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New comment by johanneskanybal in "Where Are All the Data Centers?"

johanneskanybal — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:12:16 +0000

it-bubble investor here. I think you're missing the point. Take a look at a 30 year graph of something from that era let's say Ericsson B. Phone networks are still around and very useful that's totally besides the point as far as valuations goes.

https://www.tradingview.com/chart/?symbol=NASDAQ%3AERIC

New comment by johanneskanybal in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

johanneskanybal — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:13:02 +0000

I mean agentic coding is a thing but anyone could learn that in a day or week. So the idea of throwing away people that could be the most productive with ai of course make no sense. But it's big corporations, not everything has to make sense. It's most likely a dressed up pure cost saving framed in 2026-lingo.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

johanneskanybal — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:14:19 +0000

It's not magic but for me definitly claude is the way to go. Not expecting magic it's just another level of non-slop than the rest I've tried.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Google Flow Music"

johanneskanybal — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:08:54 +0000

"Let's go surfing dude, we'll make some vibes!" This is like if someone lobotomized your grand dad and then created an tik tok account for him.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

johanneskanybal — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:01:24 +0000

It's a great tool, and at 1/10 or 1/100th the cost of actual developers. In the context of yc I guess watch out getting re-disrupted by a smaller team faster than before. But that's really the trend the past 40 years so nothing is new. Well maybe the velocity combined with us loosing it's footing at the same time.

But yea it's not gonna make facebook 20% better tomorrow just that you need 5 people instead of 40 to build the next facebook.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

johanneskanybal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:53:04 +0000

Yea it was better in the years of extremely low rates. 2020-2022 it was 0.375% of total. Now it's up to 0.888% last year. There's some cases where it might be benefitial to use the "normal" account but for average Joe, not having to track every transaction has generally been very benefitial. And as a result 80-90% of adults own some type of stock either directly or through funds/retirement accounts vs the free market utopia us of 62%.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Yggdrasil Network"

johanneskanybal — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:44:59 +0000

No just saying us history is a 200 year thing europe history is counted in millienias, that's not really debatable. In this post it was noridc mythology but it's was all pretty mixed up together and influenced by each other since they where trading and fighting with each other. But that wasn't really the point.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Yggdrasil Network"

johanneskanybal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:54:21 +0000

It's where all of western history comes from so it's not very strange to be popular overall. It's not like us mythology is a thing.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

johanneskanybal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:33:51 +0000

That always helps. Another thing that helps is the free child care/school/university/health care/elderly care/parenting support/living support that the high taxes provides. The lowest standard is very high, the middle is comfy life but keep less dollars than if you lived in the states, the rich not-surprising gets away here too.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

johanneskanybal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:28:28 +0000

It's pretty universal in the developed world to have some type of long term savings tax-scheme. In us it's 401k/roth. In canada it's tfsa. in uk it's isa. isa/401k/roth has pretty low caps. tfsa and isk has no cap.

But yea, considering I pay close to 50% tax it's remarkable at the same time I can speculate in the market, make 500% and pay 1% tax on it. Or that people with actual money pay so little.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

johanneskanybal — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:32:38 +0000

It sounds good on paper (pun intended) but policy strikes again, "Can my kid bring home her math book so we can work on the parts she's struggling with?" No of course not it lives in a cupboard at school 90% of the time might get some screen shares from it.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

johanneskanybal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:40:06 +0000

A lot I guess or noone would use it. Personally two out of my last 4 jobs (contractor so switch often). All social media is bad by nature so just ignore that part. I much prefer having all recruiters in a single place rather than spread out in my email and even worse directly calling. I tend to reply to all requests there short but polite.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

johanneskanybal — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:33:52 +0000

I kind of love Linkedin tbh. It's where you get jobs. They created Kafka. Definitly don't spend a lot of time there though just more if you need a new job.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

johanneskanybal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:40:20 +0000

Betting on sport is kind of what sports where made for. It's something without any consequence or meaning. The Author mixing that with the dictator and his cronies making buck from their position is offensive.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

johanneskanybal — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:43:26 +0000

Well current social media has been unusable for a couple of years surely?

New comment by johanneskanybal in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

johanneskanybal — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:27:33 +0000

I mean not everyone cheers for the currently best soccer team either, it's partly about what you're invested in. If I had spent many years in Windows dev land I'm sure I would be arguing that side too.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

johanneskanybal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:41:12 +0000

Maybe this is a weird arena to state the obvious. But you don't need to build a multi-billion vc/public company. Build a smaller revenue generating company without outside funding and it's up to you.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images"

johanneskanybal — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:44:42 +0000

For sure, it's booming in the current climate. My biggest bet for 2026 is Eutelsat which is the biggest star link competitor.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

johanneskanybal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:15:33 +0000

Trump is an obvious Russian agent. Stealing money for himself and destroying all western trust is his only goal.

New comment by johanneskanybal in "Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology"

johanneskanybal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:13:44 +0000

This is the point of time in history where the people usually start a revolution. Do that.