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Governments aren’t businesses. They have different incentives and goals. You’re very naive to think otherwise and falling for a pretty common conservative trap.

> Do you hold the same concern with "taxpayer expense" in these other cases?

Yes. Next question.

I worked with a lad who had RMS (I think that's what it's called) and he had it in his mind that the solution was to use one of those systems where you could talk to your computer. Mind you, this was in like 2018 before we had LLMs that were actually...you know...good at understanding us.

Anyway, after he migrated to this new system, his productivity plummeted remarkably. He spent more time futzing with this system then he did actually doing work. I don't think he ever really got over that phase.

Cool, would be happy to talk a bit more about it. Want to shoot me an email (in bio) or if you sign up for our waitlist on https://tower.dev I can reach out in the AM (we’re in Germany)!

I'm one of the cofounders at Tower, posted this because I thought some people would be interested in the topic. Would be interested to know what Airflow is really...doing...for you here? Is it just an execution engine for your sqlmesh? Anyway, as we're trying to build out Tower would love to know more.

I agree, I've actually had to use the NHS before (broke my arm while in the UK) and it was fine. I've also extensively used the German health care system, and it likewise has it's fault but is, overall, fine.

Honestly, I wonder what people want or mean when they say a "health care system is amazing" -- I don't know if there is one that is such, and perhaps that's an antipattern if it is?

I haven't tried yet, but I have loads of expat friends that are living there right now.

I have many expat friends living in London, which honestly is part of the motivation to move, and what you're describing is my expectation. Likewise agree that I don't think others commenting on this thread fully grasp what a uncontrolled disassembly the US is going through right now. Completely unprecedented.

I’m an American living in Germany for the past 4 years. I moved here from the west coast after I sold my last startup because I wanted a new, different kind of adventure. I don’t see myself going back to the US any time soon, but I’m actively working on relocating to the UK.

My wife and I want to move there because we want to be somewhere more English speaking. I speak German well enough, but she’s really struggled. Truth is, it’s really difficult to integrate into a society if you don’t speak the language at a high level. And after around year 2.5 or 3 I really started thinking hard about integration.

The political situation in Germany is a bit of a struggle, but coming from the US…this is a cake walk. I’m so happy to not have to deal with American politics on the regular.

Economically speaking, there are obviously way more opportunities in the UK, especially for my wife who works in HR given the language requirement. In the tech ecosystem in Germany, it’s two-tiered: The really good engineers make a wage comparable to the US. Think like tier 2 or tier 3 cities like Dallas or Miami. I says it’s about 70% of the Bay Area. But the VAST majority of engineers, working for German companies, make way less. Average wage is probably €70k?

Obviously, your euro goes massively further here as compared to the UK and US. My point in all this is that it’s really difficult to actually compare apples to apples, what your quality of life will be based on your salary and cost of living alone in different parts of the world.

Love that the very first thing mentions reflog, arguably the most confusing and complicated git feature.

The rest are good though.

You’re asking the wrong questions. No one who has and idea what they’re doing has AI wholesale write new features of add new code in an unsupervised way.

Hah, last time I used Gource was on a Rails project in 2012. Cool to see it pop up from time to time.

I agree and was going to comment something similar: Like entropy, design systems are getting ever more complicated. This virtue of having infinitely updatable design systems is a bit lost. For most people this is an exercise that’s done extremely rarely, is difficult to advocate for because the ROI is perceived to be low, and there’s tons of stakeholders you have to align due to the risk to the brand.

Front end engineers love to opine over amazingly flexible design systems, though.

RDS generally is a massive, massive business inside AWS. I'd imagine the politics and organization generally is an absolute nightmare.

DSQL = DHTML for data?

This weeks Minecraft server! Nice!

It's honestly not even that expensive considering all the functionality you get and the tech included (which is something HN should understand)

Super interesting you guys have been working on this since 2020 if I'm reading the post title correctly? Would love to know the iterations you've gone through.

Like Together.ai but a bit late to the market I suppose.

Seems like classic Microsoft to me.

I really like what I’m seeing with moon, it seems very light weight but powerful. Although little immature.

This is amazing and a project I always thought about doing! Inspired by MUD servers back in the day that were open source and community maintained. Super happy to see this.

Maybe I'm dense but I learned nothing from this link. What was the actual flaw?

Is anyone surprised? Everybody and their mother has a script for Adderall in the tech industry (wider I’m sure). In the city I’m from it’s common industry knowledge which guys to go see for an easy prescription.

I said this in another thread, but I predict overdiagnosis of ADHD (as a mechanism to get access to Adderall) will come to lights as one of the biggest scandals of our time.

Recently migrated a vim script mess to Lua and got what a breath of fresh air it is.

I predict that over prescription of ADHD medication in the US is going to viewed as a massive public health misstep in 40 years.

I think that’s more a statement about the weakness of their position than it is about Deutsche Welt’s reporting in this case.

Hey that sounds a lot like where I work.

I dunno man the company pays you 10x your peers for a reason.

Im an American currently living in Europe (Germany). I’ve founded a few companies in the US. I have a project that’s going well, could easily turn into a startup, but I’m not sure I’d found it here—genuinely struggling with it.

The way companies fundraise here is a bit weird to me. Much smaller rounds. Also typically thinking smaller in general. Obviously, everything is very commercially focused. In Germany, the worker protections make operating really quite difficult and it changes the culture of the company, too. Don’t even get me started about on-call culture.

I can’t really think of a distinct advantage to starting a company in EU vs US if you have a US passport outside some minor niceties. My current thinking is operating on both continents is likely best, with GTM in US and engineering in EU. But not sure…