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by brainwad 4mo ago
Anthropic just announced it's on track to have its first profitable quarter: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Ontario _already_ gets a quarter of its power from storage, in the form of hydro. If you add some pumps you can use the existing dam capacity more.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Even then, the costs came down 10x in a decade, so it seems foolish to commit to nuclear which has no prospects of getting cheaper.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Sydney drivers are very aggressive, but IME they do cut learners some slack. The learners just don't realise how much more aggressive people normally are... The 80km/h limit doesn't help either, as it forces a bunch of overta
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by brainwad 4mo ago
This is locale-dependent. English is top to bottom but German is bottom to top, for example. It looks bad when you have a mixed language shelf...
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The call centre for my Australian bank's KYC is seemingly backed by a single person. I've spoken to her a few times now... so calling them back more or less does work, though you might have to wait on hold again.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The consumers 'want' it because if they get disconnected and try to recall, by spoofing a local number it costs them nothing/little since it's a local number (maybe toll-free?) instead of a lot for an international call.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
You're in denial. The great problem with AI coding is now that it does too much, not too little. See the endless stream of vulnerabilities or the constant barrage of vibe coded apps, that get ever more complex.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Ok, but my dishwasher _does_ demand I give it more salt and rinse aid ;)
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The differential cost of living will always mean that for any wage, the job is more attractive to cross border commuters.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Except that the voter base skews heavily to the non-working elderly and also excludes all the immigrants who might be quite happy to work for "low" Swiss pay. Voting on prices is not a free market. It's something entirely dif
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by brainwad 4mo ago
+1 to your last point. The best you can hope for as a country is to select immigrants who align better with your ideals than with their home countries'. I think that's why Americans think integration is so easy - because immigrant
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by brainwad 4mo ago
I don't know if it's good, but it's not possible to have it any other way since the population is roughly split on whether freedom of movement is great or terrible, and has been for decades.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
> Even if you come on a FAANG salary, you will not be able to buy your way in that easily. Americans at Google Zürich do it all the time.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Well, they are "moderate" in that they are in the Bundesrat, unlike a real fringe party like EDU or FPS (or PdA on the left).
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Eh, my PM has been in Switzerland for 8 years and it's still very obvious he's Indian from his accent, from his restaurant preferences and from his choice of holiday destinations... Just like I've been here 10 and it's s
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Nursing salaries have hit the ceiling of what is possible given the abysmal productivity in healthcare. People both complain nurses don't get paid enough, and that health insurance is too expensive.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The problem with the latter is then you have no control over how the clothes/software are made. This is the problem the EU is now encountering - all the best software is made by US companies, but it's now tainted by sovereign risk
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by brainwad 4mo ago
It's an explicitly non-market-determined price.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
In Switzerland the problem is the cheap foreigners commute over the border from Italy or France, and drive down the going rate for labour to levels where it's then unreasonable for people who actually live on Switzerland to do those jo
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The 'proper' salary for a job depends on the productivity of the job. It is perfectly possible for a low-producing the job in Switzerland to be too low paid for natives to want to do it, and yet well-paid enough for immigrants to
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The complexity of society has got to be somewhat proportional to its population. If we halve the population, we won't just half the GWP. It will be lower still due to less specialisation. Also, unless you throw the elderly to the wolve
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The party that proposed this vote has always opposed the treaties with the EU and yes this whole thing is just a thinly disguised way to repudiate the treaties as soon as practicable. They know what they are getting, it's not a cake-an
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by brainwad 4mo ago
> Nothing in this referendum directs Berne to do that The initiative text literally directed the Bundesrat to withdraw from the bilaterals 2 years after exceeding 10m if they couldn't be renegotiated.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The Masseneinwanderungsinitiative passed in 2014... and fuck all happened (despite the no campaign heavily leaning on the argument that it would kill the bilaterals, e.g. https://www.emuseum.ch/internal/media/dispa
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by brainwad 4mo ago
The replacement will be more or less similar to the pre-1990 bin-dropping, where the government will just not report on too-small slices (read, almost definitionally: minorities). Which is also politically biased, in a different way.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
Usually 14 days and ~50-200 CHF. But you can usually do it online now, so it's trivial.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
As I understand it, in the Soviet Union you had to get government permission before moving. Whereas here the right to move is guaranteed, you just have to update your details.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
My home country pays a baby bonus to people and it's administered via the tax system, so I think we ask something very similar actually.
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by brainwad 4mo ago
In my European country (Switzerland), it's mandatory to notify the government whenever you move. There is thus no universal census and also no voter registration. There's still subsampled surveys though, for e.g. economic data, th

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