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Big corporate borrowed the money already, so it will stay with some (other) big corporate in this scenario. The bankers who did it will see that coming and move their money elsewhere and keep their money as well.
What you suggest will hit normal persons.
What we really need is people going to jail that let stuff like that happen. Let them bear actual responsibility for their 1,000k+ salary.
Beside other reasons, one cultural difference is that Germans tend to be more risk adverse. They like just working for big companies for many years and decades, having 30-40 vacation days (aka "PTO"), good to high living standard and getting relatively much retirement money afterwards.
Generally, because Employees are protected to some degree, when you start a startup you introduce a lot uncertainty into your life.
There is no money for startups but there is money for playing startup and the various wirecards.
Not sure what you mean by "various wirecards", you mean it's always fintech?Oftentimes it's US VC, because there's just not that much VC flying around in Europe. So I guess only well connected and few high profile startups get to receive big money - see Helsing AI as latest example.
Addiction is about negative impact on your private and professional life and the life of those around you and doing things about your will or things you know are bad for you.
Might be the case here, but just setting a timer and being generally hyped about something is not enough for that.
Very weird how convinced some here seem to be that addiction is involved while they apparently don't know anything about the diagnosis criteria.
That sounds like sci-fi and exotic and honestly quite crazy to put millions/billions/trillions of tons of more stuff into the ecosystem/atmosphere.
How often do you want to do that? Where? How? What's the effect on plants and insects and human?
We will develop geo engineering with our quantum computers, fueled by cold fusion reactors.
It's not like we just decide to solve something and then it just happens. There can also be serious outcomes of errors are made that are more serious than climate itself.
Over-protecting from a risk is as bad and under-protecting.
This is not generally true.
For example - something bad can happen to you any time you leave your house.
The better analogue would be: outside of your house is a robber that will rob you if you leave the house. But you can't quantify how bad it will be to get robbed.
What do you mean with "manually"? Did you type complex commands by hand? Simple commands or using an GUI is faster than explaining an AI what you want to do, no?
Refactoring stuff has been easy for a long time.
Moving git commits or stuff that's not yet committed to another branch is not that difficult as well.
Sure, with AI you don't need to know how to do it. I works argue though that refactoring is faster and easier than having the AI doing it for you.
Commit messages, yes, that's much easier with AI.
Without EU, the Europe countries don't really have leverage against super powers or FAANG companies, so we are stuck with it for now, for good and for bad.
I feel like there are a lot "you are holding it wrong" arguments flying around. Like, when somebody says that AI wasn't able to accomplish something, people tend to assume it's an User problem.
Meanwhile, I have a hard time to believe people don't encounter problems with AI solutions on a regular basis (I do).
It's two different topics in the sense that the process for skilled workers must be simplified so that they can come and stay easier. We also need those people as our society won't be sustainable otherwise.
The challenges with Asylum seekers are very different as you have pointed out.
I see, that wasn't clear to me from what you wrote.
How do you know they didn't just have heard about weighed median before and how to implement it?
Or did just more grinding on leetcode in general.
I am not convinced that what you call "strong" can be tested by something like that.
Yeah, you basically have to grind leetcode or get lucky - having a interviewer giving you enough hints or come up with a (for you) novel idea on the fly.
I agree and apparently we don't even have good terms that show the difference of the two groups.
That's basically why you should learn the language of the country you live in.
Blaming people for not speaking English in Germany is pretty weird. How about learning German instead?
The shortage of workers in the health care sector is well established, just look at some numbers. As my wife works in health care sector, I also know that from own experience. Here colleagues and friends are mostly from within EU but also outside EU. A friend of mine from Syria just completed her training to become a neurologist. Another just finished training to become a nurse. She nearly had to move out of the country because she was on a "training visa" but finished it an wanted to start working. They wanted her to move out of Germany to apply for a work visa.
It's pure insanity. Meanwhile, many people think regular migration and coming as refugee is basically the same thing and that we don't need skilled worker to begin with. Maybe we deserve to become insignificant, but I would rather from some distance.
Of all places I never imagined finding so many AfD talking points here on HN. Trying to migrate to another country right now, because I see a grim future coming with the direction the society is going. Reading here strongly confirms my reasoning for that.
I think you talking about refugees, not regular migration.
People who migrate need to deposit thousands of Euros, at least when they come for training in health care sector (nurse or doctor). You can also come if you have an offer from a German company or a very good outlook to get one. In any case, you are not allowed to stay if you don't work for a longer period of time.
I can't believe how many don't know about this even here.
It's basically relatively easy to stay here as a refugee, but not as easy to stay here as a skilled worker.
At least in Germany, we are in dire need of skilled workers of different kind.
Your argument seems weird, where exactly will the civil war happen, US, Europe, EU, both?
It's the impression you get from media.
Get born outside the western world and migrate to Europe as a skilled worker and your live increases significantly as well as that it your family. Same goes for the society you live in.
You talking about refugees or migration? That's two totally different things. Germany is in desperate need of migration and yes, the people that come are skilled workers.
Refugees is a completely different topic.
That perspective is weird as foreign health care workers right now are the only thing that keep the health care sector from collapsing.
Do you have more information regarding age based degradation? I haven't looked too deeply into the topic and I am not sure if the argument had been about pure age based degradation or about "after X years because a person will have driven Y kilometers since then".
Yeah, of course they can/could, it's just that it does not make sense from an economic point of view. Which directly circles back to the beginning "USPS is not profitable".
And the current situation, having a billionaire running the country, is fully intentional by a major part of the society.
Want to get rid of corruption? - Vote a representative of the source of that corruption (aka billionaires) into power... sorry, WHAT?
Billionaire is keen to make billionaire-friendly politics. A surprising headline? Apparently.
"Just build it from scratch, can't be that hard" - every software engineer at some point in the past.
It is that hard and even harder. An then you have the problem that politicians and societies have a hard time to decide on topics of much narrower scope and much smaller impact.
That said, I would love to for the US having a solid checks and balances system instead of the current system.
If you want to look at a case study regarding a 'more modern' constitution: the German (de facto) constitution is only around 80 years old.
German railroad system worked pretty well, then it got partially privatized around 20 years ago. Supposingly cheaper that way. Turned out, cost were cut regarding infrastructure to make it cheaper. Today, the railroad system is terrible and the administration just agreed to spend 100 billion dollars on it.
Do you want quality sustained over decades? Then prioritize quality over cost and keep it public. Do you want inevitable enshitififaction and something that barely works good enough? Privatize it.
Yeah, I mean having AI generate it is fine for me as that's the world we live in today. It's just, until few years ago, the meaning of such projects was different. "Do cool things and talk about it". That's different from "Pay somebody 50 bucks and show the result" or "Have AI generate code and show the result".
Will take some more time for people to accept that such projects (oftentimes) are no longer "labor of love" but "I had that cool idea and let AI implement it".
Any data available regarding the median or how many with no connection at all?
Look what Rütte did. Everybody knows how to play Trump. The whole world now plays "do whatever you want, just take care to make Trump thinking he looks good while doing it, or at least afterwards".
The US isn't an actor anymore on the global stage. It's the playball.