Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. Tipping needs to go away. People need to be paid fairly for their work.
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  2. The moderators in many forums are now discussing malicious compliance. Moderating only using Reddit tools and letting the system go to hell as a result. There is no way I would invest in this because without those tools Reddit is going to degrade into a cesspool very quickly. Apparently Reddit plans to use AI moderation to "solve" the problem and based on seeing AI moderation in other places .... that will be a disaster.
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  3. You have to understand these companies don't like capitalism. The very idea of competing is not something they EVER want to do. They want to be lords and they divide up the market between them and then we just have to accept whatever they want. Listen to some of the billionaires that fund startups, they ONLY fund ones with plans to be monopolies. These companies also don't like democracy, it is inconvenient to them. I think we need a HUGE wave of trust breaking and break these companies down small enough that they actually have to compete on making a better product.
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  4. This kind of thing is why I decided to stay in Germany after my PhD. I can get a nice 900 ft^2 apartment in the downtowns of most German cities, in a walkable neighborhood and near a train station for about $1400/month. If I moved back to the USA I would have to pay more to get less. I would also lose the walkable areas and that would mean my transit costs would be MUCH higher. I would have to make more than 3x what I do now to move back just to break even from the basic calculations I did.
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  5.  @korkee1111  $10/hour? You can make almost double that with benefits as an Amazon warehouse worker and that job is also not very good but at least pays better.
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  6. Also, as has been pointed out, if you buy the expensive one it STILL HAS THIS GARBAGE. They don't want some of the money they want all of it. They want to monetize everything. If they could monetize your dreams they would do that also.
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  7. I think Apple will try to evade these rules. I also think the EU is not paying around and the environmental and societal costs of the kind of behavior that Apple is showing is quite high. Trying to evade this is likely to carry some extreme costs. Basically play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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  8. I see more and more things I am supposed to do my research about. I see people talk about all the basic things that everyone should know. I have a full time job. There is no way I am going to know all of this stuff. There should be some basic requirements that they sell you something and it works.
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  9. What I could see working for cities is focusing on residential and things to go with it. So things like places to eat, activities, nice parks and places to relax. They would be cheaper to live in and easy to get around.
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  10. I agree with you 100%. At work I make software for aiding in manufacturing medicine. I have a 100% unit test policy on all of the code. We also have tests designed to catch if the final answers from the system drift over time. It is not acceptable for me to say I didn't know because I didn't check. It is my JOB to KNOW and that means I must check and I must check in a way to try and prevent these issues from EVER happening. If a mistake does make it through then a new test is added along with the fix to make sure it can't happen again and then a root cause analysis is done to try and make sure that similar issues can't happen.
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  11.  @The_Gallowglass  Where I live in Germany a one bedroom apartment is about 500 euro per month. That includes heating, hot water, and some other things and power is about 50 euro per month usually. You also don't need a car in many places. I can walk to the city center in about 10 minutes.
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  12.  @The_Gallowglass  in Germany tipping is not a thing. The workers are paid a fair wage, they get 25 - 30 days of paid vacation per year, health care, retirement and other things. I am not sure what they are paid but the ones I know have their own apartments. The weird part is the food is not really any more expensive. They don't even care how long you sit there after you are done eating.
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  13.  @mrbmp09  Power
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  14.  @loganmedia1142  The EU has also been making regulations about many other aspects of computers also. They just don't get as much coverage on this channel.
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  15. I write code for a living and my team is all over the world. If I did go to the office, I would just spend all day on remote pair coding sessions just like I do at home. I am happy my boss sees no point in me going to the office. Going to the office would lower my productivity and it would suck a lot more time out of my life in transit.
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  16.  @eliaspanayi3465  Those moderators don't lord power over people. They held votes and overwhelmingly their communities decided ton being part of the blackout and the moderators implemented it.
