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It's easy to refute articles which treat EU as a single entity, instead of what it is - 27 countries with different law bases, languages and income levels.

Median p.a income in US is 43k USD.

Median p.a. income in Germany is 33k USD.

Median p.a income in Bulgaria is 4k USD.

With such big outliers all the equations regarding EU as 1 entity will be off by such a wide margin that it'll be useful only to get the conclusions you (the presenter) want.

Here's more subtle factors though:

* how much does healthcare cost?

* how much does bringing a child up cost?

* how much does education cost?

* how much does real-estate cost?

With all that, I think that unless you're the top earner and can take advantage of favorable taxation schemes, favorable healthcare schemes, favorable living location, you're better of being median in western europe.
So this guy just straight up missed the euro crisis or something? You cannot talk about growth in Europe without talking about the effect the Euro has on exports. Germany can export it's super high quality products across the world with an artificially deflated currency because the currency is tied to weak countries like Italy (and by the way, then invest that surplus in really crappy ways). Meanwhile Italy can't compete in the global market for exports because their currency is held artificially high because it is tied to Germany.
The market accessible with "no extra effort" is 5 times bigger in the US.

If a company headquartered in the UK wants to sell to the US they need to deal with a whole new set of regulations, bureacracy, marketing etc.

In the meantime, any SV startup can grow in a huge market and only then bother with crossing the ocean.
> So while the US has an overall broken system, as a highly-paid engineer with private employer-sponsored health insurance in the US you might be more likely to access the high quality healthcare you need.

In Europe you can still pay for private treatment, if you're highly paid you can still get that fast treatment. It's just by default you don't need to worry about it. The wait times only affect those who can't or don't want to pay. That is a choice they make.
I find it slightly hilarious that Germany, Austria, and others are not on this list. It just feels pretty cherry picked and I'd like to see more data for the EU average and all the countries (esp eastern block).

GDP is also interesting as a metric, because you can inflate it by having a terrible and inefficient health care system. If health care takes an extra 8% of your entire GDP, what value is that bringing if the results are so much lower than a country that has a system that saves that 8% points?

Italy is a giant dysfunctional mess, no question there.

France, I have a lot of questions about the work they have done to try to insulate their workforce from globalization. Some of that is showing cracks, some isn't. If the USA had done more to insulate the poor and middle class from the impact of globalization would our GDP be lower or higher? Something I've been thinking about. Especially as we finally consider measures to help people weather the storm as the economic system raises everyone up globally...
Overpaid is really the wrong way to think about it. The wages in SV are driven by companies who are extremely profitable. Lower pay would mean more wealth for executives who are already some of the most wealthy people in the world (absent some systemic changes in the US government). FAANG employees are just getting a piece of the value of what they’re building.
Someone not letting their wife out because burqua is banned is outright abuse, and should be dealt with that way. It isn't even a common piece of clothing in the majority of muslim countries. (+1 point to horseshoe theory: apparently islam forbids women to go out without burquas according to both extreme leftists and rightists, bu noone else)
“Somewhat” attractive? Ruth Wilson is very hot, if you excuse my objectifying. She’s had interesting career moves, but would definitely not look out of place in any US movie or tv series...
Yeah, not controversial but it's still ingrained in the way we teach and talk about programming languages as the author points out:

> The notion of distinct programming paradigms, as opposed to permeable traditions of programming languages and methodologies, now seems anachronistic in Computer Science curricula, and should be revisited. In particular, the inconsistent uses in the influential ACM/IEEE Curricula should be addressed.

When institutions knowingly teaching people bad theory because they don't have better frames I think that means that our research has missed some good opportunities for exploration. The academy is setting people up to answer the questions "how do we improve the task of programming?" rather than exploring the more fundamental question of "what could/should programming be?".

A genuinely new programming paradigm would not be the same as just a new methodology - it would have to be accompanies by a new theory of programming itself (not just computation). I think the breakthrough comes from modeling programming not around conceptual frameworks of computation but instead around our own human process of cognition. If we create languages which provide the optimal expressiveness of the problem/solution from the point of view of the human writing the program - this could transform what programming itself means. This is where I think the majority of impactful innovation will come from in the next couple of decades.
Tell me then, please, how you fare in these other, non-free healthcare countries if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments.
> it would be nice to be able to do video conferencing these days

Works fine for me, except bluetooth (see below). What's the problem with it?

