Yeah, especially enemy submarines. A windmill farm presents opportunities for defense: as a platform to mount and power sonar, radar arrays or other early warning systems, the power cables are actual decoys for comms infra, the farm itsrlf is an obstacle for drones and enemy subs.
Smart young people left for rich EU countries: doctors, engineers, even construction workers left. It took time until the old generation that remained behind retired and now we have the effects of that: better paid jobs.
When I started working as a doctor in 2007, my salary was ~150 euro/month. It is now ~2000 euro/month. Some of it is experience/seniority, but most of it is just jobs competition from richer EU countries.
The generation during the population spike following the communist regime's 1967 Decree 770 (banning aborition and contraception) is up for pensions in about 7 years, which will create a pension crisis and a default of Romania's state pension fund. We'll see its effect on household income per capita, but it will certainly be under pressure. They already have increased labour taxes, thanx to the former goverments' deficit spending.
> Also you can't have a feudal system when the peasantry have been replaced by machines which is the end game here. Feudalism is parasitic but it still requires goods and services to flow up from below. When your food, defence and goods are all supplied by robots or AI, then that is not the case.
Do machines drive your Uber ride? Deliver your food? No. They assign jobs to gig workers. Those are the serfs. Your goods and services are by people managed by AI.
Yes, I know, FSD is just around the corner rendering truck and taxi drivers obsolete. /s
I have boycotted Uber and dodgy food delivery companies from the beginning because of their zero hours contracts... I've never used Uber in my entire life.
Imagine you're in London. How you pick a restaurant for dinner? Do you simply walk into a restaurant or do you use Google too feed you a list of 'curated' venues? Because in the latter case both you and the restaurants (along with their owners, employees) are subject to FAANG's central planning. And that's exactly how people end up in tourist traps.
For some reason you seem to believe that the old-school solution of just walking into the neighborhood and picking something that looks good has completely disappeared. It is not the case and, I would argue, is still restaurants primary business.
People also consistently share advice/tips on restaurants to try, and that largely escapes tech control.
And even a well-reviewed/noted restaurant isn't immune to people's choices. As someone who has restaurant owner friends, I can assure you that tech companies have very little impact on the restaurant's success/survival.
MQTT doesn't have the same semantics. https://docs.nats.io/nats-concepts/core-nats/reqreply request reply is really useful if you need low latency, but reasonably efficient queuing. (making sure to mark your workers as busy when processing otherwise you get latency spikes. )
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