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Why would someone from Switzerland - a country that seems superior to the US in every relevant aspect for quality of life - move to the US?

This might be the single most arrogant comment I've ever read on HN. At least those enterprise developers perform actual engineering instead of copy pasting the newest JS framework tutorials and pushing pixels around like all the boot camp hipsters without proper CS education nowadays.

This might me valid for the US. Anecdotally, where I live (Switzerland/central Europe) almost nobody uses iMessage, and WhatsApp is the big dominator.

Security by Obscurity never works.

Source: Information Security 101

Switzerland's health care systems beats those by a mile. Every expat who knows these countries can confirm this.

In Switzerland it's usually 2-3 months notice, for both sides. Depends on what's written in your contract. But escorting people out after firing them seems very harsh and overdramatic to me. Never heard of such things in Europe.

Exactly, I can't understand how you got downvoted. Sweden is rich, Switzerland is rich, Luxemburg is rich. But Azerbaijan? Since when do natural resources imply wealth? By that logic, Venezuela would be rich too. Distribution of wealth in Azerbaijan is catastrophic. A nation's wealth should be measured by how well off its poorest citizens are, not its richest.

Also, the GDP per capita of Azerbaijan indicates anything BUT rich.

And somehow magically the continuously overcrowded streets and traffic jams don't apply to the Googlr car? Have fun waiting in traffic..

> The other main reason is that you want to avoid banks and government, which is certainly a smell that you may be a criminal. These benefits aren't for people who are honest.

It is saddening that this argument is used even on HN. That's equivalent to the old "You don't need privacy if you got nothing to hide". Examples as in Cyprus [1] prove that you should always be careful when trusting banks or any centralized system. Your line of argument is very common among representatives of banks, governments or people who are simply uneducated on the subject. Or a combination thereof.

http://www.businessinsider.com/r-amid-fears-of-greek-control...

I was looking for a good primer and I found the original Bitcoin paper itself to be a pretty good starting point: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-paper

Furthermore, I suggest the Princeton cryptocurrency intro course on coursera [1]. If you have CS background, you can skip the explanations of hashing etc and concentrate on the mechanics and incentives in cryptocurrencies, which are illustrated quite nicely.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

That's what I meant yes. Of course if it's applied onlx on routes where utilization is low a priori, my argument doesn't apply.

I agree with you mostly, but I would like to bring up the ecological concern of flying with empty seats. It increases the avg carbon footprint per passenger.

From an ecological point of view, this is very problematic. As far as it's value as a business idea goes, I'd say this an interesting idea.

> nowadays most of the business logic is mostly on the frontend

This is a design flaw imho and should not be used as a reason to motivate the use of such projects. If your logic is in the frontend you should rather build a backend that captures the logic instead of just putting a rest layer on your DB and call it a day.

Would recommend looking into ElasticSearch too. Recently had my first hands-on experiences and I am pretty amazed.