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> That's the problem with Europe

Really? That's "the" problem of Europe?

> every European country used to be a great empire once and people are nostalgic of those times

How can people even be nostalgic about times they can't even remember? The last "great empire" in Europe was perhaps Germany in the 1940s. Few people remain alive who can remember it, and I don't think any of them would express a desire to be occupied by Nazis again. What would you say are the great empires that "we" have been a part of? Perhaps the French Empire in the time of Napoleon? Or perhaps the Romans? Seems like a long time ago to be nostalgic about, I doubt most Europeans could even tell you in which centuries those things even happened.

Here in the Netherlands we used to be a naval superpower, with many colonies all over the world. While it's pretty cool to imagine such a little country having an amazing navy, it was also a time of slavery and oppression (and a very lucrative slave trade with North America). Hardly something any decent person would want to be a part of, or return to. In fact we made fun of one of our PMs when he coined the term "VOC-mentaliteit".

I think the desire for a union is mostly a desire to have some influence on the world. Compared to the countries such as the US, China, and India, most individual European countries are tiny, and unable to make much of a difference in the world. If the GDPR was introduced in only a single country (e.g. Italy) but not the rest of Europe, nobody would even care. I strongly doubt this desire has anything to do with nostalgia.
I would like to know whether this happens mostly to people who work in fields that demand some degree of perfectionism and / or black & white thinking, or are in artificial environments with clear answers (like maths, programming).

Mind trained for ubiquitous perfectionism / black-white thinking* -> perfectionist self-criticism -> chronic stress

If this is right, the alternative solution is to not apply the thinking patterns that lead to performing well in those types of work in those many areas of life where there is no clear answer, or no place for such patterns.
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Seconded.

In French culture the “boss” is traditionally considered as an asshole.

While I’m not saying there aren’t bad bosses out there, this kind of hostile culture towards management doesn’t really help anything.

Taxes are awful as well, and filing them is a pain, even for a sole trader.
Agreed. That's why I said that it was horrible. But death would be better?

Also:

> “Google understands the cats are not supposed to cross the line into the park,” a spokeswoman for the Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority said.

But in the photo, we see a cat heading for a picket fence. So why not build a real fence, which cats can penetrate? Or build a ~1 ha cage?
Cold medicines are pretty up front that they're just treating symptoms though, not actually curing the cold. Tylenol PM has been a godsend a time or two when I had a cold and needed to sleep because I didn't have the luxury of calling out sick.

I agree with you if you're talking about cough medicines though, because except for rare circumstances they are pretty much useless. Still gotta love DXM and that purple n yellow tho.
Something that HN readers often don't understand is that being an engineer or having advanced understanding of a field does not equate having an understanding of linguistics, despite being a native speaker of a language. Merely striking out letters from words doesn't make a language or its spelling any simpler...
Sometimes I wonder about what’s more profitable in B2B space - product or consulting/contracting. Doing the latter I manage to pull in more in 3 months what this guy generated it sounds like in 3 years.

That gives me a pause everytime I want to sink 3 months of my time into some startup idea.
Wow, that makes it two.
Translates to "slow erosion of labour rights".
If you’re interested in that sort of minutia, there’s a History of English podcast that goes into it in mind numbing detail.

The answer is that the -s plural is from the Vikings/Norse, and the -en plural is from the more complex system inherited from Anglo Saxon languages.

English is like a creole or a pidgin language in a lot of ways and a lot of its features are due to various foreign invaders imposing their grammatical rules on the local vocabulary.
> If anyone wants to dismiss a movement because a few of its adherents are violent, that's obviously unjustified

Nevertheless, that's what the comment referred to. For you it's an obvious non-issue, but not objectively so, and they were referring to that issue.

If you find something else more interesting, make that point without twisting what someone else said. Otherwise that whole stuff about rejecting violence sounds kind of hollow.
>>Why is this being downvoted? Are there people on HN that actually think the government

Yes, HN has a long history of being Authoritarian. Libertarian views are not welcome here.
I doubt that France will be able to do this - they have many disadvantages comparing to USA:

- high taxes

- a lot of buerocracy

- language burden to attract high qualified foreign employees

- lower salaries

- fragmented political system in the EU

- much lower population in France comparing to USA and if you want to cover the entire EU, you have to support many different languages, currencies, etc...
Now I feel like I have to rewrite every single Python script I ever wrote.
The risk of going to Poland is that the government of Poland is currently expressing views that are extremely hostile to the EU, and therefore you must take into account the political risk that Poland might try to pull a stunt like Brexit -- at which point you find that you have been building a business on the assumption that you are inside of the EU, and now you suddenly find yourself outside of the EU.

