>It's not like "the price is fixed to the price of gas" is some iron law of nature.

It kind of is.

Gas is the only source of electricity currently which can be scaled up and down at will and on demand.

Even once grids eventually go 100% green we will probably still use (synthesised) stored gas as the power source of last resort on cold, windless nights after batteries and pumped storage have been depleted.

Of course. they have enormous mortgages and anything which drags down the absurd value of their home is an ominous threat.

Blaming "fake socialists" or "nimbyism" doesnt change the fact that they are entirely rational actors in an economic system that is rigged to make the wealthy wealthier (e.g. with prop 13).

In fact, it's a clever rhetorical device to conceal the root cause and displace criticism towards the main culprits and, well, you fell for it.

No, you need a government agency which will build social housing.

Not once has the private sector ever been "encouraged" to build social housing with deregulation. The only reason it keeps getting touted as The Solution in the media is because deregulation would boost their profits.

The bottleneck is land, anyway. If you dont tax that enough or take it with eminent domain then you'll end up like San Francisco with absurdly low density housing and criminally high rents.

I interpreted what they meant as "pairing doesnt work with non coders doing non coding design/architecture/requirements".

Not "pair programming doesnt work with non programmers doing pure programming" coz it doesnt make much sense why you'd even attempt to do that. They dont care and they will get in the way.

Nonsense. I pair all the time with stakeholders. If you strip out all of the cucumber nonsense this is essentially what BDD is - fleshing out and refining specs by guiding people through concrete, written example scenarios.

I also often pair with infrastructure people on solving a problem - e.g. "im trying to do x as per the docs, but if you look at my screen i get an 1003 error code any idea what went wrong?".

Or, people on a different team whose microservice talks to mine when debugging an issue or fleshing out an API spec.

It's true that this isnt possible in plenty of organizations due to the culture, but lots of organizations are broken in all sorts of ways that set piles of cash on fire. This one isnt unique.

I always found it weird how most management would do almost anything other than ask their dev team "hey, is there any way to make you guys more productive?"

Ive had metrics rammed down my throat, Ive had AI rammed down my throat, Scrum rammed down my throad and Ive had various other diktats rammed down my throat.

95% of which slowed us down.

The only time ive been asked is when there is a deadline and it's pretty clear we arent going to hit it and even then they're interested in quick wins like "can we bring lunch to you for a few weeks?", not systemic changes.

The fastest and most productive times have been when management just set high level goals and stopped prodding.

Im convinced that the companies which seek developer autonomy will leave the ones which seek to maximize token usage in the dust in the next tech race.

>If you are Europe, and you have democratic elections, you have an informational power asymmetry towards the states that have mass surveillance and control. You are (as we saw last year with the Romanian election that was swung to 60% in 2 weeks over TikTok) susceptible towards influence of other superpowers

When Georgia tried to implement a law to inhibit this type of foreign meddling from all superpowers it was widely branded a "pro russia law", presumably because the west had invested more in astroturfing Georgia.

Which is no different to what the US and Europe was already doing in Romania on an ENORMOUS scale before Russia ran its Tiktok campaign. Russia's campaign evidently resonated with the populace far more than what the NED were doing.

Democracy is a bit like freedom of speech - either you support it even when it makes decisions you dont like (e.g. in opposition to western imperialism) or you hate it. There isnt a middle ground.

If you support the Romanian secret services' decision to cancel the election over a tiktok campaign which was more convincing than better funded NED campaigns which they permit, you probably just hate democracy.

If you think "pro russia law" is an accurate designation of what Georgia was trying to implement - again, you just hate democracy.