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> you can't build solar panels from solar panel energy

... Why?

If they took the privacy concerns seriously it wouldn't take anti-trust pressure for this to happen.

This already happens though without sealed classes in existing code. If you have an interface A with implementing classes B and C, you'll eventually run into an error if the library starts emitting class D.

> Because foreign corporations operating in the Balkans pay taxes in the balkans

Ahaha, as if.

Foreign corporations with presence but no local entity pay no taxes. Foreign corporations with local entities somehow manage pay zero taxes because all profits are transferred to their Ireland parent entities.

Domestic corporations have far less options to not pay taxes, so they mostly do.

> And they used an actually secure OTP dongle, eventually ditched by most banks because, yeah SMS codes and apps are safer............

The EU mandates the 2FA method shows information about the purchase you're authenticating (timestamp, amount and cc used in my case), making unconnected dongles impossible to use. This makes me sad, but it does have merit.

FWIW I still use the website to do all my payments. I find banking apps to be madness - you're entrusting all your money to what is essentially a toy.

Google is the one peddling the malware. Any changes to 'security' that don't start with them removing the oodles of malware from their store are not security but profit driven.

I disagree. There is a lot of boilerplate to write and mundane things to check, which AI can speed up a lot. I'm not talking about 'software engineering' here, but about 'programming', which consists of a lot of write DTO->write rest interface->write interface->write simple select query->map response. The good taste here comes from the architectural design and the UI design.

The amount of 'software engineers' who couldn't design a table to be readable or a flow to be intuitive is off the charts. AI neither helps nor harms here, it just makes implementing good and bad decisions faster.

The differentiator right now is taste. Most people have none (like the business partner in the OP), and some people have plenty (like you seem to have). These two sets of people will produce wildly different results with the same tools.

Two things you can do regarding programming here.

1. Be a consultant for a high wage, use AI, produce good results quickly - little to negative intellectual joy here. You still have the edge here due to good taste.

2. Produce 'artisanal' code in your spare time. Work 3 months for pay, then 9 months on whatever projects scratch your itch.

I still want to program and I don't think it's time to let go. Hit me up (email in bio) if you wanna chat, you sound like a really interesting bloke.

The manufacturer/seller already employs people who deal with this, and it's not expensive. Getting my washing machine fixed for 10€ parts + labor instead of 300€ parts + labor sounds mighty nice to me.

> Manufacturers must also provide [...] access to spare parts at a reasonable price.

This is the important part. Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards so the repair is expensive has got to go.

What, exactly, are the consequences of these companies doing cyberattacks against random people?

One person does it, they get bullied by the government into suicide, a company worth trillions does it and they get government contracts?

What options are those? Anything they do that makes ARM better/cheaper for consumers makes RISC-V a win, even if it never reaches mainstream adoption.

Anti-union propaganda is where it comes from.

For games like Starfield, the problem is the game is bad, it has nothing to do with politics or ESG.

Well companies can issue stock, which is more or less spawning resources, but that's not what I meant. When people with more money than they need want more of it, things get done, including fucking over the customers, the partners and the workers. When wageslaves want more money they get dragged through the media for their greed (as is happening now).

Resources have a way of spawning for CEOs, why not for minimum wage workers?