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Or even research experience. In many fields industry is now years ahead and academia lacks the funds and the man power to compete. AI and biotech are two examples.

Imagine two people in a tug of war. One person is determined to pull the other as far as possible to his side. The other person is determined to stay still. Not give in, but also not apply too much effort to pull the other person to his side. Who is going to win?

We disagree fundamentally on the dynamics of the worldwide economic system. Growth is necessary. It is imperative for survival. Without growth your "steady state" local economy will be out competed. And especially at a time when Europe's geopolitical relevance is waning and when the world is entering a multipolar world order, we definitely do not want to find ourselves in such a weak situation. China and Japan both ran such centuries long experiments in the past and neither one of those experiments was successful.

Europe is in many respects more market oriented and capitalist compared to the US. This is entirely not the issue.

And, I'm not sure why I need to spell this out to you, but both public and private life in Europe run on money that has to be generated by a healthy economy, which, we cannot expect, when Europe stops being competitive with respect to the US and China.

Thinking this is just about tech salaries is very first order thinking.

EDIT: Maybe I should add some context, and I'm sorry if I come off a bit condescending in my reply to you. We are facing governments who have no clue how to solve our economic woes, but who certainly have a plan on how to act: austerity measures. So all those nice things you associate with the European economic model are precisely the things that might cease to exist.

Dude, I went through the European PhD system and it's not as glamorous as you depict it. First of all, you forgot to mention that the norm is to give contracts of 50% to 75% FTE. Secondly the hours worked and the vacation time is a complete forgery that you are basically forced to sign. Although the contract is nice on paper, in practice the norms and expectations are different. Thirdly, unlike in the US, in Europe you often don't have a graduate school (although it is a thing) so you are in a very vulnerable situation where you invest 3 to 5 years of the best years of your life and during those years your graduation is completely at the mercy of that supervisor.

The French are onto the right track. If Europe is to recover economically and to win some market share in tech, I fully expect it to come from the French.

To me it seems like the Democrats have a very weird hierarchy and Musk couldn't do any inroads there, because the incumbents at the top of that hierarchy consider him an outsider. So his options were to either suck it up and accept his status within hierarchy, or champion a Republican candidate which, if elected, would immediately propel him to the very front of the decision making.

If the world was run by men, nobody would care about bald dudes.

But overall this is good. Why should we complain? Why would I rather have VCs hoarding their capital?

To a lot of outsiders it honestly looks like to some extent Israel controls US foreign policy. It's not a good look. Why does the US have to tiptoe so much around this issue? Why does Israel have such leverage? What is this leverage?

I always say, imagine if it was France instead of Israel. Then you see how crazy the situation is.

The far-right parties are on the rise in most EU countries. But in most EU countries they have not managed to make it into government in enough numbers to be relevant, yet.

But the rhetoric of the centrists/moderates has been shifting towards the right as well, on the topic of immigration, and especially with regards to certain ethnic groups.

So what's driving the impeding recession? Shouldn't the economy be on the up swing?

Feels like they were keeping this card in their sleeves for when they needed a popularity boost.

Could one then say that this is partially cultural? Because back in 1932 most EU countries did not even exist in their current state. Let alone all the modern excuses that people give.

According to Robert Habeck and the post-Merkel clique, criticizing Israel is antisemitism. Ironically the AfD are Israel sympathizers. But Israeli Jews who have the wrong opinions according to the state of Germany, cannot speak in Germany without getting censored or locked up.

Well Germany is were I live, but if you are any EU citizen you are technically free to come live in Germany, but then you will get your mouth shut and your thoughts policed by the very many German bodies, governmental and otherwise. So in a way even as a non-German you are still affected.

We are very fast approaching totalitarianism here in Europe. It is really sad to see. There is basically no free speech anymore and now they want to even track and control our private communication. And what's worse is, everyone is so high on moral superiority over other cultures that they cannot even admit to themselves that this could be happening.

Exactly. To me it sounds like he's a corporate stooge who tried to steer NPR into being yet another fake centrist outlet, full of tailored opinions.

He did the right thing. He knew he was going to get fired and probably didn't care to work there any longer anyway. At least he managed to grab multiple headlines this way. God bless him.

How does VC work in China? How did he get his money?

Snooping a bit on Wikipedia, it says that he partnered with his cousin who was some kind of banker.

If Netanyahu was treated with the same ridicule and disdain that Trump was during his four years as POTUS, that would be a huge step in the right direction. But he is not. On German TV, they said, part of the reason they don't treat Netanyahu with more open hostility is because they fear he would lash out even more aggressively. I'm not sure if that is a good justification.