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  17. Evil is the point. It is something they can do to show their power over the poor people this will impact. People in high paying jobs already can take breaks and get water when they want. I moved to Germany about 8 years ago to do a PhD and have decided to stay. I have a hard time even recognizing some of the stuff in the USA anymore. It just seems to be evil. Cruel for just the point of being cruel.
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  18.  @tessierrr  That is not actually true. In Europe people are paid much better, they get healthcare, vacation , etc. and the prices are not much different than in the USA.
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  19.  @Gandhi_Physique  It is called malicious compliance. It is like when your boss tells you to do something a certain way and you know it won't work so you make sure to get the orders on the record an dthen do it exactly the way your boss said. Sometimes with the consequence of getting your boss fired.
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  20.  @gonzie72114  Adam Smith also supported very high marginal tax rates up to 95% or so to prevent large wealth accumulation because it distorts and breaks the system. Companies are also supposed to have high marginal tax rates to encourage them to invest in the company, workers, technology etc. instead of just buying back stock or hoarding the money. This rent seeking culture and the super wealthy is actually anti-capitalism and degrades the entire system.
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  21. I like living in Germany and not having at will employment. I like the security. I saw so many people get fired by the tech companies over the last year just to make the stock go up. Even though most of them are making more money than ever before they still fired lots of people. However, in the EU, almost none of the employees where fired. The only tech company I know of that fired a bunch of people in the EU was Twitter and that has a court case winding through the court system that Elon is going to lose BADLY.
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  22.  @streamofthesky  I fully support this idea! Houses should be where you live not investments.
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  23.  @Davealapoo  That is better than many places. However, I don't have a car right now because I don't have a need for it and the train will get me nearly anywhere in Europe.
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  24. Reddit is already losing money. This action is causing them to lose users. This action is also going to cause many communities to become cesspools without the ability to actually moderate a lot of the content. Why would this be a good investment? Why would anyone invest in a company that is losing money and users?
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  25. I read recently that the most common non-competes are not in high wage employees. They are for the lowest paid workers. Most larger companies dropped non-competes for their skilled workers. It seems that retail and fast food are some of the biggest places for non-competes and it is done to keep people from quitting. Fast food places define every other places that serves food as competing so if you quit working at XX burger place you can't go get a job at YY burger place or ZZ taco place. It is evil and it should be illegal.
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  26. I love work from home. My boss also loves work from home. I don't have any commute anymore. I have more time for other activities. I still go out to eat, get haircuts, etc. just in a different place. I am lucky because my company has made it very clear they have no intention of forcing people to return to the office. If your job can be done remotely and you want to do it remotely then go ahead and do it. It has really helped us recruit some good people.
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  27. This one should just straight up be illegal and not even fall on the piracy level spectrum. This should just be some sort of fraud.
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  28.  @samueldavila2156  It seems to be about the same size as apartments I found in Boston and other cities at a much lower price while also having much better connectivity. I can walk to multiple markets with < 5 minutes. Many restaurants and shops in easy walking distance. I could get something larger but I am not sure what the point would be.
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  29.  @johnenerio6453  And yet there are Biotech companies which deal with a LOT more sensitive information that are able to run completely remotely for many of their workers. They are able to trust them not to abuse working at home and they are able to keep data from leaking out. There are a lot of companies that work on data that has to be secure and manage to support work from home and have it work. Game companies probably want everyone there physically so it is easier to force people to work extreme hours and abuse workers in general.
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  30.  @oldtools  I don't see how the first amendment applies here at all. Reddit is not the government and then moderating or not has nothing to do with your first amendment rights.
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  31.  @NorthlandDWJ  Not yet. I have been here for a while though ad it has not been a problem.
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  32. This one bothers me a lot. I can't just buy electronic copies of movies. They are not for sale anywhere. You can "buy" (rent them) but that is it. So instead you end up buying physical media and then converting it to an electronic format. There is a huge waste of resources involved in that but I don't actually see any other option and it is the most ethical approach I have found for this.
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  33. This is one of the reasons that I still buy DVDs. I can encode them for personal usage and then watch them whenever I want.
