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I studied in Germany and then worked there for four years. They counted my years of study toward citizenship which was awesome. This depends on which region you were in though, some regions only counted 7 years after you started working full time.

This was years ago, so things may have changed now.

I actually mentioned that I'm getting the vaccine further down the thread and I've been lurking here for years.

You are suspecting people and just adding "not saying". Which makes everything people say suspect.

Yeah, I'm quite surprised too.

I've been lurking here for at least 10 years and consider this to be the best place to discuss everything openly. But this sensivity to question anything related to vaccine is beyond ridiculous. Even asking what the side effects are like OP did gets you downvoted.

And by the way, I will take the vaccine asap because of my health issues, but this doesn't mean we can't even ask questions about it.

This is getting worse than Stack Overflow.

So you can't ask a question for more clarification unless you spend hours researching the subject?. I can get that if it's a coding question and someone was looking for a solution. But this is a scientific subject and there is a pool of knowledgeable HN users who can help with this kind of questions.

> It's reasonable to ask what the risks are, but unspecific ramblings about risks aren't helpful and it's unreasonable to highlight very hypothetical risks compared to the very real risks of getting Covid-19.

Where was this ramblings on OP's comment? He genuinly asked a question without mentioning any side effects. Why is it being downvoted?

Why is this comment getting downvoted? seems like a fair question. I've seen this now in several threads where even questioning side effects of the vaccine gets downvoted and looked down upon like they did something illegal. This is not HN I used to know.

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel.

To be honest I'm halfway through the book and a bit disappointed. I expected a lot while reading all the reviews on Amazon and even here on HN.

The book is good and give some few insights, but I'm still waiting for an "aha" moment or "wow this is something I didn't know".

I don't want to go into details to not spoil it for everyone who wants to read it, but it seem like an average book about startups so far.

I may be wrong and the other half of the book is more interesting.