- This argument means that the Europeans should ban Facebook, X and TikTok.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but that's the logical endgame here.
- > ...and I just checked LinkedIn, the non-curious ones are still in the same company, managing the same piece of SaaS as a Software Developer. 20-26 years in the same company, straight from school.
And honestly, this should be OK. For a lot of people, they work to put food on the table and keep a roof over their head, and our society is structured like this for whatever reasons.
Not everyone needs to be learning and growing all the time. I personally like this, but I've worked with incredibly competent people who just had other interests outside of work, and had no desire to get promoted or work on different things.
Personally, I prefer (often) working with the learning and growing people, but sometimes you can learn a bunch from the stable people as they'll often have lots of hard won lessons caused by staying in the same place for a long time.
- That line always hits hard whenever I read that story to my kids.
- > the code can be recreated with genAI, it is just a matter of resources.
Can it though? Most interesting things (for my values of interesting at least), cannot be re-created with generative AI.
Every time I try to do anything a little bit out of distribution, they fall apart (and they're not great at in-distribution stuff either).
> I believe AGPL3 with CLA is the worst in 2025
I think that you mean best, as with both of these one can sell commercial licenses while remaining open.
Again, from the company's point of view you get both nerd-cred and a viable business (this is what MySQL did, I believe).
You don't get that with BSD/MIT.
- > In the end, both of these had to revert switching to AGPL licenses.
AGPL seems like the most battle tested solution here, though.
You'd need a CLA from day 1, but if you have that then you can sell commercial licenses to people who won't meet the criteria for the real license.
So I think it's important to differentiate between open source and free software, here.
- > ARR
This is not a "real" (i.e. GAAP or accounting standards) metric, so that would seem like a bad idea.
The trouble is that lots of even the accounting metrics are gameable, but a comptent auditor(s) probably won't let the metric divulge too much from "reality" (i.e. conformance with accounting standards).
- Yeah, every time I upvoter on mobile I need to look at the header to make sure it doesn't say u down, and then fix it if it does.
- >Git
The stupid content tracker.
Still one of my favourite names.
- The deal was that BEPS would replace the digital services taxes, and lots of countries implemented it on the basis. However the US has not implemented this (for whatever reason), which means DSTs are back on the table.
From a geo-political standpoint I'd expect to see them pretty soon, especially if the US abandons Ukraine.
- > Nope. It's because we don't have to pay a digital service tax in any of those countries (except in Russia, where American companies no longer operate due to sanctions considerations). And it's always been about DST [0][1].
Then your government should pass BEPS Pillar 1, so that this doesn't happen. You can't have your cake and eat it.
- > We are against the DSA because it is a de facto non-trade barrier to American services exports becuase of it's tax implications.
Hang on, firstly what are the tax implications?
Secondly, here's a summary of the DSA: https://www.williamfry.com/knowledge/the-digital-service-act...
I honestly don't see anything particularly strange about it. The only thing I can see that would actually impact any of the businesses is the requirement to provide a complaints procedure.
Note that I worked in one of the major targets of this law (Meta) for many years and I don't see anything there that amounts to a trade barrier to US service exports.
Can you help me understand the concerns here?
Like, to my mind, the DMA is a much bigger deal but US peeps are way more upset about the DSA.
And like, the US runs the Banking Secrecy Act and weaponises the dollar system on a completely regular basis, so I'm honestly flabbergasted that they object to other companies enforcing their laws extra-territorally.
> And it's doesn't matter that Trump is in office - a Harris administration would have played hardball against the EU as well, as was seen with the Biden admin perusing lawfare and lobbying to make an example out of Canada for their attempt at a digital services tax.
Yeah this I agree with.
But unfortunately, because most tech/pharma company profits are booked where the IP is located and this is easy to move, digital services taxes are going to happen over the next decade. I understand why the US government doesn't like this, but it's either that or actual trade barriers to these companies. (And I say this as a citizen of a country that benefits massively from these shenanigans).
- As always, there's a tradeoff. I used to go for doing all setup in each test for clarity, but one of my co-workers eventually convinced me that doing this in a fixture is better.
There'll always be some duplication, but too much makes it harder to see the important stuff in a test.
- And clearly the author hasn't read the AI act, where there are explicit carve-outs for security and defence applications (as there are in basically every EU law).
- > The European 'peace dividend' that was invested into social safety nets is backed by American might
Do you have any evidence for where the peace dividend went? Like, if you look at entitlements over the past 30 or so years, you can see that they've gotten worse in a bunch of European countries (UK, Germany probably not France).
It looks a lot more like the peace dividend went into caring for old people, as it will in basically all Western countries over the next while. Not sure there's a better solution, apart from letting old people die.
- Gulf War 1, certainly. And I was 10 and I'm only middle aged.
- > Europe is increasingly illiberal and incompatible with American understandings of freedoms.
Just to be clear, what freedoms are you talking about here?
And which parts of Europe?
- I mean, their counter-parties know all of this, but the fact that PE assets don't need to be marked to market on a regular basis can be good for a lot of these investors, as it introduces a delay in the spiral that can otherwise occur with public assets.
Like, if AI collapses, everyone's gonna sell Treasuries to cover losses as they are super liquid (mostly), but the PE assets can pretend that they're still worth whatever, thus reducing margin calls.
PE is generally bad, but their LP's are not entirely stupid and the ability to mark to imagination is worth a bunch of money sometimes.
- To be fair, this is because the US figured this stuff out way earlier through credit cards, and now there's a bunch of stakeholders and legacy changes which get in the way of making the services better.
- > Maybe you get put on a list so US banks can't send you money anymore too.
This is a good example, because the US government routinely passes laws that prevent people from transacting using the dollar system (which is basically the world financial system) and this is OK, but the EU requiring companies that operate in their market to obey different laws is not OK?
I don't really get the logic here, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Surely search is something that should be more neutral than social media.