I have thought about setting up an office in Krakow. I've been impressed with every software developer I've worked with from Poland. But settling there has some serious political risks.

Poland seems to have the best of both worlds, with an independent currency, but otherwise inside the EU. It is worrisome that the Poles feel the desire to destroy this.
One of the cool things I saw while in the USAF (but didn't realize just how cool it was at the time) was the installation of a BBN Interface Message Processor at McClellan AFB in 1986. It was probably one of the last ones to get installed on the ARPANET.
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A nation where you can abuse your workers and exploit them by promising financial gain, work them to the bone with low pay and benefits, and actually deliver nothing for them. AKA America.
Me too, but this use case seems clearer than most features I'd label that way, even though I didn't know about it either.

It certainly shouldn't be used when unclear, just like any feature. There's no reason this feature's sensible use cases should be as niche as they currently are.
Gnädige Frau :)
I'd say both sides are engaging in identity politics, buoyed by technology, centered around the far left and far right. These groups attribute malice to any opposition, and attack their own more moderate adherents. Demographics won't change this, the institutions and groups themselves will shift in focus in a bid to retain their own power.

Take immigration for instance. I'd like to improve border security and reduce illegal immigration. However, also provide amnesty and citizenship for the existing undocumented workers and their children. If they have been paying taxes, they should get a fast pass to citizenship. I'd like to also drastically expand legal immigration by uncapping all skilled immigration quotas, relax chain migration restrictions, and dropping arbitrary country restrictions.

Accordingly, vocal subgroups would call me racist or that I hate America for that position. It doesn't fit cleanly in either left or right camps.
Seems a bit useless since

while x < 2:
...
else:
print('>= 2')

is the same as

while x < 2:
...
print('>= 2')

unless you use a break. Just seems unnecessarily confusing to me. I have used for ... else though.
Isn't competition at the end of the day a bit of a discussion? Parties are fighting towards a certain goal and there is always a middle ground: "we're all trying to make great fridges". And through a history of working out what works and what doesn't, you end up with roughly the same solution (to the joy of the patent lawyers).
And that is not the worst part. When you sell your company, you may have to wait between 6 to 9 months to get your money!

Basically, taxes are always delayed and to calculate the exact amount that you owe to the diverse government agencies, it takes an army of accountants.

Even sometimes the accountants do not know what is going on as the tax laws are always changing, sometimes at the last minutes.
Meanwhile, you have sold your asset, your money is stuck in escrow for more than 6 months, you have no revenue and no money. Welcome to France!

Source: my parents sold their business in October last year and just got their money a week ago.
That isn't a conflict, that's a bloody huge incentive to get it right.

They'd be responsible, liable for compliance.
I don't get your analogy. A single rabid dog on your street is a HUGE problem.
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Why are most companies (i.e. USAToday complying) when they have no market, interest, or presence in the EU?
We don't have a two party system. We have a First Past the Post system that inevitably leads to two parties. And having two parties is not necessarily a bad thing, most governments wind up with two defacto parties, they're just called the majority and minority coalitions and happen after election, instead of prior to.
I seriously doubt it. There are just too many hurdles to get over. Even trying to get staff from another EU office to come and work is a pain the arse, as my previous place of work discovered when they tried to get one of the devs to move to Paris for a few months.
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If you want to learn more about these curious facts about English I recommend reading "The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way".
> are impossible to look up

Questions about Python's syntax are anything but impossible to look up. Python has excellent documentation around this, and the steps to get to the right part of the documentation are pretty straight-forward:

1. Start at the main page, https://docs.python.org/

2. Click "Language Reference"; note the subtitle that clearly hints this is what we want: "describes syntax and language elements"

3. We are interested in for loops, so we click "8.3. The for statement"; the resulting page describes the behavior.
I put some of that down to him not writing in his native language - perhaps it is more difficult for him to translate feelings or concepts to English.

But I do agree that it would have been better to hear about some of his own failings or bad decisions. Hard to imagine his co-founder would try to eject him from the company without at least some perception of an issue with his character, skills or decisions.
Yep you've highlighted the main issues here.

Kidnapping a CEO because the company isn't making any money and shutting its doors is the culmination of an ultra-unionised population.

Don't get me wrong, unions were vital in the 40-70's as there was a clear abuse of the workforce. But today, the workforce can't wrap their heads around how a balance sheet works.

