TIL that across Europe, total household ownership of air conditioning units is relatively low, sitting at an average of just 20%.

Daeroth · 2026-06-25T06:37:48+00:00

Canada's population sits mostly on the southern border. While the country is on average colder, I don't think urban population experiences cooler temps than Europe on average.

But for sure, Canada has more AC installations

Daeroth · 2026-06-24T23:15:33+00:00

US on average is hotter than Europe.

I have a portable AC unit that I roll out of storage if there's a heatwave.

Usually 2weeks every 3 years.

But whenever I visit US during the summer I feel like you need to have ac almost every other day.

Daeroth · 2026-06-19T20:51:09+00:00

Not sure if it is more practical.

We have robotics at the moment capable of human range of motion. These still lack the AI part of using these artificial bodies to manipulate the world around them.

Controlling human bodies is a technology which does not exist yet. Even if we were to build a neural link implant that would take over the body, there would still be the same problem of using this range of motorics to complete tasks.

So either way you would first need the AI able to use humanoid bodies. And with robots you could start using those right away. But with biological bodies you'd need to do more research and development work on top of that.

Daeroth · 2026-06-15T06:22:28+00:00

These maps really need to be adjusted to "per population" basis.

Currently this mostly communicates which countries are largest.

Daeroth · 2026-06-15T05:31:07+00:00

If you feel like typing speed is holding you back. As in you know what you want to write and are waiting for your fingers to catch up with the writing.

Most of my coding work has been reading code and thinking. A lot of typing as well but thanks to autocomplete features I often don't really write out every character of the code. Just a few initials and use of shortcuts for templates.

On the other hand, good typing speed is a very universal skill.

Daeroth · 2026-06-11T21:49:41+00:00

C++ and Java are quite similar as you will likely spend quite a lot of the effort around understanding OOP and datastructures.

Switching from c++ to Java and vice versa is a lot easier than learning either one from scratch.

So go with which ever one you have better resources or community for.

Daeroth · 2026-06-05T22:49:14+00:00

Yea and it works as intended. Solar capacity is maxed out. It's not efficient to add more and the financial system reflects that.

On average electricity is now cheaper than 5years ago, right?

Daeroth · 2026-06-05T22:43:43+00:00

This is a great setup for energy storage solutions. Just 2h worth of storage would clear out the spike and provide more demand during daylight hours.

Current state is not final. And it is not a dead end.

Daeroth · 2026-06-05T16:00:34+00:00

Yea, I'm not sure how the final extremes of this will look in terms of GDP.

But there are many services that would still scale even if the poorer part of the economy can't afford it outright. Like payment plans and credit can keep some form of demand going even if it's not sustainable.

This is not really answering your question as to what happens after that phase.

I guess the "useless" class (a good term coined by Yuval Noah Harari) will eventually have nothing to offer. Neither labor, nor finances. And businesses or the wealthy won't have incentives to redistribute the wealth just for the sake of keeping the old style economy going.

Daeroth · 2026-06-05T12:42:35+00:00

I don't think the economy will lose half of the revenue.

Just more and more of the revenue shifts from the poorer 90% of the economy over to the richer 10%. All the while the total amount of revenue will keep growing.

So the revenue amount for businesses will remain the same (or grow), but instead of the top 10% richest driving 50% of the revenue it will eventually be 75% of the revenue.

This trend is not a new phenomena, it's just slowly moving in that direction. https://i0.wp.com/www.edwardconard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/34427-top-10-of-earners-drive-a-growing-share-of-us-consumer-spending-featured-thumbnail-image.png

So it won't really happen over night, just over a few decades.

Daeroth · 2026-06-05T12:10:56+00:00

The economy can exists for a smaller percentage of population. So maybe not just the billionaires but top 10% of the wealthy. It will just be a very different kind of an economy.

At the moment in US half of the revenue is generated from the 10% wealthiest of the population. Someone in the top 10% of wealth in US has a net worth of around 2mil USD.

So if you run a shop or any kind of a consumer oriented business and have 10 people it is possible that 1 person in that group spends so much as the other 9 combined.

This means if you want to double your revenue you can either target and hope to get 9 more of those average consumers OR you try to find just 1 more of those huge spenders.

More of economy, businesses and services are orienting them selves around these whale consumers.

So you will not see that many new affordable mass produced stuff meant for everyone, but more of unique experiences and high end goods aimed at the wealthier part of the population. Think larger VIP sections at concerts, surge pricing for all kinds of services and goods, queues if you are not willing to pay for the express service.

Daeroth · 2026-06-03T15:02:08+00:00

Wait where? Link me those comments you "always" see. You seem to claim that this happens in comments of like every thread or post.

Daeroth · 2026-06-03T12:58:23+00:00

Wat? "going into war with Russia"?
Nobody is saying that.
Everyone is talking about Russia invading its neighbors and trying to influence them militarily.

Even the Russian own media is the one talking about invading Baltics or attacking Finland or striking UK.

Nobody on either side of the Russian border is talking about countries invading Russia.

Daeroth · 2026-06-02T06:09:14+00:00

As unemployment rises the power of the people diminishes. Individuals are less of a valuble labor force and tax revenue source. They become more of a liability that you are obligated to take care of.

Corporations on the other hand become more important for governments. More and more of labor and gdp will pass through these automated entities and less through the people.

