- an office suite, where La Suite is at least partly a coherent package bundling existing software which has documents, chat, video calls, etc but wouldn't really play the role of an office suite IIUC - they serve different purposes mostly
- E2EE, which comes with its unique set of benefits and drawbacks
(and yes, sadly at XWiki SAS we host our code on GitHub too, I wish it wasn't like this)
What a great way to inhibit a path for a nation to advance it's manufacturing capabilities - putting roadblocks in the way of individuals learning how to manufacture things.
I think some the prevalence of AI is actually turning the bias on this. It would actually be a return to the roots of the start of early business computing - and sort of picking up where excel et al left off. I don't think it's AI the tech itself, it's the confidence for companies to build a customized software stack and maintain it is what AI mostly contributes.
Curious how AI is giving people the confidence that they can maintain custom software. Is this Dunning-Kruger at work? It gives me great confidence in being able to stand up a new system, but as someone who has maintained software and databases for 5+ years it gives me nightmares about future maintainability.
Companies have always been able to hire software engineers as well. At least that's my impression in the UK. Is this different in other parts? Not enough engineers left after big tech has hired them all?
Unfortunately what is a “specialization” these days that broadly applicable enough that it isn’t a commodity? Front end? back end? Mobile? “DevOps” [sic]? AWS?
Look for the Sugarscape model research studies. With uniform equally distributed starting point, fairly unbiased rules, and a set of random early wins, large disparities tend to accumulate over time without active policy to counteract it.
Sure this seems to have worked in high-trust homogenous society with similar values and goals. They have a very high baseline of wealth given abundant natural resources that'd need active mismanagement to not have a strong economy.
Extending their taxation or economic system to a larger, more populous, diverse, and economically fractured society would lose most of the reasons they're succeeding.
The question is still circumstantial correlation or causation with these factors. What you can conclude is that high taxes do not impede happiness or economic prosperity.
I think there is going to be an AI eternal summer. Both from developer to AI spec - where the AI implements to the spec to some level of quality, but then closing the gap after that is an endless chase of smaller items that don't all resolve at the same time. And from people getting frustrated with some AI implemented app, and so go off and AI implement another one, with a different set of features and failings.
If it's hooked directly to AC power, isn't there by definition a flicker? With a power IC, a poorly implemented power circuit will also visibly flicker. With high enough rate and the right power characteristics it should not be noticeable. Do you notice flicker in a quality phone or monitor screen?
If they were being pragmatic about it, the more universal healthcare systems offered by many EU nations should be a massive advantage for startups vs nations like the US, but the wrong regulations around company operations negates it or worse.
I didn't want to start a healthcare discussion but employer costs with healthcare in the US can be lower than Europe labor taxes. EmployEE costs is a different thing but many startups have young employees who don't need a whole lot of healthcare in general.
The employee healthcare costs don't count, so we can pretend that healthcare costs doesn't detract from performance or the ability to hire talent?
Serious cancers are on the rise among the young and the type of plans you allude to do not provide good coverage. And why limit startups to the young, or limit their ability to have a family? 40+ founders have a higher business success rate.
I think the US is having so many problems now because it wants to half-a** aspects of living that should be solid for false efficency.
Startups should be a voluntary fiscal risk, not a direct risk of life, limb, or family. That's also how you optimize for the success of the startup - by removing distractions and worries that are not directly in the startup proposition.
I'm not arguing which system is best. I'm just saying this isn't a big advantage for a lot of startups from a purely financial perspective, which was the original point.
Sure, one startup will go down because the young founder had cancer, but that's not common enough to skew the average case too much.
40+ founders like me often had an opportunity to save for healthcare costs with the high salaries in the US plus Obamacare.
It's a fact that people in the US create lots of startups. Maybe the system could be much better (still not comparing to Europe) but it isn't too bad to be honest.
Though they also seem to be on github https://github.com/cryptpad/cryptpad
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