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I agree this must not be ideologically-focused.

We need a solution that works. I am not a technician on these matters, but it needs to be sustainable whatever it is.

I am not suggesting cutting down pensions. My own parents are pensionists... so that you get an idea.

I am giving an objective explanation in all honesty: Spain needs a pensions reform probably at some point bc it is 40% of the expenses in the yearly budget, with a deficit and a demographic deficit. This will explode.

If it can be taken from elsewhere, better.

But you know how much are pensions in Spain and know our pension system in detail (it is literally a Poncy system...)? They are often higher than people working!

Whether we like it or not, we need to reform or collapse in the future. I wish it could be taken from elsewhere, but 40% is a lot...

There is a lot of useless expenses in public work in our "federal system" (comunidades autónomas).

The main problem comes from under maintenance. I am spanish, we have known this for years.

15 or 20 years ago when I took the train it worked well.

Now there are more trains and they increased the traffic like by 70% if I am not wrong and the budget for railway infrastructure by only 17% and it seems to not scale well enough, for whatever reason I do not know all the details.

There are a lot of railway tracks that are not in good state so speed must be lowered. There are incideents and delays routinely, all the time.

This did not happen until like 10 years ago and it has gotten worse and worse since then, not only in high speed trains.

The roads is a mess also: 52% of infrastructure for roads has bad or very bad defects in it.

The thing is that we have a record in government incomings and the services, ALL of them (healthcare, roads, infrastructure...) slowly collapsing.Part of the money is not going to the right places. I think that nearly 40% of the budget goes for retired people. We have 9.5 million pensionists in Spain.

We have to change that system and rationalize government spending and welfare or eventually everything will collapse.

The great theft.

Well, actually it would be, more literally "do not get into it".

Preconditions cannot be checked at compile time in all cases.

Particularly a line depending on who you are.

This is not different from any political power or belief, which shapes mind and action.

In fact, in the absence of religion, the hole is filled with political power.

There is no void. If you leave a void, someone will fill it, after all. Bc there will still be social organization among us.

As there would be if you worship money or communism or any other belief that is not a religion also for which wars or oppression has been caused.

Any intervention to protect adults with laws infantilize.

The cause is clear in my mind: the world outside is what it is. If you cannot take good decisions (whatever that is for you) and you need someone to get protrcted and you soend your day whining about your own problems bc the world is not perfect, then you did not become an adult, ever.

There are extreme cases: for example you cannot say aperson in a country with no weapons is infantilized bc the complain for being abused by an armed gang. Something like that is legit.

But for many things I see around I just see people complaining instead of changing strategy, solve a problem, change their choice or just plain skip things they do not want. Instrad of that they demand some kind of protection.

For a very narrow set of exceptions I would agree. For the rest, we sre just adults, we should know what to do.

You could say natalism as opposed to maltusianism, or that is not a thing? One with a worse outcome IMHO given the aging of population and low birth rate.

Industry: agree.

Addiction: true, many things can be addictive, I think this is in big part a matter of education but there are some things that are more addictive than others also.

As for better option than prostitution. I would say this is kind of prostitution is some way.

So in the absence of religion, there is no racism, no interests and no wars?

You seem to suggest that banning religion would end up wars or human nature.

And yes, noone should force everyone else, but not only om religious stuff. Sometimes there has been non-religious truths to which people are forced and that collides ireemediably with other thinkings.

I am not sure why one philosophical thinking should be better than other just bc it does not contain religion.

In fact, I consider a big part of most religious a compilation of wise advice about human nature. You can believe it or not, take it or not, that is a choice, but when not taken into fanatism I do not think it is harmful.

Again, that is not anreason to force a position to others. But there are a handful of things that are very controversial.

My workflow leans on AI for some tasks: review what I wrote, drop me a one-off script (this one is the generative exception), and so on.Or even initial scaffolding.

For the rest I do not. I do not place AI-generated code anywhere.

You lose all control AND UNDERSTANDING.

When things go wrong it gets very messy.

I will keep doing this, I think it works well, I emjoy programming and I think it is productive.

For testimg I tend to write randomized testing, which takes a bit of design but oncr you have it, well, it os test-generatove and increases the quality of checks.

I did not see a single bold claim of these discoveries or those "self-building models" that Claude and others have internally with a proof of their existence.

So yes, I am also skeptical. I think these companies are more intoncartelizing and colluding via propaganda than delivering stuff. They do deliver some, but very far from their promises.

These companies dangerously mimic behaviors I usually attribute to politicians.

BSD is the future. Wishful thinking. Nothing bad about it, but chances are low.

Ss for AI slop. There is lots, but I do not think Linus will tolerate a heavy quality degradation and policies will be set up to strike a good balance.