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It’s still likely less hassle than amortising capital expenses for something that will likely be written off well before end of life and then needing to dispose of it. As a consumer of fire sale disposed laptops, renting shouldn’t be allowed.

We can sell new 100 year bonds to pay the interest on the old ones.

Agreed. I spend time on it and am inefficient but it’s overall worth while taking into account the benefits. There are many critical or difficult things I wouldn’t automate myself but my goal is to reduce my requirements down to substitutable services where my counterparty doesn’t have a monopoly over me.

I’m a freelancer, and make my own documentation supported by invoices/receipts etc. As an employee, yeah, it doesn’t make sense to self-report when the government already has the information it needs. A lot of countries use withholding so only send a statement of what you’ve paid and somewhere to complain when it’s wrong, like you suggest.

I think some change is coming wrt technology. There seems to be more interest again in open source.

Certains de ces conseils peuvent paraitre insignifiants, mais je me rends compte que j’ai parfois besoin d’un petit retour à la realité. Surtout, faites vos bilans de santé!

While that’s often true, personal automation can be so freeing. It’s more like a hobby for me, but my life is much better having more agency over how things get done.

Email and media are two underrated examples of common, potentially mind-altering, timesucks but I do also automate my accounts and taxes, e.g. most transactions are automatically journalised and year end closing spits out the fields I need to file taxes.

It works for me because it’s highly personal. I love that I can nudge systems this way or that and the only agenda is one I choose explicitly.

I think it’s positive to have them opt-in to a common payment system on top of any national system they might currently have. Redundancy (and the possibility to leave, though potentially crippling) is politically attractive to many.

Ideally they drift toward consensus by skimming the best protocols, but it also permits incremental development where e.g. a smaller system might nominate itself as a test-bed for a specific feature, or bounties for external firms to compete over simultaneously.

At a large company I was paid in cash, delivered weekly in an envelope by a HR gentleman. While it wasn’t the most efficient system, I skipped back to my company home every week feeling like a millionaire.

I’m not sure this is meant to compete where the bulk of revenue is generated. It seems more like the EU doubling down on areas where they already dominate, or possibly snatch some future IP while it’s still in the cradle. It’s nice to see either way.

I think the manufacturing capacity gap is overstated. It’s marginal between the EU and US, presently at least. The enormous differences are in revenue (of the US vs RoW) which makes sense considering the IP for most logic chips is American, so even current EU logic manufacturing delivers most revenue back home to the US.

I’ve no connection to the field, but it is both interesting and perplexing. RISC-V (like RISC) seems perpetually on the horizon, but this time Open Source. That the US wants to reshore the most difficult but least revenue-generating production stages is unorthodox. Not everybody needs 2nm and I’d love to see more capacity/expertise spread everywhere in the world.

As a social media user, I see nothing harmful for teenagers and even younger children in the mechanics of social media. It can be an effective means of building community, effective communication, creativity, respect and was the ultimate vision of many Internet pioneers to promote global, participatory culture.

As a parent, there is no way my children are being exposed to the hateful, insane graphorrhea of you ignorant misanthropes.