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Cake day: August 30th, 2024

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  • I don’t really care if humans will exist in the future. I do care about the humans that will exist, leaving them with a habitable earth. But besides that what do I care about the survival of the human species? I don’t see why people contributing to the survival of humans should be rewarded. I do see that people with a child need more flexibility because it’s hard to care for a child and because I have empathy I support more flexibility and support for them. But why does the flexibility for those people imply inflexibility for others? I’m fine with being ‘selfish’. I want to have a good life, don’t you?


  • As far as I know the health insurance is split 50/50 between employer and employee. It’s around 14.6 % of you wage. But only a wage up to 70K € a year is considered. So a engineer and a billionaire will pay the same amount. I guess removing that barrier and filling in loopholes where owners of huge cooperations “do not earn anything” could fix that. Just saying more taxes paid does not necessarily mean more money for insurance



  • I’ve studied with (now) engineers and there is large portion of people having a hard time with even the concept of a function. We learned C(++) at the time. I guess being forced to learn about what the hardware does kinda messed with people being able to just think about algorithms. As a first programmig language to just write some basic functions I like Python, but to be honest I don’t understand what’s going really going on behind the scenes either. But C is a really solid choice, as what’s really happening is easy to reason about (at least unoptimized) and every other language will have to abstract these same concepts.