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my point is, in germany it takes longer than a test to get your license, unlike the US.

45 minutes? In Germany getting your license takes most people around a year and costs thousands of euros.

> What action can Iran take today that they couldn’t take a year ago? Remove of sanctions, ability to monitize traffic through the strait, guarantees against aggression and a cessa…

Every cost is disconnected from the value it generates. Do you pay the price for gasoline, electricity, or food based on the value it provides you?

Wasn't this always the idea behind combating inflation? At the end of the day you need to make people poorer to make the dollar worth more...

Streetview is such an incredible product - one of the few digital products that still manages to bring me joy every day. it'll be a shame when it's inevitably enshitified.

He says: 1. Strong data governance 2. Tax implications for layoffs (offshoring?)

Wealth doesn't go straight up, it bubbles up. And thinking about bubbles, imagine what happens when the GenAI one pops. The wealth some new billionaires had will go up in smoke, th…

> Then the next question is why does wealth, in practically all industrious countries seem to distribute disproportionally and not uniformly? It's simply because money is compounda…

You could argue that the world is way more globalized today.

You're just saying this because you're American and accustomed to it. To you, a 0-100 scale makes sense but to me it doesn't because 0f (-17c) is way rarer of a temp than 100f (38c…

It doesn’t make sense to base your car purchase on hypotheticals like this. As it stands right now, costs plus infrastructure make electric cars less desirable to own, and that’s w…

Electric cars in general don’t really make much sense in Germany. Most people live in apartments without access to personal chargers, combined with high electricity cost you end up…

you only think that because a bunch of roads were constructed for cars

> globally speaking What if instead of comparing people in, say America to people in South Sudan, you compare people in America to people in America.

It's all about picking the right tools for the job. The "cognitive load" might be larger in a vanilla project compared to React when your interface is more complex and interactive.…

If the author doesn't want to work with NPM and the JavaScript ecosystem he could just get a job writing Spring/Boot, which makes up probably 90% of the jobs at large enterprise co…

Agriculture produces food... it feels silly to compare the two.

I think if someone forfeits stability for money then that's their choice. I personally think that's an extremely strange one to make, but I'm one of those people who left the US fo…