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> If people want to regulate certain things they can, even if you don't like it - welcome to society. ...that could be a response to anyone taking a political stance in favour of c…

> If people were dead set against things like Meisterzwang in some areas it would not exist I'll give you an example: When I went to a copy shop in Austria to have my thesis bound,…

> The regulations on Handwerk are so old, not sure how you could put that on the Mittelstand. Exactly. These regulations stem from the same chapter of history as when kings used to…

> people could move to places with higher wages (e.g., cities), no? ...well, often times, when you have a family and real estate in a region, it might be inopportune to do that, an…

It was providing context which some people may find useful. The article, rather than being a strictly historical treatise, is taking the bait to propagate some narratives about the…

the article was a bit long for me to read, but when i hear "mittelstand", i think "inherited wealth", regulatory capture leading to gatekeepting of access to the trades and crafts,…

...if you've only visited and never lived here for an extended period of time, you haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg. Also, the rules and systems are different from one muni…

What percentage of your productive capacity is used for proper recycling and garbage disposal? ...that's the real metric to measure Germanness by, and yet it never got mentioned on…

I've looked into these kinds of policies a couple of times now, and the premia are just astronomical. (At least from the quotes I've been given). It's kind of understandable, given…

> Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic ...hmm. Not sure that this is quite state-of-the art in sociology today. Crediting a particular strand of a particular religion as the …

> NO EVIDENCE AT ALL It's funny how, when the hype is strong enough, the burden of proof around the need for EVIDENCE suddenly shifts. Normally, the burden of proof is on $NEWFANGL…

> If I want to buy a new MP3 player, I have to buy something from a company I've never heard of with a terrible screen, use an old phone, or buy some sort of enthusiast audiophile …

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...well, the "audiophile" angle is simply not where I'm coming from (see my argument about bad sound quality being "the feature, not the bug"). From an audiophile perspective: Abso…

If it was my son and he was enjoying it, I would support him, mostly because of the secondary effects of learning to code on cognitive development. I am of a mind that coding teach…

I've been on a journey to rediscover cassettes as a medium this year, both for myself and my kid. For myself, the motivation was ownership over streaming and wanting to support the…

Actually, riding horses is a great example, and you happened to pick a domain within which I dabble: People are not capable of riding horses today at the level of skill of a noblem…

How will they hire experts from those professions on whose output to train on, if they destroy the skills currently extant in those professions? Maybe lawyers will still read contr…

To be clear: I don't envision a scenario where people who are completely unable to code will come out of nowhere, and make a career out of prompting claude to write software withou…

> Part of the industry always seek humans able to code with deep understanding. Name them. In my 16 years in the business I've never come across any; I've always worked under leade…

> The coding we want for industry sure. Difference between IKEA and my uncle, an incredible, sought after carpenter. The thing is that programming was one of those rare crafts/arts…

I think that, even among those who have had the ability to code since before LLMs, the skill of coding has been in atrophy, and will continue to be so over the next 10 or 20 years.…

...still not enough to meaningfully incentivise giving a crap about the law over just paying the fine.

I was referring to something slightly different namely that price, horsepower, and socioeconomic status are all monotonically increasing functions of each other when you look at an…