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Presumably banks don’t give out loans to older people without any property.

If you are going to sell your house to go on vacations… I don’t think too many people will do that. Say you sell at 40 … well you still have a lot of mortgage left so the bank gets their part and maybe you get like 50k profit which is not debt.

If you sell your home when you’re older, it’s your money so no debt either.

Banks only give out so much credit card debt without collateral. Presumably somebody did the math with how much they are willing to lose.

Well the other explanation is that you are better of buying than renting.

If rent prices go up faster than house prices, then you might as well buy at any price. Of course this assumes you can afford it.

Honestly I don’t think we are less productive at home, but being away from the distractions of the office shows you how unproductive you were to start with.

At home I know if I actually focus, I can finish my tasks in less time, and I can enjoy the rest of the day/week.

I’m the office, I am incentivized to drag out work to fill the 8 hours because I need to be in the office that much anyway.

I would agree historically, but I think innovation and change is happening much faster now.

10 years ago, nobody seriously thought about taking on Google in terms of search engine. Now we are going though a phase where we are questioning if LLMs can take over that market share.

Same with Facebook in social networks, but TikTok took over pretty fast.

Serious question: Why do they have that requirement?

Wouldn’t that increase in workforce lower wages which is what companies want anyway ?

How does the company benefit from this ?

Regarding the Balkans …

Low cost of living in some regards … housing for example compared to most western countries.

But higher cost of living in others … price of gas for example… it’s close to 1.75$ per litere.

Food in the big cities is slightly cheaper, but not that much cheaper than the west. Around 40-50$ per person at the restaurant.

Food is much cheaper in the smaller towns, but most people from the west are unlikely to want to live there. Gas the same, housing is basically free, but there’s a reason for it.

I only have one experience with no-code and that is trying to make something in the Shortcuts app for iPhone.

I tried to make a password generator. Pretty simple I thought, just have a list of words, and pick 5 words out of the list, concatenate them and spit them out.

I’m python you can probably do it in one line.

I spent about 30 minutes trying to get this to work. The interface as well as the drag/drop way of doing it was a huge barrier. I’m sure this can be improved, or maybe it’s not aimed at this type of project but so far not impressed by no code solutions.

40 years is not that long ago. Have we really learned anything ?

In a way this says something about human brains.

Presumably both people took many pictures of many waves that day, but somehow both of them decided that this is the one that is the best from that trip.

As humans we share a similar metric for beauty. I find this idea simultaneously obviously and amazing.

It’s somewhere on a beach. When the tide goes out, it creates those ripples in the sand.

Then you need a cool rock formation and some mountains.

My take as a hobby photographer (3 years).

I started doing photography as a means of staying sane during COVID lockdowns. It has been a great way to get me outside and moving (mostly in nature) when there was not much else to do.

Having said all that, I think the real value in photography is the doing itself. Yes, the profit generated by each photograph will go down to zero, but I think the real value for people will come from the experience of going out and making a photo.

My most memorable photograph is waking up at sunset in the middle of the mountains only to see the sun shine on a giant piece of rock. The photos I took are good, but you can just google it and you will see thousands of them.

The photos I took are just a reminder of me running out of the tent to stare at the beauty of nature. AI will never give me that. Not because it can’t generate a better photo, but because it can’t generate the pain on my back from a heavy backpack.

Photography thought me how to look for those odd moments at sunset/sunrise, weird cloud formations that make the rest of the experience that much more enjoyable.

The part that is surprising, is where the reverse does not have a higher than random probability.

Sure, most of the time “is” is not commutative, but sometimes it is, so it should be higher probability than guessing.

Having some artificial intelligence algorithm that is completely understood and tu able like gzip is would be great for many uses.

I think it’s pretty hard to just improve a NN without more data or some non trivial amount of effort.

Nice to see that the browser toolbars of early 2000s are making a comeback. Just as useless, and they steal even more of your data.

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Just to clarify, are you saying this is the excuse shops can use in front of a judge? or that OPs conclusion is actually wrong, and there is no collusion among shops to start with, just fair and square supply and demand ?

What are the legal ramifications grocery stores can realistically get into ?

Are there any examples of stores getting in trouble in the past? Did it actually solve anything ? Obviously the stores are not scared of any ramifications.

Economically this seems like a ripe time for striking.

US wants to onshore/friend shore production, so there is a demand for US workers at any cost. Barring automation replacements.

How does Tails(or Qubes, or etc) provide security in a real use case full time OS system?

Say I log into Facebook, obviously I expect my identity to be exposed to Facebook, but do any of those OS have the ability to keep me private after I logged into some website ?

Is it possible for the west to build enough factories fast enough to offset a cutoff from China ?

It’s obvious a conflict would lower the standard of living for both countries, but I suspect Chinese people are willing to put up with worse qualities of life compared to westerners.

China went though a boom in quality of life, so in the same lifetime they are “returning” to what they had before.

Americans especially lived a pretty cushy life for the last few generations.

Implicitly, this speaks volumes about how much worse life is in other countries.

If somebody is willing to leave their home country, immigrate to Canada, and work hard enough to afford the rent/mortgage of those prices, it must be much worse in their home countries.

I can’t really explain it otherwise. It is obvious that it must be the increase in population increasing those prices, and people born in Canada do not have that many kids.

I mean, I started by saying it’s a hot take on the situation. That’s a warning label that it will make people take sides.

Not really sure what data there is available to prove or disprove this point though.

On the prove side, there are examples that companies don’t like unions, and are spending $ to fight unionizations.

Now where exactly WFH and unions fit is not clear.

Yes and no … Just because somebody does not care about making an employee mad, it does not mean they will get a job if they do.

You might think your employer is horrible, but it’s the ones that smile and stay how great the company is that will get hired.

When you NEED a job, people will go back to being company-pleasers.

Here is a hot take …

What if big companies are actually afraid of unions or some other form of organization ?

By forcing everyone back to office, it says … I still have control over you. Don’t you dare step out of line.

How else can a big company show its power of its workers other than layoffs, and physically forcing them to be somewhere ?

I think they are going to. But In Apple fashion, it will probably be pretty limited ability to start with. Maybe will only allow certain strict actions to be performed on the phone.

I don’t think you’d want more anyway. It’s not like you’ll want it to output Python code. For that you can use an app that specializes and has the UI for that task.

I have a hard time believing chatGPT would x10 your phone unless the UI of Siri would also change

Why not leave it filled with wine, and just accept the fact that the pillow will get smaller as the trip progresses.

Do api calls to something like Apple Music or Spotify with “HH:mm” as the search string. Scrape the results. Do some more filtering on the results.

I’ve used SQLite for some small projects and it was a very pleasant experience.

Does anyone have examples of the complex/ big projects that use SQLite ? I’m curious what problems they ran into, and how they were addressed.

Does anyone have technical details on the hack?

Seems like the fire stick was just a way to use the hotel Tv as a screen as far as I understand.

I don’t understand this idea of not paying people a good salary just because they are not doctors.

If people want to get packages delivered to their house, they should pay for it, and they should pay enough so it is sustainable. If you are not able or don’t want to walk to a central package collection station you can pay a premium.

Should only doctors be able to afford rent ?

‘’’ It runs on a schedule at 6, 26 and 46 minutes past the hour—I like to offset my cron times like this since I assume that the majority of crons run exactly on the hour, so running not-on-the-hour feels polite. ‘’’

Not sure how much of a difference it makes to the underlying service but I will also do this with my scraping.

Thank you for point that out