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You mean , like Asml , Zeiss and Jenoptics aren't national manufacturing capabilities? Or ist just your head national = American, western = American and not German , Dutch, European not Western?

Grandpa today has at max 80 years and went into pension 15 years. Almost all grandpa's got in touch with the internet during their working time

" In a party based assembly(UK, Canada) the party leader tells each party member how to vote = the party line. Members can not vote against the party = out. I " Im not sure about UK and Canada, but the general statement is plainly wrong.

I think it is worth pointing out that many European health systems do have strong private elements (e.g. most of them pay pharma companies for making medicine) and NHS in the UK as a goverment focused health system is still quiet bad compared to other European countries.

But to your original question: As you are hanging around these website, I notice (and you too maybe), that even the most educated Americans have an "only American" world view. They consider it is the best country in the world anyway and don't care about other parts of the world.

In German news on German problems (e.g. Digitalisation) journalist sometimes point other countries as a positive example or role model (here Estonia or rarely Ukraine). On American problems it does not happen and we (as a I assume you live on my site of the Atlantic) just nodding our head why it does not change. It would need to change a deeply entrenced attitude. On this discussion page here they dont discuss how other countries do it. Not a single example how to make it better. Because the US is on the top of the hill anyway.

There are tons of European defense tech start up right now in Ukraine e.g. Donaustahl , Vector.

Somehow some HN readers from America ignore these startups. Instead they insist on outdated units. Oh boy, there are dedicated Reddit subs for you.

" You see this with the span, the LRASM has a span of 8 feet and the Cessna is 39 feet. "

" inertial navigation would weigh over 100 lbs, "

Nice comment but please use the internationally and scientificly common units next time.

except West Germany was not the winner. It was the people of East Germany.

It is a lie that Eastern German books weren't read,

given the commentator and Erpenbeck (she lived in Italy as a kid, no one East German could dream of!) are from privileged commie closed families and try to white wash communist criminal rule.

I recommend Der Turm by Uwe Tellkamp, an author from Dresden, a very sucessfull book in the year 2008. I started to hate the SED again after reading the first half. (Though some might feel bad about his very right wing positions after 2015).

Germany has a bleak economy currently , definitely not leap frogging anyone but definitely no scammers on young Germans finishing their diplomas. Do you think these scammers are a healthy sign of the Chinese economy ?

Sometimes such movements lead to hilarious arguments. Other one is the fat positivity movement which denies beeing overweight is a problem.

So why don't Google it? There is a vivid start up scene, several young examples included but you just ignores it and call it German cope.

I'm mean you can Google it. I expect more from a random HN user.

Yeah, Such rage bait argument with no real arguments don't help to improve my perception.

The problem on such discussion that many Americans (I am not sure if you are but experience says yes you're) tend to use only straw man arguments (and that's why the reason they are ignored) "When hiring employees means you’re hiring them effectively for life, it creates disincentives for hiring. "

In Germany it is not the case.

"The other thing is the employee obligations it creates. When I worked in Europ" Europe is a big place and working law in the EU (and outside too!) is in the charge of national law. Where have you been living ?

In Germany you can talk to company to quit earlier because these quitting comworkers tend to be rather unproductive.

"kids" => your bubble?

noyb : https://noyb.eu/en/twitters-ai-plans-hit-9-more-gdpr-complai...

There you'll find the arguments.

Python 3.0 is older than Windows 7 and Gnome 3.0. And if GUIs can change in 16 years programming languages can do as well.

Yes ans that is the greatest reminiscence and given you couldn't name any politician I guess everybody sees how fringe it is.

Most Germans aren't aware of the German speaking minority in Silisea.

" Some want to make Poland Germany again, " This is a very fringe view in German politics, almost non existing.

" what to keep non-Europeans out of Europe with all means necessary " I guess thats far more popular.

Except Deutsche Bahn is not private but 100% owned by the German government.

Esspecially pro enviroment prefer such rides (but air lines are much cheaper, I only took a train from Munich to Hamburg)

Musk regularly interacts with far - right extremists across Europe. While he can speak English, it is not a surprise to interact with British ones. What is more surprising he also interacts with German ones (while not able to speak the language, yet to understand German culture or society).

It is very ironic that far right extremists organise themself globally (or earlier on European level like identarian movement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identitarian_movement )

" o make austerity measures instead of investments shows today. In the past 30 years the streets were more important for governments and it shows. " I refer to the time before 30 years. It was a very problematic time in West and East Germany though were a Goverment Agency by legal.

It is important to click one more on the header on Wikipedia. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privatisierung and this is refers to my POV.

In German private means privately owned. It is rare that people out of Germany care about the legal status of Deutsche Bahn thus I used the German meanings and many posters as well.

" Which however didn't stop it from acting like a profit-oriented private company, " Except it does not make any profit. It is tightly controlled by the government. They could change any management behaviour. But they don't.

So its just a goverment agency.

Besides the point that Deutsche Bahn is goverment owned, it is worth pointing out that Western and Eastern German had " to crumbling infrastructure, an insurmountable hardware and technical debt and now to the most complex train system probably in the world. " + much much debts.

Calling the Deutsche Bahn private is a very good indicator that the person isn't able to look up Wikipedia Article and think critically.

" nce you've collected enough data on every internet user " I guess by legal I can force companies not to collect data from me. (I am not a kid). I just happen not to live in the US. But this article reads more like a US problem.

You state because you couldn't find your prefered way of coffee you think your visited country (and maybe a while continent) doesn't know coffee?

Of course I agree with you on art view point but you see the point: Nobody wants to use an older GIMP version while I play old Pokémon games.

Well, Continental law was strongly inspired by Roman law and Roman law was prefered by Europea law experts when England was an Island kingdom while Roman Empire was ... An Empire. I don't think you are an expert in law systems comparision and your statements seems to be very broad and unsourced. (random economical number isn't a source)

Some companies like BASF struggle in the American law environment in a combination of jury responsibility (very old concept!), high penalties and jury don't have any clue about science.

I've never heard any such complaint about the European law systems.