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by dachworker 2y ago
The move from home grown solutions to Google/Microsoft cloud services happened under the VVD government some 10 to 15 years ago. The "pro-business", somehow always end up being the "pro giving a big contract to the most
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by dachworker 2y ago
Isn't this a bit of fetishization of the white man? Pretty sure all European countries have competent health agencies and AFAIK, the nordic countries do not score particularly well in health care metrics.
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by dachworker 2y ago
I am also European and your way of thinking is completely alien to me.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Please do tell how lobbying without bribery is supposed to operate.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Going from PhD, not even PostDoc with zero industry experience, to being Head of Department at SAP without connections is unlikely.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Nah, chances are the guy was born rich. These kind of management positions in Germany are reserved for rich people. In fact according to his bio it appears that he went from doing a PhD in IT to being head of a department at SAP and then a
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by dachworker 2y ago
I come from a rather traditional background and when I first read that book, the womanizing parts really put me off and I actually never finished reading the book. But it seems to me, looking at the core of western culture from its outskirt
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by dachworker 2y ago
If that's the case would you not expect there to me more European H-1Bs, the reasoning being that if these VISAs are not merit based but gaming the system, then why aren't Europeans taking advantage of this opportunity to get a 2x
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by dachworker 2y ago
A lot of the employee protections in practice make is just super hard to hire employees and super hard to fire low performers. It's good for seniors and bad for juniors and let me tell you, in the EU we do so much for old farts already
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by dachworker 2y ago
The EU is just as capitalist. When von den Leyen gets lobbied in Brussels, it's not from worker parties or unions. If you want a spectrum I would say that the EU is more paternalistic. Less freedom, lower salaries and higher taxes and
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by dachworker 2y ago
As somebody who criticizes the EU a lot on HN, I want to say that European business culture is just as backwards. It's not just a couple of clowns in Brussels. The whole continent has been coasting on past glory for the past three deca
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by dachworker 2y ago
Euroskeptics used to say that the EU is Germany-first and France/Benelux second and everyone else last. The EU establishment used to deny this. To actually now go out and create an inner union is to validate exactly the euroskeptic cla
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by dachworker 2y ago
Bit late to the party. Just today on a Germany political podcast (Phoenix Runde) I was hearing the "experts", the crop of people who are largely responsible for the current economical and political under performance of the union,
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by dachworker 2y ago
Very interesting question. I can only look at the local history of the place I grew up in, but in our case the accessibility of computers post '95 created the computer geek to a large extent. People wouldn't have locked themselves
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by dachworker 2y ago
As I said in the other comment, I just don't think it would be a good experience when one is a foreigner. Maybe if you consider it as just an adventure. I personally think I would get bored and lonely very fast.
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by dachworker 2y ago
I know that Warsaw is a great city, but I don't want to be a foreigner in Poland. I think there's a host of aspects that would impact the standard of living, when one is a foreigner in another country, that you aren't fully c
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by dachworker 2y ago
NYC is a much more attractive location than Warsaw, not just because of the salary, so I fully expect the open roles in NYC to be filled very quickly. I always wondered why American companies have offices in such unattractive locations. Las
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by dachworker 2y ago
I don't think the far-right is fueled by economic stagnation, but I do think that, were we living in an economic golden age, people would be able to ignore and excuse the increased prevalence of foreigners on "their" streets.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Yep, and crucially, getting a first job from which you can build a career is relatively (to the US) hard in places like Germany because companies are super risk averse.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Germany suffers from bad leadership in industry and government above all else. The lack of investment is downstream of that. And I guess upstream is their conservative mindset on how and who to appoint as leaders. Lots of nepotism and corru
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by dachworker 2y ago
Where does this notion come from? Many Europeans cannot even afford proper AC in summer and heating in winter.
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by dachworker 2y ago
Judging by these comments we should all just go back to riding on the backs on donkeys, except even that was at one point only a privilege for the clergy.
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by dachworker 2y ago
From my European perspective, VC capital increases social mobility for the "engineering class" and the builders of society. Those who have talent but no access to capital. The alternative is, that there is no VC capital and only p
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by dachworker 2y ago
I don't doubt that a big chunk of Ukraine wanted to join up with the West. After all, we are more prosperous. The question is to what extent that is possible when one considers geopolitical constraints. I think what some people are say
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by dachworker 2y ago
This all reads quite basic. I find, breaking the ice is the hardest part. But even before that, the social norm that dedicates that ones should not bother strangers is the hardest to overcome.
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by dachworker 2y ago
I'm not an expert on this topic. But I can conceive of a situation where the judiciary and the executive branches are butting head against each other and one finds it hard to figure out who to listen to. Didn't this exact situatio
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by dachworker 2y ago
Musk claimed on the All In podcast, that he was merely trying to abide by the law, and that the situation that arose was that the government was requesting action that went against the laws of the same country. I don't know how true th
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by dachworker 2y ago
Their parents paid taxes like everyone else. If anything I would say it is unfair, that they are forced to move to the US, because the imbeciles in power mismanaged the economy so much that there are few adequate jobs for them, and the loca
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by dachworker 2y ago
University is too rushed. That's why you feel like the work is done on your own. Cause of course you have to acquaint yourself with the subject at your own pace. Once you become acquainted, that's when it becomes useful to have ac
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by dachworker 2y ago
Meanwhile, I know of German and Dutch peers of mine who upon completing their masters in Europe, enrolled in California to do a second Masters ( at the time I believe they paid in the range of $100k) for the VISA and internship opportunitie

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