Palantir? Wirklich? Was ist de-facto ein teil der Amerikanischen Geheimdiensten auf Deutsche daten loslassen? Ok 👍

Vielleicht wegen Alzheimer. Manche Leute werden damit sehr aggressiv.

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Alle meine Zuhausis lieben Henry George.

The USA.

Immer wenn man die Wörter “gesellschaftliche debatte” liest, weiß man dass nichts daraus kommt, es sei denn man drückt auf die Bremse. Es ist nur eine Ausrede, um alles langsamer zu machen. Die Debatte hat keine Ende.

Jedenfalls: Deutschland hat im bereich KI nichts zu sagen. Es ist völlig irrelevant was Deutsche über KI denken. Die zukunft kommt zu Deutschland aus dem Ausland, früher oder später.

Hydrohominid

The US spends 80% more on R&D than the EU, while having 100 million less people. It’s just not close. The first step to changing something is to understand it. Huffing on copium helps no one.

This is so great and so bad at the same time. We’re gonna have to go back to using tar and shit for things we actually want to last. That’s not going to be cheap…

Oh absolutely, PayPal, Visa, and MasterCard are absolutely crucial. This position allows them to leech off the entire dogital payments system in a way that does not have anything to do with their cost of operating. So an alternative doesn’t hurt.

Regarding online ID: The Norwegian government websites only accept ID from Norwegian providers, and if you want to sign anything with a commercial party you’ll need Norwegian BankID. Germany operates entirely on wet ink sent by snail mail. Some government websites accept ID cards, but the commercial world has not taken notice at all. I don’t know where this unified European ID world is, but my guess is Theoryland and maybe Estonia and Finland.

Good that they’re working on it, but man is this stuff slow. Germany’s still all in on PayPal. I think the EU should just create a common solution. Oh, and create a common way to confirm identities and sign documents online. This national fragmentation is just dumb.

True, but when the salaries in the US are double or tripple that in Europe it just doesn’t work out. American labs are also better equipped on average. No way Europe can compete with the US for scientific talent. The money is just not there. Our only hope is that the US voluntarily exits the competition, which seems to be what’s happening.

Worth noting that the y in “ye” is not actually a y: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form

Tldr: “Ye” is pronounced identically to “the”. The “th” sound used to have its own letter that somehow got to be written “y” until everyone decided that was quite silly.

Now we have weight loss drugs, though. Those are apparently unbelievably effective

I wouldn’t say that the ruling class loves racism, but when the people are looking for someone to blame they’d understandably rather throw minorities under the bus than lie down themselves.

“We can be friends until the revolution. After that it gets difficult.”

Implying we aren’t

The JS ecosystem is in another league entirely. I don’t understand how it’s possible to develop in that world without losing all hope of writing good software. To be fair, many frontend devs seem somewhat resigned in that regard.

Rust is an awesome language, but an outright disconcerting percentage of libraries have versions starting with “0”, so I get what you mean. Keeping your dependencies up to date is usually no biggie, but it’s definitely not always the easiest. There’s also a bit of churn in what is considered the correct way to do things. Some stuff is settled, but some definitely isn’t. So I get it if you don’t want to jump in just yet.

Yeah, the moral high ground of Biden vs Trump is still immense, but it’s just a bit less steep than it used to be.