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To be fair, Ronaldo is known for exceptional work ethic.

combination that is increasingly rare in an economic system designed to squeeze out the inefficient

As a result, more and more areas of science and technology get stuck near local maxima. The same happened in all ancient civilisations.

The European people, actually.

Sex robots. Disrupting the power of women in the sexual marketplace is bound to yield unprecedented profits.

On the other hand, having learned PHP inside-out as my first language, this is perfectly natural to me, and I miss the flexibility of PHP arrays in other languages :)

Before the usual avalanche of posts criticising some PHP 4 features, the union types look like a nice way to formalise something that is commonly used and very useful.

Life changing.

I went to a school in south-west Poland. My experiences were not too dissimilar to those described here, so I think this account is entirely plausible.

Maybe stolen for scrap metal (would not be that unusual, as absurd as it sounds)

I like the idea of taking periodical snapshots to have a feel that you are almost connected with your team mates

I hope you are being sarcastic.

I am fortunate enough to work remotely, so I can have a very productive environment during the week, too.

And what's not done by Friday, is not done, not my problem really since I'm paid by the hour.

High levels of intellectual ability allow you to write software with better abstractions and cleaner interfaces.

If anything, the opposite is true in my experience. People trained in writing clean interfaces write clean interfaces. The very purpose of abstractions (etc.) is to reduce the cognitive load on the programmer. The dumber the programmer, the more he needs those things.

There are no problems, it's basically perfect.

Didn’t read the article, but the title sounds very much like something I would support.

No need to add to the gigantic amount of money Europe wastes on social care.

What is the visa situation? The only thing stopping me from doing something like that is that I dislike the idea of border hopping every 3/6 months and I am definitely not going to go through the hassle of obtaining permanent residency in such a country.

Nowadays, it seems possible to grow traffic without any external help. My simple website has grown from 0 to 9k monthly UU without a single backlink, I simply submitted it to Google.

I may have some standards, but I have never had a chance to reject someone. This is actually very puzzling to me - most guys seem to at least have the option of meeting the extremely unattractive / obese women. I don't.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I spent the past year going out so much... Some weeks I went out every night. Clubs, parties, Toastmasters, interest groups, assorted meetups, ... to no avail. I think I'm done with that, back to square one, writing code from my "basement", talking face to face to maybe 1-2 people a week.

I tried therapy, didn't help one bit. Maybe my therapist was not very good, maybe not..

I have studied the Red Pill in quite detail. It is not really for me to apply (being shy is the opposite of imposing your will on others), but I think the principles are sound. At least I couldn't find any hole in this "worldview", though I would love to, since the the picture it presents is very bleak.

I assume there is something specific you’re not mentioning

Yes, I'm shy, which is pretty much a universal deal-breaker.

That despite being physically fit, at the very least decently looking, earning well, having interesting interests (such as doing a cool PhD and being a competitive dancer), despite having a decent social network and meeting lots of women, I will likely die a loveless virgin.

It's unspeakably depressing.

Went to do a PhD in bioinformatics at 1/4 of my previous salary. Soon after starting, I unexpectedly got awarded one of the best scholarships in existence which doubled the pay. Having the freedom of a PhD student and a 3k EUR net monthly salary is pretty sweet compared to how most people live.

Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that I cannot be happy doing an office job and will announce my decision to quit the employment next week. My current plan is to continue the PhD in the same lab, unpaid and remote, and find the least time-consuming job that will pay me 1k EUR a month - which will likely be writing PHP for one of my previous clients one day a week.

*top in Poland, of course, since the academic record of a typical Polish professor resembles that of a decent-but-not-great grad student in the US (Google some profiles and check on Google Scholar if it sounds like an exaggeration)

Krakow can be really nice and interesting, but you should probably be white and Western. Otherwise, you may be setting yourself up for a tough time (not because of any recent events).

As a Pole who moved to Vienna from the UK, I disagree very strongly.

1. Most (as in, over 50%) young adults smoke cigarettes in Vienna. You will inhale the smoke basically everywhere, in particular inside most bars or clubs, but also on the streets. On a windless day, the entire city reeks with smoke.

2. The public transport may be cheap, but the quality is poor. Not very punctual and the trams/buses/trains generally lack conditioning which in the summer turns them into 40+ degrees sweaty, stinking meat containers. To remedy this, they were handing out deodorants at the stations (seriously).

3. You won't be getting a long-term apartment without paying ca. 7 months worth of rent upfront (3 mo fees / 3 mo deposit / 1 mo first rent).

4. Any kind of self-employment is prohibitively expensive unless you charge of the order of €100/h. As a result, if you want to hire, say, a low-end personal trainer, expect to pay of the order of €100/h.

5. The typical level of customer service is really bad and could be described as "the customer is always wrong". It reminds me of Poland pre-2000s.

I have no idea why it is considered the most liveable city. I see very few advantages over, say, Warsaw/Wroclaw/Krakow/Bratislava/Budapest except perhaps the general level of safety on the streets.

By some measures, at any point in time most Americans are broke.

https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/18/pf/lack-of-savings-cover-un...

I think denial is the only reason why one might find this result surprising. Everything else being equal, almost any life path will be enriched by extra money up to a certain point. That point is field-dependent, but it’s rarely low.

No differences in intellectual ability are allowed between human genders and races, unless induced by the environment.

The study doesn’t clarify that the difference is due to discrimination, which is why it’s unclear why the statement was allowed.

https://sci-hub.tw/10.15252/embj.201899815

I’m sure half of FANG employees (ok maybe just AG employees..)

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