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Many medical facilities are only staffed with permanent nurses, with doctors helicoptering in, from time to time, to take care of specific duties that may require certain licenses, or provide specific advice.

Maybe for a very loose definition of medical facilities that includes assisted living facilities.

Or midwives, for unimportant things like giving birth /s obviously

It should be reserved for a human because humans have a body and a body can be put in prison.

A bit dramatic for effect but true.

TypeScript 7 14 days ago

Are you aware of languages like lean or idris? In that comment you mention doom in ts types.

TypeScript 7 14 days ago

for the most advanced type system known to mankind

Honest question, what do you mean by this?

Where did I exaggerate or dogmatize anything?

The problem is you define open source as giving away software, and any money making aspect as "not open source". That is the exaggeration.

If one releases some software as open source and charges for support they are living of open source (my pov), not doing some open source + something else on the side (your pov). I disagree with your definition of open source.

Imagine I create my own illustrations and make them available for free (with some conditions GPL, or even almost without conditions MIT) and print tshirts with the illustrations, and sell them for money. Would it be fair to say I live of being an illustrator? or would you argue I am not living of my illustrations, that I am merely giving them away and really selling tshirts is the business?

One main reason is they are not selling as much in China.

Over the past few years foreign carmakers in China have been flattened by local rivals such as BYD that have fast become world leaders in electric vehicles. As the Chinese market has gone electric, foreign carmakers’ share of it plummeted from 62% in 2020 to 35% last year. VW has lost its position as the top carmaker in the country. Last year it sold 2.9m cars in China, down from 3.9m in 2020. Only around 200,000 were EVs.

https://www.economist.com/business/2025/12/04/to-halt-their-...

because of banning Russian gas

That is the symptom. The real reason is the lack of diversification from Germany, assuming that hard discount would last forever.

One things I like is that when the economist talks about a business or an author, they mention if there is a conflict of interest (this and that works for this or is owned by that)

IIRC you can move from TK to others freely, but if you move to some options there are conditions to come back.

TK service via email, phone, etc is amazing, even if your German is not very good, as it was the case for me the first year.

Half-Baked Product 18 days ago

I feel like between plates, cups, pots, strainers etc for this to work I would need 4 or 5 dishwashers. Basically replacing each cupboard with cleanable utensils with a dishwasher.

With 2 dishwashers one would use some clean plates and maybe leave some pots behind that would not be used for a while. In practice, these would need to be emptied. It is a great idea if one uses only one dishwasher worth of utensils though.

I think of those toilet modules in japan where you can clean the whole bathroom with a hose. Maybe what we need are self cleaning cupboards.

I never said they oppose each other.

Are you not implying below, with your words, that working exclusively on open source cannot bring money?

If they exclusively work on open source stuff where are they getting money from to survive?

You seem to imply that open source is incompatible with making money. You seem to believe that if someone is making money they are not doing "exclusively open source" but something else in addition to open source.

you need to follow the money trail. Money given to people who work on open source comes from non-open source places.

Money spent on coffee comes from non-coffee places, mostly. Does that mean one cannot make money exclusively selling coffee?

I get your point, it is very uncommon to live only of open source. That I can agree with. It is the exaggeration and dogmatism that is untrue.