Consolidation in real-estate and the entertainment industry are why. In real-estate it leads to higher rents and mortgages, which for restaurants makes the location more expensive, but also the staff because they need to make rent as well. In entertainment it’s all just ticketmaster, which owns venues and the ticketing system. That makes them able to double dip on every ticket, since they can charge exorbitant rents for event locations, and also take IIRC a 30% fee on every ticket sold.

I’m glad you understand, we don’t want any learning /s

That’s also something you could prevent by not allowing children of clergy to become priests.

Come to think of it, that may be a good idea for politicians as well. Children of politicians often get internships and opportunities through their parents, which gives them a massive networking advantage if they eventually want to hold office themselves.

Friendly competition can be good as well, because that may be encouraging to think differently and explore new ways of solving a problem, to avoid hitting a local optimum. But it needs to friendly in the sense that you also cooperate when relevant, sharing what works and what doesn’t.

Vaccination rates would be my first guess as well. Individually vaccines reduce the severity of symptoms, which makes it less likely for people to notice and report that they have COVID. The vaccine also reduces the viral load spread by individuals, therefore making it less likely for them to spread the virus, and it also makes it less likely for you to become sick if you come into contact with the virus.

Considering the difference in population density between the USA and The Netherlands (NL is way denser) I’d say this is a good demonstration of how vaccines are miracles of modern science.

I doubt they’ll be that stupid, however, all bets are off with the MBA’s back behind the wheel…

Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.

Man I adored my Pebble back in the day, and I’ll never forgive FitBit for buying the company just to kill off competition. I kind of want to buy the new one, but with them being based in the US I’m a bit scared of getting a nasty surprise due to import taxes…

Most people around me use LLM’s for their work, which is still anecdotal that’s for sure and I’m not denying it. My point I guess is that the genX’ers stand out way more, because they are more often in positions of authority, and you’d expect them to know better. That to me makes it way more remarkable that a professor would verbatim cite LLM output to one of their PhD students, wasting that student’s time having them debunk that obvious crap.

I wouldn’t really call South Korea a nice place to live. Compared to the north, sure, but not overall.

OK I didn’t know that, stupid move on his part then… What do you mean by likely illegally?

I’m not usually into stereotyping based on generations, but why is it specifically the Gen Xers who insist on talking to these LLMs all the time?

I’d go further, you should help with the development. Seems like some people would rather spend hours hounding a developer to implement their thing, rather than figuring out how to do it themselves…

Good teachers can make such a big difference, and it’s almost always in these kinds of unquantifiable, “I just encouraged the student in the way they needed” kinds of ways. This, as much as anything else, is why defunding the education system is so criminal. Stressed-out, underpaid and overworked teachers just won’t have the mental space to do these kinds of things.

Wow, thanks for mentioning this, I’m seriously looking at moving away from gmail, and Tuta was my frontrunner. Sad that they aren’t more upfront about this… I see Proton is kind of the same to some extent, but then they have a local bridge application which translates their protocol to IMAP/SMTP. Does anyone have experience with that?

*they’re fiscally conservative with redistributing money to the poor. All governments redistribute money, you can’t run a government without doing that. We should be making that clear, and then argue for redistribution to regular people, instead of the rich which is happening now.

Someone’s gotta create demand for stealing Palestinian homes. /s

Ctrl-f with text selected also works

We need a law that prevents HOA’s

This would work too.

Yup, adopting the Euro as currency would be my first condition. They threw a lot of privilege and bargaining power away out of pride, so that pride should be injured as much as possible (but without emiserating the common people).