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yokaze··on Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
Missed the other part. Why does the density doesn't not improve in the city states?

More and more people want to live in the city, as you can see in the skyrocketing rents, but they do not want to

- build higher

- build more dense (in particular, keep the green areas)

yokaze··on Half of Europe's towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
City states. The borders are administrative and hard to change, so people living in the "suburbs" live not only in a different city, but a different state.
yokaze··on Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget
The numbers are simply wrong. The VAT is 21% tops and in the highest taxed region the 60K are effectively taxed at 32%.

And you miss the point that wealth is not determined by how much you earn, but how much you have.

Various super rich are nominally earning one dollar/euro.

I know doctors that have trouble finding a flat and others that complain about being classified as big renter because they only have six flats. The discriminator is not the income. (When we talk about the Ultra-Rich).

yokaze··on Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget
> In Spain if you earn more than 60k you are considered rich.

No, you are high earner. It puts you squarely in the top 10%.

yokaze··on Ask HN: Advice for First Child?
Forget tech. Except the bottle and a thermometer.

Forget about "breast is best". Fed is best.

If breastfeeding works, great. Giving the bottle won't stop your child taking the breast.

The evidence for "breast is best" is limited.

Divide the work, and give each other some time off. Both of your mental well-being is important as well.

Wanting the best for your child is normal, but remember: the best is the enemy of good.

Regarding the TV: the evidence there is also limited. Don't want to discourage you.

Most studies are observational. Most of them are done with volunteers in an university related environment, the differences are usually small.

If you want to follow that advice and it makes you feel better, great. But don't stress yourself out over it.

The most important thing is that your child has loving and caring parents which are there for it. And that takes effort too.

All the best.

yokaze··on Now That He Has No Power, Mitt Romney Says "Tax the Rich"
Alternative framing: If you have to earn money and pay income tax, you are not really rich.
yokaze··on AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund
I think the article points quite well out, these profits cannot be taken at face value, if they are financend by Nvidia in the form of investments.
yokaze··on How far can you go by train in 5 hours? (interactive map)
Well, Spain is fairly sparsely populated in the interior compared to France or Germany: https://maps-spain.com/maps-spain-geography/spain-population...

Then you have the Pyrenees between the Iberian peninsula and France. Aside from being mountainous, also fairly low population density, and rather poorer regions to the point that you'll find abandoned villages.

So, the only sensible connections are along the Mediterranean (Catalonia) or the Atlantic coast (Basque Country).

Another reason is that Spain has high-speed rails only since the nineties.

IRC, just in the recent years, there was a high-speed connection built to the Basque Country (from Madrid). From the Basque Country you can go to France with a light rail.

So, the only high-speed connection is along the Mediterranean.

In a way, it's a center/periphery problem.

France is prioritising connections from/to Paris, Spain from/to Madrid.

Unless either side improves the network at their side of the border, it also makes limited sense to improve yours.

The EU is funding that.

yokaze··on SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
SAP also uses Openstack.
yokaze··on Spain Is Going Its Own Way
It is not "not contributing more", it is not committing to tripling or quadrupling the defense spending.

That number is purely posturing. Or if you want to frame it more positively: aspirational.

Germany struggles to even meet the previously agreed 2% goal.

I doubt, anyone takes that number seriously.

yokaze··on Going faster than memcpy
Boost.Interprocess:

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_0/doc/html/interprocess/...

yokaze··on Helm local code execution via a malicious chart
I create a malicious chart or compromise one you use (with symlink to an arbitrary file and code).

You download charts either as a tarball from a helm repo or oci registry with helm and helm will create the files and links with your permissions, and send me whatever I wanted to extract from your system.

Yes, you should check things you download from the internet. But also, that is not how a chart is supposed to work.

yokaze··on Madrid's Biggest Landlord? U.S. Investment Firms
https://archive.ph/RVFWA
yokaze··on E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk's X
> The next piece that concerned me was GDPR which required EU citizens data to be processed in the EU.

That's wrong. It can be processed outside the EU, provided the country has laws providing adequate protections comparable (or better) than the GDPR.

Here more details: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/i...

yokaze··on Republicans Debate Hiking Top Tax Rate to 40% for Millionaires
It is being done in countries like Switzerland and Norway. Not exactly poor countries.

As I understand, in both cases, the tax resident has to declare their global (netto) wealth and have to pay a small percentage (close or less than 1%) of that wealth.

Don't you ever had tax obligations due to shares? Sell-to-cover is one solution. But I suspect at that scale you get enough dividends from these companies to cover.

yokaze··on Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
> there was (and still is) no single market for services, so how could have joining the EEC have caused any of these things?

Well, let's address the "there still is no single market...". You are entitled to your opinion, but it differs to the official stance from the EU.

Here the page about the Single Market for Services: https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/ser...

Now let's have a look at the Treaty of Rome (1957): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=LEGISSUM...

The summary says:

> It created a common market based on the free movement of:

> goods

> people

> services

> capital.

I assume we can differ in the opinion of how much of that has been achieved and at what time, and I agree it is far from perfect, but your statement is rather undifferentiated and categorical.

yokaze··on Der Spiegel Proclaims the End of the West
I think, that's the part from the article, which states its message succinctly:

> The West as a block of liberal democracies no longer exists.

yokaze··on Mercedes-Benz battery recycling plant recovers '96%' of materials
A car needs a battery pack, which consist of modules, which in turns consists of cells.

That one has five modules per pack: https://www.batterydesign.net/2021-mercedes-eqa-250/

That one has twelve modules per pack: https://www.batterydesign.net/mercedes-eqs/

So, we talk about maybe an order of magnitude lower battery packs (5k-10k).

