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For the ~500 million people of the EU, moving to Frankfurt means taking a train there, moving to London is a whole headache of visas, permits and permissions.

Founder visas are generally suffering from a chicken-and-egg problem, where only a successful company can sponsor anyone


Sure, but the entire VC and funding ecosystem that London has is nonexistent in much of the rest of Europe.

It's easier to raise rounds with better terms in London versus mainland Europe, aside from CEE where diaspora VCs in the US tend to step in to build the ecosystem.

But even then the entire ecosystem pales in comparison to the US.


Young men believe, thanks to social media constantly repeating them the same message, that the only way out of a sad wage cuck existence is hypergambling. This text opened my eyes to it https://oldcoinbad.com/p/long-degeneracy

This feels like it sounds nice on paper, but there isn't really any much data justify it... Yes, incomes and inflation aren't lining up. But that has been true for a couple generations now.

When you're in your 20s, none of your friends have houses, high paying jobs, etc. So home ownership isn't really a priority. You're not aware of the generational gap since all of your friends are experiencing it with you.

Young people, especially men, are not great at planning for the future, b/c they think they will be young forever.

I think its just men are bored. Dating sucks. Going out is expensive. Betting at home is wayy more fun than being rejected by women (on apps or in a bar/club).


It's true, though. The life Homer Simpson had is out of reach.

The school system gives boys worse grades. Once you're a man, women expect their partner to earn more than they do, while women want the same pay as their male colleagues. It can't work.


The internets tell you women expect that, but observed reality doesn't really line up with that.

Visit any Safeway and you see plenty of regular normal everyday couples where the man is not a billionaire, and the lady is not a 15-years younger nymphomaniac.

People pair up with their colleagues all the time, despite the internet telling you that doesn't happen anymore. And they don't mind that their coworker makes the same money.


The real moop map is the absolute mountain of unsorted garbage that gets dumped at the first rest stop / dumpster / trash can.

Yeah cool you did not leave your plastic trinkets in the desert, but you did leave all of it next to the trash can on your first gas break


There is clearly a demand for sports cars being sold for under $10k, so it was ok for me to steal your car and sell it cheap

My Citroen does the same if window wiper fluid is low.

Because mortages need paid, and when you’re working as a programmer, you deliver what the top brass wants

China can build ten reactors for the cost of Germany running the appeals, environmental studies and neighborhood consultations for one

Any material that is still radioactive after a hundred years wasn’t that deadly to begin with. There is a strong link between ”hotness” and short half-lifes, fast-decaying extra spicy isotopes are..fast-decaying

Actually, those materials can be MUCH more radioactive in the beginning compared to 'conventional' nuclear waste, the half-life is just so short that you can let them sit for a couple of decades and then deal with it.

I wonder if there will one say be an autobiography that reveals the russian hand behind the naive EU fossilsmaxxing.

The metric for perfect is

-Does it drive more people to the app -Does it maximize time spent on the site -etc

Your idea of perfect is very different than the one LinkedIn is using


> Does it maximize time spent on the site

That one in particular is super dangerous.

It can incorrectly lead to a process that used to be a 5 second thing suddenly becoming a back and forth 2 hour nightmare, because the metrics show "user spends more time on site".

Though in reality it turned the user from a happy user into a frustrated one whose likely to exit the platform.

Oh, GitHub is probably using a variant of this metric... :)


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