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by _Tev 9y ago
Nice strawman. Discussion was about real wage growth (vs. productivity gains). Quality of life != wages And FYI many people view U.S.quality of life as garbage, so maybe there really is not much growth to brag about.
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by _Tev 9y ago
> So, I assume that there are others like me who have recently been deleting the FB app and avoiding the website, if not deleting their accounts entirely. It is funny how programmers assume everyone thinks like them. I have not seen simi
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by _Tev 9y ago
> This assertion doesn't pass the smell test, unless you believe that the median working-age US household by income had a worse standard of living in 2013 than it did in 1973. Actually you are the first one I see to dispute this. Do
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by _Tev 9y ago
Huge trade surplus (and resulting low unemployment) is effect of the euro, which is undervalued for Germany (and overvalued for most of the eurozone). Germany sure is nice country to live in, but it benefits a lot at the expense of others.
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by _Tev 9y ago
Existence of one echo chamber doesn't disprove existence of another echo chamber. And considering public did not see those old internal debates (there was not even a quote or reference to them in official statement about the firing), g
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by _Tev 9y ago
To be fair, European cities are often terrible for driving, because the road system is poorly designed. And expanding public transport takes precedence. That is also technically achievable in US, but much less politically achievable.
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by _Tev 9y ago
How about: Developers might not want to work to the full extent of their capabilities all the time (especially as they get older) because it has additional costs to them (stress, burnout)? The analogy is a bit stretched, but imo still works
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by _Tev 9y ago
So the startup mode will have to end? How is that surprising?
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by _Tev 9y ago
Source? Just last week I had to explain what whatsapp IS to my friend ... And he is young, what about older generation?
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by _Tev 9y ago
Oh come on, "whatsapp dominates texting in europe"? You do not know every country ;) Based on my experience it would actually be opposite, but I am not going to extrapolate to whole continent.
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by _Tev 9y ago
Central / Eastern Europe. And I heard similar things about south and east of Asia
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by _Tev 9y ago
It's funny how some people call for separate IDs for each govt agency and some (different?) people then use such fragmented measures as a proof of govt inefficiency. But I do think people are excessively paranoid / anti government
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by _Tev 9y ago
Imo Switzerland is poor example and free trade cannot be guaranteed for small states in today's world but I guess we will not convince each other in this limited debate . .. Let's agree to disagree.
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by _Tev 9y ago
How will they contribute to NATO then? Your point was that they don't need political alliance to be in a military one, my point is that this is practically impossible. Also good luck with making an army from nothing just in time before
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by _Tev 9y ago
They will not be able to meaningfully contribute to such military alliance - every state having single fighter jet? Or a few tanks? And if they pool money to form an army - how will be the funding determined? Some states will want more defe
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by _Tev 9y ago
Yeah, I'd say let's allow UK to crash and burn in Brexit, so people have cautionary tale and educate themselves better next time they make such a big decision. It sounds mean, but as you are saying - we have to allow that at least
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by _Tev 9y ago
No, USA pays much more than any other developed country, see: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS?year_hig... (below graph is sortable table)
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by _Tev 9y ago
I found PowerAMP similar enough.
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by _Tev 9y ago
When you say it like that you can naturally follow with "creating bigger value for the company increases your leverage", which seems to be trivially true. You might question rate of leverage increase between your value / othe
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by _Tev 9y ago
Look at their past performance, luck is just too unlikely for their string of successes.
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by _Tev 9y ago
It still seems like good investment considering Apple's abundance of those resources.
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by _Tev 9y ago
Honestly, it is kind of scary how people on HN live in the no-FB bubble. I mean, FB is kind of optional for social life, but the universal "I deleted FB and am happy" does sound like echo chamber. Because Facebook DOES have advant
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by _Tev 9y ago
How can be webapp less secure than native app?
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by _Tev 9y ago
What ashark said - you can't do worse in healthcare spending than USA
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by _Tev 9y ago
The online search takes into account all short term schedule modifications. Considering how many such changes occur on almost daily basis, you would be quickly complaining about data usage from all those schedule updates. Or you would frequ
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by _Tev 9y ago
Are you kidding? Look up how much US spends on healthcare and how much rest of the world does.
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by _Tev 9y ago
Yeah, "no issue", they just produce half of their electricity from fossil fuels. (Denmark a bit less recently)
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by _Tev 9y ago
Or our assumptions about climate / wheather were wrong.
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by _Tev 9y ago
You can easily distinguish what is clearly an illusion or lie that is not going to work. But you're right that recognizing which platform will actually work is very hard.
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by _Tev 9y ago
Certain aspects can be certain, sure, but overall effects are beyond our understanding. We just have too small sample size ... But while we disagree on what we know you're right that it's not clear cut and one can argue we already

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