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Just to expand a bit on Zurich and comparing with Slovenia (another "very socialist" country).

Childcare in/around Zurich is (was 2 years ago) 2500 - 3000 CHF / month (lower prices after ~18 months). This is and isn't expensive. The list prices are high, but so are salaries (and taxes are low), and this is cheaper than rent (for 1 kid). Not subsidized.

In Slovenia, the full price is about 700 EUR / month, subsidised up to 77% by the government (i.e. by high-earners, effectively a double-progressive taxation with already high taxes).

What you get for that price in Zurich? A lot! Kindergarten starts at 3 months and can take care of kids for the whole work day (7am-18pm). Groups are tiny and lots of teachers - 3 adults per 12 kids. Groups are mixed age as well, which I think are preferable. You also get a lot of flexibility - e.g. half-days (cheaper) or only specific days per week (e.g. Mon-Thu). Jobs are equally adaptable, a lot of people work 80% (so Friday free, spend with kid(s)).

In Slovenia, the situation is much worse. 2 teachers per 12 or even 20 kids (after age 4), age-stratified groups, childcare finishes at 5pm (but start at 6am, if someone needs that...). Children are only welcome after 11 months of age. No flexibility at all. This is all for public childcare - we also looked at private, but generally you pay more (1000+ EUR) but get ... not much more. Maybe nicer building (not even), but groups are equally large (IMO biggest drawback).

So as far as childcare is concerned, Switzerland is IMO much better.

But where Switzerland fucks you, is elsewhere. As mentioned, tax is low, so that's a plus. But there's minimal maternity leave (hence kindergarten starts at 3 months). If women can, they take more time off work, but not everyone can. What I wrote above about "kindergarten" only applies until 4 years of age, after which "preschool" starts, which is government-funded and hence free. Well, "free". It ends at 12pm after which you need to move your kid back into private childcare if you have a job. After that, school starts, which has a lunch break around 12pm as well - children are supposed to eat lunch at home - which again isn't really compatible with 2 working parents.

I'm not in Switzerland any more so I don't know how people actually manage when kids start school...

like Switzerland?

Wait, so someone acted illegally (against law / courts) AND ALSO kidnapped a child for 6 years, and all that happened is that they're... fired?!

That's insane. Don't live in Sweden if you have kids, I guess!

Wait, so is this about censorship, or about copyright?

If the latter, I don't see why CloudFlare is complaining about "global" censorship. The US would simply seize the domains (which they have done so many times before), but I guess Italy doesn't have that power...

you need to educate yourself better about "basic facts about biology"

they're called essential because humans cannot produce them internally, so we have to consume them (though you could in principle make the same assessment for other animal species, but that's less relevant, unless you're, I don't know, raising cows?)

plants don't eat, but produce organic molecules from raw ingredients (or almost raw, in case of nitrogen), and can produce all amino acids - but in different quantities, so maybe the (parts of) plants you eat don't have all the necessary amino acids.

You're literally just lying.

The first thing shown on the website is - broccoli.

The top of the pyramid includes both protein (meat, cheese) as well as fruits & vegetables.

The reason that meat is shown first is probably that it's the bigger change (it's been demonized in previous versions), whereas vegetables were always prominent.

cmon, this is just stupid

the "industry" obviously makes much more money on "highly processed" and branded foods - more intermediaries, more profits & margins

literally everyone can compete freely in the "whole unprocessed foods" market, and the only real differentiating factors will be quality & taste (as it should be)

Linear Regression a.k.a. Ordinary Least Squares assumes only Y has noise, and X is correct.

Your "visual inspection" assumes both X and Y have noise. That's called Total Least Squares.

I agree with your reasoning, I guess we just have different values.

I value science, defined as unbiased pursuit of truth.

I personally don’t see politically biased institutions that care more about far-left propaganda than truth, as foundation of anything good or wholesome.

Why would you otherwise oppose Eich’s private bigotry against gays but ignore educational institutions’ institutional bigotry against white men? Both were the topics of my post you first replied to and the rest of this thread

You’re opposed to bigotry against gays but fine with bigotry against men and/or white people?

They're not self-immolating.

They're being torched down.

It's a solution. No other solution has worked, or been proposed.

Remember Brendan Eich? He was excommunicated because of a personal political view, allegedly because "he lost trust of the community". So yeah, being right-wing is faux-pass in tech and academia, therefore the left has no argument against people being defunded / fired because of personal political opinions. But we're talking here (see my other post) is institutional far-left policy (DEI meaning explicit racism and sexism against white men). No wonder they have totally lost trust of the community (like half the US), to be seemingly beyond reform, up for restarting from scratch.

Have you tried researching the topic? Very quick search:

- Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi expressed a desire for her lab to reflect social justice and actively works to foster a diverse and inclusive environment following events such as George Floyd's murder. (also runs a chem/bio/med lab at Stanford)

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/One-on-one-with-Car...

