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    Comment #49225669

    Or you can just use any of the actual European companies (I’m using Tuta). https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers

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    Comment #49214422

    So you are saying that they cherrypicked some obscure illnesses to make Europe look good? They used data for: - infant mortality - maternal mortality - colon and breast cancer surv…

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    Comment #49213394

    They are looking at the outcomes of specific procedures because they are interested in the health care system quality. Looking at things like life expectancy would make it impossib…

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    Comment #49212359

    It’s actually better to be average Western European than white and top 1-5% American: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

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    Comment #49197741

    > The reallocations were real, but they were never the bottleneck. Why do people not write their own blogposts on their own?!

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    Comment #49182817

    Latest presentation of Terence Tao on what current advancements in AI mean for math discusses (among other things) those issues: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-i…

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    Comment #49157557

    Is google still a big contributor to the c++ standard? I thought they are far less involved than a decade ago.

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    Comment #48945422

    I'm not sure how true is this claim about weak environmental laws. I don't have any data to back this up, but I was in China in 2013 and two years ago and the difference in air qua…

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    Comment #48911661

    Reading a book is a way to peek into author's mind. There is nothing to peek into when the book is generated by llm.

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    Comment #48858089

    Here is a nice summary of Polish health care: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...

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    Comment #48857196

    > they don't have socialized healthcare You have free healthcare for children (up to 18 years old), pregnant women and registered unemployed. Moreover, any working person can (for …

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    Comment #48789334

    They’ve made so many terrible decisions already. Going after widows wouldn’t change anything.

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    Comment #48789305

    If no issue there, then why would you ask who is behind it in a public forum?

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    Comment #48651433

    Did you know that only 1,6% of US population works in agriculture compared to 5% in Portugal? See https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/employmen...

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    Comment #48648934

    I think that in Europe the trend is in the other direction: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_... - e.g. -15% since 2019.

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    Comment #48637007

    For example OS running on Amazon fire stick 4K kills your background processes after ~20 minutes.

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    Comment #48629014

    > Many Europeans believe ... > ... misinformation (likely Ukrainian-origin) ... Your post is also "a half-baked, un-falsifiable conspiracy theory with little supporting evidence" ;…

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    Comment #48628179

    I find the attitude shown in this post very surprising. On the one hand, the post starts with a story of adopting Linux and other FOSS. The core of FOSS is giving its users the abi…

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    Comment #48618853

    I know that this may sound surprising, but US is not the only country in the world ;)

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    Comment #48607532

    In my experience advanced algorithms and data structures are almost never needed. You need simple data structures and algorithms and understanding of the environment in which you a…

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    Comment #48596812

    No only that, but to ride the fastest Shinkansen you still need to pay additional fee on top of JR Pass.

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    Comment #48543262

    How is that different from https://yggdrasil-network.github.io ?

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    Comment #48538693

    Sick days are not “offered” by employers. Sick days are prescribed by the doctors and there is no upper limit. After all, your sickness will not disappear just because it has been …

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    Comment #48517320

    The author addresses this exact concern.

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    Comment #48397892

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