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Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:50AM (#50338514)
Yes but GP is describing basically the norm, while I'd argue the minority here lives in a public transport utopia like the Netherlands or Denmark. People generally have very few options outside car ownership, even in cities.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:09AM (#50334252)
You're arguing like an edge lord here. What he is saying is that you're effectively forced to drive. Not so difficult to understand. There are plenty of people fighting for change but because our political and economic landscape is captured by big business, it's not so easy.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @04:00PM (#50309379)
Posteo. It's barebones but cheap and sticks to one things that it does well. I like it. Good people behind it. There are lots of other good alternatives for email (heard good things about Fastmail and Mailbox as well).
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:45AM (#50305580)
Honestly I felt this way when he commented on welcoming Trump's second term and immediately moved away from Proton. Was a pain but I'm not regretting it.
Yeah, and he's probably right.
Re:Toyota is finally taking its best-seller electric on Friday September 25, 2026 @03:25AM (#49841268)
Please don't. The arrogance with which they handle this situation is mind-boggling. Everyone else is blamed except their own greed and awful decision making. Germany and Europe will recover from this eventually and we're going to be better off without the auto lobby.
Not even a whoopsie. Look how many responders here defend this exploitative behavior that is only enabled through monopolization as "the market regulates this", or "nobody forces them to buy/work there". Pure libertarian brain rot, no better than the communists they always cry about.
Re:Small Programming Tricks on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:53AM (#49737264)
Do they still do this? I'm using PyCharm daily but have never seen it. Would indeed be pretty cool!
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @01:40PM (#49630266)
Thanks for this great explanation of your viewpoint. As an occasional frontend dev who really got into Tailwind, it was always hard for me to explain why I'm so much more productive in Tailwind than in writing CSS. This makes a lot of sense.
Re:The German Mittelstand on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:30AM (#49240930)
Honestly, in my view it's not an issue of overregulation but a malfunctioning administrative apparatus. Too much power is concentrated in the hands of few administrators who can interpret the law according to their own vibes, leaving businesses with few options of recourse without resorting to spending money on lawyers. It's the mideval mindset in the local administration that makes it so difficult, not the regulations per se.

The is a really eye opening interview with Marco Scheel from the small German company Nordwolle, where he describes the daily struggle with German administratives: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/files.lagedernation.org...

> However, it eventually transpired that the Foundation has chosen to be represented by the law firm Littler Mendelson, which has an equally strong reputation for union busting.
Why don't you enlighten us.
I have donated to them for many years and will stop now. I will not support any kind of union busting.
Re:Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:41AM (#49037305)
Seats are airline equipment. They depend on the airline and it's suppliers and are optionally assembled by Airbus.
Re:Yes, AI Will Take Your Job on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @11:27AM (#48819156)
Economy/Markets != Capitalism
Re:Can we have the day off? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:03AM (#48304760)
It is one of the most eye opening pieces of media. Especially the French and Russian Revolutions are covered in such great detail, while staying interesting. I also loved the appendix to the show where Mike talked about "patterns" in a revolution. Learned a lot about the relationship between the government and its people.
I argued exactly this fact with a talented junior dev in our team. He still implemented his solution with SQLModel but started seeing the difficulties half a year into the project once the business requirements became more apparent and the API schema and data model started diverging.
Wait, is that an offer to pay for mine and my families' housing and basic needs? Please let us know, cause most people would absolutely stop working their miserable jobs if they were provided for.