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I find the book humankind to be more fact based AND have a positive outlook than sapiens.

There are countless precedents where disaster strikes and humans have worked together to help each other; including people they don’t know at all. „Common wisdom“ dictates that hum…

> I can't understand why anyone expects things like civil rights, property, the rule of law, nuclear deterrence, democracy, etc to survive when human beings no longer need each oth…

I swear to god there is not one single thread on HN about Germany where nuclear reactors aren’t brought up. Nuclear reactors are not solving this problem. Period. The technology is…

Have an EV in Germany, charging is a non-issue. The stations are everywhere to the point that it’s easier to get a parking spot with an EV than without.

That’s incorrect, in fact, fairness and equality is one of the few universal social contracts that are valued in every culture on earth (though lived/implemented differently). And …

Famously, Switzerland is a socialist failed state where no one wants to live, of course.

What’s baffling to me about all this is that Meta/Facebook (like all big tech) seems to be completely insulated from their failures. Take a look at their product line up and tell m…

I encourage everybody to try this, if they have an iPhone. If you’re like me and don’t have the time to tinker with the latest and greatest all the time; this app lowers the barrie…

Don’t get cynic. The good news is: the worse it gets, the more impact every single .1 degree of prevented climate change has. I’m with you in the billionaires. Research has shown a…

Please. The establishment is dying to capitalize on it, and puts out one ridiculous anti-immigration measure after the next. And all it does is that it simply boosts far right part…

I would agree with you, except that the government (eg. in Germany) even battle climate tech when it’s good for the country and the economy. WHO wouldn’t want to be energy independ…

Cowering to autocrats all over the world.

Correct. It helps by not distracting your LLM with a prompt that is, in X% of the cases, irrelevant to the task at hand. However, when you DO need to do something special (like cre…

Why not just … sell the gold? What good is gold to a society anyway, regardless of where it is placed? Instead of drawing the anger of the US, just .. slowly over time, sell all th…

Just a word of warning to not take this to the max. Do not define your personal self worth over how useful (you think) you are. There’s a famous billionaire founder in Germany that…

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastenausgleich#:~:text=The%20... 2) https://www.die-linke.de/fileadmin/user_upload/20230530-PK-A... 3) theoretically people could own via the stat…

> The president who is willing to fix this will have to bend the knee. A similar instance of this is happening currently in the talks between EU/UK — The EU is demanding a „Farage“…

This apparent conundrum breaks away if you consider who holds the wealth now vs. in the 60s. In the 60s-70s, there was a wealth tax in Germany. Shortly after WW2, a law was drafted…

No. Mass building (while not touching inequality) will NOT solve the issue. It’s easy to see why: there already IS enough housing around for everybody. If there wasn’t, you would s…

Housing is not part of the inflation calculation. There IS a housing inflation crisis.

Yep, people in this thread are claiming that this doesn’t work. In fact, it does work, and it is already implemented! Here in Germany we also have the concept of „Bürgerräte“, and …