They sold like 46k electric cars in Q2 of 2024.

I think, the point of saying it is a modest start is more judged against the total number of cars sold in total (in Q2: 496,700).

yokaze··on 17-year-old student exposes Germany's 'secret' pirate site blocklist
You don't get fined for downloading, you get cease-and-desist with a fine (?) from a lawyer representing the copyright owner for uploading.

Downloading copyrighted is not illegal, offering is.

You could try to argue technicalities in court, but that'll probably exceed the hundreds of Euro the copyright owner demands.

yokaze··on It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
Funny that you say that. In my personal experience, the degree of support is one of the reasons to switch. Like any large vendor, it takes almost more time to convince them that it there is a problem, then it would take to fix it, if you have the technical skills in house. (That was enough for Google to switch to their own switches).

Haven't worked yet with IBM, but if they are of equal level, then I'd rather avoid them.

But since you say IBM, they have IBM Cloud Manager, and through Redhat also an Openstack offer, and with Openshift a K8S offer. Various vendors offer either or both.

There are also companies which operate internal cloud providers for other companies. Various public cloud providers offer you to operate your datacenter with their API in-hose.

Yes, it comes with their hardware, but guess what, in three years chances are half of your hardware is deprecated and has been replaced anyway.

Yes, all that requires effort. Considerable effort. But it is a one-time effort (i.e. fixed costs) compared to a X-fold increase of licensing costs. So, you look at the ROI, consider the risk of having that degree of exposure, and guess what...

To reiterate: It doesn't have to be all in one go, it doesn't mean it has to be all of it. Maybe some of your payload will always stay on vmware, but thinking you can ask the big companies for 20x the license costs, and expect 20x the revenue is rather odd.

You may guess, where I know that from.

yokaze··on It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer
> Large customers are sticky. You can't migrate your hypervisor or cloud provider overnight. These are multi-year projects.

Yes, but that scale, everything is an multi-year effort. The contracts likely as well. That doesn't mean, it's not going to happen.

And it's not like all has to happen in one go.

So before you were all in VMware, and that vendor is practically promising to hike up the prices to make you bleed.

What are you gonna do?

I'd rather start early to have a migration path, even if it is just for negotiation purposes. And if it's someone who has the resources to that, it's large customers.

yokaze··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
I think, that is a bit besides the point I wanted to make.

Yes, it is very hard to know a priori, what is life-saving, and what not. No, I do not wanted to suggest that the work of doctors it is not important.

The common understanding of doctors (their self-understanding included) is, that their work is very important, to the point that they exploit themselves. Or allow themselves to be "exploited".

In this forum, more commonly you have people here working on productive systems, which can empathize with the feeling the responsibility for the operations and not wanting to drop the ball.

People with that mindset think, they may safe a patient / the system, but working oneself to exhaustion won't solve those problems. And on the contrary, the exhaustion may be a contributing factor of making things worse in various ways. One directly by your actions, the other indirectly by covering up systemic problems.

yokaze··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
That's a straw man. We do not need "endless doctors" just more (or some way to use them more efficiently).

The number of doctors are limited by the pipeline to educate them.

Most countries I know, the number of people admitted to study medicine exceeds the number people wanting to study medicine vastly exceeds the positions to do so, and admissions are highly competitive. To a point, I'd say, that it is becoming ridiculous.

So, there is not a lack of people wanting to become doctors, but a lack of people allowed to even start to study to become one.

yokaze··on The darker side of being a doctor (2017)
Sorry, that is bollocks. That is the story most people believe, and makes for a convenient story for those people actually to blame. Funnily, it is also the story most doctors themselves seem to chose to believe in.

First, those are not the only choices. There is also the the option of training and hiring more doctors. 2

Probably, there is also an option of making more efficient use of doctors time, but that one is more complicated.

Most of the work of doctors is not life-saving.

I think, you see a standard problem of pushing shit down or up. Government lowers budget, pushes quotas down, which gets pushed down further until it reaches the bottom rank and file, the doctors.

They have to "do more with less" (Not limited to public sector, see Boeing), and that works for a while, until it doesn't.

yokaze··on Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form
"Roughly the same abundances" meaning, why we usually (but not always) find evidence of dark matter in places, where we see regular matter.
yokaze··on So I Quit Spotify
What worked for me: Search a web-radio with a (human) DJ and a published playlist. If find there a couple of artists / songs of a certain style that match my more non-mainstream interests, I'll listen to that. Usually, there pop up some artists I have never heard before.

A variant on that is, look for such a radio in a different country.

yokaze··on A larger family worsens kids' cognitive development, suggests 30-year study
Usually, you do a multivariate statistical analysis, and "accounting for" means, it was one of the variables thrown in.
yokaze··on What's the point of automatic on-boot decrypting LUKS volumes?
Well, first off, while you can configure it that way, I don't think that is the primary use-case. The primary one is adding a "something you have" factor to the "something you know" factor.

If you have servers in a controlled surveilled environment, you might be less worried about someone carrying a whole machine away, and you might be more concerned with someone just pulling a disk out and intentionally or unintentionally leaking the data. If someone can infiltrate your DC and take out a 4u server, then you have bigger problems to worry about.

yokaze··on Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points to Kyiv
English text without paywall: https://www.spiegel.de/international/investigating-the-attac...
yokaze··on Linux Code for “Device Memory TCP” – Network to/from Accelerator RAM
It's different. Rdma offloads the TCP transfer of host memory to the network device. This is about transferring device memory directly, avoiding going though the host.

Had to read through the lklm message, at it wasn't clear from the article.

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