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You say this because young men use TikTok as a distraction?

Because it has AI in it's name /s

Not op but how I understood it is that until recently the majority of programmers were geeks and liked to tinker and understand the systems they were writing and deploying code on.

Not sure that this is the case now, nonetheless it can be a good thing that people are specializing and concerned just on the frameworks or design patterns.

What alternatives in Europe?

My wife had to buy a car last year, wanted to buy electric and Tesla was the only one that was ready to deliver within a month and at a decent price per features.

Don't care about Elon but in the end all these corporations building the cars are on the same level of general disregard for the population or environment and just chasing profits. Doubt there is a real ethical choice when buying a car nowadays

Companies are still charging 100x for the pills that cost pennies to produce.

Besides deals with insurance companies and governments, one of the ways that they are still able to pull this is convincing everyone that it's too dangerous to play with this at home or buying it from an Asian supplier.

At least with software we had until now a way to build and run most things without requiring dedicated super expensive equipment. OpenAI pulled a big Pharma move but hopefully there will be enough disruptors to not let them continue it.

Volvo EX40, fully electric is made in Belgium and it does not seem that it will be phased out soon.

Occam's razor here.. Polling failure and it's very clear from the actual amount of people voting for the guy. Yes you can make a conspiracy theory but it's a bit ridiculous.

Most Romanians that work in IT(and post here) live in their own bubble (because they make 5-10x average Romanian salary) and are totally disconnected from the common folks and can't now believe that the person making less than minimum wage that is serving their 3 euros expresso is not loving it.

Those common folks are similar to the rest of Eastern Europe with strict religious beliefs and very conservative so it's not a surprise they vote for someone that they resonate with.

Similar stuff happened in Brussels where a radical islamist party won seats in the parliament by using TikTok tactics. He did not show up in the polls either.

Most of those cases of even the prime ministers were just for show. Getting a suspended punishment while not having to pay anything back from bribery and no repercussions. This is equivalent to how I punish my kid, stay in the corner for five minutes and promise you don't do it again.

If you also relatively think the couple that are actually in jail they are too few for the amount of politicians or general corruption that is in prevalent Romania.

As you well know since you are Romanian there are not many cases of people tried and in jail in Romania for corruption. Now take a state actor and imagine that they are responsible. Let's not kid ourselves and pretend there will be repercussions for this mess except - if possible - make people trust even less the 'system'.

A lot of the things that we buy in Europe are already manufactured cheaply in China with different standards etc. We are moving a lot of manufacturing back to Europe, mostly in the eastern part of it. That part is still 'cheap' aka they can put the made in eu logo on the box, pay employees eastern Europe prices and ask buyers western Europe prices.

The same thing with the eu car companies... they even took the money from the states where they had factories (Germany, Belgium, France) which greatly subsidized them, increased their profits and margins then moved to the next EU state and beyond.

I get it, I live in Belgium and being a freelancer is truly the only way to make a more than decent wage(more or less silicon valley salary with 36 hours week). Problem is that is not really fair

Most of EU countries havr some kind of consultancy embedded deep into the their core financial and governments and other critical institutions. The EU commission is full of barely competent consultants developing some sort of applications. Probably getting EY or Accenture to solve the problems is one of the key steps in becoming accepted as a 1st world country.

What would be kind accomplish there?

It's because data engineering has been reduced to be able to login to a cloud provider and know which workflow to drag and drop. This is easily learned in a couple of weeks so that s why those skills might not be considered software engineering.

Can you give an example of modern technology that you believe would be supported or maintained in 50 years?

Is it because you risk doing something like this? https://hackaday.com/2022/03/18/welcome-to-the-future-where-...

Even though bosch engines are amazing their support service is execrable. I had an issue where there was a weird noise after 25km/h and even if there was an warranty they are taking months to fix it. First they said it's normal then send a recording of the sound etc.. Bought a 5k bike with a good engine to not have these kind of issues or if you have them then the repair should be in point.

On the block where I live there are a couple of hairdressers all empty and also a café owned by shady 20 year old Albanians. A bunch of shops for construction gear where there is nobody etc. It's possible that it's a bad way to launder money but it does still exist.

Check out the Dole corporation to see how evil can they actually be - https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/the-dark-and-bloody-hist.... Nestle with the classic baby formula marketing to 2nd/3rd world countries, chinese milk scandal etc and probably most other multinationals are in the same league.

Let's be frank here, both of us know what you are implying. Cutting excerpts of wikipedia without the context is a pretty valid disinformation tactic. Replacing words randomly also to suit your previous point is ridiculous.

Glory to the heroes of the country is also pretty common in the army in Romania, there is even a famous monument with this written on it: "Intru slava eroilor neamului" which means To the glory to the heroes of the nation. This monument was built after the first world war.

It's quite ridiculous but are you trying to insinuate that she was a Nazi? By the same logic you are applying does it mean that everyone that uses the phrase Allahu Akbar (God is great) is also a terrorist?

He does not need to prevent invasion from the west, just having the nukes automatically prevents that and he knows it.

One of the first thing the Russians did was unblock that canal that Ukraine cemented. That plus them sending cannon fodder to the nord and what seems like better troops south + east starts to feel like this whole war is more about a resource grab than to "prevent invasion from the west". I could maybe understand one madman feeling like he wants to rebuild the past USSR glory but if it's all about the money that can be made from oil/gas then it's clear it's not just him driving this.

Probably if you apply the same polls some folks in Texas they would also want to become independent from the US.

Working in adtech was interesting for me because I learned how to work with distributed systems, thought me the importance of optimizing, scaling, instrumentation etc. It's extremely satisfying shaving a ms or two in response times in an app when you have 15 ms in total to respond.

I built for example a data pipeline that ingests Bluekai/Oracle data cloud data and from a big data perspective it's an amazing experience: from dealing with ingesting billions of records per day to making sure you can build audiences based on those records in near real time.

From a privacy perspective it's very scary stuff. When you look at what data Bluekai has, there are hundreds of millions of profiles scattered around hundreds of thousands of segments. Basically you have segments from frozen food shoppers to people that bought a mercedes a class model 2020.

P.S.I can say also the same thing about Google, FB etc. A lot of people that work there are basically working in adtech, especially in Google.

Is it not also true that if you do not practice at all this skill you lose it?

What you should have been doing is actively fighting to set rules the way you want them.Both by electing the right people and, more importantly, actually, funding lobbying efforts.

Maybe we should actively fight against the existence of lobby groups. The lobby groups in most cases push for legislation that is good for them (companies) and not for the people.

In Belgium, you can get to 50% tax on that 100K + 21% VAT on normal goods (6% on food).

Do you think that he is the only member of WSB that is a licensed broker or works in finance? I don't want to bet but I would say there is a good chance that people that a lot of people that used to post on WSB have either financial background or work in finance/trading.

It's just not that widely understood in production as sql databases, and has limitations which you might reach in a few years.

Reaching limitations in a few years and biting that bullet makes the difference between a successful startup that knows when and where to spend time innovating or a startup that spends all their time optimizing for that 1 million simultaneous requests / sec.

It's the same or even more in Romania (depending on the parts of the country), I do not know why everyone is surprised about it. There are a lot of benefits there that SWE (and IT in general get) - less taxes if you have a CS degree or you can open a company or be self employed and pay next to nothing in taxes. Since there is an increase demand and not enough supply salaries keep rising. In the end you might get a better deal regarding COL if you quit your western European salaried job and move to eastern Europe.