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The wonders of small sample experiments. Alcohol makes you smarter, wow.

> Erasmus program or interrail By which upper middle class kids get a free year of holidays abroad at the taxpayer's expense. No results expected. Finishing studies, getting a job …

If there ever is a promising project from europe (a.1) it bootstraps / gets venture capital (a.2) Leaves after 2 years for the US / gets acquired and the fiscal headquarter moves t…

Stick to government jobs, you will do well.

Why on earth a productive company would move to Europe, where your revenues are automatically slashed by 50% in taxes, and you are constantly exposed to whimsical unfettered politi…

The governments spend 45% of GDP yearly. It's very likely that at some point, every company has served the public sector. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM, list goes on, wer…

One minute past the comment and it already fetched 2 downvotes. Apparently being concerned about dirigism is detrimental to the community. Pretty sure they work for the government …

I find it quite off putting, that the general approach of EU institutions is to direct resources and economic activity from the top. It not only has demonstrated to be a failure ec…

"Human right" is one of those sacred terms that are supposed to mean so much but mean nothing. "Human rights" are just superstitious conventions about what's good/bad. "No one can …

Much of the discord would be fixed by banning Twitter, where group hatred gets organized into political platforms. And on top of it, their content editors have a very particular sl…

The funniest part is when there are accusations upon them for discriminating / not hiring women. Not only they do a selfish contribution to society for next to nothing in return, t…

I am Icelander and I grew up in a fishing town near Reykjavik. When I was a small child, my greatgranddad was still alive and my mother would call him aitona. Later I learned that …

Meat factories pay very well for someone with no skills. I for one I am grateful for being given the opportunity to work in meatpacking industry for a summer.

Please, don't make personal attacks in HN. This is explicitly stated in the code of conduct, and it's generally expected in the software community.

Not necessarily.

Lol I see I am not the only one that thinks we have been forced to participate in a collective superstition act this year.

It's actually very annoying to wear a mask. Also, I don't want to be thinking 24/7 about the virus, and the mask reminds me of it. I can't count how many hours I have personally wa…

I think it's more accurate to say that it will postpone the death of 130k americans by a few months.

Citation needed.

Once for curiosity I tried to read about BLM movement. I wasn't sure if I was reading a historic document of the movement or a BLM demonstration cheerleader.

Some people believe that poverty is caused by other people becoming rich. So there's conspiracy theories that aren't treated as such, and other theories falsely labelled as such.