aureljohn

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   by aureljohn 6mo ago

   The median US worker gets 10 days PTO, and about half don't even use all of it. "Could take half the year off" is a high-earner scenario that exists on both sides of the Atlantic, but it's not the median experience in ei
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   by aureljohn 6mo ago

   Hey HN, the website is now available in all languages from the EU-27!
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   by aureljohn 6mo ago

   Fair critique. The GDP growth gap is real — the US has outpaced the EU in real GDP growth for most of the last 15 years, and the Draghi report laid out the competitiveness problem clearly. A few things I'd push back on though: Growth r
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   by aureljohn 6mo ago

   The sources are listed on every chart. The life expectancy data comes from the World Bank (headquartered in Washington, D.C., majority-funded by the US). GDP figures are from the IMF (also DC-based). Democracy scores come from the Economist
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   by aureljohn 6mo ago

   Thanks! Both, really. I built it because I kept seeing the same claims repeated — "Europeans are overtaxed for nothing", "Europe has no more free speech", etc. — and I wanted to check them against actual data. Turns out
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   Show HN: EU Leadership – Live API data site comparing Europe to the world(ajh.ovh)

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