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100% agreed. I used to be a driver, now I am only a pedestrian and a frequent cyclist.

My city of birth and upbringing (Warsaw, Poland) has a huge problem of people not respecting each others' space. Unfortunately a lot of bike lines are just painted on sidewalks. This (and the fact there's not enough bike lanes) encourages cyclist to just drive around pedestrians, who sometimes also tend to drift onto dedicated bike lanes.

It's terribly annoying to travel on foot during summer/autumn. You can easily get hit or at least shouted/honked at by a 'deranged' biker.
Pedestrian/car and Cyclist/car relations are even more complicated.

Now living in Berlin I have to say this city has mostly solved the issue. Majority of bike lanes are a (separated) part of the car lane and cyclist are encouraged to just mix with cars on low-speed streets (<30 zones).
Annoyingly enough some (not many though, mostly deliveries etc.) cyclists completely disregard the signage and still ride on the sidewalks.

Still, the roads seem to be really safe, hence most cyclists don't even wear helmets. I noticed drivers in here also pay more attention to what's happening around them. You rarely read about serious accidents involving bikes. Last one I remember it was a case of road rage where car driver beat a cyclist with a bat.
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Why not? The money gets spend and we get a very luxurious concert hall - more than originally planned.
Totally agree - i'm currently a scrum master and doing development in the team. I try to reduce meetings as much as possible because the process itself doesn't yield results - te team does. An empowered, enthusiastic and communicative team gets stuff done. And mostly, developers enjoy their work which is the actual software development so they should spend as much time as possible doing that (plus issues with context switching).

People also assume Agile means you'll do more faster - I don't think this is always the case. Quality generally is better but again not because of the process but because of the team. A team in full flow and working really well together needs no process.

The biggest benefit for me is that if the team is given accountability then there is total transparency about what the team is doing. Organisations tend to add additional layers of management to supposedly shield the team from politics - but it's the additional layer of management that actually creates the politics.
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It's like an algae bloom in an ocean, the German economy is strangling the rest of the Euro zone. If all countries were to exit Euro Zone, Euro would probably be echanged for 30-50% more than it's currently worth and then German economy would tank.

> Every article seems to suggest that German
economists are a bunch of amateurs who don't know
what they are doing. But from my layman's point of
view, it certainly doesn't look that way.

They aren't amateurs. In same manner, people running Ponzi Schemes aren't dimwitted. It's a great system it benefits German export economy greatly but it does so at expense of others.

Quick explanation: If you have weak currency, it's great for export, since stuff produced here is cheaper than elsewhere. And if currency is strong, then that favors imports, because your currency buys more in outsider market than in yours.

However the more you export, the more valued currency becomes and the more you can buy with your currency, which leads to increased import. But Germany doesn't need to ever grow its imports, because they have other countries like Greece, Italy, etc. to drag the value down.

What Germany is doing is eating its cake, having it too, at expense of other states and then blaming them for not having any cake.

Because Germany doesn't import enough, other countries can't recover and to make matters worse, they can't export since German products based on Euro and of higher quality and equal price.
Trillion. And those numbers look a little low.
As long as you can get away with it, the position of the US is actually more desirable. Essentially they are using their hegemonic position to levy a global tax. Their debt obligations are in the currency of international trade, so they can afford to essentially have a deficit indefinitely, without much consequences.
The point I tried to make that having children is not equal to having cake - from the point of view of the society in total it is necessary as is eating and sleeping. The need is for the society. To maintain a healthy corpus the society requires children as people require food and sleep. Therefore it seems rational to me society participating in child rearing in form of financial support.
Germany is already the third largest importer of the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_imports
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You said:
>>"Your advice is, at best, useful only to those who already have their basic needs provided for. Trust-fund babies and the like."

The OP said:
>>"CS degree from a top-10, worked at a startup and a large company, enough savings to last a few years of solo development."
> Quick explanation: If you have weak currency, it's great for export, since stuff produced here is cheaper than elsewhere. And if currency is strong, then that favors imports, because your currency buys more in outsider market than in yours.