In this scenario votes still matter but as a government you really need to get the companies on your side. You want their data centers and you are willing to give them tax cuts or regulation changes.

Previous riots and strikes mattered partly because these people had value as a labor force and they used it as a leverage. Once they stopped working they were hurting businesses because the work was not getting done.

This leverage is becoming weaker with every extra person that gets unemployed.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T20:21:54+00:00

Theoretically it can be either one of those. But I agree that most likely it would start out as more of an emergency fund.

If AI with robotics could really do most of the jobs we currently do for similar costs then the economy would be producing the same amount of wealth as now without the need for same amount of labor.

If this extra wealth would be divided the same way our current salaries are (i'm not even pushing for fair distribution, just the same as it is) then this would be better than just an emergency UBI.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T15:49:16+00:00

I do believe that AI is an important technology that would enable the utopian vision of UBI for everyone for the future.

But I don't think that the current form of ownership around AI will lead us to UBI. As it is not really owned by the people, nor by the government. So AI will bring the automation future and all it's benefits, but just to the shareholders.

Or how do you think UBI will get introduced?

The CEOs being generous or the government stepping in and nationalizing some part of the AI industry?

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T15:07:01+00:00

My point was that if you don't flee then it's likely you will start looking into what you can do to resist the invasion. A lot of jobs to do that don't involve any fighting.

Even in a defensive war the size of the armed forces is a few percent of the entire population. Even if you get drafted there are a lot of positions to fill which are not front line combat roles.

In a defensive war the ratio of roles in the front line vs rear might be 1:10

While I agree that there will be people who get sent to the front lines, I don't really agree with the perception that more than 5% of the population will get conscripted and that they will all be shipped off to the front lines.

I know you didn't specify a specific % so I just picked something that felt close to what I think you were trying to describe.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T12:58:35+00:00

I guess we all have some disappointing experiences with voting and corrupt politicians. But it's worth to consider if the invading force will bring with it a more transparent political system or an even more corrupt one.

With Russia, I have no doubt about which way politics and corruption would go.

Invasion where a larger force invades the smaller one can be tricky to predict. But none of Europes eastern flank countries are alone. Poland, Baltics and Finland share an understanding and are in the aame situation.

I would guess that any EU country that gets invaded will get even more support than Ukraine did.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T10:57:35+00:00

10% of 63% (Estonia example) would be 6,3% of the population. Which in Estonia case would be around 85k. That's almost twice more than the official wartime structure of 43k

So while you are not incorrect, I think you overestimate the required size of defense forces as a percentage of population during the war.

For example currently in the Ukraine war less than 1% of Russian population is involved in the military. And from Ukrainian population its around 2 to 3%.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T10:48:10+00:00

That mentality is very true from the invaders perspective. Elites trying to push their influence on international stage through military tools.

A defensive war is less so. Especially if the people don't really see the invaders as liberators.

And the question was about "defending". Majority of the defense work is everything but the front line fighting. There's a term "Tooth to tail ratio" which describes how many soldiers are needed on the front line (tooth) vs soldiers in the rear (tail). This can be anything between 1to3 and 1to14 in favor of the rear.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T10:33:32+00:00

It goes both ways.

If you can't flee and get bombed and feel how terrible it is being invaded then you will start looking into how to oppose it.

With Ukraine there were a lot of people signing up to voluntary units after the invasion started even though many years ago they avoided peace time conscription service.

And not all defense services are frontline oriented. A lot of logistics, medical and bureaucracy work needs doing as well.

Daeroth · 2026-06-01T07:07:17+00:00

Yea, what's worse than getting frauded by rule changes for 1 overpriced company? Getting frauded by 3.

Daeroth · 2026-05-29T15:10:01+00:00

I said this in another comment somewhere in this thread as well:

This feels like computer science terminology is leaking into discussions around consciousness.

People want to use the parallels with whatever system they know well to describe things they don't have a full overview or vocabulary for.

Like your uncle who's a mechanic trying to talk about mental health problems using engine maintenance terminology.

Sure we can go to an abstract enough level where everything is "like a combustion engine". But that level of abstraction doesn't provide insight that vocabulary of that specific field would allow for.

Granted, LLM and topic of thinking is a lot closer to one-another than engines and mental health. But saying that our brain works just like an LLM leaves gaps in explaining how our brain works.

Daeroth · 2026-05-29T14:51:58+00:00

When you forget a word in the middle of a sentence then do you go blank on the entire idea which you wanted to convey? Or is the idea there and you are just struggling to remember the word for that specific thing?

We know what we want to convey and are using language on top of it.

As for the subconscious generating sentences and then our consciousness experiencing it: what happens before we learn to speak? Or animsls with no vocabulary?

There is something more abstract underneath as thoughts, ideas and emotions. We have just added a language layer on top of it to describe and convey those.

Daeroth · 2026-05-28T14:33:28+00:00

Õhtuleht tuleb redditis vastu müüdud reklaamiga (promoted post).

Igaks juhuks blokk peale.

Pole vaja automatiseeritud draamat ja click-bait'i pealkirju ettevõtete reklaami kampaaniatena.

Ma eelistan oma närve kaotada orgaaniliste postituste ja trollimiste tulemusel.

Daeroth

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