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by pb7 4y ago
Aggregated year-over-year statistics are cherrypicked but his emotional experience isn't? Ok, here's my not cherrypicked experience: The issue is massively overblown. It's nowhere near as bad as the sour-grapes living elsewhe
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by pb7 4y ago
You're probably right. Similarly, the tolerated racism in South Korea would also be terrifying to people here.
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by pb7 4y ago
>If this was true, the main question we would ask in a business is whether or not the output was useful. We don't ask that, we ask if it's "sustainable", "profitable", etc... To be fair, we do ask that: if y
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by pb7 4y ago
Do your banks not issue debit cards? I understand credit cards being unpopular because the rewards are weak because the transaction fees are low but hard to see how either IDEAL or IBAN are superior to using a physical debit card that you c
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by pb7 4y ago
I disagree, I find it quite relevant that a larger population somehow has less than 1/10th of the market share in products they consume at an equal rate. One large successful company in a massive industry (video games) is nothing to be
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by pb7 4y ago
Why is PayPal so popular in Europe then?[0] Significantly more popular than even Visa/MasterCard directly it seems.[1] I didn't even know the extent of it until just now but this is very surprising. 80-90% market share across vari
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by pb7 4y ago
It's not a generalization, it is a verifiable observation: Europe creates significantly less. If that's offensive to you then it's time to reflect on what caused you to be in this position.
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by pb7 4y ago
Activision-Blizzard, Epic, Microsoft, Take-Two, Electronic Arts, and Sony (partially) are all American and have 10x the revenue. China and Japan are both ahead of EU as a whole.
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by pb7 4y ago
>plenty of unicorns, like Klarna, Spotify, Revolut, Mollie, Just Eat/Takeaway Other than Spotify, most unicorns in Europe are copies of businesses first successfully pioneered in the US. PayPal first did digital payments in the 20th
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by pb7 4y ago
We're talking about the engineering capability, not how the product is monetized. If a company had flawless L5 but it was exclusive to millionaires driving cross-continent, it would be impressive engineering albeit a niche business. &g
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by pb7 4y ago
It's literally not though. EU has a higher population and lower total GDP.
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by pb7 4y ago
Spotify who set up shop in the US at the first indication of viability? Not very promising for the EU when the majority of their employees are in the US.
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by pb7 4y ago
US GDP per capita: $75K (PPP), $75K (nominal) EU GDP per capita: $54K (PPP), $37K (nominal) It's not even close. Waymo is years ahead of anything coming out of Mercedes.
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by pb7 4y ago
China bans US tech, US bans China tech, tit for tat. The difference between US and Europe is that US actually creates things.
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by pb7 4y ago
So he lied to you?
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by pb7 4y ago
And Poland has the best pierogis and I like pierogis more than operas. ;-)
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by pb7 4y ago
It doesn’t elude us. Anyone that looks outside of the country knows that but hate is hate. You don’t choose the color of your skin any more than you choose where you are born.
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by pb7 4y ago
The rest of the world won’t forget though. It’s one of many ways Italians are embarrassing themselves recently.
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by pb7 4y ago
Don’t worry, they’re doing both.
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by pb7 4y ago
Why pick the language of one of the weakest EU members?
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by pb7 4y ago
The most important one is a safe bet.
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by pb7 4y ago
Yes, many Europeans think that because they don’t talk about it and refuse to collect statistics to show it that racism doesn’t exist within their borders. Europe is just as, if not more, racist than the US. Just ask them what they think of
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by pb7 4y ago
Same as you don’t have the right to food, right? You must all be dying in the streets from starvation.
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by pb7 4y ago
>Not that the US has a positive record on immigration. There's no wall in Sicily, at least. You’re kidding, right? You have a massive sea acting as a wall against the undesirables. The US has more legal immigrants than any other cou
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by pb7 4y ago
Better than virtue signaling and being a wage slave all your life.
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by pb7 4y ago
The entire comment is judgmental and insecure. There are just as many women only there to do yoga and “find themselves”, and they have the nerve to be white too.
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by pb7 4y ago
Food that largely wasn’t even invented or popularized there. Italy’s only heritage is a lie. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35273586
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by pb7 4y ago
Well of course it’s to American companies, it’s not like Italy or the rest of Europe is going to innovate. That’s what happens when you haven’t created anything in decades of a technology boom but people want to feel like they’re living in
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by pb7 4y ago
Italy is definitely succeeding at protecting its citizens from entering the 21st century. Let’s be real here. Italy is a dinosaur and scared shitless of change. ChatGPT, lab grown meat, immigration, the list will only get longer.
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by pb7 4y ago
We can comment from afar. All the facts are present.

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