Some hard truths about shit work. “The fact is, countries do not start out rich; they start out poor, and they get rich by figuring out how to make things that people want. “ https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-only-thing-worse-than-sweatshops
American perspective on what is happening in Europe. “The European Commission has been pushing a proposal to require that all European Union states make hate speech a crime. And in 2024, the European Parliament urged the European Commission to adopt… Read More »Europe’s Free Speach Problem
Look from different angles on economies. “Median income will tell you the living standard of a typical or middle-class person, in the middle of the income distribution. But if one country leaves a large segment of its populace to languish… Read More »America is generally richer than Europe
Without basic knowledge it can get funny really fast. “The response that came back was so pure, so innocent, it almost broke my brain: “We’ve never heard of certificates. What’s a certificate?”Now, if you work in security, this is like… Read More »Hacker and Physicist
Not sure if they get the path to solution right, but I thing they defined the problem quite well. “The future isn’t one model to rule them all—it’s hundreds or thousands of specialized models working together in orchestrated workflows. “… Read More »AGI Is an Engineering Problem
Some problems do not have one root cause “this model of accountability demands that we identify an individual to own the relevant follow-up incident work. And so it creates an incentive to always identify a root cause service, which is… Read More »The problems that accountability can’t fix
Did you know, that missing AC is killing more people in Europe than guns in the US? “With this rise in temperature — and the aging of the European population — has come a rise in preventable death. Estimates of… Read More »Europe’s crusade against air conditioning is insane
I do not know how, but this guy makes even most uninteresting stuff interesting
How to arrest presidents and prime ministers
Being a Green Barent isn’t what you think it is