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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> What's the best way to become informed about a topic? If that question exist, the answer is: be ignorant. If you are involved into the topic, you will be pretty informed. So the question is: should you be involved into the topic i
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> After taxes, but before healthcare and the fact that most employment is at-will. That combined doesn't even remotely cost that gap of 60k per year (plus strictly speaking this is not true since many employers would provide IT peop
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> Many in Europe don't fall for this way of thinking. Many in Europe leave for the US because EU salaries are ridiculously lower. This is just a survey but it's in line with my perception, salaries on avg are 2-3 times lower in
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> Is it because of something inherent to software development, or is it just that software development became a big job category in an environment that was skeptical of unions? Unions are neither a good nor a bad thing. It's a price
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
I have a friend who was laid-off from Google in Switzerland. The guy got salary for months but wasn't allowed in the office. So stupid. Seems like this "we must do lay-offs" is such a modus operandi for us big tech they would
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> All of them were eventually proven wrong. No exceptions. I live and work in EU (and lived in other places) and I'm pretty sure corporate culture in EU, Japan, Russia is very different from that. There are pros- and cons- sure, but
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
And Finland has nuclear energy, which covers 33% of its energy needs. And so could Germany.
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
Yes, but I pay 34Cents for electricity in Germany, and my friend in Netherlands pays 24-26Cents. That's a huge deal. > what is the average salary Norway, Finland, Netherlands are still much cheaper and they are rich.
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
What do they think about paying much higher electricity bills than in most other EU countries? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> I can't use my PC anymore It's not your computer anymore, it's this computer.
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by ernst_klim 2y ago
> This metric is also a proxy for living in a violent environment. Probably, probably not. The probabilities of witnessing someone being shot is extremely low in both environments. If amount of people who are living in violent environmen
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
There is no proven causality between psychedelics and mental illnesses. We have so far only hypothesis. But sure, you're doing something not well researched when you take psychedelics, and various people have very different experiences
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> Low birth-rates are provably related to the ability of parents to spend time with their children. I'm constantly seeing this idea, and if anything, it's the opposite of truth. Poverty is always breeding much better than the m
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> These days, it's common for both parents to work, and yet we're not all twice as rich. Most of that extra money is eaten up by higher housing costs What was the average home size in 1970? What is the average home size today?
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> A lot of people would love to go back to 1940s house prices In USA? Adjusted for inflation, you had pretty flat housing prices until mid 90s, where the housing bubble started. And even now and on peak of the housing bubble of 2008 the
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> Also, look at quantitative easing Quantitative easing in US, UK, EU, and Japan happened during the economy balancing on the brink of deflation. I.e. when capital from the developing world was actively escaping into the developed world,
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> Keynes promised us a 15-hour work week And I bet he was quite right, but there is an important nuance: it's true for the 1940s level of consumption. If you reduce your level of consumption to 1940s level, you could easily manage t
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> without large negative economic impacts How could central bank finance such a debt without igniting the inflation? Especially in a country with already expensive money and pretty large interest rates.
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
I also think that Async Rust is a major disadvantage and overall a mistake. It feels like Rust is trying to be "The Language" suitable for both low-level system programming and high level application development. But you can'
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
Right. In Berlin, we have a district called Neukölln, a poor district accumulated a lot of social and economic problems, such as high levels of violent crimes, drug abuse, a lot of homeless, gang wars etc. The solutions for Neukölln problem
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
No, you don't. LocalRepo.t != Repo.t, and all the functions are purely static. LocalRepo.get_user won't work with other Repo.t, and other Repo.get_user won't work with LocalRepo.t. What you would need is to parametrize your f
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
module type Repo = sig type t type user val get_user : t -> name:string -> user option val get_all_users : t -> user list end module LoggedRepo (R : Repo) : sig (* Resulting module is of ty
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> Unfortunately, the current landscape of popular languages have equated "object programming == inheritance" in people's minds. Because OOP is somewhat equals to inheritance (or more strictly late binding + open recursion
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> I find "modern" OOP concepts apply pretty well to graphical user interfaces. Though most contemporary frameworks (react, elm, android compose) tend to prefer (functional) reactive programming.
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> Unicorns per capita > Stockholm is surprisingly innovative This is only when you do an intellectually dishonest trick of comparing Stockholm the city to american states capita-wise. If you compare Stockholm (0.8 unicorns per capita)
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> innovation index This is a pretty meaningless cumulative metric which considers things like "Legal obstacles to foreign labour", "ICT priority for government", "Graduates in science", "Schools connect
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
Social charges are taxes. From 100k EUR you will receive only 58k if you are in class 1 in Berlin, so OP may be pretty honest ob that.
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> A straight forward, easy to read, performant C++ solution took me 10 minutes; an ugly unidiomatic OCaml version took me 30 minutes; and a beautiful idiomatic OCaml version using recursion that still no non-OCaml programmer could ever r
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
> I've seen juniors with 2-3 years of experience state their current salary at 75k. Which land and business domain is that?
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by ernst_klim 3y ago
As someone living and working in Germany I call this numbers unrealistic. People with 10-15 years of experience earn something around 60-70k gross here. FAANG and CTOs may earn more, but it's rare

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