Worse, some of them are Ethical Altruists, just like Sam Bankman Fried of FTX

That was France, not the EU

Paradoxically he ended up in a sort of care facility. Some “care” but maybe not the care he needed

4Gb is not much under Windows 11 and running Chrome

The root cause that all comments here in Lemmy miss is the Chinese approach to tax funding, which is entirely built on cities and provinces being expected to generate tax income through land sales to property developers, and then public officials competency and rise inside the party being measured by the size of that tax income generated trough land sale.

China needs to adopt a western style of income and consumption taxation if they don’t have one but I understand that internal enforcements is very lax (to prevent popular protests) and corruption (that ends up siphoning off any revenue raised through taxes).

In short, that housing stock will remain unused and, without maintenance and continued use, will only deteriorate over time, leaving cities with a terrible burdensome legacy

Open elections when there is only one party in practice are moot

Volatile stuff goes up, heavy stuff goes down Everyone loses

Ukyo Katayama was a Xenix user then

People say that way of thinking is cynical, but I have worked in the system implementation and system consulting arms of EDS, IBM, and Accenture and that assumption (that the whole thing can be maintained by junior devs one the initial build is complete) is actually how middle managers within client companies have to budget their transition from “build” into “business as usual” stage so that senior managers approve the system implementation/migration.

While the concept that it takes specialized knowledge and experience is true, not having means to retain experience means that it will be chaos some six months down the road when some manager wants to do an enhancement as none of the juniors will understand why certain design choices were made and the implications on the rest of the architecture

Zoom needs to implement whiteboards and people need to be issued digitizing pens/tables so they can draw diagrams freely

UK consumers are always welcome to import seafood from those waters

Brazil “eu caguei e andei” (I shat and walked). Functionally equivalent to “I don’t give a shit” but in Portuguese one actually shits but doesn’t care to wipe and walks away or walks at the same as is shitting.

I do agree that curse words/expressions based on diseases seem very unique

In a way the US will always attract immigrants - qualified or not - and they will make up for lost local fertility. So it kinda makes sense the US does not care for its own people

After three minutes of nothing, caused by a command to remove the French language pack:

sudo rm -Rf /

On the other hand that low fertility may help reduce the youth unemployment rate in 20 years from now. The same rate that the Chinese government decided to give up computing…

/s obviously but it is really bad for them

I have a feeling that Sweden will just ignore it, thinking it impossible in their country