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3mo ago
But layoffs create a market where people have both experience and good degrees.
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3mo ago
It's much easier to plug into something perfected by millions of years of selective pressure.
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3mo ago
Nah, I’m talking 2016. I have no idea about commercial internet outside Berlin. But my residential connection in suburbs of Aachen in 2015 was copper.
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3mo ago
There was a very real barrier to building tech companies. We couldn't listen to Spotify at work during the time people seriously called Berlin the "SV of Europe" (our office was in the neighborhood called "SV Backyard&qu
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3mo ago
> We would build our own alternatives. Right, and we haven’t because we just don’t wanna? The gap between US/China and the EU in AI is becoming wider by the day. Russia has like 3-4 large tech companies (Sber, Yandex, VK, and maybe
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3mo ago
> machine is already doing 95% of the work! See, I want 100% of the work to be done.
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3mo ago
Several of your claims are unsubstantiated. Sure, species co-evolve together, environment shapes evolution. But why do you think evolution doesn’t explain existence of humans? What’s missing? Also, as someone else has replied to you, we’re
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4mo ago
You've got to be really on the margin of society to not be able to set it up when every grandma and her dog use smartphones. There're about 1000 different ways to improve the lives of such people without making everyone use their
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4mo ago
> Malta and Cyprus offer much better quality of life and also significantly less taxes . To each their own, I guess. I can't imagine living on those islands.
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Well, you can wait for greenery to be planted and grow around houses. It'll take 10-20 years. Or you can wait for your landlord to install the shutters (will never happen). Alternatively, you can get a portable inefficient AC and save
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4mo ago
Some do, others decline to answer.
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4mo ago
Estonia makes it very easy.
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> The optimal solution is just to leave Germany Just go to one of them Baltic states. They actually have a functioning electronic ids and other necessary infrastructure. There’s no reason to live in Germany if you’re working with interna
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4mo ago
Tax homes that aren’t your primary residence to the point where it’s not a good investment.
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> the market for AI is 2.5 larger than all the food sold on this planet. It just shows how much the automation has impacted agriculture and the food industry. Sure, there're rural farms that apply 200 yo technology. But e.g. the gra
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> Could other public transit serve the same purpose? Population density plays a big part. People think of Europe as a public transportation paradise, but a car makes your life easier outside Berlin, Paris, and other major cities. I live
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4mo ago
At least in Germany, you can opt out for private health insurance. I don't know if that's the case in the UK. There're also many private hospitals in Denmark. And in the latter, you have right to get treated in those if there
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The irony is that braindead conservatives elsewhere try to convince me that The Great Replacement is orchestrated by the British.
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Eastern Europeans doing "medical tourism" is often powered by higher salaries in the West and lower living standards in the East. That's true not only for healthcare but for majority of services. You absolutely can get qualit
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4mo ago
Yeah it's all about white power and Polish success has nothing to do with massive EU investment /s.
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> Not all that long ago the Ukrainian and Russian militaries were virtually indistinguishable, with the same doctrine, training, mindsets, and above all levels of corruption. This just shows you're not frequent in Ukrainian Telegram
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You've got to be delusional if you think the EU has a good grasp of AI.
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The EU is going to be China minus the technology.
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> Much less than 5-10 years ago, and orders of magnitude less than the Russian military. Stop with whataboutism, please. My taxes don’t go to the Russian military, so I couldn’t care less.
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4mo ago
You can't deny Ukrainian military suffers from deep corruption.
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4mo ago
I like a 10mm buzz cut, but it's nice to not have bold spots.
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The only caveat is that Turkey isn't even an EU candidate anymore. So not sure why you bring Europe up.
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> Also some EU pension funds are already in the process of divesting from US markets... And where will they go to?
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> slow to wake, the touchpad stops working once in a while & needs to be reset I was eyeing SP for several generations and could never commit to it just because of issue like that. I want a fast device that's 100% reliable. SP f
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I don't know... I've been writing code for good twenty years (15 professionally). First, I think it's the best time to write software since so much boring stuff can be automated. I can put my thoughts into what I'm tryin
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