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I have argued at length with people on this board about this very subject, and the answer is the way that the problem is measured in either country. The HUD survey is a farce; it's designed to underestimate the problem. You could easily infer with data who is homeless and who is not, and that's what the Dutch do. Maybe you are Dutch and unaware of the discrepancy, not sure. Housing and the tax benefits are very hot button issues in the Netherlands and the youth hate how cynical the old are considering the subject, so I get that their system is not perfect. But being critical is how things change.

I also find it hard to believe that you could accept a fact like this so easily. There is a very visible homeless problem in every large American city that you don't see in the Netherlands. And Amsterdam used to have a very similar problem that was only recently cleaned up in the mid-2000's.

which, in my eyes, is a conservative view. Why even try to change the system if it just corrupts itself again? wink wink The Atlantic is a "liberal" rag because they talk about the culture wars... but changing the system? Oh, impossible. We'll just hang here on the cross, unable to change our fate. Those meanie conservatives just won't go to heaven, the meek will inherit the earth!

Nothing about this story seems odd to you? The focus on American cultural events, big corporations, billionaires? Literally none of those things matters, even if it is popular here to identify with them. A better article would just be a chart of the gini coefficient over the last sixty years.

It's absurd how the author (and presumably their editorial board) are so willing to paint a picture that absolves them of guilt for the inequality in their country.

News flash. If you say that you are wealthy/powerful and "politically liberal", but don't support policies that would give away that wealth or power to those with less of it in society, then you are not "politically liberal", you are conservative. I don't hate the Boomers, but their ideas have been around for far too long. Society in the United States is far too conservative.

It's time for a liberal ideal that isn't about race or gender but about economics and equity. And I mean equity in a color-blind sense, can we please work together here; I know the world is not fair and race does play a role in that equation.

Living in Europe opened my eyes. None of the liberals in the US are liberal. I want CHANGE. Not Barack Obama's "change". I want unions. I want free healthcare. I want to house the homeless. The Dutch can do it, but somehow in the discourse here, it's "impossible". Oh, our country is "too big". Oh my god, stop. Can we please move past the legacy of the boomers and their anti-big government stances. That was just a cynical jab at their parent's generation; it's not real. The government CAN do things. We can do so much if we work together.

Too bad nobody respects teachers in the United States.

There's a reason the conventionalists don't want real education for their children and zero involvement of society in their nuclear family: control. They then frame it as some libertarian ideal.

Until a public school teacher can say no to a student, and their parents, nobody will learn the foundations of complex thought in the classroom. That is by design.

So you let people control your life by letting them intelligently split interest groups by race and gender so that you can't effectively fight a class war? Bravo, you really fell for it.

> Obviously, every HNer religiously reads and memorizes PG’s mediocre essays.

Idk, I like PG. I've read the really long-form pieces like "What I've Done", etc., but from what I gather by following his Twitter, he's less and less defined by creative or unique ideas and has turned towards more standard neo-con, gen X silicon valley. More than anything, there is a noticeable lack of emotional intelligence that doesn't hold up to the standards of youth today.

He went to RISD; cool, awesome; he's a brilliant computer scientist; okay, cool. The world is more global now, a lot of people have these Renaissance man-type experiences, and haven't yet made the money that will put a veil over their eyes. A lot of the essays are mediocre. A lot of them are good. But I think it's just less his time in 2022 for what he was trying to do.

What if an entity like the EU mandated that google make a public search index API, which would allow any competitor to create a low-cost clone. Google gets to stand as it is, relying on its brand and extra suite of tools to compete.

It's heavy handed, but if you view search indexing as a natural monopoly, it's relatively simple for how effective it would be at curtailing market power.

Oh wow. I know they have quite some employees in Amsterdam and were actively hiring there a few years ago. I didn't know they had completely dropped Russia. It's where they started, and they had a lot of employees there. Crazy

> Information dissemination must be similar to fluid dynamics. It just has to be.

As similar as fluid dynamics are to a functional public education system

Miro is based in Russia and is probably having massive problems right now. The other two are odd for sure

Before specialization, yes. And private practice is a lot more, but getting the license is a pain. However, that is still very well paid in a country where you have such great benefits. The American sticker price salaries are not honest when you have to pay for so many things out of pocket (healthcare and education, just to start). I have lived and worked in the US and EU.