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  34.  @TDesil5000  Germans and other Europeans like the lives that those regulations give them. They like knowing that if they get sick they won't lose their job, that healthcare won't bankrupt that. They like knowing that they get vacation time and that companies can't prevent you from using it. They like that they are not forced to work more hours just because the management at the company did a poor job of managing tasks.
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  35. If they didn't want to have separate laws for each city they could have just made a law that every 4 hours (every 1 hour would be better) you can take a break for water and to get out of the heat if the temperature is about XXXF. They did not do that. They just made it so companies did not have to allow any breaks at all. This is just evil for the point of being evil.
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  36.  @JamesS.254  I have to admit I have really loved working from home. It is much easier to make lunch and I have eaten much healthier and cheaper. I also have a bread machine and I eat fresh bread a lot more often. It is just really quick and easy to put something into the pressure cooker or bread machine to cook and get to working.
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  37. I think all the cashiers in Germany I have seen are sitting down.
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  38. You will find that in the EU but I can't see it happening in the USA. :( Right now the EU is working on a law to make usb-c a charging standard for almost any type of device that uses DC and less than 240W. It should save a LOT of ewaste and create more value in getting high efficieny usb hubs to power things.
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  39.  @PublicWifi  If we are lucky it will be that advanced.
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  40.  @Greenitthe  The market can't be free when it gets distorted so much. I have seen news houses build and a property group come in and buy ALL of them and then rent them out. The rents more MUCH higher than what a mortgage would have been and it drove up home prices in the area. It also allowed them to keep increasing the rents every year because there was no other alternative. If other houses in the area in other developments went up for sale they bought those also.
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  41.  @tachobrenner  And that is why some of these companies are bragging about how they are making more money than ever before and talking about further raising prices in their earnings calls? This stuff is not hard to find.
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  42.  @oldtools  The first amendment is ONLY about the government interfering in your freedom of expression and preventing them from regulating the establishment of a religion. It has nothing to do with private companies giving you a platform or not. There are some laws that govern private companies and platforms but it has nothign to do with the first amendment.
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  43. Before you made this video I didn't even know there where ebikes that required apps or server keys. All the ebikes I have seen so far in Germany just operate when you pedal them, most I have seen have some kind of display to show you the charge level, how much energy the motor is putting in etc. There is usually some kind of control to change how much assistance you want but not much more than that.
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  44. This is why right to repair must be a law. Otherwise people will keep giving up to Apple and buying this stuff and the cycle gets worse. We can see how well standing up to microtransactions and DRM went ....
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  45. I can completely imagine companies putting a warranty void if removed sticked holding the laptop closed and one over the charging port for good measure. We have the best government that money can buy.
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  46. I suspect this is probably not legal in the UK or the EU. There are a lot of laws about ewaste and standardization now. It even looks like usb-c is going to be the standard for just about anything that works on dc power and less than 240W to get rid of more waste.
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  47.  @oldtools  I don't want a free speech platform. From experience very quickly you have no almost no speech left in them. You end up with very toxic people taking over for their own entertainment, everyone else, leaves, the toxic people are bored and they move on to the next location. I want moderated and topic specific areas to discuss things and I want stuff that does not belong there removed.
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  48.  @zwerko  Honestly, I have no idea on this one. I moved to Germany for a PhD and decided stay. I don't really know how they manage to run a profitable business and still pay workers better, especially considering the benefits. I do know that it is much cheaper to live here than in most of the USA.
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  49.  @deeanabowles2332  I think they should be paid fairly so they don't need tips. In Germany many people give 1-2 euros as a tip or they tell the person to keep the change. That money is not taxed from what I have been told. The people are also paid fairly and get healthcare, retirement, 5 weeks of vacation etc. The food is also not more expensive. That is what I want more people to have.
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  50.  @deeanabowles2332  No I mean in Germany so far as I can tell, tips are not taxed. They are also small and often referred to as beer money. I think the USA needs more unionization and more strikes so that workers can get the fair wage they deserve.
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