And all those social laws make hiring and firing very hard, which is at the core of startup culture.
> the law does not allow automatic profiling of the user (Article 22)

GEO-IP is not a profile unless it is stored with additional data.
There has been an "Auto Entrepreneur" status created a few years ago (2010?) that is used by many startups (mainly gig-economy like drivers/delivery/...) which has helped a lot to get started. It's not an employee status, more like a contractor status. It's easy on the company, but not like freestyle though as abuse could be re-qualified as a regular contract ("CDI" ie. employee contract) by a judge.

Regular employment is still much protected for the employee.
> Putting people who perform work we can do cheaper with automation on the unemployment line is a side-effect of a good thing. Think of what the first wave of industrialization brought us.

In that case we should be taxing wages and using the money to subsidize automation. That way it's everyone paying for the benefits of automation rather than only those at the very bottom.

> People can now invest time learning skills they're actually needed for, without reducing economic output (and later supplementing it).

But they could already do this without a minimum wage. There is no law against quitting your crappy job so you can learn a new trade.

> Honestly? Rather than slaving away at McDonalds working for 7 dollars an hour, effectively kissing the ass of that horrible company, just to receive government aid anyways to get me to the end of the month I'd just not work at all.

Again, if people actually believed this and unemployment is really better than a crappy job then why don't they quit?

> Just because you introduce a minimum wage restaurants and junk food chains aren't going to go away.

They do at the margin. A restaurant in the heart of New York City is not going to close on account of raising the minimum wage. One in rural Nebraska very well might.

> They're gonna get more expensive, sure.

...which hurts their low income customers. And wasn't the benefit of automation supposed to be lower prices? That doesn't work when you force the automation by prohibiting its competition.

> But you'll lessen the burden they create on society

How does causing them to lose their jobs lessen the burden they create on society?

> What's really gonna happen is that it'll now sell for $110. Or probably $115 to cover the advertising for the new "High quality ingredients! Now 95% less poisonous!"

At which point the higher price causes price-sensitive customers to drop out of the market and the smaller company fails for lack of volume rather than lack of margins. Either way the smaller company is more likely to be destroyed than the larger one.
The advice I was given, by a competent European lawyer, was to set up a Luxembourg S.A. which, in turn, was to hold asset-light subsidiaries in each country. (This is how Spotify is structured.)
>>I can run a sewage treatment plant next door to you in the privacy of my own home,

Aside from this hyperbolic statement being completely unfeasible and moronic on its face, provided there is not clear, articulable danger to my person or my propery you should be allowed to do anything you want on your property, including running BitCoin Miners.

if you cross into posing a direct and articulable danger to others then that can be address on a case by case basis, but the comments I was responding to were going on about "commercial use of property" and how they could not believe in the US a person was allowed to run any mining equipment in a residential home. No where did any the commenters I was replying to stated any articulable dangers they were concerned with.

Let me as you this, do you support zoning regulation on this like color of the home, if you have a garden on your front yard, the type and height of grass (or mandates that you have grass) etc etc etc etc
Is it really going away, though? The article mentions that it's just being replaced with a safer implementation.
You're thinking of the 47 bit address space limitation.

LuaJIT represents the full range of valid 64 bit floats faithfully, giving a 52 bit signed int.
This always seemed to fall down for me in that some people who were willing to walk 1/4 mile for ice cream won't be willing to walk 1/2 mile. You have to make huge assumptions to call this any sort of "law".
I am someone who has had to face some very serious physical and mental health consequences as a result of pathological perfectionism (no, it's not a good thing). Learning skills similar to the ones described in this article changed my life. I still have bad days, but mindfulness and self-compassion, validation, kindness, and understanding can be game changers for those with perfectionist tendencies.

It finally clicked for me when someone described how we are seemingly capable of providing compassion/validation/understanding/kindness to and/or seeking them from others. However, we were really bad at giving ourselves those same things.

It made me realize that I was inflicting tiny psychological wounds at every turn, saying things like "You're such an idiot"..."how could you be so stupid to do..."...or the worst one..."You're never going to succeed and everyone will see you as just as much of a failure as you see yourself if you don't do this perfect".

It is not something that can be changed over night and takes consistent practice. It takes about as much effort, for me, as learning a new intellectually challenging skill. However, it has been incredibly worthwhile, valuable, and life-changing in many ways.
I would argue (only somewhat tongue in cheek) that our best hope for averting civil war is the obesity crisis - we are too out of shape and too unwilling to risk hunger, to turn our very real animosity for each other into armed conflict.
The original link is HTTPS with a self-signed certificate. Here's the same story from another source: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-apex-glimpse-heart-darkness.ht...
Atomontage demos are cool, but there's always been some controversy about what their tech can do in the "real-world".
Get a French accountant to do it for you. It costs virtually nothing, and they will take care of all the paperwork for you.
"Majority-minority" means a population where no one group is more than 50%. Alternately, a population where two minorities combine to form more than 50% (which is a mathematically equivalent formulation).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority

The progressive narrative holds that inevitable demographic change in the wider US will eventually yield electoral and policy victory, similar to what has happened in California.
I seem to remember reading some of this content, and found from the source that this article was published in May 2017.

