eng_monkey

> Spain, Italy and Greece clearly have a worse healthcare system, and those are just three examples I can think of quickly. Surely lots of countries in eastern europe has it worse than Sweden.

Spain has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, usually ranked by the WHO within the top 10 while Sweden's was within top 30.

I lost faith in PIA caring about privacy of its customers when I noticed how they use unique tracking codes in their newsletter emails. I never received a response when I asked about it.

Lua means moon in Portuguese, not Spanish.

It is pretty pathetic to go to any coworking space in an Australian major city and realise that people there are just playing the 'startup game'. These people will typically spend a few months playing the game, burning a bit of their severance package until finding another permanent job.

Too bad the Internet in large parts of those cities belong to the last century.

Why are you sure?

They are really excited people.

> Are you new here? I'm sure that next week it'll go back to the usual threads about Rust or Haskell, or someone will start a retro fad around Algol-68 or something.

I just do not get how the disconnected list of events you provided justify the promotion of Kotlin we have seen this week. But hey, you might even be on the payroll.

WTF? Some people are spending serious money on a PR campaign to promote Kotlin this week!

I feel your pain. It is extremely difficult in Australia to get interest in anything related to innovation. I have had surreal experiences when dealing with companies and particularly Government. They will do anything to boycott something that resembles change, particularly if it affects the the way they work, or of course that might expose their incompetency.

Australia is not a place to live unless you work in health or in a trade. Scientists and engineers (engineering is not even understood in Australia, usually being associated to things like infrastructure or maintenance) are screwed.

E.g. it does not explicitly outline the right to freedom of expression. It is sort of implied within Government, but not necessarily.

Is it really 'superintelligence' if unable to deal with a simple concept such as time zones?

Exactly. It is baffling that to this day so many people believe the purpose of University is to provide some sort of vocational training.

Big revelation: Computer Science has very little to do with 'coding' Web pages using FrontPage.