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New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason"

dauertewigkeit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:49:28 +0000

The French have a reputation. And the British although they are part of Europe, not the EU.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

dauertewigkeit — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:24:18 +0000

Just happy it's not another AI related prize.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Oxford Economics 2026 Global Cities Index"

dauertewigkeit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:34:29 +0000

I agree with the top 3, but out of curiosity I checked all the previous cities I have lived in and I don't think their metrics make much sense. I'm not going to name cities, of course, but in particular, "quality of life" is deeply flawed. I mean, just look at their ranking for "quality of life". Maybe "quality of life for a senior local person" would fit that ranking. Otherwise none of those top cities are appealing to me, as a seasoned expat.

Oxford Economics 2026 Global Cities Index

dauertewigkeit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:28:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oxfordeconomics.com/global-cities-index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966131

Points: 2

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New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Ordinary Abundance"

dauertewigkeit — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:24:01 +0000

Many people are struggling to afford the living room, even if they can afford the furnishings.

Rent, food, transport and healthcare are still very significant costs for the average person, and those are just the basics.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

dauertewigkeit — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:42:16 +0000

For some reason people never mention this, but aren't there also much more people graduating with CS degrees than ever before?

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy"

dauertewigkeit — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:44:23 +0000

Actually Eastern Europe is doing immigration despite what headlines you might be reading. Lots of Indians and Filipinos and Latin Americans.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

dauertewigkeit — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:16:04 +0000

I know what they want to say, but I think their argument is quite weak, because essentially you have US industries that aren't tech. American workers still get higher salaries than elsewhere in the OECD and growth in such industries isn't out competing those same industries in other OECD countries. In fact many industries are lagging behind. So actually US workers are being paid more not less than elsewhere.

Then you have tech. In tech, US workers are again paid more than in other OECD countries. But growth in tech is just insane and it makes a huge percentage of the GDP growth. And there aren't a whole lot of tech workers as a percentage of the total workforce. So although tech workers are paid a whole lot more than in other OECD countries, they aren't capturing as much of the growth of the tech industry.

So really this is an argument that tech workers in the US should be paid even more, and I don't think that sells so well as the populist argument that the authors intended to make.

And to me saying, that an autoworker that works for Ford, is not capturing the GDP growth that is generated by Google, is nonsensical.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory"

dauertewigkeit — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:28:06 +0000

This is not a critque of the work, but I have now been often encountering category theory in many of the research topics I'm working on, and even as somebody who majored in math, I sort of feel like it doesn't add much. I know ML frameworks intimately, and you really don't need category theory to describe them. But this is maybe (probably) a failure of mine, because I have not yet groked what category theory is really bringing to the table.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "European Stagnation Is Real"

dauertewigkeit — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:56:03 +0000

Yes, unfortunately it's very easy to buy our bureaucrats both at national and EU level. Heck most of them style themselves to be Americans! You make very good points.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "European Stagnation Is Real"

dauertewigkeit — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:43:46 +0000

IMHO, the EU needs to become more proactive when it comes to tech markets. Trying to find new ways to tax US tech megacorps is not going to cut it.

  1. Create competitive low tax regimes for EU based tech companies, both for investors and employees.

  2. Forbid buyouts by US tech companies.

  3. Become more protective of tech markets in general. For example why the fuck does AirBnB or Uber get to operate in Europe? What is there to gain? We have our own alternatives.

  4. Give preferential treatment to EU based tech companies. For example for government related contracts, why the fuck are EU governments depending on Microsoft/Google/Amazon?

  5. Prioritize tech over other lower growth industries. Yes selling petrol cars was good business 30 years ago.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Gen Z Resentment Toward AI Grows as Adoption Stagnates and Workplace Fears Mount"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 10 May 2026 10:44:43 +0000

We are building general thinking machines with the aim of replacing all human labour, ... but humans won't be replaced, they will find other jobs, because when we introduced tractors they were able to find other jobs, ... totally the same scenario.

I love the cognitive dissonance.

Even in the best case scenario where the generated wealth will be distributed, and somehow we will be able to keep them in check (unlikely), what would be the point of life in a world where machines can best us at everything?

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

dauertewigkeit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:27:57 +0000

It's more that women are the less expendable gender. If you send the women to die on the front lines, who is going to birth the next generation to replenish your population?

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

dauertewigkeit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:05 +0000

Why? This seems so anachronistic. In the age of drones and AI, manpower is not going to be your limiting factor.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:00:24 +0000

I really like the game as a concept, and I got pretty far already, level 2.16, but I feel like some levels aren't making much sense at all in terms of the goal and how the passing circuit fulfills the objective. The Latch and some others had me puzzled. Because it is clearly vibecoded I feel like I cannot really trust the educational material all that much and at times it's not clear if I am misundestanding something or if is just nonsensical LLM slop.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:03:31 +0000

Weird tangent. Let's quantify it in number of rapes / demographic.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:01:23 +0000

Hmm, yes they are. There's always at least one pony tailed guy, late 20s early 30s, at the local gathering of whatever stands for your progressive party, basically preying on gullible 18 year olds.

I'm not even coming at this from a political angle since I'm more left than right. I just stay true to my perception of the world. Being left of center does not make you somehow morally superior and there are many areas of life where left leaning people have worse morals. And in particular when it comes to intimate relationships, I do feel like many of them have rather loose morals, including around areas of what counts as consent. Maybe that's also the reason why predominantly leftist women are so outspoken about the topic, because they have had so much experience with it. Whereas more conservative leaning women tend to just not fall prey to the sleazy pony tailed guy.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:51:30 +0000

Chomsky spent the latter half of his career decrying the capitalists and telling us that we should be suspcious of them. It certainly shows that he didn't walk the walk.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

dauertewigkeit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:48:34 +0000

Could be, but we don't know what is driving this meme magic. Could be totally organic. Could be not.

New comment by dauertewigkeit in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

dauertewigkeit — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:54:13 +0000

IDK the dating scene in Singapore. I frankly didn't even know that Singapore was considered a tech hub. I was using it as a synonym for a tech hub because that is what I assumed the author was doing.