Germany has been running an export surplusses for decades. With the Euro and without.
The demoscene grew out of the cracking/warez scene, so it's somewhat implied you should take a disassembler to it if you really want to figure out what a demo is doing. It's the complete opposite to the OSS culture, where the prevailing assumption is that the source code is most important and nothing can be done without it; in the demoscene, it's more like "we don't need no stinkin' source!" I think these two approaches are both interesting in their own ways.
> 1. Is the trade surplus mainly affected by private enterprise? If that's the case, what control does the German government have over it if the businessmen running the companies would rather save than spend? (Interest rates are already incredibly low.)

Germanys government could keep maintaining infrastructure, stop depressing wages (indirectly of course), increase ressources put into education (education % of GDP is less than 2/3 of % of the US GDP), among others. That would increase domestic growth, thus lead to a relative decrease of the relevancy of exports. The main problem in the Euro zone is not the exporting of Germany, its that imports are so low.

> 2. I'm personally conservative with money, and never like to get into debt, so from a this naive point of view, I would be very happy to know my country has a large buffer to weather out any oncoming storms. Assuming that Germany's position (saving) is bad for the world economy, but good for Germany, what would make the Germans change their behaviour?

Your position seems perfectly reasonable, but surly you also invest/save for you retirement? Thats what Germany currently isn't doing: The hidden debt Germany is currently building up is e.g. neglect of infrastructure and future lack of specalist employees. That cannot be seen in the books, on the contrary less investment in infrastructure means less monetary debt, so on the surface everything seems fine right now.
The article assumes that if you have a trade surplus then your bridges are crumbling. I cross bridges in Germany everyday and they look OK to me. There are some big projects going on here too, for example cities are burying their ring roads underground. Not cheap. http://www.dorsch.de/en/news/story/article/licht-am-ende-des...
There is a third group.

The ignores the "design pattern madness" and the "beginners" and just uses PHP as a programming language to do software development in.

It's just another language to me and I treat it as such.
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Often surpluses and deficits are not really problems. Say for example a guy in the US has Facebook stock which has gone up and a guy in Germany has a Porsche he helped make. They swap, both happy but in the trade accounts it shows a big surplus to Germany and deficit to the US because the transfer of shares is treated as investment rather than trade. A lot of the surpluses and deficits are in effect stuff like that.
The strong exports would be self regulating if Germany had its own currency the deutsche mark. If you have the Dmark and people like german cars, germans exports will rise and so will the currency deutsche mark. Like it is now, people like german cars, but germany has the euro so it can export good cars at an almost artificially by the euro cheap price.

Thus the south of Europe is trapped in the Euro as they do not increase productivity as much as the north and in some product cases does not make as good products as Germany.

The European politicians has pretended that all of europe are equal in productivity.

The german wants to sells cars in euroes, but you do not want to support the south permanently financially.

This is like going against the tide, its a matter of time before the Euro will fall.

I just hope Europe will unite in peace after that event.
It's always surprised me that Jeff has stuck with PHP. The guy is a very capable programmer who I thought would have moved on to bigger and better things.

I guess the market for tutorials and learning is larger for PHP than most other languages, except Javascript, possibly...
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No one is saying to make German goods worse. This is completely missing the point.

The real problem is that the German export sector is benefiting enormously from having a currency that is tied to economies that have high levels of debt, creating huge problems in other Eurozone countries on the periphery (removing tools from policymakers like devaluation), making it more difficult to reduce unemployment and drag themselves out of recession.

Not everyone can be a big exporter like Germany by definition, some countries must be net importers.
> The fixed exchange rate 4,20 DM == 1$ in the 1950s is usually cited as helping German exports during the 1950s. During later decades the Deutsche Mark was exceptionally strong, in theory harming German exports.

...which Varoufakis talks about extensively in his book. You would know that if you actually read it.

Essentially he splits the world economy post-WW2 into two phases: The Global Plan and The Global Minotaur. The second started (roughly) in the 70s, when US was starting to become a deficit country. This is when the US strategy vis-a-vis Germany and Japan changed. Of course it's more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it.

> At least he has build a congruent worldview that lets him sleep well at night.