> bluetooth would be handy

A dedicated Audio VM is coming in 4.1: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/03/18/gui-domain/#audio-d.... Related issue: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1590.
Judging by most podcast ads I've heard, the normal distribution methods are the Google Play store and iTunes.
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I knew hundreds of muslim woman and many do it by choice. So what now?
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> if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments.

If you haven't got the money you won't be able afford those treatments in the US either and the insurance companies have caps on how much they will pay.

So for some rare cases European national health services are not better than the US.
So Russia is the second most equal country after the Netherlands, and Brazil more equal than Denmark? I'm not buying that data.
That's exactly how a contactless debit/credit card would work. I'm fairly sure most (if not all) payment terminals would not have the capability to send your device the information. I use it, get a notification from the bank and from Google Pay usually instantaneously.
Good. Maybe we’ll waste less now.
I am going to point out this is a common false narrative spread by the media in the USA and think tanks who don't want public health care. Wait times are not actually that long per the data in the UK and other regions.

Can you share specifics backing up your point please?
I'm sorry, I'm a senior developer in Berlin and I've never seen job openings that average 135k - 180k. Can you send me an example? Because if that's the actual range these days I might consider giving up freelancing.
Possibly biggest difference: government deficit spending and negative trade balance. Should contribute to GDP through spending that would otherwise not happen.

This is not afforded to anyone without reserve currency status.

EU governments are prevented from running deficits due to some treaty in order to keep the euro stable, and historically the currencies would depreciate quickly.
GDP is also just a bad measure. I mean as Bobby Kennedy said "...it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

The size of an economy doesn't indicate whether or not it is actually improving people's lives.

Again, to quote RFK:
"It counts napalm and counts nuclear warheads and armored cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities."
> GDP as a main metric is terribly flawed

On the short term it may be true. On the long term you need a strong GDP to sustain quality of life.

COVID showed Europeans how dependent they are from China industry and US tech. Quality of life is still an order of magnitude better than in most countries in the world but I don't believe it will remain like this ad infinitum. Most Europeans know that Europe is declining and sinking slowly.
Depends entirely on how much you're paying now doesn't it.

But that wasn't the condition that the OP said made him comfortable. He said he'd be okay with legal sex work only as long as the person could otherwise live a life of comfort without the need to work. He didn't say he'd be okay with legal sex work as long as the person could have chosen to carry a bag instead.
> No european politican in power is that altruistic. Ours are in no way less crazy or corrupt than the US ones.

You can't just make silly claims like this and not explain yourself. If you're just not familiar with recent US politics you're forgiven (although have you been living under a rock?), otherwise... huh?
> In some of these free healthcare countries you can be SOL if you get cancer or a rare condition and don't have money for the latest treatments.

Translates if you want to have cutting edge treatments that haven't gone through medical processes to see if they're safe. Or if the chances of the treatment working is too low.
GDP / working hour is a better metric IMHO. French people work a lot less than Americans on average. My former colleagues from Academia there enjoyed 8-10 weeks of vacation per year, plus a sizeable number of public holidays. On paper they also worked fewer hours than most people in the US, I think their contracts were for 30-32 hours per week on average. Most of them worked way more though since they really enjoyed their research. Their contracts allowed them to add all that overtime to a "time account" that they could eventually cash in to e.g. take a year-long sabbatical (fully paid of course) a couple of times during their careers. Also, there's free and full health coverage included, a state pension, family money and time off for raising children etc. etc.. And don't forget that life in France is also (mostly) amazing: Beautiful nature, amazing food, great culture. I'm German btw and I swear I don't get money from the French government for praising them, I just really liked living there for a while. So I guess you have to decide if having 20 % more GDP per capita is worth throwing away all those luxuries. Having spent time both in the US and in various European countries I'd say no, for most people it's not a good deal. People working in tech are an anomaly BTW, so I'd exclude them from this discussion as they're making up less than 1 % of the working population, hence they are a pretty exclusive and not very representative group of people.

All the positive things aside it seems young people there also struggle way more than the older generations, as housing prices etc. have gone up immensely (in the Paris region e.g. you can pretty much forget to buy a house as a young middle class family).
I'm getting at your support for the claim that copyright fosters the creation of new art with a novelty contract that has a provision in it supposedly allowing for stealing the work back spawning content on it because of its notoriety, mostly because it has nothing to do with copyright.
Those are existing products. I can't think of a new thing they have started that has gone well recently. Excluding renames like moving nexus to pixel.
How do you prevent catching nasty STD's while trying out so many escorts? Like a lot of the infections like herpes, gonorrhea, Chlamydia and even herpes are spread through kissing and oral sex, so even condoms don't always save you. And a lot of these infections can be asymptomatic so a quick look at the girl also doesn't help. Have always wondered how people who follow lifestyle like you deal with this.
It is also used to facilitate corruption so it will stay.
This is the reason why I still use HackerNews. You never know whom you might encounter and end up having a logical discussion with.
Sure, almost all central banks over the world have printed an astronomical amount of money. Even though they may state there is no significant inflation, I dont buy it and neither do many other economists. Stock prices, house prices and now, at last, commodity prices have gone through the roof... But you're probably earning about as much as you were a year ago, or less, if your industry was affected...

