Cost of labour i meant work taxation. You can see the waste everywhere. We could have half income tax, half social security and half health. Instead of taking 50% you your income. We could give 25%. And have more to boost the economy or save for future. EU is in slow death. Dying out, pyramid scheme retirement system mostly.
We had our underground parking and storage units broken into in apartment building. And we couldn't see the CCTV camera, to be on a lookout for the thief and call cops. Only cops could see it. Thieves have higher protection than your property.
Of course it will be worse. And EU will not have concentration camps or gulags. But boiling the frog of freedom slowly def is not best outcome. And will more people to anti eu camp. An in the end to east.
There is no alternative is there. Russia bad for obvious reasons. EU rules getting more and more tight. Lets see what happens with digital euro and forced investing in EU markets. Eu is ruled by gerontocrats and detached leftists. The extreme right is not solution. Most of EU MPs from small countries are literal nobodies, just bench warmers.
I felt kind of safe there, depends of a district. But I know personally a guy 1,9 meters, boxer, that got drunk and took a taxi, the guy drove him to darl alley where friends were waiting and took his stuff. So it is always about using your brain and a bit of luck. But that was more than 10 years ago. Maybe with uber, these situations are safer.
It must be historical and also how cities are settled. South America has huge influx of uneducated, poor people into the cities. It is easy for them to get entangled in bad activities in the slums. Like Rio. Beautiful city and some government reforms pushed ex slaves into city with no prospect for life. and government forgot about them until there was a problem. And maybe there is different social net in Asia. Culture based on shame, more than power/status(?).
I was there couple years ago. If you don't go to places you shouldn't, you are mostly Ok. I felt much safer in Peru than in Brazil for example. It is not europe or some parts of asia. But for central/south america it was farily safe. Not sure about some changes in the last years.
A lot of carbonated water gives me gas, especially when not eating enough. But I am not sure it is an issue. People have various gas levels, it just goes in and out.
Well, i don't see what is wrong with it. Apart that common people don't invest even a bit. This is what happens always with everything. Some people find joy in accumulating stock and others in drinking beer every evening.
What fascinates me is that serious scientists are surprised that life is random anfinds a way...
"However, the motivation for its extensive journey into Egypt is still a mystery that demands further research." Like, food?
Yeah, but it would have to reason about the thing it just halucinated. Or it would have to be somehow hard prompted. There will be more tools and code around LLM, to make it behave like a human then people can imagine. They are trying to solve everything with LLMs. They have 0 agency.
yes, I told Windsurf to copy some code to another folder. And what it did? It "regenerated" the files, in the right folders. But the content was different. Great chaos Agent :D
Sonnet 3.5 fails to generate basic JetpackCompose libraries properties properly. Maybe if somebody tried really hard to scrape all the documentation and force feed it, then it could work. But i don't if there are examples of this.
Like general LLM, but with complete Android/Kotlin pushed into it to fix the synapses.
The amount of hallucination I get when trying to write code is amazing. I mean it can get the core concepts of language, can create structure/algo. But it often makes up objects/values when I ask questions. Exampe:
It suggested TextLayoutResult.size - which is Int value. I asked if it is width and height. And it wrote it has size.height and also size.width. Which it does not. I am now writing production code and also evaluating the LLMs, that our management thinks will save us shit load of time.
We will get there sometimes, but the push from management is not compatible with the state of the LLMs.
(I use Claude 3.5 sonnet now, as it is also built in some of the "AI IDEs".)