bojan

Sort of, that's the mindset you get because you've no clue how the app actually works.

We have a 100% vibe-coding team, and yes, when they couldn't pass through the CI/CD at some point, they contacted the Ops team and literally said "the agent said the problem is on your side".

While I agree with your point, I don't agree that the unchecked globalisation is to blame, rather unchecked capitalism. Even without globalisation unchecked capitalism would lead to the same result, only per country.

And the countries that did the work to rein capitalism in, in a proper way, are doing well, also in the circumstances of globalisation.

The fact that you're mentioning oil and not gas tells me you are not really familiar with the situation.

But no, getting yourself in a situation where you're dependent on cowboy regimes for critical resources is not good for the people.

Yes.

There is imho very little to gain from such a move, and potentially a lot to lose. Disconnecting a whole society in such a way would make the total government control even easier.

Edit: typo

I don't think this optimistic take is what vast majority of people experience in their daily lives. The AI gets used as glorified Google, and the AI-generated videos get pushed to the elderly as they can't tell the difference.

Or am I out of the loop and people outside the tech world do use it in a way I'm not aware of?

The Netherlands won't do it. Personally I think it shouldn't, as it'd set a sort of precedent that would be easy to abuse in the future, but the actual reason is that the Russian influence found a fertile ground in the NL, with about a third of the votes going to pro-Russian parties and with the destruction of MH17 basically gone from the public discourse.

Indirect democracy is not really a lack of democracy. But I dislike the way it works now as well and would like for EU elections to be more direct. I'd also like to be able to vote for candidates from other member states.

However changes like these are deeply unpopular as they get interpreted as moving more powers to "Brussels" by right wing media.

we do not love the EU government because there are billions being poured into promoting the discourse that the EU is a bad thing by both private and state actors.

What a weird take.

North Korea has, like all (formerly and currently) communist countries, a decent education system.

An educated population of 20 million people will easily provide you with a several thousand people needed to develop functioning nuclear weapons. Those you need to feed. The rest may, and do, starve.

Supranational, at the EU level.

Not just data centers. Europe is close enough to need an all-encompassing national strategy against this.

I think that's exactly what happened.

Except it doesn't seem the software is getting cheaper for the end user, even though it is arguably getting cheaper to build.

Paradoxically, the costs of running the software seem to keep rising, both for running it on a local machine or as a subscription.

Disagree. If you're earning enough for a decent quality of life working 4 days, there is no real reason to work 5 days.

Where I live many people choose 20% earnings penalty, because 80% is enough for all needs.

And we remain very competitive on the global scene, as a society. We ensure we make the most of those 80%.

Why wouldn't it be important?

It's very common where I live. It doesn't seem to affect our GDP or national productivity.

And interestingly enough, you almost never see people who start to work fewer hours choosing to go back to 40 hours.

> They oppose it because, in their own words, they think it’s hype and it doesn’t work.

This was maybe true a year ago, but is certainly not true any more.

The laments these days almost always begin with the assertion that the AI does work.

Mostly it's about funneling even more wealth into the hands of the richest and the incredible environmental penalty.

It's an AI agent, it's normal that different people get different results.

Further, your screenshot is even worse, as it's whitewashing the events from that day.

No lunch breaks, but also no responsibility.

So you've unlocked tremendous value, but you're not earning any money?

So where is the value? Have you built that one application you always wished existed but it wasn't available?

Not exactly a man, but Sofie[0] from Amersfoort is also interesting.

[0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie_(verkeerslicht)

Interestingly enough, in the linked text, B is referred as a "language", follow by "the generated code is quite good", presumably referring to the resulting Assembly code.

Late Douglas Adams noticed this phenomenon decades ago:

> The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

What's insane is that there's seemingly an account made just to post this useless comment, in a thread buried several levels deep, under an, for HN standards, old post.

Given a choice, a vast majority of children (and people in general) would choose to have a life, even with arguably uncertain future prospects, over not getting to live at all.

The real reason you're postponing parenthood is probably that you choose to prioritize your comfort and financial independence at this moment. And there is nothing wrong with it, but I do miss honesty.

Somewhere at the very beginning of my career, the second year I think, I was part of the team that visited a location of the company we were selling our SaaS solution to, in a branch that was back then still dependent on Excel sheets.

The owner of the company lead us to a large open office with about 30 people working in there, mostly women, and whispered to us that he expects he'll only need three of them after subscribing to our product.

That's when I realised the brutality of what we are doing, and the sales guy I was with realised we should be charging significantly more.

It would be nice, but it's too high a bar to set, as the visa policies differ significantly between the three.

There is a real danger the Schengen agreement itself will collapse in the upcoming years - Germany is already ignoring both the Schengen agreement and its own courts by keeping border controls.

Commodore 64 was by default in overwrite mode.

When I switched to PC being in insert mode took some getting used to.

> Deep down, we're an annoyingly arrogant little country with delusions of grandeur salivating at the thought to prove to our EU neighbors how strong we meant it when we said we would accept to oppose the US in case of military attack and I think they knew we may actually mean it and not back down when it start (see also: Denmark leak about how France was essentially willing to provide whatever to help defend Greenland).

And the rest of Europe loves you for that! But we're also very worried if that'll all remain so if Le Pen or Mélenchon win next year.

From the website:

"Your repos never leave the EU"

That's clear enough I think.

Yes. There are all kinds of edge cases.

The point I tried to make is that with the system we have here it's much less of a hassle to prove you're eligible to vote. The system wants you to be able to vote, and to be able to do that easily.

You can do all that with a driving license, but a driving license is not a proof of citizenship and thus of your eligibility to vote.

In Europe, you can't get a regular ID without being a citizen. So having an ID automatically means you're eligible to vote.