a little from not feeling accepted in his home country. His argument seems to be mostly that his "elite" intelligence was not properly recognized, so he feels that places who celebrate that/him are better than those who don't.
In general, contemporary German culture does not like taking risks or people who stand out. You can see that in casual conversations with people, in the way their bureaucracy works, in the kinds of things that they promote or not. Outside of Berlin, that it, which as a city itself is a stand-out, where people come from their small village because they felt they don't fit in.
> In addition, with the GDPR, NIS (2) Directive & other regulations, data in Europe is definitely more “the new toxic waste”. It is in any case not a business plan.
> So not only do we lack the imagination to launch free platforms, the path to one day making money with them is blocked by regulation.
So protecting your citizens' rights and their privacy is "lack of imagination"? This is such a horrible argument. As if the only way to provide a service were to spy on your users.