gyulai

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by gyulai 28d ago
You forget a third option. A monopolist doing the right thing from their good heart? Not gonna work. Legislators micromanaging every last aspect of every last thing through regulations? Not gonna work. Legislators squashing monopolies
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by gyulai 1mo ago
> If people want to regulate certain things they can, even if you don't like it - welcome to society. ...that could be a response to anyone taking a political stance in favour of changing anything and, besides being rude, adds not
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by gyulai 1mo ago
> If people were dead set against things like Meisterzwang in some areas it would not exist I'll give you an example: When I went to a copy shop in Austria to have my thesis bound, the attendant said they were only allowed to do it
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by gyulai 1mo ago
> The regulations on Handwerk are so old, not sure how you could put that on the Mittelstand. Exactly. These regulations stem from the same chapter of history as when kings used to grant monopolies (to the East India company, and simila
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by gyulai 1mo ago
> people could move to places with higher wages (e.g., cities), no? ...well, often times, when you have a family and real estate in a region, it might be inopportune to do that, and my contention is that some employers capitalize on that
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by gyulai 1mo ago
It was providing context which some people may find useful. The article, rather than being a strictly historical treatise, is taking the bait to propagate some narratives about the motivations behind why these companies do business the way
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by gyulai 1mo ago
the article was a bit long for me to read, but when i hear "mittelstand", i think "inherited wealth", regulatory capture leading to gatekeepting of access to the trades and crafts, and employees that are getting paid les
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by gyulai 1mo ago
...if you've only visited and never lived here for an extended period of time, you haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg. Also, the rules and systems are different from one municipality to another. Here are some of the highlig
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by gyulai 1mo ago
What percentage of your productive capacity is used for proper recycling and garbage disposal? ...that's the real metric to measure Germanness by, and yet it never got mentioned once!
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by gyulai 2mo ago
I've looked into these kinds of policies a couple of times now, and the premia are just astronomical. (At least from the quotes I've been given). It's kind of understandable, given that the risk is not all that low. But my
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by gyulai 2mo ago
> Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic ...hmm. Not sure that this is quite state-of-the art in sociology today. Crediting a particular strand of a particular religion as the locus of a virtue that confers a clear fitness advantag
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by gyulai 2mo ago
> NO EVIDENCE AT ALL It's funny how, when the hype is strong enough, the burden of proof around the need for EVIDENCE suddenly shifts. Normally, the burden of proof is on $NEWFANGLED_THING to prove it's better than $TRIED_AND_T
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by gyulai 2mo ago
> If I want to buy a new MP3 player, I have to buy something from a company I've never heard of with a terrible screen, use an old phone, or buy some sort of enthusiast audiophile flac player thing that costs way too much. I recentl
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by gyulai 2mo ago
...well, the "audiophile" angle is simply not where I'm coming from (see my argument about bad sound quality being "the feature, not the bug"). From an audiophile perspective: Absolutely, cassettes have no place in
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by gyulai 2mo ago
If it was my son and he was enjoying it, I would support him, mostly because of the secondary effects of learning to code on cognitive development. I am of a mind that coding teaches you to think logically. It's not the same as &quot
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by gyulai 2mo ago
I've been on a journey to rediscover cassettes as a medium this year, both for myself and my kid. For myself, the motivation was ownership over streaming and wanting to support the long tail of artists (or, anyways, the subset whose mu
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by gyulai 2mo ago
Actually, riding horses is a great example, and you happened to pick a domain within which I dabble: People are not capable of riding horses today at the level of skill of a nobleman from Renaissance Europe. People at the forefront of t
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by gyulai 2mo ago
How will they hire experts from those professions on whose output to train on, if they destroy the skills currently extant in those professions? Maybe lawyers will still read contracts every once in a while. Certainly, programmers around
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by gyulai 2mo ago
To be clear: I don't envision a scenario where people who are completely unable to code will come out of nowhere, and make a career out of prompting claude to write software without ever learning to code. What I am saying is that the
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by gyulai 2mo ago
> Part of the industry always seek humans able to code with deep understanding. Name them. In my 16 years in the business I've never come across any; I've always worked under leaders who did not care about code quality in the
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by gyulai 2mo ago
> The coding we want for industry sure. Difference between IKEA and my uncle, an incredible, sought after carpenter. The thing is that programming was one of those rare crafts/arts, where you could have your cake and eat it too: Si
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by gyulai 2mo ago
I think that, even among those who have had the ability to code since before LLMs, the skill of coding has been in atrophy, and will continue to be so over the next 10 or 20 years. Learning to code, over the same period of time, will not b
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by gyulai 3mo ago
...still not enough to meaningfully incentivise giving a crap about the law over just paying the fine.
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by gyulai 3mo ago
I was referring to something slightly different namely that price, horsepower, and socioeconomic status are all monotonically increasing functions of each other when you look at any given lineup of cars -- say you're comparing the diff
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by gyulai 3mo ago
The distinction gets at something interesting though, and it's a weird intermingling of culture and politics. I think a truck as owned by a consumer, and as an American would understand the word, is, at least in part, a lifestyle stat
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by gyulai 3mo ago
I live in Germany and am sure as hell that I will never be driving a $30k electric pickup here. They'll make sure nothing like this ever becomes legal to import or drive on German roads until after there's a German car brand on i
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by gyulai 3mo ago
It's not the substance of what is being said, but the "moral outrage washing" communication strategy, employed by a market participant who is themselves deeply immoral, that I find kind of interesting, entertaining, noteworth
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by gyulai 3mo ago
If there's any pinning needing to be done it would be on lax antitrust laws or enforcement in the U.S. In the E.U., all of these companies consistently get slapped on the wrist about all of these things, but there's only so much
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by gyulai 3mo ago
> SPONSORED CONTENT FROM BROWSER CHOICE ALLIANCE Who is the "Browser Choice Alliance" I thought to myself. One web search later: > Our members: Midori, Opera, Vivaldi, Wavebox, Browserworks, and, ... wait for it ... > Ch
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by gyulai 4mo ago
The “magic” of the SERP is that it makes the organics product and the ads product reinforce each other: People come for the organics and don't have to pay. That brings eyeballs, which advertisers pay for. If Google no longer sends us

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