Here is something I don't understand. Of all the factions in Israeli politics, why is the US supporting the most far-right one? Because support for US amongst Israelis is high either way, and the usefulness of Israel for the US is arguably higher if it had more moderate politics. Some of these questions are not explainable by Realpolitik. Same with the Palestinian question. If you were concerned about Iran you'd want a peaceful long lasting solution that defangs Iran grip in the region. It just doesn't make sense.

Hard to not feel like we are the baddies on this one.

The same coalition could push for a peaceful solution in Israel and Palestine, which would also eliminate Iranian influence in the region, but instead they let the far-right in Israel create a mess and we get pulled along for a big conflict with Iran.

No, actually it is not. Stop with this dehumanization of Palestinians. They are human beings. They are not worth less than you just because they are on the other side of the fence.

It is not the words of one "priest", but of all the Catholics in the compound. And I love how you appended "Palestinian" to try to discredit him, as if a Palestinian's word is not worth much, but the word of the IDF, who have been caught lying through their teeth about almost everything that has happened on and since 7/10 is. And you are wrong. The compound hosts more than just Palestinian Christians. Catholics from around the world serve in Gaza.

And how is that justified? The murder of two old women in a Catholic church compound, by a sniper no less. And one of them was murdered while trying to retrieve the body of her mother.

For sure. And you know what will be disgusting to witness? A lot of the ones supporting this evil, will claim to have been against the injustice all along. Plain lies. Like the German NAZIs did after the Holocaust. I wonder how that will work out for them, considering the quasi permanent nature of internet history.

Even the Pope called them terrorists. They were literally funded by two terrorists organizations (Irgun and Lehi). And over the past 70 years their main occupation has been the terrorizing of the few remaining Palestinians. How more plainly terroristic do you have to be? And now they are here on HN funding posts like yours trying to justify the mass murder of children and women as a form of collective punishment.

Maybe we should call them torturers instead. Maybe that is more fitting.

The "propagandists, partisans and manipulators" that label themselves "journalists" and "media companies" want to dictate what posts should be allowed on Twitter.

They are no better than the Russian and Chinese counterparts after all. You cannot deviate from the agenda without getting censored.

10€ says, it's not "the EU" but some (probably not European) lobbyists using the EU as an attack dog, because they are so conveniently corruptible. We are going to be seeing more of this in the future. American/Foreign elites using EU apparatus to attack other American/Foreign elites.

Germany, specifically south Germany (Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg)

Pros:

- Safe

- Clean

- Lots of hiking possibilities (although wild camping is not allowed).

- Weather is decent. More sunlight than further north and not as wet as further west. And quite warm/hot in the summers, but with a couple of wet weeks as respite.

- Food is decent. You won't find the variety that you can expect in London or NYC, but all the local and German-wide food is broadly accessible to the typical Euro/American palate. Also some big traditional companies have a Mensa which serves home cooked style meals for lunch.

- Local education system is quite good.

- Multiple high quality unis which are very accessible to anyone. You can literally just visit a lecture. Don't even need to be a student.

- A non-Anglonized culture that is just different from what you are used to in terms of mentality and attitude.

Cons:

- Job market is more traditional. Fewer startups and fewer companies working with cutting-edge technology.

- Corporate culture is less egalitarian than in international tech companies. Tech workers are valued less. There are also various glass ceilings.

- Society is more insular. Its quite hard to break into established professional or social circle.

- Taxes are absurdly high and you get very little in return if you are a normal working adult.

- Healthcare is also expensive and dysfunctional (I am comparing here to other EU countries). Also lots of quack medicine everywhere.

- The decentralized nature of Germany is really annoying. You come across a cool job but it is located in some 40k pop city, 1.5 hrs away from the nearest "big" city. This forces you to relocate every time for a new job and living in those tiny cities is not enjoyable if you expect any level of social life.

- Munich has a housing crisis. It usually takes months to find any kind of accommodation. At the same time it is one of the only decent cities for tech job opportunities.

- There are lots of foreigners in Germany, but it is not an immigrant culture. It is kind of annoying to witness and experience the divide between the various demographics.

- Despite a facade of progressiveness the level of discrimination against women and foreigners is much higher and more blatant than you would be used to if you come from the US/UK. At the same time there is a very annoying affirmative action that promotes women in tech that is very much in your face.

- Since firing people is harder there is barely any job market for juniors because it is considered too high risk to hire them even though there is a 6-month probation.

Interesting. Computational mathematics has really very little to do with traditional CS topics.