14 years in tech in Barcelona and this is accurate.
You pay:
- 50% top marginal income tax
- 21% VAT on everything you invoice
- Social security monthly even at 0 revenue
- A wealth tax on top of that
You get:
- Months of waiting to see a specialist
- Trains that break down every week
- Paperwork for absolutely everything
- A public administration that answers in months
Most people I started with left. I have thought about it too.
If I were younger I would not think twice.
Estic molt il·lusionat d’anunciar que la “Ribas Family Early Career Professorship in Catalan and Romance Languages and Cultures” de la Universitat de Michigan ha obert el període de presentació de candidatures per a una plaça de professor titular. Aquesta càtedra permanent és una contribució de la meva família a la Universitat i al Govern i poble de Catalunya, en part per agraïment per les beques que em van concedir durant els meus estudis de doctorat en enginyeria.
I’m excited to announce that the “Ribas Family Early Career Professorship in Catalan and Romance Languages and Cultures” at the University of Michigan is now inviting applications for a tenure-track position. This Professorship is my family’s endowment and contribution to both the University and the Government and people of Catalonia who supported me financially through my PhD studies in Engineering.
Please find more details on the position here: https://t.co/53UbNA6T62
No, necessitem automatitzar, millorar productivitat, innovar i guanyar valor afegit. Rebre més i més mà d'obra poc qualificada no ens ajuda a fer aquest camí.
@davidbaratech A tw tech ES només tenen arguments prou forts, prou carisma i estan prou desacomplexats quatre gats que a més són amics, jo ho prefereixo així
JUST IN: UK Government unveils £100M competition for domestic AI-start ups able to improve public services, with winners to receive contracts ranging from £250K-£10M.
@GerardRosell el data center de móra d’ebre pot ser una gran victòria per catalunya, cal tan de bo surti bé i la industria tech catalana en surti beneficiada
4) Passa el mateix amb l’agricultura, és més barat cometre il·legalitats que no estan prou perseguides que innovar i a llarg termini patirem aquestes decisions
1) podríem ser pioners amb això aquí
2) segueix sortint més barat fent-ho amb les trampes que es fan amb la immigració i al govern ja li convé
3) és mes immoral el 2 que el 1
One of the best pieces of software I built this year and never published is my own media creation platform.
I basically just upload the raw videos and forget about it.
It does all of this for me:
- improves the color
- speeds up the video when needed
- transcribes everything in any language
- adds subtitles
- compresses the video
- removes bad words
- cuts the boring / bad parts
- creates clips automatically
- creates smart 9:16 versions following whoever is speaking, face movement, lips, etc
- scores every clip
- generates covers for each social
- writes the social text
- plans everything into the calendar
- schedules the posts
- recognizes people by voice, so I can filter content by person
I also added semantic search using embeddings, which is probably one of my favorite parts. I can literally search something like “that conversation where we talked about hiring hardcore people” and find the exact moment across thousands of videos.
Before, creating content meant needing a full media team around me, now I just need a really good filmmaker following me around, capturing what I’m already doing.
Personal software is the future my friends. We’re probably at 0.01% of all the software that will be created over the next few years.