If you are gonna be an armchair critic, please be an well-informed one and read what you are commenting on.
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It does look that way if you look at the correct numbers. Look at productivity per capita and you will notice that it has been mostly flat for more than a decade.
Strangely, the discussion around this article seems to indicate to me that children seem to be looked as trophies for their parents.

Children are as necessary for the society as a body as is food and sleep for individual humans. I understand the individualism that drives peoples toward libertarian ideals but children are beyond market mechanisms. They are part of our humanity, the structure without any efforts towards economical or other goals are pointless.

A child is not like a new SUV or an expensive hobby. A healthy, happy child is a net plus for the society to which he or she is born, that benefit all in the long term.
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My condition is similar to that of OP's.

What if I am not interested in anything? I don't really want anything; I think that drive of wanting stuff has all but dried up in the past 5 years.

I'm wasting my life away counting days. What now?
That's incorrect.

Roughly 20% of household US assets are held in equities of any sort. Values are modestly elevated, but not dramatically so. The S&P 500 pe ratio is 20, historically the median and mean are both near 15; the S&P is likely elevated a mere ~15% above a normal range (representing approx. $3 trillion in asset value for households, or a mere 3.x%).

Besides that, there's nothing fictional about Apple generating $50 billion per year in profit and being worth $733 billion.

Or Deere generating $3 billion in profit and being worth $30 billion.

And on and on for thousands of other companies that also are anything but fictional.
College student here. I've read a lot into the "do your own thing" mentality, especially the "don't go to university just do stuff", such as at Thiel summits, startup events. I personally love the idea of founding a startup, so I've given it a lot of thought.

It's important for me to work on my own terms and to do something I find meaningful, and so I enjoyed riding along with the crowd that follows the above mentality. However, I'm also good at critical thinking and sometimes I ask myself about the people and what we're doing. Why are we all chasing the startup dream? Can we really all achieve great success? I think a big part of "why" is the pack mentality, ironically, that drives young people like me to this "don't join the workforce, don't listen to the man, do whatever you want", because so many people are encouraging us to chase our dreams. But I've come to the conclusion that for most people, it's simply not feasible to achieve that dream of making enough money doing your own thing. You need to be very, very good, or be lucky enough to have an excellent idea (and execution!!). Sadly, most people and ideas (and luck) are merely mediocre and not the top 5% or whatever needed, simply by definition.

Fortunately while we are young we'll fall softly and, as a software engineer, will likely able to find a job even if we meet failure. But sometimes I do worry not only for the feasibility of my own dreams, but also the other young people around me, and it's certainly something to think about before we encourage everyone to jump "into their dreams".
Those numbers are heavily influenced by the value of domestic property. Most Germans rent, for example.

Further, storing wealth in domestic property is a poor use of money.

Edit: If you look at countries by net financial wealth per adult, a quite different picture emerges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...
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> It's not in ruins, but Germany's highways are definitely not as good as they used to be.

Go to East Germany. They got the new roads. Brand new autobahns.

I live in West Germany and an Autobahn is not far away. First class. The surface has just been renewed with a more silent asphalt.
The German numbers are heavily skewed by East Germany, which is still below the living standards of West Germany. If you live in a wealthy, West German city (as I do), the quality of living is very high indeed.
I've lived in Paris for 45+ years. The problem with bicycles is that they don't respect road signs or traffic lights, which irritate the hell out of everybody else. It's true that many car drivers are very aggressive towards bicycle riders, but what you fail to mention is that everyone cheers for the car and not the bike...

Personnally I ride a motorcycle; it was stolen last year and so I used bikes for about a month. Here are my observations, that I think are difficult to fix with money alone:

- pedaling makes you hot and sweaty; you arrive at the office being a mess

- when it rains you get super wet, much more than on a motorbike, because you have less protection and you don't carry special rain trousers with you at all times (whereas they're permanently stored on my motorbike)

- also, when it rains, if you cover yourself up to avoid the rain, you get even hotter and sweatier

- Paris isn't flat! (contrary to Amsterdam...) and some hills are very steep

- some distances are irrealistic for bikes: I have two clients who are 15km apart and (to me) 15km on a bike is a fairly long ride

All in all it seems bikes are mostly for tourists (who don't have to show up in an office at the end of their ride), during the summer (well, the part of the summer when it's not too hot) and for relatively short distances.

