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If you don't have to live on local salary or employment, sure it's like being forever on vacation. Try living on local salary. It's a paradise for geo-arbitrager and retirees with …

No, moving definitely works. I can almost predict when my sciatica pain will be coming - usually when I work long hours sitting and don't do enough movement. I struggle to be more …

Yeah can confirm. I try to keep it low but then pain lingers for days and cumulatively over the days most probably I took as much as I should have taken in stating few days already…

No I am basically saying it's human nature - sticking to their own group, having biases, being racist. You were trying to make it some kind of Indian trait. We can always try to fi…

> I have personally witnessed it myself. I have countless Indian friend who are candid with me. They are biased against whole communities. Blacks, Muslims, etc. So are Americans. P…

American immigration has functioned this way for years. Where do you think Little Italy or the Greek sections of town originated? This is how immigrants have behaved for centuries,…

Most of Scandinavia is rife with old money. It's just that new entrants aren't allowed to build wealth. https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/04/01/wealth-inequali...

> In fact you have the right to reduce your hours from full time to part time if your company employs more than 15 people. Having the right and your employer agreeing to it isn't t…

Yes! It basically means you go full on freelance or just stay put with whatever job you have. I wanted to try freelancing before I quite my full time job but it's not that easy leg…

It was instrumental in spreading COVID[1]. Also found to be the case with other airborne diseases[2] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552583/ [2] https://www.ncbi.…

Although you fall sick more often in winter when using public transportation.

I did interview for them and got rejected. The job was interesting but should consider myself lucky that I didn't get it.

Yeah I was in the same boat coming from classical ML. I am just doing MLOps/DE these days. Although I have been down levelled to almost junior level after having 10+ years of exper…

Wherever the pay is proportionally lower. If people are making 1500 bucks then charging them 2000 won't work.

They could have just gone to Switzerland and Germany would have been nearby! Also you get Germand and French speakers! So easy to jump between France and Germany.

I don't think people understood the joke since they might not know what Rundfunkbeitrag is! Everyone outside of German has to face death and taxes. In Germany you face death, taxes…

I tried using PDM at my new work place and gave up. I had weird issues and since I had used poetry before, I switched to it. Poetry just works out of the box these days.

> + politics (left leaning compared to the US on average) - Right wing is on rise in many European countries. Dutch recently elected one such government. Germany's right wing party…

Yeah I'm surprised how ventilation system is hardly seen in German houses. I suffer from terrible headaches in winter in Germany. On the other hand when I spend winter in France wi…

Housing is even worse every where else. There is no utopia hidden outside of USA.

Calling it awfully low is bit of stretch. I would have expected the top 10% to be higher but median not that different. I suppose HN attracts Crème de la Crème of German devs who m…

German please. Might help me improve my German.

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