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I think both are extremely useful in different use cases. For example, most successful startup ideas come from anecdotes: "We've been working in x for 10 years, that's why we know this …

> I think that this statement is guilty of a rather typical sin on software forums which is assuming we all work similar jobs. I suspect you are right that a large portion of devs would agree with …

I think the direction of this is awesome, though I'd also say there's a reverse argument to be made that I'm more sympathetic to. Rather than figuring out the less glamorous side (i.e. …

I don't necessarily think the problem is not forgetting about consequences. It's more about the confluence of rules. I remember playing a game where one card you drew let you ban a word for …

Interesting! I guess government doesn't equal government and highly depends on where you work and what you work on. The same way being a product manager at Google vs. a founding engineer at a sta…

I think state capacity shouldn't be a left-right issue. Whether you want oil rigs or public parks to be built, everyone can agree that once the decision is made, it should be built swiftly and we…

> In the article the author says we should use "pre-approved vendor lists" or "streamlined approvals" and that sounds great in principle, but could also easily be exploited. Eve…

Good article. There are 3 observations I'd add: -I think we underestimate the impact of the cultural assumption that anything the government does will be 10x as expensive, take 10x as long and th…

Fair point re: US! Though that doesn't mean it's not a problem. Re: demographics. It's relatively straightforward: To keep contributions constant while supporting more people, you need …

The problem is that those 27 sets of laws basically still exist. Regulation is certainly not the only reason. Fragmentation is another massive problem. There's the EU-Inc initiative that the EU h…

True! And I generally empathize with this. The core point of the EU and its member states' governments should be to enable high quality of life. But that model you describe is cracking: Cost of l…

> The EU has basically said that it's better to have a handful medium-sized companies in competition for customers than one or two mega-corps owning and dictating the market. And to resolve th…

I think there's a few components. One is opportunity cost: You simply have more options (especially women), so having children now comes at the cost of many other potential paths whereas it used …

I would argue the opposite: It actually makes European businesses worth off by continuing to make its regulatory environment so complex only massive companies like big tech or Europe's legacy pla…