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Europe is about double the population of US

Are there even rich people in Europe? It seems like Europeans are mostly poor with a small super wealthy elite.

Unlike the US where most people are middle class, a sizable number are rich (millionaire plus), and most of the wealthy come from either already well off families or self made.

Everyone craps on US (I mean we are the best at everything lol good and bad) but that’s what happens when you’re the best and at the top of the hierarchy. People say shit about you. It’s not like I care much about that because my life as an immigrant to the USA is phenomenal to say the least.

But I always wonder why Europeans just seem so… stagnant? Like they’ve basically plateaued. Idk.

I’m from a former “colony” so it’s not any concern to me. But I always see these kinds of posts and wonder.

People who still buy Tesla are honestly.. I’m not even going to say it. But you know. Unless you’ve drank the kool aid.

And I speak as someone who had a Tesla since 2018.

There are plenty of people who work until they’re able to take a risk without destroying their family’s well being.

We don’t hear about the failures because it’s a tragedy. But I’ve worked with a lot of failed entrepreneurs in their 40s. It’s clear they aren’t happy in their jobs but also have no choice now.

Might be due to some of us growing up really poor. I’m from a third world and I remember lack of water and electricity, five plus people crammed into a home the size of my current apartments living room. We used to use kerosene lamps and heat water and I grew up in the 90s. Even today my parents don’t own a home yet and they have rented their whole lives. They still work. It’s really up to me to resolve all our issues. And that’s my duty as their child, everyone has their circumstances.

My parents pushed me to get educated. Now I’m in my early 30s and honestly I’m not in a rush to have kids. Do I want kids? Definitely. But right now I’m trying to build family wealth so I can give my kids a great childhood. I’m on track to meet my goals in the next 5 years or so.

Most of the people my age who are situated with kids and family are well to do. They have well off parents who own at least one home. Somehow these people send their kids to private school or can afford to buy homes in great public school districts.

I’ve noticed the people in my situation more often than not are from a similar background. We grew up poor and we are trying to build our wealth. I work in tech so I can’t speak for people from other socioeconomic backgrounds. But this is what I experience.

Most of my friends are other Asians. I don’t know it seems like Americans are mostly well off.

I’ve used launch darkly and I think it works fine. Pretty good for larger companies imo.

For my smaller projects I’ve used simple kv stores and user id lookups to handle it. Works fine.

Depends how advanced you want to go honestly. If you want to go bonkers use LD. If you want something simple like literally serve X user Y content you could set something up yourself in 30 minutes.

This is a good read

I think it’s fine as long as an email is always collected.

This way if the phone is compromised your email is still there.

As far as convenience goes it is convenient in actual practice as an end user. I’m sure even if 1% have this issue that’s billions who are not. It’s cheap and it’s convenient. Your phone gets the message and autofills.

You don’t need to switch apps to check email or something. And your account will always be recoverable as long as your email isn’t compromised. If you lose your email I mean that sucks. But that happens anyway and it’s why people should rotate passwords and set up MFA.

Security can never be 100%. That’s just a fools errand. It should be convenient enough and secure enough that it works for as many people as possible.

Literally everyone else outside of HN doesn’t even care or understand. They don’t need to. Just use the apps to do your thing and move on.

Let the nerds handle the backend.

What would even be the point of existence anymore once FTL is figured out? Just curious.

Seems like it would just remove any grandeur about the universe entirely.

I got it. But it’s because I worked on software that is global by design and we serve markets all over the world.

I think some of these others may not have worked on such software requirements.

Your site makes sense.

I would like to believe we were put here by a super advanced species so they could observe what we do for their entertainment and research purposes.

Why else would people for example keep ant colonies in their home or grow kits?

Hopefully we are not alone and they come back soon. I have many questions.

Well I didn’t want to explicitly insinuate that it seems he didn’t have those. And it’s better to put someone with experience in place imo. Again this is only if you really care which he seems to do since he asked.

It’s in the name. Non profit.

Sorry but let’s be real they are using other people’s money to do stuff.

When there is no tangible incentive (helping other people is noble but isn’t an incentive at greater than an individual level - it is an emotional response) it’s impossible to be effective.

I think you should recommend that you should hire people. Even one or two hired people with a bonus incentive will be far more effective. That’s why most successful big “volunteer” organizations have paid employees who give a shit and rally the free volunteers. Their job depends on them making other people motivated to do the job.

If it’s not possible then I’d suggest you try other ways to help.

I am a volunteer myself. I only volunteer at places where I know they’re staffed and not wasting money.

My time is limited. I’m not going to waste it being triggered by incompetence.