I’ve been to Russia (st. Petersburg) where entering a church would cost $10, but for Russians a couple of rubles.

It makes sense from the perspective that locals should be able to afford seeing their own art and architecture. If foreigners can afford it and are willing to pay the asked amount, I sort of understand.

What am I, a caveman?

This article makes it sound like Zhang was the victim here. Short story is that he took over a Dutch Tech company, mismanaged it and took its Intellectual property to transfer it to a Chinese company, essentially gutting nexperia. The board of the company and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce intervened. Note that the Dutch government didn’t do this for political reasons, but based on the findings of the Chamber of Commerce, who intervened because of intentional bad management.

Watch a horror movie

That is one side of the coin. But what if he gets into financial trouble later in life, when you’re no longer there, or otherwise able to support him? Addictions, accidents, bad business ownership, legal trouble - there are lots of ways people can inadvertently lose everything they have.

If you’ve never learned how to build stuff up from the ground up, it will be a lot harder to recover.

There are valuable lessons in earning your own house and working for your keep. If everything comes easy it’s going to be a problem when things get tough. You can only hope you set them up well enough that there’s never going to be financial woes.

The nicest people I know are nurses and teachers. Although I think there are genuinely nice people in all professions. I know nice people in HR and IT too.

It’s also used to offer cheap sms service to shady aggregators or mobile network operators. These phones will have a free sms subscription and they send incoming otp SMS s through to end users for say half the normal price of an otp SMS. 100% profit.

My work apparently. Other people got promoted for solving problems quickly. I didn’t have problems. At least, I did, but I solved them without help or advertising them enough probably.

Does it have an app to automatically backup photos and documents from an Android or iOS phone by chance? I know I can use syncthing, but in my experience a tool like Synology Drive works more reliably.

Exactly. Intellectual property only applies to corporations. As soon as it’s an individual’s, it’s fair game it seems.

Meta even got caught illegally downloading books via torrents and using those as training material for A.I.

You know what would be fair, seeing as that A.I. is trained on the collective knowledge of everyone that has added content to the Internet? All A.I. models trained on public data should be free to use for everyone.

I think vercel (formerly zeit.co) has a free tier for static websites.

Agreed, but automation is not always the same as increased efficiency.

One example he gives is Facebook - it allows you to keep track of events you might like to go to, which seems convenient, but then it will show you hundreds of other events you might want to go to, much more than a single person can visit.

Another example is food delivery - in the US there was even one company advertising with the fact that when you order food, you can do so without having to interact with anyone. While that might be convenient, a lot of neighborhoods lose cohesion, because people stop meeting each other at the local takeout or have a small interaction with the people behind the counter there. The gist of it is, that it’s okay for some things to be a little less convenient, because there is always a cost involved.

What he promotes is to accept that you can’t get everything done. You have limited time, and sometimes you’ll have to accept that the laundry might pile up while you are working on your book/application/… whatever.

It also puts in perspective what you are actually working for - he quotes the parable of the businessman and the Greek fisherman to illustrate.

I’m currently reading 4000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman and it really hits home.

Burkeman is a former productivity guru that has tried all kinds of productivity tools and lifehacks only to realize that trying to get more efficient only results in keeping you even more busy.

People are always striving for that next step to get to a mythical point in life where they think they can relax and enjoy life, and for most of us, that point never comes, because we’re too busy trying to get there

I can recommend A brief history of time by Stephen Hawking as a good scientific read with very clear and simple explanation of the topic.

And nothing of value was lost. In fact, it might shield more European users from FUD, misinformation and propaganda.

Farming? I was talking about data engineering.

I don’t think she’s evil. But I’m pretty convinced she’s into girls or at least bi-sexual for some reason.

Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.

When we started quantifying time, it didn’t take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the “hour”, and no longer by what they got in return.

Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as “theirs”, demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.

/Rant

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