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>In most of Europe, and in the UK, you can't express certain ideas.

This is total BS. In many European countries (the ones I know personally) this is not at all the case.

What I took away from the book was that all these people were very eager to say variants of 'das haben wir nicht gewusst' when at the same time they also describe how the jews were systematically removed from their society and every part of civil society was taken over by the nazi's.

I would add to your statement that almost everyone should read it. It's unnerving to read how 'normal' all these people were in some way and how 'easily' it all happened because the population generally disliked jews.

Many many restaurants and stores never accept cash here. This would be a huge problem if cash suddenly becomes the only way of paying for everyone at the same time.

This is a ridiculous take, the EU has a budget of 180 billion a year. People keep repeating this but its just idiotic.

Denmark, Sweden and Netherlands have the same system and it works reasonably well actually.

Like the German diplomats recently speaking out against their governments policy on Gaza and Israel?

Or Dutch professors openly criticizing the plans by the right-wing government (which just fell) as being damaging, unproductive amd sometimes unconstitutional?

The only examples I see are the opposite of what you say. Can you name any examples in Germany, Sweden, Norway or Holland? (Those are the countries that I'm confident talking about at least)

Its a little disingenuous to say that, most of us would have never gotten by with literally just a library catalog and encyclopedia. Needing a community to learn something in is needed to learn almost anything difficult and this has always been the case. That's not just about fundamentally difficult problems but also about simple misunderstandings.

If you don't have access to a community like that learning stuff in a technical field can be practically impossible. Having an llm to ask infinite silly/dumb/stupid questions can be super helpful and save you days of being stuck on silly things, even though it's not perfect.

That's literally all language.

I've had a similar experience from the opposite side. I've had quite a few years of experience in Python and had to work in R for an internship during my masters.

My impression was that it's pretty easy to do straightforward things like the examples described in the article. But when you have to do complicated or unusual things with your data I found it very frustrating to work with. Access to the underlying data was often opague and it was difficult to me at times to figure out what was happening under the hood.

Does anyone here know any research areas still using R?

Often reviewing is executed double blind for exactly this reason. This can be difficult in small fields where you can more-or-less guess who's working on what, but the intent is definitely there.

There is a deluge of experts in economics and other fields who clearly state this is not the right approach to bringing manufacturing to the US. Why wouldn't we trust experts in their fields?

Do they list the models of the brands they are talking about anywhere? For example, they mention Garmin but there is a huge variety of Garmin models with varying accuracy. I'm surprised I can't find it anywhere. They mention gathering data ("The majority of commercially available devices measure these basic metrics, while other metrics typically vary between different brands and models.") on different models but then group them together under a single brand? Why? Frankly, this analysis seems a bit half-assed.

In the upcoming election you can vote exactly what you want, is there anything I'm missing?

Can you elaborate specifically what you think makes this law so detrimental? And to who?

Educated by Tara Westover. A really wild story I couldn't put down after the first 3 pages. A must-read, esp. For HN readers.