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I have read it. I know what liquidity trap is. That's not the problem. It's incentives. Incentives matter and people in western countries are not incentivized to have children and …

Of course it's a Ponzi scheme since it promotes freeloading. People without children also expect to receive pension while escaping the effort and time to raise the next generation.…

It's hard to explain people in US but in Central Europe Java is like 70% of software jobs, the rest is Node and .Net and everything else is really niche outside of their domains.

This thread proves to me that every discussion on US/Europe comparison is the same. There are people from USA who always bash on it (Reddit Bernie Sanders socialist brigades) and E…

Well not million but 500-600k sure.

I actually hate macos font rendering...Windows has way better fonts on 27" 2560x1440 or 24" 1920X1200 monitors With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that ret…

yes, but on mac it will make both apps in separate desktops and in windows is just simple window tiling

Just go back 50 years, they were 95% single ethnic states with remaining 5% european minorities.

Visual Studio Code is fast on startup and that's it. It chokes on million LOC project while Eclipse and Intellij work fine.

USA in 1945 was 91% white so it kinda makes sense that government did it. Homogeneous countries have no political issues with welfare because everyone is alike.

I work for a large bank, we are rewriting business logic from Cics to Java or SQL/Pl but Db2 zOS stays. It has a phenomenal performance and HA. It also says a lot how relational da…

First comment is good: Always appreciate your insights Patrick, but you are completely off base here. USA has far fewer working age combat veterans now than it did in the 1950s thr…

This kind of migrations were non preventable before but now we have enough resources and technology to build walls and surveillance to block them entirely. Unfortunately, the only …

Yes, English had crazy fertility rate. At the begining of the Hundred Years’ War France had population of 17 million and Britain(excluding Ireland) had 4 million. By the time of Na…

USA spends very little money on military as a percentage of GDP while being the most powerful force in history. I would argue that that money is very well spent.

Maybe it was 5x. In that period millions of English went to colonies.

There are two tools nobody mentioned yet. DbVisualizer -> best GUI for databases, you learn it well and use for all databases Editpad -> fastest text editor I’ve ever seen with bun…

Yes, nothing compares to USA. I’ve lived in USA and I would gladly live there again but I have a large family here that I am very fond of and it’s not a option for me. Still for de…

I’m also from Croatia...we actually had population growth in early nineties and we are losing more people to emigration rather than natural decline. It’s myopic to think that popul…

Funny thing about corruption...It's very hard to quantify and as someone who spent couple of years living in China I would say there is no link between corruption and economic grow…

Yes, I would actually argue that developers earn more than they would in Germany, Belgium or France.

I don't have a lot of experience with Oracle but I can tell you that Postgres optimizer is shit compared to Db2 zOS or Db2 LUW. When I worked in a large bank we tried to migrate co…

To be fair I think only Postgres has that feature.

I still go with Groovy for scripting and tests with Spock. Scripting is better because Kotlin doesn't have simple dependency management like Grape and compilation speed is way fast…

Well of course but Javascript is in unique position to do those kind of things, other languages have to be careful not to alienate its communities.