- Harvard Faculty of Arts and Science (which includes graduate biology) stops requiring diversity statements for faculty (i.e. they DID require them)

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/harvard-faculty-end-mand...

> if you use an external service, then yes they can specify how you use their service. Those are contractual obligations.

Sounds like something Apple would say.

Well, your opinion is literally illegal.

You're legally (and technically) prohibited from re-programming GPS modules, GSM modules, and probably many stuff in cars as well.

(Actually, maybe contractually when it comes to GPS modules.)

Source?

All data I'm aware of shows the contrary.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-gdp-decoupling

Yeah that’s the point. Now instead of just writing good code, I’m also supposed to debug shitty AI code.

I don't know man.

My code runs in 0.11s

Gemini's code runs in 0.5s.

Boss wants an explanation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

how about something like feather.so? publish a website / blog from your Notion...

haven't used it, but looks like a great idea!

Yeah, it's very easy to get into a situation of "type is a subtype of a larger version of itself" which obviously grows without bounds.

But the solution is trivial - basically the same as the old mathematical issue "set vs class": only small types are types, large types aren't. Which types are "small"? Well, precisely those, that don't contain abstract types.

See this brilliant paper for a longer treatise (the above is the essential summary): 1ML by Andreas Rossberg

https://people.mpi-sws.org/~rossberg/1ml/

Sorry typo. I meant childcare, link mentions childcare.

Slovenia doesn’t have free healthcare, only subsidized.

Source: https://www.gov.si/teme/znizano-placilo-vrtca/

Probably AI generated.

Every actual human with lived experience in society knows, that real life is much more diverse than school. In school, there’s at best a few cliques and mostly a single social hierarchy. After school, even during student years, but even more so when entering the workforce, there’s incredible variety of social hierarchies to climb, skills to learn and excel within, and career paths to take.

Zero comparison to school.

Can't talk about others but for me personally, I:

1) always return the shopping cart when it's free (it almost never is)

2) rarely return the shopping cart when it's paid - sorry but I value my time more than €1 it cost to rent the cart, and, well, clearly there's no "social contract" - there's an "explicit contract", which says "you rent the cart for €1 and we refund you if you return it" so clearly not returning it is fine (also, someone could earn €1!)

Absolutely.

Also shows you they had to search far and wide to find examples.

Free transport? Tallin, Estonia (presumably the only capital city), population: 450k

Government-run grocery stores? Turkey (barely even Europe), only accessible to the poor

Free childcare? Portugal, introduced in 2022, and hardly universal: while the program is open to all, places are limited and can be tough to access

Rent freeze? Established in Berlin in 2020, ruled unconstitutional in 2021.

In other words, garbage article and extremely clickbaity (and lying) title.

As someone who has been literally involved in this business (AI support), not very successfully unfortunately, I wouldn't.

They're literally the best suited companies to take full advantage of this new technology!

They have existing customer relationships, training manuals, past call recordings (== training data), and enough humans for fallback / oversight (often legally required!)

But yeah, you have to continue being entrepreneurial or risk being replaced by being complacent

> If robots produce so much value that it is actively not even viable for humans to work, the only real logical solution is to distribute the profits

You don't understand. Almost nobody actually thinks about this in the right way, but it's actually basic economics.

Salt.

We used to fight wars for salt, but now it's literally given away for free (in restaurants).

If "robots produce so much value" then all that value will have approximately zero marginal cost. You won't need to distribute profits, you can simply distribute food and stuff and housing because they're cheap enough to be essentially free.

But obviously, not everything will be free. Just look at the famous "cost of education vs TV chart" [1]. Things that are mostly expensive: regulated (education, medicine, law) and positional (housing / land - everyone wants to live in good places!) goods. Things that are mostly cheap: things that are mass produced in factories (economies of scale, automation). Robots might move food & clothing into the "cheap" category but otherwise won't really move the needle, unless we radically rethink regulation.

[1] https://kottke.org/19/02/cheap-tvs-and-exorbitant-education-...

I’ll trust Wikipedia on this topic.

> The Last Interglacial climate is believed to have been warmer than the current Holocene.

> During the northern summer, temperatures in the Arctic region were about 2–4 °C higher than in 2011

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Interglacial

I don't think photosynthesis "just adapts", it evolves quite slowly (if it could evolve faster, it would be much more efficient!).

Also, your geological timelines are way off. Last interglacial period (with temperatures higher than today) was 100k years ago.

HN has literally became an anti-intellectual echo-chamber.

> too hot for photosynthesis

Um, what?! The Earth is currently in an ice age - it used to be hotter most of its history.

How did life survive if it was too hot for photosynthesis?

It’s one thing to say that the planet is warming up (from freezing to normal temperature) too fast, but saying that it will be too hot for photosynthesis is just not credible.