_petronius

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by _petronius 17d ago
Downvote me all you want, naysayers. If politics didn't work, then the people you don't like wouldn't be in power.
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by _petronius 17d ago
There are more types of politics that national and international. Local, state/provincal, city, etc. The close it is to home the more you'll see the effects, and the more power you'll have. And the more directly the electorat
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by _petronius 17d ago
Political participation -- voting, organising for the groups you support, actively engaging in meetings and public forums, building social groups of like-minded individuals. It is hugely effective. The worst doomerism is the idea that polit
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by _petronius 8mo ago
More like no one is willing to stick their neck out politically to argue for the positive public policy changes, or challenge regulatory interpretation needed to make real change. Plenty of people see the problems, and even want to fix them
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by _petronius 8mo ago
This is true of all contract notarization in Germany (even when buying a house, jesus that is a slog), and although it is a bendy-banana level silly thing that people focus on, isn't actually the biggest problem in company founding her
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by _petronius 8mo ago
Per the Wikipedia article, an SE cannot be incorporated directly. It must be created out of one or more national, public (!) companies already formed under the law of a member state.
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by _petronius 8mo ago
Not so much controversial, as evidence that you completely lack capacity for empathy and you should do some serious self-reflection. This is just a really vile and amoral view to hold. People are being hurt by this, because "just pix
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by _petronius 8mo ago
Equating speed of travel with innovation is lame: a lot of work has been done in recent decades on making airplane engines more efficient, which makes air travel more economical both in terms of cost as well as C02e emissions per passenger
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by _petronius 9mo ago
I mean, if you read about how current industry-standard recommendation systems work, this is pretty bang on, I think? (I am not a data scientist/ML person, as a disclaimer.) If e.g. retention correlates to watch time (or some other met
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by _petronius 9mo ago
Your sci-fi distopia flash fiction is compelling, but not actually on topic in this discussion. "Think of the children" is weaponized for censorious purposes, but also the harms of social media are well documented (unlike many
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by _petronius 11mo ago
If a thought like this has occurred to you, a dilettante, after reading a headline and/or cursorily glancing over the article, then you should assume that a study conducted by people with substantial academic training and deep expertis
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by _petronius 1y ago
On my iPhone 16 Pro + Airpods Pro, when I start the game (tapping on the screen when it says "Tap to start") I get a message saying "Airpods Disconnected", even though the Control Center on the phone reports them as conn
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by _petronius 1y ago
I would add to this that in my experience, many teams actually perform better when co-locating, even if individual people on that team would prefer (or feel they individually perform better) remote. Covid normalized remote working, but also
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by _petronius 1y ago
In Berlin I enjoy exceedingly cheap daycare for my kids (80€ for 2 per month, would be lower if I didn't pay the optional extra costs), as well as generous parental leave in the year after a child is born, with salary subsidy from the
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by _petronius 1y ago
These are complementary, not opposing policies. You can have funded childcare and longer parental leave funded by the state. I live somewhere that has both (not in the US, perhaps obviously).
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by _petronius 1y ago
It does not count as therapy, no. Therapy (if it is any good) is a clinical practice with actual objectives, not pleasant chit-chat.
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by _petronius 1y ago
I am a consultant, and while I agree with the sibling comment from jonathaneunice (especially the point about being what I call "business therapist"), there is one thing I will add: a lot of what you are paying a top-tier consulti
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by _petronius 1y ago
If you lived in Ireland in that period, you benefitted from Irish government services, schools, police, fire services, etc. You participated in the community (hopefully), used roads, bought things in shops, so and on so forth. Regardless, t
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by _petronius 1y ago
Consumer-facing financial services in Germany are really bad at this, and it is not just Sparkassen: a few years ago an email supposedly from our corporate credit card provider to all of the foreign nationals at our company asking for scans
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by _petronius 1y ago
Being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. The distinction is relevant, and important.
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by _petronius 1y ago
The point of that second link above is that any amount of housing, at any price point, lowers cost of housing for everyone, especially lower-income participants in the market. Housing is in such brutally short supply (goes for major cities
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by _petronius 1y ago
I guess "fast" is what I mean when I think "on time, efficient" (compared to, say, the struggles Deutsche Bahn has had in recent years). There are no bullet trains laterally crossing Switzerland in under an hour, I suppo
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by _petronius 1y ago
Switzerland has the best rail system in the world (IMHO). One app can manage ticketing across all public transit in the entire country, and it is extremely fast and reliable. Lots of people who work in Zürich, for example, commute in from Z
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by _petronius 1y ago
Luckily, your personal thoughts from first principles with zero review of the available data is not all we have to go on! There is research[0] about causes of homelessness and about the effect[1] of house building on homelessness. This is a
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by _petronius 1y ago
Affordable housing is good, but building of housing of all types lowers housing prices for everyone[0]. Build it all! [0]: https://research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1314...
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by _petronius 1y ago
> The article skirts around a central question: what defines humans? Specifically, intelligence and emotions? > The entire article is saying "it looks kinds like a human in some ways, but people are being fooled!" > You c
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by _petronius 1y ago
I have been thinking a lot about this parable (introduced to me by Bluey) in relation to the current surge of GenAI https://btribble.com/well-see/ > A conviction that the future is bright isn't enough to actual
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by _petronius 1y ago
As a big GDPR fanboy, one thing I would be happy for them to remove is the portability between providers requirement: it was essentially dead on arrival, is not implemented, and could be done away with. The other EU-level regulation that ne
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by _petronius 1y ago
Some art-haters in the comments, so to defend this piece of contemporary art for a moment: one thing I love about it is a commitment to the long future of art, creativity, and civilization. What does it take to keep an instrument playing fo
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by _petronius 2y ago
I think this is confusing two things, intentionally: 1. Free speech in the public sphere includes the right of people offended by your speech to express that they are offended (to speak back). People like Toby Young (founder of the FSU), an

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