A (2017) tag might be needed.
Work is not about finding fulfillment. It is about exchanging your time for money. You should look for fulfillment in your life instead.

It is nice if your work aligns with your life targets but this is rarely a case. For example, I want to become expert in Software Development and try a startup idea when I have enough money. My work as a highly paid contractor is just enabler for above.
I actually looked into this with the local France Business startup organization. At the time, I was young (30, I am now 31) and started learning French with hopes of trying out a alternative to Anglo culture.

But reality hits hard. I don't know how I would be able to adjust from living in a multicultural and laws where minorities are protected and enforced to a republic where it is not. Once you are in France, you are expected to become fluent to the point of having no accent, because god forbid if you come from Quebecois speaking region you will get bullied and made fun of.

So it's like wtf???? Here I am learning your culture and trying my best but it won't mount to shit if it's not French.

Very dangerous to set elusive set of criterias based on ethnocentric ideas and see what sticks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQzR6zKpbKQ

The most crazy part is that it's other minorities attacking other minorities in France.
Maybe start-ups as groups created in large companies that take on copying emerging US enterprises?
Small companies are not supported in the EU because of regulatory hurdles, excessive taxation and employment laws one size fits all. Most businesses are grant driven - that is you write a business plan that satisfies bureaucrats, get money and hope to stay afloat for year or two so you don't have to give it back. Rinse and repeat. There is no room for innovation. In some EU countries entrepreneurs are treated as potential criminals until proven innocent.
A lot less strange that intimate objects having a gender as you do a French and many other languages
I think one problem that the Economist is unable to face because they are very much part of the problem is that the depoliticisation of politics is coming to an end.

Just like diplomacy is war by other means, politics was supposed to genuinely reflect the conflict between different interest groups. What the Economist calls primaeval was the original function of political action, namely genuine confrontation.

We are slowly coming to the end of a period of centre-technocratic governance where moderation is the mother of all virtues and we are all supposed to be best served by ignoring political conflict altogether, while slick corporate executives and managerial administrators solve all our problems, smooth like clockwork.
The social ladder is also broken. If you don't have the right diploma, no matter what your skills are you will never make it to the top.

There is a real mindset of "Us vs Them" where "Them" is your boss or manager and you should despise them no matter what.

I have left France 5 years ago due to those issues, I am now much happier in a country where your skills come first and nobody cares what you did before so long as you can do the job that is required of you.

France will most likely never be like that.
I flagged you because I am seriously sick of seeing questions get answered by pure concentrated sarcasm. You don't even attempt to be helpful here.

There's a middle ground between "worker abuse" and "useless bureaucracy". France is closer to the latter right now (I'm french, I've got experience setting up companies both in the US and in France).

This is because:

1. Many systems aren't properly automated and/or don't know how to communicate between each other. So you have to deal with extra paperwork when not necessary. Go in-person somewhere that isn't even necessarily the city you live in, you have to plan ahead for these things. Fax or snail-mail things where email would be sufficient. Etc.

2. Complying with european laws isn't always easy. You sometimes have to deal with slightly-different versions of certain laws, regulations, etc for no good reason. This is what the EU is supposed to fix, and the EU helps but it doesn't always work.

3. Complying with VAT is super hard for the same reasons. This is being worked on in 2018 and 2019. It should be getting easier soon.

4. There's less tooling, documentation, and marketing around creating startups in France. If you're in the EU you'll be tempted to do it in Ireland for tax reasons. Otherwise you'll end up in Delaware. This isn't even because it's necessarily a good idea for your case, but simply because everyone else is doing it.

But, you know, your helpful cynicism too.
Can someone briefly explain the problems and how general they are to other serialization interfaces?
#bachelorlife

2 dishwashers and just move the dishes back and forth as one is the 'dirty' one and one is the 'clean' one
By "better" all I really mean is stable.

> It’s dangerous because it disenfranchises.

Yeah, but there were also downsides. This isn't my example, but if you wanted to vote for civil rights candidates before that legislation got voted into law, what party would you vote for? There really wasn't a party for you. Even if you voted for a pro-Civil Rights northern democrat, you were still voting for a party leadership that at the time didn't believe in equal rights and for a majority that was fighting against equality.