The software I create for myself has improved a lot. I also see a lot of improvements in current software and games and fast iterations. But nothing new that is revolutionary.

Finland is struggling and are desperate, they will allow anything at this point to get money in and jobs.

Datacenters wont bring much jobs or money after its built though. They'll use up a lot of power though.

But construction workers are still people and they would like employment

what happend to Finland?

Their economy has been struggling for a while, having the highest unemployment rate in the EU and a large deficit.

Among other things, this has been caused by the downfall of Nokia and the paper industry as well as the collapse of trade and tourism with Russia.

> downfall of Nokia

yeah i was browsering the oneline shop and find out Nokia dont release smart phones anymore. they used to have several series with Anriod and i have one, it's pretty good.

> highest unemployment rate in the EU

i guess it's a universal problem.

High tech industry couldn't compete against the Chinese, the Ukraine War killed a huge chunk of export industries, aging population, successive governments shifting money from one welfare pocket to another, escalating unemployment eroding tax base and now when the money has ran out, aggressive austerity measures.

sounds like china except the ukrine war part and the chinese compete part...

Neoliberalism and right-wing austerity.

Also, earlier Nokia got sniped by Microsoft and profitable wood industries were decimated by transition from paper magazines (high quality, high value add paper) to digital (no paper) --> industry now makes pulp, which is low-value-add.

People keep making comments like this about Nokia, but is there really any chance they’d still exist as an independent phone/operating system maker if the Microsoft buyout didn’t occur?

I didn't even know Finland had a right-wing party. maybe to most people, the stereotype of Nordic countries like Finland is just high social welfare, left-wing, and freezing cold."

at this point bitcoin will be worthless

The first 50 hours of NMS are really great but then you start to learn the patterns, even though it is a randomized/procedural, at some point it becomes predictable and boring. The other problem is that the battles are boring, they lack something and building big ships and bases feels pointless.

Google has a lot of these inconveniences, super easy to fix but for some reason the don't.

Torrents are unreliable, also for an agent or script it's easier to just do wget model

Related a recommend this documentary by Sebastião Salgado, The Salt of the Earth