Ultimately, you end up paying for the usage somehow.

If the authorities want people to accept systems like Flock etc. then they need to severely punish abuse like this.

The universal healthcare is hard to quantify - because most decent companies include health insurance in the US and the quality of the public healthcare provision in Europe can be quite patchy (i.e. location-dependent)

Remember that you are comparing gross salaries too, and taxes are much higher in Germany so the engineer ends up with much less take-home pay.

By the time we get robots capable of folding laundry, we'd already have solved many, many other use-cases.

They probably just used the Germans because they are cheaper.

Nowadays with a wife and kid of my own it'd just be impossible to spend that much time on it.

I was surprised it's recommended so much.

The strongest predictor (by far) for committing a crime is having a prior criminal record.

We are in the age of the replicant now.

Of course, if he can make more money making "watchdog" chips then I can understand his change in opinion.

> Then, in April 1996 - by which time I’d expatriated to the Kingdom of Tonga and was working on various internet startup schemes

He must have so many interesting stories!

The biggest problem we had with on-prem was maintenance as it took a lot of staff and time to ensure decent reliability.

Instead we've worked out how to get the LLM to make videos.

So that makes it really hard to make a lot of profit - as the royalty costs grow linearly with your revenue.

I guess it depends if we believe that or not.

In general, invest in low-cost index funds is pretty solid advice everywhere. In different countries you might use slightly different instruments due to tax advantages (like the ISA in the UK etc.)