Hmm, I wonder if there’s a coordinated effort by lobbies to have this kind of plans scrapped. Knowing the car and oil industry, probably.

I like to think that finally they realized that even this, like most of the green target approved with the past years to please the Green Party, is nice in theory but completely impracticable in the timeframe they set. And the problem are not the car manufacturers, but all the infrastructure you need to set up even before starting to phase out ICE cars.

But even if somehow (in the form of “somehow Palpatine return”) you would be able to convert all the car production infrastructure, which means to convert a lot more industries that the car manufacturers, you have the problem to set up all the support infrastructure for the EV cars, like a lot more public charger (ideally one for every gas station), how to solve the problem to install charger in places like historical inner center of cities, in condos which have not the space to install them and things like this.

Not to mention the need to produce a lot more electricity and upgrade the grid so that it can transport a lot more energy also to every little small village in the nation (big cities have public transports, but most of the people do not live in big cities)

So yes, switch to EV cars is a nice idea, but to set a deadline to produce ICE car without starting to plan how to make the transition is stupid.

Sorry, my bad…

Isn’t this making it worse really?

Probably

How about France starts accepting democracy for better or worse, and let it’s People choose for once.

I agree with you. Problem is that if they had followed the results of the last elections, now Le Pen would be part of the govern, and that was not acceptable by the Left.
So what they did after the first round was to put together all the parties that had as unique common point “Marie Le Pen / the Right wing should not win”, like the Left in Italy do too much often.
And like in Italy yes, they won and let the people choose, but like in Italy they started fighting amongst themselves the minute after the victory.

So now France have a big problem: the parties that win the election are not able to create a durable and credible govern because they have nothing in common if not the fear that for the Front National and they are afraid to go to new election exactly because they are afraid, rightly, that this time the Front Nationale (or any other Right wing party) will win. And to them they are the wrong people.

More than Open Source, I would say that Vibe Coding is the new Visual Basic 3.0

Honestly, Meloni is far better that what the other parties can offer today, which is basically zero, all they say is what Meloni should not do, nothing about what they would do instead.

And on the other hand, in a pay-as-you-go system, as in a lot of European countries, we soon start that expeeiment involuntarily, when all the Boomers finally are retired. It would easily work, when the owners are taxed accordingly. On the whole society level we than have more retirement years than working years.

Not sure. You can tax the owners accordingly but they cannot sustain the cost for everyone else.

Only if the gains in productivity also produce a rise in the salaries

Yep, that is the condition. It was met between 1900-1975. Since then the productivity gains were larger than the salary gains. That is, why it feels wrong to want to work less these days. But it is a political decisison which was driven by greedy owners. They wanted more of the cake and now tell their workers “you cannot work less, even when your output has risen like never before”.

I agree that owners are now more greedy (not last because for the market now the only thing that matter is the next quarter) but as I can see the real problem is that every time we are talking about working less/retiring earlier we ignore the reality: we live longer and longer and with all the gain in productivity we cannot expect to offset the fact that we want to work less years.

I would agree to work 4 days a week with the same pay if the productivity is the same, but if we want to retire earlier and live longer I see no other way that work some more years because what you will get once retired is proportional to what you put aside now (accounting capital gains and everything else), there should be an balancing between the two period duration, especially if we don’t want to have an heavy impact on the social welfare.

The problem is that everyone is afraid that the wrong people will win, irregardless who win.

TBH, this was very predictable after the last elections. If you need to put everyone else together to not let $SOMEONE to govern, this is the only outcome. France just needed to look to what happen in Italy every 2 elections.

Erm, we’re far away from those numbers, so let’s discuss THAT when the time comes.

My nunbers where only an extreme example, but the point stand. You can still not work less years then the ones you can live in retirement. While working you do not put aside more than 100% of your salary (ok, let’s say even only the 50% )

But apart from that, yes, productivity gains which are shared fairly enable exactly that: work less, be it less hours or earlier retirement or a mix of both.

I could agree with working less hours daily, it could make sense in certain case.

The productivity gains do exactly what is needed for it: more output with less input, it is directly connected.

Only if the gains in productivity also produce a rise in the salaries, which is a condition to be able to retire sooner (you put aside more money with an higher pay).

Shame, that people think they could have the same as all western generations since the beginning of industrialization 😅

It is not a shame, it is expected but not always possible.

Yeah, of course. Productivity still rises across the board. To merely sustain our wealth, we all could work less and retire earlier, but alas, that does not work if the productivity gains get gobbled up solely by the owners ¯_(ツ)_/¯

It is not a problem of productivity but a problem of how many years you work before retiring and how many year you live after you retire (with the obvious exceptions).

I agree that the increase in productivity should generate an higher pay for the worker but that is sustainable up until a certain point, you cannot expect to work for 20 years then to live 40 or more years in retirement with the same standard of living since what you get while retired is what you accumulate while working, even with a higher productivity.

And probably it is also the only thing that China wants so that can try to corner the market. But if they move half of the production oversea then they probably will become less appetible for China since they cannot really control the production.
Not that they must do it, just a consideration.

Probably without a 3d scanner, using paper and scissor you will only get a (hopefully) better and better approximation of the real surface.

Anyway, without a 3d scanner, to have some precise measurement you could just use some modeling clay to recreate the correct form and then set some reference point and take measurements from there, it should be precise enough to create a model in Fusion360 that account also for every asymmetry that could be present.

Yes. And she is contributing to it with her war-preperation rhetoric. She seriously used the “upcoming war” as an excuse to make us danes work more and retire later (and also to remove a holiday) in a time where the thing we need the most is to fight for shorter work weeks.

It always amuse me how people think that with life expencanty increasing they could retire earlier and work less (and don’t want, rightly, pay more taxes).

As for the war-preparation rhetoric, I would rather be prepared and then nothing happen than not being prepared and the something happen (if only Italy could do the same…)

That is a personality issue, not a code emergency.

True, but it is an indication that the developer cannot follow a common rules. Simply Torvalds was tired of how he behaved.

There were two dozen patches submitted for 6.17 that were never merged. What has the fall-out been? Where are all the stories about data loss? I am sure they would hit the front page.

And so ? A patch can be submitted but never merged, for whatever reason. Problem is: these two dozen patches were submitted during the -RC cycle ?

The file system can improve but it is already fine.

Good. Now it it the developer that need to improve his attitude to work in teams.

I would love to see how much their stocks will lose if they really do it…

They say to use PDQ for images which should output a similar hash for similar images (but why MD5 for video ?). So probably it is only a threshold problem.
The algorithm is explained here

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/main/hashing/hashing.pdf

it is not an hash in the cryptographic sense.

So Europe will fight the billionaires who use their surplus money to buy real estate and drive up prices instead of investing in new companies to create more and better paying jobs?

At least in Italy, price are high because is impossibily hard to retake a rented house in case of a bad tenant, so people keep houses empty, which add to the fact that in most places there is no more space to build new ones.

Like her cabinet fought to get us… *checks books 15% tariffs versus… *checks books 0% tariffs.

To be honest, it was Trump that started this shit, and while it was better a 0% tariff, it don’t work if the other side want to impose tariffs on you, so maybe a 15% was the better she could do at the time.

Sure, she could have shown the middle finger but EU was (and is not) ready to lose the US market overnight.

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