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by hnhg 2y ago
That’s because Europe overall is declining fast. However the rest of the world is rising fast and the next ten years should be interesting from this alone.
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by hnhg 2y ago
I would have to upgrade my machine to run windows 11. I would rather not as it’s perfectly adequate for my needs.
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by hnhg 2y ago
You make good points, thanks for sharing. May I also add onto your speculation by saying that Brexit was a symptom of bad governance in general, and the energy crisis is a symptom too.
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by hnhg 2y ago
https://archive.is/xpale
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by hnhg 2y ago
Using your analogy, it's absolutely unknowable to bacteria, and therefore absolutely unknowable to us. Random is perhaps the most intellectually honest way of describing it, since it is widely accepted that randomness is a feature of r
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by hnhg 2y ago
Resisting occupation?
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by hnhg 2y ago
Even if I can't propose a solution, it doesn't remove the problem, does it?
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by hnhg 2y ago
It is about power and inequality, and the system-wide outcomes overall of such moves. We are seeing massive consolidation of wealth at the top. Relaxed attitudes like yours won't slow this down.
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by hnhg 2y ago
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."
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by hnhg 2y ago
There was/is also Wire: https://wire.com/en
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by hnhg 2y ago
I have worked closely over the years with people from Ivy League/Oxbridge schools to small universities from developing countries and I would not put the people from the elite institutions at the top of the rankings of discipline or ab
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by hnhg 2y ago
By SV, I think he might mean Peter Thiel and his associates: https://archive.is/1oVs2 "Narya was backed with about $100mn from Thiel and a cadre of his acquaintances, including former Google chief executive Eric Schmid
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by hnhg 2y ago
Maybe terrible is too strong but the trajectory is not great: https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/07/25/germanys-busine... ?
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by hnhg 2y ago
I could believe that a lot of people under 20 would not know who Zuckerberg is at all, but definitely know who Messi is, if we are talking outside of the USA. Cristiano Ronaldo would be another.
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by hnhg 2y ago
To add to what to the other poster said, and to help explain, also were you influenced in buying blueberries because of what other people did in your graph?
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by hnhg 2y ago
Adding and subtracting are insufficient for models that are probabilistic and have interconnected dependencies (graphs).
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by hnhg 2y ago
What is expensive to you? 200EUR works out to a few euros a week. That is fantastic value compared to anything I have experienced in other EU countries in this decade.
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by hnhg 2y ago
Best advice I saw on the topic was a throwaway comment here on HN: "be lucky and don't fuck it up" - the hard work part equates a lot to "don't fuck it up" in my own interpretation of it all. There are many oth
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by hnhg 2y ago
Of the ones above, the FT is perhaps the only respectable one that I can speak of; Liz Truss claiming it is a left wing publication is still hilarious. But have you read the Manchester Evening News lately? The Guardian too has diminished en
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by hnhg 2y ago
As much as I agree with you about how awful Murdoch is, he is not unique. I would not let Viscount Rothermere off the hook so easily.
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by hnhg 2y ago
Yes, the Murdoch media is vile, but this goes for all of the British papers. The Daily Mail is a wretched place to work but is also the most well respected in the UK in terms of the training they give. That should tell you everything.
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by hnhg 2y ago
It’s owned by Jeff Bezos. Do you consider Amazon to be left wing?
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by hnhg 2y ago
"useful for what most men do in life" - What are you referring to here? Because my answer to that would be just going through the motions and not thinking very much about anything, like most women too ("most men" is the
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by hnhg 2y ago
The root cause might be stagnant productivity. Faced with this, politicians can boost GDP by increasing the population. The root cause would therefore be using GDP growth as the success metric, stagnation in the said metric and an inability
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by hnhg 2y ago
If you are immersed in a culture outside of the UK, and check in on the current state of the BBC's reporting on it, you realise how poor it is. I am reminded of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#
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by hnhg 2y ago
Why did you forget the rest of the sentence, "when it comes to the startup ecosystem?"
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by hnhg 3y ago
The issue is with the requirement of a security. Winheller do phrase it carefully as "in their view" a security is not required, but that would have to be agreed with the tax authorities in advance and there are different opinions
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by hnhg 3y ago
It depends where you go. I believe (but could be mistaken) that there are agreements between countries, especially within the EU, that enable them to go after you. I am also not sure what the statute of limitations is regarding tax-related
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by hnhg 3y ago
It was also changed in 2021, and subsequent rulings that affect it earlier this year. The Wikipedia article is out of touch with more recent developments.
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by hnhg 3y ago
That is an understandable but incorrect conclusion. That should be the case, especially with freedom of movement within the EU, but the German tax authorities are essentially violating those agreements (which will inevitably get challenged

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