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We are seeing deindustrialization and a lack of innovation in transformative technology.

Or so say people from the DIW and industry. Is it just the usual whining about the need for reforms to make our companies more competitive internationally? Hard to say.

By replacing a symbol with its substance you get a clearer picture of the concept behind it.

I also find that it helps with teaching and writing documentation.

The reason is that there is less competition for them, particularly from big business.

It is significant.

Key insights:

• Rome really did fall, not just “transform” as some claim
• The Dark Ages really were dark in both senses of the word
• Human reproduction, economic activity, quality of life, literacy, literature, life expectancy, and science all declined in the provinces after the fall of Rome
• Hexapodia

If you are an ESG-noncompliant company:

1. Create a new company
2. Get the new company ESG-certified (since it holds nothing but financial assets and is therefore clean and responsible)
3. Receive ESG funding for the new company
4. Borrow money from the new company at zero interest

Canada is known as an immigration-friendly country and is often cited as an example to emulate in political discussions of immigration. But while it is all true when it comes to controlled immigration, it turns out that even Canada is actually pretty strict when it comes to asylum seekers. The same is true elsewhere, including Australia and the United States.

In the European Union we are facing the same dilemma as everyone else: On the one hand there is a basic human right to asylum and you want to treat asylum seekers as well as possible. On the other hand there are real capacity limits that an overly lax process inevitably runs into. So there must be an orderly process; but that process itself is vulnerable to capacity limits; so even entering the process in the first place has to be disincentivized in some way.

I do not envy the politicians who have to figure this out.

Notifies you of Docker image tag changes relevant to the containers that you are running.

Automatically restarts Kubernetes pods when their Docker images with floating tags change.

Automatically updates and restarts Docker containers as new image versions are released.

On acausal influence.

• Emphasize jobs in message and policy
• Run working-class candidates
• Be critical of your own party as well as the opposing party

A book on the benefits of being a generalist.

I suspect that generalism will become even more important the more AI continues to take over specialized tasks.

A conservative case for more immigration.

A self-hosted Reddit-like link aggregator for the Fediverse.

Now that Reddit is cracking down on third-party apps, it seems like a good time to try out things like this.

I agree with many of the concerns he has. At the same time he is probably right that the community knew better what it actually needed than he did.

Browses ZFS/Btrfs/NILFS2 snapshots on the level of individual files.