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“Everbody should use AI”

-Person financially benefiting from everybody using AI

That’s fair

Norway is both a monarchy and a democracy. There are several countries in Europe that are considered to be some of the most democratic in the world, which just happen to have a monarch as the head of state instead of a president.

What you are thinking of is an absolute monarchy, rather than a constitutional monarchy.

Shared bike/pedestian paths are very uncommon in the Netherlands, and I don’t think there are any mandatory bikepaths that are explicitely shared with pedestrians.

In the Netherlands there are two kinds of mopeds.

• Blue plates, which are (should be) capped at 25 km/h.
  They generally go where cyclists go (with the exception of Amsterdam where they have to go on the road) and are effectively treated as motorized bicycles.
• Yellow plates, which are (should be) capped at 45 km/h.
  They are supposed to go on the road, unless signs indicate otherwise. If they are on a shared bike/moped path (which is mostly found in rural areas) then the speed limit is 30 km/h in cities and 40 km/h outside cities.

Cycling on the road is not allowed in most cases in the Netherlands, if a bike path exists. Bike paths are usually signed with a round blue sign, which means the bikepath is mandatory for all cyclists.

In the Netherlands the issue is, from my understanding, that people are cycling increasingly late in life.

Elderly people cycling was always a common thing. But now that e-bikes are commonplace, elderly people are able to keep cycling for much longer than they would have been able to without the assistance of an e-bike.

When an elderly person falls or otherwise gets into an accident, they are far more likely to get severly injured and/or die than when that happens to someone younger.

As a Dutchman, I’m not a fan of this proposed speed limit.

My natural speed at which I comfortably cycle is around 25 km/h, which is perfectly safe if you pay attention and slow down when it is necessary in order not to hinder your fellow road users. The issue is people who cycle recklessly without keeping other cyclists in mind, in my opinion.

Enforcement is the key. And we already have reckless road usage laws.

I much prefer the Belgian method, where they set a recommended speed limit with signs of 25 km/h on the bikepath. You can cycle faster, but that’s at your own risk.

Edit: E-scooters are not normally road legal on Dutch roads, so you don’t see many of them.

Technically there is a path for a manufacturer to get an e-scooter tested for compliance, making them road legal. But virtually no manufacturers go through that process, making them defacto illegal (with some rare exceptions here and there)

1000/300 sounds like coax to me. That is the exact theoretical speed Ziggo could deliver if they upgraded their network to DOCSIS 3.1… But ofc upgrading is expensive, so they don’t do it.

I’m with Odido myself. That is a rebrand of the Dutch branch of T-Mobile.
Quite happy with their service generally. The mechanics had no idea what they were doing when connecting everything up, but once it was working it all worked flawlessly.

In the Netherlands symmetric fiber is the standard. I don’t think any company that offers fiber offers less than symmetric speeds

I have 1000 down / 1000 up personally.
They offer plans ranging from 100 / 100 to 8000 / 8000 at my address.

The only company that doesn’t offer symmetric is Ziggo, because they made the (wrong) bet that they didn’t need to invest in fiber. They only offer up to 1000 / 50 over coax.

While I agree that there is no real use for gigabit for the average person, I disagree that rolling out gigabit everywhere is pointless.

For anyone who wants to use the internet for more than the consumption of content, the old upload speeds were a significant barrier. Gigabit, and especially gigabit upload speeds largely removed those barriers.

Symmetric gigabit in every home has taken away a bottleneck for people who want to, for example, run a bandwidth intensive internet business from their home. It provides people with opportunities they might otherwise not get.

Why is 6 afraid of 7?

Because 7 is a registered six-offender

I’m not sure if France has class-action lawsuits, but if that happens I’d imagine you could point to this fine by the French Trade Commission as evidence of harm.

Irish GDP is largely driven by their status as a tax haven. American companies set up a company in Ireland in order to evade taxes through a loophole that exists between the two countries’ tax codes.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the 12% reduction in GDP is largely in that sector (Though admittedly I have not watched the video)

That wouldn’t be a huge issue for Ireland. The inflated GDP figures “deflating” doesn’t necessarily affect the real economy. GDP is just a metric and in the case of Ireland it is highly skewed.

Yes, but the trade deal also has a clause in it that the US has to honour their end of the deal.
If they don’t honour their part of the deal, the trade deal is null and void

The welfare state isn’t capitalism working as intended. That wasn’t what I was saying, nor am I saying that the welfare state is a result of capitalism. That was ultimately a result of workers fighting for their rights.

What I am saying is that the government not leaning heavily into laisez-faire capitalism, and them interfering in capitalism where needed, is what is making the European capitalist model largely work as capitalism is supposed to work. The government is there to prevent negative externalities and prevent monopolies from forming.

Ultimately the “correct” implementation of capitalism doesn’t exist. Only one which creates the most benefit for the people while reducing its negative outcomes.

It is a tool you can use in places where it makes sense to use it in order to drive innovation and lower costs to consumers.
The government can set regulations in order to guide capitalism to that outcome, and can directly interfere to do things themselves in industries where it deems fit to do so.

Edit: Fixed a typo in my first sentence, making me say the exact opposite of what I was trying to say…

America’s extreme form of capitalism isn’t the the only form of capitalism.

With proper regulation and governnent incentives it is possible to make capitalism work to benefit the average Joe, and not just the oligarchs.

Europe for example runs on that capitalist model, and it works pretty well. You get the benefits of capitalism when it runs as it is supposed to, together with the benefits of the welfare state.

This “trade deal” always was a rotten one, where the EU has to accept worse terms than it already had.

The only reason why we would even go along with that, is because Trump knows that there is a certain amount of reliance from Europe on the US in terms of defence. It really is a wake-up call to Europe that we can’t allow ourselves to depend on the US like we used to.

I agree that it’s a shame the US doesn’t engage with its allies in good faith anymore

Edit: Personally I think we should not even bother trying to appease Trump.

No matter what deal you reach with him, he will not honour it and demand more. Any trade deal reached with America is not even worth the paper it is written on.

Welp… Guess Europe now no longer needs to adhere to their side of the trade deal.
What a shame… /s

The headline is a bit vague, but this is reporting on the trust of SAP employees in the management at SAP.

Edit: And having the misfortune of needing to book my work hours in SAP, I don’t blame them…
It’s just about the worst coorporate software I have to deal with at my office.