GDP is absolute values, so there’s quite a bit of self reinforcement. Especially in service heavy areas, your massage cost 30$ for half an hour, elsewhere you can get a better one for 10$ an hour.
Although the second economy delivered twice the goods at a higher quality, the economic output was 1/3rd
Sounds like they figured out most of the previously unspecified traffic, comes from Linux based systems.
But you’re right about an unknown amount of that traffic is from servers.
It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they’re in for a shock.
That’s the sales pitch, we’re in a job market drought right now. Give it a year or two and all the slop will begin breaking, making a new job market boom for developers
I do not agree Microsoft is in that category, but they’re mainly a B2B player today.
A little less than 20% of revenue per earnings '25 was from consumers - The rest for business offerings. I’m curious to hear which selection of companies you consider the main ones. Because Microsoft is still top 5 within Tech when it comes to power.
Google hit as big a market share as they could, so their way to grow the search machine was to increase the market.
How do you increase the market? By pushing the most relevant links further back, so people have to go to page 2, 3 or 4. So it’s unfortunately the best financial decision, short term, to enshittify their main product
It’s mostly all of the generated by LLM websites that’s annoying to shift through
A big part of games taking up more and more space is due to higher resolution assets. Creating installers only installing needed assets would drastically reduce the size for anyone not playing on extreme or whatever they call the maximum resolution.
But games do still tend to be among the archetypes of software, which hits bottlenecks that needs performance optimisations. You only have whatever hardware your end user has, you can’t just buy a bigger server… well Google Stadia tried
Swiss chocolate isn’t the good stuff, somehow it’s branded so people feel so.
If you’re going for the absolute top, local chocolateries is the desire - They’re good all over the continent.
But the step just underneath handmade artisan chocolate is Amedei and Neuhaus - Italian and Belgian respectively.
When we get into general higher consumer grade chocolate, then Swedish and Finnish chocolate tends to mock Swiss chocolate. Marabou and Frazer over Lindt any day of the week.
Toms and Pergale floors for slightly fancier stuff
Chocolate isn’t as dominated by singular countries as some people think, but Swiss products are generally over priced and better products can usually be found within Europe
But that’s more expensive, as people demand 50-100% more salary as a contractor; Line must go up faster
Many years ago, my grandpa accidentally stole a pack of screws. While buying an electric drill, at a diy-store he was a regular customer at.
What did they do? Called the police, when the police showed up he went straight back to return the drill and vowed to never set a foot again.
Some stores really dislikes being human, and this happened in an area of Denmark far away from the capital and thus control of law