There are institutions that are absolutely filled with these kinds of people. It's pretty much a feature, not a bug, at those places. They perceive themselves as "hustlers" and that everyone else is doing it more than them.

What would make you think that? The supply of doctors is artificially restricted in every country that I know of; it's pretty much a universal mark of privilege. In the United States, residency spots basically don't grow and it's very good for over-allocating doctor's salaries. Same in Germany, where they love their well-paid doctors and big hospitals.

I feel like it's really just a sort of existential dread about being reliant on anyone for anything, other than oneself. It's like being afraid that if there's a zombie apocalypse then you won't be able to listen to the same old songs on repeat like a scene out of I am Legend

Love your attitude towards the odd comments. Keep it up dude

But it's only putting on airs and small talk to you. Why is your perception normal and the regular one "fake"? I grew up thinking like you did, in a household of people like this, and there couldn't be anything further from the truth. It's a projection of an insecurity around being unable to control the people around you.

It wouldn't be hacker news without a pedantic reply that is carefully constructed to have no real counterpoint.

Wittgenstein was not wrong. Language is meaningless without its connection to the rest of humanity.

How does not being around other people make you your "most authentic" self? We are only human through others. Every word you've ever spoken, every thought you've ever had, is codified in a language that was created over hundreds of thousands of years by people attempting to communicate. Are you anything without that language? It is a description of how you think.

I wish it wasn't so popular for people in tech with mental issues to project them onto everyone else, instead of looking at the early family life that made them. Your parents failed if you are so afraid of the other. It is not everyone else's fault that they don't hate people.

It sounds like the OP we're replying to wants a daycare, not a company. There's plenty of them out there (including the original subject of conversation), but I wouldn't call it a preference.

People like this don't want a structured workplace because they prefer it; they want a structured workplace because they need it, because they never figured out how to live by themselves after university.

Russia is the new sick man of Europe, ironically enough given the old Russian empire used the term originally to describe the aging Ottoman empire. They seem to be the only ones that can't see it.

They don't have anything that anyone particularly wants anymore. Germany can switch to LNG. USA is net energy positive these days (although the shale might only last another 10-15 years). And finally nukes just aren't worth that much with MAD.

I think you might have an anxiety disorder.

> Weeeeellll, tips monocle, you must be uninformed of what TIPS mean, so I will take it upon myself to inform you, lest a know-nothing like yourself gets confused.

TIPS are overpriced because of fixed income fund mandates, moron. I worked in bond sales. You don't have to be such a prick, you know.

The efficient market hypothesis is as dumb and made up as the price/wage spiral

If the "people" part of economics invalidates all of its assumptions and models, then how useful is it really? Everything beyond intro micro and macro is as pie in the sky as string theory, and motivated academics are also similarly keen to keep that PhD research money hole absorbing all the resources it possibly can.

Probably shorting high yield. Not investment advice

It's because they wrongfully believed that they can manage the expectations of reality to the extent that they can change reality. They are of course wrong, but economics is an ideological backwater farce of a science (I am trained in it). It was a convenient belief, because it allowed central bankers to blame their own citizens, rather than interest rate policy.

How much evidence is there of long-term effects of these types of treatments? Do you or other researchers in the space ever worry that you are in a sense curing the effect and not the cause (family and societal problems as I understand it), which would imply that efficacy would fall over time? Would sustained fecal transplants, etc. even work?

Maybe I'm a generation younger than you, but if you were young when Snapchat was cool, then you probably transitioned to stories from the "main" IG content and dropped Facebook altogether. I spend 90+% of my time on IG on stories and it is a really good way to keep up with people as far as generally knowing where they are/what they're up to. I probably post once a month for reference.

It's pretty funny that such an RPC framework as the browser exists that gives the end user a genuinely decent sandbox, yet all it receives is criticism for its flaws. People will then happily install a screen dimmer or "productivity" tool with superuser privileges from a completely untrusted source.

It must be really convenient to live during a time where your generation have large-scale control of media, politics, and the economy from when they turn 25 until they retire, conveniently inflating financial markets and selling the future of your children's generation so that you can retire early and spend more than your fair share of society's wealth on things that don't matter, just because you were jealous of your parents, who were actually needed in a time of real crisis.