It's not just food. Lumber, Steel and Oil aswell.
https://www.ft.com/content/6a7c232e-9c63-420c-ac05-40aea84a9...

EDIT: noticed link is paywalled (but not when you access via google) alternative article here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-idUSKBN2AM... "World shares slide on inflation fears, commodities surge"
I am not sure what dangers you imply here.
Preprint often looks better. I've had publishers send papers to offshoristan where they redid everything including the graphs to match their layout, introducing tons of errors, typos (yes, really...) and problems that even almost 10 rounds of urgent back-and-forth before the deadline didn't fix entirely.
I was actually thinking of developing a little app for my GF and me when we both got our GA2, but noped out of it very quickly.
I wonder how many Europeans that would rather live in the US. And out of that 1% or so, how many would still want to once they've visited?

Quality of life in Europe is infinitely higher for all but the wealthiest.
I don't know about Germany, but in France it's very low compared to the US.

Here is a study of 3600 anwsers: https://www.silkhom.com/barometre-des-salaires-2019-combien-...

There are many other studies like these every year in France, for many different positions in tech.

Here is a TLDR.
A junior dev (0-2 years of experience):
- Paris: 35-45k€
- Big cities: 35-40k€
- Outside of big cities: 32-38k€

A confirmed dev (3-5 years of experience):
- Paris: 45-60k€
- Big cities: 40-46k€
- Outside of big cities: 38-45k€

Senior (5 years+):
- Paris: 55k+€
- Big cities: 45-55k€
- Outside big cities: 45-50k€

Note that these salaries are "brut", meaning there are 23% of various taxes (income tax not included), unemployment taxes, social security, retirement etc.

On top of that, France as one of the highest income tax rate in the world.
What companies in berlin do pay 3-4x 45k per year?

I think 45k is for a junior dev (or some immigrant experienced dev who didn't negotiate due to lack of knowledge on local market + employee taking advantage of that), but 3-4x that is an exaggeration.
I honestly had no idea. That's pretty interesting, I wonder if it's because of a few REALLY wealthy individuals?

Generally you have a lower limit to how poor a person can be, in Scandinavia that limit is reasonably high (I sure it doesn't feel that way if you're actually poor), so I would have assumed that would level out the inequality somewhat.

Denmark in particular have also always excluded students from statistics on who's poor, because it's seen a temporary thing. So we don't see them as truly poor, even if they often are, but I suspect that they have to be included in the Gini coefficients calculation.
But the article is about a Mac user
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Like Ireland?
> prices were increasing pretty steadily during the pandemic and now it's even worse. I can remember so many items being as cheap as 25 cents each during the 90s and into the 00s...

How long have you been having a pandemic for?

Joking aside (that sentence read a bit weirdly), I don't think you should compare what happened in the 90s with what happened since 2020-02. If inflation surpasses minimum wage in the long term, that's not the same as prices soaring because of supply chain changes. And for what it's worth, I've not noticed any price increases here between 2020-02 and last week. This is way too anecdotal and conflating different situations to be useful.
It's not a typo, it's a grammatical error. It's a pet peeve of mine when people refer to any kind of mistake at all as a "typo".
>At least here in Switzerland I've found TWINT, which is pretty much the same as this new GPay

Australia has a better system called PayID. Every bank is required to be in the system and you can send money to anyone, to any bank with their phone number or email address. There is no 3rd party and no fees.
The $240k is not for the USA as a whole, it's at best for very narrow geographical areas in Silicon valley and a handful of FAANGs. The vast majority of senior software engineers in the USA as a whole don't earn anywhere near that.

If you look at say here in the UK salaries in software overall are lower than in the USA sure, but a senior dev in the finance industry in London can be very competitively compensated. Industrial sector and location make a huge difference.