But in the absence of bikes, tourists don't take a car, they mostly use public transports (or maybe an occasional cab), so I very much doubt more bikes mean less car traffic.

There is another program in Paris that seems much more promising: Autolib, cheap electric cars that you can rent for a very short amout of time. Doubling that with electric scooters would be really great, IMHO.
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"Export exists, because someone outside of Germany thinks
goods from Germany are better than goods from their country"

We wish economy was so simple.

Goods from Germany are better than goods from their country, and the price is good, and they can afford it.

How is that even possible? Where is all that money used to buy Germans goods coming from?
> Export exists, because someone outside of Germany thinks goods from Germany are better then goods from their country.

Exports exist because they are cheaper. And they are cheaper because local wages in Germany are depressed. And because local wages are depressed (e.g. they grow slower than GDP grows) we suddenly have a whole load of economic problems in Germany (I'm German, too, btw).

Have you ever asked yourself why both the public pensions and public health care suddenly could not be financed anymore? Because both are tied to real wages, e.g. health care is about 15.5% of your gross income. But if wages stop growing in line with GDP (and inflation), the absolute amount of euros available for health care and pensions shrinks. We have a whole boatload of problems in our domestic economy because of that focus on exports. So you and I are paying for Germanys exports with a bleak outlook into our own future. And thats what the criticism is all about: Most have no problems with German exports, they are criticizing the lack of imports that would offset the exports.
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Yes, and I had a 97 degree temperature, for a long time before it started rising to 104.

In essence, yes they had, but not as growing as this one.
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I second your experience and looking back I am surprised I made it through the years with only scratches and bruises, no serious accidents.

> You might not get “Paris-level results,” or the world’s best city for biking, [omissis]

The best city for biking? Paris is a mess and a dangerous place for cyclists.

I am very pleased to hear they are investing more to fix the situation. That is the news to me.
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The euro is crap and must be removed. I should have mentioned it to make my point clear. I don't even bother with thinking of a way to make German economics work while in the eurozone, simple because the financial nature of the eurozone is so bad thought out it must be removed, and then maybe we can start thinking about a better version of it.
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I'm wondering though if anyone here can speak to how much C++ was used in writing the kernel? I've heard multiple stories...some say that all of it was very OO, some say it was C with classes kind of stuff.
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It doesn't have to end like that. I'm pretty sure United States also have different levels of productivity between states and dollar works remarkably well for them.
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Why do macroeconomists focus on single countries at all? I guess you can argue that policy changes (and taxation) can be made on a country level. For many policy decisions this is not as true as it was pre EU.
Since I'm a "micro guy" anyway (even though I do enjoy chaotic systems etc.) I am fairly suspicious of the aggregation mechanisms in general. If you aggregate over "what money is used" (which seems sensible if you want to make balance of trade arguments in the traditional, currency based sense) the Euro-zone has close to a +-0 balance of trade. Recently the chart got a bit out of whack shape wise but it's still close to the +-0 now.

I used to be very interested in economics but have grown more and more frustrated with the entire field. I pretty much stick to stuff that's interesting for other reasons (multi agent based modelling, chaotic systems, game theory etc.).
As an academic in another field the entire field seems pretty strange. Conflation of politics and economic theory is wide spread and there seems to be a lot of "friend helps friend, outsiders suck" like structures in place. Granted this is the case in academia in general but economics always struck me as rather extreme in that regard.
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The incident happened last October so those inferences are clearly spurious.
I disagree. The US is the world's most valuable real estate market overall; it's a massive market when it comes to home owners; and it's extremely liquid as far as real estate markets go, with not only a very large number of buyers and sellers but also a massive financial engine behind it (critical for buying and selling).

It's clearly a perfectly good use of money. It has assisted the US in acquiring a median net wealth as high as Germany, while having four times the population, a very challenging feat.