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>Eastern Europe, like many other poor places in the world, is depleted of human capital because its simply such a crappy place to live. What makes you think th

>Eastern Europe, like many other poor places in the world, is depleted of human capital because its simply such a crappy place to live. What makes you think that it's crappy place to live (e.g Poland)? except politics

trasz 5y ago
Apart from economy, healthcare, pensions, schooling, and law enforcement? :-) Food's good, though.
- tester34 5y ago
  I do agree that higher edu institutions tend to be mehh unless you attend country's top, but law enforcement? what do you mean? fighting corruption?
  - trasz 5y ago
    Poland's top universities - both of them - are at the very end of international rankings. As for law enforcement - it's just horribly ineffective. A trivial open and shut software piracy case can last a decade.
    - tester34 5y ago
      >Poland's top universities - both of them - are at the very end of international rankings. It's hard to compare universities, unless you have attended both of them Innovation output != Quality of teaching Polish "computer-related" people are very often in top when it comes to e.g security (src: https://ctftime.org/ https://ctftime.org/) and top universities grads tends to have open doors to faang I've seen people from both of those groups speaking very good about the schools they attended
      - trasz 5y ago
        Polish "computer-related people" can come out well even without graduating. This doesn't say much about universities. Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea.
        tester34 5y ago
        >Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea. Me too, but doesn't it happen in every country?
jq-r 5y ago
Because unless you're rich, you're not living, you're surviving. And those are vastly different things.

trasz 5y ago

Apart from economy, healthcare, pensions, schooling, and law enforcement? :-) Food's good, though.

tester34 5y ago
I do agree that higher edu institutions tend to be mehh unless you attend country's top, but law enforcement? what do you mean? fighting corruption?
- trasz 5y ago
  Poland's top universities - both of them - are at the very end of international rankings. As for law enforcement - it's just horribly ineffective. A trivial open and shut software piracy case can last a decade.
  - tester34 5y ago
    >Poland's top universities - both of them - are at the very end of international rankings. It's hard to compare universities, unless you have attended both of them Innovation output != Quality of teaching Polish "computer-related" people are very often in top when it comes to e.g security (src: https://ctftime.org/ https://ctftime.org/) and top universities grads tends to have open doors to faang I've seen people from both of those groups speaking very good about the schools they attended
    - trasz 5y ago
      Polish "computer-related people" can come out well even without graduating. This doesn't say much about universities. Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea.
      - tester34 5y ago
        >Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea. Me too, but doesn't it happen in every country?

jq-r 5y ago

Because unless you're rich, you're not living, you're surviving. And those are vastly different things.