Finally, this all has very little to do with the E.U. or even with overall GDP growth between here and the USA. There are deep historical reasons why the tech sector particularly is concentrated in the USA. For comparison consider the prominence of the finance industry in London compared to the wider Europe, or why the car industry is concentrated in Germany. There are deep historical reasons for those too, you won't find the answers in broad economic policy in the last few decades.
I know far more than 20 young men. Believe me, their larger worries at this point are securing a stable job and finding housing, not some sort of "evolutionary disadvantage reality".
Architectures and scalability, although related, are two different conversations. You could build a monolith with an internal messaging queue, this obviously limits scaling possibilities horizontally but may be able to scale vertically. If you externalize the queue and use something like Rabbit, Redis, or NATS then you have more options but you also have more/new problems. Not all things need to scale, and not all things need to scale horizontally. There are ways of shifting out of monoliths too, but this gets trickier with some older, ill-defined codebases in my experience.

Microservices can be advantageous but I don't think I've ever cited speed, unless I was talking about deployments and build times (which are definitely part of the conversation since architecture affects the entire SDLC). Usually my strongest points about microservices are about maintainability from the team perspective, reliability (if done right), and earlier parts of the SDLC like testing and build times. The cons are that you are usually having to maintain (and test against) very strong external contracts, inner-service knowledge is strong due to a smaller codebase but often times developers have very little intra-service knowledge (they don't understand the big picture, which is important), and many times codesharing is tricky or just not possible.
I too still dont really understand why they did that. I mean sure i get it, but it seems so counter intuitive especially now where we can expect the usd and eur to devalue even more
Germany is above 80 percent now due to Covid-19. Still better than other countries though, but not great.
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As others said, I think you're being selective. The article focuses on mainstream action movies.

The boys has had great success but still has orders of mangnitude less cultural impact than the MCU for instance. It's actually making, to some extent, the same point the article is making: super hero movies are bland and childish.

I didn't even know what Orville is, sounds interesting.

I'd say the _slice of current cinematic culture_ selected by the article is broad and impactful, and represents fairly well an important part of the whole. It's not the whole story, and you're right in pointing that out, but I don't agree that that invalidates the article.
I agree that climate change is an existential threat to human life on Earth, but I don't know of any historical civilization that declined due to climate change.

Can you give an example and citation for that claim?
Erlang/OTP is as close to a formalized microservice architecture as you can get. And in my opinion also the only one that gets it right.
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It's important to remember that HN is not immune to information warfare (whether driven by corporate or political goals).

TFA is just discussing one topic, GDP, without making broad statements. However, the submitter has chosen an intentionally misleading title.

Looking at the submissions of this submitter, this is an intentional pattern.

(edit - typos!)
> Climate Change, Nature's Wrath can be seen as a direct or indirect factor for the decline of civilizations,

Do you have any source to back this statement?
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USA is basically surrounded by large oceans and they still spend by far the most on defence.
That’s true, but also networks can be fast.

https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...

It can be faster to read over the network than to read from a hard drive.
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> I lived in 2 European countries with amazing healthcare systems available for free or almost free but had either: amazingly long waiting times (measured in years) for anything but the most basic interventions OR an amazingly difficult process to get referred by your GP into any specialist care (GP generally recommends paracetamol and rest for everything).

Which countries would those be?
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The reason is that you are comparing to the outlier: the US.

Salaries for software engineers in Europe are high, extremely high compared to the general population in terms of standard deviations.

The difference is that salaries in the US are more or less uncapped, that benefits a lot us, software engineers, but not society. For society my work as a SWE isn't worth 3x of a nurse, even though economically it makes sense as I bring 5-10x profits to the company I work for as a SWE, just due to the leverage I can be used as to produce value in monetary terms.

If the only thing you care about is the figure in your bank account, for all means the US is the best place on Earth for you to try your luck. For people like me, who want to live a happy and comfortable life instead of grinding and living with the stress of all insecurities caused by the US approach to society... It's not a pretty game to live in that kind of society.

I posted not long ago the same type of comment, I have a personal anecdote as I moved from a country that is very Americanised (Brazil) to Sweden, the American philosophy of life (individualistic, "got mine, fuck you") only works in the US, with lavish sums of cash flowing around so some of it can drip into normal society. Living in a completely different environment only showed me how sick this kind of living is, how unhappy it makes the average Joe.

Good luck as a SWE in the US, it's a cushy place to be. Personally I still prefer to take-home 1/3 of what I could manage in the US but have a much more stable and comfortable life, because the rest of society here also enjoy a stable and comfortable life together with me.
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If you think that is the worst example dig deeper :) Sennerburm for example, basically legal child slavery totally normal in europe until not to long ago. And yes switzerland took a bit longer than our neighboors